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BENEATH THE SURFACE Lake Memphremagog’s natural beauty belies worries about contaminants and fish with tumors BY KEVIN MCCALLUM, PAGE 28

HAUL TOGETHER NOW?

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Burlington debates trash consolidation

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The Town of Brattleboro has hired Vermont’s first Black female police chief. Norma Hardy will take over a department facing a variety of challenges.

DIFFERENT DEADLINES

The U.S. said it wouldn’t allow Canadians to cross the border until at least August 21, nearly two weeks after Americans can head north. So much for collaboration.

OUCH! The tax man cometh. Burlington residents received their fiscal year 2022 tax bills last week, nearly three months after a citywide reassessment recalculated their home values. The results have sent some Queen City taxpayers into sticker shock. “I took a very deep breath. It was like, Oh, my God,” Meryl Goldfarb, 62, said. “I literally lost sleep that night, because I was like, I don’t know how I’m gonna get through this.” Before the reassessment, the city valued Goldfarb’s three-bedroom condo in the city’s South End at $218,600; that jumped to $353,900, a 62 percent increase. Her tax bill increased 16 percent, or about $1,000. Goldfarb isn’t alone. Many have taken to social media to air their grievances. Some increases were expected as a result of Burlington’s first citywide reassessment since 2005. For years, demand for housing in the city — a university town that is the state’s economic center and a tourist destination — has outpaced supply. The pandemic, which brought out-of-state buyers to Vermont’s relatively safe COVID-19 pastures, put upward pressure on Burlington home prices.

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The city released new valuations last spring but allowed residents to appeal the figures. While some valuations went up, others came down. The city’s overall tax rate, too, was reduced to compensate for the new values. About 70 percent of Burlington homeowners who live in the city get a payment from the state that reduces the amount of their bill based on their household income, according to City Assessor John Vickery. The city provided Seven Days with tax data from last year and this year, which does not include the state payment amounts. Goldfarb said she’ll have to cut back on her discretionary spending to make ends meet. She’s already spoken with a friend, a real estate agent, about listing her condo. “It’s not something I care to do, but I don’t know if it’s sustainable for me to live in an environment that costs so much,” Goldfarb said. “They’re making homeownership ... in the city not affordable.” Read Courtney Lamdin’s full story at sevendaysvt.com — and use the form at the end of the story to tell us how your tax bill changed.

BIG NEWS

Officials opened the largest anaerobic digester in the Northeast at a Salisbury farm. The contraption converts manure and food scraps into energy.

HAZY SHADE

Wildfire smoke from out west blanketed Vermont, creating hazardous air quality. Take it easy out there!

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1. “Waterbury’s Disc Golf Fever Makes Some Neighbors Hot Under the Collar” by Ken Picard. At the popular Center Chains disc golf course in Waterbury Center, neighbors and players are sometimes at odds. 2. “Breakfast Hot Spot Coming to Former Burlington Location of Mirabelles Bakery” by Melissa Pasanen. A pair of thirtysomething brothers from New York City will open a Burlington breakfast spot at the former Main Street location of Mirabelles Bakery. 3. “What’s Up With Burlington’s ‘Skyway’ Tunnels?” by Jordan Adams. A few old elevated walkways connect some downtown buildings. 4. “Investors With Questionable Records Want to Buy Five Vermont Nursing Homes. Will the State Let Them?” by Derek Brouwer. Seven Days examined public records to find out about the potential buyers of five facilities. 5. “Tax Bills Set Off a Second Round of Sticker Shock for Burlington Homeowners” by Courtney Lamdin. After the citywide reassessment, the tax bills arrived.

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KINDNESS COUNTS Brian Dempsey thinks of himself as a “facilitator of kindness.” For the past two and a half years, the Bennington resident has run Just the Good Stuff, a Facebook page where members can share good deeds they’ve done, from hiding money in the aisles of a dollar store to writing holiday cards for senior citizens. Dempsey launched the group on January 1, 2019, after being diagnosed with lymphosarcoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, the previous fall. While awaiting surgery to remove a large tumor on his neck, he was looking for something to counteract the bad news and bickering he saw on social media and television.

“Clearly, when you’re that sick and facing things like that, you get depressed, and it was my therapy, actually,” he said. Dempsey recovered from his illness, and he’s continued to manage the Facebook group, which is now more than 1,000 members strong. “It’s like a snowball,” he said. “It just kept growing and growing.” Currently, Dempsey is using his page to spread the word about 802 Good Deeds Day, an annual event aimed at encouraging Vermonters to do random acts of kindness. Held for the past two years on August 2, or 8/02 — in honor of Vermont’s sole area code — the event was created by St. Albans resident Kate Manahan, a member of the Just the Good Stuff group. Manahan said she shares Dempsey’s mindset about the importance of good deeds.

“I just got sick of negativity,” she said. “I was just as bad, and I didn’t want to be anymore.” Though the two have never met in person, Dempsey and Manahan have teamed up to promote 802 Good Deeds Day; he’s handling the southern part of the state; she, the northern. Manahan said she has been distributing yard signs, pins, magnets and stickers to encourage people to participate. On August 2, she’ll buy people coffee and encourage them to pay it forward. No good deed is too small, added Manahan: “Smile at somebody. Open a door. It doesn’t have to cost money.” Get more information at the Just the Good Stuff page or the 8/02 Random Acts of Kindness event page on Facebook. ALISON NOVAK SEVEN DAYS JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2021

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Your cover article in the July 21 issue, “Beware the Buyers?,” was of interest to me until I found myself searching in vain through it to find the names of the alleged “five Vermont nursing homes” that were being referenced in the article’s subhead: “Investors with questionable records want to buy five Vermont nursing homes. Will the state let them?” When I couldn’t find the identities of those supposed entities, I quit reading it. That article is stunningly unprofessional to fail in such an elementary way. Why did you publish such an unprofessional piece of journalism? Eric Zuesse

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Editor’s note: The story names the homes in the fifth paragraph. It reads: “Last fall, two members of the group began managing the homes — Burlington Health & Rehab and similarly named homes in Bennington, Berlin, Springfield and St. Johnsbury — through a contract with their current owner, Genesis Healthcare, a corporate Goliath. Now they are awaiting state regulators’ permission to purchase the facilities outright.”

GOLF IS GOOD

I live across the street from Hope Davey field in Waterbury Center and have been troubled by the reactions of some of my neighbors to our local disc golf course [“Dissed Golf,” July 21]. My wife and I walk our dog every day in the woods that comprise the Center Chains disc golf course. Over that time, we have engaged with hundreds of golfers of all ages and backgrounds and have never had a negative encounter with any of them. We are of the mind that any activities that get people out in nature are a good thing. And the presence of Center Chains is good for our local economy, as well, drawing many to our region for a round of golf and perhaps a bite to eat or a drink of local ale at one of our fine establishments. We have appreciated the attention to the land given by the Center Chains volunteers over the years. Those who have built new homes adjacent to the course were fully aware of the course before building there. To accommodate them, we would support providing more

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[Re “Midnight Blues?” June 30]: Seventyseven active police, and we can’t have adequate staffing downtown even on weekend overnights? Nah, brah, nah. Burlington acting Police Chief Jon Murad and Mayor Miro Weinberger are either incompetent or gaslighting us. Please stop it. Do your job. Take care of our community. Seth Wolcott-MacCausland

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[Re Live Culture: “William Tyler Cancels Backside 405 Set After Testing Positive for COVID-19; Steve Gunn Set Still On,” July 23]: People should not be distracted by stories about breakthrough cases of COVID-19. The trials for the three vaccines showed nine breakthrough cases of the 21,669 fully vaccinated people in the Pfizer vaccine trials, 12 of 14,550 in the Moderna, and 192 of 19,514 for the J&J. At the rates of breakthrough cases in the trials, 214,000 of the almost 162 million people currently fully vaccinated will REFORMED SCHOOL? contract COVID-19 within a couple of months of being fully vaccinated. Without the vaccine, more than 3,695,000 cases would have occurred. Using the overall death/case counts to date, almost 66,000 deaths would have VISUAL APPEAL THERE’S THE BEEF occurred instead of the 791 deaths currently reported in the fully vaccinated. So don’t be distracted by the relatively few and mostly mild breakthrough cases. Anti-racism proposal lags in Winooski

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[Re “Beware the Buyers?” July 21]: As a 74-yearold wife, mother and grandmother living with my husband in our own home within easy walking distance to church and bus access, I felt we didn’t need the home one of my daughters offered to DOUBLE BOGEY provide for us should we find ourselves in need. This story scares me, and I am having second thoughts about my earlier refusal. It appears that the graying of Vermont has left a large number of our citizens as a “burden” to the state but a great feast to

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Investors with questionable records want to buy five Vermont nursing homes. Will the state let them? BY DEREK BROUWER, PAGE 26

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This is in response to the “Working Nineto-Nine” letter from Seven Days publisher Paula Routly [From the Publisher, July 14], in which she touches on the labor shortage affecting the U.S. Paula attended a wedding at a Vermont inn and noticed that the servers working that event were “much older than your typical catering crew.” Please tell me what “a typical catering crew” is, because I’ve worked catering in the past, and the ages of my coworkers ranged anywhere from 16 to 65. She went on to say, “They all did a great job but, by the end of the gig, looked exhausted.” How could you tell they were any more exhausted than a “typical catering crew”? Did these geriatrics need to break out their walkers? Were they nodding off in the corner, or was the wafting odor from the Bengay tube they passed around in the air? Sounds not only a bit patronizing but also ageist. What you really said, without saying it, was that younger workers would have been the preferred choice, and these senior citizens were the best they could come up with until the real, younger workers showed up. It implies older workers are not capable of working hard and are a second choice. You wouldn’t judge a worker’s performance based on race or sex; that would be racism or sexism. Yet you were comfortable judging by their age. That’s ageism. I expect more from Seven Days. Old is cool, Paula; you’ll find that out firsthand for yourself someday. Pamela Whitcomb

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Kitchen Assist A new meal kit is a chef-farmer collaboration

BENEATH THE SURFACE Lake Memphremagog’s natural beauty belies worries about contaminants and fish with tumors BY KEVIN MCCALLUM, PAGE 28

Tastes of Home Viva el Sabor reveals rich Mexican cooking traditions in the farmworker community

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Life Lines Food + Drink Culture Art Music + Nightlife On Screen Calendar

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Should Burlington take over waste collection? Councilors talk trash options

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THURSDAY 29

Verdant Verse Vermont Studio Center’s Writers on the Rise series welcomes poet Hanae Jonas, whose work has appeared in publications such as the Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA and the Iowa Review. Jonas, who often channels Green Mountain State scenery in her writing, reads for a virtual audience at this showcase designed to uplift diverse talent.

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FRIDAY 30

The Swing of Things Vermont Swings returns to form with a night of social dancing preceded by a free lesson for beginners. Seven-piece band Danny Jonokuchi & the Revisionists provide jazzy live tunes for hoofers to hop, step and rock to at this all-levels, fully vaccinated night of fun at Burlington’s Champlain Club.

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The Festival of Fools, Burlington’s beloved busking bazaar, takes over downtown once again after a yearlong hiatus. From the Friday kickoff bonanza to Sunday’s Last Laugh Variety Show, Burlington City Arts gathers acrobats, musicians and all manner of motley, family-friendly performers sure to delight Church Street viewers.

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Tree Huggers Audience members at Cirque Barcode’s new show, Branché, should not expect to sit back and relax. The award-winning acrobats guide attendees through multiple outdoor environments at Greensboro’s Highland Center for the Arts. Performers climb on nearby trees — and each other — as their movements tell a story of the climate crisis and community healing. Picnic meals are available for lawn pods at this utterly unique dinner show. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 60

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Ready to Rumble Vintage farm equipment enthusiasts converge at Woodstock’s Billings Farm & Museum for Antique Tractor Day. Exhibitors present their lovingly restored rigs before the parades, and spectators cheer on their favorite machine at the festivalending “Slow Race.” Between festivities, families enjoy tractor-themed games, crafts and story walks. Food is provided by the Dairy Bar and Trail Break taps + tacos.

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New Soul Vermont native Myra Flynn refuses to be pinned down. The acclaimed singer-songwriter incorporates influences from her Irish and African American heritage, as well as inflections from artists as diverse as Janet Jackson and the Alabama Shakes. Her statewide tour touches down at the Middlesex Bandstand, where Mediterranean Mix serves refreshments to outdoor concertgoers while Flynn croons the night away. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 58

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Every summer, a bunch of us from Seven Days attends the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, a gathering of publishers, editors, reporters, designers and salespeople from comparable papers across North America. The three-day event takes place in a different city every year, and member weeklies used to compete for the honor to host it in much the same way countries do for the Olympics — working their connections and local intel to pitch and show off their burgs. That’s how we got former president Bill Clinton to submit to three hours of questioning in Little Rock; the run of the Andy Warhol Museum after it closed for the day in Pittsburgh; and, in New Orleans, a chance to party among giant Mardi Gras floats. In years when my founding partner, Pamela Polston, and I were too busy to take a normal vacation, the AAN convention was the next best thing — in Miami, Detroit, San Antonio, Nashville, Toronto, Tucson, Boulder, San Diego, Austin and Portland (Ore.). The first convention we attended as publishers was in 1997, two years after we started Seven Days. It took place in Montréal, as close as it would ever get to Burlington, but we couldn’t justify the expense of a hotel room. So, we drove up and worked out of the parking garage, getting dressed between cars, until a fellow attendee — the political columnist for the Nashville Scene — took pity on A few of the Seven Days crew in front of us and let us crash in his extra hotel bed. the Newseum at the Washingon, D.C., AAN convention in 2017 We were in awe of the brilliant, unruly characters around us, the people who built and ran iconic publications such as the Village Voice and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. And they lived up to the legend in Montréal by kicking the host paper out of the organization. The Montréal Mirror had just been purchased by a daily newspaper chain — then a disqualification for membership, according to AAN’s bylaws. And, pre-internet, corporate takeover was considered the greatest threat to edgy, forward-thinking media companies like ours. After all, we were the “alternatives” to those daily newspapers. I soaked up as much information as I could — in the seminars, at the annual meeting and by flat-out eavesdropping at the hotel bar. In 1998, we applied for admission to the association and were accepted. Years later, while serving on the committee that evaluates applying papers and makes membership decisions, I discovered that AAN rejected most applicant media companies at least once. I learned a lot about how to run a newspaper, too, for which I’m eternally grateful. DigBoston was supposed to host the convention last year, but COVID-19 changed that plan. So, the scrappy successor to the Boston Phoenix — in the second-closest big city we could drive to — rescheduled for 2021. Two cars full of vaccinated Seven Days staff were ready to roll south last Wednesday when we got an email from convention organizers about a last-minute change in coronavirus protocols. Because the number of cases was rising in the Boston area, there would be an indoor mask mandate. And one AAN board member, despite being fully vaccinated, had contracted the virus and was quarantining in the hotel. We convened at the office and discussed our options — more specifically, how much risk each of us was prepared to take. Even if breakthrough coronavirus isn’t deadly, we asked ourselves: Am I willing to be sick for a week? Is it worth it? Cathy Resmer and Dan Bolles both had vacations after the convention, with unvaccinated kids, and they didn’t want to take the chance. Production manager John James also had plans that were incompatible with a possible quarantine. If you like what we do and can afford to help Personal calculations aside, though, there was pay for it, become a Seven Days Super Reader! the realization that one of us might contract the virus, Look for the “Give Now” buttons at the top of infect the others, and then spread it to the rest of the sevendaysvt.com. Or send a check with your Seven Days staff. That’s a “greater good” problem. To address and contact info to: put the paper at risk, after all our local media company SEVEN DAYS, C/O SUPER READERS has been through these past 18 months, was just dumb. P.O. BOX 1164 Turns out SARS-CoV-2 is a bigger threat to small, local BURLINGTON, VT 05402-1164 newsrooms than corporate takeovers. For more information on making a financial With four Park Plaza hotel rooms paid for, we contribution to Seven Days, please contact canceled. COVID-19 won — again. Corey Grenier: I guess there’s always next year: Chicago.

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OPEN SEASON ON VERMONT POLITICS BY MARK JOHNSON

Hallquist’s Challenge The onetime candidate for governor says building out broadband is more daunting

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“They don’t care about us if we’re out in rural Vermont … When you get a communications district, the folks there care deeply … and are totally committed to getting that fiber-optic cable to every home, in every business.” The state’s most recent 10-year telecommunications plan says 51,000 households can’t get the minimum highspeed service. But Hallquist said the figure is closer to 100,000 locations that “aren’t going to get fiber in the long term by private business. That’s where the CUDs should focus.” The idea is to use public funds to build the fiber network where others won’t and then have private companies provide the service. As it is now, Sibilia said, private companies are upgrading their networks in more highly populated areas, overlapping and potentially “cannibalizing” each other while rural areas are ignored. The good news is that underserved towns were already forming the regional CUDs pre-pandemic. Those nine districts will oversee building the infrastructure. They’ll also find the private companies to provide service or, if they have to, do it themselves, Hallquist said. It’s key for the CUDs to maintain control of the networks, Hallquist said. Simply paying providers to build out the infrastructure could later leave consumers hostage to poor service. JEREMY HANSEN of CVFiber said the CUDs are independent but “all working in an informal partnership to make sure that everybody succeeds.” Many CUDs have partnered with regional planning commissions, he said, to ensure their longterm viability. Consumer patience, Hallquist offered, will be key. Reaching all underserved homes is expected to take up to seven years, she said. About 25 percent are in the Northeast Kingdom; another 10 percent are in Lamoille County, Hallquist added. Sibilia and Hallquist are concerned about finding enough workers to lay fiber; Sibilia also noted that fiber-optic cable could be hard to obtain with strong worldwide demand. When CUDs were first authorized pre-pandemic, the goal was to cobble together enough grants, loans and “all the money we can find under the couch cushions” to reach underserved areas, Sibilia said. But the flood of federal funds from the pandemic, some set aside for broadband

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is feeling the pressure. As the just-appointed leader of the state’s effort to extend broadband internet access to every corner of Vermont, Hallquist knows tens of thousands of people are counting on her. And flush with $250 million in federal funds to work with over the next three years, she knows a lack of money can’t be an excuse. You’d think running for governor as the country’s first major-party transgender candidate would have been the hardest challenge of her life. But Hallquist said her 2018 long-shot bid against incumbent Republican Gov. PHIL SCOTT pales in comparison to the broadband assignment. “In the governor’s race, someone’s going to win and someone’s going to lose, but this one, we can’t afford to lose,” Hallquist told Fair Game. “Running for governor was stressful, but it wasn’t pressure. This has pressure — pressure to perform.” Not everyone thinks the state’s effort to provide 100 percent universal broadband access will be completely successful. But there’s widespread agreement that Scott picked the right person to lead the Vermont Community Broadband Board, a five-member panel created by the legislature to expand high-speed internet access in underserved rural areas. Scott also wins praise for reaching across the political aisle and asking a onetime rival to take the $120,000-a-year post. Many liken the broadband push to the federal government’s efforts in the 1930s to extend electrical power into the sticks. Electricity had become a necessity back then, just as high-speed internet is today. The pandemic only spotlighted the need. “It’s no longer acceptable to not have access everywhere people live,” said Rep. LAURA SIBILIA (I-West Dover), a Statehouse leader on broadband expansion who was named to the board last week. “You have to be able to connect to the internet for education, health care, justice, access to government, employment.” Scott called broadband expansion “an important step toward increasing regional economic equity.” U.S. Rep. PETER WELCH (D-Vt.) said it’s an “existential necessity.” “What we did with rural electrification was acknowledge that we cannot depend on these big providers,” Welch said. Instead, electric co-ops were created, similar to the communications union districts that have formed to help rural broadband expansion. HRISTINE HALLQUIST

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expansion, will “accelerate” reaching the goal, Sibilia said. Hallquist compared it to the relief money that flowed in after Tropical Storm Irene, which enabled the state to finance badly needed upgrades to bridges and roads. Hallquist’s prior experience running the Vermont Electric Coop for 13 years is sure to serve her well. She has also worked with two CUDs, NEK Broadband and Lamoille FiberNet. “When you leave people in the backwater, they’re going to lash out. So this is important for our democracy. It’s important for our economy,” Hallquist told Fair Game. “You’ve got to take care of your rural residents and help them participate.”

Will Leahy or Won’t Leahy?

The headline was mouthwatering to followers of Vermont’s favorite parlor game: Will 81-year-old U.S. Sen. PATRICK LEAHY (D-Vt.) seek a ninth term next year?

“Campaign finance reports raise questions about Leahy’s reelection plans,” VTDigger. org proclaimed last week. The story noted that the most recent filing showed Leahy raising only $430,000 the last three months compared to the same period six years ago, when he raised $777,000. “Leahy is not raising money at the same pace one might expect if he’s going to run for reelection next year,” the first sentence read. Really? So raising $430,000 suggests he’s slow-walking and getting ready to bow out? Hogwash. The Federal Election Commission report tells us nothing about his plans. The reason Leahy raised less than “one might expect” might have had to do with his long days as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, getting items such as a small-state minimum into the American Rescue Plan, which resulted in $1 billion for Vermont. Also, it’s a little harder (and tacky) to raise campaign contributions during a pandemic when it has to be done virtually and not in person.

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Campaign manager CAROLYN DWYER said Leahy has held 13 virtual fundraising events this year, along with “many” one-on-one phone calls with donors. If he runs, he’ll have enough money, Dwyer said. “Patrick doesn’t have to raise a dime to be reelected,” observed Rep. Welch, who hasn’t asked Leahy about his plans. Welch worked on Leahy’s first campaign, in 1974. “I think [Leahy’s] in GEORGE AIKEN territory.” The iconic senator, whom Leahy succeeded, spent $17.09 on his last campaign in 1968. Leahy also has $2 million left over from his last campaign. If he says he’s running, donations will pour in. He doesn’t need a huge war chest. What Republican other than Gov. Scott would have a snowball’s chance? Even Scott wants him to run again. So do a few other folks listed as recent donors, including ROBERT IGER, the chair of Walt Disney, and director STEVEN SPIELBERG and his spouse, the actress KATE CAPSHAW. Former Nebraska senator BOB KERREY and retired ABC News reporter SAM DONALDSON also gave Leahy money. Sam Donaldson? “They’ve gotten to know each other over the years,” Dwyer said. Veteran Vermont political analyst ERIC DAVIS shared this advice: Assume Leahy is running until he “explicitly” says he isn’t. Davis also suggests that reporters spend more time on meatier issues than reading the Leahy tea leaves. Fat chance.

recently. He was quoted in a news story last week saying his review of the church files found no information to support the latest allegation. That story prompted NEFAC to ask him to resign, a development VTDigger first reported. Donoghue cried foul, noting in a statement “the obvious irony” of objecting “to a member of a First Amendment coalition practicing one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment — Freedom of Religion.” That’s a stretch, Mike. No one is suggesting you stop going to church. Donoghue worked at the Burlington Free Press for 50-plus years before retiring in 2015. During four of those years, I worked 10 feet away from him, covering crime and Burlington City Hall. Donoghue is a dogged reporter whose Rolodex boasts the home phone numbers of Vermont chiefs of police. He’s won numerous reporting and press freedom awards and helped get cameras into Vermont courtrooms. In an interview, Donoghue conceded that ethics rules at the Free Press would likely have prevented him from joining the church committee. But he said he was semiretired when he signed on and agreed with editors at newspapers where he freelances that he wouldn’t write about the church. He said he spent hundreds of hours poring through church documents to make sure nothing that should have been included in the report was missed. Impartiality is a reporter’s most important asset. To maintain that, reporters shouldn’t do things like make political contributions, march at rallies or sign petitions. Donoghue agreed but said practicing his faith was different. “About politics and things like that? Yes. About my Catholic faith? No,” he said. “I was actually appointed [to the committee] not because I was a reporter,” Donoghue told Fair Game this week. “I was appointed because I happen to be a human being first, a Catholic second, and I became a reporter when I was 18. So, I’m going to be, I assume, a human being and a Catholic long after I stop writing.” True, and Donoghue has every right to serve, but a press organization can also be fairly queasy about his role and the optics it creates. Perhaps the Vermont Press Association, where Donoghue serves as part-time executive director and which backed him last Friday, should reconsider its support. There are plenty of Vermont journalists with no baggage who could take on that job. m

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A regional press organization was right to oust veteran reporter MIKE DONOGHUE from its board last week for his involvement on a Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington committee examining sexual abuse allegations against Catholic priests. The New England First Amendment Coalition said Donoghue’s service on the committee presented “serious concerns about the perception, at least, of a conflict between the committee’s work and NEFAC’s mission advocating transparency and holding powerful institutions to account.” The seven-member lay committee was set up in 2019 to pore over church records and determine which Vermont priests had been credibly accused of sexual misconduct with a child. Its work resulted in 40 priests being publicly identified. Some news editors and ethics experts questioned Donoghue’s involvement back then. After the committee issued its report, Donoghue stayed involved in case new allegations came up, which happened

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illiam Cats-Baril likes tours of the addiction treatment center he founded, Sana at Stowe, to start outside the front vestibule, which is lined with a few tons of small, polished stones from Lake Champlain. The front doors are heavy, by design. “I call it the Mercedes-Benz effect,” said Cats-Baril, an entrepreneur who teaches business at the University of Vermont. “The doors of the Mercedes-Benz are much heavier than they need to be, right? But they want you to feel that safety, that quality that is built in. “We do a lot of that here,” he added. In creating Sana at Stowe, Cats-Baril is hoping splendid surroundings and attention to detail will bring some dignity and mindfulness to patients doing the difficult work of starting the alcohol and drug recovery process. A two-week stay at Sana, which means “healthy” in Latin, 16

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costs $35,000. But it’s worth it, said CatsBaril, because Sana’s serenity and quality craftsmanship are healing forces. “I thought it was important to create in the tradition of the European sanitorium in the mountains,” he said. “The sense of well-being that surrounds you had to be very much part of the treatment.” Cats-Baril and his business partners rented a former hockey academy on the Mountain Road in Stowe and renovated it last year to create 17 single bedrooms, each with a bathroom. The verdant fouracre campus includes tennis courts, a pool, an organic vegetable garden and a separate yoga studio. The first patient arrived July 13. The former school sits well apart from its neighbors, with forest behind it; the west branch of the Little River runs through fields across the street.

A stay at Sana reflects the care that has gone into the finishes, including murals of living moss and a revolving art display created through a partnership with Burlington City Arts. Each patient can choose one of 45 pieces of art to hang in their room during their stay. The golden birch bark from North Carolina that papers the lobby walls was chosen to reflect Sana’s emphasis on nature’s health-giving effects, Cats-Baril said. Awaiting guests in each room are fresh flowers and a weighted blanket, Sanabranded pajamas, a journal, slippers, a small book containing an illustrated parable, a water bottle and a small, polished stone that Cats-Baril said patients

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Despite an increase in COVID-19 infection rates nationally and in Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott and key cabinet members remained upbeat during a weekly press briefing on Tuesday, saying they don’t anticipate a return of state restrictions. After dropping for months, the rate of COVID-19 deaths started rising nationally in mid-July as the more infectious Delta variant took hold. And on Tuesday, several national media outlets reported that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would start recommending that vaccinated people wear masks indoors in some areas of the U.S. But with the highest vaccination rate in the country at almost 84 percent, Vermont is not expected to experience the surge in cases reported in some other states, Scott said at the press conference. The state reported 11 new cases on Monday, and five or six people were hospitalized with the virus — the lowest rate in the country, Health Commissioner Mark Levine said. Vermont hit a low of just a few confirmed cases in late June and early July, but officials expect there will be about 50 by the end of August. One person in Vermont has died of the virus this month — a huge drop from December and January, when two or three people died each day. Vermonters are unlikely to face the kind of restrictions that last summer closed public festivals and limited social activities. Nearly all of the infections nationally and in Vermont are striking unvaccinated people, officials said. “The vaccines are proving effective against all variants we’ve encountered so far, including Delta,” Scott said. “As the director of the CDC put it, this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” The state is operating vaccination clinics at public gatherings and workplaces in an effort to reach the 90,000 Vermonters who are eligible for vaccinations but haven’t received them. Levine estimated about 5 percent of that group had taken a firm stance against the vaccines. The rest, he said, are merely apathetic. Those who have decided not to get the vaccination are “choosing not only to endanger themselves but those who they live with, work with and socialize with,” Levine said, “and ultimately are helping prolong the pandemic.” m

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Should Burlington take over waste collection? Councilors talk trash options BY COURTN E Y L AMDIN • courtney@sevendaysvt.com

rendan Hogan’s small street in “It’s something we all rely on,” Burlington’s South End gets a lot Councilor Jack Hanson (P-East District) of truck traffic. The city’s recycling said of waste collection. “This is definitely hauler sweeps by his house in the Five one of the biggest decisions … that will Sisters area weekly, while three trash have an impact for decades on the day-tocompanies rumble by on different days. day reality of the community.” Small compost haulers also make pit stops. Burlington has been in the waste Hogan, the chair of Burlington’s collection business since 1989, when it Public Works Commission, thinks there’s started a recycling pilot program. In 2000, no need for so many noisy, polluting councilors agreed to study a consolidated vehicles. He was so sick of system but took no action the trucks that a few years on the resulting report. ago he considered asking The topic resurfaced his neighbors to switch to nine years later when the a single hauler. Chittenden Solid Waste “It’d be nice to have District, which operates fewer collection trucks the county’s garbage coming down the streets drop-off centers, launched rather than more,” he said. a s i x-ye a r re g i o n a l study of consolidated Hogan may soon get his wish. After years of waste removal that faced strong opposition from debate, the Burlington City Council is poised private haulers and went nowhere. to approve a plan next month to consolidate In 2018, the council CITY COU N CIL the collection of trash, started yet another recycling and food scraps PRESIDEN T MAX TRACY consolidation study. for the city’s 13,000 The issue became households of up to four units — the more complex last year after the state majority of Burlington’s housing stock. prohibited food scraps from being But how that consolidation happens has tossed with household garbage — but become a political flash point. didn’t require large haulers to pick it up. Council Progressives favor a municipal Boutique compost haulers have sprung model by which the city up to fill the gap. would collect garbage, Municipalities in the compost and recycling. U.S. commonly collect Democratic Mayor Miro waste or hire a single Weinberger’s administration, however, company to do it, but most Vermonters prefers a so-called hybrid system, pay for a private company to pick up in which the city would continue its their garbage or drop it off themselves recycling program but “franchise” trash at the town dump. Few, if any, Vermont and food scraps to private haulers, who communities pay public employees to would bid for different city districts. collect trash, which results in several Last month, Hogan and four other private companies serving the same public works commissioners endorsed neighborhoods. At least five trash haulers the hybrid model in a 5-1 vote, but a Prog- do business in Burlington, as do several led subcommittee chose the municipal compost operations. The city picks up model, 2-1. Meantime, waste haulers recycling from all residences weekly, large and small have cried foul, saying though some large multiunit buildings consolidation could kill their businesses. contract with private companies. A council vote is expected on August Burlington Public Works Director 9. Despite the political division, most city Chapin Spencer said consolidated officials agree that consolidating is the way to go. DUMPSTER DIVINING » P.20

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Burlington-Area Hotel Rooms Are in Short Supply, and Prices Are Up B Y A NNE WAL L A C E ALLEN anne@sevendaysvt.com Vermont’s hopping with visitors this summer, and nowhere is that more evident than the Burlington area, where hotel rooms are scarce and room rates have risen steeply. “I’m suddenly inundated with people because there’s no lodging,” said Lisa Gaujac, who owns the Old Lantern Inn and Barn in Charlotte with her husband, Roland Gaujac. “There’s so much lodging normally in the Burlington area that I don’t usually have people calling and saying, ‘Do you have a room available?’” Hospitality business owners have been living with uncertainty since COVID-19 restrictions closed them down in March 2020. While they were allowed to reopen at limited capacity a few months later, it was difficult for them to book guests for this summer without knowing what the pandemic restrictions would be. But now that Vermont has dropped its restrictions on incoming travel and its vaccination rate has hit nearly 84 percent, the state’s hospitality industry is busy, with lines at restaurants and limited openings at many hotels. Airbnb said in a report in June that U.S. travelers were much more likely to choose rural locations they can drive to in 2021, and hospitality managers in Vermont said that prediction seems to have been accurate. Adding to the mix, a lot of the weddings that were canceled because of the pandemic last summer were rebooked for this one, along with the usual number Vermont hosts in a typical year. Jeff Lawson, vice president of tourism and marketing for the Lake Champlain Chamber, described busy tourist traffic in Burlington from Vermont’s neighboring states. “We knew there would be pent-up demand, but we didn’t know it would be quite like this,” Lawson said. “I think it’s people who have been crawling up the walls looking to get out and travel.” Room rates reflect demand, Lawson said. He noted that last year, many hoteliers never even reached the limit of 50 percent occupancy allowed by the state’s COVID-19 rules. “When demand is this high, they end up raising rates, as any business would do,” he said. “Even the general managers themselves are probably surprised at the rates. They’re trying to claw back whatever they can from 2020.” m

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Lifesaving Luxury « P.16 can rub to produce calm. The chosen work of art is already hanging on the wall. This attention to detail dignifies the experience of checking in and counteracts some of the shame associated with seeking treatment for an addiction disorder, CatsBaril said. “Domestic abuse, DUI, an ugly scene at a corporate party: You had a public event or private event that was extremely traumatic and creates shame,” he said. Cats-Baril toured several other rehabs before creating Sana and said he found many of them lifeless and depressing. “The facility we have does not make you feel like you’re basically being incarcerated.” A polished salesperson, Cats-Baril also has a long history of working on projects that use data to measure how well treatments work. His health-related entrepreneurship includes an app he commercialized with Dartmouth College professor William Hudenko that can assess suicide risk in patients. He’s also been involved in Vermont’s medical marijuana industry and is currently listed as a principal partner in the Cannabis Science and Education (CASE) Institute of Middlesex. At Sana, his scientific counterpart is psychiatrist Sanchit Maruti, the medical director of UVM’s inpatient psychiatry

service and the UVM Medical Center’s addiction treatment program. As medical director at Sana to Cats-Baril’s CEO, Maruti is less focused on the physical surroundings and more on the process of getting new arrivals safely through a medically supervised withdrawal and into therapy that will continue long after the patient has gone home. Sana’s founders expect most guests to travel from out of state. Asked about the cost, which is covered by some private insurance but remains out of reach for many, Maruti noted that guests will have access to on-site yoga, massage, acupuncture and counselors. The facility has 28 employees. “It’s expensive to hire people who are really top-notch and to have programming that’s really intensive,” he said. Most medical treatment, he added, is driven by cost-based choices. “Going to see your primary care provider is cheaper than coming to the emergency department, which is cheaper than coming to the medicine floor, which is cheaper than an ICU setting,” Maruti said. “What you want to do is see, ‘Where can I have the maximum amount of treatment at the best price point?’” Sana will track patients’ success in recovery to help answer these questions, he said. Maruti himself has hosted outcomes assessment workshops at

national meetings of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry. If measuring outcomes shows that Sana’s approach works, “then maybe this can be made available to others,” he said of those who can’t afford the facility. Right now, a stay is not covered by Medicare or Medicaid. In 2018, nearly 12 percent of people over age 12 reported illicit drug use in the previous month, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. And the drug and alcohol problem in the U.S. has worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. In Vermont, alcohol sales rose sharply last year, and opioid overdose deaths rose 38 percent compared to 2019. All this suffering has turned addiction treatment into a huge business. But with thousands of dollars on the line, it’s difficult for patients and their families to figure out which treatment center is right for them — or legitimate at all. The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, one of the oldest treatment centers in the country, warns patients and families to do extensive research. “At present, the addiction treatment industry is fragmented with no consistent operating principles or regulatory requirements,” the center says on its website. It has published a white paper on choosing a treatment center.

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“Some states require no regulation, which leaves treatment centers unaccountable for the services they provide. In addition, the industry is seeing an upswing in for-profit centers that offer exclusive, spa-like environments that ‘guarantee’ success, but offer little in the way of evidence-based treatment or demonstrated outcomes.” Vermont does regulate some treatment centers, and the Green Mountain Care Board approved Sana’s certificate of need application. The document outlines the center’s treatment approaches and its plan for assessing outcomes. Sana — under the name of its holding company, Silver Pines — describes a unique system of highly customized care that includes something it calls “proprietary neural network-based algorithms.” It’s an approach that Cats-Baril used with his suicide risk assessment software, and it’s designed to assess how well Sana’s high-end facility and practices influence patient recovery. “If four out of 10 of our patients actually stay in recovery, we’re doubling the rate of recovery in this country, and that will be the metric for us to say we’re making people better, at least within the first year,” Cats-Baril said. The state Division of Alcohol & Drug Abuse Programs, in a letter to the Green Mountain Care Board, said it was concerned about the program outlined by Sana’s founders “because research has shown that less than 90 days of continuous treatment (at any level of care) is not effective, and without strong ties to the treatment system, it is more likely that individuals will not follow-up with continued care.”

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Cats-Baril said giving patients choices about their treatment — including the length of stay — increases their feelings of self-worth. He noted that some people might not go to treatment at all if it means leaving their work or family for a month or more. It’s not clear how many addiction treatment centers there are in Vermont;

not all of them require a certificate of need. The state Department of Health regulates some but not all of them. Even people who work full time in the field of addiction recovery don’t know. But Cats-Baril would like to add more. The goal for Silver Pines is to learn from what works best at Sana, then replicate it with similar businesses in other Vermont

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news collection would be more convenient for residents who have to remember which days to set out their trash, recycling and compost bins. Under either of the new systems, the city could mandate that all three are picked up on the same day, which would limit truck routes and emissions. A report by GBB, the solid waste management consultants the city hired for its most recent study, found that consolidated collection could reduce truck traffic by up to two-thirds, depending on how many residents participate. Both the hybrid and municipal models could save residents money. GBB’s study found that most Burlingtonians pay between $28 and $49 a month for weekly trash and recycling service, plus about $15 a month for compost hauling. The hybrid system would cost them between $34 and $38 monthly, whereas the municipal one would top out at $41 a month. “We’re able to … offer the collection of three streams really for the price of what people are paying currently for two,” Spencer said. Under either model, the city would allow people to haul their own waste. About 15 percent of people who responded to GBB’s surveys bring their trash to the dump and pay just a few dollars per bag. Because a consolidated system would bill customers directly, self-haulers would not be charged for a service they don’t use, Spencer said. The public works director is pushing the hybrid model because it’s less expensive than full-on municipal service and builds on the city’s recycling program, which costs about $600,000 a year to operate. The program is largely funded through a surcharge that customers pay to private haulers, who then pay the city. Switching to a hybrid model, which would require some additional staffing, would increase this tax by $2 a month, raising an extra $312,000 in revenue annually. The municipal model would cost about $5 million a year, funded by customers who use it. It would also require a $6.7 million bond to build a new facility for vehicles and equipment. Hybrid model advocates say residents can’t afford more debt when the school district is considering asking voters to fund a new high school. The school and city have just over $100 million in shared debt capacity in the coming years, and more borrowing will be needed to finance the project. “The idea of a capital bond at this time — I don’t see how that alone is something that the city can consider right now,” Councilor Joan Shannon (D-South District) said at a recent meeting. “What 20

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I’m hearing from constituents is concerns about adding to the cost of municipal services. Whether renters or homeowners, everybody is feeling taxed.” Indeed, the proposal is coming just as many taxpayers are receiving drastically higher property tax bills due to the recent citywide reassessment, the first since 2005. Home values have skyrocketed as demand for housing in the Queen City has outpaced supply. Councilor Sarah Carpenter (D-Ward 4) said she doesn’t think the cost of municipal pickup is justifiable when the hybrid model could achieve the same goals. “We’re a small city, and creating a whole department to do this is a big effort,” she said. “There may be some pros to doing it that way, but we have a hauler system in place. I believe we’ve got willing bidders, so let’s play that out.” Councilor Mark Barlow (I-North District) is wary of how either option could affect small businesses. Compost haulers could be cut out of the market if the city or a commercial operation picked up everyone’s food scraps. “This is an existential decision we’re making for a company,” Barlow said. Maryam Muhammad, co-owner of Colchester-based 802 Compost Services, said she stands to lose half of her customer base if Burlington consolidates waste collection. She said she’d have to expand to other communities to make up for lost revenue, which would make for longer trips and cost more in gas. “It would definitely hurt our business,” Muhammad said. Larger haulers are also concerned. Joe Sinagra, sustainability director for Myers Container Service, worries that such a system would attract national hauling giants, such as Waste Management, to Vermont,

where they could outbid “even Casella,” he said, referring to the state’s largest hauler. “If you want one hauler to do it all, there’s only a handful of companies that [can],” Sinagra said. “It kinda goes against what Burlington is all about.” Sinagra is also dubious that a hybrid model would substantially decrease truck traffic. Another company may win a bid for residences, Sinagra said, but Myers would still serve its commercial clients, which are exempt from the consolidation proposal. Additionally, large apartment complexes of more than four units could still use whichever hauler the owners chose. As for municipal collection? Sinagra said Burlington should leave it to the pros. Progressive councilors disagree. City Council President Max Tracy (P-Ward 2) said eliminating private haulers would greatly reduce the number of noisy, smelly trucks on city streets. He said Burlingtonians would have more control over a public waste collection system and likened the arrangement to the city’s operation of its electric department, which just increased its rates for the first time in 12 years. The Burlington Electric Department puts “ratepayer interest ahead of creating profits … because it’s not a for-profit, private company; it’s a public utility,” Tracy said. “There is something to be said for the long-term ability to control costs by running the entity ourselves.” Tracy said voters would decide whether it is fiscally prudent to adopt the plan. Hanson, Tracy’s Progressive colleague, said he needs more information “about what it could mean” for the city’s borrowing capacity. Both councilors said they support the municipal model because the city would hire 14 more workers, all backed by a union. The hybrid option proposes three

additional recycling collectors to bolster the city’s program, all of whom would be unionized, plus one person to oversee the contracts with private haulers. At a recent council meeting, Mayor Weinberger warned the Progs not to undo the spirit of “collaboration that has marked this discussion until now.” But it’s unclear whether the Progs will even have the votes to carry the municipal option forward. The caucus has been down a member since late May, when former Ward 3 councilor Brian Pine left for a job in Weinberger’s administration, dropping the party’s membership on the 12-person council to five. One of those members, Councilor Zoraya Hightower (P-Ward 1), is traveling and will likely miss the August 9 vote, meaning Progs would need at least two other votes to pass a resolution. Barlow has said he won’t support the municipal option, and Shannon has expressed skepticism of it, but other councilors aren’t showing their cards. Besides Carpenter, none of the three other council Democrats responded to interview requests, nor did independent Ali Dieng (Ward 7). Candidates running for the open Ward 3 seat have each taken their party’s line on the issue. Prog candidate Joe Magee prefers the municipal plan, and Democratendorsed Owen Milne likes the hybrid. Republican Christopher-Aaron Felker opposes the municipal model but would not provide a clear answer on whether he’d support a hybrid system. Hogan, the public works commissioner, prefers the hybrid option. But after years of watching too many trucks traverse his street, it matters less to him which option councilors choose. “Consolidation, however we do it, is an exciting prospect,” he said. m

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AUGUST 9, 1994-MAY 1, 2021 SAN DIEGO, CALIF./ MONKTON, VT. On May 1, 2021, Zachary Quinn Ellison passed away of natural causes in his sleep at his home in San Diego, Calif. Zach, or “Zinger,” was born on August 9, 1994, in Burlington to Annemarie Savage and Jeffrey Ellison. The youngest of four boys, Zach was the beloved baby brother—a role he relished. As a child and teenager, Zach was a goofy prankster with a head of blond curly hair who kept his family and friends laughing. He graduated from Mount Abraham Union High School and went on to obtain a BS in architectural engineering from Vermont Technical College. After graduation, he moved to California for a job at a geotechnical engineering firm. His colleagues described him as a hardworking, kind, and witty person who led by example. Zach was so much more than words could ever express: intelligent, introspective, handsome, driven, and hilarious. Over time, his goofy humor evolved into a dry wit that was often coupled with a sly grin and an endearing blush. Zach was a man of few words, but whether it was a thoughtful

comment, factual retort, or wicked joke, he spoke with purpose and honesty. From his dress to his demeanor, Zach was understated and humble. He never sought the limelight; instead he preferred to listen and quietly take care of his loved ones. He showed love in subtle and selfless ways: checking in at 2 a.m. to make sure his mom made it home after a long drive, pet and plant sitting, as well as surprising family members with elaborate homemade meals. A wizard in the kitchen, Zach was known for his creative take on classic dishes, including the 18-egg “Zomelette,” pizza, and pasta salad. Zach excelled at all sports, but soccer was his passion. He played yearround throughout his childhood and teenage years, including for the Nordic Spirit Soccer Club, the Mt. Abraham Eagles, and the VTC Knights. He was named Addison Independent Co-Player of the Year, Lake Division 1st Team, a Nominee for Lake Division Defensive Player of the Year, and a DII All-State Selection.

Michael William Day

JUNE 20, 1951-JULY 10, 2021 BURLINGTON, VT. Michael William Day, 70, died on July 10, 2021, of pancreatic cancer in Burlington, Vt. Born in Montréal in 1951, he was the son of Margaret (née Simpson) and William Day. After growing up in Montréal, he lived in British Columbia for more than a decade before moving to Vermont to marry his

wife, Martha Lewis Trainor, in 1985. He is beloved and sorely missed by his

G. Richard Eisele

APRIL 20, 1936-MAY 2, 2021 MONTPELIER, VT. A self-taught pianist, he expressed his creativity through music and played frequently. He shared and documented indie electronic music through various audio platforms and had aspirations to eventually produce music with a close friend. Zach loved animals almost as much as they loved him; if there was an animal around, it was only a matter of time before it was in Zach’s lap. Zach was refreshingly authentic and complex— quiet, yet never one to beat around the bush; a decorated athlete and a pianist; outwardly rugged, but incredibly gentle; shy, yet one colleague described him as the funniest person he had ever met. He will live on forever in the hearts of those who loved him. Zach is survived by his parents, Annemarie Savage and Jeffrey Ellison; brothers Ethan Ellison (Emily Kenyon), Tyler Ellison (Emma Melen), Aaron Ellison (Lizzy Ellison); half sister Rhiannon Ellison, and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. In lieu of flowers, please donate to our fundraiser, Support SUDEP Research in Memory of Zach Ellison, available at nyulangone.org/give/fundraise/ ellison. A memorial service will be held on August 28, 2021, at 2 p.m. in Monkton at Morse Park. Guests are invited to share memories of Zach during the service or leave a written memory with the family. Please bring a chair. The service will be followed by refreshments and a pickup soccer game.

stepmother, three sisters, a stepsister, their families in western Canada, and his wife and her extended family. A man of simple needs, he believed strongly in the principles of recycle and reuse, having started one of the first recycling centers in northern British Columbia in the 1970s. He loved living in Vermont, calling it the “most Canadian” of the states, and he had many friends from his days working at Tristate Distributors and Conant Custom Brass. Known

G. Richard Eisele was born on April 20, 1936, in Hartford, Conn., to Florence Cloutier Eisele and George Fox Eisele, joining older sister Margot. Losing his father when he was only 12, “Dick” or “Dicky” was raised by his mother, his aunt Josephine Eisele, and great-aunts Marian Fox and Caroline Eisele. He developed a strong work ethic early in his life, but there was also time for recreation. Dick loved sports and was a capable basketball, football, baseball and tennis player. He also enjoyed many adventurous summers at the cottage of his aunts on Old Lyme Shores, Conn., where he would later bring his own family. As a young adult, he joined the Connecticut Air National Guard and put himself through college at the University of Connecticut, graduating with a degree in psychology in 1960. He displayed a talent in construction, serving as field engineer for the well-known construction firm George A. Fuller Company of Hartford, which erected famous Hartford landmarks during Dick’s time with the firm, such as the elliptically shaped Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance building and expansion of the Aetna Building. But it was his passion for the newly popular sport snow-skiing that ultimately led him to what would be his home for the next 55 years. Driving from Hartford to Warren, Vt., most winter weekends of 1966 and ‘67 with his bride-to-be, Jean, to ski at the Glen Ellen Ski Resort, the two quickly fell in love with the Green Mountain

State and knew it was where they wanted to start their family. With like-minded friends, using both their construction skills and interest in the modern architecture of Sellers and Reineke, they first built their dream communal ski house in Warren but soon settled in Middlesex. Jean found a teaching position in the two-room Fayston School, and Dick, who had always expressed interest in being an elementary school guidance counselor, was offered a position with Waterbury Elementary School. Obtaining his master’s degree in education from the University of Vermont in 1971, he joined the newly founded Community College of Vermont, where he served for many years as both administrator and teacher. It was during this time when Dick fell in love with the field of adult education. His passion for teaching was obvious to his students and colleagues, many of whom expressed their gratitude for his profound guidance. Dick’s assistance was also key to the growth and expansion of the young college throughout Vermont. His favorite subjects for discussion were the interconnections between science and spirituality and near-death experiences, about which he also taught many classes through CCV. He maintained a physical

to his wife as “Sweetness,” he was always willing to help family, friends and neighbors with whatever tasks needed to be done. His love of traveling led him from the Yucatán Peninsula to a canoe trip up the Yukon River to Dawson City, where he lost all his money at Diamond Tooth Gerties Gambling Hall and had to hitchhike home 1,300 miles to Prince George, BC. An inveterate hiker, he did a solo hike on the West Coast Trail of Vancouver Island and loved revisiting the Grand

Canyon, Glacier National Park, Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta and Vancouver Island. He will be missed by his local and Canadian friends, who are spread throughout the world, from Montréal and British Columbia to Poland and Thailand. A celebration of life will be planned in the future, when his family can more easily travel to Vermont. Donations should be directed to the McClureMiller Respite House in Colchester, Vt.

lifestyle, as well, and was an avid rollerblader and racquetball player. Another joy of his life were his two children, Scott and Gretchen. Taking an active role in their lives, he was their devoted father, coach and mentor, and he took delight in watching the development of his kids’ own passions. He was an extremely proud father, never shy to tell even new acquaintances, be it in the coffee shop or on the chairlift, about his two children. In retirement, Dick continued to follow his passions for teaching and skiing, and his interest in his kids and two grandchildren, Tucker and Morgan. He also spent time almost every day with his good friends at the Capitol Grounds coffee shop and the co-op and natural food store in downtown Montpelier. While gradually losing mobility over his last few years, Dick was assisted greatly by his daughter and spent his last few months at the Gary Residence. After a sudden diagnosis of acute leukemia in late April and deciding not to pursue treatment, he passed quietly in his sleep one week later. He is survived by Jean Graham Eisele; their children, Scott David Eisele and Gretchen Eisele Frank; sonin-law David Frank; grandsons Tucker and Morgan Frank; nephew Jonathan Brynga and his wife, Doreen; niece Mary Ellen Hussey and her husband, Michael; nephew Christopher Brynga (deceased) and his wife, Denise; and five grand-nieces and -nephews. A memorial picnic will be held at the New Pavilion in Hubbard Park in Montpelier on August 14, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. RSVP to gretchen@madriver. com for details.

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OCTOBER 12, 1954JULY 17, 2021 COLCHESTER, VT. Brenda L. Haselton — beloved sister, aunt, great-aunt and friend — passed away peacefully on July 17, 2021, following a long and courageous battle with cancer. Brenda was born on October 12, 1954, to Bernard and Lillian (Beaupre) Haselton. Brenda graduated from Mount Mansfield Union High School in 1972. She worked for 26 years as the dedicated Baird 4 Unit Secretary at the University of Vermont Medical Center, previously known as Fletcher Allen Health Care, in Burlington, Vt. Prior to that, Brenda gleaned unimaginable joy from working with young

children at the Poker Hill School in Underhill, Vt. Brenda was an avid knitter, crocheter and quilter. Her family, friends and many newly born family members benefited from the warmth of her creations and generosity. Many homes and trees are decorated by her beautiful handmade gifts each December. Brenda also enjoyed many hours of working with siblings on the family lineage.

Brenda spoke often of her three voyages to Alaska and the incredible amount of love she soaked in while in the company of her best friend, P.J. Mauer. Brenda is survived by her siblings, Marlene (Ray) Bedell, Stanley Haselton, David (Audrey) Haselton, Tina (Larry) Gordon, Alvin Haselton and Darwin (Theresa) Haselton; many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews; and several close friends. Brenda was predeceased by her father and mother, Bernard and Lillian Haselton; her sister-in-law Patricia Haselton; and her sister-in-law Sandy Haselton. A celebration of life will be scheduled in the near future. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the local American Cancer Society or to the ASPCA.

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NOVEMBER 5, 1932JUNE 27, 2021 SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT. Roddy O’Neil Cleary died on June 27, 2021, surrounded by family and friends. She was born Mary Francis O’Neil on November 5, 1932, in Miami Beach, Fla., to Pearl O’Neil and Thomas Francis O’Neil. Following her father’s death in 1943, her family moved to New York, where she attended schools in Rye and New Rochelle. In 1950, she entered Marymount College in Tarrytown, N.Y., majoring in history. After graduating in 1954, she entered the convent of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. It was at this point that she took the name Sister Roderick in honor of her brother, Roderick O’Neil, and her patron saint, Alfonsus Rodriguez. This became the source of the nickname “Roddy.” After taking her final vows as a nun in 1962, she taught at Marymount and earned a master’s degree in theology from Fordham University. After studying the documents of Vatican II, she began to question her vocation as a nun, which led to a sabbatical from the order in 1967. After returning to the convent, Roddy met her future husband, Bill, then a Jesuit priest who asked her for guidance with his thoughts about leaving religious life. Bill had read scholarship suggesting there was “a possibility that Jesus was not calling people to celibacy” (as she later recounted). Roddy initially disagreed, but their discussion eventually led to dancing. She and Bill left their respective religious orders and were married in December 1969. Roddy and Bill lived in Elmhurst, Queens, where their son Tom was born in 1970, and Fort Lee, N.J., where their son Neil was born in 1972. After living in Hyattsville, Md., Roddy and Bill moved to Vermont in 1976, where they settled in Shelburne and opened Hopkins Bookshop in Burlington. At Hopkins, Bill and Roddy didn’t just sell books; they built community. They opened their

home in Shelburne to friends, international students and people in transitional phases. The mid-1980s brought the arrival of Ra and Ry Say (now Ry Nguon) from Cambodia, whom the Clearys welcomed as family, as they did everyone who stayed at their house. In 1982, Roddy earned a doctorate in ministry from Saint Mary’s Seminary and University and became the interfaith campus minister at the University of Vermont. In 1995, she received the Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award for her course “Women’s Spirituality: A Challenge to Institutional Religion.” In 1997, she retired from UVM and became the affiliate minister at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, a post she held until 2008. During that time, she was influential as a clergy member in the passage of Vermont’s civil union law in 2000. In 2008, she was honored by Vermont’s Peace & Justice Center with the Ed Everts Peace and Social Justice Award for “her lifetime of volunteerism and activism.” Among her passions following Bill’s death in 2012 were working as a hospice volunteer and mentoring women in local prisons. In 2015, Mercy Connections honored her with the Catherine McAuley award for “her lifelong service and fostering the dignity of every person.” Roddy wrote the following about herself, in which she begins by quoting priest and author Henri Nouwen: “Roddy believed that ‘Death is the event that gives ultimate meaning to life.’” She subscribed to Gandhi’s claim that religion and politics are inextricable. Her belief,

inspired by Buddhist feminist scholar Rita Gross, was that community is the indispensable matrix of enlightenment. Thus religion, politics, community and end-of-life choices were among her greatest interests. Exploring these areas enriched her life. “Roddy often said that she had the best of two worlds in her lifetime. By that, she meant how much she valued her time in religious life. It was a time of grace and joy, a time of deepening, a liberating time! The opportunity to study theology that religious life provided liberated her to enter into another vocation, marriage and parenting. “Her beloved partner, Bill; sons Tom and Neil; daughter Ry; son-in-law Tim; daughters-in-law Amber and Dayva; and grandchildren Buck, Nancy and Sam gave this wife and mother more joy than any woman could have deserved.” In addition to Bill (also known as William Cleary in his work as a composer and author), Roddy was predeceased by brothers Thomas, Roderick and Michael O’Neil; and sisters Vivian O’Neil Bransfield, Dorothy Callaghan and Jane O’Melia. In addition to the family mentioned above, she is survived and warmly remembered by countless former students and members of the religious communities she belonged to and led. Roddy’s family thanks the staff of UVM Home Health and Hospice and the members of her hospice care team: her longtime physician Dr. Halle Sobel, Dr. Zail Berry, Toni Messuri, Deborah Deladurantaye, Melinda Lee, RN, and her beloved niece and namesake, Mary Francis O’Neil, LPN. In recent years, Roddy was comforted by her companionship with Bob Lavalley, her friend and her joy. This amazing team made it possible for her to have a transition to the next life that was in accordance with her wishes, and we will be forever grateful. A celebration of Roddy’s life will be held in person at the First Unitarian Universalist Society Meetinghouse on Saturday, September 25, at 2 p.m., and it will also be livestreamed at uusociety.org.

Richard William “Rick” Carbin

University in 1964. He took a position with the Rutgers University Scheduling and Space Utilization Department, where, by the late 1960s, he became the youngest director of a university department and oversaw the first computerized scheduling system at Rutgers. Rick moved with his family to Vermont in 1973. He worked for the Upper Valley Area Agency on Aging before becoming executive director of the Ottauquechee Regional Planning Commission in 1975. He founded the Ottauquechee Regional Land Trust in 1977, shortly thereafter becoming the first president of the Vermont Land Trust, in 1977. Rick cared about the connections between land and people. His early innovative

efforts with the Planning Commission contributed to the establishment of low-income Mellishwood Housing for elderly residents, in Woodstock, in the mid1970s. He was a key leader in the successful effort to enact legislation establishing the Vermont Housing and Conservation Trust Fund in 1987, which led to rapid acceleration of both land conservation and affordable housing programs throughout the state. After retiring from the Vermont Land Trust in 1990, Rick worked a year with the Countryside Institute, funded through the Orton Family Foundation (Vermont Country Store). He moved a short distance down the road from the original family homestead to a smaller home site in 1995. He met Calee Simpson in 1998, and she became a close companion and neighbor. Calee cared for Rick as he became ill with cancer. Despite his illness, Rick enjoyed working part time as an interpretive guide at the Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock into his 80th year. A crowning achievement in community action and preservation for Rick came when he rallied a local citizens’ group around saving the Barnard

General Store from permanent closure in 2012. His innate ability to see ways forward when other avenues were closed culminated in the successful purchase of the Barnard General Store by the newly formed nonprofit Barnard Community Trust. The subsequent transfer of the store’s management to new ownership in recent years has been a success and allowed this beautiful landmark at the center of a small town to reopen for business. Thus, the very heart of a rural Vermont community continues to beat — preserved, protected and proud — in part due to Rick’s vision and his love for the town he called home for nearly 50 years. Rick is survived by his first wife, Ursula; second wife, Sharleen; son and daughterin-law, Gregory and Lisa; daughter, Deborah; and longtime friend and partner, Calee. Grandchildren include Morriah (Bryan), Jonathan (Grace) and Christopher (Sylvia). Donations in Rick’s memory can be made to the Vermont Land Trust, vlt. org/support. In honor of his wishes, no service is planned. However, a remembrance party for family and acquaintances will occur at a later date. An online guestbook can be found at cabotfh.com.

was clinical director for adult mental health and substance abuse services. For over 40 years, he worked at the University of Vermont as an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Counseling Program of the College of Education, teaching courses in mental health counseling, mindfulness-based stress reduction and psychology. He also taught at the Clinical Mental Health Counselor Training Program at the University of Southern New Hampshire for many years. He became a mentor and clinical supervisor to many of the graduates of both programs during his career.

When his beloved Ellie passed, he carried on her memory, helping people with serious mental illness by establishing the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Adults With Serious Mental Illness at the Vermont Community Foundation in Middlebury, Vt. He also established the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for the Study of Secular Meditation, dedicated to Ellie, as a memorial honoring her life of generosity, kindness, compassion and humility. Anthony taught participants who wished to utilize meditation and mindfulness to improve their lives. Among Anthony’s other distinct accomplishments were serving as president of the Vermont Psychological Association; receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2021 annual meeting of the Vermont Addiction Professionals Association; developing and facilitating “Self-Care and Mindfulness” workshops and trainings throughout Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts; and

authoring a book, Mindfulness Happiness: How to Use Helpful Habits to Live a Healthier Life With More Joy and Less Suffering, and developing an accompanying CD. Anthony lived his entire life as he taught and believed, exemplifying qualities of love, compassion, generosity, humility, sincerity and genuineness. He ultimately made a positive difference in others’ lives and, therefore, he gave great meaning to his own. For those wishing to leave a message of sympathy, go to gregorycremation.com. For anyone wishing to do so, a donation of any size would be appreciated by the McClure-Miller Respite House, where Anthony received incredible medical care and compassion. He spent the last days of his life there, where he died peacefully. Donations may be sent to McClure-Miller Respite House, c/o UVM Health Newtowrk-Home, Health, Hospice, 110 Prim Rd., Colchester, VT 05446, or to uvmhomehealth.org.

SEPTEMBER 17, 1939JULY 21, 2021 BARNARD, VT.

Rick Carbin died at his home in Barnard, Vt., on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, surrounded by family. Rick was born in Jersey City, N.J., on September 17, 1939, to Margaret Louise (Hull) and Edward Francis Carbin, the second of two sons. He was predeceased by both parents and his older brother, Edward. Rick graduated from Tenafly High School in New Jersey in 1957. After a year of attending William and Mary College, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He attended the Army Language School in Monterey, Calif., where he learned Russian, before reporting to West Germany as a translator. During his tour in Germany, he met Ursula Crass, and they were married upon returning to the U.S., in 1961. Rick and Ursula had two children: Gregory, born in 1962, and Deborah, born in 1963. During this busy time of raising a young family, Rick returned to school and graduated with a BA in international relations from Rutgers

Dr. Anthony R. Quintiliani

JUNE 14, 1944-JUNE 5, 2021 MONKTON, VT. On July 5, 2021, Dr. Anthony R. Quintiliani passed away, and our world lost one of its most compassionate, genuinely loving and caring human beings. Anthony was born in Watertown, Mass., to Lucy and Carmen Quintiliani (now deceased). He was the devoted husband of Eleanor R. Liebman, who predeceased him. He had three siblings: Dr. Carmen J. Quintiliani (and his wife, Carol, of Waltham, Mass.); Virginia Gallagher (and her husband Robert, of Burlington, Mass.); and Dr. Steven Quintiliani (of Monkton, Vt). He was a loving uncle to Robert Gallagher Jr., Sharon Lorino, Debbie Quintiliani Edwards and Dawn Q. DeBiase. He had seven great-nieces, two great-grandnephews and one great-grandniece. For many years, Anthony worked at Howard Center in Burlington, Vt., where he

IN MEMORIAM Ann Livingston

1925-2021 There will be a memorial service of celebration for Ann Livingston on Saturday, August 28, 2 p.m., at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington at 152 Pearl Street. For more information about attendance or livestreaming, contact Gary Golden at gary.golden5@ gmail.com.

Ethan Wallis Townsend

1981-2020 A memorial gathering will be held to celebrate and honor the life of Ethan Townsend on Sunday, September 26, at 2 p.m. It will be held at the St. Johns Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, Vt. All are welcome to attend.

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I teared up while reading “Sound Effects” [July 7]. Learning of children’s fears of F-35 noise and parents trying to save them from this trauma was heart-wrenching. Even more devastating was the fact that the two men with all the power — U.S. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders — knew about the danger to children from the noise of the F-35. In its 2012 Environmental Impact Statement, the U.S. Air Force reported on scientific studies detailing harms done to children who live close to military jet noise. Leading researchers in the health effects of noise on human beings reported that there is physical and psychological harm done to the body by the kind and level of noise thousands of Vermonters are now experiencing from the F-35. Children and infants suffer far worse impacts to their physical body, their emotional health and their ability to learn. Who cares? Certainly not Leahy and Sanders. They have the power to direct the Air Force to replace the F-35 with another mission (flying or otherwise) that is compatible with residential neighborhoods. Other senators have replaced fighters with quieter military aircraft in their states. Vermont could do the same. Sens. Leahy and Sanders actively support having the F-35, a weapon of mass destruction, in Vermont, knowing full well of the harm it will do to Vermonters. They are willing to sacrifice the 1,500 children and 6,000 adults who are trapped in the dangerous noise zone of the F-35. Add that to the sound effects.

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[Re “Sound Effects,” July 7]: A common assertion among F-35 proponents is that noise from military aircraft is perceived as “the sound of freedom.” This seems odd. Freedom is complex. But for simplicity, let’s examine a most American summary — that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “four freedoms” — a proposal for four fundamental freedoms everyone should enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. What do our military aircraft, noise aside, have to do with providing them? Do these planes provide freedom of speech? No, the First Amendment gives us that. Freedom of worship? Again, no. Again, the Constitution. Freedom from want? Here, certainly not, and rather the opposite, as the enormous sums to develop, build and support them drain the treasury for domestic needs. Ah, fear. Surely they make us less afraid of “the enemy” — whoever that might be. But what enemy has the air or missile capability to attack us? None on the horizon. And our overseas attacks to preempt any capability seem to be creating more, not fewer, enemies — enemies whose tools are not targets for such aircraft. Our fear, if anything, should be increased. To me, freedom comes not from our warplanes, but from collaboration with nature and humans trying to be healed. “Sound of freedom”? Tell it to the good people of Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela — anywhere but here. They would not hear the roar of our planes in the air as the sound of freedom.

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[Re “Sound Effects,” July 7]: I lived in Washington, D.C., for 14 years, seven of them directly under the approaching path of flights landing at DCA national airport. I am so sorry the jets are noisy and bother residents. You get used to the noise. Trust me. If more terrorists hijack our airplanes, you will be happy to have the jets around. Trust me on that, too. Methinks Vermonters are just a little spoiled. We are so lucky to live in one of the best states in the Union; let’s show how classy we are by supporting our armed forces. Margaret Kienzle

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There are dozens of comments that could be made related to [“Sound Effects,” July 7], but let me concentrate on four: Why Vermont? The only reason the F-35 headed to Vermont was the interference of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy into the site selection process. His ego influenced his decision making, not his concern for the health of those who live in the flight path. Jobs! The main reason expressed by politicians has been the jobs supposedly created. Yet only about 75 percent of the 1,050 jobs at the Vermont Air National Guard are held by Vermonters. Thus, at least 262 of the people working for VTANG do not live in Vermont. How many of these

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out-of-staters are pilots who fly the F-35s? The U.S. Air Force in its Environmental Impact Statement claimed that only a handful of jobs might be created by the F-35. Cost. The cost of flying the F-35 is about $36,000 per hour. Multiplying that by 52 weeks equals $179,712,000. How many scholarships could be offered to Vermont college students for $180 million? Noise mitigation. The biggest political folly promoted by our politicians is noise mitigation. It is estimated to cost up to $50,000 per residence. There are at least 2,600 residences that need “mitigation.” BTV expects to “mitigate” 50 a year. Consequently, it will take 52 years to complete the task, for about $130,000,000. How many New Americans could the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program assist with $130 million? Our political leaders put war training ahead of college scholarships and social good! George Cross

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levels of commercial planes don’t approach what we are dealing with in Burlington. As someone who lives two miles from the airport, my life has irretrievably changed, particularly in the summer. I used to love working outside in my garden or having friends over for lunch and eating on the patio. I used to do computer work outside whenever I could. Most days, these activities have all become next to impossible because of the roaring of the F-35. It shakes everything, including my body. The noise is horrific, but the impact of the subsonic vibrations is often even worse. And it goes on so much longer than it once did. Will it take a crash for our public officials to come to their senses?

Thank you for the excellent article about the impact of the F-35s [“Sound Effects,” July 7]. One point I’d like to add: the specific impact on children. The National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine cited a study done when the Munich Airport was relocated. The abstract reads: “After the switch, longterm memory and reading were impaired in the noise group at the new airport and improved in the formerly noise-exposed group at the old airport. Short-term memory also improved in the latter group after the old airport was closed. At the new airport, speech perception was impaired in the newly noise-exposed group.” Do we really want to inflict this on the next generation? And while these children were exposed more consistently, the noise

Mary Fillmore

BURLINGTON

DOCTOR’S ORDERS

[Re “Sound Effects,” July 7]: I appreciate our Gov. Phil Scott and Mayor Miro Weinberger weighing the costs and benefits of the F-35 program, but I wonder if they have a complete sense of the costs for children. Both epidemiological as well as animal-model studies show that noise impacts children’s mental health, contributes to attention deficit and impairs cognitive skills. Hundreds of children in our communities are likely experiencing hearing loss — the so-called “temporary threshold shift” — for hours, days or weeks beyond those few seconds when the F-35s are exposing their brains to neurotoxic levels of noise. Neuroscientists continue to grapple with the possibility that deafness, including that due to the cumulative effects of noise exposure, increases the risk of dementia. One reason our medical center can recruit qualified specialists — why people are drawn to our state — is that Vermont stands for natural beauty. As a pediatric neurologist, I could not, in good conscience, recommend a family to move anywhere close to this training project. In the words of Sandra Day O’Connor, “We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.” We ought to defend our most vulnerable citizens better than this. Peter Bingham

BURLINGTON

Bingham is the head of pediatric neurology at the University of Vermont Medical Center and a professor at the UVM Larner College of Medicine.

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SeaComm hopes to start “a chain reaction of kindness” in Vermont

hen people move to a new community, their new neighbors might bring over food to welcome them to the neighborhood. When SeaComm Federal Credit Union opened a branch in Essex this winter, it reversed the tradition. The staff of the New York-based financial institution ordered 50 pizzas from Mimmo’s Pizzeria and Restaurant in Essex and delivered them free of charge to 20 nearby businesses. The people who got the pies were grateful. So were the restaurant owners. Big orders for parties or company lunches had dwindled during the pandemic, says Simone Spano, who manages his family’s Mimmo’s location in Essex. SeaComm’s generosity helped offset some of that lost business, and it was completely unexpected. “No banks have ever done anything like that,” he said. At SeaComm, random acts of kindness come naturally. Founded in 1963 by factory workers in Massena, N.Y., the cooperative financial institution now operates nine branches, including two in Vermont, in Essex and South Burlington. SeaComm contributes to all of the communities it serves through its unique Pay It Forward program, which distributes free goods such as food, movie tickets or a tank of gas at random in the areas around SeaComm’s branches; the Mimmo’s pizza delivery was part of it. Pay It Forward recipients don’t have to be credit union members, says marketing and communications specialist Tyler LeBoeuf, who

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helps manage the program. They don’t have to provide personal information or pledge to join the credit union. SeaComm’s only request, says Tammy Harrigan, senior vice president of marketing and communications, is that recipients themselves pay it forward by doing something kind for someone else. Sometimes they do: After SeaComm paid for someone’s cart full of groceries at Save A Lot supermarket in Potsdam, N.Y., the lucky shopper turned around and paid for the purchases of the customer behind her, Harrigan says. Gestures like that make SeaComm’s communities better places in which to live and do business, LeBoeuf explains. “One of our goals from the beginning has been to create a chain reaction of kindness,” he says.

Lending a Hand SeaComm launched Pay It Forward in 2017. Since then, it has hosted 65 related events. Food is a recurring theme: In August 2019, before its South Burlington branch opened, SeaComm bought Ben & Jerry’s

scoops in downtown Burlington for 500 people. Around that time, LeBoeuf walked into Pauline’s Café on Shelburne Road and picked up the tab for about 30 customers’ lunches. The credit union’s generosity takes other forms, too: In summer 2019, members of SeaComm’s marketing team descended on Church Street Marketplace in Burlington with $20 Visa gift cards, which they handed out to 100 people. “It had a twofold effect,” says LeBoeuf. “We were helping them, but they were also helping the local businesses because they were right there shopping.” When SeaComm opened a branch in Plattsburgh, N.Y., in 2017, the credit union arranged with a local gas station to have its staff pump and pay for fill-ups for about 500 drivers. In the fall of 2019, at the Essex Cinemas, SeaComm offered free admission, popcorn and a drink for everyone who attended the initial screening of Maleficent; a SeaComm employee donned the title character’s signature black costume as she waved people into the theater. All told, SeaComm has given away freebies through Pay It Forward worth roughly $125,000.

SeaComm contributes to its communities in other ways, too: The credit union has supported the King Street Center and Ronald McDonald House in Burlington and sponsored numerous Little League teams and fundraisers across its territory. But the Pay It Forward gifts can have ripple effects that are particularly memorable. Last December, SeaComm covered the cost of the remaining layaway balances for 27 customers of Walmart stores near the credit union’s locations. One woman cried as she told SeaComm representatives that they had saved her Christmas, Harrigan recalls. “She was going to have to return, or get rid of, her layaway,” says Harrigan. “Those were her grandchildren’s toys, and she didn’t know how she was going to be able to afford it. So she said that we were her Christmas angels.”

‘Never Forgetting Your Roots’ SeaComm’s community-focused philosophy is part of the nonprofit organization’s DNA. The credit union traces its roots to 10 original charter members — workers at Massena’s General Motors die-cast plant — who each dropped $5 in a toolbox. By pooling their resources, they realized they could help

colleagues in need stretch their dollars between paychecks. The GM factory closed in 2009, but the credit union has only grown. SeaComm now has more than

50,000 members, most of them in four counties of northeastern New York. The original co-op merged with other entities over the years and ultimately changed its name to encompass the larger region around the St. Lawrence Seaway: SeaComm is short for Seaway Community. One of the credit union’s current board members has been volunteering for the organiza-

Though credit unions operate like banks, they’re nonprofit, member-owned entities. Vermonters understand and appreciate the difference, which is why there are so many credit unions here to choose from.

to call, email or stop by his office in Massena. And Wilson visits branches in person on a quarterly basis to talk directly with members; a recent trip brought him to Essex. “As the CEO, I work for the members,” he says. “I want to know how we’re doing as their credit union.” Wilson points out that SeaComm has to earn a profit, but its mission has always been about more than just money. “Ultimately, running a successful credit union is about taking care of family, friends and neighbors,” he says.

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Left: SeaComm staff delivering flowers and puzzles to residents in a North Country nursing home

Scott A. Wilson. “It has to do with never forgetting your roots and taking care of people.” That means offering members a compelling value, he says: “From the time they walk into one of our branches, phone into our Call Center or log in at one of our mobile delivery platforms, we want the experience to exceed their expectations. “We don’t take that lightly,” he says. “In fact, we obsess over it.” In addition to seeking member feedback through random monthly surveys, Wilson invites members

Because SeaComm expanded here during the pandemic, it hasn’t been able to hold grand opening events at its new branches. This summer, SeaComm is finally hosting a pair of celebrations — in Essex on August 13 and in South Burlington on August 27. They’ll feature food trucks, games, prizes and free ice cream. SeaComm will Pay It Forward beforehand with free scoops of Ben & Jerry’s in Jaycee Park in South Burlington on July 28 and Maple Street Park in Essex on July 29. Find out about future Pay It

for community connectedness, as well as cooperative ownership models; think Cabot Cooperative Creamery and City Market, Onion River Co-op.

ALL TOLD, SEACOMM HAS GIVEN AWAY FREEBIES THROUGH PAY IT FORWARD WORTH ROUGHLY $125,000.

Right: SeaComm buying groceries for 100 local residents. Pictured: Branch manager Barbara Bessette and president and CEO Scott A. Wilson

tion for 58 years since its charter was passed through the National Credit Union Administration. After opening the Plattsburgh branch, SeaComm’s board began considering where to expand next. It studied the Vermont market. Though crossing the lake — and the state line — was a big leap, Vermont seemed like an ideal fit, Harrigan says. The state is known

Forward events by following SeaComm’s Facebook and Instagram accounts. Katie DeSanto, a manager of the Phoenix Books store in Essex, was one of the lucky recipients of the Mimmo’s delivery in March. She says she and her colleagues enjoyed not only the pizza from one of their favorite restaurants but also the visit from SeaComm staff who brought it and stayed to chat. As a retailer, she added, she appreciates SeaComm’s efforts to generate goodwill within the community. “It was just a lovely, pleasant and neighborly thing for them to do,” DeSanto says. “They’re trying to say, ‘Hey, we’re here for you.’”

That’s exactly right, says Wilson. SeaComm is all about small-town, one-on-one service. “I love when you drive by a house and someone is sitting on the front porch and gives you a wave,” he says. “That’s us. We want everyone to feel that way.” n T H I S A D V E RT I S E M E N T WA S CO M M I S S I O N E D A N D PA I D F O R BY:

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ick Levey leaned over the side of a motorboat last week and dipped a long metal scoop into the marshy mouth of the Barton River where it enters Lake Memphremagog. Over his shoulder, the hulking Coventry Landfill rose 400 feet above the water in the distance. On the unnatural angular hilltop of debris, heavy machinery was barely visible through haze that was tinged sepia by distant western wildfires. Like an angler landing a prized catch, Levey carefully lifted his pole above the surface and poured the lake water into sample jars bound for a lab that will test them for 36 kinds of chemicals. The water quality expert with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and a pair of colleagues were launching an extensive new watersampling program in Memphremagog, the picturesque 31-mile-long waterway that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. They and their Canadian counterparts hope to get to the bottom of troubling reports that toxic chemicals known to

Rick Levey and Kelsey Colbert gathering water samples in Lake Memphremagog

leak from landfills might be migrating from Vermont into the water supply in Québec. Last fall, Québécois environmental officials found trace amounts of PFAS in the water supply for 175,000 Canadians.

The polyfluoroalkyl chemicals are found in everything from Teflon cookware and stainproof carpets to firefighting foam. The results prompted Vermont and Québec officials to investigate the prevalence of PFAS in what many consider a

pristine lake vital to the region’s tourism economy. Even as the team hunted for signs of threats to the lake’s health, around them the waters teemed with life. A green heron flew over a shoreline thick with cattails. A turtle poked its head above the surface near the mouth of the Black River. Anglers cast lines to pull smallmouth bass, yellow perch and lake trout from the depths. Levey and his team spent the day gathering samples from 11 sites around Newport, the northern Vermont city built on the southern end of this scenic waterway. It was far from the first time Vermont environmental scientists have gone hunting for PFAS. The discovery of the compounds in drinking water wells around a former North Bennington fabric factory in 2016 set off a statewide scramble to identify contaminated sites. State environmental officials quickly fingered landfills, as well as wastewater treatment plants and car washes, as potential sources. Now the search has gone international, BENEATH THE SURFACE

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The Coventry Landfill, visible from the shore of Lake Memphremagog

adding a layer of complexity to the undertaking. Collaborating with Levey was a Québécois crew that conducted a similar round of water samples on the Canadian side of the lake. Levey hopes the project will provide facts to replace what, so far, has been largely cross-border finger-pointing over the possible sources of the chemicals. “This is certainly a situation where having data in hand will be very beneficial,” Levey said. He is skeptical that the pollution detected in Canadian waters emanates from Vermont, considering it more likely that something closer to the north end of the narrow lake is responsible. Others aren’t so sure. Memphremagog presents unique conservation challenges. While 73 percent of its surface area lies in Québec, 75 percent of its water flows from Vermont. That means the fate of a largely Canadian lake lies primarily in the hands of Americans. The Barton, Black, Clyde and Johns rivers drain from the heavily forested and 30

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agricultural lands of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom into the southern end of the lake. The river water contains millions of gallons of effluent annually from four Vermont wastewater treatment plants. After entering the lake around Newport, the water slowly makes its way north for just over a year and a half, according to estimates, before flowing from the lake through the Magog River on its way to the Saint Lawrence River and, ultimately, into the Atlantic Ocean. Concern that pollution from Vermont may migrate north and contaminate the drinking water supplies in Canada is not only based on sound science, it’s common sense, said Fritz Gerhardt, a conservation scientist who has done extensive research in the watershed. “It’s easy to say it’s not our problem, but we’re not the ones drinking the water — the Québécois are.” Levey, however, is skeptical that the level of PFAS from Newport’s plant are high enough to even be detectable — let

alone a health hazard — after being diluted in trillions of gallons of lake water. Whatever the latest round of test results show, they are unlikely to stem the rising tide of anxiety — on both sides of the border — about the health of a lake that advocates increasingly believe is in peril. The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation lists the lake as impaired, meaning it exceeds the levels set by regulators for certain pollutants. Following a spate of blooms of cyanobacteria, aka blue-green algae, the state in 2017 released a cleanup plan that calls for reducing the phosphorous entering the lake by 29 percent over the next 20 years, mostly by preventing runoff from agricultural lands and reducing stream bank erosion caused by more intense rainstorms. Compounding that concern, a study in 2019 found that 30 percent of fish known as brown bullhead caught in the lake were covered with cancerous black lesions. Anglers had been reporting gross,

tar-like spots on the bottom-feeding sport fish since 2012, but the joint study by the Vermont Department of Fish & Wildlife and the U.S. Geological Survey showed higher-than-expected rates and revealed that the growths were cancerous melanomas. “It’s not a small percentage. It’s significant, and it indicates that something is wrong,” Pete Emerson, a fisheries biologist with the Department of Fish & Wildlife, said during a public meeting on the issue last December. Officials suggested that people not eat any bullhead with the lesions. The cancer revelation was “mindblowing” and a clear indicator to Peggy Stevens that, like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, the fish signal that something is clearly amiss. “There were all these people saying, ‘It’s not that bad.’ Well, it’s bad enough that there are cancerous fish,” said Stevens, a Charleston resident and a member of the anti-landfill group Don’t Undermine

Jeremy Labbe of Casella’s Coventry Landfill, peering inside a new leachate holding tank

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Memphremagog’s Purity, or DUMP. “You can’t tell me that doesn’t have something to do with the quality of the water.” Viruses, heavy metals from past industrial pollution or even the impact of ultraviolet rays on the fish in shallow bays, where most of the affected fish were discovered, could all be causes, Levey said. Newport has been an industrial hub since the mid-1800s. It was long the home of a massive sawmill that turned timber floated down the lake from Canada into lumber shipped south by rail. The city is still grappling with a legacy of pollution. Central Maine & Quebec Railway removed more than 10 tons of oil-contaminated soil and hazardous materials from its property on Memphremagog’s South Bay in 2018. Levey said some contamination from that site could be the cause of elevated levels of metals detected in parts of the lake. Another potential culprit, lake advocates say, is the Coventry Landfill, which has operated for decades on the southern end of the lake and remains the final destination for 80 percent of what Vermonters discard. For years, wastewater from the dump was treated at local facilities and then released into the lake. “It’s absolutely bonking mad what’s going on up here,” said Pam Ladds, a Newport resident and a member of DUMP. The release of leachate has stopped, for now. But the apparent cascade of threats has some residents worried that the fate of their beloved lake, and the regional economy that depends on it, is increasingly beyond their power to protect. They fear the lake has been damaged in ways that aren’t understood. State officials point to ongoing studies and planning and insist that they are keeping abreast of Memphremagog’s issues. DUMP was formed in 2018 to oppose Casella Waste Systems’ proposed 51-acre expansion of the landfill, the state’s last operating dump. Vermont regulators approved the growth plans in 2018 anyway, giving the landfill an additional potential 20-year lease on life — a decision that has frustrated Canadians and DUMP members. During a recent visit to Newport’s Prouty Beach, Ladds made clear her view on Vermont’s lake management. Families frolicked on the small sandy beach, and cyclists zipped past on the new bike path linking the beach to downtown and points north. Ladds pointed to erosion from the bike path construction project and trees recently removed for shoreline developments. She said, “We’re doing a piss-poor job of being stewards to this lake.”

NOT TO HAVE THE LEACHATE BACK IN THE LAKE. R O BE R T B EN O I T

The 500,000-gallon tank, which will begin filling with leachate later this year

Two holding tanks with a combined capacity for 1 million gallons of “garbage juice”

Garbage Juice

Even as advocates were still absorbing the 2019 news that high percentages of bullhead had cancer, word came last fall that trace amounts of chemicals known as PFAS had been discovered near the intake pipes for two Québec cities that get their drinking water from the lake — Magog and Sherbrooke. Magog, a tourist-friendly city of 26,000 people, sits along the lake close to MontOrford National Park. Sherbrooke, the sixth-largest city in Québec and home of several universities, lies 17 miles from the lake, on the Magog River. The levels detected — 13 parts per trillion, according to a Sherbrooke official — are below Canada’s guidance of 200 parts per trillion and even Vermont’s far stricter standard of 20 parts per trillion. Environmental activists and politicians in Québec nevertheless expressed alarm, some all but accusing Vermont and its lakeside landfill in Coventry of being the most likely source. “We know there is PFAS in Québec, but we think the largest part of the problem is coming from Casella,” said Robert Benoit, president of Memphremagog Conservation, the Québec-based group that advocates for lake health. DUMP has shared that concern. The group’s main victory to date has been to secure a four-year moratorium on trucking leachate, or contaminated landfill water, to Newport’s wastewater treatment plant. Before then, the leachate was treated, then released, into the Clyde River just above its mouth on the lake. Leachate is mostly rainwater that has percolated through the layers of garbage buried in the landfill, picking up all manner of toxic substances along the way. The landfill annually produces about 11 million gallons of the foul brew, sometimes referred to as “garbage juice.” The moratorium, a condition of the Act 250 permit for the expansion, prevents leachate from being treated at Newport’s municipal wastewater facility until at least 2023. Casella must also explore alternative treatment options for its leachate. Though many cheered the relief it could bring to Memphremagog, the moratorium effectively shifted the problem elsewhere — to the Lake Champlain basin. About 10 million gallons a year now go to Montpelier, where they’re treated in a municipal wastewater facility and released into the Winooski River. The rest, more than 2 million gallons, goes to Plattsburgh, N.Y., which treats and discharges the water directly into the lake. Just like Newport’s, however, those municipal facilities are designed to treat BENEATH THE SURFACE SEVEN DAYS JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2021

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sewage — not garbage juice tainted with PFAS and other contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, that they are ill-equipped to remove. A 2018 report by the state Department of Environmental Conservation showed that the outflow from treatment plants that accept landfill leachate has significantly higher levels of PFAS. Citing such results, Canadian officials have pressured the state not to allow leachate from the landfill to ever again be released into the Memphremagog watershed. The state has not agreed to that condition, raising the ire of both DUMP members and their allies in Québec. Benoit, who lives on the shallow Fitch Bay area of the lake in Québec, said he is frustrated by the blue-green algae that sometimes chokes his shoreline, and he’s worried about invasive species. But neither issue riles him as much as the idea that water from a mountain of garbage could be fouling the lake. “We are going to fight up to the last drop of our blood not to have the leachate back in the lake,” he said.

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‘Easy Target’

Casella officials have not denied that the PFAS discovered at the north end of the lake could have originated from the landfill, but they have said there is no proof and point to multiple other possible sources. PFAS are now ubiquitous in the environment around the globe, so the suggestion that the landfill must be the source for the Sherbrooke samples is baseless, said Joe Fusco, a Casella spokesperson. Stormwater from developed areas, effluent from water treatment systems in Québec and failing septic systems are all possible sources of PFAS located far closer to the north end of the lake than Coventry, he said. “I think the landfill makes an easy target,” Fusco said. “Concerns about Lake Memphremagog are valid. What’s not valid is to point the finger at the Coventry landfill and say, ‘This is the problem, solely.’” The landfill dates back to the 1960s, when it was a small unlined dump and junkyard owned by Charlie Nadeau. Québec investors purchased it, then sold it to Casella in the mid-1990s. Today the landfill accepts about 500,000 tons of waste per year. Along with the bulk of Vermont’s trash, it takes sludge, construction debris and other waste from neighboring states. When all 51 acres of the expansion area are filled, the landfill will cover 126 acres. All leachate from landfills in Vermont — even the closed ones — contains PFAS, but the levels are particularly high at Coventry. A 2019 report performed for the 32

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Brandon Grenier (left) and Noah Crogan preparing to go bass fishing on Lake Memphremagog

state by environmental consulting firm Weston & Sampson showed 3,087 parts per trillion there — 154 times higher than the 20-parts-per-trillion level allowed in Vermont drinking water. That same report, however, noted that the vast majority of the PFAS remained sequestered in the landfill. Casella is working hard to address the problem of high PFAS levels in leachate, said Coventry landfill general manager Jeremy Labbe. One solution is structural. As part of the expansion project, the company has built a second 500,000-gallon leachate holding tank. When operational later this year, that will bring the total

leachate storage capacity for the landfill to around 1 million gallons, he said. In another 20 years, the growing landfill’s leachate is projected to increase to about 16 million gallons or more annually. Like all landfills, it will need to be managed for decades after that, Labbe said. In addition, a 2019 study that Casella commissioned, by national consulting firm Brown and Caldwell, examined several alternatives to treating the leachate at municipal wastewater plants. The options range from expensive to extremely expensive. The cheapest solution would be a mini

treatment plant at the landfill using reverse osmosis and charcoal filter technology that would capture PFAS. The treated leachate would then be released into the surrounding surface water, presumably the Black River. Brown and Caldwell estimated the cost to build such a system and operate it for 20 years at $34 million to $80 million. Another option would modernize the treatment processes at existing municipal plants, such as Newport or Montpelier, to enable those facilities to filter out PFAS. Those upgrades, plus 20-year operating costs, could run $54 million to $176 million. The highest-cost option analyzed was one called “zero liquid discharge.” This method boils the leachate down to a concentrate, not unlike making the nastiest maple syrup ever. The resulting slurry would be encased in cement — and disposed back into the landfill. The huge energy needs of such a system would ideally be met through waste heat from an existing energy plant or methane gas from the landfill. Even so, the 20-year cost estimates range from $158 million to a staggering $394 million. Such sums would blow a hole in the bottom line even for a company as profitable as Casella, which last year had revenues of $775 million. Brothers John and Doug Casella grew their Rutlandbased business from a single trash truck into a regional waste empire — a publicly traded company with 100 facilities in six states and 2,500 employees. Its stock price has soared tenfold over the last five years.

City on the Lake

People have inhabited the shores of the lake for millennia. Memphremagog was the heart of the Western Abenaki homeland; the named they bestowed on it means “big expanse of water.” Like the Native people they displaced, Europeans settled on its shores, fished its depths, and plied it for transportation and trade. Newport, whose fortunes have been tied to the lake for centuries, is now trying hard to strengthen those bonds. As the city has slowly shed its industrial past as a timber and rail hub of the Northeast Kingdom, it has sought to capitalize on its prime waterfront location to attract recreationminded tourists. (Learn about recreational and educational cruise boat the Northern Star on page 34.) “Newport is like a mini Burlington, when you get right down to it,” David Converse said. He’s the president of the Memphremagog Watershed Association, a Newport-based group founded in 2007 to advocate for and carry out water quality projects in the basin.

Newport depends on its waterfront for its economic prosperity, Converse said. Several marinas draw boaters and anglers from Québec and beyond. Despite water quality concerns, demand for waterfront real estate is strong, said broker Tina Leblond. She just sold a 10-acre waterfront lot whose buyers plan to build a home, and she has a $2.4 million waterfront home listed in Newport. Water quality concerns can scare off buyers, however, and Leblond thinks more needs to be done to keep the lake healthy and address the myriad threats. “I have had people who have been interested in lakefront property on Memphrem-

and hot yoga studio bustle. Colorful petunias adorn downtown lampposts while weeds choke an adjacent sidewalk. Converse said his group and DUMP haven’t always seen eye to eye. While DUMP is committed to being a watchdog of the landfill, the association takes a broader view of lake health and doesn’t believe the landfill is the primary threat; Converse points to excessive phosphorus. But they agree that if Memphremagog’s waters are fouled, Newport’s fortunes will follow. While Converse thinks Casella is “doing as good a job as they can possibly” in managing the landfill, he agrees that KEVIN MCCALLUM

Following the bruising battle over the expansion permit, John Casella castigated landfill opponents on both sides of the border for their “scare tactics” and suggested Québec’s far less stringent wastewater standards for PFAS gave Canadians little room to talk smack. “Let’s refocus our passion and resources on making sure that we have safe and environmentally sound products entering our state,” Casella wrote, “and that our neighbors in Canada do their part to protect the environment.” Casella’s effort to deflect criticism has been hampered of late, however, by a large leachate spill at another landfill it runs, in Bethlehem, N.H. Approximately 154,000 gallons of the brew escaped from its holding tanks over a weekend in May following what the company has said was a pumping malfunction. State officials said the leachate escaped a retention pond and ran into a grassy area near the Ammonoosuc River. The company was already defending a federal lawsuit that the Conservation Law Foundation and the Toxics Action Center (now called Community Action Works) filed in 2018, alleging that Casella violated the Clean Water Act by allowing landfill leachate and polluted groundwater to flow from the New Hampshire dump into the river. Last week, New Hampshire officials requested a detailed review of Casella’s leachate management by August 1, after blaming the company for “failure to operate and maintain the leachate management system in a manner that controls to the greatest extent practicable spills.”

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agog, but then, after they’ve done some more research on the water quality, they’ve decided to go elsewhere,” she said. Any assessment of Newport’s economic aspirations must address the gaping hole in the middle of its downtown, where the promises of a four-story hotel and mixed-use project evaporated in the EB-5 foreign investors scandal, leaving only an empty pit where buildings had been demolished to make way for the project. Colorful artwork on fences now shields from view a vacant site that has so far defied efforts to lure development. Signs of the city’s potential, and its struggles, are everywhere. Several retail storefronts sit vacant even as a Thai restaurant

people need to produce less waste and the state should stop sending it all to a single location on the shore of a vital waterway. “We can’t keep this up forever,” he said.

Testing, Testing

In May, DUMP called on state Natural Resources Secretary Julie Moore to formally declare Memphremagog a “lake in crisis,” like the much smaller Lake Carmi, where persistent, widespread cyanobacteria blooms fed by phosphorus from surrounding farmland are a perennial problem. Such a designation could have focused greater attention and resources on lake cleanup efforts. More than 3,700 people

signed a petition in favor. But Moore rejected the petition because it didn’t meet all the criteria for the designation. For the lake to qualify, property values around it would have to be declining due to the pollution. But home prices in Orleans County are up 24 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Vermont Association of Realtors. That’s a lower increase than in some parts of the state but still a clear sign of strong demand. “We knew they weren’t going to approve it, but this is a lake in crisis whether they want to acknowledge it or not,” DUMP member Ladds said. She called it absurd that the state won’t step in until the problem gets so bad that it negatively impacts property values. Even though Memphremagog is “kind of the little sibling to Champlain” and therefore gets less funding and attention, the state still spent more than $500,000 on monitoring and cleanup work in the watershed last year, said Oliver Pierson, head of the state’s Lakes and Ponds Management and Protection Program. People are right to be concerned about the issues facing the lake, but that doesn’t mean it’s in crisis, he said. He noted that while there are occasional blue-green algae blooms, the water is more often uncommonly clear. “I went boating and swimming in Memphremagog as recently as last summer and was in awe of the beauty and splendor of the place,” Pierson said. This summer, additional fish sampling is scheduled, according to Emerson, the fisheries biologist. Also planned: genetic analysis of the lesions on bullheads to determine possible causes, he said. And later this summer, the first round of water-test results is to be released, at a public meeting in Newport. Moore will host the August 24 session to address lake health. While it is understandable that people would look for links between the various threats facing the lake — high phosphorus, sick fish and chemical contaminants — Moore said she considers them separate issues and inquiries. The tension between Vermont and Québec officials over the discovery of PFAS has largely been due to a lack of data to inform discussion about the problem, let alone identify the source — or sources — of the contamination. Moore is hoping the collaborative sampling project will give scientists, policy makers and the public on both sides of the border a common understanding of the problem and lead to potential solutions. “Not only do we not want to be polluting the lake,” Moore told Seven Days, “we don’t want our neighbors to the north to feel like we are.” m SEVEN DAYS JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2021

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n a bright Sunday in July, between bites of brunch, a few dozen passengers savored the sights from the Northern Star. Cruising on Lake Memphremagog, which straddles the U.S./Québec border, they floated past Black Island, where smugglers hid booze during Prohibition; Prouty Beach, a favorite local fishing spot; and Eagle Point Wildlife Management Area, which manages nearly a mile of lakeshore habitat. After years of inactivity, the 65-foot Northern Star is up and running in the Northeast Kingdom town of Newport under new ownership and with new programs. It’s part of the tourism-driven economy of the picturesque town, population 4,300, nestled on a hill above the lake and its marina. The boat’s former owner, Chris Johansen, began running international cruises in 2012 but decided to sell the boat in 2017 due in part to the economic downturn prompted by the EB-5 scandal: Two businessmen were accused of misusing $200 million raised from 2012 to 2016 through the state EB-5 program, which financed development projects funded by foreign investors hoping to obtain green cards. An entire downtown block, razed to make room for one of the projects, remains undeveloped, and 2,200 promised biotech jobs were never realized. Determined to keep the Northern Star going — given its economic benefits to the town and its potential to support education — local residents created nonprofit Memphremagog Community Maritime and, in 2019, secured a loan from North Country Federal Credit Union to purchase it. This spring, the nonprofit hired Robbie Cannon to captain the boat and, in collaboration with area businesses and organizations, began offering cruises and using the boat as a floating classroom. “I look at the community as: Let’s fix what we can fix, not: Wait for that hole to be filled,” said MCM executive director Rick Desrochers. “We need to stop turning our backs to the lake and start looking towards the lake.” The Northern Star was built in 2002 to resemble a 1920s-style steamer and was transported on a flatbed truck from Lake Champlain to Lake Memphremagog in 2012. The ship can carry 49 passengers plus a crew, and its white-and-blue exterior and shiny wooden interior give it a regal air. The first floor has space for 34

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dining, and the top deck offers an open view of the lake. Below deck is a cozy bar area, complete with portholes and cocktail tables. The Northern Star’s presence continues a long history of passenger boats on the lake, which harbored paddle steamers from the 1850s through the 1950s. One steamer, Lady of the Lake, could carry 666 passengers; it stopped sailing in 1916 and was sold for scrap metal the following year as World War I raged on. The Northern Star offers scenic and dinner cruises on Saturdays and brunch cruises on Sundays. Prices range from $14.95 per child age 3 to 11 for scenic cruises (children under 3 are free) to $49.95 per adult (12 and older) for dinner cruises. It also hosts charter cruises, including Murder Mystery Night, Star Wars Night and Starry Starry Night, a collaboration with St. Johnsbury’s Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium. Most charter cruises are $49.95 per person age 13 and up.

Tourists “from all over the country” have been booking most of the themed cruises, Desrochers said, and local businesses have booked private cruises to thank employees for their work during the pandemic. Seventy community businesses and organizations have partnered with the MCM, Desrochers noted, including 12 local restaurants that cater the onboard meals. The nonprofit donates leftover food from the cruises to the Newport Church of God for community members who are food insecure. The Northern Star’s educational programming serves adults and youth. Numerous local experts offer programs for youth, including one on field science for elementary schoolers and one on the watershed for middle schoolers. At this year’s Town Meeting, Coventry voters agreed to allocate $10,000 to MCM to create a program in the fall to teach K-8 students about the lake, Desrochers said.

On a recent trip to Prouty Beach, instructor Mary Pat Goulding asked a group of Orleans third graders to look for insects and crustaceans that live in the aquatic ecosystem and to measure the turbidity, or haziness, of the lake to assess water quality. The former board president of the Memphremagog Watershed Association, Goulding taught about the role of buffer zones in keeping farm runoff from harming the watershed, and asked what students knew about the lake and whether they live “Some students knew the lake well and fished with their families,” even divulging good fishing spots, Goulding said. “Then you’d have students who’d never even seen the lake. The first response is always about the boat. The boat’s pretty impressive, especially if you’re a third grader.” The watershed association also provides educational outreach to adults at its annual meetings. Three years ago, it held a panel discussion on PFAs, a family of toxic polyfluoroalkyl chemicals

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he Hokum Brothers band was playing oldies when the busload of kids showed up at Hack Club headquarters, known as HQ, in Shelburne. It was July 16, the day before 42 teenagers were to leave on a cross-country trip. As they gathered for lunch and then a night in Chittenden County before starting the trip — by bus to New York City and then a train west — they were full of buzzy excitement and can’t-wait-to-go energy. The teenagers came from places including Los Angeles, Malaysia, Atlanta, Toronto and NYC. Until mid-July, they had known each other only online. Now, after a morning visit to Burlington, they were convening in Shelburne for pizza, music, and computer chitchat, high-fiving and hanging out in real life. Hack Club is a Shelburne-based nonprofit that oversees a network of student-run coding clubs, and the kids were its guests and coders/makers on an all-expenses-paid, cross-country hackathon. The train trip that would conclude on Sunday in LA, was a mobile summer camp for computer whizzes. These campers would be sleeping in bunks, sightseeing, writing poetry and having sing-alongs — but also creating code for apps and websites. For eight days, the future would roll and click across the USA. The students’ overarching endeavor aboard the train was to build a network, the ZephyrNET, and load it with 500 onboard projects. Their individual plans ranged from making a music app to stream tunes for the ride, to taste-testing ramen in a whirlwind tour of NYC noodle shops and documenting the results. The train hackathon and the creations made during it would serve as a time capsule of the trip. But if the coders failed to complete 500 projects, their work would be deleted — and unrecoverable. The day of the kickoff, Maya Farber, 17, arrived for the trip with her father, who dropped her off and hugged her goodbye at HQ — a Victorian house in the heart of town, beside the Shelburne Country Store. The two had traveled by airplane from Tel Aviv to NYC and then driven to Vermont for Maya’s train adventure. Alexey Farber, who runs a software company in Israel, expressed happiness for his daughter as she went off to meet

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“amazing, like-minded people with bright minds.” “I think it’s quite exciting to travel across America with other children like her,” he said. Bringing together kids based on their interest in computers and programming is the foundation of Hack Club. Zach Latta, now 23, founded the club seven years ago and is its executive director. He’s a California native who moved to Vermont at the start of the pandemic. Latta’s interest in computers started when he was a young boy; he went online to teach himself to build a computer. “I just couldn’t pull myself away from computers,” he said. “I felt like, if only I could understand how these magical devices work, I could unlock the secrets to the universe.” He dropped out of his suburban LA high school at 15 and moved to San Francisco at 16 to work as a software consultant at a rate of $80 to $100 an hour. He moved to that city, in part, because he was “so desperate for community.” Latta founded Hack Club to help give young people what had been missing for him. “I didn’t think coding and making things should be a solitary activity,” he said. “And I was so desperate to find a tribe myself.” In developing this summer’s program, Hack Club staff wanted to create a situation that would challenge student leaders to take risks and push themselves.

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“America needs a generation of young people who are optimistic, rigorous problem solvers and have hard technical skills,” Latta said. There are a few hundred school Hack Clubs, Latta estimated, but about 13,000 kids are involved in the program through the organization’s online Slack chat group. Teenagers run the clubs, where they develop and complete coding projects and then share them. Other Hack Club teens can see and use their work; they can also adapt or add to the projects — a practice sometimes called “forking.”

In 2020, the nonprofit received a $500,000 donation from Elon Musk. Another donor has given $1 million to Hack Club, Latta said, adding that every donation is meaningful. “Everybody at Hack Club is here because we want to try to create the space that we wish we had as teenagers,” Latta said. In riding a train across the country, Hack Club is “using the infrastructure that built this country 150 years ago,” Latta observed. “Teenagers becoming more technical and building things with a computer — this is the infrastructure that’s going to be building this country for the next 150 years.” One of the students on the trip, Hugo Hu of NYC, made a ZephyrNET project before he boarded the train. Hu, 13, is soon to enter eighth grade at New Explorations Into Science, Technology and Math, a public school in Manhattan. In June, when he was invited on the train trip, Hugo said he was encouraged by Latta to think about something he could make for the ZephyrNET. He decided to design and build USB hubs in the shape of trains. Hack Club, which covered all trip expenses for all of the kids, approved the $320 cost of Hu’s parts and equipment. But certain parts he needed to make the trains — each of which has four ports — didn’t arrive until July 12, Hu said. That left him with about two and half days to solder and test 55 little model trains that serve as USB hubs. He completed the project. “Hugo’s a badass” was the word at HQ as the kids ate pizza and got psyched for the trip. Claire Wang, 16, of Los Angeles, will be a junior at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts in the fall. She has started three Hack Clubs at different schools, the first one when she was in eighth grade. Wang also organized two AngelHacks: LA-based hackathons in which people code together “and learn a lot,” she said. (The first one was held at Snapchat headquarters.) Projects at AngelHack included building a decentralized voting system and using artificial intelligence to make a music generator that played “some really great tracks,” Wang said. On the train trip, which wrapped up on Sunday in her hometown, Wang was an intern, a Hack Club leader who got paid. “I really enjoy coding because you have so much power at your hands to

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make a positive impact,” she said in an interview several days before the trip. Coding doesn’t require a lot of resources, Wang explained, and with flexibility and problem-solving skills, “anyone can take control of [their] own future.” “You have to not want to throw your computer at the wall the minute something breaks,” Wang added. Abby Fischler, 14, also from LA, got into coding because she really liked to type. So she’d started spending time in her school’s computer lab in third grade. That led to playing Minecraft and then to taking classes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “I’m so looking forward to this trip,” Fischler said at HQ in Shelburne. “I’m so excited to meet everyone and see the world.” Rishi Kothari, 15, of Toronto, was on the trip as an intern. Coding, he said, “fosters an ecosystem of constant creation.” “The really awesome part about code is, because code is so open, it can scale infinitely,” Kothari said. The Hack Club at his public high school had about 80 kids at its peak. “They give so much power to the leaders,” Kothari said of the Shelburne HQ, “that it’s really hard to have a bad Hack Club.” In Vermont, Shelburne Community School and Harwood Union High

School in Moretown are the only schools with clubs, according to the nonprofit. Though portions of the state have limited broadband access, Hack Club leaders say Vermont is the right place for the nonprofit to call home. “Vermonters are very deeply in touch with their creative side,” said Christina Asquith of Charlotte, chief operating officer of Hack Club. “That kind of thinking needs to be involved in the next generation of coders. What we really need are artists who can code and environmentalists who can code and farmers who can code.” The train ride was stocked with creative types, including Woody Keppel, a musician, actor and vaudeville performer from Charlotte. Founder of Burlington’s Festival of Fools, he served as the train’s entertainment director, offering hours of music, theatrics and side gags with fellow performers as the train rolled west. “This is the craziest thing I’ve ever done,” said Keppel, who led the Hokum Brothers in “Secret Agent Man” and other oldies at the kickoff event. He noted that he’d bought a computer and an iPhone for the Hack Club gig “to show them off.” “I’m the oldest and the dumbest person on this trip,” Keppel said the day before leaving. But he gave himself good odds for keeping the young folk entertained on their odyssey. “They’re into this coding computer world that is the future, and they just love it so much,” Keppel said. “And they’re so into creating something special on this hackathon.” m

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att Jennings and Hilary Gifford met the way most people seem to these days: online. Jennings, a chef from Boston who moved to Charlotte with his family two years ago, and Gifford, a vegetable farmer in North Ferrisburgh, connected on a Vermont agriculture email group. She responded to a post from Jennings, who wanted to team up with a farmer to grow vegetables and work on related food projects. Jennings and his wife, Kate, had learned firsthand during their debut growing season in Vermont that farming “is more than a fulltime job,” he said. So, he sought help online. “And the magic started,” Jennings said. That magic is contained in the locally sourced meal kit, Barn Box, that Jennings and Gifford launched in early July. The weekly food box consists of vegetables and herbs that Gifford grows, along with sauces, condiments and other prepared foods Jennings makes at his new seasonal venture, Red Barn Kitchen. Key components of Barn Box are Jennings’ recipes that guide home cooks in making a meal from raw ingredients and his premade contributions. The bonus? A pair of food pros with complementary expertise decide what’s for dinner. “People just want to be able to pick something up, have a recipe … cook it and have

dinner on the table in 20 minutes,” said Jennings, who credits Kate for suggesting the barbecue chicken dinner that Barn Box offered earlier this month. “This thing is totally in its [initial] stages,” Jennings continued. “The goal is to make somebody’s evening easier and have it be an experience that’s driven [by] local producers.” While the produce is grown at Gifford’s farm and on a plot at the Jennings’ property, some ingredients, such as meats and grains, are sourced from other local farms. The weekly Barn Box offering is posted Sunday evenings on Instagram @redbarnkitchenvt. Customers can order the food weekly, or just occasionally, through KITCHEN ASSIST

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Enna, which occupies the spot best known for housing the Pinky’s on State sandwich shop, was named for Bates’ grandmother. Growing up, Bates said, she spent a lot of time at her grandparents’ house in Maple Corner, a village in Calais. “They had a sugarhouse, a huge garden, ducks that laid eggs, a berry patch. We did a lot of growing, pickling, baking and freezing,” she said. “That’s where I got my love of food.” Bates left Vermont to attend the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. She went on to cook everywhere from five-star hotel kitchens to private yachts in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Italy, Spain and San Francisco. After seeing the world, Bates said, “I just decided I wanted to come home and try it out. I keep asking myself why I didn’t come back sooner.” The menu will change weekly, even daily, depending on the season and the availability of Vermont-grown and -made fare. “I’m just loving using all the local ingredients,” Bates said. m

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ith hands swooping like butterflies, Matilda Fuentes and Magnolia González deftly patted, pinched and folded masa dough. In a Middlebury kitchen on an early July afternoon, Fuentes was making empanadas filled with chicken while González shaped small, thick rounds of masa with raised edges for pellizcadas. The two women were preparing dishes from their native state of Veracruz, Mexico, in the home of Middlebury College professor Gloria Estela González Zenteno and her wife. González Zenteno, who served as translator, explained that “pellizcada” means “pinched” in Spanish. It is the regional name for what people in other parts of Mexico call gorditas or sopes: griddled cornmeal cakes that serve as sturdy, edible saucers for toppings such as beans or meat. González Zenteno, 58, grew up in Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco and came to the United States as a graduate student in 1988. Hers “was a different path” from those of the cooks in her kitchen, she said with some understatement. 40

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Fuentes, 47, has been in the U.S. 20 years and arrived in Vermont six years ago. She initially worked on a Bridport farm “feeding calves and feeding people” and now lives in Addison with her two children. González, 35, lives in Panton with her dairy farmworker husband and their two children. She has lived in Vermont for 13 of her 14 years in the U.S. Like Fuentes, she has made money cooking for the many farmworkers who are here without their families. Fuentes and González shared their stories over several hours of cooking, eating and talking, punctuated by much laughter and some tears. They discussed their journeys to Addison County, how food ties them to faraway kin and how they believe culinary skills can empower women. Theirs are but two stories from a 13-member Addison County culinary collective called Viva el Sabor (“long live flavor”) that launched on June 26 with a pop-up dinner on the Marble Works green in Middlebury. Twelve of the cooks are

from Mexico and one is from Guatemala; all but one are female. “Everybody has a story,” González Zenteno said. The organizers of the June event anticipated 250 attendees, bought plates for 500 and lost count after about 1,000. Lines snaked through the parking lot for hours. But a mariachi band entertained everyone, and the cooks had enough tamales, tacos and gorditas to satisfy all. “It was a very beautiful experience. We did not expect that many people,” González said, beaming. “I was imagining myself as a little old lady telling my grandchildren.” Viva el Sabor was formed with the support of the Addison Allies Network, a volunteer organization providing services to migrant farmworkers, as well as Little Village Enterprises. Paul Ralston of New Haven, former owner of Vermont Coffee Company, recently established the latter social venture to address economic inequities. Local chefs, businesses, a church, the regional culinary arts program and dozens of volunteers — including González Zenteno

— donated their time, kitchen space and equipment to the inaugural event. The goal of the pop-up was to gauge Vermonters’ taste for the food that Viva el Sabor members cook for their families and fellow Latin Americans. As hoped, the event generated leads on catering opportunities and events for which the members could cook. It also served as a testing ground for some of the cooks. “We all have a gift from God, which is knowing how to cook well,” González said. Some members, though, had less experience than others in cooking for hire. “Now, they have confidence in themselves,” she said. “[And] now that we have that confidence and hope, it won’t just be one event. One day maybe we can set up a restaurant. Sí, se puede!” she concluded resolutely. Cooking is deeply woven through Fuentes’ and González’s memories, as is masa, the cornmeal dough that is central to many regional Mexican cuisines. González started rolling tortillas by hand for her family when she was 7. Her grandfather favored her “small and dainty” tortillas over her grandmother’s, she said. A cousin would tease his mother that, in comparison to González’s tortillas, hers were “for dogs.” “I told them I had a tortilla press, and [Fuentes] said, ‘A tortilla press is for lazy people,’” González Zenteno interjected with a laugh. “I’ve always liked to cook,” González continued. Although her family could afford the necessities, she said, “I like to earn my own money. I’ve always liked to work, and I like to be independent.” By the age of 13, she was selling food in the courtyard of her family’s home on their town’s busy main street. She offered plates of fried pork skin (known as chicharrones), dressed with shredded cabbage or lettuce, queso fresco, a drizzle of cream, and Valentina hot sauce. Fuentes’ childhood was more turbulent. At 6, she was responsible for hauling the family’s nixtamalized corn to the mill to be made into masa. She recalled seeing her father — a womanizer and a drunk, she said — there with another woman. Though her father had a steady job, his children went to school without underwear. His explosive temper sparked regular beatings with his belt and the branches of a tree known for not bending. But his worst trait, Fuentes recounted, was that “we couldn’t eat until he came home — no matter how late.” When the family moved for a few years to central Mexico, where Fuentes’ father worked at a cattle research center, her mother saw an opportunity. The international scientists at the research center appreciated her cooking and paid her to do it for them.

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more money than they could in Mexico. An uncle was kidnapped twice. A cousin was shot in the foot to prevent his escape but still managed to get away. González’s sister was not so lucky. She was killed in a botched kidnapping, González shared through sobs. Her father cautioned her not to come home for the funeral. González’s 11-year-old daughter, Jossy, who had tagged along for the cooking demo, rushed over to hug her mother. Was coming to the U.S. worth it? “Sí,” González answered a Magnolia González reporter without hesitation. pressing masa “I think of them,” she said, for pellizcadas referring to her daughter and 14-year-old son. Her husband first made the “My dad would say, ‘You eat, thanks arduous journey over the border to find to me.’ My mom would say, ‘No, now I’m work at the age of 18. After they married making money, I’m feeding the kids,’” in Mexico, she decided to join him while Fuentes said with satisfaction. seven months pregnant with their son, “My childhood was very sad but also narrowly escaping arrest on the way. beautiful,” she reflected. “It taught me “That was the best option you ever how to appreciate so much.” took,” Jossy told her mom with a big Both women learned to cook at the smile. elbows of their mothers. Whenever FuenLike González, Fuentes settled tes asked her mother how to cook some- initially in Florida, but she came alone. thing, “She would say, ‘Don’t ask. Watch,’” She decided to leave Mexico, FuenFuentes recalled. tes said, “for necessity. I didn’t want to Gesturing to the table spread with food, depend on a man.” she said the flavors take her home: “When She supported herself by cooking in I’m cooking, I see my mother with me.” restaurants in Orlando, Kansas and North While recipes can cross borders, Carolina before moving to Vermont. A family is most often left behind. It is cousin working on an Addison County excruciating to be so far from loved ones dairy farm had told her that her cooking with no idea when you will see them would be much appreciated there, and she again, González said. With tears and a was eager to work for herself. The probtorrent of Spanish, she explained how lem with restaurants, Fuentes said, “is they multiple members of her family have treat you so terribly, and the hours are so been kidnapped for ransom because they long.” have relatives in the U.S. who are earning TASTES OF HOME

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five in a weekend — they packed their previous home to the gills with oddities of all kinds to sell on eBay. “We just had so much stuff at our old house, it was overwhelming,” Joe said. Jaye has wanted to open a vintage shop

since she was a teenager. Before moving to Vermont, the MacAskills worked as real estate agents, which they conceded they were “not cut out for.” As their hoard grew and the pandemic raged, they decided to set off on an adventure, find a new place to live and finally curate a largely cat-themed shop. They’d heard good things about Burlington and liked that it was close to Canada, Jaye’s homeland. Catland Vintage occupies the former Onion River Cobbler space at 7 West Canal Street. The couple stripped the room nearly to its studs. They removed “an orgy of wood” from the walls, as Joe put it in a press release. Underneath, they found original beadboard walls. They were able to keep the original tin ceiling tiles. The MacAskills documented their renovation in a video set to “Kitties Are So Nice,” a track from their 2016 album Cat Sounds. The four-minute clip compresses months of work, showing the transformation from a dingy, brown space to a busy, colorful treasure trove with freshly painted aqua walls and a glitter-splattered floor. Their final touch: painting the façade a bright canary yellow.

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“It’s a real estate trick,” Jaye said. “If able to make many creative connections. you want to sell your property faster, One local musician they did meet early on paint the door yellow.” was Vermont bassist Tyler Bolles, known So, why such a focus on felines? Why particularly for playing in Swale. The not just run a vintage store that happens art-rock group and Pony Death Ride are to sell a lot of cat items? both given to mounting quirky Christmas “You need a good gimmick,” Jaye musical extravaganzas. explained. While the shop offers a plethora “They’re the best kind of weirdos,” of items, including clothing, housewares Bolles said by phone, suggesting that the and music gear, kitties can be found in MacAskills are the type of newcomers practically every category. “the Vermont music scene A bin of vinyl records needs.” includes the soundtrack to “Part of [opening Catland Disney’s The Aristocats. A Vintage] is a way to sell off a velvet painting of a prowllot of the stuff we have and ing tiger hangs behind the make a little money,” Joe JAYE MACASKILL said. “But another part is, sales counter. And several large, wearable cat heads not being from Vermont, it’s line the upper shelves of a wall display. a great way to meet people.” (The MacAskills acquired them a few To that end, the couple plans to host years ago for a music video shoot for small events once the store is up and their song “Furries!” It’s about people running. One item not for sale is a small who dress up in fuzzy animal costumes console piano, visible from the street, to, well, you know.) which they hope will attract neighbors The most purrfect collection, though, and other passersby to sit for a spell and is arguably the MacAskills’ cat figurines. plunk out a tune or two. Bolles noted that, pre-pandemic, new They come in all shapes and sizes, from realistic and minuscule to highly anthro- Vermonters who wanted to see — or pomorphized and more than a foot tall. play — music would “naturally wind up These tabbies perch, preen, prowl and at a place like Radio Bean.” But setting up pose in every nook and cranny. Some cast shop in downtown Winooski will help the their steely stares through slits while MacAskills meet their social goals. others gaze up with wide blue eyes. “Being in this circle … what a sense All these pussycats are borderline of community with the businesses,” Joe unnerving, but in a whimsical way. remarked. “We’re going to go to every Since the shop isn’t open yet, the single one of them.” m MacAskills don’t know who their clienDisclosure: Tyler Bolles is the brother of tele will be. “We haven’t met any truly crazy cat Seven Days assistant arts editor Dan Bolles. people [yet], but I’m looking forward to it,” Jaye said. INFO Since the pandemic shuttered music Catland Vintage, 7 W. Canal St. in Winooski, venues during the bulk of their first year opens on Friday, July 30, at noon. in Vermont, the MacAskills haven’t been catlandvintage.com

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Being a parcel of land said to contain 58.17 acres, more or less, and located at 3275 Camels Hump Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Charles Atkinson Koskinen by Warranty Deed of Burrows Forest, LLC dated May 10, 2018 and recorded in Volume 111 at Page 394 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington. Being Tax Parcel No.: 022170 (formerly No.: 022150).

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DESKTOP SERVICES SPECIALIST Saint Michael’s College invites applications for a Desktop Services Specialist. This position will focus on preparation and deployment of computers as well as supporting the physical hardware of the computer fleet. The position will also aid in helpdesk tickets, service requests, and other management needs around our assets at both a hardware and software level. Benefits include health, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), generous paid time off, employee and dependent tuition benefits, and discounted gym membership. For a full job description and to apply online, please visit: https://bit.ly/SMCvtDESK

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GENERAL MANAGER PLAINFIELD CO-OP MULTIPLE POSITIONS

Are you passionate about local food and cooperative businesses?

VERMONT SMOKE & CURE is hiring full-time, skilled employees in multiple departments including packaging, shipping, machine operation & sanitation for all shifts (morning/night, weekday/weekend).

The General Manager oversees all aspects of day-to-day operations and ensures the Co-op reaches organizational ends established by the Board of Directors while remaining within Board defined limits and aligned with the Co-op’s mission. An established food cooperative, serving the community for nearly 50 years, The Plainfield Co-op offers an intimate and supportive working environment.

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SD Associates is hiring Behavioral Instructors (BIs)! SD Associates is an Applied Behavior Analysis company that has been serving children and families in Vermont since 1990.We provide direct services in the form of ABA therapy for clients with a wide variety of behavioral challenges across the state of Vermont. We are currently seeking compassionate, energetic individuals who are dependable, professional, enthusiastic, and who have a strong commitment to co-workers, clients and their families.The Behavioral Instructor (BI) role is the most important, influential and valued position in our company.They are the individuals who work each day to make impactful, positive behavioral changes for the population that we serve. No experience necessary! Bachelor’s degree preferred! Currently hiring in Chittenden, Franklin,Washington, Lamoille and Windsor counties. Exclusively, for a limited time: Choose between $500 or 2.5 paid days off sign on bonus!

Wake Robin is an E.O.E.

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Join our team and receive a

RETENTION BONUS* after 90 days of employment.

*Select stores only. Bonus determined off gross earnings within the first 3 months of employment. Must be employed through payout of bonus.

Contact your local Hannaford for more details!

Multiple Opportunities The University of Vermont Medical Center is seeking Security Officers to join their team in Burlington, VT. Multiple opportunities and shifts are available. The primary responsibilities of the Security Officer are to conduct patrol duties, respond immediately to emergency and non-emergency calls for assistance, and document services provided on each shift. High School graduate or equivalent, valid driver’s license and safe driving record required. Prior security or public safety experience preferred.

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING ASSOCIATE DEVELOPER

SECURITY OFFICERS

To apply: bit.ly/3cXvD9V and search “Security”

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Hiring in all departments!

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Apply at Hannaford.com/Careers and check here for upcoming job fairs in your area!

A great place to continue or begin your career in the Culinary Arts!

Interested candidates can send their resumes and cover letter to hr@wakerobin.com or fill out an application at wakerobin.com/employment.

FSPD Search, PO Box 829 Montpelier, VT 05601-0829 Website: pcavt.org, Email: pcavt@pcavt.org E.O.E.

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Apply today at sdplus.org or email us your resume to employment@sdplus.org.

We provide a fine dining experience with farm to plate freshness. We offer reasonable hours, benefits, and a work environment that is hard to find in the restaurant industry. We work in an industrial kitchen producing high quality food from scratch, with an emphasis on local and organic produce. Currently looking to fill full-time positions for both Dishwasher and Cook.

Must have knowledge of child development, child abuse dynamics, adult learning principles, and a passion for helping families. The successful candidate will have strong organizational and interpersonal skills. An advanced degree is required. Position is full time and will be open until filled. Please send cover letter, resume, 3 references and application to:

This is a full-time, exempt management position and reports to the Board. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to board@plainfieldcoop.com This position will remain open until filled. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Submit your resume to: web@vtsmokeandcure. com to learn more about our growing team or to inquire about our company.

DISHWASHER & COOK

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is seeking a Family Support Programs Director to oversee the coordination and implementation of our family support programs throughout Vermont. We’re looking for an individual with strong leadership and management skills who has experience supervising others.

View the position description and qualifications at the Co-op’s website: plainfieldcoop.com.

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Evernorth has created a new position for an Associate Developer to join our amazing development team. This position reports to the SVP of Real Estate. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator with experience in real estate development, excel and financial analysis. We believe in equal access to affordable housing and economic opportunities; the power of partnerships based on integrity, respect and professionalism; a collaborative workplace with professional, skilled and dedicated staff. Please send a cover letter and resume with salary requirements to Kathy Beyer, hr@evernorthus.org by August 4th, 2021. Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2021

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont (GIV) seeks an experienced, organized, and dynamic Development Director to join our team! Fundraising success will help us reach motivated students from all backgrounds, and further our commitment to financial accessibility so that any family can afford these world-class experiences. The ideal candidate will be friendly, organized, persistent, strategic, goal-driven, creative, and have a sense of humor. If you believe in inspiring and empowering young people, we’d like to hear from you!

Database Coordinator & Finance Assistant

The salary range is $65-75k/year. Learn more here: giv.org/jobs.

We are seeking a Carpenter with experience, who is self motivated and takes pride in their craft. Sweeney DesignBuild is located in Shelburne, VT and we build primarily in Chittenden County. We have created a family oriented business with a healthy team environment.

See the full job description at www.cgcvt.org/employment

The Database Coordinator and Finance Assistant will be the lead contact for data analytics, working with key staff and stakeholders across NOFA-VT to understand data needs and develop actionable insights. This position also works as a team with the Finance Director and assists in a variety of financial tasks.

To apply, please send resume, cover letter and three references

For more information and to apply

We want an individual with a knowledge of new and old construction and well rounded in 'frame to finish' work. The ability to work through challenges, solid work ethic, a sense of humor, reliable transportation and necessary tools are also welcome. Send resumes to: office@ sweeneydesignbuild.com.

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Vermont Tent Company

CARPENTER

The Database Coordinator and Finance Assistant is responsible for managing all donor/member/contact information systems (via NEON) for NOFA-VT. This includes reporting and analysis of data, gift processing and acknowledgments, as well as managing data import and data entry, reporting, data quality and improvement initiatives, and other related activities.

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Rental Coordinator Common Ground Center in Starksboro Vermont is looking to complete its core staff with an outgoing and organized Rental Coordinator. Ideal candidates will be excited to meet new people, have experience with customer service and a high level of comfort in a sales environment. Perks include full health & dental, a fun and casual work environment with flexible hours and paid time off.

is currently accepting please go to nofavt.org/about-us/ to connor@cgcvt.org by August 8th. join-our-team. applications for the following positions for immediate employment. 3v-NOFA072821.indd 1 7/23/21 3v-SweeneyDesignBuild072821.indd 4:03 PM 1 7/22/21 12:04 PM 7/26/21 5:36 PM We have full time, part 4t-CommonGroundCenter072821.indd 1 time, and weekend hours available for each position. Pay rates vary by position with minimum starting Drawing/ wage ranging from $15Duties include generating $20/hour depending on Painting Instructor customer invoices, posting Are you knowledgeable and passionate about clean water, agjob skills and experience customer payments and Davis Studio is seeking with an hourly retention riculture and land conservation? Do you have strong technical, creating bank deposits, a part time drawing/ bonus available for hours paying vendor invoices, organizational, and communication skills? Join our team, managing painting instructor for worked August through reviewing weekly time cards VHCB’s role as Clean Water Service Provider in the Memphremagog our adult classes. We are October. for submission to payroll Basin, overseeing non-regulatory water quality projects.Working with looking for an exceptional company, taking customer state and local partners, help achieve Vermont's clean water goals Opportunities include: phone orders, filing various teacher who is personally using various strategies including conservation easements, land documents and other duties committed to enriching • Tent Installation/ as assigned. Knowledge life by fostering the joy acquisition, wetlands restoration, and best management practices. Delivery Team of general accounting and of creativity for everyone, Qualifications: Prior experience and training in natural resources, • Driver/Warehouse Team Microsoft Office required and at all stages of life and all agriculture, environmental studies, land conservation, physical sci– Event Division experience with Quick Books levels of experience. ence, or engineering. Data management and financial analysis skills a plus. Competitive salary and • Drivers/Delivery Our dream candidate will benefits. Familiar with use of a are required; experience in grant and budget management and with • Linen Team be a team player who is typewriter is a plus. federal or state grant programs is preferred. Keen attention to detail ideally willing to com• Inventory Maintenance – and excellent written and oral communication skills are important, Please send resume to: mit to 1 day, 1 weeknight, Wash Bay & Warehouse as is experience with capacity building and working with boards, and 1 weekend class with GRANITE CITY TOOL • Load Crew Team non-profit organizations, municipalities, and state and federal agenCOMPANY subbing flexibility (about Members OF VERMONT cies. Full-time position with competitive salary and comprehensive 15-20 hours/week). Competitive hourly wage. ATTN: JERRY MASCOLA benefits package. For the full job description visit: vhcb.org/aboutFor job descriptions P.O. BOX 411 us/jobs. EOE. Please reply with cover letter and résumé to: jobs@ Email Kat for more details: and application: BARRE, VERMONT 05641 klawlis@davisstudiovt.com vttent.com/employment vhcb.org. Position will remain open until filled.

ACCOUNTING CLERK

Clean Water Program Manager

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HOP HARVESTER Love Art? River Arts is hiring for

CO-DIRECTOR

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Hiring seasonal positions for hop harvest from beginning of August through late September. Champlain Valley Hops is located 30 minutes from both Burlington and Middlebury. Find our beer at Zero Gravity, Foam Brewers, Four Quarters and craft breweries throughout the country. With 37 acres in production, CVH is the largest hop farm in New England. Farming experience strongly encouraged, or other comparable physical work. Pay is $15-$17 per hour. More info: champlainvalleyhops.com/jobs

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Teacher/Community Coordinators Seeking full-time Teacher/Community Coordinators in Morrisville, Bradford and Barre. Candidates must have:

• High levels of independence, spirit, drive and capacity for student recruitment, outreach and organizing community involvement to support student success

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• Strong familiarity with the service area • Proven capacity for teaching and guiding basic skills instruction for adults and teens in: - Reading, writing, math, computer and financial literacy - English Language Learning and U.S. Citizenship prep - High school diploma and GED credentialing - Career and college readiness

Assistant Director of Donor Relations

Join an experienced and energetic donor relations team at Middlebury College—an institution with an international outlook, environmental mindfulness, and entrepreneurial spirit. The Assistant Director of Donor Relations supports Middlebury's fundraising program by producing compelling impact reports and personalized gift acknowledgement letters that enrich the philanthropic experience for Middlebury alumni, parents, and friends. Excellent written, digital, and verbal communications skills required, as well as the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines. For more information and to apply online, please visit: https://apptrkr.com/2378020 Middlebury College employees enjoy excellent compensation, competitive health, dental, retirement, and vision benefits, and educational assistance programs. An Equal Opportunity Employer, Middlebury is committed to hiring a diverse staff and faculty and encourages candidates who will contribute to an inclusive community. 5h-MiddleburyCollege072821 1

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• Experience with developing personalized education and graduation education plans • Experience with recruiting and managing volunteers. Starting salary: $43,000–$45,000 annually based on experience. CVABE pays 100% of individual health, dental & short-term disability insurance, as well as employer 403(b) contributions and six weeks of paid vacation annually.

Please submit cover letter, resume and 3 references to: Executive Director - Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, Inc. 46 Washington Street, Suite 100, Barre, Vermont 05641 info@cvabe.org. Positions open until filled.

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GlobalFoundries produces microelectronic chips, right in your backyard. These chips go into cell phones, computers, tablets, vehicles, medical devices, and much more! Be a part of a company that is changing the industry that is changing the world through our high-end technology. Seeking entry level and experienced individuals!

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DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR New part-time position to provide donor stewardship and annual fundraising plan. Fundraising experience, strong organizational and administrative skills, and ability to meet strict deadlines required (see website for more job details). Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the organization. Competitive salary and benefits package included. Letter of interest and resume to: cg@womensafe.net or Hiring Committee, WomenSafe, PO Box 67, Middlebury, VT 05753

DIRECTOR – FULL TIME Provide support to direct service programs. Previous supervision experience and strong organizational skills required. Grant writing skills desired (see website for more job details). Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the organization. Competitive salary and benefits package included. Letter of interest and resume to: cg@womensafe.net or Hiring Committee, WomenSafe, PO Box 67, Middlebury, VT 05753

Interested in working at Red Hen?

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WISE works to end gender-based violence in the Upper Valley. We are hiring key positions within our core programs.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Team Member

PROGRAM ADVOCATE: RESOURCE COORDINATOR

We at Alpine SnowGuards recognize the value that our Customer Service Team brings to the company. As a CS Team member, you have the opportunity to build stronger customer experiences and lasting relationships with our customers through responsive and comprehensive assistance. If you are passionate about working with customers, easily understand mechanical concepts, and are an excellent communicator, this is the perfect position for you!

Program Advocates are responsible for providing highquality, well-coordinated advocacy support for victims of domestic and/or sexual violence and stalking, their family members and friends. The Resource Coordinator is responsible for the organizational knowledge of community resources and access processes available to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

PREVENTION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM EDUCATOR This position works with students, educators, and parents across 9 school districts to provide prevention education, student leadership to end violence, and youth advocacy for survivors. The perfect candidate has experience designing learning activities and developmentally appropriate curriculum, loves working with young people to build their leadership in social change, and is committed to the mission of WISE to end gender-based violence.

Alpine is a 100% employeeowned company and snow guard manufacturer located in Morrisville, VT. When you join the Alpine team, you will enjoy a comfortable and friendly working environment, competitive wages, excellent health care benefits, paid time off, and the opportunity to financially benefit from the company's growth and strong profit margins. Send resumes to: karen@alpinesnowguards.com.

These are both full time positions joining our team of dedicated and innovative staff committed to ending violence. Please visit our website at wiseuv.org/join-us for job descriptions. To apply, send cover letter and resume to peggy.oneil@wiseuv.org.

WE ARE HIRING CAFE STAFF: Previous food service/cash handling experience necessary. Job requirements include: • Customer Service • Making espresso drinks Contact Hannah at buyer@redhenbaking.com

WE’RE LOOKING FOR A PASTRY BAKER! Our pastries include a variety of laminated products, pies, scones, cookies and many things in between. We are committed to using high quality, organic ingredients and work with many local farmers to source these. We offer great pay and benefits including paid vacation/sick days, retirement plan, and health insurance. Professional baking or cooking experience is required.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

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The Town of Northfield, Vermont (population 6,100) is seeking to hire an Economic Development Director to support local businesses in their sustainability, growth, and expansion; to build a network within the State and region to attract potential employers and residents to Northfield; and to support the town’s vision for housing and other key development priorities.

P/T Facilities Maintenance Position The Terraces Independent Retirement Community is hiring a P/T (2025 hours) Facilities Maintenance person.

DISHWASHER:

The ideal candidate will have knowledge and work experience with municipal zoning and infrastructure, planning programs and processes, economic development tools and programs, and a proven successful record in economic development leadership roles. In addition, that person shall be a capable public speaker, communicate effectively with groups and individuals, engineers, architects, developers, businesses, and the general public, and capable of establishing working relationships and networks with developers, community organizations, and business professionals.

We are hiring for a full-time position washing dishes and bussing tables in our cafe. This position offers excellent benefits including health care, paid time off, and a retirement plan. Come work with a great bunch of people in our bustling business!

This is a part-time position at 24 hours per week. The salary is negotiable based upon experience. A complete job description is available on the Town Web site: northfield-vt.gov or by contacting the town manager at jschulz@northfield.vt.us or 802-485-9822.

Contact Randy: randy@redhenbaking.com or (802) 223-5200 x12

To apply, please E-mail cover letter and resume to jschulz@ northfield.vt.us or mail to: Northfield Town Manager, 51 South Main Street, Northfield, VT 05663. The Town is accepting applications through August 23, 2021, or until such time that the position is filled.

Contact: jeremy@redhenbaking.com.

These positions include benefits: health care, paid time off, retirement plan, and more! *This position requires more than seasonal employment — we are interested in a longer term commitment.

The Town of Northfield is an equal opportunity employer.

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The responsibilities include light house cleaning, trash removal, painting, mowing and shoveling. Competitive compensation, flexible hours, daily meal provided and friendly work environment. Please contact Dorothy Micklas at 802-985-2472 or email vt.terraces@myfairpoint.net.

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CHARLOTTE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

VEDA IS HIRING VEDA is Vermont’s economic development financing authority, staffed by a seasoned group of Vermont professionals.

Legal Assistant Burlington Office

Charlotte Congregational Church Embraced by the healing love of Jesus Christ and inspired by His teachings,

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The Charlotte Congregational Church (an open and affirming www.CharlotteCongregationalChurch.org Church is looking for a partcongregation of the United Church 802-425-3176 charlotteucc@gmavt.net time bookkeeper. 15-20 hours/ of Christ) is seeking a "Bridge" week. Pay is negotiable andvital Director of Music to lead our commensurate with experiand dynamic music program ence. duringFor themore fall ofinformation, 2021 with the go to www.CharlotteUCC.org possibility that this position would

Prestigious law firm seeks experienced legal assistant. Candidates must possess excellent communication skills, be able to work in a fast-paced environment, have initiative, be detail-oriented, organized, computer literate, capable of learning new technologies and show a willingness to adapt to changing priorities. Law firm experience preferred, competitive salary & benefits package. Please reply with cover letter and resume to: Nikki Stevens, Firm Administrator Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP 210 College Street, P.O. Box 721 Burlington, VT 05402-0721 Or via email to: nstevens@langrock.com www.langrock.com

become permanent. Start date: end of August, 2021.

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VEDA has an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to join our team as a Loan Closing Assistant. The successful candidate will have a positive customer service attitude, and strong communication and computer skills. Accuracy and attention to detail is required.

MULTIPLE POSITIONS OPEN

Our newly refurbished Steinway Model A piano, committed choir, long tradition of music excellence, and growing congregation await the right candidate. Please send resume and letter of interest to: charlotteucc@gmavt.net.

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Housing Coordinator

Since inception in 1974, VEDA has helped businesses and farms create jobs for Vermonters and enhance Vermont’s working landscape. The stories of VEDA’s borrowers reflect Vermont’s changing economy over the years, with VEDA playing a central role in helping them bring their business dreams and projects to fruition.

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Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital has a variety of open positions including:

VEDA offers a competitive salary and excellent health and retirement benefit packages. Other perks include a flexible work environment, generous tuition reimbursement, and professional development and networking opportunities. VEDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer interested in increasing staff diversity.

Visit VEDA.org for details on the currently open

RNs, LPNs, LNAs, Coding & Administrative.

Loan Closing Assistant

Resume /cover letter to Cheryl Houchens: chouchens@veda.org.

Full-time, part-time and per diem schedules available. Shift differentials and per diem rates offered.

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FT and PT employees are eligible for excellent benefits including student loan repayment, generous paid time off, wellness reimbursement, low cost health insurance and 401k with company match!

The position will ensure that APPLY TODAY AT NVRH.ORG/CAREERS. resettled refugees are provided with safe, sanitary, and affordable housing. The position will 4t-NVRH063021.indd 1 6/24/21 be responsible for: researching and securing affordable housTeam Member ing; coordinating apartment We have been successful building our team for a wonderful young set-up; managing donations of adult autistic man! We just have one more full time 37.5 hrs/ week furniture and household items, position to fill. Are you it? Check the boxes if you qualify. We’ll talk including transportation, storto you soon! age, and distribution; providing The successful candidate will be a responsible person who enjoys safety orientation and renter helping others, has great athletic skills, and has a musical repereducation to newly arrived toire. One who sees the big picture on enabling a person to access refugees; coordinating/supermore of the world and be a complete community member. Highly vising interns and volunteers; skilled training will accompany this job. A college degree is redeveloping and maintaining required. This is a 8:30 am - 4:00pm Monday - Friday schedule with lationships with area landlords, great summer hours. However, the job is year-round. Pay is very property managers, housing competitive, starting at $25/hr. This is a full-time position and one trusts, and housing authorities. that will allow you to grow professionally. Bilingual & multilingual Send your resume, cover letter and 3 references with their concandidates encouraged to apply. tact information to nbgteamvt@gmail.com. USCRI is an EOE. Resumes submitted without cover letters or reference contacts Submit applications online: will not be considered. It will be necessary that you are fully refugees.org. COVID-19 vaccinated at the time of employment.

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HR Generalist/ Payroll Specialist

Vermont Law School is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion and connectedness, and strives to raise the bar for being an equal opportunity employer. Vermont Law School is seeking an HR Generalist/Payroll Specialist to join our HR Team on the South Royalton Campus. This 3:10 PM position may be available for hybrid work for the right candidate, but candidates must be available to travel to the South Royalton campus as needed. This position is primarily responsible for payroll and compliance matters with responsibilities in recruiting, benefits, and other generalist areas. The HR team works closely together in crossfunctional ways to ensure the needs of all VLS staff, faculty, and student employees are met professionally, efficiently and thoroughly. We are looking for a candidate with at least a BA and 2-3 (or more) years’ experience working in an HR, office management, payroll, or accounting field. Our new team member needs to have proficiency in a PC, Windows-based operating environment; experience with Microsoft Office applications, proficiency in MS Excel, Outlook, and Adobe PDF, and the ability to learn new systems (including HRIS) quickly and flexibly. Everyone on the HR team works both as a team and in a self-directed fashion to meet the needs of staff, faculty and students in a calm, courteous and professional manner. Sense of humor required! Apply online: bit.ly/VTLawSchoolHR

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SHEETMETAL WORKERS

SERVICE TECHNICIAN

Positions available in Vermont and New Hampshire. VHV is looking for motivated self-starters who want to become part of our team. Candidates must possess great work ethics, quality craftsmanship and a clear understanding that safety always comes first. We recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset. We invest in continuous training for all employees and offer four-year apprenticeship programs from NCCER where employees earn nationally recognized journeyman credentials.

Positions available in Vermont & New Hampshire. VHV Company, a mechanical contractor with headquarters in Chittenden County VT, is looking for motivated self-starters who want to become part of our growing organization. Candidates must possess great work ethics, quality craftsmanship & a clear understanding that safety comes first.

SHEET METAL/ HVAC INSTALLERS

Looking for laborers and Skilled journeyman

We invest in continuous training and offer four-year apprenticeship programs from NCCER where employees earn nationally recognized journeyman credentials. VHV is an Equal Opportunity Employer who supports military veterans and women applicants.

VHV is an E.O.E. who supports military veterans and women applicants.

Visit www.vhv.com for more information about our company and to download a copy of our application.

Visit vhv.com for more information about our company and to download a copy of our application.

100% Employee Owned ESOP company.

Must have 3+ years’ experience working on commercial construction projects.

PLUMBING POSITIONS

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PLUMBING APPRENTICE Looking for unskilled laborers. VHV will enroll you into the Plumbing Apprentice Program at no cost to the employee. Travel and reliable transportation a must.

JOURNEYMAN OR MASTER PLUMBER Must have 4+ years’ experience working on commercial construction projects. Someone with a VT and/or NH Plumbing license or is getting ready to take their exam is encouraged to apply. We invest in continuous training and offer four-year apprenticeship programs from NCCER where employees earn nationally recognized journeyman credentials. VHV is an E.O.E. who supports military veterans and women applicants. Visit vhv.com for more information about our company and to download a copy of our application. 100% Employee Owned ESOP company.

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Join a dynamic financial planning practice in Colchester, VT. Client service will be the focus of this position. Design and marketing skills are a plus!

Job Description: Service HVAC/R units and related systems in industrial and commercial applications, in accordance with industry standards. Troubleshooting, diagnosing, calibrating and repairing Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC/R) systems. Emergency Service, On Call Rotation. Opportunities: VHV is proud to announce that we offer a four-year apprenticeship program for HVAC/R service technicians. Come earn as you learn and receive an NCCER four-year journeyman’s card that is recognized throughout the country. When accepted into one of the apprenticeship programs you will be eligible for progressive wages as you develop skills and expertise.

SHEET METAL FOREMAN

Client Service Specialist

Opportunity for growth. Fun and engaging culture. Resume and cover letter to

cate.a.delarosa@ampf.com.

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Looking for a Sweet Job? HOPE is hiring! We have three openings.

Our mobile-friendly job board is buzzing with excitement. Job seekers can: • Browse hundreds of current, local positions from Vermont companies.

ELECTRONICS TESTER 25 hours a week. Test and perform minor repairs on small appliances and electronics.

WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATE 40 hours a week. Responsibilities include machine maintenance, assisting with pickups and deliveries of large items, cleaning and repairing donated items, assisting customers. Must have solid mechanical and communication skills, valid drivers license.

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40 hours a week. Responsibilities include supervision of store personnel, ensuring quality customer service, providing clerical and other support to Warehouse Operations Manager, scheduling deliveries and pickups, answering the phone. HOPE pays a liveable wage. All positions offer life and disability insurance and paid time off. Full time positions also offer platinum medical coverage and dental insurance. To apply, send resume and brief cover letter to receptionist@ hope-vt.org, or mail to Personnel, HOPE, 282 Boardman Street, Middlebury. Learn about HOPE at www.hope-vt.org.

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CITY TREASURER

NEW JOBS POSTED DAILY! JOBS.SEVENDAYSVT.COM

IT Support Professional Middlebury Office

Work collaboratively with our City Manager, City Clerk and Administrative Assistant as we serve our 2,500 residents with a $3.7 million annual budget. Starting salary $55-61,000. We offer one of the region’s best benefit and retirement packages. vergennes.org/ information/employment_ opportunities_and_rfps.php.

Successful candidates will enjoy learning and teaching new technology, be able to multitask, write technical documents, handle pressure and work with a wide variety of people. Excellent communication skills required. Preferably well-versed in Windows 10, Microsoft Office, document management, Acrobat DC and have a basic knowledge of networking. Will train the right person on our systems who is (most importantly) service oriented.

Cover letter and resume in confidence to Ron Redmond, City Manager, manager@vergennes. org Call 802-238-5598.

Darryl Izor, IT Director Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP Email: dizor@langrock.com www.langrock.com

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Prestigious law firm seeks an IT Help Desk Professional.

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SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS! Burlington School District

Kelly Education is hosting a Job Fair in partnership with Burlington School District! • Develop a scheduled based on your availability! • Get paid weekly! • Positively impact the lives of students in your very own community! • Kelly Education is hiring for full or part time work. We offer free training and professional development resources to help you get started. When: August 3rd, 2021 Time: 10am - 2pm – Walk In’s are welcome! Location: Burlington High School (cafeteria) 67 Cherry St, Burlington, VT 05401

CHEFS & COOKS Hiring full-time chefs & cooks with commercial kitchen experience! Competitive pay & benefits available. Explore this beautiful state through catering while creating some of Vermont's best cuisine that is powered by local and seasonal produce. If interested, please email christinecloud9vt@gmail.com.

THE PAINTER

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is seeking a permanent painter. This is a full-time, year-round position.

The ideal candidate takes pride in their work, is detail oriented, can work independently, and has previous management experience. Painting Experience preferred but are willing to train the right person. Top pay, based on experience, with possibility of bonuses. Workwear provided. Must have a valid driver's license and reliable transportation. Must provide a resume and references. Email to thepainter@gmail.com www.ThePainterVT.co

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Join the UVM Career Center in promoting career exploration, readiness and success. Multiple openings, all requiring a demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will contribute to the diversity of the institution. More details and to apply: uvm.edu/hrs/jobs. Please apply by August 13th.

Schedule Interview: Kelly Education Interview Info Session - Darlisa Farlow Email: darf283@kellyservices.com or Call: 800-991-5157

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CAREER SPECIALIST

7/26/21 10:57 AM

(Posting No. S2959PO & S2960PO) Engage students, alums, employers, faculty, and staff in industrythemed networks. Curate, develop and deliver relevant programs and resources. Mentor and supervise peer advisors. Facilitate and coach career development across social identities, actively engaging in creating a welcoming and inclusive environment. Qualifications: 2+ years of work experience and master's degree in related field, or equivalent combination. Advanced skills in 5:02 PM relationship building, program development and facilitation, communication/promotion, coaching/counseling, and event planning preferred. Experience with pre-law advising a bonus.

Advertising Sales Rep

CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT SPECIALIST (Posting No.S2966PO)

Terrific earning opportunity for a skilled Sales Pro!

Orchestrate a comprehensive career preparation curriculum providing relevant opportunities throughout the student lifecycle; working closely with faculty and staff partners to integrate career preparation into academics/advising; creating content to advance our equity and inclusion goals; and consistently building in and using purposeful assessment.

FPF is a Vermont-based Benefit Corporation and we’re seeking an additional sales representative to join our growing team. Help FPF fulfill its community-building mission while supporting local businesses to meet their goals.

Qualifications: 2+ years of experience in career education, communications or curriculum design, and master's degree in related field, or equivalent combination. Partnership cultivation, facility with technology and project management skills required. Experience using a LMS platform, report writing & assessment strongly desired.

Healthy portfolio of existing customers and inbound leads. Remote work and Burlington office options.

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Learn more and apply: https://frontporchforum.com/about-us/careers-at-fpf

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ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

POST YOUR JOBS AT JOBS.SEVENDAYSVT.COM FOR FAST RESULTS, OR CONTACT MICHELLE BROWN: MICHELLE@SEVENDAYSVT.COM

JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2021

CONSTRUCTION SITE REPRESENTATIVE 2 Positions

For position details and application process, visit jobs.plattsburgh.edu and select “View Current Openings.” SUNY College at Plattsburgh is a fully compliant employer committed to excellence through diversity.

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DIRECTOR OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT

7/22/21

OFFICE MANAGER An Office Manager is wanted for a small but fast paced publishing company in the heart of The Mad River Valley. Duties will include, but not be limited to: Invoice and billing management, technical support for office staff, and coordination of general office operations. Excellent benefits and salary based on experience.

Resume & cover letter to lauramurphy.me@gmail.com.

ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain is a dynamic, nationally acclaimed science and nature center committed to inspiring and engaging families in the joy of scientific discovery, wonder of nature and care of Lake Champlain. Our vision is for a science-savvy community where people and nature thrive together. ECHO seeks an experienced senior professional to guide the development and execution of strategies to strengthen and align ECHO’s culture with our strategic and growth objectives. The Director will define and establish performance standards and design, implement and manage the end-to-end human resources and organizational development processes to support talent acquisition, retention and leadership development. The Director will create and execute a strategic talent investment roadmap focused on strengthening our workforce, amplifying employee experience, purposely distinguishing our culture, and developing leaders to live our values to deliver best in class results for a museum. The Director will report to the Executive Director and will partner with the Senior Leadership Team, employees, and external partners to ensure ECHO lives its mission to “inspire and engage families in the joy of scientific discovery, wonder of nature, and care of Lake Champlain.” Full job description is available at: echovt.org/jobs. ECHO is an E.O.E and welcomes resumes from individuals who will contribute to our diversity. Send resume & cover letter to jobs@echovermont.org with Director of Talent Development in the subject line.

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Alburgh Family Clubhouse, Inc (AFC) is seeking an organized and effective early childhood leader to launch and manage an afterschool 12:20 PM program for preschool and elementary age children in Alburgh, VT. More information at alburghfamilyclubhouse. org/jobs.

ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Burlington, Vermont

Application Deadline: August 31, 2021

AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Please e-mail finance@ chooseco.com for more information.

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR

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Applicant must have excellent communication and computer skills as duties include website management, IT support and grant reporting. Paralegal training and experience would be a plus. Accounting knowledge and experience would also be a plus. College graduate preferred. Excellent benefits and competitive salary for a non-profit based on the candidate’s experience and skills. Preference will be given to those that apply before August 15th. E.O.E. Please send a letter of interest, résumé, and three references to: Lindsey Owen, Executive Director, DRVT, 141 Main St., Suite 7, Montpelier, VT 05602 Or email to: Lindsey@DisabilityRightsVt.org.

7/26/21

VYCC ADMINISTRATION MANAGER Come join our team! Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) is hiring a full-time, year-round Administration Manager who has the people and organizational skills to support the staff and programs of VYCC. From helping young crew members sign on to their first job to building and implementing systems that are part of a healthy workplace, the Administration Manager is an essential member of the VYCC team. As part of a dedicated team of staff, the Admin Manager balances the people and compliance side of human resources, and ensures that our office effectively and efficiently supports staff and Corps Members. Please read the full job description including starting salary here: bit.ly/VYCCadmin.

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$500 hiring bonus Denny's is looking for hardworking individuals, who enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. Denny's offers a competitive pay, great benefits, a clean sanitized work environment, and flexible schedules. Apply today! bit.ly/DennysSoBTV 562-445-5671

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Disability Rights Vermont, our state’s non-profit Protection & Advocacy system, is seeking an Administrative Coordinator to join our talented team. The position includes providing assistance to the Executive Director and logistical support to Advocates, Attorneys, Business Manager and the Board of Directors.

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Operations Manager CarShare Vermont is looking for an experienced manager to guide our operations and strategic growth with a focus on mission and long-term financial stability. We offer a fun and creative environment, plenty of interesting and challenging work, and the opportunity to learn and grow within our organization. This is a full-time salaried position. The operations manager will report to the executive director. This is a full-time position with 1:23 PM a competitive salary and benefits that include health insurance, generous paid time off, matching retirement plan, and a free CarShare Vermont membership. CarShare Vermont is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, nation of origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ability, or anything else. TO APPLY: Please email a resume and cover letter to Annie Bourdon at annie@carsharevt.org with “Operations Manager” in the subject line.

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THE CONVERSE HOME, an Assisted Living Community located in downtown Burlington, has a long history of providing a warm, caring home for our residents and a great work environment for our staff. We have career opportunities that offer competitive salaries and CTO, Health Insurance, Dental and Vision Insurance, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance and Pension benefits. We are always looking for dedicated, caring people to join our community! Apply online at conversehome.com under Career Opportunities or send your inquiries or resume to kellie@conversehome.com. Part Time Dayshift Registered Nurse Looking for a Registered Nurse to lead our amazing staff on dayshift: 6:30am-3:00pm, Monday-Wednesday. Occasional weekends. Full Time 40 hour Caregiver Night Shift Looking for an LNA or RCA to work overnight: 10:30pm-7:00am. Benefited position. Full Time 32 hour Caregiver Day shift Looking for an RCA to work 6:30am-3:00pm, including every other weekend. Memory care community. Benefited position. Full Time 32 hour Caregiver Day shift Looking for an RCA to work 6:30am-1:00pm, including every other weekend. Benefited position. Part Time 26 hour Caregiver Day shift Looking for an RCA to work 6:30am-1:00pm weekdays and 6:30am-3:00pm on every other weekend. Part Time “All Star” Support Staff Looking for a friendly and compassionate individual to support our residents with daily activities, meal support in the dining room, & one on one visits with our residents. Every other weekend. Full Time Caregiver 30 hours 4pm-9:30pm on our Memory Care Community

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As the Network Systems and Telecommunications Manager you will be responsible for all aspects of the local area network including server and desktop management, infrastructure, and security. Daily support of our back office systems, voice and data network, internal web servers, printers, and related applications. Three years related experience required and a solid understanding of IP Networking including DHCP, DNS, Routers, Firewalls, Switches, VLANs and Wifi. Basic information on telephony systems is desired. Apply: Smuggs.com/jobs.

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ATTENTION RECRUITERS:

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JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2021

Secretary Office of the Public Defender, Burlington. Previous secretarial experience required. Experience as a secretary in the criminal or juvenile justice system or human services field preferred. Must be able to work independently and as part of a legal team. Requires patience and the ability to work with a wide variety of people.

Human Resources Business Partner Burlington, Vermont: The Burlington School District knows that every hire counts and that our diverse staff makes our students reach their fullest potential. If you want to be part of a rock star team of Human Resources Professionals, consider asking yourself the following questions: • Do you want to be part of a driven team that values diversity, talent, performance, and positive change? • Do you want to work in an environment that offers you the responsibility to use your full HR skillset?

Full-time, exempt PG15 (union) position with State benefits. $15.48/hr. minimum.

• Are you passionate about Human Resources including the process of employing people, training them, compensating them, developing policies relating to them, and developing strategies to retain them?

EMERGENCY SERVICES CLINICIAN Seeking a full time or part time experienced mental health clinician for interesting work on our Emergency Team. Crisis mental health is a clinical specialty that is challenging, collaborative, varied, and worthwhile. Provide phone and face-to-face assessment, crisis intervention and stabilization counseling.

Master’s Degree is preferred, excellent engagement and If you just answered YES to the questions above, & want to know more, Email resume and cover letter by Sunday, August 15th assessment skills are required, plus please consider applying to BSD’s newest Human Resources Business Partner to: mary.deaett@vermont.gov. E.O.E. the ability to think on your feet, and opportunity by visiting the BSDVT.ORG careers page. Job Posting No: 3609581. a strong team orientation. CSAC offers excellent clinical supervision, and supportive, team-based work 4t-OfficeDefenderGeneral072821.indd 1 7/23/21 4t-BurlingtonSchoolDistrict072821.indd 12:02 PM 1 7/22/21 12:29 PM environment. PROGRAM

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The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont and U.S. Dept. of Labor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetics, political affiliation or belief.

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COMMUNITY SERVICES WORKER/ CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FOOD NETWORK COORDINATOR

Full time or part time position with generous benefits includes officebased work plus some overnight and weekend shifts each month. Additional substitute hours available. Equal Opportunity Employer. Send resumes: apply@csac-vt.org.

Addison, Chittenden, and Franklin/Grand Isle County

7/27/21 Are you highly effective in working objectively with a diverse group 3v-CSAC072821.indd 1 of people, groups and organizations? The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity has three openings for a Community Services Worker / Champlain Valley Food Network Coordinator. This role will implement the distribution of food to households unable to access local food shelves through direct household deliveries and by developing and maintaining a network of dispersed distribution sites throughout the local area. Play a key role in connecting neighbors to 3Squares (application assistance) and other federal nutrition programs. Responsibilities include enrolling community partners, establishing eligibility criteria and enrolling participants, establishing practices to coordinate with the agency food shelves in the delivery of this special service, ordering and maintaining sufficient food supplies, organizing volunteers who sort and pack groceries and deliver, and oversight of delivery routes. POST YOUR JOBS AT:

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If you have an Associate degree in a related discipline and two years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience; familiarity with issues facing economically disadvantaged and multi-cultural populations; effective verbal and written communication skills, bilingual abilities are a plus; proficiency in Microsoft Word, e-mail and internet; a valid driver’s license, a clean driving record and access to reliable transportation; we’d like to hear from you! We offer an excellent benefit package including medical, dental and vision insurance, generous time off, a retirement plan and discounted gym membership. Multiple openings/locations available. Please visit cvoeo.org/careers and include a cover letter and resume with your application. CVOEO is interested in candidates who can contribute to our diversity and excellence. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. CVOEO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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Stowe Land Trust, a local land conservation nonprofit serving the Stowe, Vermont area, is hiring a new fulltime position to manage organization-wide communications, education, and outreach efforts that support core conservation programs and fundraising. This position is for a creative self-starter who will approach projects with positivity and a dedication to high quality. We are committed to creating a supportive work environment defined by a culture of responsibility, integrity, and inclusion, and strongly encourage people of color, indigenous, immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities to apply. This position reports to the Executive Director and works closely with all staff. Salary range $40,000 - $47,000/year depending on experience and qualifications plus benefits package.

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Building Bright Futures, a Williston based 501c3 organization, is seeking a part-time senior level Finance Manager. The Finance Manager is responsible for managing the Building Bright Futures budget, consisting of multiple federal, state, and philanthropic grants, as well as individual donations. The Finance Manager will work closely with the Executive Director and Operations Team to oversee all financial management functions of the organization with a focus on budget planning, and finance reporting; preparing all fiscal reports; overseeing the receipt and disbursement of organizational funds and contract budgets; supporting payroll and accounts payable; assisting with the annual organizational audit.

Hello Burlington is the Lake Champlain Chamber’s destination marketing initiative that promotes the greater Burlington area as a great place for leisure travel, meetings, and events. We are actively seeking a social media and content manager to help us strengthen our social media presence and to strategize and execute on content creation. The position is full time. DESIRED SKILLS • A creative eye, a strong written voice & ability to articulate our brand to our social media community. • Background running Facebook and Google Ad campaigns. • Able to respond quickly, effectively, and respectfully to interaction online. • Experience analyzing the results of activity and ad campaigns. • Photography, Videography, and / or design skills are a big plus.

ABOUT THE CHAMBER The Lake Champlain Chamber is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes diversity in the workplace. We strongly encourage all qualified persons to apply. LCC is a non-profit organization that is in the business of seeking and supporting economic opportunity for all Vermonters. TO APPLY If this sounds like you, please email a resumé, cover letter and content portfolio if available to info@helloburlingtonvt.com. Include the phrase “social media and content manager” in subject heading. 7t-LakeChamplainChamber072821.indd 1

Recovery Vermont

• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in the areas of budgeting, fiscal management and reporting, and day-to-day accounting operations • Bachelor’s degree in finance

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• A minimum of three years’ experience in a non-profit grant management (including private and public grants management and reporting)

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• Experience in preparation and analysis of fiscal reports and data • Experience preparing for and overseeing an organization audit • Ability to write and speak clearly and concisely on financial and contractual matters • Strong proficiency in MS Excel spreadsheet software and Quickbooks The part-time Finance Director position is 30 hours a week, $50 per hour, with a flexible schedule and great work environment. A full job description is available at: buildingbrightfutures.org. To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and three references by Thursday July 28th at 5pm. Please send application materials as one pdf labeled: lastname_firstname_FinanceDirector to: kmobbs@buildingbrightfutures.org. Position is open until filled.

Work in one of the most important fields in Vermont for an organization with an exceptional staff culture rooted in passion, kindness, and listening. The Coordinator will provide organization, coordination, and communication support for Recovery Vermont’s nationally recognized and credentialed advocacy, training, and leadership programs. We seek an Information Coordinator with an exceptional attention to detail, excellent organization and communication skills, and strength-based approaches to work. Competitive salary and benefits. Send your resume and cover letter to: peter@recoveryvermont.org. 7t-RecoveryVT072121.indd 1

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RESPONSIBILITIES As our Social Media and Content Manager, you will maintain our social media presence across multiple channels, regularly create and post content, assist in the development of an annual content calendar, act as the main point of contact for influencer partnerships, and run digital ad campaigns. You will work closely with our member partners and vendor network to execute and synchronize marketing efforts across multiple channels.

Visit stowelandtrust.org for a full job description and how to apply. Deadline for applications is August 2, 2021.

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JULY 28-AUGUST 4, 2021

OFFICE MANAGER For small Burlington law firm

IT SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Reception, billing, bookkeeping, knowledge of Timeslips, Quickbooks preferable. Hourly & benefits. Apply to rsussman@sakslawvt.com

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Are you great at organizing words, tasks, and projects? Enjoy collaborating? Do you wish to make an impact on some of Vermont’s most vulnerable populations and support the talented staff who serve them? If you like weaving pieces of information together to create a holistic, integrated picture, this position may be the right fit for you! For more information, contact Anne Corbin at anne.corbin@vermont. gov. Department: Corrections. Location: Waterbury. Status: Full Time. Job ID #17661. Application Deadline: August 9, 2021

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The Community College of Vermont (CCV) is looking for a dynamic Administrative Assistant with strong organizational skills to work in a fast-paced office environment. This position is based in our Winooski academic center and the regular schedule will be Tuesday through Thursday 1:00 – 9:30 pm, Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm and Saturday 8:00 am – 2:00 pm. Associate degree plus two to three years of relevant administrative experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired. View the full posting and apply at: ccv.edu/learn-about-ccv/employment.

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Working in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Working Communities Challenge (FRBB/ WCC) staff, VCRD is seeking a “Working Communities Challenge Program Coordinator” to provide frontline support to diverse local teams as they tackle complex 1:19 PM challenges facing their communities. The successful candidate will be a team player with excellent communication, writing, and facilitation skills; demonstrated experience in community engagement and community and economic project development; and a strong sense of mission in service to the core principals of the FRBB/WCC program: bostonfed.org/workingplaces/communitieschallenge/vermont.aspx. The position is based in the VCRD Montpelier office and remotely. Scheduling is flexible and may include evening meetings; in state travel required. Salary range of $65-75K based on skills and experience; attractive benefit package. Visit vtrural.org for the full job description. To apply, send cover letter, resume, and list of three references to info@vtrural.org by August 25th. VCRD is an equal opportunity employer.

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Career Firefighter/ EMS Provider The Hinesburg Fire Department is accepting applications for TWO vacant positions of Firefighter/EMS Provider. We are seeking highly motivated individuals who will demonstrate their commitment to our town, residents and department. The Hinesburg Fire Department consists of 30 on call members, responding to an average of 400 calls per year. HFD provides Fire and First Response EMS coverage to the towns of Hinesburg and St. George. HFD will be starting an AEMT level ambulance service before January 1st, 2022 with the 3-year goal of a paramedic level ambulance.

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Disability Rights Vermont is Vermont’s Protection & Advocacy system. DRVT is looking to hire a staff attorney with 0-5 years of experience to assist in our advocacy of people with disabilities. Advocacy includes litigation, policy advocacy, outreach and monitoring, and public education. We are a small non-profit, which allows for opportunities to help shape the position.

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• Draft legal memoranda • Assist the Supervising Attorney in litigation with the opportunity to take on litigation as lead counsel (depending on experience) Seven Days 5v-TownofHinesburgFIRE072821.indd 1 7/23/21 11:53 AM • Identify and review potential cases and develop advocacy strategies Issue: 7/28 • Conduct outreach and monitoring Due: 7/26 by 11am • Draft reports, articles, and other publications Size: 3.83 x 5.25 • Develop and maintain relationships with community partners Engaging minds that change the world Cost: $476.85 (with 1 assistance week online) • Provide representation and to victims of crimes with Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, disabilities a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. Special Assistant to the President - President’s Office - #F1899PO The Special Assistant supports the president on a wide range of operational and organizational initiatives, on campus and externally. The individual will work to advance and accelerate key strategic elements of Amplifying our Impact, manage day-to-day operations of the Office of the President, and create, oversee, and coordinate a variety of presidential communications, special projects and events. The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal and written communication skills as well as the ability to work well with all members of the diverse University of Vermont community. The candidate will have experience working with senior executives, and will have excellent organizational, administrative, and computer skills. The candidate also will have demonstrated ability to simultaneously manage multiple challenging projects, adapt when needed to a quickly changing landscape, and meet urgent deadlines. Chief Public Safety Officer - Department of Public Safety - #F1898PO Reporting to the President, the Chief Public Safety Officer provides leadership and direction for a multi-function workforce that offers comprehensive services to the University community, including police services, risk management, emergency management, compliance, and CATcard services. This senior level position will have demonstrated skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with senior administration, academic leaders, students, faculty, staff, parents, governmental authorities, community and municipality groups and the general public. The ideal candidate will have the ability to respond with diplomacy, speed and tact during volatile situations, and will understand and exercise empathy regarding the intricacies of student life and the social needs/issues of the campus community. This individual will have an understanding of, and experience in, emergency management, emergency communication systems, and special event management, and have a demonstrated knowledge of best practices in a higher education residential environment. For further information on these positions and others currently available, or to apply online, please visit www.uvmjobs.com. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Open positions are updated daily. Please call 802-656-3150 or email employment@uvm.edu for technical support with the online application.

QUALIFICATIONS • J.D. with 0-5 years legal experience • Litigation experience is a plus (clerkship or fellowship experience also a plus) • Admitted to the Vermont bar or eligible for admission • Experience working with people with disabilities is a plus • Excellent research, writing, and analytical skills • Demonstrated commitment to public interest legal work • Ability to work with a team • Compassionate, creative & ability to maintain a good sense of humor Salary competitive for a non-profit public interest law firm and based on experience and competitive benefits package. To apply, send a cover letter explaining your interest and qualifications advocating for people with disabilities’ civil rights, resume, writing sample 10 pages or less, and contact information for 3 references to: Zachary Hozid, Supervising Attorney DRVT, 141 Main St., Suite 7, Montpelier, VT 05602 Or email to Zachary@DisabilityRightsVt.org Preference will be given to those that apply before August 15th but applications received later may be considered on a rolling basis.

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FULL-TIME INTERIM PROGRAM COORDINATOR VCUDA facilitates CUD cooperation and coordinates public policy recommendations and outreach on their behalf. The successful candidate will lead the development and provision of shared services and coordinate communications and recommendations.

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Physician’s Computer Company (PCC) has designed, developed, and supported our award-winning pediatric software for over 30 years. As our electronic health record solution is driving greater demand for our services, we need to expand our team. PCC is seeking to fill the following positions:

TECHNICAL SUPPORT SPECIALIST

PCC is seeking a Technical Support Specialist to join our customer care team. Technical Support Specialists are responsible for troubleshooting and resolving clients problems with PCC provided hardware, operating systems, networks, and peripherals. They respond to client calls, entering and managing their service needs into our help desk software, and participate in rotating coverage for on-call, after-hours emergency support.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CARE BOARD MEMBER - MONTPELIER Are you looking for an opportunity to provide oversight in Vermont’s efforts to control escalating health care costs, improve quality, and achieve universal health access? If so, please consider applying for an exciting and challenging position on the Green Mountain Care Board, established by Vermont’s health care reform law. Full/Part Time (32 hours per week). For more information and application materials, please visit: https:// humanresources.vermont.gov/GMCB-Search-2021. Application Deadline: 8/13/2021. Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

Ideal applicants for this position should have two or more years of experience in a professional setting that includes supporting Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, TCP/IP networks (firewalls, wireless, DNS, DHCP, VPN, etc.), and experience with Linux, including bash scripting.

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STOWE FREE LIBRARY The Stowe Free Library is a cherished community institution and has 6,400 registered borrowers and 25,000 volumes in its collection. It is located within the historic Helen Day Memorial Building in the center of Stowe, a premier four-season resort community with a population of 4,300.

Applicants for this position should have three or more years of experience providing systems support in a fast-paced, professional setting. Technical skills should include Linux (RHEL or derivatives), Windows and MacOS; server virtualization; Google Cloud or AWS; bash, python or perl scripting; configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible); and TCP/IP networking including LAN, WAN, firewalls, wireless, and VPN. Knowledge of good security practices is essential.

CIRCULATION LIBRARIAN The Stowe Free Library is seeking a customer service and detail oriented individual to fill the position of Circulation Librarian, and to assist in fulfilling our mission: “To Welcome, To Inspire, To Enrich the Mind.” This position involves direct contact with the public as well as maintaining the library’s patron database.

These positions require strong technical expertise along with exceptional customer service and communication skills. Some travel may be required.

TECHNICAL SERVICES LIBRARIAN The Stowe Free Library is seeking an enthusiastic, detail-oriented librarian to fill the position of Technical Services Librarian and to assist in fulfilling our mission: “To Welcome, To Inspire, To Enrich the Mind.” This position involves maintaining the library catalog system and processing material.

In order to keep our employees and families safe, PCC employees have been working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are slowly opening our office and expect our Winooski office will be fully reopened this Fall. Employees will have a hybrid remote/in-office work option.

Both positions require a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required, and an MLS from an ALA accredited school or a Vermont Department of Libraries Certification is preferred. Working knowledge of and experience with computers, Integrated Library Systems (ILS), data base management, and current technologies are preferred. Good verbal and written communication, customer service, organizational, and supervisory skills are required. Candidates must be able to perform detailed work and to lift and shelve books. This position includes evenings and Saturday hours, comes with excellent benefits and a starting salary of $17.66 - $18.63 per hour, contingent upon qualifications and experience.

To learn more about these positions, please visit our website at pcc.com/careers. The deadline for submitting your application is August 6, 2021. Please email a cover letter and resume to jobs@ pcc.com with the position you are applying for in the subject line. As a Benefit Corporation, we place a high value on client, employee, and community relationships. Our company offers a friendly, informal, and professional work environment. PCC offers competitive benefits as well as some uncommon perks.

Job descriptions and application can be obtained on the Town of Stowe website: townofstowevt.org. Send employment application, letter of interest and resume to: Town of Stowe, Attn: Recruiter, PO Box 730, Stowe, VT 05672 or email recruit@stowevt.gov. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. EOE 7t-TownofStoweLIBRARY071421.indd 1

PCC is seeking an experienced Systems Administrator to join our Information Technology Services team which supports both our client and corporate systems. This position will work primarily on client systems. In addition to general systems administration activities, this position will focus on coordinating & performing server upgrades, & performing preventive maintenance on servers, firewalls, & other network equipment. You will also function as a technical escalation resource for PCC staff regarding client infrastructure issues, & develop new tools to deploy, manage, & monitor client networks.

No phone calls, please. AA/EOE

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she was a

child, author Valerie Andrews visited her secret sanctuary at sunset every day for seven years. She lay on the ground among birch trees and aromatic privet plants, feeling “the steady rhythmic heartbeat of the earth” as she basked in the fading light. I’d love for you to enjoy the revitalizing power of such a shrine. The decisions you have to make will become clear as you commune with what Andrews calls “a rootlike umbilicus to the dark core of the land.” Do you know of such a place? If not, I suggest you find or create one.

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Leo poet Renée Ashley articulates a perspective I recommend you adopt. She writes, “I’m drawn to what flutters nebulously at the edges, at the corner of my eye — just outside my certain sight. I want to share in what I am routinely denied, or only suspect exists. I long for a glimpse of what is beginning to occur.” With her thoughts as inspiration, I advise you to be hungry for what you don’t know and haven’t perceived. Expand your curiosity so that it becomes wildly insatiable in its quest to uncover budding questions and raw truths at the peripheries of your awareness.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): What does it mean to feel real? Some people have a hard time doing that. They have such false ideas about who they are that they rarely feel real. Others are so distracted by trivial longings that they never have the luxury of settling into the exquisite at-home-ness of feeling real. For those fortunate enough to regularly experience this treasured blessing, feeling real isn’t a vague concept. It’s a vivid sensation of being conscious in one’s body. When we feel real, we respond spontaneously, enjoy playing, and exult in the privilege of being alive. After studying your astrological potentials, Aries, I suspect that you now have an enhanced capacity to feel real.

(May 21-June 20): I suspect that your immediate future will be a patchwork of evocative fragments. You may be both annoyed and entertained by a series of flashing attractions or an array of pretty baubles or a hubbub of tasks that all seem at least mildly worth doing. Chances are good that they will ultimately knit together into a crazy-quilt unity; they will weave into a pattern that makes unexpected sense. In the spirit of the spicy variety, I offer three quotes that may not seem useful to you yet but will soon: 1. “Isn’t it possible that to desire a thing, to truly desire it, is a form of having it?” — Galway Kinnell 2. “It is not half so important to know as to feel.” — Rachel Carson 3. “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” — Pema Chödrön

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A Tumblr blogger

named Cece writes, “The fact that you can soak bread in sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla, then butter a pan and fry said bread to make a meal is really liberating.” I agree. And I share this with you in the hope of encouraging you to indulge in other commonplace actions that will make you feel spacious and uninhibited. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll thrive on doing day-to-day details that excite your lust for life. Enjoying the little things to the utmost will be an excellent strategy for success.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There are many

things in your heart you can never tell to another person,” declared Virgo actor Greta Garbo (1905-1990). “It is not right that you should tell them,” she concluded. “You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.” I

presume Greta was being melodramatic. My attitude is the opposite of hers. If you find allies who listen well and who respect your vulnerability, you should relish telling them the secrets of your heart. To do so enriches you, deepens you and adds soulful new meanings to your primary mysteries. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to seek this wise pleasure in abundance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is a fantastic time to seek out effervescent socializing and convivial gatherings and festive celebrations. If you surround yourself with lively people, you’ll absorb the exact influences you need. May I suggest you host a fun event? If you do, you could send out invitations that include the following allures: “At my get-together, the featured flavors will be strawberry chocolate and impossibly delicious. There’ll be magic vibrations and mysterious mood-enhancers. Liberating conversations will be strongly encouraged. Unpredictable revelations will be honored. If possible, please unload your fears and anxieties in a random parking lot before arriving.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Andrew Sean Greer writes, “As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.” I think that’s a vivid metaphor for one of your chief tasks in the coming weeks, Scorpio: how to carefully nurture delicate, beautiful things as you coax them to ripen in ways that will bring out their sturdiness and resilience. I believe you now have an extra capacity for wielding love to help things bloom. SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Suggested experiments to try soon: 1. Remember a past moment when you were touched with the sudden realization that you and a person you’d recently met were destined to fall in love. 2. Remember a past moment when you kissed someone for the first time. 3. Remember a past moment when someone told you they loved you for the first time or when you told someone you loved them for the first time. 4. Allow the feelings from the first three experiments to permeate your life for five

days. See through the eyes of the person you were during those previous breakthroughs. Treat the whole world as expansively and expectantly as you did during those times.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet Kenneth Rexroth was shirtless as he strolled along a rural road. To his delightful amazement, a fritillary butterfly landed on his shoulder, fluttered away, landed again, fluttered away — performing this dance numerous times. Nothing like this had ever happened to him. Later he wrote, “I feel my flesh / Has suddenly become sweet / With a metamorphosis / Kept secret even from myself.” In the coming days, I’m expecting at least one comparable experience for you. Here’s your homework: What sweet metamorphoses may be underway within you — perhaps not yet having reached your conscious awareness? AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Each time we don’t say what we want to say, we’re dying.” Aquarian artist and singer Yoko Ono said that. I will add a further nuance: Each time we’re not aware of the feeling or experience or situation we want, we’re dying. And these will be key themes now that you’ve entered the “I know what I want and I know how to ask for it” phase of your cycle. The most healing and vivifying thing you can do during the next six weeks is to be precise about your desires.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1829, Piscean

author Victor Hugo began work on his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He had other projects, though, and by September 1830, he had made scant progress on Hunchback. Growing impatient, his publisher demanded that he finish the manuscript by February 1831. In response, Hugo virtually barricaded himself in his room to compel himself to meet the deadline. He even locked his clothes in a closet to prevent himself from going out. For the next five months, he wore only a gray shawl as he toiled nonstop. His stratagem worked! I recommend you consider trying a somewhat less rigorous trick to enforce your self-discipline in the coming weeks. There’s no need to barricade yourself in your fortress. But I hope you will have fun taking stringent measures.

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Dear Reverend,

I love going to the beach. I’m 69 years old, and I would like to wear a thong. I don’t want to scare anyone off, but I feel like what I wear for swimming is my business. Do you think I’m too old?

Seymour Butz (MALE, 69)

Honeybuns, if you’re comfortable wearing a thong in public, I say go for it. Last time I checked, there were no age restrictions on bathing attire. Heck, in Vermont, it’s legal to leave your house naked if you like, so I see no problem with showing a little cheek on the beach. So what if those cheeks have a few wrinkles? In this age of body positivity, a wider range of shapes, colors, ages

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and sizes is being represented in film, television, ads and social media. The initial push for showing more diversity was geared toward women, but the powers that be have finally realized that men also suffer from body image issues, and more guys are getting in on the act. Hopefully, more visibility of real human bodies will have a positive effect on the general public’s attitude about beauty. The fact that you’ve made it to 69 is cause for celebration. You’re not dead, and life’s too damn

4TH OF JULY BOSTON BOY I just wanted you to know, all day, I kept noticing my lip puffy and raw from when you chewed it up when we made out last night, and I haven’t been French-kissed that way since my first boyfriend in Montréal. My lip is almost normal now, and I could use the passion of an All-American Boston Boy soon. When: Monday, July 5, 2021. Where: Red Square. You: Man. Me: Man. #915333 RE: “HOW CAN WE RECONNECT?” One can only hope when reading your post that you are reaching out to them. Seems broken hearts weren’t that rare last year. I would love to feel you close to me again. If you’re the one my heart still beats for, then reach out to me. Send me a text with a picture of a flower, and I’ll know. When: Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Where: Colchester Pond. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915332 MORETOWN GROCERY 7/1 I was pumping gas into a black pickup, and you were reorganizing your car with other people. Dark hair and sunglasses caught my attention, so much so that I almost lost my wallet, not noticing it fell out of my pocket. Thank you to the person behind me. You noticed I kept glancing at you. Felt I knew you. Certainly would like to. When: Thursday, July 1, 2021. Where: Moretown Grocery. You: Woman. Me: Man. #915331 HOW CAN WE RECONNECT? It was never my time you wasted. I would repeat the moments a million times over with your hands on me. I knew the first moment we met you were going to be trouble. Guess I should’ve listened then, but that feeling is like an addiction. I reacted too quickly in the end. You know how to find me. When: Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Where: Colchester Pond. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915330 YOU, WHO TAKES MY BENEFITS A message to my “friend” who lays with me: “I whispered to him, ‘You’ll regret it if you let me go. I don’t wait for a man, if he’s not willing to grow.’; he didn’t believe me, he made his choice & that was the last time he ever heard my voice.” —N.R. When: Saturday, March 14, 2020. Where: in your house/in my house. You: Man. Me: Woman. #915329

short to worry about what other people think. So, get out there and sun those buns! But, please, don’t forget to slather them with sunscreen first. If anybody gives you grief about your outfit, tell them to go pound sand. Good luck and God bless,

The Reverend

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FREE TUITION THIS FALL

This year, CCV and the Vermont State Colleges are offering millions of dollars in scholarships, free tuition, and other financial aid opportunities. Generous funding from the State of Vermont is supporting the following programs for Vermont residents*:

Green Mountain Grad Gift: One tuition-free course at any VSCS school for all 2020 and 2021 high school or equivalent graduates, provided by VSAC.

802 Opportunity Grant: Free tuition and fees at CCV for any student whose family income is $50,000 or less, provided by VSAC.

Free Training for Vermonters: Up to two free classes at any VSCS school for Vermonters whose employment has been impacted by COVID-19. * Students must qualify for in-state status based on Vermont State Colleges System Policy 301.

Fall classes start Sept. 7. Learn more at CCV.EDU/ACTNOW CCV is committed to non-discrimination in its learning and working environments for all persons. All educational and employment opportunities at CCV are offered without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. CCV is an equal opportunity employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.

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