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NOVEMBER 6-13, 2019

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COURTNEY LAMDIN

Kara Alnasrawi and Mayor Miro Weinberger

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he season’s first snow provided a cozy backdrop for Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger’s Tuesday announcement that he’s selected a new Church Street Marketplace executive director: businessperson Kara Alnasrawi.

She will succeed Ron Redmond, who has managed the downtown shopping district for the last 20 years.

The announcement was made in advance of the Marketplace’s busiest season and just a few weeks before Redmond’s last day, December 1. Assuming the Burlington City Council confirms her on Monday, Alnasrawi will be the Marketplace’s fourth director in its 40-year history. Her first day would be November 19.

“I know the Church Street Marketplace and the committee that helped with the selection joins me in saying that Kara is an ideal candidate for this position,” Weinberger said from a podium on Church Street. “We couldn’t be more excited about her stepping into this role.”

Created in 1981, the Marketplace is a city department that oversees the Marketplace District, which draws more than 3 million visitors each year. The office distributes licenses and permits, such as for food carts and other Church

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A Burlington area native, Alnasrawi studied political science at the University of Vermont and political theory at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She previously worked in banking in Germany and New York before opening Liebling, a women’s boutique on College Street, in 2012. Alnasrawi said she is selling the store.

Alnasrawi’s tenure is set to begin at a time when traditional retail is increasingly challenged by online retailers such as Amazon. But Weinberger said downtown shops have been performing well, and the city has seen “nearrecord high” sales tax revenue.

“Make no mistake,” Weinberger said, “downtown Burlington is strong today.”

Alnasrawi agreed, saying her experience as a retailer has shown that customers enjoy interacting with local shop owners.

“Brick-and-mortar needs support, but in a community like this, I feel that the shop-local vibe … is strong,” she said.

“I think this position, the executive director position, is to foster that.”

Read Courtney Lamdin’s full story at sevendaysvt.com.

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The Halloween storm caused a landslide near Burlington’s Riverside Avenue, imperiling buildings. Another thing to worry about: erosion.

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The Sears store at the University Mall in South Burlington will shutter in February as part of a round of nationwide closures. End of an era.

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Nolan Anand

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A 9-year-old Williston boy won a $1,000 prize for growing a colossal cabbage. Nolan Anand’s leafy, 12.8-pound plant was the winner out of 1,116 cabbages raised by Vermont third graders as part of the nationwide Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program.

He spent about 12 weeks over the summer tending the cabbage in a raised bed in his backyard. “Very happy and very excited,” an understated Nolan told Seven Days about his win.

This year, about 1.5 million kids across the country took part in the program; the contest went national in 2002.

Third-grade teachers sign up, and Bonnie Plants, an Alabama-based company, delivers seedlings in the spring for kids to take home and grow. Each teacher then selects a best-in-class winner, who’s entered into a random drawing for the state prize.

Nolan, now a fourth grader at the Williston Central School, had his name chosen out of 34 kids and came away with a cool grand. The cash must be used for his education, and his mother, Zandra, said it’ll grow in a college savings account.

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Nolan’s isn’t the biggest cabbage ever submitted. The record is held by a Utah boy who grew a 75-pounder in 2013, according to Joan Casanova, a Bonnie Plants spokesperson.

Regardless, Nolan’s has proved plenty for the Anand family. They used half of the head for a corned beef and cabbage feast.

“It was so big, we couldn’t fit it all in the pot!” Zandra said with a laugh.

How’d it taste?

“Good,” Nolan said.

For next year, he’s got an urge to go bigger: He’s set his sights on a giant pumpkin.

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HEADLINE DOESN’T HELP

“Broken Parents = Broken Kids” [November 6] by Kate O’Neill is a nuanced and informative look at the complexities of family relationships and mental health when parents are struggling with opioid-use disorder at the same time as their children are working on accomplishing important developmental tasks. I am very appreciative of the article. My concern is with the way a piece of a quote was taken out of context and placed in large, bold print on newspapers all over Chittenden County: “Broken Parents = Broken Kids.” This is a damaging statement that worsens the shame, blame and feelings of futility that trauma itself induces.

If you are a parent with addiction, it is crucial to know that when you seek help to heal — even if you struggle or make mistakes — you are modeling strength and resiliency for your children. If you are a child or young adult who has experienced trauma, it is crucial for you to know the things that happen to you are only part of the story of who you are. You get to determine the rest.

Corey Mallon

BURLINGTON

Editor’s note: The headline was a complete sentence spoken by the article’s main subject, a mother who has struggled with opioid-use disorder.

GOT GUNS?

I am astounded and horrified to hear that confiscated guns are being sold back into society in Vermont [“Government Gun Shop,” October 30]. We have an immediate and serious problem with guns, and the government is selling them!

The article states that one of the reasons is a concern that law enforcement officials will hesitate to confiscate guns from those cited or arrested for domestic abuse — an action made possible by a recently passed law — because there isn’t anywhere to put them. In order to make space for confiscated guns to be stored, we are selling guns to gun dealers who could be unwittingly selling them to other people who shouldn’t have them. It just doesn’t make any sense and is completely irresponsible.

Our state government should be working to reduce the number of guns

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MORE ON THE MURAL

TIM NEWCOMB

out there — not selling them. Just destroy them. I am fed up with the cavalier attitude toward weapons, while children are trained in what to do if a shooter shows up in their school. This is unconscionable. Guns kill people. These sales should be stopped immediately.

Deborah Young NEW HAVEN

WRENNER ROCKS

After 18 weeks of access to an entire page in the Essex Reporter to plug the Essex merger plan as the only path forward for the Town of Essex and its village, Elaine Haney dares to complain when Irene Wrenner gets a bit of coverage in Seven Days [Feedback: “Two Sides, Two Municipalities,” October 30]. Your coverage [802Much: “Crazy Train,” October 23] was primarily about Wrenner’s unique way of getting a point across and only incidentally about our long merger history, which was accurately recounted and has repeatedly failed since 1958.

Wrenner has made a career of thinking differently, engaging creatively with her neighbors and sticking her neck out for commonsense positions. That’s what drove your publication’s coverage. And that’s why her video has more than 8,100 views.

In her letter, Haney promises a “robust public process” over the next 12 months.

She must not have been listening at the September 24 selectboard meeting, when most of her peers suggested they’ve had enough public input. But I was there, and I heard Haney change the subject

rather than remind her peers that the public must be part of future steps in this process.

Ken Signorello

ESSEX

WHITHER VPR?

I read in Seven Days how Vermont Public Radio CEO Scott Finn fired Ric Cengeri, one of the producers of “Vermont Edition” and host of “VPR Café” [Off Message: “Media Note: VPR Fires ‘Vermont Edition’ Producer Ric Cengeri,” October 11]. In August, all the VPR commentators were shown the back door, including myself. I had been doing garden and farm commentaries for VPR for more than 20 years, along with other long-serving commentators like Willem Lange and Madeleine Kunin.

That time, too, I first read the news of firings before I was informed by VPR — a poor process, indeed.

VPR’s commentaries were the heart and soul of the station — the longestrunning series of its kind in the U.S. For 31 years, listeners heard about cultural and historical events, stories and opinions from farmers and gardeners, activists, teachers, journalists, poets, novelists, and just ol’ woodchucks.

The commentaries were a relief from the incessant hard news and advertisements. Hopefully, VPR will return to the “real” Vermont one day.

Ron Krupp

SOUTH BURLINGTON

A new stage of Burlington’s “Everyone Loves a Parade!” mural debate has emerged in Dan Bolles’ story [“American Vandal,” October 23] about Eric Maier and October 30 responses to it from Doug Kallen, Albert Petrarca and Robert Devost [Feedback: “Mural Coincidence,” “In Defense of Activists” and “‘Display of Intolerance’”].

The border between those who want to take down the mural without crime and those, like Petrarca, Maier and apparently Bolles himself, who are willing to tolerate criminal behavior in taking it down, will certainly now be more blurred in the public mind. As a result, there may be even less support for taking it down.

The mural debate has been disappointing because so few have taken up the free speech argument supporting the continued existence of the mural. Now, with the letters of Kallen and Devost, we have strong defenses of free speech, at least against the crime perpetrated by Maier — and by implication against the crime perpetrated

by Petrarca.

It is possible, therefore, that by adding to their hatred of the mural the idea that crime is justified in taking it down, Bolles, Maier and Petrarca may have strengthened the already strong free speech case for not taking it down at all.

Norman Arthur Fischer

BURLINGTON

CORRECTIONS

The October 30 story “Montréal by Vélo” incorrectly described the plans for Burlington’s North Union Street bike lane. The bike lane was detoured, and no parking spaces were removed.

Last week’s “Big Colonizer on Campus” also contained an error. The Champlain College Student Government Association is considering — but has not yet adopted — a proposal to stop giving a spyglass to each graduate in honor of the college’s namesake, explorer Samuel de Champlain.

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Fletcher Free Library explores $19.8M makeover

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ARTS NEWS

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Runaway Train?

Burlington has little say in railroad plans

AG Won’t Charge BTV Cop in Death That Ignited Political Firestorm

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Smugglers’ Notch Resort Settles Lawsuit

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Cold Comfort

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Dogged Determination

Art: With ArtHound Gallery, John and Jennifer Churchman aim to give Vermont artists a new hub

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Creative Choreography Founded in 2002 by Los Angeles-born choreographer Victor Quijada, RUBBERBAND Dance has made its mark with its high-energy combination of hip-hop, ballet and contemporary dance styles. Performers from the Montréal-based company present Vic’s Mix, a program of highlights from Quijada’s repertoire, at Northern Vermont University-Johnson’s Dibden Center for the Arts.

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ON THE GRIND “Existibility examines our entrapment in working for our existence,” reads a press release for the latest Bread and Puppet Theater production.

The politically charged troupe employs puppets large and small to depict a mechanical state of living and even an uprising led by cardboard saints. Experience it in the Glover theater’s indoor ballroom.

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The Tibetan Association of Vermont aims to preserve and promote Tibetan culture in the Green Mountain State. To that end, the nonprofit welcomes community members to its annual Tibet Festival, where they’ll find traditional song, dance, food and handicrafts in Burlington’s Edmunds Middle School gymnasium.

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Women of Words The New England Review and the Middlebury College Creative Writing Program show off two new faculty members in a joint public reading. Lit lovers hear from Almost Famous Women author and Guardian columnist Megan Mayhew Bergman and poet and nonfiction scribe Spring Ulmer at the Axinn Center at Starr Library.

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Keep a Straight Face Comedian Steven Wright’s bio mimics his deadpan delivery: “I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes.

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ach November, Seven Days staffers bravely stare into the coming frigid abyss to put together our annual Winter Preview issue. The idea, of course, is to hip our readers to cool new trends in snow sports, food and arts — or to cozy ways to get hygge with it in the chilly season ahead. But, to be honest, it’s sometimes a challenge for us to get in an appropriately wintry frame of mind. It’s not that we necessarily dread Vermont’s long, cold, dark and long (and cold and dark) winters, but c’mon — we just barely finished our Halloween candy.

This year is different.

Thanks to an early storm that hit this week and dumped up to a foot of snow on parts of the state, Old Man Winter has clearly beaten us to the punch.

You want a 2019-20 Winter Preview? Look out the window.

Judging by the hairy state of local roads the morning after, it’s safe to say the snow caught quite a few Vermont drivers by surprise. As our

friends at Team O’Neil Rally School in New Hampshire told writer Ken Picard, it’s tricky to go from months of summer driving to navigating wintry conditions. The instructors at that school are the folks who train cops, FBI agents and soldiers to drive like James Bond. They won’t teach you those skills, but they do offer a WINTER DRIVING COURSE for civilians, and they passed along helpful tips for staying safe on the roads this winter. (Tip No. 1: Get those snow tires on, like, last week.)

On the other side of the coin, the recent storm undoubtedly delighted the state’s legion of powder hounds. Chief among those is Jesse Loomis, the founder of POWDERJET SNOWBOARDS in southern Vermont.

Lately, Loomis has been teaching others to build their own versions of his retro-cool wooden boards.

That sounds like a fun project to us. And, as anyone who has spent a winter in Vermont can tell you, making it through with your sanity intact means

finding wholesome things to do. Few know that better than writer Erik Esckilsen, who offers an essay on the BACKYARD SKATING RINK he builds for his kids every year.

Sometimes the best way to embrace winter is to, well, get out and embrace it. That’s among the revelations that writer Sam Brakeley had when he set out to approximate the 300-MILE MIDWINTER TREK of Revolutionary War soldier Henry Knox on cross-country skis for a new book.

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The recent Halloween wind-and-rain storm destabilized a bridge that connects South Burlington and Williston, closing the busy span for the “foreseeable future,” officials said.

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upporters of the Fletcher Free Library are exploring the possibility of a $19.8 million renovation that would dramatically revamp Burlington’s all-purpose information center.

The downtown public library would have more meeting space, additional bathrooms, and an indoor café and outdoor terrace. A new stairway would better integrate the original 1904 beaux arts library known as the Carnegie building with its 1981 addition.

The children’s section would be moved upstairs, so its lofty, wood-paneled space could revert back to a reading room for adults. After the makeover, the library might even follow the example of the New York Public Library and invite couples to book weddings there.

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toward serving as a community center, following the lead of many libraries around the country that were founded in the horse-and-buggy era.

“We’re in the 21st century now. It’s a different world,” explained Jonathan Chapple-Sokol, president of the Friends of the Fletcher Free Library, a nonprofit organization that raises funds to augment the taxpayer revenues that cover most of the library’s operating costs. The Friends would oversee the renovation’s capital campaign.

The proposal, though still preliminary, is detailed in glossy renderings and blueprints created by Oudens Ello Architecture, a Boston-based firm. It shows a terrace by the current way in and a grander main entrance in the little-used doorway to the Carnegie building.

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increase to $22.1 million, according to the firm.

The library hired Burlington consultant Christine Graham, president of CPG Enterprises, to test potential philanthropic support for the renovation. Her specific task: to assess whether local donors would contribute the entire $19 million tab.

“It’s a traditional way to do your research so that you don’t end up in a campaign that has no hope,” explained Graham, who has conducted 145 such studies, including many involving libraries.

For the Fletcher Free study, she’s interviewing 25 people, some of them potential donors.

“We don’t ask them for money, but we ask them for their frank opinions about the fundable aspects of a project,” said

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“It’s a nightmare,” South Burlington City Councilor Meaghan Emery said, noting that her husband works along Kimball Avenue. “I know firsthand that this is taking a toll.”

Officials in both towns had already been working on replacing the bridge, which was a temporary span put in place after a 2017 flood wiped out the original structure. But the joint project wasn’t scheduled to be finished until 2022. The latest storm damaged the temporary bridge’s culvert, leaving it unstable.

Informed that the bridge would need constant monitoring to stay open, local officials are now scrambling for a solution: Can they patch up the bridge enough to open it, or must it be removed and completely replaced?

A new bridge would cost an estimated $2 million, according to Williston Public Works director Bruce Hoar. The municipalities already have a design in hand, but because the initial plan called for a 2022 completion date, the money isn’t yet available, Hoar said.

It’s possible the feds will pay for at least a temporary fix because the road is eligible for the Federal-Aid Highway Program, based on its importance to the area, Hoar said.

Municipal officials plan to meet with the state Agency of Transportation this week to discuss next steps. Meanwhile, the towns might alter the traffic light patterns to alleviate some of the traffic, Emery said. She’s urging people to consider alternative routes.

“It’s going to not be just a short, little moment of inconvenience,” she said. “This is something that we’re going to really have to troubleshoot.”

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alf a dozen people took turns on November 4 telling the Burlington City Council that the city is being railroaded — literally.

A proposal to service Amtrak trains overnight at the old Union Station would create more noise and exhaust on the downtown waterfront, one of the city’s most popular destinations and a residential area to boot.

Adding insult to injury, locals told councilors, Vermont Railway plans to install a second track, displacing a section of the popular bike path while increasing train traffic and raising safety concerns.

“The waterfront will be forever changed,” Carl Fowler, a Williston resident who serves on Gov. Phil Scott’s Rail Advisory Council, warned the councilors.

Officials, too, seemed surprised that a second railroad track is planned. Councilor Franklin Paulino (D-North District) said the whole project seems rushed.

“A lot of people, when they think of Burlington, they think of that area. It’s a delicate issue,” said Paulino, a supporter of passenger rail. He added: “I don’t know what the city’s options are. That’s my main question.”

The answer, it seems, is that the city has very few options. Authority to decide where to park the passenger trains lies with the Vermont Agency of Transportation, and a recent study performed at the city’s behest scored Union Station as the best option of five possible depots.

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The Burlington police officer who punched a man who later died will not face criminal charges, Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan said at a press conference last Friday attended by the man’s family.

Donovan said Officer Cory Campbell was legally justified when he delivered three blows to the face of Douglas Kilburn during a March 11 argument outside the emergency room at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

The attorney general called the case “troubling,” however, and faulted the cop for “antagonistic” actions that provoked Kilburn, in poor mental and physical

health at the time, to lash out. He called for continued police training on ways to de-escalate tense situations.

Donovan based his decision on conclusions by a national use-of-force expert, who found that Campbell had acted in self-defense because Kilburn swung at the officer first.

“This was a tragic situation that, frankly, could have been avoided,” Donovan said.

Kilburn’s widow, Sherry Kilburn, shook her head from the audience as Donovan announced his decision. Speaking to the media afterward, she said that the officer should have been charged.

“He murdered my husband, and now his life goes on. And my husband can’t,” she said.

Sherry was in critical condition inside the hospital when the altercation took place. Kilburn was there to visit her but had gotten into a loud argument with private security guards. He was yelling at the guards from the driver’s window of his SUV when Campbell showed up.

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Graham’s findings will factor into whether the project moves forward, and in what form, said Mary Danko, library director. She helped lead a “visioning” process that included a survey of patrons and Burlington residents earlier this year.

“We were told: Think your biggest dreams,” Danko said. “What would be your ideal, with the caveat that you might not get it.”

Oudens Ello’s Visionary Redesign report, completed in September, represents a wish list based on input from administrators, staff, city residents and patrons.

The redo concept also incorporates national library trends. Many libraries across the country have opened cafés, Danko said.

“We definitely see people hanging out in the library for longer and longer peri-

outdoor seating, and both add to its appeal, Bridgers said.

Tim Hayes pecked away on his laptop across the room, writing his second nonfiction book. The Johnson resident wrote half of the first one, Riding Home, in this same spot. He said the renovations sound appealing, especially if donors fund them.

Some of the patrons on that chilly afternoon carried large backpacks, one with a bedroll attached. A few seemed under the influence and, when asked by a reporter about the renovation, looked dazed and muttered incoherently.

Many people with nowhere else to go visit the library, especially in cold weather.

The renovation proposal includes a small meeting space where social service providers could offer advice on opioid treatment and affordable housing — essentially, expanding on a help desk the library created this fall in the main reading area.

The Howard Center, a private nonprofit provider of mental health, addiction Fletcher Free Library

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The officer and Kilburn yelled profanities at each other before Kilburn exited the car.

“You ain’t got a right to swear at me, motherfucker,” he said, swinging an arm toward Campbell, striking but not injuring him.

Campbell’s return punches left Kilburn with a broken jaw and orbital bone. He died three days later.

The controversy surrounding the encounter was further complicated by a politicized dispute over whether Campbell’s punches even contributed to Kilburn’s death.

The case set off a season of turmoil for Burlington police after Chief Brandon del Pozo and Mayor Miro Weinberger made an unusual behind-the-scenes intervention in the state’s death investigation.

Del Pozo quietly tried to convince the state’s health commissioner to change a “homicide” death classification reached by the state medical examiner. Del Pozo also solicited help from the mayor, whose office made a last-minute request to Gov. Phil Scott to delay public release of the “homicide” finding so the city could press its argument.

Last Friday, Kilburn’s adult son, Tyler, addressed del Pozo and Weinberger directly to chastise them for corruptive “insider politics.”

“I find it appalling that you, as a chief of police, would interfere with an ongoing investigation, with cooperation from the mayor’s office,” he said.

Kilburn’s son explained that his father, an “incredibly loving man” and a musician, was battling mental health issues following multiple strokes.

“He was winning this fight. He was getting better each and every day with hard work and dedication,” Tyler said. “My dad needed help, not handcuffs.”

Campbell has been assigned to administrative tasks since March and will return to patrol for his next scheduled shift, del Pozo said. The department will carry out an internal review of the officer’s conduct, primarily focused on his profanity. Any discipline is unlikely to include suspension or termination, del Pozo said.

The chief stood by his own actions, saying he and Weinberger raised “legitimate concerns” through their normal channels.

Del Pozo said Kilburn’s death has prompted introspection among members of his police force. “Every officer that I know has watched this body camera footage and discussed this and is very reflective about what he or she can do to avoid agitating people,” he said.

Burlington Police Officers Association president Dan Gilligan had a different conclusion.

“The big takeaway from this is that we are scrutinized for whatever we do,” he said. “I have done all those things [Campbell] has done before and had great success with it. Sometimes things just don’t work out.” m

ods of time, because this is where they are finding community,” she said.

Last Friday afternoon, Cavan Little was reading a book called Concrete Economics in the library before his shift as a chef at the nearby restaurant A Single Pebble.

“Oh, yeah, nice,” he said in response to the rendering of the proposed outdoor terrace, decorated with twinkling lights for a small concert. The feature might attract younger people, the 26-year-old South Burlington resident suggested, noting the library’s demographic tends to skew older.

Little said he thinks the renovation could be an important investment. “I’ve come to really appreciate a library as a civic tool that can really benefit society,” he said.

University of Vermont student Emily Bridgers was working on a lab report in the local history room. It was her first time at the Fletcher Free. Her hometown public library in Nashville, Tenn., has a café and

treatment and other services, staffs the desk part time. The library would like to recruit more social service providers to provide confidential advice and referrals to patrons.

“If we had a designated office for them here, then they would have more privacy,” Danko said.

There’s no plan to move old portraits of the library’s historic benefactors that hang on the building’s first floor. In one, a dignified, dark-haired Mary Martha Fletcher gazes over the collection that she and her mother helped create with a $20,000 bequest to found the library in 1873. For several decades, the library was housed in a building on the site of Burlington’s current city hall.

Then, like many communities around the country, Burlington benefitted from the largesse of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the former bobbin mill boy who donated vast sums to help construct nearly 3,000 public libraries. Portrayed as

a bearded, white-haired gentleman in a portrait next to Fletcher’s, Carnegie gave Burlington $50,000 to construct a new library in high style at 235 College Street.

The location was flawed: A ravine ran through it. The brick building was erected on unstable earth. By the 1970s, it had started to sag. Residents pushed to demolish the structure and start afresh.

But another group of citizens successfully fought to preserve and stabilize the library, with the help of a federal grant.

They also pushed for the addition. In 1978, city voters approved a $2.4 million bond to build the new section, with its signature wall of windows.

Backers from that era evolved into the present-day Friends of Fletcher Free Library, which runs an annual appeal for donations, book sales and other fundraisers.

Last year, the Friends’ revenue totaled $26,404, down from $56,230 in 2017, according to its Form 990 tax filings with the Internal Revenue Service. ChappleSokol, the president, is an unpaid volunteer, like the other officers. He agrees that thus far, the Friends have raised “nothing close” to the millions likely to be sought in a renovation capital campaign.

Many public libraries have private fundraising arms similar to the Friends.

They appeal to donors who want anonymity and assurance that their gifts won’t go to general city coffers.

“By giving money directly to the Friends, they are assured that 100 percent of their donation goes to support the library,” Chapple-Sokol said.

Donors sometimes cover the tab for library projects. The Manchester Community Library opened a new building in 2014 with the help of a successful $7.2 million capital campaign. In other cases, private money helps, but taxpayers foot most of the bill. Shelburne taxpayers approved a $6.5 million bond to renovate their town hall and build the library that opened earlier this year. South Burlington voters last year also approved a large bond for that city’s planned new library, but much of the cost will be covered through tax increment financing. A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, November 13.

If fundraising for the Fletcher Free renovation falls short, Burlington voters might be asked to approve funding in a public bond vote. Danko acknowledged taxpayers could end up with “some skin in the game.”

She also conceded the plan is still just that: a plan.

“It’s what we want,” she said, “but we might not get it all.”

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Smugglers’ Notch Resort has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged it was overcharging homeowners for routine property maintenance.

A Vermont Superior Court judge on Tuesday approved a settlement that calls for Smuggs to change how it charges homeowners at the resort for services such as landscaping, snowplowing and security in common areas. Homeowners, who used to bear 90 percent of the costs, will pay 77.5 percent in the future.

Hans Huessy, a Burlington attorney for the plaintiffs, said the resort estimates that the “class” includes 7,500 to 10,000 members with stakes in 674 condos and townhomes.

The settlement covers both homeowners and those with time-shares, but the latter will not get cash.

The dispute dates back to a 2013 collection action that the resort filed against a pair of homeowners, Timothy and Richard White, over an unpaid $9,500 bill for maintenance.

The Whites countersued, alleging that the resort was paying too little toward those costs.

The resort will dole out $760,000 in credits and cash payments.

The Whites will receive $30,000.

Current and former full owners will split $300,000, with an estimated refund of about $1,050 per unit, according to the agreement.

Bill Stritzler, the resort’s owner, declined to comment on the case.

News of the settlement, like any other mention of Smuggs in recent years, will likely raise questions over whether the resort will become the latest to be scooped up by a large out-of-state company.

Colorado-based Vail continues to expand through Vermont, following up its 2017 purchase of the Stowe Mountain Resort with two other acquisitions — Okemo and Mount Snow.

Perhaps that’s why Stritzler can’t help but laugh when he’s asked whether Smuggs would be a more attractive purchase with the lawsuit in its rearview.

“I can tell you that there’s absolutely nothing under way at this moment,” he said.

“There was a time in my career that I’d be willing to predict the future,” he continued. “But these days, things change so quickly that it’s probably unwise to do that.”

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feedback at the city council’s transportation committee meeting on November 19.

They also point to the study conducted by the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission as proof that they’re dedicated to finding the right storage location. And the 11-member rail advisory council will recommend an option to VTrans Secretary Joe Flynn before the end of the year. Passenger trains are expected in Burlington by 2021.

Leading the opposition to the Union Station plan is Melinda Moulton. She’s the CEO of Main Street Landing, the redevelopment company that refurbished and now operates several buildings, including the old train depot, near the waterfront rail

In February 2017, Boomhower directed the planning commission to do “a very small analysis” of the train storage issue. Later that year, a study consultant wrote that he “went with the ‘less is more’ approach with this report, thinking that it was destined for a shelf at VTrans.”

Instead, a draft was publicly released in June 2018 and the final report in July. Both studies scored Union Station higher than parkland north of downtown, the Vermont Railway railyard near Perkins Pier and another site in the South End. “This has been a sham,” said Larry Sudbay, who owns one of four condos that sit feet from the station in Main Street Landing’s Wing Building. “Taxpayers, everybody has just been lied to with this report,” he

It’s been a long-standing goal to return passenger rail service to Burlington, connecting it with New York City and points south. Planning began in earnest in 2015, when the state was awarded a $10 million grant to upgrade rail lines between Rutland and Burlington. Rutland brought Amtrak service back in 1996 to great fanfare.

Vermont Railway built a second track at that city’s train station so its freight trains could maneuver around the overnighting Amtrak cars.

The same could happen when the Ethan Allen Express returns to Burlington, where a crew would clean the cars, empty the onboard septic tanks and refuel before the next morning’s run. Neighbors say that will be noisy, and they worry that COURTNEY LAMDIN

The sequel to a documentary known for spreading discredited claims about vaccinations found a receptive crowd in Burlington last Thursday night during a screening at Merrill’s Roxy Cinema About 30 people gathered for a 7:30 p.m. showing of Vaxxed II: The People’s Truth, a sequel to the controversial 2016 film purporting that vaccines pose unknown dangers to children.

Health Choice Vermont, which advocates for parents to choose whether their children are vaccinated, brought the movie to Vermont.

Like its predecessor, Vaxxed II prominently features former British doctor Andrew Wakefield, one of the researchers behind a 1998 paper published in the Lancet medical journal that sought to establish a link between autism and the vaccine for mumps and measles. Most researchers named on the paper withdrew their support of its conclusions six years later, when it was reported that Wakefield had been paid by attorneys seeking evidence to use in lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers. The Lancet retracted the paper.

Wakefield was later struck from the British medical registry, but he has discovered an audience among some parent groups in the U.S. who believe that the government and medical community are waging a campaign to force dangerous vaccines on children.

A Q&A session after the film put those beliefs on display.

“I really challenge people to walk boldly and confidently in what we believe in,” said one attendee. “Our beliefs and the message that we’re sending here — people need to hear this.”

Christine Finley, the immunization program manager with the Vermont Department of Health, told Seven Days that films like Vaxxed “exploit people’s fears and desires to protect their children.”

When vaccines work well, they prevent diseases, Finley said. That leaves parents balancing the alleged risks of a vaccine against the risk of a disease they’ve never encountered.

“Basically, [vaccines] are a victim of their own success,” Finley said.

Still, Finley said “overwhelming scientific evidence” shows there are no links between child vaccinations and autism. “Sometimes, the truth is inconvenient to some people,” she said. m

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line. While Moulton has worked for three decades to bring an Amtrak stop back to Union Station, she was aghast to learn that the trains could be stored there overnight.

As part of her research into the planning commission study, Moulton reviewed several years of VTrans emails. She provided Seven Days with about 150 pages of documents that she says prove the whole report was rigged.

In one message from December 2016, Michele Boomhower, VTrans’ director of policy, planning and intermodal development, told Burlington Public Works director Chapin Spencer that while VTrans would support an analysis of alternatives, “we really don’t have any options to move forward with other than storage at the station.”

continued. “It’s unbelievable.”

Charlie Baker, the planning commission’s executive director, defended the report.

He said the analysis is sound and wasn’t influenced by VTrans or Boomhower, who previously worked as Baker’s No. 2 before taking a job at VTrans in 2015.

“There was nothing precooked about this study, period,” he said.

Boomhower, too, called the process sound.

“While we had an idea of where we thought the train would be best stored … before the report was undertaken, we [now] have a whole lot more information regardless of the scores,” she said. “I think we’re sort of analyzing all of the information that came back from the report.”

idling trains will pollute the waterfront that Burlington has worked so hard to clean up.

Under a federal law known as preemption, railroads can bypass local construction and zoning permits and environmental review. If a train blocks your business’ entrance? That’s just too bad.

Vermont Rail System leases the Burlington track from the State of Vermont.

The terms say that, so long as the railroad is conducting railroad operations, the trains can keep on rolling.

“We have full use of the railroad, absolutely,” Vermont Rail System vice president Selden Houghton said. “VTrans doesn’t get involved in the operations at all. They’re merely the landlord; we operate it.”

Other towns have tried and failed to Despite their opposition to the plan, fight the railroad. In 2016, Shelburne got both Dean and Sharp think that the bike mired in a lengthy legal battle over Vermont path, if displaced by the rail track, should Railway’s plans to build a large salt shed be moved off the railroad’s right-of-way. In not far from the LaPlatte River. The town 2016, Sharp convinced voters to support surrendered earlier this year after spending a nonbinding ballot item that proposed more than $500,000 in legal fees and losing moving the bike path between King and two court appeals, the Shelburne News College streets onto land owned by the Lake reported. The railway argued successfully Champlain Transportation ferry company. that federal law exempted it from town Since then, Mayor Miro Weinberger said he oversight. has had “productive conversations” with Boomhower said Burlington’s second the ferry company’s Trey Pecor and with track would likely be protected by the same the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Chamlaw. plain, which leases land from the city just “The second track is not something that south of College Street. is able to be modified [or] put in another “I’m optimistic that we will find a way location,” she said. “That’s just part of the to get this done without the use of eminent project.” domain,” the mayor said.

Noise and emissions should be minimal, While the city may not have a say on Houghton said, noting that the people installation of a second track, Weinberger concerned about these impacts did choose thinks VTrans’ request for feedback on the to live next to an active railroad. There’s train storage question is genuine. Neighno room to store the Amtrak at the rail- bors’ concerns over air quality and safety yard near Perkins Pier, he are valid, he said, but their said, though that would be worries that the waterfront will be reindustrialized are the city’s preference. The planning commission’s study “dramatically overstated.” estimated it would cost $50 “Adding a passenger million to store the train there [rail] siding is not going to because Vermont Railway bring back oil tanks and a RICK SHARP. would need to move its operacoal-burning plant,” Weintion to make room. berger said. “We’re not going Longtime waterfront advocates aren’t to make a decision based on that kind of convinced, and they worry that all this sentiment.” train activity could tarnish the Queen City’s Rather, the mayor said, the city will crown jewel and return it to its industrial consider which location has the least past. Passenger trains stopped at Union impact on homes and businesses and will Station from 1916 to 1953, and the area once pressure VTrans to choose that option. boasted 15 tracks. For years, freight trains Fighting the railroad is a sure road to made frequent runs to the coal-powered nowhere, Weinberger said.

Moran electrical plant and oil tanks along That’s a complicated proposition the Lake Champlain shoreline. for Main Street Landing’s Moulton.

But during the 1980s, then-mayor Bernie After decades pushing for Amtrak’s Sanders’ administration fought to reclaim return, she is now viewed as the train’s the waterfront for parks and other uses, an most vocal opponent, an irony that’s effort capped by a 1989 Vermont Supreme not lost on her. Standing in the empty Court decision that helped the city acquire lobby this week, Moulton recalled how, 60 acres of land from the railway. with Dean’s help, Main Street Landing Other waterfront champions include refurbished the aging station in the former governor Howard Dean and envi- late 1990s, readying it for the trains. ronmental activist Rick Sharp, who led a Just a few years later, Jim Carrey and citizen group that successfully lobbied to Renée Zellweger filmed a scene for the convert a disused waterfront rail line into 2000 comedy Me, Myself & Irene in the Burlington’s bike path in the 1980s and ’90s. brand-new station. Moulton watched Dean said it’s “crazy” and “bad public the film with tears of joy: Amtrak had policy” to lay a second rail track on the finally arrived, if only for four days on waterfront. As governor in the early 2000s, a movie set. he pushed for a short-lived commuter train She wants the train back — but not between Burlington and Charlotte. Sharp, parked overnight on the waterfront. who recently wrote a book about his efforts “We just feel really sad that after all to create the bike path, called the plan the years we worked to bring passen“ludicrous.” ger rail back, that this comes with it,” “The only one that seems to want that Moulton said. “We fought for this train, there is the railroad,” Sharp said. “The and at the end of the day, it’s a stick in track itself is actually owned by the State the eye.” m of Vermont. We the people of Vermont own the track.”

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State Auditor Hoffer Slams Vermont Remote Worker Program

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attracting more of the young families the state needs.

To date, the state has reimbursed 110 people more than $400,000 for their moving and other expenses. The average age of those workers is 38, versus 55 for others moving to the state, Goldstein said.

“I think this shows that if you make that proactive effort, you might just get those

BY K E VI N MC C A L L UM young families that we so desperately need,” Goldstein said.

The program reimbursing workers up to Lawmakers considered adding hoops to $10,000 to move to Vermont is catching make it harder for new workers to qualify for flak from the state auditor, who questions the grants, such as by delaying the funds whether taxpayer dollars are being well until after the worker had been paying taxes spent. for a year. But those ideas were rejected Doug Hoffer on Tuesday released a report in favor of a simpler, more streamlined suggesting the state’s Remote Worker Grant program that accomplished the goal of Program suffers from a “serious structural motivating people to move to the state, she flaw” that has “undoubtedly resulted in said. wasted taxpayer funds.”

The program was meant to be “a catalyst” He argues in the 17-page report that to encourage people to move here, not the there is no way to prove whether the sole reason for their move. program is an effective incentive that lures “I think in all incentive programs, it’s new people to the state or a handout to difficult to prove a ‘but for,’” Goldstein said. those who were planning to relocate to the “But it’s hypothetical to say they would have Green Mountains anyway. come here anyway. You don’t know that Remote workers can only qualify for either.” certain relocation and business expenses, Hoffer cites the department’s own survey such as high-speed internet access, once of workers’ motivations for moving to the they have already moved to Vermont, he state as evidence against the efficacy of the noted. program.

“That means they had the means and the The responses show that just 54 percent will to relocate without the program,” Hoffer of grantees said the program attracted them wrote. to Vermont. Access to outdoor activities was the No. 1 reason cited, by Miguel Turner with his wife, Milagro; 74 percent, while their children (from left) Allen, 66 percent said Sebastian and Sofia; and their dog, Max it was because Vermont was a safe place to raise a family.

“These findings indicate that the prospect of reimbursement was, at best, a minor incentive for grantees to move to Vermont,” Hoffer wrote. “At worst the grants were gifts to those In March, Seven Days spoke with famiwho would have moved here regardless of lies that had benefited from the program. financial incentives.”

Miguel and Milagro Turner had already When Hoffer’s office reviewed the decided to move to Vermont from Florida program over the summer, the state had when friends told them about it. “The grant approved grants averaging $3,823 to 68 maybe helped us decide that now is the workers. Those workers came from 26 states, time,” Miguel said. “I saw it as a little bit of a testament to the broad appeal of the state providence.”

— and the program.

Hoffer’s critiques are not new. He and While they came from far and wide, some lawmakers have argued that the however, they didn’t settle evenly across the money would be better spent on Vermont state. workers through job training or other educaChittenden County attracted 47 percent tion programs. of the workers, with Burlington alone If the program were to continue, he said, receiving 11. Only one person chose to live in people receiving the funds should have to the Northeast Kingdom, where broadband declare that “but for” the grant, they would internet access is limited, while three counnot have moved to the state. ties — Essex, Grand Isle and Orleans — didn’t Joan Goldstein, commissioner of the attract any remote workers. m Department of Economic Development, said the program has been successful in Contact: kevin@sevendaysvt.com SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 13-20, 2019

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The superintendent of Burlington schools will step down when the current fiscal year ends on June 30, 2020.

In a brief interview, Yaw Obeng told Seven Days that he had been thinking about career options last year, and he’d had “some opportunities.” But he stayed to see some initiatives through, including a bond vote.

He wanted to give the school system ample notice, Obeng said: “I wanted to be fair to our staff and the board, and not to all of a sudden say, ‘See ya, here’s two weeks,’ or something like that.

Just to be up front and fair with them.”

Obeng announced his decision November 6 in an email to parents and teachers, calling it a privilege to serve as leader of the city’s schools. He was hired in 2015.

“I am writing today because these last few months of conversations and reflections have also led me to believe that the systemic foundation has been laid to allow me to explore other personal and professional opportunities,” Obeng wrote.

He explained further that he’d submitted his resignation, effective the end of the fiscal year.

“I had contemplated waiting to make this announcement until January but ultimately decided that by informing the board, staff, and community now, Burlington School District will have the best opportunity for a successful transition,” Obeng wrote.

He said the decision had not been an easy one but that he felt he would leave the district on a stronger financial footing and with a capital plan in place to address the district’s space constraints and aging infrastructure.

The day before Obeng’s announcement, the school board warned a special meeting with an executive session to discuss “personnel matters.” The board met with legal counsel to go over the details related to Obeng’s decision to step out of his contract early, according to Keith Pillsbury, school board member for Ward 8. The superintendent’s contract was to expire in 2021.

Asked if Obeng did a good job, Pillsbury responded: “I don’t think it’s fair for me to comment, to answer that question with the limited experience I’ve had in working with him. I certainly wish him well.”

Board chair Clare Wool did not respond to messages but released a statement on behalf of the board thanking Obeng for “his many accomplishments,” including leaving the district with stronger finances “than they have been in many years.” The board will start a national search for his successor, the statement said.

Obeng stepped into turbulent waters when he was hired. An interim superintendent was in place after longtime superintendent Jeanne Collins resigned after controversy about deficits and handling of diversity in the district.

Obeng, a Canadian citizen, became the first black school superintendent in FILE: MOLLY WALSH

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Burlington. Critics complained about the cost of the visa process required to hire him. (He is now a permanent resident of the United States, he told Seven Days.)

Obeng also took heat for his decision to live in South Burlington, which required a special exemption from a city rule that its key executives must reside in Burlington.

Labor problems blew up with a four-day teachers strike in 2017.

Last year, multiple board members were critical of the way Obeng handled a major personnel flap involving former Burlington High School guidance director Mario Macias, whose educator license was eventually revoked by the Vermont Agency of Education in February 2019.

This fall, board members continued to question some of Obeng’s hiring decisions. The board also continued to shift to a closer oversight philosophy and in October adopted policies spelling out the superintendent’s obligations, tasks and reporting requirements. m Contact: molly@sevendaysvt.com

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Frederick N. Cook 1929-2019 MONTPELIER, VT.

Frederick Nelson Cook, 90, of Montpelier, died peacefully on November 7 after a short illness. Fred was born on August 24, 1929, to Edward J. and Helen (Foster) Cook. He spent his youth in Cuttingsville and Mount Holly, Vt., and graduated from Rutland High School in 1947. From 1950 to 1954, Fred served in the U.S. Navy.

He is a 1959 graduate of the University of Vermont.

He was elected a state representative for the Town of Shrewsbury and was appointed by the Vermont Board of Historic Sites in

1959, where he spent three and a half years overseeing programs at several Vermont Historic Sites.

In 1960, Fred married Barrie Brundage, and together they had three sons, Christopher, Daniel and Richard.

Fred spent most of his working career as the executive director of the Vermont Petroleum Institute, then as a lobbyist on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business/ Vermont. He also worked on the campaigns of Barbara Snelling for lieutenant governor and of state senator Susan Sweetser for U.S. representative.

After successful cancer treatment in 1996, Fred retired from active lobbying.

He then established what became the Central Vermont Prostate Cancer Support Group, affiliated with the American Cancer Society’s Man to Man program. He often remarked that outside of raising his three boys, his most rewarding initiative in his life was working with the cancer survivors who attended the monthly Man to Man meetings. The American Cancer Society recognized his

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efforts in 1999 and again in 2007 for dedicated service to the Man to Man program.

Fred proudly served his community in various capacities throughout his long life.

He was a member and former vestryman of Christ Church in Montpelier, the Montpelier Board of Adjustment and the Montpelier City Republican Committee. He served as chair of the City Hall Plaza War Memorial Committee and was master of ceremonies for its dedication. He spent many years as a Montpelier justice of the peace, in which capacity his sons were fortunate to have him officiate at their weddings.

A member of Rotary International with 50 years of perfect attendance, Fred was president of the Montpelier Rotary Club in 1980 and ’81 and district governor of Rotary District 7850 in 1987 and ’88. He was an elected representative to the Rotary International Council on Legislation, a multiple Paul Harris Fellow recipient and a regular contributor to the Rotary Foundation. He hosted visiting members of Rotary’s Group Study Exchange Teams from Australia, India, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil and Norway, coordinating several of the group’s visits to central Vermont.

Fred’s hobbies included studying Vermont history and politics, photography, and motor sports. He spent many years as a member and past president of the Vermont Auto Enthusiasts club and enjoyed planning for

and working at various car shows in Vermont, notably in Stowe, Shelburne and St. Albans. He enjoyed driving his 1961 Triumph TR3A to these events. Fred worked to establish a VAE scholarship, annually given to deserving students in the automotive technology program at Vermont Technical College, which was subsequently named in his honor.

Most people knew Fred as someone who loved to connect with people. Fred has taken thousands of pictures of friends, colleagues and family over the years, and he was always happy to share them and the stories that go with them with everyone.

Fred was especially proud of his sons and grandchildren and loved to go to their school events, read and tell stories to the young ones, and go on bike rides. Fred was very close to his niece, Carole Hass, and her family.

Fred was predeceased by his sister Edith, his brother George and his wife, Laicita, and his brother Edward and his wife, Irene. He is survived by his sons, Chris and his wife, Carmen, of Orleans; Dan and his wife, Becky, of Hinesburg; and Rick and his partner, Beth Diederich, of Worcester. He’s also survived by his grandchildren: Christopher Cook and his wife, Jill; Ethan and Owen Cook; and Shayla and Isaiah Kippen.

Friends may call at Guare and Sons Funeral Home in Montpelier on Wednesday, November 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. A memorial service will be held at Christ Church in Montpelier on Thursday, November 14, at 10 a.m., followed by a 2:30 p.m. burial at Laurel Glen Cemetery in Shrewsbury. Donations may be made to the Fred N. Cook VAE Scholarship at Vermont Technical College or McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt.

Douglas Hopps

1959-2019 FORMERLY OF BRISTOL, VT. Douglas William Hopps died in Portland, Maine, on October 17, 2019, after a long illness.

He was born in the hamlet of Garrison in the village of Cold Spring, N.Y., on May 26, 1959. He went to school in West Hartford, Conn., and Westminster West, Vt., and graduated from Bellows Falls Union High School, Vt., in 1977. He earned a certificate from the Franklin School of Business in 1993.

Douglas worked at Artech Electronics Ltd. in Burlington, Vt. He later was manager at several retail stores in South Burlington, Vt., and in 1996 moved to Albuquerque, N.M., for nine years. Returning to Bristol, Vt., he was a custodian and a para-educator at Bristol Elementary School.

He did volunteer work at the Starksboro food bank. He moved to Maine in 2015 to rejuvenate his life; he lived in Camden and Cumberland and quickly developed new friendships in both communities. In Maine, he worked at local grocery stores and volunteered for Furniture Friends and the Cumberland Wood Bank.

Douglas was good-natured and delightful, with an innate sense of humor. He was a kind and gentle soul. Doug loved most all music genres, in particular rock and roll, big band ’40s and classical; he

was a big fan of artists from Ian Anderson to Antonio Vivaldi. He was a drummer at an early age and played until recently, when he continued tapping out beats on his dashboard. His greatest joy professionally was running his DJ business, Dance Around Sound. Douglas made cassette tapes, and later CDs, for family members that some of us still listen to today because of the great music mixes he created.

He was predeceased by his mother, Margaret Jean (Shaw) Foster, in 2017; his stepmother, Ann Hopps, in 2015; and his aunt, Joan Hopps, in 2013.

Douglas is survived by his daughter Burdena of Middlebury, Vt.; his father, Thomas Hopps, of Camden, Maine; his siblings Robin and her wife, Wendy Sue Harper, of Monkton, Vt., Frederic and his wife, Jette, of Beverly, Mass., and Jonathan and his wife, Tory Dietel Hopps, of Cumberland, Maine; nieces Inge, Kaja, Sara and Carly; and nephew Sawyer. Other family members include Lynn and Bill Cash of Davidson, N.C., and family; Bruce and Sue Millar of Diablo, Calif., and family; Keith Millar of New York City; Leath Allyn Ashley of Yukon, Okla., and family; Craig Hamilton of Glendora, Calif.; Andrew and Christy Shaw and family of Westbury, N.Y.; and countless friends from California to Vermont.

Douglas will be missed greatly, yet the music in him will play on.

A celebration of Doug’s life will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 23, at Southern Maine Community College, 122 McKernan Dr., South Portland, ME 04106 in the McKernan Hospitality Center.

Donations in Doug’s name can be made to the organization of your choice.

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istorical tales of endurance elicit a range of responses from readers. When confronted with harsh conditions — Revolutionary War heroes traveling 300 miles through New England, midwinter, for example — some readers feel grateful for cars, grocery stores and gas heat.

Others — generally considered somewhat nuts by the former group — respond to the same stories with, “Hey, I could do that!”

SAM BRAKELEY, author of Skiing With Henry Knox: A Personal Journey Along Vermont’s Catamount Trail, is among the latter. In 2009 he paddled 740 miles of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, which follows traditional indigenous travel routes through New England. In 2013 he retraced Benedict Arnold’s trip from Augusta, Maine, to Québec City in a canoe.

Brakeley, who lives in Sharon, published books about both trips.

In 2015, he made the voyage that is the subject of his latest nonfiction book: a 300-mile cross-country ski trip up the Catamount Trail, which traverses the length of Vermont from the Massachusetts border to its Canadian counterpart.

“I want to take some of that history beyond the armchair and into the outdoors with me,” Brakeley said in a phone interview. “It’s just a way for me to bring to life some of the history I’m reading about.”

In the winter of 1775, during the early days of the Revolutionary War, a military officer from Boston named Henry Knox undertook a mission on behalf of the Continental Army. He traveled to Fort Ticonderoga in New York State to retrieve cannons and heavy weaponry and bring them back to help George Washington’s troops outside of Boston.

It took Knox, his men and their oxen six weeks to drag about 60 tons of artillery back across the icy New England landscape.

Brakeley, a stonemason and a writer, saw in Knox a kindred spirit. Knox was a passionate reader and a student of military history, and he had a taste for adventure.

There wasn’t much point in traveling Knox’s original route, because it’s mostly highway today. But the Catamount Trail was similar in length.

Skiing With Henry Knox alternates between the narrative of Brakeley’s trials and tribulations while winter camping on

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the trail and the story of Knox’s trek to Boston. It explores aspects of the personal lives of both men and finds plenty of comparisons.

Knox was married to a woman named Lucy, and he wrote countless letters to her throughout the war. He seemed torn

between his duty to serve the revolutionary effort and his desire to be near the woman he loved.

Brakeley was experiencing something emotionally similar. His longtime partner, Elizabeth, was moving to Utah for her medical residency. Brakeley wanted to

be with her but felt deeply rooted in New England.

“I love these woods,” Brakeley writes in the book. “I love the rivers, lakes, ponds, and streams of New England, the rocky forest floor and steep mountains. I love the open hardwood groves and thick evergreen stands. I love walking beneath the forest canopy and coming upon an old foundation or crumbling stone wall.”

Brakeley also writes, “I love the attachment I feel to this place. I know its ways, its interstates and back roads, and all the twists, windings, and ruts that come with them.”

It felt like an impossible decision. So he went skiing. Brakeley’s personality is best captured in a quote from Elizabeth that comes early in the book, when he told her of his plan to ski 300 miles. “I thought that was just a pipe dream,” she said. “You get these ideas in your head, and you just can’t shake them.”

But that’s the thing about the kind of person who canoes hundreds of miles and hikes the Appalachian Trail: Doing it is the whole point. Brakeley said that the simple life on the trail appeals to him and that, after a few days into the trip, he gets a kind of runner’s high and feels as if he could go on forever.

He also felt that time alone in nature might help him decide whether or not to go with Elizabeth. Throughout the book, Brakeley explores what makes the prospect of leaving New England so hard.

His love for the landscape is apparent in his prose, but midway through the narrative he also begins to describe his family, all scattered throughout the region, and how close he feels to them. Brakeley was raised in Massachusetts but spent time with relatives throughout Vermont.

“I have so many positive memories rooted in place and rooted in this place in particular,” Brakeley said. “The general feeling I get when I’m here is one of support and caring and kindness and love, because I’ve been nurtured in such a positive way in this environment … The place and the community and the family have become interwoven.”

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t’s a sign of Vermont’s vibrant music scene that two community orchestras can thrive side by side: the MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and the VERMONT PHILHARMONIC in Barre, the latter being the state’s largest and oldest orchestra of its kind. And they have done so for 24 years. “[The chamber orchestra] started with a group of string players who wanted a smaller experience,” says ANNE DECKER, who has conducted the Montpelier group since 2016. While the 60-member Philharmonic typically includes brass and percussion in performance, she says, the 40-member chamber orchestra showcases more intimate, strings-focused music.

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of such music, “Classically Now,” for the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra’s fall concerts in the capital city this Saturday and Sunday, November 16 and 17, at the Montpelier City Hall Arts Center.

The program opens with “Entr’acte,” a rhythmically exacting work for strings by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Concerto for Violin No. 4 in D major follows; the well-known training piece for young violinists will be conducted from the soloist’s chair by the notable Vermontborn violinist Jesse Irons. The concerts end with another work in D major, Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 93.

Decker is an aficionado of living

composers’ new work. The conductor, who earned her master’s at Illinois State University, is also artistic director and founder of TURNMUSIC, based in Waterbury.

That new-music chamber group regularly tackles experimental work under her baton — though she treats the position casually in performance, walking between musicians as often as conducting them.

Shaw, the lone living composer on this program, trained originally as a violinist and sings with the boundary-breaking vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. Her music typically experiments with unexpected sounds. In “Entr’acte,” between hauntingly melodic phrases of bowed notes, the musicians brush their bows

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across the strings to create a whispering or sighing sound; Decker calls it “ghostlike.” At another point, toneless plucking creates a “ticktock” sound.

Decker has been working with the ensemble on rhythm, honing what she calls the piece’s “organized falling apart of the sound.” “There are these fun moments in the piece where two of the sections go off with their duple rhythms and the other with triple rhythms,” she says. “Then they meet on the next beat, and it feels like such a relief when they come back together.

That’s a lot of counting.”

Jesse Irons

Shaw has played in string quartets, and her compositions are influenced by the canon — an aspect of her work that Strings magazine characterizes as “an unforced affinity for conversing with music from the past.” Her inspiration for “Entr’acte” was a Haydn quartet. That’s one of the reasons Decker chose Haydn to close the concert.

Though Shaw composed the work originally for string quartet in 2011, she adapted it for string orchestra in 2014 for the Boston-based ensemble A Far Cry, of which violinist Irons is a cofounder.

That connection is merely a fun coincidence; Decker says she invited Irons, who lives in Boston, because “He is, in my mind, a no-brainer for a soloist.”

Born in Berlin, Vt., Irons graduated from U-32 High School in 2000. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where he studied with acclaimed violinist Pamela Frank. In addition to playing with A Far Cry, he specializes in historical performances with Boston Baroque and the Handel and Haydn Society, both period-instrument orchestras.

Irons and Decker selected Mozart’s fourth violin concerto together, but, he explains by phone, “It has some personal significance to me: It was the first piece I

worked on with Pamela Frank.” In a blog post, Irons writes that he used to tune his violin to Frank’s recording of the fourth concerto. “I’ve probably listened to [it] 100 times,” he recalls.

The work is also simply “an incredible concerto,” Irons tells Seven Days. “The second movement is gorgeous, and the third is so witty, full of twists and turns and changes of tempo and mood.” In that way, the Mozart pairs well with Shaw’s piece, he adds, because each work “has so many characters.”

“It’s always helpful to listen to a Mozart concerto as if it’s an opera and each new melody is a new character,” he explains.

Irons, who recalls playing with the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra 15 years ago, says he will bring some of his historical training to bear when rehearsing with the group. The violinist has studied the “lineage of teachers and students that maintained the traditional style of Mozart: Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann,” down to a student of Mendelssohn’s whose old age coincided with the dawn of the recording era. Irons will model that documented approach for members of the chamber orchestra.

The violinist will also visit his high school and Montpelier High School with three members of the chamber orchestra to perform selections from the program and discuss it with the students.

Irons was last seen locally playing with the GREEN MOUNTAIN MONTEVERDI ENSEMBLE OF VERMONT. “I’m super delighted to come up to Vermont any time I can,” he enthuses, “especially [to play] Mozart. It’s a little like a Pixar movie — fun for the kids and also fun for the parents.”

Decker says she’s “blown away” by the musicians of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra. They include some players who have been with the orchestra since its founding, professional musicians, a high school senior, “doctors, teachers, a big mix of people,” the conductor says.

“It’s incredible. I’m in awe of these folks,” she adds. “They’re not getting paid; they do it for the love of the music.

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rtistic inspiration can come from pretty much anywhere. Romantic love is basically responsible for the entirety of popular music, give or take, and no small number of history’s most important works of visual art were fueled by religious devotion. But what happens when the spirit that moves someone is, quite literally, a spirit?

That’s the topic of “By Seen and Unseen Hands: Spirit Artists and Their Art in the 21st Century,” a lecture that Champlain College associate professor STEPHEN WEHMEYER presents this Thursday, November 14, at the HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM in Middlebury. The free talk is part of the museum’s ongoing fall exhibit of spiritualist art, “Conjuring the Dead: Spirit Art in the Age of Radical Reform,” which runs through January 11.

Wehmeyer is a folklorist and ethnographer who focuses on vernacular religion and, specifically, the American spiritualist movement. He grew up in western New York close to Lily Dale Assembly, one of the oldest spiritualist communities in the country, and to Hydesville, which he says is considered “the epicenter of the American spiritualist movement.” Now known as Newark, N.Y., the hamlet of Hydesville was home to the Fox sisters, a Stephen Wehmeyer trio of mediums who helped popularize spiritualism in the 1800s. Their supposedly haunted cottage has become a tourist destination.

But Wehmeyer is less interested in ghost stories than in the stories that ghosts themselves might tell through the hands of “spirit artists,” visual artists who claim to channel the spirits of dead people in their work. He is equally fascinated by how those artists work in the modern age.

“What really interests me most about religious belief, or the material culture associated with religious belief and practice, is how it functions in the everyday lives of

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everyday people,” Wehmeyer says. “What is it like to be a spiritualist in the 20th and now in the 21st century?”

The visual arts have been a central component of American spiritualism practically since its inception. In the late 19th century, for example, famous mediums such as the Bangs Sisters traveled the country giving demonstrations in which they created “precipitated” paintings whose imagery seemed to materialize onstage, purportedly through the unseen hands of spirits.

“These pictures were exhibited as proof of the ability of spirits of the dead to influence the world of the living,” Wehmeyer says. Noting the accusations of charlatanry

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directed at certain famed spiritualists, he adds, “Some of this was almost certainly illusion.”

But if only some paintings were illusions, does that mean others were real spirit productions?

“As a folklorist, I’m not a debunker and I’m not an advocate,” Wehmeyer says. “I’m not out to prove or disprove the existence of the spirit world. I’m interested in the human cultures and human societies and individual human stories underlying these practices.”

Those are the stories he focuses on in his talk, which chronicles the research that has taken him all over the country. Wehmeyer has visited spiritualist communities in Los Angeles and Louisiana. He also spent considerable time at Lily Dale, where he observed and interviewed resident spirit artists, including the late medium Patricia Bartlett.

Bartlett worked by doing readings with clients and then channeling spirits of whom she drew pastel portraits. While drawing, she described the spirit and its role in the client’s life, including their past relationship and the relationship she advised the client to have with it moving forward.

“What you ended up with is a piece of art that was understood to be a vision of the unseen,” Wehmeyer says.

He commissioned a couple of portraits from Bartlett and will display them as part of his talk, as well as describe the friendship the two formed.

Spirit art is about “engaging unseen worlds and human beings who have undergone the change called death, or nonhuman beings who exist in the spirit world,” Wehmeyer says.

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he person hailing my cab from the intersection of Burlington’s College and Church streets cut a striking figure. The “Woman in Black” popped to mind, a distaff version of Johnny Cash’s “Man in Black.”

Everything she wore was jet-black, including — most Cash-like — a duster falling just above her high-heeled laced boots. Completing the look was a pair of oversize dark sunglasses and a fluffy woolen cap, setting off a cascade of blond hair.

But, arresting as she was, the woman’s appearance was not what astonished me that sunny autumn afternoon. Rather, it was that someone was actually hailing me! With the advent (not to say infestation) of Uber and Lyft, what was once the most prosaic urban phenomenon — a pedestrian flagging down a taxi — has become, seemingly overnight, a quaint anachronism. Like everything from ordering a pizza to finding your soul mate, summoning a cab is now all about the app.

I noticed a suitcase at the woman’s side and immediately figured airport, which turned out to be correct. Activating the automatic sliding door of my minivan, I pulled alongside her and said, “You could put the bag in the rear seat and sit in the front, if you like.”

She replied, “Yes, that would be great.” The way she pronounced “great” rhymed with “light.” An Aussie, I figured.

Taking off toward the airport, I asked, “So, the Land Down Under, do I got that right?”

“We get that all the time, but I’m

actually from New Zealand,” my customer replied.

“A Kiwi — far out,” I said. “That’s awesome. It’s really crazy, because just earlier today I was fooling around on YouTube and caught this amazing video of a haka being performed at a wedding celebration in New Zealand.”

“I bet I know just the clip you’re talk-

“I work in animation, and I just completed an artist-in-residence program at Northern Vermont University in Johnson.”

Say what? I thought. Then I remembered that Lyndon and Johnson State colleges had merged, and the now-joint institution had assumed the lofty name of “Northern Vermont University.”

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SEEMINGLY OVERNIGHT, A QUAINT ANACHRONISM. ing about,” she said. She had removed her sunglasses, revealing clear and brilliant blue eyes. “If it’s the one you’re referencing, it was of a mixed-ethnic couple, and the bride was Maori. Yes, it was so moving it quickly went viral.”

“You know — and please correct me if I’m wrong about this — but of all the world’s colonized nations, it seems to me that your country has the most harmonious relations between the indigenous peoples and the white descendants of the colonizers. I’m sure things are far from perfect, but is my impression close to accurate?”

“Yeah, you’re probably right about that. It’s taken years and a lot of government action to move in that direction, though. It’s not for me to say as a white person, but I do think racial progress has been made in our country, at least attempting to atone for the horrid past.”

“Talking about horrid pasts — and not-so-great presents, for that matter — what brought you to the good ol’ USA?”

“So, you were the ‘artist,’ I take it?”

My customer chuckled. “It sounds a wee bit pretentious when you say it like that, but yes. I got to work on my stuff and work with the students at the Vermont Studio Center, I guess they call it. It was a great time and very productive for me, though it has left me a bit knackered.”

We finally made it through the UVM zone and were contending with Williston Road traffic. From the frying pan into the fire, as they say. But, with my window half-cracked, the weather was energizing — sunny, brisk and bracing.

Plus, I was getting to hang out with a kreative and komely Kiwi.

“So, do you have a family back in New Zealand — a partner, kids?”

“I don’t have kids, and I recently got out of a long-term relationship, so I’m not looking. We were a couple nearly eight years. It’s going to take me a minute to get over that. Or a few years.”

“Eight years is a long time,” I

commiserated. “You need time to heal emotionally.”

“We were so young when we got together, my first serious boyfriend. He was an artist like me, very talented and attractive, and our life together was so exciting, at least in the beginning. But he didn’t have it in him to really build a future with me, like in his heart and soul, if you know what I mean.”

“I do know what you mean.”

“I think as we get older,” she continued, “you begin to understand who you are as a person, and out of that, what you need in a relationship.”

“That’s a deep insight.”

“Live and learn, right?”

“That’s the idea,” I replied with a chuckle.

Pulling into the airport horseshoe, I asked, “Hey, do you Kiwis eat Vegemite, or is that strictly an Aussie thing?”

“Oh, yes — we love Vegemite. I guess it’s a ghastly taste to foreigners. It’s one of those foods you have to grow up with.”

“Well, cheers to that,” I said, smiling.

“Cheers, mate,” she replied, putting her sunglasses back on as she turned to hop out and face the world. I felt like I had made a sweet connection with a native of the Land to the Right of the Land Down Under. m All these stories are true, though names and locations may be altered to protect privacy.

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Quoting Winter An aficionado of the cold months finds inspiration in literature

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’m going to be blunt about it: People who favor summer, the sunny warmth and smiley ease, are shallow and lame. Sorry, folks, but you are. On the other hand, those of us who feel a deep kinship with winter, who enjoy nothing more than a sideways storm and a subzero night — oh, we are such rich, sophisticated, mystical beings, our souls in perfect alignment with the elemental truth of this great place, Vermont.

Am I full of baloney? Perhaps. What I know for certain is that I am full of snow and wind and cold.

And ermines in clean white coats. And sparkles. And whiskey sipped by the fire. I was born on Christmas and left the hospital in Burlington wearing a soft red stocking. It was fated. Winter flows in my blood and forms the very marrow of my bones.

But what, exactly, does that blood-and-bone talk mean? What does it mean to have a “favorite” season, to feel as if a particular time of year is “my” time of year? And how is it that a certain point on the compass (north) and a certain color palette (grays fading to

dark greens) and a certain variety of weather (frigid plunging toward miserable) can speak to me, can resonate with me?

Over the past decade, I’ve compiled quotes about winter, snow, cold, north and the like — not so much as a way of answering anything, but as a means of investigating, celebrating and unsystematically articulating this season I cherish. My rich, sophisticated, mystical soul enjoys the openness of the perplexity, an openness reminiscent of that exciting moment when you click into Nordic skis at the edge of a vast Addison County field, adjust the balaclava, grip the poles and accept a nor’easter’s invitation.

If you’re one of summer’s wussy devotees, perhaps you don’t do that? No matter. Regardless of what’s flowing through your blood and forming the very marrow of your bones, I hope that these quotes — gleaned from novels, poems and essays; from naturalists, adventurers and religious pilgrims — can hint at the inexhaustible wonder of a season that you really must learn to love. Really, folks, you must!

Winter Preview Rasmussen drew from the Inuit intimate details that would never have been shared with strangers. When he mentioned that the Inuits’ “gums were always dry with smiling,” one elder from the northwestern rim of Hudson Bay commented: “Oh! You strangers only see us happy and free of care. But if you knew the horrors we often have to live through, you would understand, too, why we are so fond of laughing, why we love food and song and dance.

There is not one amongst us but has experienced a winter of bad hunting, when many starved to death in front of our eye.”

Stephen Bown, White Eskimo: Knud Rasmussen’s Fearless Journey Into the Heart of the Arctic

The earth, at its core, is winter; the universe is winter. Life is only something taken for a moment, rubbed warm and held back from the chill …

Winter waits and finds all life. In the end, each of us stares through the dark eyes of winter. We all have winter in our veins.

Richard Nelson, The Island Within

Current global warming aside, the earth has been in a long-term cooling phase with temperatures creeping downward for about sixty million years — likely due to a period of extensive mountain building, which naturally reduced atmospheric CO2, removing insulation from the skies. Global warming may be the issue for the moment, but the bigger, multimillionyear trend is toward a cooler planet.

Antarctica iced over about thirty-five million years ago, and ever since then extended ice ages have become almost commonplace, growing into a discreet rhythm of rise and fall over the last five million years. In that time, even during interglacials, ice has always remained. There has been a cold heart waiting to start up again.

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There I saw myself with someone, who was not identifiable, going into an endless snow plain. It was not the size of the landscape, nor the whiteness, which terrified me. Rather it was the inner emptiness, the forlornness, the hopelessness of there being no path.

Never before had I experienced futility so vehemently.

Reinhold Messner, Antarctica: Both Heaven and Hell

I have often been short of food and drink and have worn threadbare clothing in winter. And yet I have laughed while carrying water and sung while hauling firewood.

T’ao Yuan-ming, quoted in Bill Porter’s Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

The deeper into the snowy mountains I go, the happier I am. The Japanese word oku means not only “north” but also “deep,” “inner,” “the heart of the mountain,” “to penetrate to the depth of something or someone,” “the bottom of one’s heart” and “the end of one’s mind.”

Gretel Ehrlich, The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle, quoted in Sally Coulthard’s The Little Book Of Snow

How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand a man who’s cold?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The mountains to the south stood blackly against a violet sky. The snow on the north slopes so pale. Like spaces left for messages.

Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

Deep as the snow is, Let me go as far as I can Till I stumble and fall, Viewing the white landscape Matsuo Basho, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

To prosper above the Arctic Circle, a person needed to adopt a bit of the grizzly bear’s metabolism, regulating sleep and wakefulness by the sun, rather than the clock.

Jim Nollman, The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventures With Art, Music, and Whales in the Far North

In Teddy Blue’s book We Pointed Them North there is an ignorant young cowboy who thought that north was a place, as Dodge City was a place.

The other cowboys didn’t disabuse him of this (to them) hilarious error.

The ignorant cowboy believed that if one just kept going up the rivers, someday one would arrive at the place called North.

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White is not the absence of color.

It is the fullness of light.

John Luther Adams, Winter Music: Composing the North

What does a person do in a place like this, so far away and alone? For one thing, he watches the weather — the stars, the snow, and the fire. These are the books he reads most of all.

And everything that he does, from bringing in firewood and buckets of snow, to carrying the waste water back outdoors, requires that he stand in the open, away from his walls, out of his man-written books and his dreaming head for a while. As I stand here, refreshed by the stillness and closeness of the night, I think it is a good way to live.

John Haines, The Stars, The Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness

As the plane descended to Kotzebue, I could not believe how little was there; all the words of man seemed as if they could be erased into the surrounding whiteness with one sweep of a hand. I asked Roy Toruk, “Does it ever get depressing, living here?” With a big smile, as if bragging of a remarkable local resource, he said, “It — sure — does!”

Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia

There is a cleanliness, a breadth and sweep and strength in the north, a purifying realization that one is living close to the fundamental elements of life. Yes, the north has a spell.

Eric Sevareid, Canoeing With the Cree

Apparently, just before entering the winter den, bears may eat a large quantity of moss, which so binds up their digestive system that it blocks defecation through the long winter sleep.

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We are partly tuber, partly bear. Inside our warmth we fold ourselves in the dark and its cold — around us, outside us, safely away from us; we tuck ourselves up in the long sleep and comfort of cold’s opposite, warming ourselves by thought of cold, lighting ourselves by darkness’s idea.

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In January, the new snow has changed the woods so that he does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest, he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.

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They did not travel in any kind of formation, or with any particular plan, but they all knew how to decipher winter sign — how, as Russian hunters say, to “read the White Book.”

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The emptiness and silence of snow mountains quickly bring about those states of consciousness that occur in the mind-emptying of meditation.

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The cold months settle into our state as a gradual clarification. Winter holds up objects in high relief — boulders sealed in globes of ice, strawberry-colored blades of grass twisted through the frozen lacework at a pond’s edge — for our most careful regard. It invites us to be still and cool, to let one curve, one color truly enter the mind.

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This land is a place of all seasons, for even in winter there is the promise of spring, and in spring, the foretaste of summer. The white of snow becomes the white of summer clouds; the resonant green of spruce becomes the green head of drake mallard; the gray of rock and lichen endures in the gray of lowering winter skies; the same orange-red of Indian paintbrush bars the blackbird’s wing and stains the western tanager’s head. Here part of each season is contained in every other.

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Yukimaroge is not an ordinary snowball, which is yukidama in Japanese; it is, rather, a great ball of snow, made by rolling and pushing.

Japanese people are very fond of making such giant snowballs, and there are several haiku on the subject in Japanese literature.

Robert Aitken, A Zen Wave: Basho’s Haiku and Zen

In the dark winter night a story well told may hasten the coming of spring.

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crawled on the inside of the pantry door in my mother and stepfather’s house are lines and dates marking their grandchildren’s heights over the years. My twin daughters’ growth is recorded there alongside my nephews’ and nieces’. My parents have been living in that place long enough now that I’m starting to ponder what to do with that door when they eventually move out. I mean, obviously I’m going to preserve the “How tall am I?” door.

Here in my own home, our records are extensive and mostly digital — more family photographs and videos than we’ll ever find the time to peruse. When one of my daughters brings home a skillfully rendered piece of original art, I usually photograph or scan it. Heaven forbid we lose a record of it!

I have a difficult time letting go of artifacts that record my family’s existence.

At the risk of awkward self-disclosure, I’ll share that my own childhood was marked by a sense that I wasn’t a kid worth keeping track of. My father took off when I was about my daughters’ current age, 9, and he never really looked back. Boo-hoo.

So, when I became a father, I decided that I’d try to do things for my kids that my father never did for me. When my daughters could finally walk and run, building a backyard skating rink seemed like a good idea. I’ve built a rink for them every winter since.

The rink has become, like that pantry door at my mother’s house, a way to measure their growth. I usually shoot two videos of the rink each season: one on inaugural skating day and one on the day they destroy the rink by boot-stomping it into a pond full of ice fragments.

To be honest, though, those documents don’t matter as much to me as the undocumented moments we live out on the ice over the winter: the skating parties with other kids; the brief, impromptu skates after dinner and before bed; the times when my daughters, like kids everywhere, turn a simple thing, a sheet of ice, into part of a new, original game.

After the kids have left the ice, I’m left with reflections on my own childhood — happy memories in which rinks factor prominently. Through my backyard rink looking glass, I can still see the seemingly ubiquitous, naturally occurring “rinks”

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that used to fill the South Burlington farm pastures between the condominium complex where I grew up and the next one over. That’s what life was like on the condo frontier. Those pastures are now other condo complexes.

My fourth-grade pal Uli and I shoveled off a serviceable rink in the courtyard of our complex where the water didn’t drain properly. We made hockey goals out of milk cans — the tall kind that farmers use, because a condo complex that abuts a farm field is bound to have a few of these lying around.

My older brother, Lee, was especially resourceful at finding ice. Six years my

senior, he was playing high school hockey when I was still in elementary school.

To his great credit, he didn’t think it was poor role modeling to show me how to “rink rat,” as he put it. This entailed arriving at the University of Vermont’s Gutterson Fieldhouse between hockey team practices and public skating sessions, lacing up our skates in an inconspicuous location, clambering over the boards with stick and puck, and getting in a little practice before someone chased us off.

Not that I’m condoning such behavior.

Lee also wasn’t hesitant to bring me along to play hockey on his friends’ backyard skating rinks, which, you’ve got to admit,

is a pretty decent thing for an older brother to do.

I never became much of a hockey player myself, but my rink time taught me the trick to making it through a Vermont winter: Find a way to turn to one’s advantage the ice, snow and darkness that are otherwise such a pain in the ass. Having a backyard ice rink compels me not just to watch the weather forecast but to look forward to cold temperatures.

A night in the teens or twenties means that I can resurface the rink with a garden hose in relative comfort, the physical exertion tempering the chill. If the thermometer is going to dip below zero, I may not want to be running around the backyard with a hose. But I can splash a few buckets of water on the rink and watch it spread to form a smooth, glass-like surface.

When there’s snow in the forecast, everything changes.

I’ll need to make time to shovel the rink as soon as I can and put down another layer of water to smooth out the bumps left behind. If there’s snow and above-freezing temperatures, I’ve got trouble. The snow will melt the top layer of ice, making it impossible to shovel without leaving boot prints. No one wants to skate over boot prints. So I wait for the temperature to fall.

Maintaining my rink, while tedious at times, cultivates an appreciation for nature’s immutable power. The success of my rink depends on letting water do its thing while containing it within the boards. You can’t trick water into doing something it doesn’t want to do. And if you give it room to run — even a pinhole in the rink plastic that covers the ground — it will leave you high and dry.

For all the meteorological vigilance that my backyard rink requires, it also offers moments of quiet contemplation.

Of a winter’s night, in the glow of the floodlights on the ice, I’ve pushed a shovel back and forth, back and forth, and found the routine calming. Likewise, flooding the rink with the hose — a few moments in this spot, a few moments in that spot. Running the “Zamboni” — which is to say, sloshing a mop bucket full of hot water across the rink — can also be relaxing.

For all the nostalgic attachments I have to my backyard skating rink, the fact that I have a backyard at all underscores the

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The joy I experience in tending to my rink takes place against a cold, inhospitable backdrop.

The rink is also a kind of portal connecting an emotionally complicated childhood with a hopeful future. I hope that our backyard rink provides durable, positive childhood memories to my daughters — and that those memories are a comfort to them when they need comfort on their life journeys. I hope that winter in Vermont will always be snowy and cold.

I fear that time is running out on both of these hopes, though. The planet’s health is in jeopardy. And my daughters are getting older — old enough to find their very own backyard rink not such a big deal.

Still, I’m making another rink this year. If no one else wants to skate, I’ll go out there alone. Weather permitting, of course.

Was I bummed to see the snow flying last week? I most certainly was not.

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ICE TIME If you’re up for making a backyard ice rink, you have two choices: You can do it the right way, or you can do it my way. The right way might entail visiting websites dedicated to backyard ice rink construction. Be careful: The backyard rink community is a bit of a cult — a benevolent one, but one that could draw you into extreme backyard rink practices, such as dedicating inordinate time to fabricating clever backyard versions of the patented Zamboni ice resurfacer.

Very fun. Just not my thing. What is my thing is a simple backyard ice rink made from four essential ingredients: wooden boards, stakes, clear plastic sheeting and water.

For my own detailed rink recipe, see the version of this story at sevendaysvt.com. If you want help with your backyard rink, send me an email or find me on Facebook or Twitter (@erikee). If you scroll through either social media feed, you’ll see that I’m not a huge fan of the current U.S. president — even though he once financed an ice rink in New York City.

My Facebook feed includes some videos I’ve posted of my kids’ ritual first skates and rink destructions. If you have your own tips on how to make a backyard rink, feel free to leave them in the comments section of this article or on my social media.

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or more than a decade now, Jesse Loomis has been carving out a niche — as well as wide, arcing swaths of powder — on mountains all across North America.

Loomis’ handmade wooden PowderJet Snowboards have attained something of a cult following, particularly among backcountry enthusiasts, owing to their simple and customizable design, vintage feel, and, of course, performance in powder and glades.

Loomis, 46, founded the company in 2009 in the tiny southern Vermont town of Rupert. After a brief stint in Kittery, Maine, that ended in 2016, Loomis and his family are back in the Green Mountains.

From his small workshop in the garage of his Peru home, he now cranks out between 50 and 100 snowboards per year.

That number doesn’t include the snowboards others make for themselves under his tutelage. Lately, Loomis has found another niche within his niche.

For the past five years, he’s been running build-your-own classes in his shop and all over the U.S., from New York City to Mammoth Mountain, Calif.

Students pay about $900 — or half the cost of some custom boards — to design and build their own PowderJets roughly from start to finish over the two-day intensive.

Loomis’ next class runs Saturday and Sunday, November 30 and December 1, at Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg.

Snowboard-building tutorials abound on YouTube, and plenty of snowboard companies offer customers the option of designing and customizing their boards before manufacture. But Loomis believes his DIY snowboard classes, in which students actually construct boards themselves, are the first of their kind in the country.

Indeed, a quick search for build-yourown snowboard classes turned up only one other result: Douk Snowboards in the United Kingdom. (Local two-plankers, however, can build their own skis with Lars Whitman of Silo Skis in Richmond.)

“Some people make it as a specialty board, just because they want to make a weird board and see what happens,” Loomis says of his students, most of whom are experienced snowboarders specifically seeking boards to ride in powder or in the backcountry. Others might be fellow woodworkers looking to mess around with different shapes and designs.

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“But some people make it as their primary board, too, and ride them all the time,” continues Loomis, a carpenter by trade. “I certainly do.”

Before each class, Loomis corresponds with students by email to get a basic idea of the kind of board they want to make. They can choose from a wide variety of nose and tail designs, binding setups, widths, lengths, and flexes based on the kind of riding they do.

Once they’ve arrived at a shape and design, Loomis constructs a “blank” — basically, the mold of a snowboard. He uses the hydraulic press at his shop to fuse together four rectangular layers of one-sixteenth-inch poplar sheets, two layers of fiberglass, a layer of polyethylene (P-Tex) and eco-friendly compression molding resin. (Loomis notes that one of his goals with PowderJet is to make the greenest snowboard possible.)

The first step for students is cutting the board out of the blank with a jigsaw.

After that, they sand and bevel the vertical edges. Most of the first day, students focus on cutting, sanding and shaping, Loomis says. Day two consists of finishing, staining and adding personalized design elements — oh, and more sanding.

“It’s a lot of sanding,” Loomis concedes while running his hand along a board in mid-construction in his shop.

The sanding is also usually the trickiest part of the process for students, since that’s how they fine-tune the board’s shape.

Getting the nose just right, for example, is often a struggle.

“Making this perfectly round and symmetrical is a lot more difficult than you would think,” Loomis advises.

“It ’s a lot of standing back and eyeballing. I definitely promote the art of eyeballing.”

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But for Loomis, the beauty of PowderJet lies in simplicity.

“That was the original idea of PowderJet: to make it as simple as possible,” he says. “It doesn’t need to be perfect.” He adds: “Performance-wise, they are on par with any high-tech board.”

Elizabeth Horan took Loomis’ class in October at Mammoth Mountain in California. The Huntington Beach, Calif., resident built a splitboard — a snowboard that’s made to split into skis and be fitted with skins for accessing backcountry terrain.

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Team O’Neil Rally School teaches drivers to get a grip on winter roads

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hen the U.S. military’s special forces hit the roads of Iraq, Afghanistan and other global hot spots, their drivers need to know how to elude attackers and keep their vehicles moving through sand, dirt, mud and gravel. Many of those military personnel learned such driving skills at a rally racing school in northern New Hampshire. There, civilian motorists can learn many of the same life-saving driving techniques, which are useful when confronting a different threat: harsh winter road conditions in New England.

Since 1997, Team O’Neil Rally School, in Dalton, N.H., has run its Winter Driving School, which trains motorists in skid control, accident avoidance, and safe vehicle handling on snow, sleet and ice.

The one-day course, which costs $499, is taught by the same driving instructors who train professional race-car drivers, federal law enforcement agents, military personnel and private bodyguards.

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dirt road in the mountainous Great North Woods region of New Hampshire, about a two-hour drive from Burlington. On the front gate, a sign reads “Danger: If this gate is closed, do not enter. High-speed vehicle traffic and high-power rifle range.”

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Despite the ominous warning — the expansive wooded property hosts longdistance precision shooting tournaments — members of Team O’Neil are a friendly and welcoming bunch who were happy to show a visiting reporter around.

Karl Stone, Team O’Neil’s marketing manager, started the tour at the automotive

shop, where the walls are lined with motorsport-themed sponsorship banners — Koni shock absorbers, Yokohama tires, Optima batteries, Hawk Performance brakes. Upstairs, a second-floor classroom is where instructors teach the first hour of the winter driving course.

However, students don’t spend much time indoors, Stone emphasized. Team O’Neil has more than six miles of private dirt roads that snake through 583 acres of rugged and wooded terrain, where most of the seven-hour course takes place.

Team O’Neil got its name from its founder, Tim O’Neil, a five-time U.S. and North American rally champion who, from the 1980s to early 2000s, drove for teams sponsored by Volkswagen, Mitsubishi and the Air Force Reserve. Rally racing, aka rallying, is a timed, point-to-point stage race on dirt, snow, gravel, mud and asphalt that features road obstacles such as water crossings, hills, curves, jumps and dips. Though rally is considered a niche motorsport in the United States, elsewhere in the world, especially in Scandinavia, it’s

more popular than Grand Prix motor racing or NASCAR stock car racing.

Team O’Neil, which has 25 full-time employees, including nine year-round instructors, derives about half of its business from teaching rally racing to motorsport enthusiasts, such as fans of desert truck racing and drift racing, Stone said. The remainder comes largely from government contracts with the military and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as from private security firms. Only 40 percent of Team O’Neil’s clients live within driving distance of the school, Stone noted; the others come from around the country or overseas for weeklong training sessions.

Though the winter driving course represents only a small fraction of Team O’Neil’s income, it’s actually how the school got its start, explained Chris Cyr, the company’s CEO and now majority owner. In the 1990s, Tim O’Neil was hired by a Chevrolet dealership in nearby Littleton, N.H., to provide free winter driving lessons to customers who bought a

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new Chevy car or truck. O’Neil purchased an old gravel pit to teach the class, and then expanded into teaching rally racing and, later, defensive and offensive driving techniques to military and police.

Many of the skills and techniques taught in rally racing and security work are applicable to winter driving, such as skid control on loose and slippery road surfaces. The most notable difference, Stone said, is that in rally and security driving courses, students learn on Team O’Neil’s fleet of more than 70 standardtransmission vehicles, which include Ford Fiestas and Mustangs, Subaru Imprezas, BMW E30s and E46s, and Jeep Cherokees.

By contrast, winter driving students learn on their own vehicles — be they front-, rear- or all-wheel drive — so that they experience how it handles. This way, when a moose jumps into the road or another driver cuts you off in traffic, Stone said, “You’ve gotten comfortable in the car you’re in.”

Another big difference: The winter driving course is always taught on snowcovered roads, a condition that’s common at Team O’Neil’s property, which averages about 100 inches of snowfall annually. In fact, if it hasn’t snowed in the days just before the course, Stone noted, Team O’Neil’s crews plow their snowbanks into the roads to make them messier.

At the winter driving course’s one-hour classroom session, Stone explained, students learn about the driving techniques they will practice outdoors and the essential supplies they should keep in the car in winter (see sidebar). Instructors also cover some basic automotive mechanics.

Next, two students are paired with one instructor, who brings them to one of the property’s two skid pads. There, students drive their vehicles in a 300-foot-diameter circle, then apply the brakes until the vehicle’s back end starts sliding.

“What most people are going to do [when] they start skidding is, they lock up the brakes and they keep looking at either the snowbank or the tree that they’re about to hit,” Stone said. “And then, they hit it.”

On the skid pad, students learn to counter steer, or turn into the skid, while keeping their eyes focused on where they want the vehicle to go. This technique brings the tires back into alignment with the car’s trajectory.

Next, students move on to a slalom course, where they navigate a line of cones on a stretch of road about the length of

The professional driving instructors at Team O’Neil Rally School are happy to share the winter driving advice they give to paying clients. In fact, they consider it a public service to help keep all motorists safe. Here are some of their top recommendations.

vehicles equipped with a traction-control button — typically, it’s indicated by a car with squiggly lines below it — practice driving with traction control turned on and off to see how differently the vehicle handles in the two modes.

INVEST IN WINTER TIRES. Team O’Neil CEO Chris Cyr likens an all-season tire to a houseboat: It serves both purposes adequately, but it’s neither an excellent house nor an excellent boat. In fact, Team O’Neill now asks all Winter Driving School students to have winter tires installed on their vehicle before they arrive. (You may not be able to reach the school without them.) And for those on a limited budget who must choose between buying snow tires and taking the course, Cyr says, “Just go buy the tires, and don’t come to us.”

PRIORITIZE YOUR MANEUVERS. Because tires have limited grip in slippery road conditions, you run the risk of losing traction and sliding out of control when you ask them to do too much simultaneously. When traction is limited, try to separate your accelerating, steering and braking — do only one of these actions at a time. Accelerate and brake in a straight line whenever possible; maintain a steady speed while steering around a corner.

BE PREPARED FOR WINTER DRIVING.

Be sure that all parts of your vehicle are in working order before the snow flies. Invest in new wiper blades, fill the windshield washer fluid reservoir and check that your battery holds a charge.

Keep an emergency kit in your vehicle that includes spare gloves, a hat, warm clothes, a small shovel, jumper cables, flares and a tow strap.

TEST THE ROAD CONDITIONS, AND YOUR VEHICLE, AFTER THE FIRST SNOWFALL. “I’ve

been driving on pavement for six months, and my brain is wired to that,” Cyr said. “Now I’ve got to get used to slippery surfaces again.” Before facing a real-world winter driving challenge, he recommends finding a safe, open and unobstructed spot — an empty parking lot or lightly used road — and firmly applying your brakes and making hard turns. Doing this early in the winter will remind you of how your vehicle handles in wet or snowy conditions and how to safely compensate for those reactions. For

several football fields. After that, students learn accident-avoidance techniques such as how to stop suddenly on a slippery road.

For experienced drivers who learned to drive in winter weather, many of these skills are second nature — but not all.

For example, counter steering is often taught in drivers’ education classes. A less commonly taught skill is how to recover from that skid without overcorrecting and fishtailing, Stone said. Team O’Neil’s instructors teach drivers when to, say, lift their foot lightly off the brake or when to hit the gas; the latter shifts the weight of the vehicle toward the rear and helps the driver regain control.

Because students learn and practice these techniques on a wide-open and forgiving course, where they’re never

LOOK IN THE DIRECTION YOU WANT YOUR VEHICLE TO GO. When confronted

with an unexpected slide or skid, drivers often fixate on an object on the side of the road — then crash into it. When your vehicle starts to skid, remain calm and focus your eyes on where you want the vehicle to go. Then concentrate on steering into the skid and cautiously accelerating and braking.

MAINTAIN LONGER DISTANCES BETWEEN VEHICLES, AND REDUCE YOUR SPEED. In winter weather, many motorists

assume that they can drive at the same speeds and distances from other vehicles as they do on dry pavement. Winter tires, all-wheel drive, antilock braking systems, traction control and other safety features don’t give you carte blanche to drive too close or too quickly. Drivers of trucks and SUVs, in particular, be mindful that your higher position above the road gives you a longer line of sight, but it also makes you feel as though you’re moving more slowly than you actually are. And because taller vehicles have a higher center of gravity, they’re more prone to roll in a crash. So slow down and keep your distance.

moving faster than 30 miles per hour, there are few consequences for mistakes.

The biggest object they’re likely to hit is a snowbank.

“We’re not letting you cut loose and just do doughnuts out there,” Stone said. “The focus is on keeping you safer and more comfortable when you do get into a skid.”

Another critical component of the Winter Driving School, Stone said, is showing drivers how the accidentprevention technology built into modern vehicles, such as antilock brake systems and traction control, can sometimes hinder winter driving and give drivers a false sense of security. Though “ABS kicks ass on dry pavement,” he said, spinning one’s wheels on a snow-covered road can actually help dig through layers of snow

to reach the firmer road surface beneath.

For this reason, students whose vehicles can switch off their traction control are encouraged to practice using both modes.

Who can benefit from Team O’Neil’s Winter Driving School? The course, which can accommodate up to 12 students at a time, typically attracts recent transplants to New England from warmer regions, Stone said, as well as people with limited winter driving experience and those who get nervous or panicky when encountering snow or ice. But the course is open to drivers of all abilities, including those who don’t yet have a driver’s license.

As Cyr pointed out, some families worry that if they teach their kids these winter driving maneuvers, their teen will start skidding around on the roads deliberately. While some teens may do that, he conceded, they probably would have done so anyway. “In our opinion and experience, a trained teen is a safer teen,” he said.

Alas, the Winter Driving School doesn’t cover the most advanced (read: adrenalinejunky) driving skills that Team O’Neil teaches to its military and law enforcement clients. These “James Bond maneuvers,” as Cyr called them, include ramming and pursuit-intervention techniques, “driver down” scenarios (in which a passenger takes the wheel from an incapacitated driver), and J turns, that staple of actionadventure movies whereby a driver speeds the car in reverse, then suddenly swings the front end around 180 degrees and continues driving, facing forward, in the same direction.

To learn those advanced skills, Cyr noted, clients must first undergo a stringent background check to vet them for criminal or terrorist activity. As he explained, “We don’t want to [offer] these skills to people who might use them against … our own forces.”

Which is not to suggest that the Winter Driving School isn’t fun. In essence, the course is all about deliberately losing control of one’s car or truck and then learning how to recover quickly — without crashing into a tree or landing in a ditch.

“This is not a place where you come to joyride,” Stone added. “But if you want to get better and really learn to drive, we can check that box.”

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udiences never tire of laughing at people sillier than themselves, and The Sleepover — A Comedy of Marriage offers a full dozen fools in love.

Local playwright Carole Vasta Folley directs her own script, and 12 actors fill the stage as delightfully miscommunicating couples. The Girls Nite Out Productions show perfectly fits the company’s mission of providing stage roles for women and showcasing women playwrights; the laughs are a bonus.

The setting is a two-day marriage retreat, run by couples counselors Mark and Susie. It’s their first try at this therapeutic form, and it strains their own marriage before the weekend is over. Five couples have enrolled, each lugging marital problems heavier than the bags they drop at a ski lodge rented in the off-season.

As a playwright, Vasta Folley overstuffs the show with people, and she arguably could have developed the comedy and characters more fully with four couples instead of five. But, as a director, she keeps the goofy, emotional bunch moving around the stage as they listen, blame, overshare and try the odd trust exercise.

The dialogue crackles, and the show’s comic energy emerges from a nicely blended chorus of aggrieved voices.

Each couple’s marriage is missing something, and even though the retreat facilitators bungle every communication gimmick they introduce, these hapless souls all bicker long enough to get a glimpse of what could keep their love alive.

The first participants to arrive, Smith and Jan, become the energizers of the play. They shimmy in, decked in beads, scarves and yoga pants, and never stop stirring the action.

They’re marriage-retreat aficionados who’ve discovered that group therapy puts them in just the mood for sex.

Smith, played by the utterly hilarious Patrick Clow, loves being the center of attention. Jennifer Brownell makes Jan an up-for-anything earth child who alternates between being Smith’s enabler and his pixie-ish foil.

Scott and Julie check in next. He’s hopeful; she’s here under protest. That’s their marriage in a nutshell. Scott is too nervous and too nice, and Julie doesn’t mind ridiculing him by filling out his name tag as “Scoot.” In the yearbook, they’d be the couple most likely to blow the trust fall. David Belvedere turns on doe eyes to play the sweet Scott; as Julie, Carly Bennett counters them with a steely gaze and sharp wit.

Wayne and Cybil are thoroughly burnt out. They’ve been married too long to remember the spark that brought them together, and now they needle each other with practiced precision. Bob Martin plays Wayne as a tired man only going through the motions but gives him depth enough to transform. As Cybil, Nan Murat shows nuance as the character grows, moving from world-weary wine guzzler to a wife who sees her husband with fresh eyes.

Young Dave and Rosemarie are newlyweds, arriving at the retreat direct from their childish honeymoon at a Harry Potter theme park. Vasta Folley can’t quite settle on their

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problem, writing them as both sexually naïve and too randy to keep their hands off each other. If marriage is a lifetime commitment, these two don’t know each other well enough to make it. Noah Detzer is charmingly boyish as Dave, and Georgia Malone-Wolfsun makes Rosemarie comically innocent, with enough spirit to learn how to grow up.

Fiftysomething Barbara and Jesse have grown apart thanks to Barbara’s laser focus on her career and investment portfolio. Barbara is accustomed to luxury, and she’s far out of her element at a rustic lodge without cell service.

Jesse resorts to trickery to fix their relationship, but the playwright barely has time for their story. Shannon Lowe is a sympathetic Jesse and Jo Sabel Courtney is a hard-charging Barbara who comes into her own when helping Rosemarie.

A couple themselves, facilitators Mark and Susie pride themselves on having “the marriage that works.” But even as they coo about how well they get along, they disagree on how to run the retreat. Then Mark finds himself in a small world when he welcomes Julie to the gathering. Back in college, they were engaged, and he’s still stricken that she broke up with him. Susie is overwhelmed by a flash flood of jealousy when she discovers that Mark referred to Julie by the same pet name he now uses for her.

Jon van Luling portrays Mark as a man huffing and puffing to make it through the weekend. His comic instincts are good, but he can overplay when he goes all out for a laugh.

As Susie, Hannah Normandeau sets her jaw and walks with fierce determination when trying to hold her own against Mark. Their marriage needs more fixing than the playwright has time for, but the trope of married marriage counselors is clever.

Set designer Ann Vivian and set decorators Betsy Conlon and Margaret Boylan create a nicely detailed ski lodge with a rumpus-room feel. A moose head with a busted antler, slammable doors and two big, comfy couches get all the couples in the mood to confess, complain and counterattack.

Costume designer Josephine Caycedo tells the story of each character in clothes that reveal neat little details, from Mark’s fussy plaid bow tie to Wayne and Cybil’s preference for gloomy maroon to the letting-it-all-hang-out comfort clothes of Smith and Jan. Vasta Folley won the 2015 Vermont Playwrights Award for the script. The concept is charming even if much of the comedy repeats the same note of mates who can’t quite communicate, whether they slip on blindfolds or sit kneeto-knee to talk. All 12 actors are onstage for much of the show, and they deliver the snappy dialogue as well-timed repartee. It’s an evening of funny foolishness, delivered with appealing energy. m Contact: alex@sevendaysvt.com

INFO The Sleepover — A Comedy of Marriage, written and directed

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special and alluring about eating near a warm fire. Area restaurants have gas fireplaces and even TV screens broadcasting a blaze, but a wood-burning fireplace is worth seeking out.

Seven Days checked out seven places to dine and drink by a fireplace. We ate oysters and chicken wings, s’mores and a spiked root beer float. Our fireside meals moved from breakfast to an after-dinner cocktail, but not one included meatballs.

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rey Aiken is the fire starter and tender at Philo Ridge Farm in Charlotte, where he builds a blaze every morning in the fireplace of the common room that adjoins the farm market.

Aiken, 47, uses a mix of hardwoods — oak, maple and ash — that come to the farm in 16-foot logs. He cuts the logs into 23-inch sections, then splits the lengths into wedges that dry for at least two years. The aged wood, Aiken said, produces a cleaner burn and minimizes the amount of creosote that can build up in the chimney.

Aiken likes a low-wind (or no-wind) morning for starting a fire, which he builds from balled-up newspaper, kindling, and three or four logs.

The lit newspaper ignites the kindling, which in turn fires the logs. The fireplace at Philo Ridge burns about seven logs an hour, he said.

“I find that the fire draws people together,” Aiken continued. “It provides warmth and aesthetics and creates great conversation. I like the noise and the crackling of the fire. And it creates an aroma in the room.”

Last week, morning story time at the fireplace drew babies, kids, parents and a grandmother. “It’s cozy,” said Erin Just of Charlotte, who sat by the fire with her 3-month-old twins. “And it’s a fire I don’t have to build.”

Asher Kent, 5, of Charlotte, shared a fireside chair with his sister and listened to storybooks being read aloud.

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After snacking on a piece of pound cake, he told Seven Days that if he could eat one thing by a fireplace, it would be meatballs.

“They’re hot,” Asher said. “Like a fireplace.”

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On a recent morning, Paul Sayler, brewmaster at Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, finished his breakfast at the Great Northern — a bowl of granola, yogurt, fruit and honey — and offered a recommendation for my morning meal.

Egg and cheese on a biscuit with bacon, Sayler, 57, suggested. “I’ve eaten way too many of them,” he said with a laugh. (This could explain his granola deviation.)

Before heading back to the brewery that’s next door to the Great Northern, Sayler also advised me on condiments for the sandwich, recommending a two-sauce combo of Sriracha and Cholula Hot Sauce.

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The market occupies the first floor of the Stone Mill, an 1840 building located at 3 Mill Street that was redeveloped earlier this year by Community Barn Ventures partners Mary Cullinane and Stacey Rainey.

The mixed-use, multistory building is anchored by the fourth location of the MAD TACO on the ground floor, in the former home of the Storm Café. Above the Public Market is the Stone Mill @ Work, a coworking space that opened on November 1.

General membership in the space is almost full, according to the business partners. The top floors of the historic stone building offer lodging designed by Burlingtonbased Slate, which can now be reserved on Airbnb.

The roughly 2,000-square-foot

2019 | NOV 16 23 | DEC 7 14 21 2020 | JAN 11 | FEB 8 | MAR 14 | APR 11 first-floor market includes DEDALUS WINE AND CHEESE, stylish home wares from Slate, the Vermont Book Shop, sandwiches from ARCADIAN 2GO, gifts and products curated by Cullinane and Rainey for the Stone Mill Collection, and pastries and a rotating guestroaster coffee program at LOST MONARCH COFFEE. “This weekend represented our best intentions for the project,” Cullinane told Seven Days. “People were coming into the space, enjoying what it had to offer and enjoying each other.”

Other than Lost Monarch — which is the second location of Middlebury’s ROYAL OAK COFFEE and operates its café separately within the market space — the market retailers share staffing and one checkout area. “This arrangement made the opportunity to expand easier for our retailers, and so far it’s worked out really well,” Rainey said.

During the grand opening, customers could explore the entire building. “It was fun to see folks connect and journey

through the space, picking up a bottle of wine to take home and a book to read on a snowy evening,” Cullinane said.

Deciding which vendors would occupy the space was easy for the business partners, who described their vision for the market as a place where they’d want to hang out. They hope the Stone Mill will be a gathering space with elements that appeal to the entire Middlebury community.

Beyond that, they said, each of the vendors fits the first principle of their business: to work with great people. “These retailers are incredible at their craft, and they treat customer service as a priority,” Cullinane said.

“There’s great simpatico between what’s being offered in the market.”

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the gray November morning, and imagined flames in place of the faded flowers and gourds that decorated the hearth.

This imagining was easy to do, as I’ve sat by the fireplace at the Great Northern on several occasions when logs were aflame. The stone structure, with a mantelpiece made from repurposed telephone poles, anchors an area of the dining room that Sayler called the “conversation pit.”

The space features a supersize inglenook and a pergola with a chevron design. (If there’s no fire to gaze at, look up.) A set of small tables is arrayed before the hearth, each one just the right size for a breakfast sandwich, a latte, a bottle of water and a table setting. Mine was dead center, facing the fireplace.

The conversation pit was quiet that morning, which suited me fine. I sipped my latte and listened to Wilco until my sandwich was served. The bacon fell over the edge of the flaky biscuit; the egg, capped by melted cheese, held its form. I lingered over another cup of coffee.

Last Thursday, two days after my breakfast, the Great Northern lit its first fire of the season. During winter and its approach, the South End fireplace can be aglow all the way from morning coffee through after-dinner drinks. It’s worthy of a place named after the majestic rustic lodge in the TV show “Twin Peaks.”

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Tourterelle 3629 Ethan Allen Highway, New Haven, 453-6309, tourterellevermont.com

The list of must-haves for a Vermont inn is pretty well established at this point: It should be cozy, inviting and rustic, with a scattering of antiques and a crackling fireplace emitting a warm, welcoming glow.

Tourterelle, the hilltop inn and restaurant on Route 7 in New Haven, checks all the boxes. Beyond that list, the atmosphere — and the menu — has a French accent, inspired by co-owner Christine Snell’s childhood in Brittany. Chef and co-owner (and Christine’s husband) Bill Snell has crafted a menu of classic French dishes using ingredients sourced from area farms, including pork from Ferrisburgh in the pâté and beef from Boyden Farm for the steak frites.

When I saw that Tourterelle offers a $1 oyster night every Wednesday, I figured it would be a safe bet given the Breton connection. Bivalves are ubiquitous in the coastal region of France, and they’re a great way to set the mood for a classic French meal.

Tourterelle serves Malpeque oysters, sourced from Malpeque Bay in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Malpeques are among the most common oysters at restaurants and raw bars; they won the top prize at the World’s International Exposition in Paris in 1900 and have been considered among the world’s tastiest ever since.

My order of six oysters arrived on a bowl of ice, expertly prepared and served with a shallot mignonette.

The Malpeques were briny but clean-tasting, reflecting the pristine Atlantic waters whence they came.

The dollar deal lasts for only an hour on Wednesdays (from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.), but it seemed to draw a fair number of early diners. Tables around the main dining room ordered rounds of oysters — half a dozen to start, then maybe half a dozen more — as the fire crackled in the stone fireplace, warming and brightening the whole room as twilight turned to all-too-early darkness.

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hour, the menu lists an appetizer that takes the classic up a notch: Quatre Huitres offers four hand-selected Malpeques with shallot mignonette and tobiko. It’s slightly more spendy at $14 but still perfect for slurping.

Chicken wings at the Farmhouse Tap & Grill

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The Farmhouse Tap & Grill 160 Bank Street, Burlington, 859-0888, farmhousetg.com

Allow me to let you in on a little secret: The Parlor — the speakeasy-style basement bar you’ll find behind an unmarked door in the entrance hallway of the Farmhouse Tap & Grill — has a fireplace. Not only that, but the full Farmhouse menu is available in the Parlor, and the tables are first come, first served.

On a recent Saturday evening, the upstairs wait was more than two hours. Downstairs? All it took was a little hovering. (Apologies to the group I stalked; I saw the server take your ketchup caddy and banked on the fact that you weren’t getting dessert.)

Having successfully snagged a repurposed church pew in front of the roaring fire, I pored over the extensive draft list. The Farmhouse is synonymous with beer and burgers. So, of course, I ordered a cocktail and chicken wings.

Flannel Weather seemed apropos for fireside sipping; the menu called it “warming, soft, elegant.” I chuckled, thinking of the Vermont phenomenon of wearing flannel as formal wear. But the combination of Nardini amaro, sweet vermouth, verjus, rosemary and rose water was obviously the eleganza, not the dubiously dressy plaid.

The herbal, fruity notes of Nardini — an Italian amaro made with bitter orange, gentian and peppermint — played perfectly with the sweetness of the vermouth, the savory rosemary and the floral rose water. Between the cocktail and the fire, “warming” was an understatement.

If I’d been on autopilot, I would have ordered the classic beef burger, but in the flickering light of the fireplace, the barbecue dry-rubbed chicken wings with Bayley Hazen

Blue cheese dressing caught my eye. The six huge wings were thoroughly coated with a dry rub that made them taste like they’d been Shake ’n Baked in a bag of Honey Nut Cheerios crumbs — but in a good way. I had a nostalgic moment, both for Shake ’n Bake and for breakfast — and asked my server if I’d figured out the secret ingredient.

“No,” she said. “But you’re not the first person to guess that.” Perhaps the wings will make their way to the brunch menu.

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Smokey’s Pit Stop at Orlando’s will succeed MAUDITE POUTINE, whose co-owners previously announced they would end service at the lounge and focus on their food cart and catering.

Orlando’s will extend its hours from four days a week to six in late 2019 or early 2020, when it will be open every day but Tuesday, according to Mossman and Wish.

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The restaurant at 55 Cherry Street has been

closed since August 6, when a fire erupted in its ventilation system. No one was injured in the blaze, and the restaurant wasn’t damaged, but the ventilation system required repair.

In this week’s Seven Days, we spotlight restaurants that feature wood-burning fireplaces (see page 40). Add to downtown Burlington’s options Hen of the Wood, where the fireplace in a corner of the bar is a hot ticket — no pun intended — for dining and drinking.

Upon reopening, Hen will resume its practice of serving $1 oysters from 4 to 5 p.m., when patrons can eat them raw fireside.

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restaurant to its roster when SMOKEY’S PIT STOP opens in ORLANDO’S BAR AND LOUNGE at 1 Lawson Lane, Smokey’s owner JONATHAN WISH said.

The eatery at Orlando’s will be an outpost of SMOKEY’S LOW N’ SLOW, the 125-seat barbecue restaurant and bar that opened in South Burlington in May. Smokey’s Pit Stop will serve ribs, pulled pork sandwiches, dry-rubbed smoked chicken wings, smoked turkey, salads, cheese-gravy tots and sides. Meat will be smoked on the two smokers in South Burlington and transported to the Burlington restaurant, Wish said.

The barbecue restaurant will lease the kitchen from Orlando’s starting December 1, according to Orlando’s co-owner BRANDON MOSSMAN. Smokey’s Pit Stop will start service that week and host a grand opening on December 6, Wish said.

President of WISH & CAREAU HOSPITALITY GROUP, Wish told Seven Days that he had been interested in expanding Smokey’s to Burlington. Partnering with Orlando’s was a viable and desirable way to make that move, he said: “We all get along really, really well and thought this was a great fit.”

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Duck cassoulet at Tracks

The upstairs main dining room, an elegant fine-dining experience, was full when I arrived. Thankfully, the more casual Tracks downstairs had room at the bar. Tracks feels like the living room of a classic Vermont ski lodge — complete, of course, with a massive stone fireplace.

As I ordered a beer from Hill Farmstead Brewery, the conversation at the bar was about woolly bear caterpillars and their ability to predict winter weather. In a mountain town with a snow-reliant economy, I wasn’t surprised to hear that this Farmer’s Almanac folklore was well known.

“I saw a woolly bear that was almost totally black,” one local said. “It’s going to be a snowy one.”

Diners downstairs can order from the pub grub-style Tracks menu (think burgers, fish and chips, and mac and cheese) or from the full menu of the dining room upstairs.

Imagining the long winter ahead, I went for the duck confit cassoulet. The rich stew of beans, pearl onions and whole baby carrots had a piece of duck on top with crispy skin that yielded to fork-tender meat.

The Pitcher Inn recently hired Jacob Ennis as its executive chef, and he’s already making an impact. According to the inn’s blog, Ennis purchased an entire flock of Vermont-raised Pekin ducks over the summer. The ducks were raised organically and fed a rich diet that includes spent grain from Waitsfield’s Lawson’s Finest Liquids. If the cassoulet is any indication, they were a good investment.

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Root beer float with fernet at Doc Ponds

Doc Ponds 294 Mountain Road, Stowe, 760-6066, docponds.com

Stopping at Doc Ponds for a meal is like showing up at a really great party; the music is spot-on, cans of Bud Heavy and glasses of Wunderkammer Bier cover the tables in equal measure, and everybody’s having a blast.

That vibe was at its peak on a recent Sunday night. The second I sat down, a ruckus bellowed out of the kitchen — somebody had bought the staff a round, and they were banging on sheet trays to express their appreciation.

In the restaurant’s lower-level dining room, lounge-like seating, a vintage rug and stacks of logs ready to be thrown

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food+drink on the fire keep up Doc’s house party feeling. Going with a group is the best way to guarantee a fireside seat; the table directly in front of the stone fireplace seats eight.

The menu fits the atmosphere of an unpretentious local hangout and post-ski destination. Chips and dip, old-school calamari, and a damn good burger are all solid choices for eating by the fire. The best move I made, though, didn’t involve the meal itself. It was choosing a dessert that might seem out of season in a fireside setting: a root beer float.

Made with Rookie’s Root Beer and vanilla ice cream, Doc Ponds’ float is a Vermont take on the old soda-jerk treat. I’m a sucker for fernet — the bitter, mentholated, almost cough-syrupy amaro — and the menu offers it as an addition to the float. Doc’s orders, right?

I propped the float on the edge of the fireplace to snap a photo, pausing for a second to watch the ice cream melt into the combo of root beer and fernet. It was a good metaphor for November: Stuck between two seasons, I held on to the flavors of summer even as I succumbed to the inevitability of winter’s chill.

said Rob Colbert, 53, an architect from Waterbury Center.

“I come for the music, and I’m drawn to the fire to see who’s hanging out.”

After my fireside chat, a friend and I went inside and staked out seats at the bar for a set of songs from another lifetime and a 420 Burger firmly rooted in this one. In that other life, pot was pot, and CBD — the 420’s special ingredient — was decades away from trending.

The meal is high — literally — with fat onion rings stacked on the cheeseburger between the halves of the CBD-buttered bun. We were feeling good, eating in time to the band, Sugar Shack, as they covered the tunes of Jerry and Phil et al., and watching dancers in tie-dyed clothing.

We took our nightcap — a creamy maple liqueur — outside and pulled up a chair at the s’mores station to roast another round. Clouds had rolled in; the band was winding down. We caught the last song, Little Feat’s “Willin’,” and hit the highway home.

Look for CBD marshmallows in future fixings at the s’mores station.

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The band played “Fire on the Mountain” on the stage last week at Zenbarn as a fire burned outside in the bright red “s’mores station.” This is the name that Zenbarn co-owner Noah Fishman, 37, has given to the restaurant’s outdoor fireplace.

Doing justice to this moniker, the Waterbury bar/ music club/restaurant/wellness center treated customers to make-your-own s’mores at its weekly Grateful Dead cover show. On the patio by the fire, Zenbarn staff set out chocolate bars, graham crackers and marshmallows, along with a container of wooden skewers for roasting.

Those ingredients lured me into eating dessert outside before dinner. The night was cold and the stars bright when I knelt at the flames to make my s’more. I got sticky eating it and talked to a couple of blaze-staring patrons about the appeal of fire.

“It creates an outdoor space that’s for congregating,”

Juniper (at Hotel Vermont) In Hotel Vermont’s lounge, Juniper, on my fourth fireplace hangout in four days, I listened to singer-songwriter Eric George and drank a Negroni. After singing a few Neil Young songs, George covered a Beatles tune, “All My Loving.” Then he asked for requests.

Thinking of fire and the Beatles, I asked if he’d play “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown).” He obliged.

Suddenly, my week at fireplaces began to make sense: flames, loss, beauty, heat. John Lennon said it all in his 1965 song on Rubber Soul.

George played his next song, also from Rubber Soul; I took a bite of chocolate cake and another sip of my drink.

The pairing of rich, dark cake and brown, earthy spirits (the Negroni was made with Caledonia Spirits’ Tom Cat Gin) was both a harbinger of winter and an antidote to it.

Across the room, a 6-month-old Australian shepherd named Growler lay down and closed his eyes. (Yes, there was a dog in the lounge.) At the mic, George was in a Beatles groove and a dog groove, too. (He howled and barked a bit.)

Near the end of his show, after treating us to a new original called “Don’t Land on Me,’’ he sang “I’m So Tired.”

Earlier in his Friday night gig, on a set break, I had talked with George about playing music in a room with a fire. He said he likes to look at the blaze.

“In the same way that a fireplace creates the feeling of a living presence in a space, playing music around a fire creates a sense of the music being alive in a different way,” the 29-year-old Burlington musician told me.

He went on to say that the fun of performing comes from “figuring out a way to engage in the activity of having no thought.” Since he was kid, George said, looking at a fire has been his favorite way to do that.

When his show was over, a spot opened up on the hearthstone and I moved there, inches from the fire. I watched the flames die and thought about what George had said. Another log, a burst of fire, and I’d be thinking of nothing.

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FIGHTING HUNGER IN OUR COMMUNITY: Helping hands learn how they can get involved in ending hunger in Vermont. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space.

Info, info@hungermountain. coop.

business

BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: In a 10-week class presented by the Center for Women & Enterprise, aspiring entrepreneurs gain the confidence and knowledge to launch a small business. Rutland Economic Development Corp., 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

JUMP/START BUSINESS OF ART: ARTIST PANEL: THE DIY MODEL: Creatives Corrine Yonce, Abby Manock and Adriana Saipe weigh in on their experiences transforming artistic practices into successful enterprises. Generator, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0761.

VERMONT WOMENPRENEURS FALL SHOWCASE: THE POWER OF TWO: Budding entrepreneurs find inspiration in a curated exhibition and networking event spotlighting five Vermont-based business partnerships that include a woman as cofounder, co-owner or company leader. Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $20-55. Info, 870-0903.

cannabis

‘AN OVERVIEW OF CANNABIDIOL (CBD) — MAGIC ELIXIR OR NOT?’: The Marna and Stephen Wise Tulin 2019 Fall Community Education Series continues with a panel presentation by Vermont Cannabinoid Clinic founder Paul Jerard and Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Department of Pharmacy Practice associate professor Clayton D. English. Dealer.com, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 488-6912.

community

HIGH FIVE APPRECIATION AWARDS: Special friends of the organization for kids and families get a pat on the back for their support. Autumnal drinks and hors d’oeuvres fuel the fun. King Street Center, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-6736.

WINOOSKI AVENUE TRANSPORTATION STUDY: Community members become familiar with 13 different designs for improving access to the busy roadway. O.N.E. Community Center, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister for interpreters. Info, bdavis@ ccrpcvt.org.

conferences

VERMONT REGIONAL WORKFORCE SUMMIT: One of a dozen summits taking place around the state provides actionable solutions for employers and promotes partnerships among regional and statewide service providers and educators. Kirk Alumni Center, Middlebury College, employer session, 8:30 a.m.1:15 p.m.; service provider and educator session, noon-4 p.m..

Free. Info, 777-8349.

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FIBER RIOT!: Creative types get hooked on knitting, crocheting, spinning and more at an informal weekly gathering.

Mad River Fiber Arts & Mill, Waitsfield, 5-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-7746.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA: Needleand-thread enthusiasts fine-tune their techniques.

Ascension Lutheran Church, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.

Free for first-timers; bring a bag lunch. Info, 922-8936.

Fans of NBC’s “The Voice” may remember Joshua Davis from Season 8 of the televised singing competition. Davis became a top-three finalist in 2015, winning the hearts — and votes — of viewers with standout performances of songs such as Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” and Simon & Garfunkel’s “America.” Since his time on the show, the Michigan-based singer-songwriter has released three albums: 2017’s The Way Back Home, 2018’s covers EP Secondhand and, most recently, Live at the Robin, a solo acoustic album recorded at the Robin Theatre in Lansing, Mich. Guitar in hand, Davis wins over Vermont audience members when he performs as part of the Chandler Center for the Arts’ casual Live & Upstairs concert series.

JOSHUA DAVIS Friday, November 15, 7:30 p.m., at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph.

Donations. Info, 728-9878, chandler-arts.org.

NOV.15 | MUSIC

KNITTER’S GROUP: Crafters share their latest projects and get help with challenging patterns. All skill levels are welcome. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

dance

SQUARE DANCING: Swing your partner! Dancers forge friendships while exercising their minds and bodies. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-3 p.m.

Donations; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

education

GAP YEAR INFORMATION NIGHT: Gap Year Association CEO Julia Rogers outlines the benefits, challenges and opportunities that come with taking time off before college. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 609-529-1459.

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FIND MORE LOCAL EVENTS IN THIS ISSUE AND ONLINE: art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

Back to the Future In spring 2019, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center director Mariah Riggs and composer Randal Pierce launched the Silent Film Series. With screenings twice a year, the series spotlights classic silent films shown with live original scores performed by Pierce and a group of local musicians called the Astral Projector Orchestra. The latest installment features Viennaborn director Fritz Lang’s 1927 sci-fi flick Metropolis.

A complete cut was thought to be unavailable until one was discovered in Argentina in 2005 and restored by 2010. Queen City cinephiles see the full version of Lang’s masterpiece about the conflict between the working class and the wealthy in a futuristic city.

‘THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS’ Saturday, November 16, 7 p.m., at Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, in Burlington. $5-10; cash bar. Info, 540-3018, mainstreetlanding.com.

music + nightlife Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

NOV.16 | FILM

Though considered unsuccessful at the time of its original debut, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s late 19thcentury masterpiece Swan Lake is one of the most revived works in the ballet canon, according to the Russian Ballet Theatre. The RBT brings the story of Prince Siegfried and Odette, a swan by day and a human woman by night, to Burlington. The lavish production features hand-painted sets, 150 hand-sewn costumes

and the addition of fresh choreography by Nadezhda Kalinina. Ballerina Olga Kifyak spreads her wings in the dual role of Odette and Odile, performing its signature 32 fouettés en tournant.

‘SWAN LAKE’ Thursday, November 14, 7:30 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $30-70. Info, 863-5966, flynntix.org.

NOV.14 | DANCE Greek to Me What if the ancient myth of the goddess Persephone took place in modern times? Greek deities get a glamorous makeover for Mythic, Marcus Stevens and Oran Eldor’s new pop-rock musical. It follows the eventual queen of the underworld on a journey of self-discovery in a world where gods take the form of rock stars, politicians and socialites. The offspring of a bohochic Demeter encounters her all-powerful father Zeus, bad boy Hades and the Britney Spears-esque goddess of love Aphrodite, played by Jessica Gallant (pictured).

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts presents the North American premiere of the immortal musical propelled by epic anthems and the complexity of the motherdaughter relationship.

NOV.13-20 | MONTRÉAL

‘MYTHIC’ COURTESY OF LESLIE SCHACHTER

COURTESY OF MIKHAIL MOROZOV & THE RUSSIAN BALLET THEATRE

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Wednesday, November 13, 1 & 8 p.m.; Thursday, November 14, and Saturday, November 16, 8 p.m.; Sunday, November 17, 2 & 7 p.m.; Monday, November 18, 7 p.m.; and Tuesday, November 19, and Wednesday, November 20, 8 p.m., at Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, in Montréal. See website for additional dates. $53-67. Info, 514-739-7944, segalcentre.org.

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Info, 800-772-9390.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: Some of the Pacific Ocean’s most beautiful islands and marine national monuments grace the screen.

Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: Advanced filming techniques expose the planet’s top hunters on land, under the sea and in the air. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m., 1 & 3 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘THE LINE KING: THE AL HIRSCHFELD STORY’: Shown as part of Great Art Wednesday, this 1996 documentary provides a portrait of the caricature artist’s life and work. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 11 a.m. $8-13. Info, 382-9222.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: Actor Kate Winslet narrates a virtual odyssey into the largest and least-explored habitat on Earth. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, noon, 2 & 4 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under. Info, 864-1848.

‘SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY’: This 2016 documentary about the importance of heirloom seeds provides food for thought.

Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 244-7036.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: An immersive film reveals the astonishing lives of the smallest of animals — think chipmunks and grasshopper mice. Northfield Savings Bank 3D Theater: A National Geographic Experience, ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30, 2:30 & 4:30 p.m. $3-5 plus regular admission, $11.50-14.50; admission free for members and kids 2 and under.

Info, 864-1848.

food & drink

BURGER WEEK: Foodies take a bite out of specially priced meat and veggie patties served with all the fixins from participating restaurants. See burgerweek. sevendaysvt.com for details.

Various locations statewide. Cost of food. Info, 864-5684.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

TASTE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY: Gourmands sample specialties from area restaurants and vendors while bidding on hundreds of live and silent auction items.

SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5 p.m. $15-18. Info, 518-563-1000.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: Players have fun with the popular card game.

Burlington Bridge Club, Williston, 9:15 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. $6. Info, 872-5722.

MAH JONGG IN BARRE: Fun, friendship and conversation flow as players manipulate tiles. Barre Area Senior Center, 10 a.m. Free.

Info, 479-9512.

MAH JONGG IN WILLISTON: Participants of all levels enjoy friendly bouts of this tile-based game. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

health & fitness

ALL-LEVELS ACROYOGA CLASS: The mindfulness and breath of yoga meet the playful aspects of acrobatics in a partner practice. No partners or experience required. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Donations.

Info, 798-2651.

CHAIR YOGA: Whether experiencing balance issues or recovering from illness or injury, health-conscious community members drop in for a weekly low-stress class. Waterbury Public Library, 10:15-11:15 a.m.

Free. Info, 244-7036.

RESILIENCE FLOW: Individuals affected by traumatic brain injuries engage in a gentle yoga practice.

Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 448-4262.

SEATED TAI CHI: Movements are modified for those with arthritis and other chronic conditions.

Nonresidents are welcome.

Grandway Commons. Cathedral Square Corporation, South Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

YOGA4CANCER: Meant for anyone affected by the illness, this class aims to help participants manage treatment side effects and recovery. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, noon-1 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

language

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: Learners take communication to the next level. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: ¡Hola! Language lovers perfect their fluency. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

lgbtq

LUNCH WITH BOI CHAPLAIN: COOK THE BOOK: Home cooks Those questioning, seeking or bring a dish from The Art of the needing spiritual friendship drop Host: Recipes and Rules for in for a chat with minister in Flawless Entertaining by Alex training Danielle. Pride Center of Hitz to a palate-pleasing potluck.

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Vermont, Burlington, noon-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 860-7812.

University Mall, 6-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 846-4140.

montréal

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC CHORUS REHEARSALS: Experienced singers prepare for annual recitals of Handel’s Messiah. Bethany United Church of Christ, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, vpchorus@vermont philharmonic.org.

‘MYTHIC’: Audience members bop along with the North American premiere of a new pop-rock musical about the Greek goddess Persephone, presented by the Segal Centre for the Arts.

See calendar spotlight. Sylvan Adams Theatre, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, 1 & 8 p.m. $53-67. Info, 514-739-7944.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

GEORGE MATTHEW JR.: In honor of Nordic Music Days, the carillonneur gives a recital including a new piece by Middlebury College alumna Ellen Lindquist. Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

JAZZ JAM: An evening of exceptional local music by Paul Asbell, Tom Cleary, Dave Grippo, KeruBo, Jeff Salisbury and Clyde Stats benefits Mercy Connections.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $30. Info, 863-5966.

MENTALLY INTUNE: Singers find harmony in a community chorus for people living with depression.

No experience or talent required.

Rumney Memorial School, Middlesex, 6:30-8 p.m. Donations.

Info, 272-7209.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: Be they accomplished or beginner musicians, young players find harmony in the traditional music of Burlington’s past and present immigrant groups. Boys & Girls Club, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 881-8500.

UKULELE JAM: Musicians ages 10 through 100 sing and strum along with “Ukulele Clare.” Some instruments are provided. South Burlington Community Library,

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art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

politics

VERMONT LIBERTARIAN PARTY TOWN CAUCUS IN WINOOSKI: Winooski voters who have not yet participated in a caucus this year convene to discuss local issues.

Winooski Memorial Library, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, jakobmcelwain@ jakobmcelwain.com.

talks

ANTHONY D’AMATO: “Sustaining the Northern Forest in the Face of Global Change” engages learners as part of the Current Topics in Science Speaker Series. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4 p.m. Free. Info, les.kanat@ northernvermont.edu.

JAY BARRETT: Locals listen in on “A Bit of Quechee History Including Dewey’s Mills and the Woodstock Railway.” Greater Hartford United Church of Christ, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 296-3132.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERIES: ‘PRISON HEALTH CARE’: Aging, opiate treatment and access to wellness services are among the topics on the table during a moderated panel discussion. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: Electronics novices develop skill sets applicable to smartphones, tablets and other gadgets.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, noon & 1 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 878-6955.

TECHNOLOGY NIGHT: Connecting to various wireless networks becomes second nature during a class with Vermont Technical College’s Ken Bernard. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

theater

‘THE SLEEPOVER — A COMEDY OF MARRIAGE’: Six couples attend an overnight marriage retreat at a remote, run-down ski lodge — what could go wrong? Presented

by Girls Nite Out Productions.

Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $23-25. Info, 393-4667.

words

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: Bibliophiles discuss the biography The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

FOOD & LIT BOOK DISCUSSION: Inspired dishes are on the menu during a discussion of Heartburn

by Nora Ephron. Kiss the Cook, Middlebury, 6 p.m. $5; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-2061.

WRITING CIRCLE: Words pour out when participants explore creative expression in a low-pressure environment. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 303.

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POC IN VT AFFINITY GROUP: People of color come together in the name of sharing stories and building community in a predominately white state. New attendees are welcome. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

community

COFFEE TALK: Friends, neighbors and AARP Vermont volunteers catch up on upcoming activities and issues facing older Vermonters. Nomad Coffee — South End Station, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, vt@aarp.org.

conferences

VERMONT REGIONAL WORKFORCE SUMMIT: See WED.13, Green Mountain Technology & Career Center, Hyde Park. Info, 888-5640.

dance

‘SWAN LAKE’: The Russian Ballet Theatre updates Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet while remaining faithful to its original vision.

See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $30-70. Info, 863-5966.

education

HIGH SCHOOL SHADOW DAY: Prospective pupils experience a day in the life of a student in the school dedicated to holistic, experiential and multimodal learning. High School Campus, Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-2827, ext. 212.

environment

ADAM MINTER: The best-selling author speaks on his new book, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale, which walks readers through how discarded items make their way into reuse.

Sugar Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, robin@fairtraderecycling.org.

ROBERT BLACK: An environmental and philosophical discussion titled “Anybody Home?” inspires listeners to think and feel more deeply about what it means to be at home on Earth. The Sparkle Barn, Wallingford, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 446-2044.

etc.

TROPICAL FISH CLUB MONTHLY MEETING: Speakers ranging from local hobbyists to nationally known aquarium aficionados share their expertise. Essex

Junction VFW Post, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 372-8716.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘THE COLLECTIVE’: Faction Skis presents its second full-length feature film, which celebrates the sport’s global community. Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 860-0190.

FILM & MEDIA ALUMNI FEST: STUDENT FILM SCREENING: Pupils from Film Studies 30: Documentary Videomaking show and discuss original nonfiction shorts. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.13.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.13.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.13.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.13.

food & drink

BURGER WEEK: See WED.13.

COMMUNITY LUNCH: Gardengrown fare makes for a delicious and nutritious midday meal. The Pathways Vermont Community Center, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 309.

games

CHITTENDEN COUNTY CHESS CLUB: Checkmate! Strategic thinkers make calculated moves as they vie for their opponents’ kings. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 7-9:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-5403.

CRIBBAGE: Friends connect over a fun-spirited card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

ACUPUNCTURE TALK SERIES: In the second of a four-part series, Christina Ducharme describes immune support with acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: Seniors rise and shine with an exercise program meant to increase bone density and muscle strength.

Barre Area Senior Center, 8:309:45 a.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

BEGINNING QIGONG & TAI CHI: Beginners and interested advanced players focus on various breathing and movement practices. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

CHAIR YOGA: Comfortable clothing is recommended for this class focused on balance, breath, flexibility and meditation. Barre Area Senior Center, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and wellbeing. Champlain Senior Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 448-4262.

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CELEBRATION SERIES

Sierra Hull COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS: A 20-minute guided practice with Andrea O’Connor alleviates stress and tension. Tea and a discussion follow. Winooski Senior Center, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-1161.

FALLS PREVENTION TAI CHI I & II: Students improve their ability to stay steady on their feet. Barre Area Senior Center, 3:45-4:45 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 479-9512.

KARMA KLASS: DONATIONBASED YOGA FOR A CAUSE: Active bodies hit the mat to support local nonprofits. The Wellness Collective, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 540-0186.

SEED CLINIC: Small magnetic beads taped to acupressure points offer support for those experiencing difficult or stressful times. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6:30-8 p.m.

Donations. Info, clinicseed@ gmail.com.

TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Beginners boost their strength and balance through a gentle guided practice. Twin Valley Senior Center, East Montpelier, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3322.

YANG-STYLE TAI CHI: Slow, graceful, expansive movements promote wide-ranging health and fitness benefits. Wright House, Harrington Village, Shelburne, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 735-5467.

YOGA: A Sangha Studio instructor guides students who are in recovery toward achieving inner tranquility. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

holidays

FRIENDSGIVING: A ROOTS THE RESTAURANT POP-UP: A threecourse family-style feast for friends old and new benefits the Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum. The Annex, Rutland, 5 & 7 p.m. $50; preregister. Info, info@wkmvt.org.

montréal

‘MYTHIC’: See WED.13, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

TOM RUSH: Pianist Matt Nokoa accompanies the folk music pioneer who helped introduce the world to the music of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $49. Info, 382-9222.

UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Student musicians hit a high note in “A Jazz Mixed Bag,” directed by Ray Vega. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

outdoors

SLOW & EASY HIKING: Walkers enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the forest while moving at a gentle pace. Ilene Elliott leads this public Barre Area Senior Center outing. Barre Town Forest, Websterville, 10:10 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

seminars

HOME-BUYING WORKSHOP: Experts demystify the homebuying process for newbie house hunters, from identifying your family’s needs to closing. The Skinny Pancake, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

PODCAST PRODUCTION: Aspiring radio personalities learn the basics of creating a compelling show in the fastgrowing digital audio medium.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

WEATHERIZATION & HOME HEATING WORKSHOP: Experts outline budget-friendly methods for improving energy efficiency.

Pizza and drinks are provided.

Waterbury Municipal Building, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 477-2968.

talks

FIRST WEDNESDAYS ENCORE: A video screening treats attendees to Ann DeMarle’s 2017 talk “Video Games: Changing Stories and Changing Behaviors.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 1:302:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

JOSEPH CREAMER: Delivering the annual Saint Edmund Lecture, the University of Albany professor addresses Saint Edmund’s involvement in the political and religious issues of England in the mid-1200s. Dion Family Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

REBECCA RUPP: In the offbeat foodie talk “Soup to Nuts: An Eccentric History of Food,” curious minds learn about the rocky evolution of table manners, the not-so-welcome invention of the fork and more. Deborah Rawson Memorial Library, Jericho, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-4962.

STEPHEN WEHMEYER: The Champlain College associate professor delivers “By Seen and Unseen Hands: Spirit Artists and Their Art in the 21st Century” in conjunction with the museum exhibit “Conjuring the Dead: Spirit Art in the Age of Radical Reform.” Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-2117.

tech

TECH SUPPORT: Need an email account? Want to enjoy ebooks?

Bring your phone, tablet or laptop to a weekly help session. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 748-8291.

theater

‘AIRSWIMMING’: Based on a true story, Charlotte Jones’ dark comedy shines a light on two women who adopt alter egos to survive incarceration. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. $6. Info, 443-3168.

CASHORE MARIONETTES: Internationally renowned puppeteer Joseph Cashore presents Simple Gifts, a show that uses motion and classical music to

wordlessly explore life’s intricacies. Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, 11 a.m. $10-25.

Info, 533-2000.

‘IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT’: Online gamer and college senior Evie Malone faces her biggest challenge yet when she falls for a guy IRL in Madhuri Shekar’s romantic comedy, staged by the Pegasus Players. Mack Hall Auditorium, Northfield, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 485-2423.

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‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’: Students interpret the classic Disney tale about the undersea adventures of Ariel, who longs to live above water. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 888-757-5559.

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‘RE:PETER’: Set in fictional Killington Valley, this work of science fiction presented by Rutland High School’s Encore Theatre follows a man forced into retirement due to his age.

Rutland High School, 7 p.m. $5-8.

Info, 770-1134.

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‘THE SLEEPOVER — A COMEDY OF MARRIAGE’: See WED.13.

words

BOOK CLUB: Bookworms bond over the written word. Barre Area Senior Center, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

Sat., November 23, 7:30 pm sponsored by: NFP Valsangiacomo, Detora & McQuesten

JON CLINCH: Lit lovers join the author for a talk on his new For tix, call 802-476-8188 or order novel, Marley, a reimagining online at barreoperahouse.org of Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol centered on the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley. Phoenix Untitled-70 1 11/11/19 3:10 PMTHU 14 Books, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 7PM 448-3350.

MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN & SPRING ULMER: New England Review and the Middlebury College Creative Writing Program present new faculty members reading from and signing copies of their fiction and essays.

Refreshments are served. Axinn Center, Starr Library, Middlebury College, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5075.

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SAT 7 MOLLY STEVENS: 2:00- ALL ABOUT 3:30PM DINNER Signing and meet-and-greet with samples. Free

Shelburne Town Center

business

VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL FALL CONFERENCE: The theme “Searching for Home” guides two days of breakout sessions and plenary talks. Davis

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SUN 1 FULL CIRCLE 1-3PM Music for winter holidays. Free.

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conferences

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SHARON LAMB: Drawing on her background as a psychologist, the writer delves into The Not Good Enough Mother, her 2019 book examining society’s inclination to blame moms for the plights of their children. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

IGNITE YOUR PASSION: START YOUR OWN BUSINESS: Potential proprietors get a basic overview of the business-planning process. Capstone Community Action, Barre, 9-10:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 477-5214.

presents

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Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 3:30-9 p.m. $99-149; preregister; limited space. Info, 262-1355.

dance

BALLROOM & LATIN DANCING: Singles, couples and beginners are welcome to join in a dance social featuring waltz, tango and more. Williston Jazzercise Fitness Center, 8-9:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-2269.

ECSTATIC DANCE VERMONT: Inspired by the 5Rhythms dance practice, attendees move, groove, release and open their hearts to life in a safe and sacred space. Christ Episcopal Church, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, fearnessence@gmail.com.

ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCE: Adina Gordon lead adults and teens in steps popular in the time of Jane Austen. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $10-20; free for ages 35 and under. Info, 881-9732.

education

CELEBRATION OF SCHOLARSHIP: Folks fête SUNY Plattsburgh faculty accomplishments.

Light refreshments are served.

Benjamin F. Feinberg Library, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 3:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 518-564-5402.

etc.

CIRCUS ARTS TRAINING JAM: Daring individuals perfect skills ranging from juggling to tight-rope walking with CAMP Burlington members. Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m. Donations. Info, burlingtoncamp@gmail.com.

GRAND OPENING: The outdoor gear store opens its doors to offer three days of festivities including food, live music, door prizes and more. See rei.com for details. REI, Williston. Free. Info, 800-426-4840.

SOUL COLLAGE: Open-minded individuals access their intuition through a deeply personal creative project. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@ hungermountain.coop.

WOOL & WHISKEY: Attendees sip Stonecutter Spirits samples while learning about sustainable wool initiatives. Fjällräven, Burlington, 5-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-7197.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME’: A 2019 documentary shown as part of the Biography Series by Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Selects provides a portrait of the musician and founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $15; $105 for series pass.

Info, 382-9222.

Call for title. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:15 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

SAT.16 | THEATER | Metropolitan Opera Live in HD: ‘Madama Butterfly’

FILM & MEDIA ALUMNI FEST: ‘WAVES’: In this 2019 drama starring Sterling K. Brown, a suburban African American family navigates life after loss.

Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-10.

Info, 603-646-2422.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.13.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.13.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.13.

food & drink

BURGER WEEK: See WED.13.

PUBLIC CUPPING: Coffee connoisseurs and beginners alike explore the flavor notes and aromas of the roaster’s current offerings and new releases. Brio Coffeeworks, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 777-6641.

WING NIGHT: Piping-hot poultry pleases palates. Essex Junction VFW Post, 5:30-7 p.m. $10. Info, 878-0700.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.13, 9:15 a.m.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA: Students with limited mobility limber up with modified poses. Sangha Studio — North, Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 448-4262.

GONG MEDITATION: Sonic vibrations lead to healing and deep relaxation. Yoga Roots, Williston, 7:30-8:30 p.m. $18. Info, 318-6050.

MEDITATION PROGRAM: Stress, be gone! Students in this bimonthly gathering unlock a sense of calm through breath work and balancing chakras. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, noon1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

BEATON-PLASSE: Bows in hand, fiddlers Andrea Beaton and Véronique Plasse find eager ears with their acoustic folk stylings.

Burlington Violin Shop, 6-8:30 p.m. $20; preregister; limited space.

Info, mark.sustic@gmail.com.

INTO THE MYSTIC: THE VAN MORRISON EXPERIENCE: Well, it’s a marvelous night for a tribute to the “Brown Eyed Girl” hit maker.

Vergennes Opera House, 8 p.m. $30. Info, 877-6737.

JOSHUA DAVIS: Seen on Season 8 of NBC’s “The Voice,” the Michigan-based singer-songwriter woos listeners with his powerful vocals and Americana stylings.

FAMILY MOVIE: Popcorn and drinks augment an all-ages flick.

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Free. Info, 272-1876.

words

WAREHOUSE SALE: Browsers stock up on food and other goodies from sellers such as Bee’s Wrap, Cabot Creamery and King Arthur Flour to benefit the United Way of Northwest Vermont. Rhino Foods, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-0252.

KIESE LAYMON: Members of the public are welcome to hear the Vermont Humanities Fall Conference keynote address delivered by the author of the provocative memoir Heavy, which won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Ira Allen Chapel, University of Vermont, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 262-1355.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.13.

‘NO EASY MILE’: A short documentary chronicles West Bolton resident Phil LaCroix as he tackles a long-distance run on the Long Trail to raise funds for Vermont sober housing. Live music follows. Zenbarn, Waterbury, 8 p.m. Donations. Info, 244-8134.

College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 654-2000.

See calendar spotlight. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 728-9878.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE ORCHESTRA: Student musicians show the fruits of their labor in a fall concert conducted by Evan Bennett. Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

MODIGLIANI QUARTET: Bows in hand, the Parisian string quartet performs pieces by Haydn, Brahms and Mendelssohn as part of the Lane Series. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, preshow talk, 6:30 p.m.; show, 7:30 p.m. $5-35. Info, 656-3131.

RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER: The bluegrass and country icon picks classic tunes spanning the breadth of his peerless six-decade career. Stannard Gymnasium, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, 7 p.m. $39-49.

Info, 748-2600.

seminars

GENEALOGY: Using their memories, the internet and a library card, folks work with Carl Williams to record their own family history.

Barre Area Senior Center, noon1:30 p.m. Donations; preregister.

Info, 479-9512.

talks

EDUCATION & ENRICHMENT FOR EVERYONE: Vermont state climatologist Lesley-Ann DupignyGiroux brings her expertise to “The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Observations and Implications for the Northeast and Vermont.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2-3 p.m. $5; $45 for the series. Info, 658-6554.

tech

NONPROFIT TECHNOLOGY NETWORK TECH CLUB CHAPTER MEETING & SOCIAL: Peers gather to talk about tech and program management, fundraising and development, information technology, and more. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-3403.

VERMONT TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP FORUM: Vermont Systems CTO Jon Winer discusses “Implementing and Sustaining DevOps” as part of a program for examining challenges faced by technology businesses. Burlington

Code Academy, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, admin@vtta.org.

theater

‘AIRSWIMMING’: See THU.14, 7:30 & 10 p.m.

WRITER’S BLOCK: Scribes bring essays, short stories, one-act plays and poems to be critiqued by a supportive audience. Barre Area Senior Center, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

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‘BOEING, BOEING’: Parisian bachelor Bernard is engaged to three stewardesses in three different cities. Catastrophe looms when all three are in the City of Lights simultaneously in this comedy by playwright Marc Camelitti.

Presented by the Lamoille County Players. Hyde Park Opera House, 7 p.m. $18. Info, 888-4507.

PROMOTE SEEING & DISRUPTING RACISM: A FOCUS ON WHITE FRAGILITY: In this workshop, developed for predominantly white audiences, attendees learn about the concept of white fragility, how it perpetuates racism and how to disrupt that cycle. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 2 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

‘IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT’: See THU.14.

bazaars

‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’: See THU.14.

‘THE LIVING’: A handful of residents struggle in the face of a terrifying epidemic devastating 1665 London in this Department of Theater production. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $15. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘MOONSHINE IN VERMONT’: Comedy, romance and drama play out in J.C. Myers’ theater work set in a fictional Vermont town during Prohibition. Tom Blachly directs this Plainfield Little Theatre production. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 229-5290.

‘OTHER DESERT CITIES’: After a long absence, a writer returns from the East Coast to Palm Springs, Calif., and announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in her family’s history in this drama staged by the BarnArts Center for the Arts.

Barnard Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $1520. Info, 234-1645.

‘RE:PETER’: See THU.14.

‘THE SECRET GARDEN’: Shelburne Players raise the curtain on their rendition of the family-friendly drama based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Shelburne Town Center, 7:30 p.m. $15-18. Info, 343-2602.

‘THE SLEEPOVER — A COMEDY OF MARRIAGE’: See WED.13.

‘THE SUMMONING OF EVERYMAN’: Professor John Paul Devlin directs a student-performed adaptation of a medieval morality play about the ultimate reckoning before God. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s

community

QUEEN CITY MEMORY CAFÉ: People with memory loss accompany their caregivers for coffee, conversation and entertainment.

Thayer House, Burlington, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 656-4220.

WINTER CLOTHING DRIVE: Gently used cold-weather gear helps those in need. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 426-3581.

conferences

VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL FALL CONFERENCE: See FRI.15, 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

crafts

WALDEN COMMUNITY CRAFT FAIR: From salsa to wooden items to Hula-Hoops, take-home treasures find new homes. A silent auction and homemade lunch are also on the agenda. Walden School, West Danville, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2213.

ANNUAL ARTISAN & CRAFT MARKET & SOUP LUNCHEON: Homemade comfort food fuels those who browse a wide variety of handcrafted and baked goods.

United Church of Northfield, market, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; luncheon, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free; $6 for luncheon.

Info, 229-4351.

dance

NORTHFIELD AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FALL CRAFT & VENDOR SALE: Locally made crafts and foods are on display just in time for the holiday shopping season. Northfield Middle

DANCE WORKS IN PROGRESS: Demonstrating multiple genres, Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio students and faculty members put their best foot forward in inspiring new works.

Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 7-8:15 p.m. $10. Info, 229-4676.

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

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CONTRA DANCE: Adina Gordon calls the steps at a traditional social dance with high-energy music by Russet Trio. Capital City Grange, Berlin, introductory session, 7:45 p.m.; dance, 8-11 p.m. $5-15. Info, 225-8921.

RUBBERBAND DANCE: The acclaimed dance troupe steps onstage with Vic’s Mix, a high-octane show that combines classical ballet’s precision, contemporary dance’s freedom and hip-hop’s explosive energy. Dibden Center for the Arts, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 7 p.m. $2545. Info, 748-2600.

USA DANCE VERMONT COMMUNITY BALLROOM DANCE: Whether clad in blue jeans or formal wear, twinkle-toed movers cut a rug in a relaxed setting that celebrates the art of ballroom dance. Elley-Long Music Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, open dance, 6:30 p.m.; instruction, 7-7:45 p.m.; social dancing, 8:30-11 p.m. $5-15. Info, 482-2896.

education

OPEN HOUSE: Prospective students and their families visit campus to learn about academic offerings, residence halls and more. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh,

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N.Y., 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-2040.

etc.

GRAND OPENING: See FRI.15.

LEGAL CLINIC: Attorneys offer complimentary consultations on a first-come, first-served basis. 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 383-2118.

PEOPLE’S HEALTH & WELLNESS CLINIC 25TH ANNIVERSARY: The central Vermont wellness center celebrates its silver anniversary with light refreshments and a performance by the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 5-7 p.m. $25. Info, 479-1229.

STUNT KITE FLIERS & ARCHERY HOBBYISTS MEETING: Open to beginning and experienced hobbyists alike, a weekly gathering allows folks to share information and suggestions for equipment, sporting locations and more. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 658-0030.

ZENBARN TURNS 3: Imbibers fête their favorite watering hole with live art, an all-star tribute to Prince and more. Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $15. Info, 244-8134.

fairs & festivals

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL: Attendees take a trip around the globe with performances and cuisine from the Pacific Islands, Africa, Europe, Latin America, South Asia and East Asia.

Tarrant Student Recreational Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 5-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2000.

TIBET FESTIVAL: The Tibetan Association of Vermont presents a day of traditional food, crafts, songs and dance. Edmunds Middle School, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 922-3209.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘AMAZIGH’: A screening of this short film about the Atlas Mountains sets the scene for a Moroccan dance party. RabbleRouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 380-7705.

‘THE COMPLETE METROPOLIS’: Local musician Randal Pierce and the Astral Projector Orchestra provide live accompaniment to the 1927 silent film Metropolis, restored to its original full-length theatrical form. See calendar spotlight. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-10; cash bar. Info, 540-3018.

FILM & MEDIA ALUMNI FEST: ‘1982’: Set during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, this 2019 drama follows an 11-year-old boy trying to tell his classmate he loves her. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 4 p.m. $510. Info, 603-646-2422.

FILM & MEDIA ALUMNI FEST: ‘DOLEMITE IS MY NAME’: Eddie

Murphy stars as real-life comic Rudy Ray Moore in this 2019 biographical comedy. A discussion follows. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.13.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.13.

MOVIE: Snacks are provided at a showing of a popular film. Call for title. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 878-4918.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.13.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.13.

‘WAVES’: In this 2019 drama starring Sterling K. Brown, a suburban African American family navigates life after loss.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

food & drink

BURGER WEEK: See WED.13.

BURLINGTON WINTER FARMERS MARKET: More than 30 stands overflow with seasonal produce, prepared foods and artisan wares. Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, burlingtonfarmers market.org@gmail.com.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: Candy fanatics get an education on a variety of sweets made on-site.

Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Middlesex, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 229-2090.

ETHIOPIAN/ERITREAN POP-UP DINNER: Authentic dishes such as yesiga wat, doro alicha and gomen, served buffet-style, fill bellies. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 4:30 p.m. $1020. Info, 881-9933.

NIGHTSHADE KITCHEN: A unique meal of regional cuisine pairs perfectly with intimate performances by Sam Moss, Rosu Lup and Cricket Blue.

Congregation Ruach haMaqom, Burlington, 7 p.m. $7. Info, nightshadekitchen@gmail.com.

health & fitness

NEWBIE NOON HOT YOGA: First-timers feel the heat as they get their stretch on in a (very) warm environment. Hot Yoga Burlington, noon. Free; preregister. Info, 999-9963.

holidays

CHRISTMAS TEA & CRAFT SHOW: Festive music rouses the spirit of the season as attendees view crafts and homemade goods. Georgia United Methodist Church, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 527-6326.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Local artisans offer festive crafts, food and jewelry ahead of the holiday shopping season. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.

Free. Info, 863-3982.

HOLIDAY CRAFT & VENDOR FAIR: Customers go gaga over gifts, raffles and baked goods.

Green Meadows Catering serves up breakfast and lunch. Winooski School District, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free. Info, pto@wsdvt.org.

HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: Lunch and a raffle complement a showcase of goods from more than 30 Vermont crafters. Burlington Elks Lodge, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 922-5759.

HOLIDAY KICKOFF DEMO DAY: Crafters stock up on supplies at a creative extravaganza featuring themed demonstrations and activities highlighting some of the season’s hottest trends. A.C. Moore, Williston, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, 923-4047.

language

ARMENIAN LANGUAGE: Singing, dancing, drama and games promote proficiency. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

lgbtq

PRIDE HIKES: SUCKER BROOK TRAIL IN RIPTON: Clad in weather-appropriate clothing, LGBTQA+ hikers carpool to their destination for a moderate two-mile trek. Shaw’s, Shelburne Rd., South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. Free. Info, gcauser@ audubon.org.

PRIDE YOGA: LGBTQ individuals and allies hit the mat for a stretching session suited to all levels. Sangha Studio — Pine, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Donations.

Info, 448-4262.

STONEWALL AT 50: A HALF CENTURY OF LGBT+ CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCACY: A symposium celebrating the accomplishments of early advocates for LGBT+ civil rights addresses timely issues through panel discussions focused on trans rights, queer youth, housing discrimination and more. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, mitulpatel@ vermontlaw.edu.

montréal

‘MYTHIC’: See WED.13, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

HANDEL SOCIETY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: Filippo Ciabatti conducts this 60-voice chorus in a program of sacred music by Rossini and Brahms.

Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 603-646-2422.

KINAN AZMEH & CITYBAND: The Grammy Award-winning Syrian clarinetist and his band serve up scintillating Arabic jazz in this Lane Series concert.

Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, University of Vermont, Burlington, 5 p.m. $5-35. Info, 656-3131.

MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: “Classically Now,” a collaboration between the MCO and Vermont-born violinist Jesse SAT.16

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Irons, explores connections linking the classical and contemporary periods. Montpelier City Hall Arts Center, 7 p.m. $5-15; free for kids 12 and under. Info, mcovermont@ gmail.com.

MOOSE CROSSING: Genre devotees revel in classic and contemporary jazz selections performed by sax player Zak Hampton and friends. Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m. $20; $45 includes dinner; preregister; BYOB. Info, 247-4295.

NEAVE TRIO: A cutting-edge ensemble performs an innovative program of contemporary classical music. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $27-30.

Info, 728-9878.

POSTMODERN JUKEBOX: Scott Bradlee’s globe-trotting collective is known to reimagine modern hits by everyone from Radiohead to Miley Cyrus as ditties from various bygone eras of popular music.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $35-65. Info, 775-0903.

SATURDAY KARAOKE: Amateur singers belt out their favorite tunes. Burlington VFW Post, 7:3010:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6532.

SOUND INVESTMENT JAZZ ENSEMBLE: Toes tap and fingers snap to a student performance celebrating the wisdom that “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.” Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

TUSK: This Fleetwood Mac tribute band excites fans with note-fornote renditions of popular songs by the “Say You Love Me” hit makers. Strand Center Theatre, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 p.m. $29-54.

Info, 518-563-1604, ext. 105.

outdoors

MACRAE FARM PARK BIRD MONITORING WALK: Birders explore diverse habitats, seeking winged species hanging around for late fall. Contact trip leader for details. Free; preregister. Info, jstyson17@gmail.com.

STICK-SEASON BIRD MONITORING: Ornithology enthusiasts don binoculars in search of winged species. Office building.

Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 8-10 a.m. Donations.

Info, 434-3068.

talks

ELIZABETH TALBOT & JAMIE HORTON: A moderated discussion in conjunction with the Dartmouth College Department of Theater’s production of The Living delves into the politics of plague. Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 603-646-2422.

FILM & MEDIA ALUMNI FEST: ALUMNI STORYTELLING ROUNDTABLE: Dartmouth graduates retrace their steps from the college to their careers in film and academia. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 10 a.m. & noon. Free. Info, 603-646-2422.

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theater

‘AIRSWIMMING’: See THU.14.

‘BOEING, BOEING’: See FRI.15.

CASHORE MARIONETTES: See THU.14, FlynnSpace, Burlington, 2 & 8 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966.

‘IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT’: See THU.14.

‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’: See THU.14, 2 p.m.

‘THE LIVING’: See FRI.15.

METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE IN HD: ‘MADAMA BUTTERFLY’: Soprano Hui He takes on the title role in this famous opera about a Japanese geisha who believes her arrangement with an American naval officer is a loving and legitimate marriage. Shown on screen.

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 1 p.m. $10-24. Info, 382-9222.

‘MOONSHINE IN VERMONT’: See FRI.15.

NIGHT OF NATIONS: Students perform in a multicultural showcase that takes viewers on a journey around the world. E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, spuja001@ plattsburgh.edu.

‘OTHER DESERT CITIES’: See FRI.15.

‘RE:PETER’: See THU.14.

‘THE SECRET GARDEN’: See FRI.15.

‘THE SLEEPOVER — A COMEDY OF MARRIAGE’: See WED.13, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

‘THE SUMMONING OF EVERYMAN’: See FRI.15.

words

CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING WORKSHOP: Teen scribes put pen to paper, responding to prompts from Mindy Wong of the Young Writers Project. Karma Bird House, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 324-9538.

POETRY EXPERIENCE: Writers share original work and learn from others in a supportive environment open to all ages and experience levels. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

WRITERS’ WERTFREI: Authors, both published and aspiring, meet monthly to share what they have written in a nonjudgmental, value-free atmosphere.

Waterbury Public Library, 10 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

SUN.17 bazaars

ANTIQUES MARKET: The past comes alive with offerings of furniture, glassware, jewelry and more at this ephemera extravaganza. Canadian Club, Barre, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. $2-5. Info, 751-6138.

NORTHFIELD AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY FALL CRAFT & VENDOR SALE: See SAT.16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

community

COMMUNITY MINDFULNESS PRACTICE: Sessions in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh include SEVEN DAYS NOVEMBER 13-20, 2019

sitting and walking meditation, a short reading, and open sharing.

Evolution Physical Therapy & Yoga, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, newleafsangha@gmail.com.

dance

BALKAN FOLK DANCING: Louise Brill and friends organize participants into lines and circles set to complex rhythms. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. $6; free for first-timers; bring snacks to share. Info, 540-1020.

ISRAELI FOLK DANCE: No partner is required for a beginnerfriendly session of circle and line dances. Wear shoes with clean soles. Social Hall, Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0218.

SALSALINA SUNDAY PRACTICE: Salsa dancers step in for a casual social. Salsalina Dance Studio, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. $5. Info, eingelmanuel@hotmail.com.

etc.

BURLINGTON FALL BRIDAL SHOW: Brides-to-be stay on top of current trends while mingling with industry professionals.

Vermont National Country Club, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $7-8. Info, 459-2897.

A CAUSE FOR PAWS CAFÉ FUNDRAISER: Animal lovers munch on goodies and meet adoptable dogs. Alliot Student Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 654-2000.

GRAND OPENING: See FRI.15.

HU CHANT: SOUND OF SOUL: People of all faiths lift their voices in a spiritual exercise followed by contemplation and conversation.

Eckankar Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.13.

health & fitness

TECH-ASSISTED MEDITATION MEET-UP: Mobile devices and headphones in tow, participants explore digital tools and techniques for achieving deep focus. Satori Float & Mind Spa, Shelburne, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 498-5555.

language

‘DIMANCHES’ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, stevenorman@ fastmail.fm.

montréal

‘MYTHIC’: See WED.13, 2 & 7 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

ALL-COMERS TUNES JAM: Irish, Scottish and French Canadian musical styles are in the spotlight during a democratic jam session.

Seven Stars Arts Center, Sharon, 4-9 p.m. Free. Info, 763-2334.

BEATON-PLASSE: See FRI.15, private residence, Braintree, 3:30 p.m. $8-20. Info, 728-6351.

CLASSICOPIA: In their “Jazzicle” program, violinist Tim Schwarz and pianist Daniel Weiser hit all the right notes in Claude Bollin’s classical/jazz crossover Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio, as well as in music by Gershwin, Bernstein and William Grant Still.

Fairlee Town Hall Auditorium, 2 p.m. $10. Info, 331-0997.

MONTPELIER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: See SAT.16, 3 p.m.

sports

PUBLIC SKATING: Active bodies coast across the ice. Plattsburgh State Fieldhouse, N.Y., 1-2:45 p.m. $2-3; additional cost for rentals.

Info, 518-564-4270.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.13.

FOMO?

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.13.

Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.13.

food & drink

BREAKFAST: Friends and neighbors meet for the most important meal of the day. Essex Junction VFW Post, 9-11 a.m. $10. Info, 878-0700.

BURGER WEEK: See WED.13.

CHOCOLATE TASTING: See SAT.16.

SALU-SALO: ‘PASASALAMAT’ OR THANKSGIVING: Vermont’s only Filipino restaurant serves up a culinary tour of the Philippines via a multicourse spread served family-style. Pica-Pica Filipino Cuisine, St. Johnsbury, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. $45. Info, 424-1585.

games

GAMES PARLOUR: Strategic thinkers bring favorite tabletop competitions to play with others.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 2-8 p.m. $5. Info, orsonbradford@ gmail.com.

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

talks

AMANDA GUSTIN: The Vermont Historical Society public program manager delivers “Justin Morgan’s Horse: Making an American Myth.” Richmond Free Library, 2-3:15 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3036.

MICHAEL BLAKESLEE: “Revolutionary War Chaplains and Church Planters” introduces listeners to the parsons who went to war in the 1770s and later started churches in Vermont.

Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

theater

‘BOEING, BOEING’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m.

‘THE CAKE’: A middle-aged baker faces her biases in a theater work

by Bekah Brunstetter. Presented as part of the Middlebury Actors Workshop’s Cutting Edge OffBroadway Play Reading Series.

Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, Middlebury, 4 p.m. $10. Info, 233-5255.

‘EXISTIBILITY’: The socially and politically charged Bread and Puppet Theater presents a new show about “existence or the ability to exist.” Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 3 p.m. Donations; limited space. Info, 525-3031.

‘THE LIVING’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m.

‘MOONSHINE IN VERMONT’: See FRI.15.

‘OTHER DESERT CITIES’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m.

‘THE SECRET GARDEN’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m.

words

FERRISBURGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: MEGAN PRICE: The writer shares secrets behind her humorous and sometimes harrowing Vermont Wild: Adventures of Fish & Game Wardens series. Ferrisburgh Town Office & Community Center, 2-4 p.m. Free.

Info, sheriarroyo@gmail.com.

MON.18 activism

TOXIC WHITENESS DISCUSSION GROUP: Peace & Justice Center representatives hold a space for white people to process the harmful effects of white supremacy on communities and individuals. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-2345, ext. 9.

agriculture

‘CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS ON LOCAL FARMING’: A panel discussion brings farmers and community members together to consider the impact of the climate crisis on Vermont agriculture. Community Center in Jericho, 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 829-8168.

crafts

HANDWORK CIRCLE: Friends and neighbors make progress on works of knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and other creative

endeavors. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.13.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.13.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.13.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.13.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.13, 6:30 p.m.

CORN HOLE: Competitors vie for points in this popular lawn game during 10 weeks of league play.

Barre Elks Lodge, registration, 6 p.m.; games, 6:45 p.m. $10; cash bar. Info, 479-9522.

MAGIC: THE GATHERING — MONDAY NIGHT MODERN: Tarmogoyf-slinging madness ensues when competitors battle for prizes in a weekly game. Brap’s Magic, Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $8.

Info, 540-0498.

PITCH: Players compete in a tricktaking card game. Barre Area Senior Center, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 479-9512.

health & fitness

CHAIR YOGA WITH SANGHA STUDIO: Supported poses promote health and well-being. Heineberg Senior Center, Burlington, 10:4511:45 a.m. Free. Info, 448-4262.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: Supervised clinical interns offer guidance and support to those looking to care for themselves using natural remedies. By appointment only. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, and Railyard Apothecary in Burlington, 4-8 p.m. $10-30; additional cost for herbs; preregister.

Info, 224-7100.

GUIDED GROUP MEDITATION: In keeping with the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, folks practice mindfulness through sitting, walking, reading and discussion.

Zenbarn Studio, Waterbury, 7:15-8 p.m. Free. Info, 505-1688.

holidays

HOLIDAY WINE TASTING: Oenophiles sip through more than 30 natural wines at their own pace, then stock up on dream bottles for the holiday season.

Cork Wine Bar & Market, Stowe, 5 p.m. $15-20. Info, 760-6143.

language

PLATTSBURGH CONVERSATION GROUP: French speakers maintain their conversational skills in a weekly meet-up. Plattsburgh Public Library, N.Y., 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, ajobin-picard@ cefls.org.

lgbtq

LGBTQ FILM SERIES: A conversation follows a viewing of a 2019 British drama adapted from a novel by Fiona Shaw. Call for the title. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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montréal

‘MYTHIC’: See WED.13, 7 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

CHAMBER ENSEMBLES: Playing in trios, a quartet and an octet, student musicians bring works by Bruch, Dvořák and Mendelssohn to life. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

SAMBATUCADA OPEN REHEARSAL: Burlington’s own samba street percussion band welcomes new members. No experience or instruments required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 862-5017.

SONGWRITING WORKSHOP SERIES: Local musicians Pat and Alison McHugh share tips and tools for structuring original tunes. Waterbury Public Library, 6-8 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

talks

STATE OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS: Activist Sandy Baird leads an open forum reflecting on and analyzing current events in a nonjudgmental setting. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7211.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.13.

words

MUST-READ MONDAYS: Lit lovers cover Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955.

VOICES OF COLOR SHOWCASE: People of color exercise their artistry when sharing stories and poetry. Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 8-10:30 p.m. $1. Info, 660-9346.

TUE.19 activism

HAVING EFFECTIVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE: TRAININGS FOR ASPIRING WHITE ALLIES SESSION 3: LET’S TALK ABOUT IMMIGRATION: Learn more about racism and how to speak up about it at this four-part series presented by the local chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT RACE: Attendees pick up tips for navigating conversations about race, racism, diversity and inclusion with children of varying ages. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 7-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 985-2827, ext. 212.

MOTHER UP! FAMILIES RISE FOR CLIMATE ACTION: MONTHLY GATHERING: Parents discuss the realities of the climate crisis and its

effects on young people. Dinner and childcare are provided.

Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, motherupmontpelier@350vt. org.

business

BUSINESS PLANNING COURSE: In a 10-week class presented by the Center for Women & Enterprise, aspiring entrepreneurs gain the confidence and knowledge to launch a small business. Center for Agricultural Economy, Hardwick, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 391-4870.

community

COMMUNITY DROP-IN CENTER HOURS: Wi-Fi, games and art materials are on hand at an open meeting space where folks forge social connections. GRACE, Hardwick, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 472-6857.

conferences

VERMONT REGIONAL WORKFORCE SUMMIT: See WED.13, Vermont Technical College, Randolph, employer session, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; service provider and educator session, noon-4 p.m. Info, 585-8225.

crafts

COMMUNITY CRAFT NIGHT: Makers stitch, spin, knit and crochet their way through projects while enjoying each other’s company. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

dance

SWING DANCING: Quick-footed participants experiment with different forms, including the Lindy Hop, Charleston and balboa. Beginners are welcome.

Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

fairs & festivals

RESOLVING WORKPLACE BODY PAIN (PART 2): A two-part talk delves into reversing discomfort related to prolonged sitting, gait abnormalities and postural dynamics. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

film

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

‘THE GAME CHANGERS’: Follow James Wilks — elite special forces trainer and winner of “The Ultimate Fighter” — as he travels the world on a quest for the truth behind what he believes to be the world’s most dangerous myth: that meat is necessary for protein, strength and optimal health. Woodstock Town Hall Theatre, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 457-3981.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.13.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.13.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.13.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.13.

food & drink

PENNYWISE PANTRY TOUR: On a guided exploration of the store, shoppers create a custom template for keeping the kitchen stocked with affordable, nutritious eats. City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington South End, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 861-9757.

TUESDAY LUNCH: An in-house chef whips up a well-balanced hot meal with dessert. See barreseniors.org for menu. Barre Area Senior Center, noon. $6; preregister. Info, 479-9512.

VERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CITIZEN OF THE YEAR & ABOVE & BEYOND AWARDS DINNER: Gobeille Hospitality founder Al Gobeille is honored for his community leadership and dedication to the betterment of the state. Hilton Burlington, 5:30-8:30 p.m. $85; $650 for a table of 8. Info, 262-0147.

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games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.13, 7 p.m.

health & fitness ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION EXERCISE PROGRAM: See THU.14.

COMMUNITY HERBAL CLINIC: See MON.18, Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

REIKI CLINIC: Thirty-minute treatments foster physical, emotional and spiritual wellness. JourneyWorks, Burlington, 3-5:30 p.m. $10-30; preregister.

Info, 860-6203.

SUN-STYLE LONG-FORM TAI CHI: Improved mood, greater muscle strength and increased energy are a few of the benefits of this gentle exercise for intermediate and advanced players.

South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 735-5467.

TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: Beginners boost their strength and balance through a gentle guided practice. South Burlington Recreation & Parks Department, 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 735-5467.

TAI CHI FOR FALL PREVENTION: See THU.14.

TUESDAY GUIDED MEDITATION: Participants learn to relax and let go. Stillpoint Center, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 318-8605.

language

ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? Language learners practice pronunciation and more in an informal gathering. Hartland Public Library, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473.

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Cailin lives in Burlington and cares deeply about the community, actively volunteering and serving on the board for the Boys & Girls Club of Burlington. She also spends time in local schools teaching financial literacy to students of all ages. Cailin is based in our Commercial Banking office at 180 Battery Street.

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Noodle Kaboodle!

Enjoy various November events in and around St. Johnsbury, including the following:

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: ITALIAN: Speakers hone their skills in the Romance language over a bag lunch.

Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

Wednesdays, 5pm to Close.

Specially curated multi-course meals that take you on a journey of thousands of miles . This event to benefit Umbrella, an organization whose mission is to nurture communities of strong women, families and safe homes. 45 pp . More details at www.pica-pica.us/salu-salo

PAUSE-CAFÉ FRENCH CONVERSATION: Frenchlanguage fanatics meet pour parler la belle langue. ¡Duino!

(Duende), Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 430-4652.

Sunday, November 17, 11:30a to 1:30p.

PRACTICE ENGLISH CLASS: With guidance from a native speaker, participants become more proficient in the English language.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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lgbtq

SHAPE NOTES FILM SCREENING: ‘SOUTHERN COMFORT’: A 2001 documentary takes viewers to rural Georgia and into the life of Robert Eads, a transgender man seeking treatment for ovarian cancer. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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‘MYTHIC’: See WED.13, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

World and National News on the Hour Headlines on the Half-Hour

NEWS PARTNERS

5:00 – 9:00 AM Morning News Service

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHORUS TRYOUTS & REHEARSAL: Men of all ages and abilities may lift their voices in Yuletide favorites sung with Vermont’s premier barbershop ensemble. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 505-9595.

MIDDLEBURY AFRICAN MUSIC & DANCE ENSEMBLE & MIDDLEBURY AFROPOP BAND: East African instrumentals, vocals and dance propel a performance highlighting various aspects of African societies Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

MILTON COMMUNITY BAND REHEARSAL: New musicians may join the ensemble as its members hone their skills in preparation for their holiday concert. Cornerstone Community Church, Milton, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 578-3467.

Noon – 1:00 PM Noon News Hour 4:00 – 5:30 PM Afternoon News Service

THE DAVE GRAM SHOW Interviews with political and business leaders, 9:00 – 11:00 AM authors, educators, and others in the news with call-ins from listeners.

STUDENT PERFORMANCE RECITAL: Pupils hit all the right notes in solos and duets by composers ranging from Miles Davis to Antonín Dvořák. University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

outdoors

SLOW & EASY HIKING: See THU.14.

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seminars

HOME-BUYING WORKSHOP: Experts demystify the homebuying process for newbie house hunters, from identifying your family’s needs to closing.

Barnyard Wood Crafted Pizza,

South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 879-8790.

SMART ARTIST SERIES: A professional development workshop presented by TheaterEngine, Big Heavy World and the Vermont Dance Alliance dives into digital marketing basics. Burlington City Arts, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, info@ vermontdance.org.

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FREE AIKIDO CLASS: A one-time complimentary introduction to the Japanese martial art focuses on centering and finding freedom while under attack.

Open to prospective students.

Aikido of Champlain Valley, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. Free.

Info, 951-8900.

talks

‘MAGNESIUM, THE FORGOTTEN MINERAL’: Experts break down why magnesium is so important to our bodies and whether our food provides enough of the mineral. Chemists By Nature, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 288-8324.

BILL MARES: What’s all the buzz about? “Bees Besieged: A History of Beekeeping” lays out the origin and evolution of the occupation sometimes called “farming for intellectuals.” Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 6-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 482-2878.

CURRENT EVENTS DISCUSSION GROUP: Sandy Baird moderates a forum for lively and courteous expression of views on the issues of the day. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-6955.

DAMIAN COSTELLO: A historical lecture explores the life and legacy of Lakota holy man Nicholas Black Elk. Milton Public Library, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

JOIN NEAL PEASE: Listeners bring questions to the talk “Hormone Balance in Women and Men.” Chemists By Nature, Colchester, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 288-8324.

LISA BROOKS: A professor of English and American studies at Amherst College, the speaker shares her knowledge in “Reframing Early History: King Philip’s War and the Abenaki Nation.” Mack Hall Auditorium, Northfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2000.

RACE CONVERSATIONS: Guided

by Ijeoma Oluo’s book So You Want to Talk About Race, community members explore concepts of culture, power and equity with facilitator Life LeGeros. Waterbury Public Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 244-7036.

SHALOM GOLDMAN: The Middlebury College professor who coauthored the libretto and wrote the vocal texts for the opera Akhnaten speaks ahead of a November 23 broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera. Unity Hall. Congregational Church, Middlebury, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7432.

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INTERMEDIATE MICROSOFT WORD: Students work with the word processor’s advanced features and customization options.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 865-7217.

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BROWN BAG BOOK CLUB: Readers voice opinions about Educated by Tara Westover.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

BURLINGTON FREE WRITE: Aspiring writers respond to prompts in a welcoming atmosphere. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-1664.

WINE & STORY OPEN MIC: Prompts inspire first-person narratives told to a live audience.

Shelburne Vineyard, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-1754.

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JUMP/START BUSINESS OF ART: FINANCES FOR ARTISTS: Matt Cleare of Davis & Hodgdon Associates CPAs covers accounting basics for creatives looking to build successful enterprises.

Generator, Burlington, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 540-0761.

KELLEY MARKETING GROUP BREAKFAST MEETING: Professionals in marketing, advertising, communications and social media brainstorm ideas for nonprofit organizations. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m.

Free. Info, 864-4067.

crafts

FIBER RIOT!: See WED.13.

KNITTER’S GROUP: See WED.13.

FOMO? Find even more local events in this newspaper and online:

art Find visual art exhibits and events in the art section and at sevendaysvt.com/art.

film See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section and at sevendayst.com/movies.

music + comedy Find club dates at local venues in the music + nightlife section and at sevendaysvt.com/music.

All family-oriented events are now published in Kids VT, our free parenting monthly. Look for it on newsstands and check out the online calendar at kidsvt.com.

Learn more about highlighted listings in the Magnificent 7 on page 11.

FIND FUTURE DATES + UPDATES AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/EVENTS

dance

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM: The multiethnic dance company performs a forward-thinking repertoire that uses the language of ballet to celebrate African American culture. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25-58.

Info, 863-5966.

SQUARE DANCING: See WED.13.

education

GRADE SCHOOL MORNING TOUR: A welcome and introduction set the stage for a classroom tour, tea and a Q&A for those curious about Waldorf education.

Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 8:30-10 a.m. Free.

Info, 985-2827, ext. 212.

etc.

BEGINNER & INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES: See WED.13.

GERMAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Community members practice conversing auf Deutsch.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

LUNCH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: SPANISH: See WED.13.

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GAYME NIGHT: Friends bond over contests such as Cards Against Humanity, Jenga Giant and Scrabble. Bring or borrow a game. Pride Center of Vermont, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

LUNCH WITH BOI CHAPLAIN: See WED.13.

MEMORABLE TIMES CAFÉ: Those living with mild to moderate memory loss and their care partners convene for casual social time. Refreshments are provided.

Vermont History Center, Barre, 1:30-3 p.m. Free. Info, 476-2681.

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CHROMATICATS & JAZZ VOCAL ENSEMBLE: Tom Cleary and Amber deLaurentis direct the concert “What’s Your Story: The Music of Mary Lou Williams and Other Great Women Jazz Composers.” University of Vermont Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3040.

See what’s playing at local theaters in the movies section.

ALMOST THERE: MOVIES ABOUT THE FUTURE: A pregnant woman is poised to deliver a child in a world where no babies have been born in 18 years in this film set in 2027. See jaquithpubliclibrary. org for title. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 426-3581.

‘HIDDEN PACIFIC 3D’: See WED.13.

‘INCREDIBLE PREDATORS 3D’: See WED.13.

‘OCEANS: OUR BLUE PLANET 3D’: See WED.13.

‘TINY GIANTS 3D’: See WED.13.

games

BRIDGE CLUB: See WED.13.

MAH JONGG IN BARRE: See WED.13.

health & fitness

ALL-LEVELS ACROYOGA CLASS: See WED.13.

CHAIR YOGA: See WED.13.

MEN’S HEALTH & WELLNESS EXPO: From free screenings and expert presentations to snacks and prizes, health-related activities and attractions promote well-being. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, 3-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2827.

RESILIENCE FLOW: See WED.13.

SEATED TAI CHI: See WED.13.

YOGA4CANCER: See WED.13.

language

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE OF THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGION SOCIAL HOUR: Francophones fine-tune their French-language conversation skills over cocktails.

Hilton Garden Inn Burlington Downtown, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, info@aflcr.org.

‘MYTHIC’: See WED.13, 8 p.m.

music

Find club dates in the music section.

OLD NORTH END NEIGHBORHOOD BAND TEEN MUSIC JAM: See WED.13.

SONG CIRCLE: Singers and musicians congregate for an acoustic session of popular folk tunes.

Godnick Adult Center, Rutland, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-1182.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC CHORUS REHEARSALS: See WED.13.

seminars

INTRODUCTION TO APPRECIATIVE LIVING: Alexandria Arnold introduces a method for seeing the world in a way that fosters joy, resilience and positivity. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, info@hungermountain.coop.

talks

CURRENT EVENTS CONVERSATION: Newsworthy subjects take the spotlight in this informal discussion.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free.

Info, 878-4918.

ERIK ESSELSTROM: The full professor lecture “In the Shadow of Mao’s Mushroom Clouds: Japanese Reactions to Chinese Nuclear Weapons in the 1960s” engages audience members.

Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-1297.

GINGER NICKERSON: “Telling Stories: Using Qualitative Research to Explore Natural Resource Management Issues” engages learners as part of the Current Topics in Science Speaker Series. Room 207, Bentley Hall, Northern Vermont University-Johnson, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, les.kanat@northern vermont.edu.

JIM CONDOS: Laws relating to accountability in all levels of government become crystal clear in a stop on the Vermont Secretary of State’s Transparency Tour. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 745-1393.

TEDX BROWNELL LIBRARY: Lifelong learners watch TED Talk videos centered on the topic “Facing Our Fears.” Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

tech

TECH HELP WITH CLIF: See WED.13.

TECH TUTOR: Techies answer questions about computers and devices during one-on-one help sessions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

theater

CHEMISTRY MAGIC SHOW: Saint Michael’s College students bring their bag of tricks to a familyfriendly performance. McCarthy Arts Center, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 654-2000.

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‘THE SEAGULL’ AUDITIONS: Actors vie for roles in BarnArts Center for the Arts’ production of Chekhov’s masterpiece exploring the romantic and artistic conflicts between a group of artists gathered at a country estate. The Grange Theatre, South Pomfret, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 359-2693.

“It had been so lonely living alone,

‘THE SOUND OF MUSIC’: The hills are alive in Northern Stage’s production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic tale of a nun-turned-singing nanny in pre-World War II Austria. Byrne Theater, Barrette Center for the Arts, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $34-69. Info, 296-7000.

but now my house feels like a home again.”

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POETRY SLAM: Wordsmiths in grades K through 12 read up to two original works to be judged by a panel of local writers.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

SYDNEY LEA: The former Vermont poet laureate reads from his latest collection, Here, in which he addresses the deep connection between human life and the natural world. The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.

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classes THE FOLLOWING CLASS LISTINGS ARE PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. ANNOUNCE YOUR CLASS FOR AS LITTLE AS $16.75/WEEK (INCLUDES SIX PHOTOS AND UNLIMITED DESCRIPTION ONLINE). SUBMIT YOUR CLASS AD AT SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTCLASS.

BCA Studios

Burlington City Arts Fall Class Registration is now open! Find these classes and many more at burlingtoncityarts.org.

DARKROOM CRASH COURSE: No experience necessary. Explore the traditional, analog, black-andwhite darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black-and-white film, process film into negatives, and make silver gelatin prints.

Students will leave with the skills and confidence to join the darkroom as a member. All 35mm film, paper and darkroom supplies included. Bring your manual 35mm or medium-format film camera to the first class. Instructor: Rebecca Babbitt. Mon., Nov. 18-Dec. 9, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $180/person; $162 for BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

ENGAGING STUDENTS THROUGH VISUAL IMAGERY & DISCUSSION: Learn gallery educators’ tips for further developing your students’ abilities to analyze, reflect upon and discuss visual imagery while experiencing the current exhibitions at the BCA Center.

Participants will also review and practice techniques for facilitating in-class critiques and post-work reflection. Many of the strategies presented are easily transferred to assisting students in literary analysis, as well, so educators from all disciplines are encouraged to attend. Instructor: Kate McKernan. Mon., Nov. 18, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FRIDAY ADULT WHEEL, OPTION 9: Curious about the pottery wheel? Spend a Friday night with our pottery instructors at the BCA Clay Studio. A ticket includes a wheel-throwing demonstration at the beginning of class, access to a wheel and time to try making a bowl or cup. There is a $5 additional fee per clay piece to be fired and glazed by the studio. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Instructors: Sheilagh Smith & Kim DeMaria. Fri., Nov.

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15, 7:30-9 p.m. Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

FRIDAY FAMILY CLAY, OPTION 9: Spend a Friday night with your family at the BCA Clay Studio. A ticket provides a wheel demonstration at the beginning of class, wheel access (for ages 6+), hand building for any age, unlimited clay, and time to create. Youth must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge.

Additional tickets are required for adults who’d like to join the fun and either hand build or use a wheel of their own. If you’d like your work to be fired and glazed by the studio, there is a $5 fee per piece. Finished pottery will be available for pickup three weeks after visit. Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable.

Instructors: Sheilagh Smith & Kim DeMaria. Fri., Nov. 15, 5-7 p.m.

Cost: $10/person; $9/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

LIFE DRAWING, OPTION 9: Purchase a drop-in card and get the sixth visit for free! Spend the evening with other local artists, drawing from one of our experienced models. Please bring your drawing materials and paper. Purchase a ticket to hold your spot; drop-ins are welcome if space is available.

Ticket purchases for this class are nonrefundable. Instructor: Misoo Bang. Fri., Nov.15, 7:30-9 p.m. Cost: $10/participant; $9/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PENDANTS: Come check out the jewelry and fine metals studio by making your own copper, brass or nickel pendant using basic cutting, stamping and sawing techniques. Open to all skill levels. All materials included. Thu., Nov. 7, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $37/ person; $33.30/BCA members.

Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PHOTOGRAPHING ARTWORK, OPTION 1: Learn how to take professional-quality digital images of your work in this hands-on workshop in our lighting studio.

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school, submitting work for an exhibition or putting together a website, you’ll leave this workshop with techniques that will improve your images and enhance your presentations. Bring up to five pieces no larger than 40x60 inches.

Digital camera use and flash drive provided. Thu., Nov. 7, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Cost: $45/person; $40.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PHOTOGRAPHING ARTWORK, OPTION 2: Learn how to take professional-quality digital images of your work in this handson workshop in our lighting studio. Whether you’re applying to art school, submitting work for an exhibition or putting together a website, you’ll leave this workshop with techniques that will improve your images and enhance your presentations. Bring up to five pieces no larger than 40-by60 inches. Digital camera use and flash drive provided. Instructors: Renee Greenlee & Mark La Rosa.

Thu., Nov. 14, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $45/person; $40.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@ burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK, OPTION 1: In this 90-minute assisted photography session, you will work one-on-one with a BCA professional to photograph your two-dimensional or three-dimensional artwork in the BCA Lighting Studio. Your work will be professionally lit and photographed by BCA staff, and you will receive one high-res TIFF and one JPEG of each image.

During the photo session, you will be responsible for moving your artwork around and will be responsible for unpacking and packing up your artwork at the end of the session. BCA staff will handle the lighting and camera work during the shoot and will apply basic color correction, density

and contrast adjustments to each image in BCA’s Digital Lab. Any additional digital post production will be your responsibility.

The session will start and end promptly and all artwork must be outside the lighting studio and ready to shoot at the beginning of the session. We encourage you to arrive 15 minutes before the session to settle in. You may bring up to 10 unframed pieces no larger than 40-by-60 or 10 objects no larger than 24-by-24-by-24. BCA will provide a digital camera during the session and a flash drive for taking home. Registration is required and cancellations within a week’s time will be nonrefundable. Wed., Nov. 20, 1:30-3 p.m.

Cost: $120/person; $108/BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington. Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

SUNDAY FAMILY PAINT, OPTION 2: Spend a morning with teaching artist Kate McKernan in BCA’s painting and drawing studio.

Using our paints, brushes, easels and more, your family will create beautiful works of art. All supplies are provided. No experience needed. Youths must be accompanied by an adult. Adults may assist their child(ren) free of charge. Additional tickets are required for adults who’d like to join the fun and paint on their own.

All ages welcome. Instructor: Kate McKernan. Sun., Nov. 17, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $10/person; $9/ BCA members. Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, jflanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

THROWING SETS: Prerequisite: proficiency in centering, throwing cups and throwing bowls. In this four-week class, students will be guided through the process of creating wheel-thrown sets.

Topics will include making multiples of the same piece, stacking mugs and nesting bowls, and serving sets specific to a type of food or beverage, such as a sake bottle with matching cups or a coffee cup with saucer.

Students will be coached to use form, dimensions and surface decoration to produce aesthetically cohesive sets and groupings.

This intermediate-level course is intended for students with proficiency in centering, throwing cups and throwing bowls. Class price includes your first bag of clay and open studio access during the weeks of your class. Additional clay is sold separately at $25/25-pound bag. All glazes and firings are also included. No class Nov. 27. Instructor: Chris Vaughn.

Wed., Nov. 20-Dec.18, 9:30 a.m.noon. Cost: $170/person; $153/ BCA members Location: BCA Studios, 405 Pine St., Burlington.

Info: John Flanagan, 865-5355, fjlanagan@burlingtoncityarts.org, burlingtoncityarts.org.

dance DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: nightclub-style, group and private, four levels.

Beginner walk-in classes, Wed., 6 p.m. $15/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in anytime and prepare for an enjoyable workout. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

classes. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

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VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian jiujitsu is a martial arts combat style based entirely on leverage and technique. Brazilian jiujitsu self-defense curriculum is taught to Navy SEALs, CIA, FBI, military police and special forces.

No training experience required.

Easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life! Classes for men, women and children.

Students will learn realistic bully-proofing and self-defense life skills to avoid becoming victims and help them feel safe and secure. Our sole purpose is to help empower people by giving them realistic martial arts training practices they can carry with them throughout life. IBJJF and CBJJ certified black belt sixthdegree instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr.: teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A five-time Brazilian National Champion; International World Masters Champion and IBJJF World Masters Champion.

Accept no Iimitations! Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 598-2839, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com.

TAIKO & DJEMBE CLASSES IN BURLINGTON!: New sessions start in November! Classes for adults, kids and parents.

Parade and conga classes, too.

Intermediate Taiko, Mon., 6-8:20 p.m. Taiko for Adults, Tue., 5:306:20 p.m. & Wed., 6:30-7:50 p.m. Djembe for Adults, Wed., 5:30-6:20 p.m. Kids and Parents World Drumming, Wed., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Kids and Parents Taiko, Tue., 4:30-5:20 p.m. Drums provided. Schedule/register online.

Location: Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 3G, Burlington. Info: 999-4255, burlingtontaiko.org.

fitness RIPPED: TOTAL BODY WORKOUT: Resistance, intervals, power, plyometrics, endurance. Using free weights; body weight; driving, motivating music; and a new focus and activity every few minutes, participants jam through R.I.P.P.E.D. with smiles, determination and strength.

It is tough yet doable and fun.

Beginners welcome! All moves are modified to meet your fitness level. Tue., 6-7 p.m.; Sat., 9-10 a.m.

Cost: $13/1-hour class. Location: North End Studio A, 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Tweak Your Physique, Stephanie Shohet, 578-9243, steph.shohet@ gmail.com, rippedplanet.com/ instructor/stephanie_shohet.

gardening BIRCH BARK ORNAMENTS: Learn to create beautiful ornaments using birch bark. Register online.

Wed., Nov. 20, 5-8 p.m. Cost: $60/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply-Burlington, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington. Info: Meredith White, 660-3505, meredithw@ gardeners.com, gardeners.com/ store.

FLORAL & FORAGED CENTERPIECES : Create a unique centerpiece using fresh and foraged seasonal materials. Register at gardeners.com/store. Sun., Nov. 24, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $60/person.

Location: Gardener’s SupplyWilliston, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: Meredith White, 658-2433, meredithw@gardeners. com, gardeners.com/store.

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: We provide high-quality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our 13th year.

Small classes, private lessons and online instruction with a native speaker. Also live, engaging, face-to-face online English

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Media Factory

IPAD + IPHONE VIDEO PRODUCTION: Learn video and audio recording on your iPad or iPhone in this comprehensive workshop. Explore the functions of your tablet and work with special mounts for tripods, lights and microphones to create a mobile production kit. Wed., Nov. 20, 6 p.m. Cost: $25/person suggested donation. Location: BTV Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington. Info: Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@retn.org, bit.ly/ btvmediafactory.

MEDIA FACTORY ORIENTATION: The gateway to checking out gear and using our facilities. We’ll take a tour of the Media Factory, go over our policies and the cool stuff you can do here, and fill out paperwork to get you started as a community producer! Register at bit.ly/btvmediafactory or call 651-9692. Sat., Nov. 16, 11 a.m. Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington. Info: Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@retn.org, bit.ly/ btvmediafactory.

WOMEN & NONBINARY FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE: Local filmmakers, including Jude Domski, Kate Donnelly, Alex Escaja and Athena Kafantaris, share

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their work and talk about their creative process and motivation.

Register at bit.ly/btvmediafactory or call 651-9692. Fri., Nov. 15, 7 p.m.

Location: Media Factory, 208 Flynn Ave., Suite 2G + 2K, Burlington.

Info: Gin Ferrara, 651-9692, ginf@ retn.org, bit.ly/btvmediafactory.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Taught by qualified meditation instructors at the Burlington Shambhala Meditation Center: Wed., 6-7 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Free and open to anyone. Free public meditation: weeknights, 6-7 p.m.; Tue. and Thu., noon-1 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-noon. Classes and retreats also offered. See our website at burlington.shambhala.org.

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 658-6795.

WEEKLY SOUND BATH MEDITATION: Relax. Release.

Reset. Join Kirk Jones for a sound bath with sound massage, featuring 24 Tibetan singing bowls, three crystal bowls and one gong.

The sounds and vibrations offer relaxation for the mind, melt away stress, vibrate away pain and bring the body into coherent, peaceful, elevated, harmonic wholeness. Starts Oct. 30, Wed., 7:30-8:45 p.m. Cost: $20/1.25hour class. Location: Wellness Collective, 431 Pine St., 3rd

Floor, Burlington. Info: Evolvlove Sound Therapy, Kirk Jones, 510697-7790, love@evolvlove.com, evolvlove.com.

shamanism EXTRAORDINARY REALITIES: Evidence of shamanic practice goes back 50,000+ years all around the world. Learn how to journey into the spirit realms to meet with compassionate helping spirits. The session will include an overview of shamanic divination and healing. Meet your power animal and spirit teacher in a core shamanic introduction. Sat., Nov. 23, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $123/9hour class. Location: Shaman’s Flame Workshop Center, 644 Log Town Rd., Woodbury. Info: Peter Clark, 456-8735, peterclark13@ gmail.com, shamansflame.com.

tai chi NEW BEGINNER TAI CHI CLASS IN BURLINGTON: We practice Cheng Man-ch’ing’s “simplified” 37-posture Yang-style form. The course will be taught by Patrick Cavanaugh, longtime student and assistant to Wolfe Lowenthal, student of Cheng Man-ching and founder of Long River Tai Chi Circle. Patrick is a senior instructor at LRTTC in Vermont and New Hampshire. Starts Nov. 6, 8-9 a.m.; open registration Nov. 27.

Cost: $65/mo. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Long River Tai Chi Circle, Patrick Cavanaugh, 4906405, patrick@longrivertaichi.org, longrivertaichi.org.

12-13, Oct. 17-18, Nov. 14-15. Cost: $2,795/person. Location: The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, 34 Oak Hill Rd., Williston. Info: Allison Morse, 872-8898, ayurvedavt@ comcast.net.

SNAKE-STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings.

Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 3636890, snake-style.com.

ESSENTIAL SOUND: Join essential oil expert Liz Perkins and master sound healer Kirk Jones for the essential sound series! We present two therapeutic vibratory healing modalities together, integrating

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Practice yoga in a down-to-earth atmosphere with some of the most experienced teachers and therapeutic professionals in Burlington. All are welcome. Try our Beginners Series, Tuesdays, November 5 to December 17. We are all beginners. This is your invitation to enjoy learning the basics and start exploring the benefits of a yoga practice. Daily drop-in classes including $10 community classes, Yoga Wall and Yoga Therapeutics classes led by physical therapists.

Dive deeper into your practice! $10-$15/class; $140/10-class card; $10/community class. New students $100/10-class card.

New! Student Monthly Unlimited just $55/mo. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington.

Info: 864-9642, evolutionvt.com.

well-being 200-HOUR AYURVEDA INTEGRATION PROGRAM: Join us in learning and immerse yourself in the oldest surviving preventative health care system.

This program is ideal for yoga teachers, counselors, therapists, bodyworkers, nurses, doctors, wellness coaches, herbalists, etc.

VSAC approved and payment plans available. Can transfer hours to Kripalu’s Ayurveda Health Counselor program. More information at ayurvedavermont. com/classes. 2020 schedule: Feb. 8-9, Mar. 7-8, Apr. 4-5, May 2-3, Jun. 6-7, Jul. 11-12, Aug. 15-16, Sep.

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essential oils plus sound for immunity and stress relief. Apply oils with bowls, then relax in a sound bath. Every first Monday, Nov. 4-Feb. 3, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $24/person includes essential oils plus sound bath Location: The Wellness Collective, 431 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Liz Perkins, 324-0860, lizperkins5@gmail.com, wellnesscollectivevt.com.

the Winooski River. We offer highquality classes, workshops and trainings taught by experienced teachers who honor the beauty and wisdom of the yogic tradition.

Learn more about our Teacher Enhancement Program and ongoing workshops, including Yin Yoga, December 6-8. All bodies and abilities welcome. Daily classes, workshops, 200- and 300-hour yoga teacher training. Cost: $49/ first month of unlimited classes; workshop & training prices vary.

Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, Suite 126, Burlington.

Info: 343-8119, laughingriveryoga. com.

SANGHA STUDIO |: NONPROFIT, DONATION-BASED YOGA: Sangha Studio builds an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga. Free yoga service initiatives and outreach programs are offered at 17 local organizations working with all ages.

Join Sangha in both downtown Burlington and the Old North End for one of their roughly 60 weekly classes and workshops. Become a Sustaining Member for $60/ month and practice as often as you like! Daily classes. Location: Sangha Studio, 120 Pine St. & 237 North Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 448-4262, info@sangha studio.org, sanghastudio.org.

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SEVEN DAYS: I understand that you went through a period of falling out of love with music. When you felt the most disconnected from that part of your life, what did you imagine you’d do instead?

GRACE POTTER: I’m really excited about house renovations — which is actually a pretty lucrative career that I had been pursuing in Vermont. I kind of figured I would make music, but I would fix up houses, too. I specialized in restoring historic properties, and there are a lot of them in Vermont. Coming out to California, it was really amazing because there’s all this new construction. I was like, “These places are in great shape. I could fix these up in a minute.”

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Grace Potter opens up about her new album, Daylight

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ot so long ago, Grace Potter thought she was done with music. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, the Vermontborn rocker, with the aid of her longtime band the Nocturnals, saw her popularity skyrocket. She nabbed the attention of rock-and-roll legends such as the Rolling Stones and Jackson Browne and had built an enthusiastic international fan base.

But in 2015 she dissolved the Nocturnals and released her debut solo album, Midnight. A somewhat awkward transition from front person to solo artist left Potter lost. As she puts it in an essay she wrote about her recently released new album, Daylight, “There was so much hurt connected to my musical past that I didn’t know how to embark on a new musical future.”

As anyone who’s endured an existential crisis might say, sometimes the only way out is through. During the transition from Midnight to Daylight, both produced by her husband Eric Valentine, she had a reawakening. All it took was time away to grow, think and, as Potter tells Seven Days, get out of her head.

Another reason for the four-year gap in record releases: In 2017, Potter revealed to the crowd at Grand Point North, her annual music festival at Burlington’s Waterfront Park, that she would soon be a mom. Her son, Sagan, was born the following year.

Now living in California, Potter, 36, returns to Vermont on Saturday, November 30, to play a free show as part of the 2019 HomeLight Killington Cup at Killington Resort. Seven Days caught up with her by phone.

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Granted, I think it’s probably a little less lucrative than I was imagining. I got into it a little bit here. I was doing lots of house painting and demolition and landscaping — getting my hands dirty, the way I used to. And it felt so good to be useful and use my hands for my work again, in a very different way. I found it incredibly rewarding. This was before I had the baby.

It wasn’t even about that. I just wanted to go do something — anything — that was the opposite of what I had been doing.

Music really came back in through that process.

SD: The process of recording and producing Daylight was a bit different from past albums. Specifically, you recorded it as a live band in the studio. How does that process come through in the final product?

GP: For me, it’s the performance. For Eric, he’s exploring sounds and really wanting to capture what I refer to as a “bloody performance,” which means there’s a lot of bleed from the drums to the guitars to the bass guitar to my vocals. You can hear all of us playing in the room, because it was bleeding. There’s a little, tiny bit of separation, but not much.

For me, I could feel the energy of the band. My performances just naturally had momentum. I would think, I can’t screw this up because they’re all here giving their best. And that energy feeds and grows and becomes much more general for me.

When I’m in the vocal booth banging out take after take, you get in your own head.

It feels like brain surgery. Whereas, being in the studio live, every moment matters, and everybody’s time matters.

SD: Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius appear five times throughout Daylight. How did that relationship form?

GP: They opened for the Nocturnals and me in Chicago. Jeff Tweedy was really excited about them, and he had reached out to my management to say we should be in each other’s presence at some point on this tour. It was a long time ago, but I never forgot their performance and their energy.

The next year, we booked them at Grand Point North. This would have been 2014. They came and sang “With A Little Help From My Friends” during the big encore moment that we usually have. It AFTER MIDNIGHT

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Help yourself to an early stocking stuffer with JAMES KOCHALKA SUPERSTAR’s surprise album Eggs. The impish singersongwriter hung up his hat in 2017 — well, he at least retired (mostly) from live performance. But that didn’t mean the Burlington-based cartoonist was going to give up music completely.

The brand-new 12-track album features more of what you’d expect from the bizarro songwriter: bouncy, childlike melodies that cross into decidedly unchildlike territory. These include the profanity-laden hard-rock bangers “Teenage Cannibal” and “Fuck Shit Up,” the latter of which begins, “We’re here to fuck shit up / Let’s fuck shit up tonight” over jagged guitar chords.

Don’t let Kochalka’s general whimsy fool you. This is not music for small children — unless you’re cool with your small children repeating the aforementioned lyrics.

“I wrote these songs super quick, just for this project, in about three days,” Kochalka wrote in an email to Seven Days. He explained that frequent collaborator JASON COOLEY (BLUE BUTTON, BAG OF PANTIES) invited him to record to

piano recordings. (He recorded those instrumental tracks at home, because, as he pointed out in his email, he could not get the piano up into Cooley’s attic.)

Eggs is available to stream and download at kochalka.bandcamp.com.

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four-track cassette in his attic “like we used to do in the ’90s.”

Cooley explained via email that he just moved into a new home with an attic, a feature he hadn’t had in-house since 1996. He added that he and Kochalka used to record regularly in the top-floor space.

“I wanted to have fun like that again, where he’d sing me a song, I’d learn it, and we’d record it right there,” Cooley wrote.

Kochalka also revealed that he’s been learning to play piano and that the new album features some of his first-ever

In other music news, Burlington rock outfit CLEVER GIRLS recently released the single “Remember Pluto” via EggHunt Records. It precedes a new full-length album, to be released in 2020. It’s the first new music from the lauded band since its 2018 debut album, Luck. As sharp and charming as ever, the band, led by DIANE JEAN, pushes deeper into its twist-of-twang, grungy rock sound. In fact, the song sounds fuller and thicker than anything Clever Girls have released previously. “‘Remember Pluto’ is about finding a way to acknowledge and dismiss your anxieties in a constructive manner,” Diane Jean said.

A new KAYHL COOPER-directed video accompanies the track. As is typical for the Vermont expat director (he moved to New York City a few months ago), SOUNDBITES

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Audrey Bernstein (jazz) at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

open mics & jams WED.13

Blues Jam at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

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The Dip, Erin & the Wildfire (R&B, soul) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $12/15.

Familiar Faces (jam) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Eamon Fogarty, Dead Island, (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $3/8. 18+.

Irish Sessions (traditional) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Flux Capacitor (jam) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free/$5. 18+.

Open Mic Night at Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 8 p.m. Free.

Jason Baker (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Jim Charanko (singer-songwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic with Austtin at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Jimmy Eat World, Pronoun (rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $35/39.

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Open Mic at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Lekko (folk, Slavic roots) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Mike Martin and Geoff Kim (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Alex Budney at Localfolk Smokehouse, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Mosaic featuring special guests and members of Kat Wright (jam) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

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Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (open jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

O’hAnleigh (Irish, Americana) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Dave Mitchell’s Blues Revue (open jam) at Red Square, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

Talking Lake Company with Robin Reid, Houston Illo and Paul Snyder, Ian Steinberg (folk) at the Double E Lounge at Essex Experience, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

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Berklee American Roots Night at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free.

Brooks Hubbard Band (Americana) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Can-Am Jazz Band at Parker Pie Co., West Glover, 7 p.m. Free.

Fossa, Lily Seabird (jam) at SideBar, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $3.

Hana Kahn with Thomas Gunn (pop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Homeboy Sandman, Billy Woods, Crusty Cuts, Riven C., Zesty Boi (hip-hop) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 7 p.m.

Free.

Light Club Jazz Sessions and Showcase at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

Matt Dolliver Hardiman Trio (jazz) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Ripe, Castlecomer (jam) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $16/18.

The Rough Suspects (rock, blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m.

Free.

SAT.16

Devil May Care After a childhood in which she was subjected to nothing but religious music, alt-country

singer-songwriter SARAH SHOOK began a rebellious path. The name of her first band, Sarah Shook & the Devil, was a pointed response to the repressive Christian environment in which she was raised. Now backed by the DISARMERS, Shook is known for a certain confrontational attitude in her songwriting. As she sings on “New Ways to Fail” from her 2018 album Years: “I need their shit like I need another hole in my head.” Catch Sarah Shook and the Disarmers on Saturday, November 16,

Via Intercom (folk, electronic) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Western Terrestrials (honky-tonk) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9:30 p.m.

Free.

Wylie Shipman (singersongwriter) at North Hero House Inn & Restaurant, 5:30 p.m. Free.

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Ben Cosgrove (neo classical) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Bob and Tim (jazz) at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

Brooks Hubbard Band (Americana) at the Skinny Pancake, Hanover, N.H., 9 p.m.

Free.

Cooie Sings (Americana, jazz) at Gusto’s, Barre, 5 p.m. Free.

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Friday Morning Sing-Along with Linda Bassick & Friends (kids’ music) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Band at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 9 p.m.

Free.

‘No Easy Mile’ Film Screening Benefit Concert with Walk Talk (soul, R&B) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 8 p.m. Donation.

FRO with Alex Budney and Andy Suits (R&B, funk) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Kalie Shorr, Jesse Taylor Band (singer-songwriter) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10/12.

Gemma Laurence (indie folk) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Keller Williams (Americana, rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $20/23.

Parks & Vachon (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m.

Free.

The Hitmen (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m. Free.

The Lemon Flyers (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. Free.

Honky Tonk Happy Hour with Mark LeGrand at Sweet Melissa’s, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Lisa Bastoni (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

The Peacheaters: An Allman Brothers Band Experience at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $7.

Isabella Sances Duet (jazz) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Local Dork (eclectic vinyl) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

Jeff and Gina (Americana) at the Tap Room at Switchback Brewing Co., Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

John Abair and His Good Pals (folk, country) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Lush Honey (funk, jazz) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

McKew (singer-songwriter) at Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 8 p.m. Free.

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Family Night (open jam) at SideBar, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic at SideBar, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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at Club Metronome in Burlington. Local singer-songwriter REID PARSONS adds support.

Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Irish Session at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 2 p.m. donation.

Nobby Reed Project (blues) at the Double E: T10 Listening Room, Essex Junction, 7:30 p.m. $15/20.

Phil Abair Band (rock) at the Old Post, South Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free.

P(x)3 (jam) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m.

Free.

Roy and the Wrecks (rock) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

(Sandy) Alex G, Tomberlin, Indigo De Souza (indie rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $17.

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Blues Jam with Collin Craig and Friends at Nectar’s, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

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Bluegrass Session at Jericho Café & Tavern, 7 p.m. Free.

Irish Sessions (traditional) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

John Lackard Blues Jam at Sweet Melissa’s, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Old Time Sessions at Rabble-Rouser Chocolate & Craft Co., Montpelier, 6 p.m.

Free.

Open Mic with Andy Lugo at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic with Austtin at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Tom Caswell Blues Jam at Hatch 31, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free.

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Other publications are taking note of the new song, too. The track has been featured on blogs such as the Talkhouse and If It’s Too Loud.

Clever Girls will presumably perform “Remember Pluto” at their live show on Friday, November 15, at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge in South Burlington. Locals ZEUS SPRINGSTEEN open, and Maine rockers WEAKENED FRIENDS headline.

Sweet Surrender?

Montpelier nightclub Sweet Melissa’s is in trouble. According to a GoFundMe campaign published on September 25, the main problem is that a shift in ownership in 2018 plus “too many repairs and a few tax mistakes of our own” have led the business into more debt than it can handle. Seven Days reached out to representatives of Sweet Melissa’s for comment but did not receive a response by press time.

On Friday, November 15, the club hosts a benefit concert, a save Sweet Melissa’s event, if you will. The night, called Burly Babes, features a slew of beguiling burlesque artists ready to shake it like a Polaroid picture, including GINGE O’LOLLY, RUTHLESS RETRIBUTION, KATNISS EVERQUEER, KITTEN MAPANTS, LIBBY LAWLESS, DOMINI’QUE ANJOU, MOLLY MACK, CAROLINA MOONBEAM and INNOCENT IVY. A closure of Sweet Melissa’s, one of only two Capital City nightclubs with consistently robust music offerings, would be a big blow to Montpelier’s creative culture.

We’ll have more on this story soon.

Poking the Bear

Well, I done did it. I poked the bear, and it reared up on its furry haunches and let out a big old “raaawwwrrr.”

I’m referring to the recent change in the Seven Days club dates and my subsequent call for feedback. In case you missed it or have no idea what I’m talking about, the club dates used to be a bit of a jumble, and we’ve since reorganized them. And a few people have made sure to let me know that they are none too pleased.

Formerly, all manner of nightlife events were presented in a weekly chronological stream, broken up only by date and, within those sections, by

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region, and finally by venue itself. Now, they’re broken up into five categories: Live Music, Open Mics & Jams, DJs, Comedy and Karaoke/Trivia/Etc. MICHAEL Obviously, there were several pros to the old method, the biggest of which 388 Pine Street, Burlington seems to have been: That’s the way we’d always done it. But that’s hardly Interior Painting DID YOU KNOW...? a reason to keep doing something.

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music+nightlife live music FRI.15 CONTINUED FROM P.60 Sergio Torres (country, Latin) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Seth Freeman with Tim Stout (blues) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $5.

Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Supernatural (rock covers) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9 p.m. $5.

Threatpoint, Barishi, Kiefcatcher (metal) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Tiffany Pfeiffer (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Weakened Friends, Clever Girls, Zeus Springsteen (rock) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $10/12.

The Willoughbys (Americana) at Monkey House, Winooski, 5 p.m.

Free.

SAT.16

Andy Hoadley (Americana) at El Toro, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

Anthony Santor (jazz) at Bleu Northeast Seafood, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Bad Accent (folk-rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Barry Bender (singer-songwriter) at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free.

Blue Rock Boys (bluegrass) at the Old Foundry at One Federal Restaurant & Lounge, St. Albans, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Brotality, Max Crowley (metal) at the Howlin’ Mouse Record Store, Rutland, 7 p.m. $5.

Calvin & Rose (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, noon.

Free.

Carbon Leaf, Dan Mills (alt-country, indie rock) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $23/25.

Cooie Sings (Americana, jazz) at the Quarry Kitchen + Spirits, Barre, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Dancing Bean People (psychedelic rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 3 p.m. Free.

The Dog Catchers (rock) at Smitty’s Pub, Burlington, 8 p.m.

Free.

The Flycatchers (country) at Notte, Middlebury, 10 p.m. Free.

Gary Wade (singer-songwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

State Champ The legacy of MTV’s continues to ripple throughout the American comedy landscape. Many of its cast members have brought to life some of the most popular movies and TV shows of the last 25 years.

George Murtie (covers) at the Double E: T10 Listening Room, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $12.

writer/actor/standup comedian is known

Glass Onion (rock) at Olive Ridley’s, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 9:30 p.m. Free.

American

Higher Education (jam, reggae) at Orlando’s Bar & Lounge, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Hunter (rock) at Monopole, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 10 p.m. Free.

Jam the Radar (jam) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 11:30 p.m. $5.

MON.18

Art Herttua and Ray Caroll (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Chief among them is MICHAEL IAN BLACK. The

Charlotte Jacobs (indie pop) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

for roles such as McKinley in the Wet Hot extended

Summer

universe,

Daniel Romano (folk, country) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12.

Peepers in the anachronistic historical

Dark Star Orchestra (Grateful Dead tribute) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $28/32.

comedy “Another Period” and Pastor Mike in the pageant circuit satire “Insatiable.”

Black

performs

Erin Cassels-Brown (indie folk) at Monkey House, Winooski, 5 p.m.

Free.

Thursday

through Saturday, November

Fiddle Witch (Americana) at Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free.

14 through 16, at the

Jamie Carey (rock covers) at Gusto’s, Barre, 6 p.m. Free.

Vermont Comedy Club in

Kikagaku Moyo, Minami Deutsch (rock) at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. $15.

Burlington.

Kung Fu, Litz (funk-rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $15.

The Vermont Blues Society Meeting and Showcase featuring Dunny Lowdown, Nobby Reed Project, Dennis Willmott, Paul Asbell, Clyde Stats, Chuck Eller, Dwight Ritcher at ArtsRiot, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. $5.

short-lived sketch comedy program “The State”

Gary Wade (singer-songwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Grupo Sabor 2.0 (Latin) at Red Square, Burlington, 6 p.m. $5.

Remember Baker (bluegrass) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, noon. Free.

Ryan Fauber with Erich Pachner (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Seth Yacovone at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free.

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TUE.19

Last Kid Picked (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 9 p.m.

Free.

L.Dora (rock) at SideBar, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Leather Neck featuring Jack and Joe from Swimmer (folk-rock) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Left Eye Jump (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free.

Mackenzie & Missisquoi (rock) at On Tap Bar & Grill, Essex Junction, 5 p.m. Free.

Mal Maïz (cumbia) at Foam Brewers, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

Camp Howard, the Dead Shakers (indie rock) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $7.

Piano Duel: Andriana Chobot and Josh Glass at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Purple: A Tribute to Prince featuring Craig Mitchell, DJ LKHD at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 9 p.m. $15.

REDadmiral (rock, country) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Rust Bucket (old-time) at Whammy Bar, Calais, 7 p.m. Free.

Mikahely (acoustic, global) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, Reid Parsons (alt-country) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 7 p.m. $13/16.

The Music of the Beatles for Kids at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, noon. $15.

Southtown Bluegrass at Stone Corral Brewery, Richmond, 8 p.m.

Free.

Spencer Lewis Trio (folk-rock) at Jericho Café & Tavern, 6 p.m. Free.

Streetlight Shakers (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

The Suitcase Junket, Mal Devisa, Ali McGuirk (roots, Americana) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $12/15.

Wylie Shipman (singersongwriter) at Twiggs — An American Gastropub, St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

SUN.17

Andy the Giant (singer-songwriter) at Red Square, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Cannibal Corpse, Thy Art Is Murder, Perdition Temple (metal) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25.

Eric Friedman (folk) at Bagitos Bagel and Burrito Café, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free.

Dead Set (Grateful Dead tribute) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5/8. 18+.

George Petit Trio (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Hunter (rock) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Grup Anwar (classical Arabic) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free.

The Jeff Salisbury Band (blues) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Honky-Tonk Tuesdays with Pony Hustle at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

John Townsend (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

JD Tolstoi (singer-songwriter) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

Pete Sutherland and Tim Stickle’s Old Time Session at Radio Bean, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free.

Jesse Agan (singer-songwriter) at 14th Star Brewing Co., St. Albans, 6 p.m. Free.

TUE.19

djs

DJ Pilaf (open format) at Manhattan Pizza & Pub, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

WED.13

FRI.15

DJ Ianu (open format) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Two Sev (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

THU.14

Chromatic (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Andy Kershaw (disco, house) at Monkey House, Winooski, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

¡Baila Baila Baila! Latinx Dance Party with DJ Raul and DJ JP (pop, reggaeton) at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10:30 p.m. Free.

DJ Dakota (hip-hop) at Monkey House, Winooski, 10 p.m. Free.

Daddy Debby (open format) at SideBar, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

DJ Fattie B (open format) at Rí Rá Irish Pub & Whiskey Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Craig Mitchell (open format) at Ruben James, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

DJ Cre8 (open format) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

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DJ Bounce (hits) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9:30 p.m. Free.

D Jay Baron (hip-hop) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Bay 6 (hits) at Gusto’s, Barre, 8 p.m.

Free.

This Must Be the Place: A Talking Heads Dance Party featuring DJ Pilaf at Club Metronome, Burlington, 10 p.m.

Free.

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DJ Luis Calderin (open format) at Waterworks Food + Drink, Winooski, 9 p.m. Free.

DJ Raul (Latin, reggaeton) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 5 p.m.

Free.

DJ Raul (Latin) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free.

DJ Taka (eclectic vinyl) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

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Jack Bandit and Friends (EDM) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

TUE.19

CRWD CTRL (house, techno) at Red Square, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Molly Mood (hip-hop, R&B) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

WED.20

SUN.17

Chromatic (hip-hop) at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ ATAK (house) at Red Square Blue Room, Burlington, 11 p.m. $5.

DJ Two Sev (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

DJ Earl (hits) at City Limits Night Club, Vergennes, 9 p.m. Free.

Emo Night at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. Free.

The Classics: Parliament Funkadelic with DJ Matt Hagen (funk, psychedelic soul vinyl) at Nectar’s, Burlington, 9 p.m.

Free/$5. 18+.

DJ LaFountaine (EDM) at Gusto’s, Barre, 9:30 p.m. $3.

Open Decks at Half Lounge, Burlington, 10 p.m. Free.

DJ A-RA$ (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Disco Brunch with DJ Craig Mitchell at Misery Loves Co., Winooski, 11 a.m. Free.

DJ Two Sev (open format) at Red Square, Burlington, 11 p.m. Free.

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With her chin cupped in the palm of her hand, elbow gently resting on her pink-tullecovered knee, Amber deLaurentis has a wistful glint in her eye on the cover of her latest album, Innocent Road. She looks like a grown-up Disney princess about to burst into song — perhaps something from the prime Alan Menken era of the late ’80s/early ’90s.

But deLaurentis, along with songwriting collaborators Sarah Blue and deLaurentis’ husband, Tom Cleary, dreams up a collection of tunes much more complicated and compelling than anything that ever came out of Ariel’s or Belle’s lips.

DeLaurentis and Cleary both teach music at the University of Vermont and have worked closely with Blue for years.

With Colin McCaffrey and Lane Gibson, two of Vermont’s premier audio techs,

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DeLaurentis and co. mostly explore soulful Americana, light modern jazz and sophisti-pop territory. They also look to older sources of inspiration, particularly on “Deepening Days.”

Somewhat reminiscent of the Roches’ early work, the song comes off like a modern-day madrigal with puzzle-piece harmonies and brittle harpsichord.

“Close to Me,” with its peppy beats, pleasantly peaceful piano and airy scat singing, reminds listeners that deLaurentis and Cleary are known for playing and teaching jazz. But the duo has a lot more ground to cover.

Of many fine moments throughout, the most ear-catching tune is “You Ran the Red Light,” a powerful pop-rock

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They wisely skirt pretension and selfseriousness, two pitfalls common in the adult contemporary genre. In short, Innocent Road is worth the trip.

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It takes only a simple Google search to find claims that stress levels, climate anxiety and depression among teens and young adults are on the rise in the U.S. When it feels like the world is on fire (literally), is there still room for hope, joy and heartbreak? On her latest EP, City Full of Big Kids, Essex Junction singersongwriter Bethany Conner suggests that indeed there is.

“Every one of these things needs a dreamer, and this time, I guess it’s gonna be me,” she sings on “Clearer.” And dream she does. Twenty-one-year-old Conner exudes romantic optimism in several of the album’s seven pop-folk songs. On “Believe in Me,” she asks, “Will you be mine when we’re running out of time

in the world?” — hope-filled words of a young person who still believes in everlasting love.

The themes of heartbreak and unrequited affection that drove Conner’s 2015 debut EP, I’ll Tell You, persist on City Full of Big Kids, but she broadens her perspective. The University of Vermont student faces unfamiliar surroundings in “The Laundry Song,” yearns to be the change she wishes to see in the world in “Manhattan,” and juggles competing feelings of anger, regret and tenderness in “I Miss You.” Conner, who was a finalist in Advance Music Center’s 2014 Singer/Songwriter Contest, is the sole writer on her EP. Her lyrics evoke “Fifteen”-era Taylor Swift, plainly describing scenarios that are simultaneously deeply personal and broadly relatable.

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Conner’s voice often swerves into a warm warble, and she uses deliberate breaks in her voice for dramatic effect. In the course of the album, her delivery veers from sweet to snarky to seething. For the last mode, hear her snarl the line “‘OK’ is a word you say when you’re not fine” on “Anchor.” The EP’s slow-burning standout song hints at rock with its intentionally imperfect vocals and driving low end.

Examining one’s life in real time is no easy feat, especially during periods of rapid change, but this seems to be one of Conner’s gifts. Her music is a record of one individual’s experience of the world, told from the valuable perspective of a young woman in the 21st century. Here’s hoping that her artistry — and her hope — persist.

City Full of Big Kids is available on streaming services and at bethanyconner .com. Conner performs on Friday, November 15, at 1st Republic Brewing in Essex Junction.

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After Midnight « P.58 was the most incredible sound with my voice that I’d ever heard. They don’t just blend with one another.

The timbre of our three voices was so incredible and bone chilling. Now we’re just friends. We’re the same kind of people.

SD: Speaking of Wolfe and Laessig, they join you on “Desire.” That’s a party of a song if I’ve ever heard one! What’s it all about?

GP: The part of me that I’ve always masked is the part of me that really came out of making Midnight. I refer to it as my flare-up. All of this sort of subdued rocker energy that we had really been honing in on with the Nocturnals at the time, it wasn’t the whole me. I think Midnight was the reaction to that, the side of me that has this yearning, uncontrollable sensuality. It’s like maple syrup that you pour over everything.

Sometimes I could express that in the Nocturnals era, and sometimes I felt like I needed to rein it in.

“Desire” is an expression for me of who I really am and how I consume life and experiences that I look forward to. The things that I love about being human are sometimes when you just have no control. You can’t think your way out of a situation. You basically have to dance, or fuck, or slap somebody in the face, or laugh uncontrollably until you’re rolling around on the floor crying. That’s the maximalist me that’s never really been able to come out before. Instead of masking it in lyrical trickery, I figured, Why not just say it?

SD: You’ve got a pretty intense tour scheduled for early 2020. Will you bring Sagan with you?

GP: Yeah. That’s my rule. The kid comes with, otherwise it’s not happening. We have to accommodate the change of who I am as a human beyond just missing him if I were gone. I also see him as inspiration. The whole reason I got back into music is because I want him to think I’m cool. That’s at the heart of it. And it makes it much easier for me if I think about what a tour’s gonna be like. We can make a home of it. I think it’ll change when he’s in school. But for now, home is where we all are.

SD: Do you find any similarities between your new home of Topanga Canyon and where you grew up?

GP: One hundred percent. It is Warren, Vt. I send photos home, and people think it’s Vermont. I grew up with hippie parents who wanted to run away. The baby boomer culture was like, “Fuck you, Mom and Dad, and everything you’re providing for us.” All that energy is here. m This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.

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INFO Daylight is available to stream on all major services. Potter performs on Saturday, November 30, as part of the 2019 HomeLight Killington Cup at Killington Resort. Free. AA. gracepotter.com

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The Spins Philadelphia legends the

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since the mid-’90s. Named after a euphemism for a dose of ecstacy, the group has evolved significantly throughout its 25-year run. Over time, the Americana- and funk-infused strains of the quartet’s early work commingled with the electronically enhanced dance-club elements for which it is best known. The band hosts the annual festival Camp Bisco, three days of noodling, grooving and checking out. The Disco Biscuits perform on Wednesday and Thursday, November 20 and 21, at the Higher Ground Ballroom in South Burlington.

live music TUE.19 CONTINUED FROM P.62 Lettuce (funk) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $28/31.

Lowell Thompson and Friends (roots-rock) at Hatch 31, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free.

Radmilo Trio (jazz) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free.

comedy WED.13

Indie Rumble (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Open Mic at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

THU.14

The Mainstage Show (improv) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5.

Michael Ian Black, Brittany Carney (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 p.m. $25.

Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Especially Cowboys (bluegrass) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Wylie Shipman (singersongwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Front Country (roots, pop) at Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $10/12.

WED.20

Jim Charanko (singer-songwriter) at Moogs Place, Morrisville, 8 p.m.

Free.

Clever Girls, Father Figuer, Lake Waves (rock) at Monkey House, Winooski, 8 p.m. $3/8. 18+.

The Disco Biscuits (jam) at Higher Ground Ballroom, South Burlington, 9 p.m. $45.50/79.

Leon Campos (singer-songwriter) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

Mosaic featuring special guests and members of Kat Wright (jam) at Radio Bean, Burlington, 10 p.m. $5.

Paul Asbell Trio (jazz) at Leunig’s Bistro & Café, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Free.

Phil Adams (singer-songwriter) at Light Club Lamp Shop, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. Free.

The Ray Vega Latin Jazz Sextet at Juniper, Burlington, 8:30 p.m.

Free.

Wednesday Night Dead (Grateful Dead tribute) at Zenbarn, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Free. m

Rainbow Volcano Comedy Showcase with Gillian Siobhan, Audrey Stone, Linda Biafore, Maddy Hyams, Omega Jade, Julia DiFerdinando at Monkey House, Winooski, 7:30 p.m. $3.

Michael Ian Black, Brittany Carney (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $25/32.

These Are Not My People (sketch comedy) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $7/8.

Steven Wright (standup) at Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $39.50-49.50.

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FRI.15

SAT.16

Bob Marley (standup) at Lebanon Opera House, , N.H., 7:30 p.m. $32.50.

Bob Marley (standup) at Lebanon Opera House, , N.H., 5:30 & 8 p.m. $32.50.

Junk Island (improv) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $7/8.

Boom City (improv) at Revelry Theater, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $7/8.

Lafayette Wright (standup) at Alexander Twilight Theatre, Northern Vermont UniversityLyndon, Lyndonville, 8 p.m.

Free.

Michael Ian Black, Brittany Carney (standup) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 7 & 9:30 p.m. $25/32.

VT Comedy Awards (variety) at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $5.

MON.18

Comedy & Crêpes featuring Rob Christensen (standup) at the Skinny Pancake, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

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Improv Class Show at Vermont Comedy Club, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free.

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o fulfill a longtime dream — and fill an empty nest — artists and authors John and Jennifer Churchman recently opened the ArtHound Gallery in Essex. The idea had been brewing for years.

The husband-and-wife creative team, who wrote the New York Times bestselling children’s book The SheepOver and four subsequent Sweet Pea & Friends titles, opened their first art gallery, Brickhouse Studios, in Stowe in 2006. Then the 2008 recession came, and the tourists didn’t. So the gallery closed.

A decade later, John was talking with longtime acquaintance Peter Edelmann, owner of the Essex Experience complex and managing partner of the Essex Resort

& Spa. “I told him, half joking, that he needed a gallery in Essex Experience, and he agreed,” John said.

ArtHound opened in October, a few months after the Churchmans’ youngest child enrolled at the University of Vermont. At 21 Essex Way, it occupies spaces that formerly housed Phoenix Books Essex (now at 2 Carmichael Street in Essex Junction) and Carter’s (now Carter’s OshKosh at Maple Tree Place in Williston).

“There aren’t a lot of spaces for Vermont artists to show their works, and there hasn’t been a gallery out here in Essex for about 15 years,” said John, a professional photographer and painter.

“Even in Burlington, there are very limited

places besides Frog Hollow [Vermont Craft] Gallery, and that’s small.”

John, who once served as president of the Frog Hollow board, estimated that gallery’s space at about 2,000 square feet.

ArtHound occupies 7,400 square feet.

“Vermont artists need more spaces to show, and we want to provide that space,” John said. ArtHound is a nonexclusive gallery, meaning that it doesn’t limit artists from showing elsewhere. The artists get 60 percent of their sales; the gallery, 40 percent.

The Churchmans named the gallery for their seven dogs. Two are “certifiable hounds”: Quinn, a goldendoodle, and Cyrano, a golden retriever mix. The hounds and border collies Laddie, Maisie,

Tosh and Blaze take turns serving as greeters at ArtHound. “People come in and feel like they get dog therapy,” John said, laughing. Their seventh dog, Scout, prefers to put in his hours at the Churchmans’ 25-acre Moonrise Farm in Essex.

At first, the gallery was going to occupy just the former Phoenix Books location, but when the Carter’s space became available, the couple created a large opening to connect the two spaces. They reused Carter’s light and display fixtures, pulled up the carpeting in both areas, and put down a faux-wood floating floor.

Carter’s former checkout counter now has a cherrywood top, milled from a tree hit by lightning at Moonrise Farm.

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because that combination highlights the art without competing with its colors, Jennifer said.

The entrance area is designed to make people find the gallery approachable, Jennifer noted. “Anyone can come in at any budget level, whether it’s a high schooler buying a card or an interior designer shopping for a high-level client.”

The Churchmans want to fill the space with as much art as possible, creating a hub for Vermont artists. They’re well on their way, with more than 130 represented. “We’ve basically been word of mouth. We’ve put out very few calls to artists,” John said.

Some artists, such as photographers Peter Miller, Richard Brown and Kurt Budliger, showed their work at the Churchmans’ Stowe gallery. Others heard about ArtHound on social media, such as multimedia artist Lynn Ann Powers of Essex, who saw a friend’s Facebook post and decided to stop in with some of her cards.

“The lighting in here is fantastic, and the space has a professional museum touch,” Powers said. “Everything is well spaced, nicely displayed and easy to see.”

Jennifer, also a multimedia artist, is responsible for that ambience. “I have an eye for space and displays, and I love doing it,” she said. She’s also creating the website, through which patrons will be able to purchase anything in the gallery.

“Our core mission is celebrating three different levels of artist: master, emerging and community, with a good representation of mediums and artists,” Jennifer said.

Both gallery owners work the register and serve customers, but John’s specialty is acquisitions. Other artists represented include plein air painter Eric Tobin, art quilter Judy B. Dales, printmaker Woody Jackson, steampunk lamp maker Gerry Conlon, fused-glass artisan Gabriele Baumann, upcycled fiber artist Carol Kelley, pen and watercolor illustrator Jess Polanshek, wood craftsman JB Bryan, bronze and silver jewelry maker Lochlin Smith, and wood bowl turner Ted Beebe.

ArtHound’s first nod to community arts is an ongoing fall show by the Essex Art League, which supports the

appreciation and creation of art in Chittenden County. A winter show will launch in time for the gallery’s grand opening.

The couple is also offering framing services and print making from an Epson giclée fine art digital printer.

Phase two plans include adding artist salons, where artists can meet and create together, and classes by artists for the community. Those goals support Edelmann’s objective: He wants businesses at the Essex Experience to offer experiences to visitors. For instance, the soon-toopen Black Flannel Brewing & Distilling, not far from the gallery, will offer beer making and distilling classes.

Uncommon Coffee, which Maya Crowley plans to open in 2020, will occupy the 5,000-square-foot space next door to ArtHound. A door will connect the gallery and the coffee shop.

Some of the Churchmans’ own artworks are on sale at the gallery, and the couple may add more over time. But for now, they’re busy working as authors.

The Easter Surprise, their fifth Sweet Pea & Friends title, will be republished as a board book in early 2020. A new book, The Christmas Barn, is scheduled for release by Little Bee Books for the Christmas 2020 season.

The couple is seeking a publisher for The Garden Princess, and they’re working on a concept they call Hide and Go Sheep.

“We’ll probably do one or two books a year forever,” John said. They’ll also be working at Moonrise Farm, home of the sheep, chickens, alpacas, ducks, geese, cats and rabbits who star in their books.

Inside the gallery, John and Jennifer mused on their showroom devoted to Vermont artists. “Being in relationship with all these artists gives us access to more than just what’s displayed,” Jennifer said. “We can connect [patrons] … to their entire portfolios. We love the artist community of Vermont, and this gallery is a place to show that love.” m

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GARRETT MORIN: “Crowd Sorcery,” new works in pastel by the New York-based artist, inspired

by Neolithic monuments to the dead. Through November 16. Info, 233-2943. Safe and Sound Gallery in Burlington.

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MELANIE BROTZ: “Visions of the Camino de Santiago,” a series of paintings inspired by the artist’s recent walk across Spain. Part of the “Contrast” group exhibition created by Art Tribe. November 13-December 24. Info, mel@burlingtontelecom.net.

Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

MARTIN SEEHUUS: “Far Away and Moving Very Fast,” paintings that focus on playful honesty. Through November 30. Info, 391-4083. The Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington.

‘TRANSCENDENT: SPIRITUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART’: A group exhibition of nationally recognized artists who explore or evoke themes of spirituality through their work, reflecting on questions of human nature, cultural identity and sanctity in everyday life. Artists include Anila Quayyam Agha, Leonardo Benzant, Maïmouna Guerresi, Shahzia Sikander, Zarina, and Vermontbased artists Sandy Sokoloff and Shelley Warren.

‘TRAVIS SHILLING: TYRANNOSAURUS CLAN’: The Canadian Ojibwe painter debuts a new series of work that explores the environmental impact of industry and the threat of extinction to the animal realm and indigenous culture. Through February 8. Info, 865-7166. BCA Center in Burlington.

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f ‘CELEBRATE’: Three floors of fine art and crafts created by more than 80 SPA member artists, including decorative and functional items for the household, ornaments, jewelry, cards and more. Reception: Saturday, November 16, 4-6 p.m.

November 13-December 27. Info, 479-7069. Studio Place Arts in Barre.

middlebury area

12TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW: Original, handmade and hand-printed art and fine crafts from 25 regional artists, including pastel drawings by Judy Albright, woodblock prints by Ray Hudson, bee quilts by Hope Johnson and more. November 15-December 31.

802-382-9222. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, in Middlebury.

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f ‘COME TOGETHER’: Paintings, digital work, photography, prints and more by Northern Vermont University arts faculty members. Reception: Tuesday, November 19, 6 p.m. November 20-January 18.

Info, 626-6459. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon, in Lyndonville.

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f KATE REEVES: “My Winter World,” a solo show of acrylic and watercolor paintings by the Barnard artist. Reception: Sunday, November 17, 2-4 p.m., with artist talk November 13-February 18. Info, 889-9404.

Tunbridge Public Library.

‘Resist! Insist! Persist!’ It is a sad fact of human evolution that we have so many reasons to express resistance to one another. University of Vermont

students in a 2018 art history class chose this timely topic and curated an exhibition at the Fleming Museum of Art using artworks and objects primarily drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. The show features the work “of historical and contemporary artists who have countered adversity and hardship with empowerment and expression,” exhibition text explains. The objects of resistance range from racial violence to political suppression to the underrepresentation of women in the art world. Through December 13.

Pictured: “Testimony” by Kara Walker.

ART EVENTS

local artists. Brown Public Library, Northfield, Friday, November 15, noon-9 p.m., Saturday, November 16, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, November 17, noon-4 p.m.

Free. Info, michaelclasen3@gmail.com.

ONGOING SHOWS

ART & CONVERSATION WITH SANDY SOKOLOFF: The painter, whose practice is largely rooted in his Jewish heritage, discusses his work in conjunction with the current exhibit “Transcendent.” BCA Center, Burlington, Wednesday, November 13, 9:30-11 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7166.

OPEN STUDIO FIGURE DRAWING: Sessions featuring a variety of approaches to working from the figure are suited to all levels of drawing, painting and sculpture backgrounds and expertise. Easels and tables available. River Arts, Morrisville, Tuesday, November 19, 3-5:30 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261.

ART HOP JURIED SHOW: A group exhibition of works selected by a guest juror, with first, second and third prize winners. Open during Flynn performances or by appointment. Through November 30. Info, 652-4500. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery in Burlington.

‘ART NEW ENGLAND’ LAUNCH PARTY: Art New England celebrates the publication of its November/ December issue, featuring “Destination: New Hampshire.” Meet staff and mingle with the art community of New England. Hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served. RSVP. AVA Gallery and Art Center, Lebanon, N.H., Thursday, November 14, 6-8 p.m. Info, nicola@artnewengland.com.

TALK: ‘ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY’: Two Vermont photographers share stories and photos from recent adventures. Refreshments provided.

Fjällräven, Burlington, Sunday, November 17, 5-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 448-7197, burlingtonretail@fjallraven.us.

‘ARTIST PANEL: THE DIY MODEL’: A presentation in the Jump/Start Business of Art series. Generator, Burlington, Wednesday, November 13, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 540-0761.

‘DISTRIBUTION’ CLOSING RECEPTION: After an extended run, Scott André Campbell’s solo exhibition ends with a celebratory closing reception. Soapbox Arts, Burlington, Saturday, November 16, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 324-0014, info@soapboxarts.com.

GALLERY TALK: JOHN SEYLLER ON SHAHZIA SIKANDER: The University of Vermont professor discusses the intersection of the tradition of Indian miniature painting and the contemporary videos of the featured artist in current exhibition “Transcendent.” BCA Center, Burlington, Wednesday, November 13, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166.

HENNA DESIGNS: Watch Bollywood music videos, savor samosa snacks and do some creative coloring while waiting your turn with henna artist Rupali Agrawal. Preregister at southburlingtonlibrary.org or call. South Burlington Community Library, University Mall, Wednesday, November 20, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 846-4140.

NORTHFIELD ART SHOW: The Paine Mountain Arts Council’s annual exhibit features a variety of works by

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TALK: THE PROBLEM OF ORPHAN ANTIQUITIES: Elizabeth Marlowe, professor of ancient and medieval art and director of the museum studies minor at Colgate University, argues that academic museums are well positioned to address the conundrum of whether to acquire unprovenanced antiquities.

Lunch provided. Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, Friday, November 15, 12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

TALK: ‘TINTORETTO AT 500’: Robert Echols ’69, curator of landmark retrospective shows in Venice and Washington, honors Jacopo Tintoretto with a new assessment of the painter and his contributions. Mahaney Arts Center, Middlebury College, Wednesday, November 13, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

WILD BIRD PHOTOGRAPY PROGRAM: Gordon Ellmers, a veterinarian and member of the National Audubon Society and Southern Adirondack Audubon Society, presents bird photographs. Poultney Public Library, Friday, November 15, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-5556.

VISUAL ART IN SEVEN DAYS:

‘WORD OF MOUTH’: In a solo exhibition, gallery director Christy Mitchell uses 1950s symbolism and imagery to comment on her own modern experience, including observations on how we communicate and what is shared through networks in small towns.

Through November 30. 578-2512. The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

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AMÉLIE BRINDAMOUR: “In Oscillation,” mixed-media installation based on the mycorrhizal network that examines whether we could find inspiration from intelligent natural systems in order to alleviate power dynamics in contemporary communication systems. Through December 6. 654-2851. McCarthy Art Gallery, Saint Michael’s College, in Colchester.

CEILI SEIPKE: “Who Are You?” limited-edition photographs on fine-art paper with pencil detail.

Through December 8. Info, 578-3829. Davis Studio in South Burlington.

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‘JOEL BARBER & THE MODERN DECOY’: The first major exhibition to explore the life, collections and artwork of Barber (1876-1952), with objects including decoys, drawings, photographs and watercolor paintings from the museum’s collection. Through January 12. Free with museum admission. Info, 985-3346. Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education, Shelburne Museum.

‘THE ART SHOW’: Artists bring one piece each to this non-juried monthly exhibition of work in a variety of mediums. Winner of people’s choice award takes home collected entry fees. Through November 30.

Info, 540-3081. The Gallery at RL Photo in Burlington.

JUDITH LERNER: Vividly colored landscape paintings by the Vermont artist. Through December 20. Info, 660-8808. Dorset Street Dermatology in South Burlington.

‘BE STRONG AND DO NOT BETRAY YOUR SOUL’: Photographs by 47 artists from the collection of Light Work, a nonprofit based in Syracuse, N.Y., that explore topics of politics, social justice, identity and visibility. ‘RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST!’: Curated by UVM students in a fall 2018 art history class, the exhibit draws works primarily from the museum’s collection to explore how historical and contemporary artists “have countered adversity and hardship with empowerment and expression.” Through December 13. Info, 656-0750. Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, in Burlington.

‘CONTRAST’: A new exhibition by the Art Tribe — Melanie Brotz, Annie Caswell, LaVerne Ferguson, Kara Greenblott, Billie Miles, Lynne Reed, Kelley Taft and Beth Young — who are dedicated to supporting and encouraging each other in making art. Through December 27. Info, 598-7420. Flynndog Gallery in Burlington.

DAVID HOLUB: Digital illustrations that combine words, images, whimsy, heartbreak and humor.

Through November 30. Info, 862-9647. The Daily Planet in Burlington.

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NEIL DAVIS: Abstract-expressionist paintings by the Montpelier artist. Through November 30. Info, 4613629. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston.

SAM MACY: “Natural Color,” Vermont scenes assembled in hand-cut native and exotic wood forms using natural, untouched and unstained wood.

Through November 24. Info, 985-9511. Rustic Roots in Shelburne.

TOM WATERS: “Forest, Field & Stream,” landscape paintings in oil. Through November 24. Info, 899-3211. Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho.

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‘200 YEARS—200 OBJECTS’: In the final celebratory year of the university’s bicentennial, the museum exhibits a curated selection of artifacts, documents and images from the school’s collections. Through December 21. Info, 485-2886. Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield.

ADELAIDE MURPHY TYROL: “Anatomy of a Pond,” acrylic paintings and drawings, including larger fine-art paintings and small natural history armature illustrations. Through December 31. Info, 229-6206.

North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier.

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ART SHOWS

CHRIS JEFFREY: Kinetic wall pieces that encourage the viewer to become involved in bringing the art to life, plus light boxes that seem to project colorful UV-lit structures into infinity. Through November 30. Info, 585-0867. Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier.

COREY HENDRICKSON: “Being There,” photographs exploring the lives of hospice caregivers, in conjunction with National Hospice & Palliative Care Month.

Through November 30. Info, 224-2215. National Life Building in Montpelier.

ELIZABETH NELSON: “Northward,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by Studio Place Arts.

Through December 14. Info, info@studioplacearts. com. Morse Block Deli & Taps in Barre.

ELLIOT BURG AND ATHENA PETRA TASIOPOULOS: Photographs from the streets of Havana, Cuba, and mixed-media collages, respectively. Through January 3. Info, 262-6035. T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier.

‘I AM…: EXPLORING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A VERMONT ARTIST’: More than 20 artists present 2D work, music and sound, spoken word, poetry, dance and movement within a digital compilation. The exhibition is the culmination of a yearlong “I am a Vermont Artist” e-newsletter series documenting how artists’ creative expressions reflect their experiences of ethnicity, gender identity, religion, disability or age. Through December 20. Info, 828-3291. Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier.

JANIE COHEN: “Rogue Cloth Work,” hand-stitched pieces of old cloth combined and transformed into new textile assemblages with new contexts.

Through December 27. Info, 828-0749. Vermont Supreme Court Gallery in Montpelier.

‘NORMAN ROCKWELL’S ARLINGTON: AMERICA’S HOME TOWN’: An exhibit chronicling Rockwell and other artists who lived in Arlington, as well as many local residents who posed for the scenes of everyday life they portrayed. A collaborative effort of the Canfield Gallery and the Russell Collection of Vermontiana. Through January 31. Info, 479-8500.

Vermont History Museum in Montpelier.

CALL TO ARTISTS 12TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOWCASE & CRAFT FAIR: Seeking arts, crafts and specialty food items for an event that benefits the BFA Fairfax cheer and softball teams. Deadline: November 22.

Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax. Info, 355-0832.

SHOW 35: Recent works by members of Montpelier’s sole collective art gallery. Through November 30. Info, info@thefrontvt.com. The Front in Montpelier.

SUSAN WAHLRAB AND CHRIS MILLER: ‘UNCHARTED’: After a lifetime of artistic investigations, the central Vermont artists leap into uncharted waters with challenging materials, subject matter and presentation. Through November 22. Info, 738-3667. The Garage Cultural Center in Montpelier.

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BRIAN FEKETE: “Quixotica,” an exhibition of five large-scale oil paintings on canvas that explore abstraction, gesture and color. Through December 20. Info, 881-0418. 571 Projects in Stowe.

HEARTBEET LIFESHARING FIBER ARTS: Collaborative works of fiber artists and the therapeutic woodworking studio at the lifesharing communities in Hardwick and Craftsbury that include adults with developmental disabilities. f JENNIFER HUBBARD: “The View From Here,” landscape paintings featuring scenes from Lamoille and Orleans counties. Reception: Thursday, November 14, 5-7 p.m. Through December 27. Info, 888-1261. River Arts in Morrisville.

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‘MOUNTAIN AIR’: A group exhibition of the mountain landscape featuring painting, photography and sculpture, curated by Kelly Holt. Through November 22. Info, 760-4634. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort.

f STUDENT EXHIBITION: Works by BFA students Gillianne Sheppard, Adriana Eldred and Will Burney Lewis. Reception: Wednesday, November 13, 3-5 p.m. Through November 22. Info, 635-1469.

Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Johnson.

MAD RIVER VALLEY/WATERBURY SHOWS

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priced at no more than $100. Must be ready to hang. Artists can submit up to five pieces.

Artwork must be dropped off by November 23 at 4 p.m. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop, Waterbury.

Info, 244-7801.

‘THE ART SHOW’: All sizes and mediums of artwork accepted, one piece per artist, to this monthly non-juried exhibition. $10 cash entry fee. Drop-off time for artwork is every First Friday of the month from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception is 6-9 p.m., with people’s choice awarded a mini grant. Through January 2. The Gallery at RL Photo, Burlington. Info, 540-3081, publicartschool@gmail.com.

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYE: The Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District and the Memphremagog Arts Collective are looking for artists of all types to submit work on the themes of ecosystem services and agriculture. The juried exhibition will open on April 3 at the MAC Center for the Arts in downtown Newport. Deadline: December 31. Memphremagog Arts Collaborative, Newport. Free. Info, 624-7022, vacd.org/conservation-districts/orleans-county, emily.irwin@vt.nacdnet.net.

‘BOTANICAL BLITZ’: During the coldest months of winter, the gallery will turn into a botanical refuge with paintings, drawings, sculptural works and installations that depict the plant, insect and animal worlds. We are looking for new work, in traditional and nontraditional media, for an exhibition January 21 to March 7. Deadline: November 15. Studio Place Arts, Barre. $10; free for SPA members. Info, 479-7069, studioplacearts.com.

ISLAND ARTS GALLERY CALL TO ARTISTS: Artists interested in showing at the gallery must submit an artist statement or biography, medium, and two to five high-quality digital images of their work to Mary Jo McCarthy at maryjomccarthy@gmail.com. Deadline: November 15. If accepted, each artist or artist group will be assigned a month for exhibition in 2020. Island Arts Gallery, North Hero. Free. Info, 372-6047.

CALL FOR MURAL ARTISTS: Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop requests proposals from experienced muralists for a high-impact public art opportunity that will be developed in two phases: sketch and execution. Design must incorporate a phoenix. Mural location: alley at 5 Stowe Street in Waterbury. Prize for winning preliminary sketch: $750. Email proposal to info@axelsgallery.com. Subject line: 2019 Mural Submission (your first and last name). Deadline: December 15. Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop, Waterbury. Info, 244-7801.

PHOTO CONTEST: Photographers are invited to enter up to three submissions of photos taken in Vermont between January 1 and November 22, the deadline date. Must attend at least one meeting of River Arts Photo Co-op to qualify. Winning images will be in an exhibit; prizes given. River Arts, Morrisville. Free. Info, riverartsvt.org, info@riverartsvt.org.

‘CELEBRATING THE SMALL’: For the last exhibition of the year, we’re seeking artworks 10-by-10 inches or smaller, including frame, and

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VILLAGE HEALTH GRAND OPENING ART CONTEST: Professionals, amateurs, adults and children, including groups, are invited to submit work in all mediums for display.

Deadline: November 30. Cash prizes. Village Health, Middlebury. Free. Info, 382-9491, info@ villagehealthvt.com, villagehealthvt.com.

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art Adelaide Murphy Tyrol “Anatomy of a Pond” is an apt title

for an exhibition of paintings by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol. The natural world — in this

case a half-acre body of water on her Plainfield property — has long been a dominant inspiration. Her exhibition, which she calls a “visual biography,” explores the inhabitants of that pond, as well as how the light transforms it. She writes, “The artwork here is an inquiry and an homage

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in New York City to her intimate illustrations of flora and fauna close to home, Tyrol captures her subjects with both exacting realism and a sense of wonder. Of her paintings on view at Montpelier’s North Branch Nature Center, she writes, “I hope they impart a sense of the magic of our world — of what we look at every day and what blinks back at us.” Through December.

Pictured: “Wink.”

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2019 ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOT-OUT: A group photo exhibition on the theme of trees of Vermont. Through November 27. Info, 244-7801.

Axel’s Gallery & Frame Shop in Waterbury.

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‘BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL’: Juried paintings by members of the Vermont Watercolor Society illustrate diverse styles and techniques. Through December 21. Free. Info, 496-6682. Vermont Festival of the Arts Gallery in Waitsfield.

JANE BRIGGS & LEE YOUNGMAN: Hand-knit shawls by the co-owners of Waterbury’s Yarn, for display and sale. Through December 20. Info, 244-7036.

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‘CEMETERIES OF ADDISON COUNTY’: Photography

by Kathryn Wyatt that portrays the quiet beauty of local cemeteries through an artistic lens. Through November 30. Info, 349-0991. Lincoln Library.

‘CONJURING THE DEAD: SPIRIT ART IN THE AGE OF RADICAL REFORM’: Photographs and original drawings acquired by Solomon Wright Jewett (1808-94), a Vermont farmer, legislator and spiritualist who claimed supernatural powers, including bringing back the deceased. DANA SIMSON: “The animals are innocent,” mixed-media/ceramic sculptures and paintings featuring animals that address loss of habitat and food sources, among other perils.

Through January 11. Info, 388-2117. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury.

CORRINE YONCE: “Somewhere Between Place and Home,” a multimedia exploration of three projects by the community organizer, artist and documentarian that considers what it means when one’s primary residence is something other than fully home. Through February 29. Info, 388-4964.

Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.

HOLIDAY MARKET AT THE FALLS: Original and affordable works of art in photography, ceramics, painting, glassware and jewelry. Through November 30. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls.

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MUSEUMLAB: A diverse array of pieces from the museum’s collection selected by professors from a variety of disciplines; visitors are invited to observe the reactions sparked when this “teaching laboratory” displays art supporting various college courses. Through December 8. Info, 443-5258.

Middlebury College Museum of Art. SMALL WORKS: A curated exhibition of new and favorite small-scale works by the gallery’s established and emerging artists. Through December 31. Info, 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery on the Green in Middlebury.

‘VOTES … FOR WOMEN?’: An exhibition of vintage photographs, banners and memorabilia that coincides with the 100th anniversary of the campaign to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Through December 8. Info, 443-6433. Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College.

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‘CELEBRATE WITH ART’: All-member, all-media holiday gift show. Also, the debut of three new artist-members: Catherine Palmer (colored pencil), Winslow Colwell (photography on kite forms), and Michael DiMeola (photography). Through January 28. Info, 247-4956. Brandon Artists Guild.

DONA ANN MCADAMS: Acclaimed Vermont photographer and activist Dona Ann McAdams’ expansive oeuvre features historic black-and-white portraits of avant-garde performers, pioneers of queer liberation, portraits of people living with schizophrenia, Appalachian farmers, cloistered nuns, race track workers and luminous images of horses, oxen and goats. Through January 4. Info, 579-9501.

Castleton University Bank Gallery in Rutland.

‘SEASON OF GIVING’: A holiday show featuring gift-able works by gallery members in a variety of mediums. Through January 3. Info, 775-0356.

Chaffee Art Center in Rutland.

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COLEEN O’CONNELL: “Feathers, Ferns and Fish,” prints using a variety of techniques by the ecologically minded local artist. JENNA RICE: “Guitar Tattoos,” pyrographic artwork on musical

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instruments by the Weathersfield artist and musician. Through December 31. Info, 295-4567.

Long River Gallery & Gifts in White River Junction.

‘ELEMENTS OF GLASS: FROM THE WORKSHOP OF SIMON PEARCE’: A collaborative exhibition with the renowned Vermont glassmaker explores the transformation from sand to glass, from design to finished product. Through March 31. Info, 649-2200.

Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich.

MYRA MUSGROVE: “Say Nice Things to Me,” acrylic paintings by the Brooklyn artist that “dissect an affair.” Through December 5. Info, 295-0808.

Scavenger Gallery in White River Junction.

WENDY KLEMPERER, MIRANDA THOMAS & JACKIE PADICH: Paintings and sculpture that incorporate natural imagery. Through January 5. Info, 3595000. Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Center in Quechee.

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‘’90S REIGN’: Work by students in the animation and illustration program. Through November 14.

Info, 626-6487. Quimby Gallery, Northern Vermont University-Lyndon in Lyndonville.

THE 99 FACES PROJECT: Photographic portraits, without labels, featuring people on the bipolar or schizophrenia spectrum and those who love them.

Through March 2. Info, 748-7313. Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

KAREN HENDERSON: “Contemplate,” landscapeinspired textiles and mixed-media artworks.

Through November 22. Info, 748-0158. Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

‘THE PIVOT AND THE BLADE: AN INTIMATE GLANCE AT SCISSORS’: A collection of objects that conveys the long human relationship to scissors and explores their design and myriad professional, creative, superstitious, violent and domestic uses.

Through December 31. Info, 626-4409. The Museum of Everyday Life in Glover.

ROBERT MALLORY KLEIN: “The Character of the Kingdom,” paintings of the villages and hamlets of the Northeast Kingdom by the retired diplomat turned artist. Through December 22. Info, 5339075. Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro.

‘WINDOWS FROM THE OLD BARN’: Framed paintings of farm and wild animals on barn windows.

Through December 3. Info, 525-3366. Parker Pie Co. in West Glover.

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‘ALCHEMY: METAL, MYSTERY AND MAGIC’: A group show featuring sculptures and painting by Jeanne Carbonetti, Sabrina Fadial, Alexandra Heller, Peter Heller, Pat Musick, Dan O’Donnell, Gerald Stoner and Johny Swing. Through February 29. Info, 258-3992.

The Great Hall in Springfield.

DOUG TRUMP: “By Rail,” 12 oil and mixed-media works on repurposed wood. Through February 9.

FAFNIR ADAMITES: “Interfere (with),” a sculptural installation created with felted wool and burlap that focuses on intergenerational trauma and generational emotional turmoil. Through March 7. GORDON MEINHARD: “The Lives of Tables,” modernist still life paintings of tables that appear to become more animated as the series progresses, by the cofounder of the museum. Through March 7.

MARÍA ELENA GONZÀLEZ: “Tree Talk,” an installation that uses rubbings and tracings of birch bark as templates for laser-cutting paper piano rolls.

Through February 9. THELMA APPEL: “Observed/ Abstract,” a survey of the career of a cofounder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop, whose work now centers on the tarot.

Through February 9. Info, 257-0124. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center.

‘MADE IN VERMONT’: A group exhibition of new and recently completed work by Vermont artists, including paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Arista Alanis, Steve Budington, Clark Derbes, Jason Galligan-Baldwin and Sarah Letteney. MALCOLM MORLEY: Approximately 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper created between 1964 and 2016 by the British-born American artist and founder of

super-realism. RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER: Some 40 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that reference everyday objects, symbols, people and places, often made from unconventional and industrial materials. The American painter, sculptor and draftsman died in 2011. Through December 1.

Info, 952-1056. Hall Art Foundation in Reading.

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‘AUTUMN ANGLES’: The juried exhibition features works by SVAC artist members. ANDO HIROSHIGE: Woodblock prints by the Japanese master (1797-1858), curated by Steven Schlussel. Through November 17. Info, 362-1405. Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.

‘VISIBLE IN VERMONT: OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES’: A multigenerational photo and story exhibition highlighting the experiences of people of color living in or attending school in Vermont.

ASA CHEFFETZ: VERMONT WOOD ENGRAVINGS: Works by the late printmaker (1896-1965). Through December 30. Info, 447-1571. Bennington Museum.

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JORDAN LAURA MCLACHLAN & MORTON BARTLETT: “Family Matters,” a special exhibition of outsider art, in association with Marion Harris Gallery in New York City. Through February 29. Info, 767-9670. BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

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KATE EMLEN: “Breathe the Wind,” paintings large and small, inspired from immersion in nature.

Through December 20. Info, 498-8438. White River Gallery in South Royalton.

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ALAIN PAIEMENT: “Bleu de Bleu,” 32 videographic, photographic and sculptural elements that document the artist’s public-art installation between Trudeau International Airport and downtown Montréal. FRANCIS ALYS: “Children’s Games,” a collection of 20 short videos of children at play around the world. GISELE AMANTEA: Ink-jet prints that combine photographic documentation of the MAC Rotunda with drawings inspired by Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 18th-century etchings. f JANET WERNER: A survey of the last decade of “fictional portraits” by the renowned Montréal painter. Gallery tour with the artist and curator François LeTourneux: Wednesday, November 13, 6 p.m. (in French and English) LUIS JACOB & SERGE TOUSIGNANT: “Je vois ce que tu regardes,” images and sculptures by the Canadian artists that, respectively, encourage viewers to contemplate and reconstruct relationships or act directly on viewers’ experience of the exhibition space. WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: Two short animated films, “Secondhand Reading” and “Learning the Flute,” by the South African artist, who is known for philosophical reflections on time, violence and resilience in the context of colonialism and revolutionary politics.

Through January 5. Info, 514-847-6226. Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art. AQUARELLE ARTISTS: Watercolor batiks by members of the local artist group. MARILYN KRETSER: Watercolors by the featured local artist in the Community Gallery. Through November 30.

Info, 518-563-1604. Strand Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y.

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‘EGYPTIAN MUMMIES: EXPLORING ANCIENT LIVES’: An international exhibition created by the British Museum combines arts and science to tell the stories of six people who lived along the Nile in ancient times. Through February 2. Info, 514-2852000. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts.

EVELYN R. SWETT: “Compost Compositions,” paintings that muse on waste and transformation.

MARTHA STEIN: “A 40 Year Retrospective,” works in fiber sculpture. SHARI WOLF BORAZ + MARY GERAKARIS: “Borders of Consciousness, Dreaming in Color,” artworks in embroidery, and paintings on aluminum, respectively. Through November 16.

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movies Jojo Rabbit ★★★★

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t really is a small world after all. Disney has turned it into a theme park. Comic Book has been adopted as the universal language. Everywhere human beings of every background flock to watch the same superhero blockbusters. For talented filmmakers, the brass ring these days isn’t getting the chance to make their dream project, but becoming a faceless cog in the Marvel machine. When I read in 2016, for example, that Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi’s next film would be Thor: Ragnarok, I was crushed. Another one bites the dust, I figured.

I’m happy to report I figured wrong.

Waititi is the first auteur I know of to hit the Marvel jackpot and then return to his indie roots. Jojo Rabbit is a picture Disney wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole, as idiosyncratic as anything the exuberantly idiosyncratic director has ever done.

Roman Griffin Davis is fabulous as Jojo Betzler, a 10-year-old who lives with his mother (Scarlett Johansson) in the fictional German village of Falkenheim toward the end of the Second World War. His sister has died, and his father is fighting in Italy.

Since his mother leaves the home to work

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most days, Jojo can get lonely. Under the circumstances, we can see why he might dream up an imaginary pal and why, needing a father figure, he might make that pal the leader of the fatherland himself, Adolf Hitler (Waititi). The kid’s 10, after all, and impressionable.

Jojo’s background also explains why, as the film opens, he’s psyched to get to his first day at Hitler Youth camp. As an inspired music cue for the sequence, Waititi chooses a recording I’ve never heard on a soundtrack before — the Beatles’ “Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand” (the German-language version of “I Want to Hold Your Hand”). It works like a charm, and the first third of the movie maintains that level of invention, humor and creative energy.

A big assist comes courtesy of Sam Rockwell, who’s phenomenal as the camp’s goneto-seed commandant, Capt. K. Rebel Wilson does solid comic work as Fräulein Rahm, a counselor who brainwashes girls into believing that having babies is the best way for them to help win the war.

The early scenes are madly entertaining, even when Waititi, dressed as the Führer, joins Jojo at the camp to offer comfort after the other kids taunt the boy for refusing to kill a bunny. I know. I was initially put off by the goofy Hitler gimmick, too, but I have to

WAR CHILD Waititi and Davis make an odd but compelling couple in the filmmaker’s inspired anti-hate fable.

say the writer-director-actor makes it work.

There’s even a highly satisfying Quentin Tarantino-esque touch at the end.

In between, the picture downshifts into a less zany, more emotionally affecting gear.

Jojo discovers his mother is hiding a young Jewish woman in the house. She’s played by Thomasin McKenzie, who was equally wonderful in 2018’s Leave No Trace. Over an hour or so, we watch the boy shed prejudices and gradually forge a flesh-and-blood friendship to supplant his fantasy one. There’s a great

Pain & Glory ★★★★

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t feels like a long time since Pedro Almodóvar has been the bad boy of European cinema. So long that, after seeing his latest film, the semiautobiographical Pain & Glory, I found myself going back to a review of one of his early, anarchic efforts.

“He may not know how to make anything stay with you — he may not even care to,” Pauline Kael wrote of the director in 1985.

“He just likes to put on a show.”

Those words may sound negative out of context, but Kael liked the slapdash, outrageous showmanship of younger Almodóvar.

The work of a 70-year-old artist, Pain & Glory is serious and sedate, yet it shares a disconnected quality with those earlier works. A film about aging and retrospection, it’s a series of solid scenes that don’t build to much; not a lot “stays with you.” But one of its saving graces is that you get the sense Almodóvar might be OK with that.

Antonio Banderas plays world-renowned director Salvador Mallo. His life is “meaningless” without filmmaking, he says, yet an array of ailments have forced him into retirement. Reconnecting with an actor (Asier Etxeandia) from whom he’s been estranged, Salvador accepts a casual offer of heroin. The drug relieves his pain, and he wants more.

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ALL ABOUT ME Banderas plays a filmmaker in Almodóvar’s selfreferential film that manages to sidestep self-glorification.

piece. And all of this is threaded together with flashbacks to Salvador’s working-class childhood, in which Penélope Cruz plays his mother.

What sounds like the recipe for a hearty stew of melodrama plays out like a light, bittersweet tasting menu. Salvador’s tension with the actor never reaches a boil.

His experiment with heroin remains pretty much just that. The flashbacks set up poi-

gnant scenes between the adult Salvador and his elderly mom (Julieta Serrano), but the past offers no great revelations. In short, the film feels anticlimactic, despite a lovely final twist.

Yet Banderas plays Salvador with such gentle, unpretentious sadness that he keeps us invested, despite the low stakes.

It’s rare (and welcome) to see a movie take chronic aches and pains seriously, rather

scene involving a visit from the Gestapo (featuring a fiendishly funny Stephen Merchant) in which Waititi upends any number of World War II film conventions.

Speaking of musical cues, the one that closes the film is as inspired as the one that opened it. Jojo Rabbit will make many viewers think of Wes Anderson with its stylized look, quirky sensibility and savvy use of pop tunes. Isn’t that way better than making them think of Thor?

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than turn them into occasions for agingrelated jokes. Banderas makes Salvador’s physical fragility and depression real without playing him as a martyr.

More than anything, Pain & Glory is an opportunity to hang out with someone who reminds us of its creator. (Salvador’s personal appearance and home décor mirror the director’s own, though Almodóvar has told interviewers that he based the story on a mix of his and others’ experiences.) And Salvador is good company.

Where so many celebrated auteurs would depict their own physical decline in grandiose terms, asking us to mourn the potential loss of their talent, Almodóvar does it with a wry shrug. Instead of showing us the adoring fans, he brings Salvador’s mom on-screen to scold him for the way he presents his origins on film, thereby giving those sweet childhood flashbacks a layer of irony.

No, there isn’t much glory in Pain & Glory, or much of the irreverent energy that powered classics like Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. But one thing will never change: Almodóvar’s bracing faith in the power of stories to connect people. Initially, Salvador is reluctant to give the actor the rights to his reminiscence, declaring his time in the limelight over. By the end, he’s realized he will never be done putting on a show.

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NEW IN THEATERS CHARLIE’S ANGELS: The babes-beating-bad-guys action franchise returns in an apparent feminist reboot directed and cowritten by Elizabeth Banks, who also plays Bosley. Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska are the Angels. (118 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Welden) FORD V FERRARI: Matt Damon and Christian Bale play the team behind the Ford race car that challenged the Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. James Mangold (Logan) directed the factbased drama, also starring Catriona Balfe and Jon Bernthal. (152 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Stowe) THE GOOD LIAR: A con man (Ian McKellen) finds himself falling for his rich mark (Helen Mirren) in this thriller-ish drama directed by Bill Conden (Mr. Holmes). With Russell Tovey. (109 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace)

NOW PLAYING ABOMINABLEHHH1/2 Lost in Shanghai, a young yeti needs help to return to his Everest home in this DreamWorks animated adventure. Jill Culton (Open Season) directed. With the voices of Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai and Eddie Izzard. (97 min, PG; reviewed

by M.H. 10/2) THE ADDAMS FAMILYHH1/2 Charles Addams’ creepy cartoon family becomes a family animation directed

by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party), with the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron and Chloë Grace Moretz. (105 min, PG) ARCTIC DOGSH1/2 An arctic fox (voiced by Jeremy Renner) who dreams of becoming a sled dog uncovers a nefarious plot in this family animation directed by Aaron Woodley (Spark: A Space Tail).

With John Cleese, Anjelica Huston and Alec Baldwin. (93 min, PG) DOCTOR SLEEPHHH In this adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining, grown-up Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) tries to protect a girl with powers similar to his own from a cult. With Rebecca Ferguson. Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game) directed. (151 min, R) DOWNTON ABBEYHHH The story of the to-themanor-born Crawley family and their servants continues in this offshoot of the TV series, which includes a royal visit. With Michelle Dockery, Matthew Goode and Maggie Smith. Michael Engler directed. (122 min, PG) HARRIETHHH1/2 Cynthia Erivo portrays Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery to become an activist and organizer of the Underground Railroad, in this biopic directed by Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou).

With Leslie Odom Jr. and Joe Alwyn. (125 min, PG-13)

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JOJO RABBITHHHH Everybody has an opinion on this anti-Nazi satire from Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok), in which a young follower of Hitler (Roman Griffin Davis) makes discoveries that change his world. With Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell and Rebel Wilson. (108 min, PG-13; reviewed by R.K. 11/13) JOKERHHH In this stand-alone backstory for Batman’s nemesis, he’s played as a struggling funnyman by Joaquin Phoenix. Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy also star. Todd Phillips (The Hangover) directed. (121 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/9)

LAST CHRISTMASHH1/2 In this holiday rom com, a young woman (Emilia Clarke) with darkness in her past meets her new beau while playing a department-store Santa’s elf. With Henry Golding and Emma Thompson. Paul Feig (A Simple Favor) directed. (102 min, PG-13) THE LIGHTHOUSEHHHH Robert Eggers (The Witch) directed this critically acclaimed, reputedly trippy tale in which Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson play the keepers of a remote lighthouse in the 1890s. (109 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 11/6) MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVILHH Angelina Jolie’s sharp cheekbones return, along with more drama between humans and fairies, in this dark fantasy from director Joachim Rønning. Elle Fanning is the newly engaged Princess Aurora; Michelle Pfeiffer, the scheming mother-in-law-tobe. (118 min, PG) MIDWAYHH1/2 Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day: Resurgence) transports audiences to a key World War II battle for control of the Pacific in this drama starring Woody Harrelson, Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson and Dennis Quaid. (138 min, PG-13)

MOTHERLESS BROOKLYNHHH A detective with Tourette’s syndrome investigates the murder of his mentor and discovers a larger plot in this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, directed by and starring Edward Norton. With Bruce Willis, Dallas Roberts and Willem Dafoe. (144 min, R) PAIN & GLORYHHH1/2 In Pedro Almodóvar’s semiautobiographical drama, a film director recalls his origins while struggling with his failing health. With Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Julieta Serrano and Penélope Cruz. (113 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 11/13) PARASITEHHH An unemployed family finds plenty to do — and money to be made — in an affluent home in this satirical drama from Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer), which won the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival. With Kang-ho Song and Yeo-jeong Jo. (132 min, R; reviewed by R.K. 11/6) PLAYING WITH FIREH Rescuing three boisterous kids is a tough job even for fearless firefighters in this family comedy. Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key and John Cena star. Andy Fickman (Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2) directed. (96 min, PG)

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TERMINATOR: DARK FATEHH1/2 Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) is back to protect yet another kid endangered by a time-traveling cyborg in this sequel set 20 years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes. Tim Miller (Deadpool) directed.

(128 min, R) ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAPHH A decade after the events of Zombieland, the undead have evolved into superzombies. Changing “family” dynamics mean that Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson and Abigail Breslin’s characters must evolve, too — or, perhaps, perish. Ruben Fleischer again directed. (99 min, R; reviewed by M.H. 10/23)

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Many people will

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21):

Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don’t have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it. Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbors the precise treasure you need in order to be replenished and empowered. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I think that during the next two weeks, you should abide as much as possible in the soul’s realm — the cornucopia of holy truths and ever-fresh riches.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If there are any potential Aries heroes or leaders or saviors out there, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to fully bloom and assert your practical magnificence. The lessons you have learned while improvising workable solutions for yourself are ripe to be applied to the riddles that are puzzling your tribe or group or gang. I want to let you know, however, that to achieve maximum effectiveness, you should be willing to do good deeds for people who may not be able to pay you back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re enter-

ing a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial that your receptivity be as robust as possible. To guide you in this delightful but perhaps challenging work, here are good

not be honest because they fear loss of intimacy and togetherness,” writes self-help author Henry Cloud. But the truth, he adds, is that “honesty brings people closer together,” because it “strengthens their identities.” Therein lies the tender paradox: “The more you realize your separate identities, the closer you can become.”

Living according to this principle may not be as easy or convenient as being deceptive and covert, but it’s ultimately more gratifying. Henry Cloud concludes, “Telling loved ones what is really on your mind and telling others what you really think is the foundation of love.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization,” said poet Kenneth Rexroth. That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom. For many people, the process of growing up and becoming a seasoned adult means trying to fit in, to find one’s category, to be serious and steady and stable. Rexroth, on the other hand, suggested that when you fully ripen into your potentials, you transcend standard definitions; you don’t adhere to others’ expectations; you are uniquely yourself, outside and beyond all pigeonholes and classifications. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to practice and cultivate this sacred art.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there an event

from your past that would be empowering for you to remember in detail? Is there a neglected but still viable dream you could resurrect, thereby energizing your enthusiasm for the future? Are there old allies you’ve lost touch with but who, if you called on them, could provide you with just the boost you need? Is there a familiar pleasure you’ve grown numb to but could reinvigorate by

visualizing the original reasons you loved it?

The coming weeks will be a favorable time to meditate on these questions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Catholic saint St. Francis (1181–1226) loved animals and the natural world. According to one folkloric tale, he was once traveling on foot with several companions when they came upon a place where the trees were filled with birds. Francis said, “Wait for me while I go preach to my sisters the birds.”

He proceeded to do just that. The birds were an attentive audience for the duration of his sermon, apparently captivated by his tender tones. Seven centuries later, author Rebecca West offered a critique of the bird-whisperer.

“Did St. Francis preach to the birds?” she asked.

“Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.” In the coming weeks, Virgo, I encourage you to do the metaphorical equivalent of preaching to both the birds and the cats.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every now and then I authorize you Libras to shed your polite, tactful personas and express the angst you sometimes feel but usually hide. That’s now!

To egg you on, read this mischievous rant by Libran blogger Clary Gay (claryfightwood.tum blr.com): “We Libras are constantly thinking about how to make everyone else comfortable and happy. There’s not a minute going by when we’re not worrying about radiating a soothing and comforting aura so everyone can have a good time. If a Libra is cranky, it’s because they snapped! Because of some nonLibra who doesn’t appreciate them! If a Libra is mean to people, it’s their own damn fault!”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my

estimation, what you’ve experienced lately has been akin to a fermentation process. It’s as if you’re undergoing a transformation with resemblances to the way that grapes turn into wine or milk becomes yogurt or dough rises before being baked into bread. You may have had to endure some discomfort, which is the case for anything in the midst of substantial change. But I think you’ll ultimately be quite pleased with the results, which I expect will be ready no later than ten days after your birthday — and quite possibly sooner.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Many books have been written about Joan of Arc, a fifteenth-century teenage peasant girl whose improbable ascent to military leadership, under the guidance of her divine visions, was crucial in France’s victory over the English.

Among the many miraculous elements of her story was the fact that less than a year before she led troops into battle on horseback, she didn’t know how to ride a horse. She learned by riding around her father’s farm astride his cows. I foresee an equivalent marvel in your future, Capricorn. By this time next year, you will have developed an aptitude that might seem unimaginable now. (P.S. There’s evidence Joan was a Capricorn.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Divine

Comedy is one of history’s greatest literary works. Its author, Dante Alighieri, was 43 when he began writing the Inferno, the first part of his three-part masterpiece. Up until that time, he had published just one book and a few poems and had also abandoned work on two unfinished books. Early on in the Inferno, the not-yet-renowned author presents a fictional scene in which he meets with the spirits of antiquity’s most famous authors: Virgil, Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lucan. Those illustrious five tell Dante he is such an important writer that he ranks sixth, after them, in his excellence.

I’m going to encourage you to dare indulging in behavior like Dante’s: to visualize and extol — and yes, even brag about — the virtues and skills that will ultimately be your signature contribution to this world.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Latin word for sea is mare. Flustra is the calm sea.

Undisonus means “resounding with waves.”

Caeruleus is the sea’s deep shade of blue, aestus is the tide, and aequoreus means “connected with the sea.” My hope is that as you meditate on these lyrical terms, you’ll be moved to remember the first lakes, rivers and oceans you ever swam in. You’ll recall your time floating in your mother’s womb and your most joyous immersions in warm baths and hot springs. Why? It’s a favorable time to seek the healing and rejuvenating powers of primal waters — both metaphorically and literally.

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You: Man. Me: Woman. #914910

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Separated and seeking company.

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My boots with shorts are usually a getter, but you were unfazed. I tried giving you an LOL, a little wonky face, but you would have none of it. You wanted me to quote rap, but I only knew “Free Bird.” Give me another chance? I’ve got money for the band this time. When: Wednesday, October 30, 2019. Where: St. Albans.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #914902 BLOND BIKER, GAS STATION, STOWE I drove into a Shell gas station after a hike. You were leaving. Blond, driving a truck with two mountain bikes. We held eye contact; you smiled. You drove off. I don’t do this; I feel weird typing it ... I think you’re beautiful. If you read this, share a laugh with me.

When: Saturday, October 26, 2019.

Where: Shell gas station, Stowe.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914901 FALL FOLIAGE TOURIST NEEDS DIRECTIONS Grand Isle, New York plates. You: mowing lawn wearing tight overalls, straw hat and a low-cut pink top as you leaned down to give directions to the NEK. Told you I wanted to pick some wild mountain berries. Felt like I was on the expressway to your heart. Sensed we had a moment. Like to groove with you on the way back. When: Saturday, October 26, 2019. Where: Grand Isle.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914900

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Dear Reverend,

I had gone on a few dates with this guy and invited him to a dinner party at my friends’ house. Everything was going fine until he had a few too many drinks and his true colors came out. And those colors were not pretty. He was extremely abrasive and rude to the hosts. I took it upon myself to leave early to get him out of there. How do I make amends to my friends for introducing this nightmare?

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YOU’RE DEAD TO ME I saw you dancing from across the room at Manahana Magic. You were dressed as Day of the Dead, and you were the best-looking guy in the room! We exchanged a couple of smiles. Thank you for the beers, and I hope we can share some drinks and laughter again soon. When: Saturday, October 26, 2019. Where: Old Lantern, Charlotte.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914899

GOT A LOOK THAT KILLS You were helping a dude in a scooter wash windows. I yelled, “You missed a spot” out the car window, and you shot a look that could stop a heart, and you kind of did mine. I’d like to know more about you. How’d you hurt your ankle? Let’s get a coffee. When: Monday, October 14, 2019. Where: outside Penny Cluse.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914891

MILTON LAUNDROMAT, SUNDAY, 10/27 You were driving a Ford Expedition with tinted windows and were there using the dryers. I held the door for you when you came back in and I was leaving, and we exchanged smiles. Your smile made my day. Thanks for that moment of happiness. When: Sunday, October 27, 2019. Where: Milton laundromat.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914898

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I’M CORNY FOR YOU! You: tall, cute and wearing a black “dad hat” with a red heart emblem. Me: short and adorable, but wearing brown heels not suited for the maze. Our friends left to go to the bathroom, and our eyes met in mutual amusement at their inability to preemptively pee. There was an undeniable spark! When: Sunday, October 13, 2019. Where: Danville Corn Maze. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914897

MILTON SAND BAR SUNDAY You: on an orange Harley, long blond hair.

Enjoying the sun and your music for about an hour. Me: across the road, sitting on my tailgate. Wanted to walk over and say hi, but didn’t want to disturb you. We waved to each other as your drove off.

Should have crossed that road. Single?

Maybe a coffee sometime? When: Sunday, October 13, 2019. Where: Route 2, Sand Bar. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914890

KAYLEE FROM BARRIO Kaylee, this is Brian. We were friends, and then you disappeared. Knew you when you worked at Barrio and Butch + Babe’s. How are you? Would like to catch up. Wishing you well. When: Monday, June 1, 2015. Where: summer. You: Trans woman. Me: Man. #914895

NOTRE DAME JACKET, WAITSFIELD FARMERS MARKET I asked, “College or high school?” and then became so flustered by the smiling, handsome man answering me that I stuttered! When you came back, I was too busy working to ask if you were local (and single?). When: Saturday, October 5, 2019. Where: Waitsfield Farmers Market. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914889

SUNDAY MORNING, GOODWILL IN SOUTH BURLINGTON You told me I “looked smart” as we tried to figure out some mystery item. I told you that I wasn’t sure and said, “Maybe I’m not so smart!” You had a great smile.

Wish we could have talked more. Are you free? Coffee? When: Sunday, October 13, 2019. Where: Goodwill, Shelburne Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914893 WILLISTON STARBUCKS You came in with a fellow bald-headed buddy. They called “Patrick” when your coffee was ready. Wish I had made eye contact with you before you were on your way. Single?

Next one on me? When: Wednesday, October 16, 2019. Where: Starbucks, Williston. You: Man. Me: Woman. #914892

Dear Supper Shocker,

Human beings, unlike most common medications, don’t come with warning labels that let you know what to expect when you combine them with alcohol. Booze makes some people loose and happy, while it causes others to unleash their inner demons. Unfortunately, you found out the hard way that this guy was one of the latter.

If they know you well, I’m sure your friends were as surprised as you when your

BESPECTACLED FELLA IN MEHURON’S I grabbed an unruly bunch of kale and may have shaken water on your shoes.

You said goodbye as you left and waved as I drove away. Do I know you? I’m still curious a few weeks later, so I figured ... maybe this guy also likes to do the crossword and occasionally browse the I-Spys for fun? When: Monday, September 30, 2019. Where: Mehuron’s.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914886

BEAUTIFUL SERVER AT PENNY CLUSE You were wearing a red leopard-print shirt.

I’m pretty sure I noticed you checking me out while I sat at the counter eating my tofu scram. I was wearing a brownand-pink flannel. Hit me back if you want to do more than look. When: Saturday, October 12, 2019. Where: Penny Cluse Café. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914888 MANATAT Manatat, this is Brian, the man who made your past stained-glass window. I hope this finds you and family well. Let’s meet up and catch up over lunch or dinner. It’s been too long. Always my best, Brian.

When: Monday, October 1, 2018. Where: co-op. You: Woman. Me: Man. #914894

DINNER AT SHELBURNE FARMS, 9/29 You sat behind me at a table in a cream-colored outfit, at the end of the table. I sat at the end of my table. We made eye contact several times and exchanged smiles. No rings on your hand ... Single? When you left, I said goodnight and wished you safe travels.

Would enjoy seeing that smile again.

Coffee? When: Sunday, September 29, 2019. Where: Shelburne Farms.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914885 AUBURN HAIR, GRAY DRESS, SUNGLASSES Lake Placid corner store, 11:30 a.m. You: amazingly attractive with your slender legs, big smile and beautiful auburn hair.

You walked by me next to the juice cooler.

I said, “It’s a beautiful day,” and you smiled and said it’s an “amazing day.” Any day would be amazing with you. Find me, babe, and let’s seize the day. When: Wednesday, September 18, 2019. Where: Lake Placid.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #914880 BRIGHT EYES, NO BS ATTITUDE You: blue eyes, tall, no-bullshit kind of attitude, always in uniform. Me: curious about you. I see you often, and randomly, in Montpelier, always working hard. Always on the move. You’re tough to find, but I seize up when you’re right in front of me.

I want to become acquainted with you.

Do you drink? I’ll buy. When: Wednesday, October 2, 2019. Where: Montpelier.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914879 PET PATH CROSSING You: handsome, jeans, blazer with possible cat carrier accessory. I was wrangling an anxious hound dog and smitten smile after seeing you in the lobby at drop-off/ pickup. You may not have seen me, but if you’re interested in a free drink, it’ll keep me from forming a fake friendship with a vet to try and secure your digits illicitly. When: Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Where: Orchard Veterinary.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #914874

gentleman friend had his firewater freak-out.

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Although I’d recommend cutting your losses, whether or not you want to see this person again is up to you. Either way, you should make it up to your friends by inviting them for dinner at your house without the offender. Take a minute to apologize for your acquaintance’s behavior. I’m sure you and your friends will be able to have a laugh about it and move on.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1186-3 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 28, 2019, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, filed application number 4C1186-3 for a project generally described as improvements to UVM’s Recycling and Maintenance Zone including; (1) construction of two salt storage

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sheds, (2) relocation of draft permit may also be two existing salt brine viewed on the Natural 11/11/19 HW-Heney2-111319.indd 10:23 AMBoard’s web 1 tanks and addition of one Resources larger brine tank, (3) resite (http://nrb.vermont. location of a stormwater gov) by clicking on “Act catchbasin, (4) removal 250 Database” and enterof two existing sheds and ing the project number construction of a new “4C1186-3.”

10ft x 35ft shed, (5) construction of a fence and No hearing will be held gated access, (6) installa- and a permit may be tion of two Conex storissued unless, on or age containers, and (7) before November 29, removal and relocation 2019, a person notifies of existing waste blocks. the Commission of an The project is located issue or issues requiring new Centennial Field the presentation of at 0 University Road in evidence at a hearing, Burlington, Vermont. or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing The District 4 Environon its own motion. Any mental Commission is person as defined in 10 reviewing this applicaV.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may tion under Act 250 Rule request a hearing. Any 51—Minor Applications. hearing request must be A copy of the application in writing to the address and proposed permit are below, must state the available for review at criteria or sub-criteria at the office listed below. issue, why a hearing is The application and a required and what ad-

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ditional evidence will be presented at the hearing.

Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules.

Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the

attached Certificate of Service under “For Your 11/11/19 Information” may have10:26 a AM conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than November 29, 2019.

If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

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generally described as 11/8/19 PM the creation of a4:57 four lot subdivision of an existing residential-commercial mixed use 23.55-acre lot, after-the-fact approval of an existing commercial use on Lot 3, and construction of a single family residence on Lot 4. The Project is located at 4788 Spear Street in Shelburne, Vermont.

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 5th day of November, 2019.

[CONTINUED] nicipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria.

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By: /s/Rachel Lomonaco Rachel Lomonaco, District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802-8795658 rachel.lomonaco@ vermont.gov

The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications.

A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1323 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 29, 2019, David & Judy Farrington, 4788 Spear Street, Shelburne, VT 05482 filed application #4C1323 for a project

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Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by December 2, 2019.

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By: Stephanie H. Monaghan District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 802/879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C1326 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 17, 2019, State of Vermont Agency of Transportation, 1 National Life Drive, Montpelier, VT 05633 filed application number #4C1326 for a project generally described as improvements to existing I-89 interchange at Exit 17 including reconstruction of highway overpass and reconfiguration of on and off-ramps. The Project is located on I-89 at Exit 17 in Colchester, Vermont.

The District 4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51— Minor Applications. A copy of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the office listed below.

The application and a draft permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (http://nrb. vermont.gov) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the project number “4C1326.”

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before December 6, 2019, a person notifies the Commission of an issue or issues requiring the

presentation of evidence at a hearing, or the Commission sets the matter for a hearing on its own motion. Any person as defined in 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1) may request a hearing. Any hearing request must be in writing to the address below, must state the criteria or sub-criteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other person eligible for party status under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E) must include a petition for party status under the Act 250 Rules. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law may not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on this case, please contact the District Coordinator as soon as possible, and by no later than December 6, 2019.

If you have a disability for which you need accommodation in order to participate in this process (including participating in a public hearing, if one is held), please notify us as soon as possible, in order to allow us as much time as possible to accommodate your needs.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission,

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent that they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the Act 250 criteria.

Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 6th day of November, 2019.

By: _/s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan District 4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5662 stephanie.monaghan@ vermont.gov INVITATION FOR BID Winooski Housing Authority is soliciting bids from qualified General Contractors for the Elm and Franklin Street Family Housing Selective Rehabilitation project.

This project consists of selective rehabilitation of 75 units of occupied housing on two sites in Winooski, VT. The scope of work includes selective siding, soffit, trim, and brick repair, gutter

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO BROWNFIELDS REUSE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY LIMITATION PROGRAM Please take notice that The East Calais Community Trust whose address is P.O. Box 14, East Calais, VT 05650, is applying to the Vermont Brownfields Reuse and Environmental Liability Limitation Program (10 V.S.A. §6641 et seq.) in connection with the redevelopment of property known as structure and property at 4250 Vermont Route 14 in the Town of Calais.

A copy of the application, which contains a preliminary environmental assessment and a description of the proposed redevelopment project is available for public review at the Town of Calais Clerk’s Office and at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation offices in Montpelier.

Comments concerning the above referenced documents, and the application generally, may be submitted to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management Division, 1 National Life

Drive – Davis, Montpelier, VT 05620; attention: Michael Nahmias. Telephone inquiries may be directed to Vermont DEC at 802-828-1138.

NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE LIEN SALE MALLETTS BAY SELF STORAGE, LLC, 115 HEINEBERG DRIVE, COLCHESTER, VT 05446 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid.

Name of Occupant Storage Unit Kevin Randall #48 Said sales will take place on 11/22/19, beginning at 10:00am at Malletts Bay Self Storage, LLC, (MBSS, LLC)115 Heineberg Dr, Colchester, VT 05446.

Units will be opened for viewing immediately prior to auction. Sale shall be by sealed bid to the highest bidder.

Contents of entire storage unit will be sold as one lot. The winning bid must remove all contents from the facility at no cost to MBSS, LLC on the day of auction.

MBSS, LLC reserves the right to reject any bid

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Applications may be submitted to the Clerk/ Treasurer’s Office, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Attn: Lori NO later than Wednesday, November 27, 2019, by 4:30 pm.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of Janet T Lopes, late of Burlington, Vermont.

I have been appointed executor of this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the

Publication Dates: November 13, 2019 Name and Address of Court: Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Unit Probate Court 175 Main Street, PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 054010511 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT LAMOILLE UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 215-10-13 LECV KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v.

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UNION AND MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC OCCUPANTS OF: 7289 Route 15, Jeffersonville VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered August 1 , 2018, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Joel R. Foster and Jennifer L. Smith to BancBoston Mortgage Corporation, dated August 17, 1994 and recorded in Book 142 Page 144 of the land records of the Town of Cambridge, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from BancBoston Mortgage Corporation to KeyBank National Association, dated January 7, 1998 and recorded in Book 180 Page 371 of the land records of the Town of Cambridge for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 7289 Route 15, Jeffersonville, Vermont on December 6, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Joel R. Foster and Jennifer L. Smith

by Warranty Deed of .Richard W. Brouillette and Karen A. Brouillette dated August 17, 1994 and recorded In Volume 128 at Page 409-411, of the Cambridge Land Records.

Also being a portion of all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Richard W. Brouillette and Karen A. Brouillette

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I have been appointed to administer this estate.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1352-1019 CNPR In re estate of Janet T Lopes

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Name and Address of Court: Vermont Superior Court, Washington Unit, Probate Division 65 State Street Montpelier, VT 05602

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND BACKGROUND – The Town of Hartland, is seeking engineering services to design the replacement of a damaged culvert on Mace Hill Road near the intersection of Mace Hill Road and VT 12.

The new culvert shall be designed in accordance with the State of Vermont Hydraulic Study.

The existing upstream and downstream site conditions may require a culvert size different than what is recommended in the Hydraulic Study. The culvert size must meet the approval of the Agency of Natural

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Pursuant to the requirements of 24 V.S.A. § 1901(2)(B), notice is hereby given of a public hearing by the Burlington City Council to hear comments concerning a resolution for the City Council to approve the submission of a substantial change request to the Vermont Economic Progress Council relative to the City of Burlington’s approved District Reconciliation for its Waterfront Tax Increment Financing District; specifically, changes as a result of the revised plans relating to con-

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WASHINGTON UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 652-1019 WNP In re estate of Jeanne M. Casella

Executor/Administrator: Robert Casella c/o Chad V. Bonanni, Esq. PO Box 174 Essex Junction, VT 05453 802-879-6304 cbonanni@bpflegal.com

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL: ENGINEERING SERVICES Project: Hartland Mace Hill Road Culvert Mace Hill Road, TH-18 Hartland, VT 05048

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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Substantial Change Request Submission to Vermont Economic Progress Council: Waterfront Tax Increment Financing District Reconciliation Plan

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The public hearing will take place on Monday, December 2, 2019 during the Regular City Council Meeting which begins at 7:00 pm in Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington, VT.

A copy of the full RFP and Hydrology Study can be found on the Town of Hartland Website, www.hartland.govoffice. com or a copy can be obtained by contacting the Hartland Town Manager; David Ormiston, Town Manager, P.O. Box 349, 1 Quechee Rd. Hartland, VT 05048 Phone (802) 436-2119, Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Email: dormiston@hart landvt.org

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Proposals must be returned by 4:00pm on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.

first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

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City Council President Wright will plan for appointments to take place at the December 2, 2019 City Council Meeting/ City Council With Mayor Presiding Meeting.

If approved, the substantial change request will include a letter indicating that the City Council has considered and approved the substantial change, as well as a narrative explanation of the substantial change that fully explains the reasons for such a change.

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struction of the CityPlace Burlington project.

particularly described as 1.94 acres of land, more or less, together with all buildings thereon standing, located on the northerly side of Vermont State Highway Route 15.

EXCEPTING AND RESERVING from the operation of this deed so much of said land and premises located southerly of the aforesaid State Highway, said land and premises being more particularly described as a parcel of land approximately one hundred feet (100’) in width ad three hundred feet (300’) in depth located on the southerly side of Vermont State Highway Route 15, and is the same land and premises conveyed to Irving Mossey and Michelle Mossey, husband and wife, by deed of the herein Grantor, which deed is dated on or about even date herewith, and it to be recorded of the Land Records of the Town of Cambridge.

Reference is hereby made to a survey entitled: “Plat of Survey Showing Land to be Conveyed by Perry F. and Joan M. Bebo in the Town of Cambridge, VT.”, which survey bears the signature and seal of John A. Marsh, Registered Land Surveyor, and which survey is dated 6/27/78 and is of record in Map Book Volume III at Page 51A of the Land Records of the Town of Cambridge.”

Reference is hereby made to the abovereferenced instruments, the records thereof and references therein, in further aid of this description.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank

treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : October 23, 2019 By: /S/ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT WINDSOR UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 362-8-17 WRCV WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. v.

ARTHUR FROGEL, JOAN FROGEL, QUECHEE LAKES LANDOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. AND VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF TAXES OCCUPANTS OF: 530 Morgan Road, Quechee, Town of Hartford VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 3, 2019 in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Arthur Frogel and Joan Frogel to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., dated April 8, 2013 and recorded in Book 487 Page 469 of the land records of the Town of Quechee, Town of Hartford, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 530 Morgan Road, Quechee, Town of Hartford, Vermont on December 4, 2019 at 12:30 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Meaning and intending to mortgage and convey all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to Arthur Frogel and Joan Frogel by deed of Elizabeth B. Hyra dated 15 October 2002 and recorded at Book 337, Page 65 in the Hartford Land Records.

The Property is described in that deed as follows: Being Lot 3031 as shown on a plan of lots entitled

SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS “Quechee Lakes Corporation Section III, Old Quechee Road, Quechee, Vermont, Scale; 1”= 100’, Date: September 18, 1970, Proj. No. 109970, K.A. LeClair Assoc., Inc., Civil Engineers, Hanover, NH”, a copy of which plan is on file on page 2 of Book 1 of the Land Plats in the office of the Hartford, Vermont Town Clerk, to which reference may be had for a further and more particular description of said lot.

The above lot is conveyed subject to the restrictions and obligations and with the benefits of the rights and privileges enumerated in a Declaration of Covenants, Restrictions, Rights and Benefits pertaining to Quechee Lakes Subdivision dated March 25, 1970 and recorded in Book 64, page 182 of the Hartford Land Records, as the same may from time to time be amended.

Meaning to convey hereby all and the same land and premises together with buildings and improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto belonging that was conveyed to Harry Hyra and Elizabeth B. Hyra by Warranty Deed of Steven A. Usle and Diane S. Usle dated November 10, 1983 and recorded in Book 101, Pages 348349 of the Hartford Land Records, to which deed and record and the deeds and records therein referred to, reference may be had for further description.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled

to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : October 21, 2019 By: /S/ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

support groups VISIT SEVENDAYSVT. COM TO VIEW A FULL LIST OF SUPPORT GROUPS ADDICT IN THE FAMILY: SUPPORT GROUP FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., Holy Family/St. Lawrence Parish, 4 Prospect St., Essex Junction. For further information, please visit thefamilyrestored. org or contact Lindsay Duford at 781-960-3965 or 12lindsaymarie@ gmail.com.

ADULT SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Meetings are every third Thursday of the month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Williston, VT. The support group is for anyone who has been touched by suicide loss recently or long ago who wants to work through their grief in a safe, respectful environment. Contact Joanna at joanna. colevt@gmail.com or 802-777-5244. Maria at mariagrindle@msn. com or 802-879-9576.

Please leave a message so we can get back to you for a mutually acceptable time to talk.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 866-972-5266.

ALATEEN GROUP Alateen group in Burlington on Sundays from 5-6 p.m. at the UU building at the top of Church St. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 864-1212. Want to overcome a drinking

problem? Take the first step of 12 & join a group in your area.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP This caregivers support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of every mo. from 5-6:30 p.m. at the Alzheimer’s Association Main Office, 300 Cornerstone Dr., Suite 130, Williston.

Support groups meet to provide assistance and information on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

They emphasize shared experiences, emotional support, and coping techniques in care for a person living with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia. Meetings are free and open to the public. Families, caregivers, and friends may attend. Please call in advance to confirm date and time. For questions or additional support group listings, call 800-272-3900.

ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION TELEPHONE SUPPORT GROUP 1st Monday monthly, 3-4:30 p.m.

Pre-registration is required (to receive dial-in codes for toll-free call). Please dial the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline 800-272-3900 for more information.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Wed., 6:307:30 p.m., Methodist Church in the Rainbow Room at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

Contact Jennifer, 917-568-6390.

BABY BUMPS SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS AND PREGNANT WOMEN Pregnancy can be a wonderful time of your life. But, it can also be a time of stress that is often compounded by hormonal swings.

If you are a pregnant woman, or have recently given birth and feel you need some help with managing emotional bumps in the road that can come with motherhood, please come to this free support group lead by an experienced pediatric Registered Nurse. Held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Birthing Center, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans. Info: Rhonda Desrochers, Franklin County

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BETTER BREATHERS CLUB American Lung Association support group for people with breathing issues, their loved ones or caregivers. Meets first Monday of the month, 11 a.m.-noon at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. For more information call 802-776-5508.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure & confidential environment. Info, Tom Younkman, tyounkman@vcil.org, 800-639-1522.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets the 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church ramp entrance, 1:302:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. monthly at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., 1:00-2:30 p.m. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. monthly at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Brattleboro meets at Brooks Memorial Library on the 1st Thu. monthly from 1:15-3:15 p.m. and the 3rd Mon. monthly from 4:15-6:15 p.m. White River Jct. meets the 2nd Fri. monthly at Bugbee Sr. Ctr. from 3-4:30 p.m.

Call our helpline at 877-856-1772.

CANCER SUPPORT GROUP The Champlain Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group will be held every 2nd Tue. of the mo., 6-7:45 p.m. at the Hope Lodge, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Newly diagnosed?

Prostate cancer reoccurrence? General discussion and sharing among survivors and those beginning or rejoining the battle.

Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, ACNS-BC, 274-4990, vmary@aol.com.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Overcome any hurt, habit or hangup in your life with this confidential 12-Step, Christ-centered recovery program. We offer multiple support groups for both men and women, such as chemical dependency, codependency, sexual addiction and pornography, food issues, and overcoming abuse. All 18+ are welcome; sorry, no childcare. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; we begin at 7 p.m. Essex Alliance Church, 37 Old Stage Rd., Essex Junction. Info: recovery@essexalliance. org, 878-8213.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY Celebrate Recovery meetings are for anyone with struggles with hurt, habits and hang ups, which includes everyone in some way.

We welcome everyone at Cornerstone Church in Milton which meets every Friday night at 7-9 p.m. We’d love to have you join us and discover how your life can start to change.

Info: 893-0530, Julie@ mccartycreations.com.

CENTRAL VERMONT CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP Last Thu. of every month, 7:30 p.m. in Montpelier. Please contact Lisa Mase for location: lisa@ harmonizecookery.com.

CEREBRAL PALSY GUIDANCE Cerebral Palsy Guidance is a very comprehensive informational website broadly covering the topic of cerebral palsy and associated medical conditions. It’s mission it to provide the best possible information to parents of children living with the complex condition of cerebral palsy. cerebralpalsy guidance.com/ cerebral-palsy/.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy & fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance & serenity in our lives. Meets Sunday at noon at the Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. Tom, 238-3587, coda.org.

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DECLUTTERERS’ SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe two or three of us can get together to help each other simplify.

989-3234, 425-3612.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone, including family and friends, affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science-based program that encourages abstinence. Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership. Sundays at 5 p.m. at the 1st Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert, 399-8754. You can learn more at smartrecovery. org.

DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road.

Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger and self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share with you a safe place and a process that can help make the journey easier. This free 13-week group for men and women will be offered on Sunday evenings, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Sep. 8 through Dec. 1, at the North Avenue Alliance Church, 901 North Ave., Burlington, VT. Register for class at essexalliance. churchcenter.com. For more information, call Sandy 802-425-7053.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT Steps to End Domestic Violence offers a weekly drop-in support group for female identified survivors of intimate partner violence, including individuals who are experiencing or have been affected by domestic violence. The support group offers a safe, confidential place for survivors to connect with others, to heal, and to recover. In support group, participants talk through their experiences and hear stories from others who have experienced abuse in their relationships.

Support group is also a resource for those who are unsure of their next step, even if it involves remaining in their current relationship.

Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Childcare is provided.

Info: 658-1996.

EMPLOYMENTSEEKERS SUPPORT GROUP Frustrated with the job search or with your job? You are not alone. Come check out this supportive circle.

Wednesdays at 3 p.m., Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: Abby Levinsohn, 777-8602.

FAMILIES, PARTNERS, FRIENDS AND ALLIES OF TRANSGENDER ADULTS We are people with adult loved ones who are transgender or gender-nonconforming.

We meet to support each other and to learn more about issues and concerns. Our sessions are supportive, informal, and confidential. Meetings are held at 5:30 PM, the second Thursday of each month at Pride Center of VT, 255 South Champlain St., Suite 12, in Burlington. Not sure if you’re ready for a meeting? We also offer one-on-one support. For more information, email rex@ pridecentervt.org or call 802-238-3801.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS This support group is a dedicated meeting for family, friends and community members who are supporting a loved one through a mental health crisis. Mental health crisis might include extreme states, psychosis, depression, anxiety and other types of distress. The group is a confidential space where family and friends can discuss shared experiences and receive support in an environment free of judgment and stigma with a trained facilitator.

Weekly on Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Info: Jess Horner, LICSW, 866-218-8586.

FCA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Families coping with addiction (FCA) is an open community peer support group for adults 18 & over struggling with the drug or alcohol addiction of a loved one.

FCA is not 12-step based but provides a forum for those living this experience to develop personal coping skills & draw strength from one another. Weekly on Wed., 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Turning Point Center, 179 So. Winooski Ave., Suite 301, Burlington. thdaub1@gmail.com.

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FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY ANONYMOUS (FA) Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? FA is a free 12-step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating or bulimia. Local meetings are held twice a week: Mondays, 4-5:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church, Norwich, Vt.; and Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., at Hanover Friends Meeting House, Hanover, N.H. For more information and a list of additional meetings throughout the U.S. and the world, call 603-630-1495 or visit foodaddicts.org.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Are you a family member who has lost a loved one to addiction? Find support, peer-led support group. Meets once a month on Mondays in Burlington. Please call for date and location.

RSVP mkeasler3@gmail. com or call 310-3301 (message says Optimum Health, but this is a private number).

GRIEF SUPPORT GROUPS Meet twice a month: every second Monday from 6-7:30 p.m., and every third Wednesday from 10-11:30 a.m., at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to the public and free of charge. More info: Diana Moore, 224-2241.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT GROUP This Hearing Voices Group seeks to find understanding of voice hearing experiences as real lived experiences which may happen to anyone at anytime. We choose to share experiences, support, and empathy. We validate anyone’s experience and stories about their experience as their own, as being an honest and accurate representation of their experience, and as being acceptable exactly as they are.

Weekly on Tuesday, 2-3 p.m. Pathways Vermont Community Center, 279 North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-777-8602, abby@ pathwaysvermont.org.

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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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CLIENT CARE SPECIALIST/ VETERINARY TECHNICIAN ASSISTANT

ANNUAL VETERANS & COMMUNITY CAREER FAIR

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We are seeking one full-time candidate to fill the role of Client Care Specialist and Veterinary Technician Assistant. Successful candidate would enjoy working with our clients and their pets, exhibit strong communication skills, express a friendly and positive attitude and have the energy and desire to work in a fast-paced environment.

This position is full time, approximately 35-40 hours per week with evening and Saturday availability required. Previous experience in customer service or working with animals highly preferred. Excellent benefit package including: Health insurance, paid vacation and sick days, uniform allowance, pet care benefit, and retirement plan. Please send cover letter and resume to ctatrogmah@gmail.com. Come join our team of highly trained staff today!

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We are seeking to immediately hire a full time installer to add to our growing family business.

This job is full time, 40 hours 11:08 AM per week, 8-4:30 PM Monday through Friday.

General experience in at least two of the following duties are key: Sheetrock , Mudding, Taping, Tile work, carpentry, gas work, electrical, driving a box truck, comfortable on ladders, roofing, dealing with customers.

Also must be willing and able to promote our company and its products.

Please email your resume to: Sarah@ greenmountainfireplaces.com or call 802-279-1902.

Salary is commensurate with experience.

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CLERICAL ASSISTANT OPENINGS

Double Tree by Hilton

870 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT

November 19th, 2019

Veterans Preference: 10:00 - 11:00am General Public: 11:00am - 3:00pm

Available job opportunities in a variety of industries:

Manufacturing, Sales, Hospitality, Customer Service, Retail and more!

For more information please call 802-863-7676

The Vermont Judiciary is recruiting for several full-time, permanent Docket Clerk positions. Will perform specialized clerical duties including data entry customer service, multi-tasking, legal processing, courtroom support and record keeping.

Hiring for Burlington, Barre, Chelsea, Newport & White River Junction. High School graduate and two years of clerical or data entry experience required.

Starting at $16.88 per hour with excellent benefits, paid holidays and generous leave time.

Candidates shall submit a complete and up-to-date Judicial Branch Application and resume for the location they are interested in. An electronic version of the Application and further details may be found at: vermontjudiciary.org/employment-opportunities/staff-openings Open until filled.

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COURT OPERATIONS MANAGER (job code # 19053) BASKETBALL COACH

A full-time permanent opening exists in St. Albans. This position requires managerial, administrative, financial, budgeting and public relations work. Responsibilities also include planning, organizing, staffing, and evaluating the functions of teams ranging from 5 to 15 employees.

PATIENT SERVICE SPECIALIST

The ideal candidate will have the personal qualities of integrity, energy and a strong preference for collaborative problem-solving.

Bachelor’s degree & four years of management experience in a public or private organization required. (Will accept as substitute related legal or court experience.) Salary $67,861 annually with excellent medical, dental, paid leave and retirement benefits.

The Patient Service Specialist provides administrative support in a clinical or ambulatory setting. Key job responsibilities include patient check-in and scheduling, referrals, prior authorizations, telephone service and other administrative support as assigned.

Go to vermontjudiciary.org/employment-opportunities/ staff-openings for further details and an application to apply.

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Custodian I Waterbury Complex Noon-8:30PM, Monday through Friday. Looking for a Team player.

Apply online at humanresources.vermont.gov/careers

DEADLINE TO APPLY 12/02/19 For more information contact: Sue Gallagher - 241-6547 - sue.gallagher@vermont.gov or Ann Courchaine - 241-0221 - ann.courchaine@vermont.gov

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN POSITIONS Location: Essex Junction, VT Night Shift: 7pm to 7am

Sr Technician Level 3 - Manufacturing Engineering Req. # 18002106 Position Requirements: • Assoc. Degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related degree.

Principal Technician Level 4 - Manufacturing Engineering Req. # 18002732 Position Requirements: • Assoc. Degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related degree.

• 10 years of relevant experience.

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), paid time off and flexible working schedules, to name a few! We have a stunning office with a positive, friendly work culture. This could be a great opportunity for you! Please submit your resume to careers.djs@sheridan.com.

The focus for this team is to bring team camaraderie and build fundamental skills. We are looking for a coach who has had experience coaching and working with middle school aged students. Practices are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:15pm to 5:15pm. The season runs from mid-November through mid February, with a 1:55 PM two-week break.

If you are interested in coaching, please email Juliana Taylor, Athletic Director, at jtaylor@lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org. This job does require fingerprinting and background check prior to beginning.

Pay Rates: Starting at $26.00 per hour (not including shift differential).

Schedules: Work approximately 14 Days per Month!!

• Includes long 4 day weekends every other week!

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• Paid Vacation Time: Approx. 3 weeks per year (accrued).

• Paid Sick Time: 80 hours per year.

• 401k Investing Options.

Education Assistance: > Up to $5,250 per year in a degree related field.

Apply online at globalfoundries.com/about-us/careers or for more information email jobs@globalfoundries.com.

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Sheridan Journal Services, an established provider of publishing services for scientific, technical, medical & scholarly journals, is seeking a Financial Analyst. We are looking for someone who can work independently to develop, maintain, interpret and distribute periodic financial reports for management to monitor business performance and evaluate business trends.

In addition, this position will oversee estimating, customer billing and author billing functions and supervise a group of 3 to 5 employees.

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The Lake Champlain Waldorf School is looking for a new Coach for our middle school girls’ basketball team. A great opportunity to bring a passion for coaching and basketball to students of all skill levels in a positive environment.

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Grant Writer Opportunities Credit Union is seeking a full-time Grant Writer who will work closely across departments to gather data, write grant applications and maximize foundation and government giving. The position reports directly to the CEO/President.

We seek a candidate with experience writing grant proposals who can ensure that application and reporting requirements are met. A bachelor’s degree and commitment to the community are preferred.

OCU provides innovative affordable consumer, business and home ownership loans, deposit products, financial education and counseling. The credit union serves low income Vermonters by helping them develop an asset path to financial security.

Send resumes to: emetivier@oppsvt.org

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DRIVERS & DRIVER’S AIDES We’re looking for personable and reliable Drivers and Driver’s Aides for our Ready To Go program in Barre, Burlington, Hartford, Middlebury & Morrisville.

Full-time and part-time positions available to assist in safely transporting our clients and their children. Vans and mobile phones provided.

Immediate openings Full-time and flexible part-time schedules Days, early evenings, & weekend shifts

Seeking Real Estate Administrative Assistant The Thomas Hirchak Company is searching for a reliable and taskoriented Administrative Assistant to assist the Real Estate Division. The successful candidate shall assist the Real Estate Division Partner and team in all aspects of the Real Estate Division Auction Operations. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, professional, and capable of managing their work load and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced environment. The job will entail a considerable amount of travel. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing company with competitive compensation.

Duties include: • Coordinate communications, including taking calls, responding to emails and interfacing with clients and the public.

• Assist in the preparation of internal and external corporate documents for team members, clients and the public.

• Schedule meetings and appointments and manage travel itineraries.

• Assist in the coordination of Real Estate Auctions.

• Maintain an organized file system of paper and electronic documents.

• Uphold a strict level of confidentiality.

• Develop and sustain a level of professionalism among staff, clientele and the public.

Manufacturing Call Center Warehouse

Apply in person 210 East Main Street, Richmond, VT

Job description and to apply: GoodNewsGarage.org/careers

Required skills: • Minimum of 2+ years of experience in office or business management or a related real estate field.

• Competency in Microsoft Office, with an ability to become familiar with firm-specific programs and software.

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• Proficiency in collaboration and completion of duties HOPE seeks a Client Services • Strong organizational project management and problem-solving O P E R AT I O N S Manager. This person will be skills with strong multi-tasking abilities responsible for supervising receptionist; SUPPORT • Ability to exercise discretion and confidentiality with sensitive coordinating schedules of food shelf and other volunteers; company information True North Wilderness Program is meeting with people requesting assistance; communicating • Friendly and professional demeanor a wilderness therapy program for with housing providers, utility companies, and other THCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Email resumes to: HR@THCAuction.com adolescents and young adults. We vendors; preparing check requests; maintaining files and are seeking a full-time, year-round databases; working with individual clients to determine and Operations Support person. The help meet their needs; and more.

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CLIENT SERVICES MANAGER

ideal candidate is an adaptable Candidates should have a minimum of five years’ team player with a positive attitude experience with disadvantaged adults; excellent who is willing to work indoors and communication skills; proficiency with Microsoft Office outdoors performing a variety programs; organizational skills; the ability to lift up to 25 of tasks associated with the pounds; and the ability to remain calm and patient in a logistics of running our program. sometimes hectic environment. Supervisory experience Tasks including food packing would be a plus. Resume and three professional and rationing, gear outfitting, transportation and facilities references to jmontross@hope-vt.org. maintenance. Candidates must be willing to work weekends and occasional evenings. A clean and 11/4/19 valid driver’s license is required. 4t-HOPE110619.indd 1 Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits offered including health, dental, vision and accident insurance and a retirement savings plan.

Send resumes to: jobs@truenorthwilderness.com

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PROGRAM MANAGER SOCIAL DETOX PROGRAM Are you looking for a unique opportunity to utilize your leadership skills to manage a diverse and dynamic team while making a positive impact on the lives of individuals experiencing a substance use crisis? We are seeking a creative and passionate Program Manager to provide clinical and administrative oversight to a substance use social detox and a sobering program. 5 years’ 12:05 PMsupervisory/program management experience required, with 3 years of working in the field of substance use. LADC desired.

Howard Center has excellent benefits, combined time off starting at 36 days per year for full-time employees (and increasing with years of service), medical, dental, FSA, 401K, etc. For more information about this position, please contact Human Resources at 802-488-6959 or email: hrhelpdesk@howardcenter.org.

Howard Center’s culture and service delivery is strengthened by the diversity of its workforce. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Visit “About Us” to review Howard Center’s EOE policy.

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

While the title reads Account Executive, we’re really on the hunt for what we like to call an ‘account whisperer’ — someone who has an innate sense for anticipating customer needs. You can both see the big picture and revel in the details of customer accounts, producing and delivering multiple products on schedule and on budget. You’re a go-getter with an unparalleled knack 2:23 PM for seamlessly communicating, coordinating, and collaborating with customers, vendors, and the rest of the team at Villanti.

In this role, you will use your account management savvy and product intelligence to educate our customers on the best print options available to them, then guide them through the printing process, from planning to delivering custom products made with the finest craftsmanship. And, just as Robert Redford’s character in “The Horse Whisperer” had an extraordinary gift for understanding horses, you have the same gift for understanding clients (aka: humans). You’ll build positive, meaningful relationships with our customers to ensure their needs are met, goals are reached, and their loyalty is solidified for years to come.

For more information on this job, go to Villanti.com/employment.

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The Vermont Housing & Conservation Board (VHCB) seeks a Program Director to administer the Healthy & Lead-Safe Homes Program. This supervisory position, based in Montpelier, is responsible for the dayto-day management of all aspects of the program. The ideal candidate will have direct experience with lead hazard control and/or residential rehabilitation, as well as experience overseeing federally funded housing or social service programs.

Requirements: strong communication skills and the ability to utilize common software tools.

Funded by federal grants from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, the program provides critical services to families and children statewide.

Read the job description at www.vhcb.org/about-us/jobs. Reply with cover letter and resume to: Laurie Graves at laurie@vhcb.org.

Position remains open until filled. Questions? Call Ron Rupp at (802) 828-2912 or email: rrupp@vhcb.org

MEMBER SERVICES COORDINATOR

Select is looking for a detail-oriented and energetic individual with strong communication and organizational skills to join our accounting team in a fast-paced, highly transactional business.

CarShare Vermont is looking for an enthusiastic Member Services Coordinator to help ensure our members have the best possible carsharing experience.

An ideal candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to CarShare’s mission, stellar interpersonal and communication skills, an aptitude for learning new software and a quick problem-solving ability.

We offer a fun and creative environment and the opportunity to learn and grow within our nonprofit organization. To learn more, please visit: carsharevt.org/jobs.

Responsibilities will include: reviewing and processing supplier payables, researching and resolving invoice discrepancies, preparing and completing check runs, correspondence with purchasing team regarding payment status and credit card charges, vendor correspondence, maintaining accounting documents, and limited general administrative and back-up reception duties.

Compensation is based on experience and capabilities. Benefits include medical and dental, 401k with profit sharing, and an engaging work environment.

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Apply: careers@selectdesign.com

First Baptist Church, Burlington, VT, is seeking a Sexton to start immediately. This is a part-time paid position and it includes general janitorial cleaning, building and 12:50 PM grounds upkeep, and church setup.

Full Listing: www.selectdesign.com/careers 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington, VT (802) 864.9075

MULTIPLE POSITIONS!

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We are looking to Vermont’s raw talent to grow our company.

Train for just 8 weeks and enter a full-time career* APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FEATURES INCLUDE

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If interested, please contact the church office at 802-864-6515 between 9 a.m. & 1 p.m. daily or by email at fbcbvt@gmail.com.

We are growing and are hiring! All of the following positions offer competitive pay and excellent benefits including health coverage, retirement options, and paid time off.

• $4,800 grant provided during training

CAFÉ STAFF*

• Potential to earn $50,000 or more in your first year

If you enjoy great food and coffee and enjoy customer service, you would love working in our bustling cafe!

Job requirements include: • Previous food service/cash handling experience • Customer Service • Making espresso drinks • Making sandwiches to order

• Full benefits: health, dental, paid vacation, 401k and more • Variety of work schedules • Fun & engaging work, using cutting edge technology • Ideal sales environment: NO cold calling or travel!

• Generous base salary plus uncapped commission • Obtain state licensure during training

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BREAD BAKER

VTHITEC.ORG

The ITAR Program is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont and U.S. Departments 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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*This position requires more than seasonal employment —we are interested in long term commitment. Contact Hannah at buyer@redhenbaking.com or 802-223-5200 x16.

* Full-time employment guaranteed upon successful completion of the 8-week program.

If you derive satisfaction from working with your hands and being able to appreciate the fruits of your labor every day, you might want to bake bread with us! Professional food experience is required. Contact Douglas at douglas@redhenbaking.com.

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Database Coordinator Serves as a key member of the Membership and Development Team providing critical administrative and data support functions.

Helps develop and implement, monitor, and manage a comprehensive membership and fundraising database environment for the Green Mountain Club. Provides support for other Membership and Development initiatives, including fundraising strategy, event planning, and member communications. Serves as the primary point of contact for membership inquiries. Salary Range: $35,000-$40,000 For full job description and to apply: greenmountainclub.org/jobs

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CARING PEOPLE WANTED Home Instead Senior $200.0 Care, a provider Sign o 0 of personal Bonus n !!! care services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly and dependable people.

CAREGivers assist seniors with daily living activities. P/T & F/T positions available. 12 hours/week minimum, flexible scheduling, currently available. $12-$16.50/hour depending on experience. No heavy lifting.

Apply online at: www.homeinstead.com/483 or call us at 802.860.4663.

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR The Alzheimer’s Association has been ranked as one of the Best Nonprofits to Work For by The Nonprofit Times nine years in a row, recognizing our leadership, competitive compensation and benefits, flexibility and mission-driven atmosphere. It takes a uniquely motivated person to be a part of our team – but we believe that person could be you!

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YOUTH COACH

The Development Manager is part of a five-person team that comprises the Vermont Chapter. S/he is responsible for staffing the Reason to Hope Dinner/Gala and three signature events: The Longest Day and two Walk to End Alzheimer's events: St. Johnsbury and Upper Valley. The position will meet or exceed goals through volunteer recruitment and engagement as well as corporate sponsorships. Measurable outcomes for this position include achieving designated financial and participant goals through team and individual fundraising, corporate solicitation, community partnerships, as well as increasing brand awareness and visibility in the community.

Based in Williston, VT, this position requires travel within the assigned territory. Apply through alz.org/job.

For more info, go to: https://bit.ly/324Ltap

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Preschool Teacher The Schoolhouse Learning Center seeks a preschool teacher in a nature and play-based preschool program. Do you enjoy hiking, exploring, and teaching children about the natural world, as well as baking, creating art, reading books to children, making music, and facilitating children’s play? Then this job might be for you! 20+ hours a week.

BA in early childhood/elementary edu or a science/nature field desired. Please visit https://jobso.id/c83t to apply.

EQUIPMENT SERVICE MANAGER This position plays a critical role at Vermont Compost Company, overseeing our fleet of frontend loaders, excavators and more. Some experience in heavy machinery maintenance and repairs is essential, along with excellent communication and organizational skills. An interest in biofuels and non-toxic fluids is also helpful.

Send resumes to kurt@ vermontcompost.com

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MAC TECHNICIAN & SALES ASSOCIATE Small Dog Electronics, located at 316 Flynn Ave in Burlington, is seeking a full time Mac Technician and a Full Time Sales Associate.

Applicants should have a knowledge of computer repairs and sales, but specific Mac knowledge is not required. Please send resumes to sales@smalldog.com.

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BLISS BEE Shelburne Road South Burlington

$16.00+ per hour Flexible schedules Register & kitchen shifts Apply at GetBlissBee.com.

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ENTRY TO SENIOR PLANNER Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission (CCRPC) is seeking to hire a full-time planner to assist with efforts related to municipal and regional planning. Specific tasks may include, but are not limited to: municipal comprehensive plan and bylaw updates and development review, legislative research and policy recommendations, regional plan development, and energy planning. This position may range from entry to senior level depending on finding the right candidate.

The ideal candidate is a high-energy individual who has thorough knowledge of, or interest in, municipal land use planning and development and regional planning. The person should be: a collaborative, enthusiastic, positive person who has a sincere customer service attitude, attention to detail, and ability to orchestrate sometimes complicated events; ability to coordinate, develop and maintain cooperative work relationships 3:57 PM with member municipalities, staff and public; well organized; computer literate; and an excellent writer and speaker.

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CCRPC is the regional planning agency for the Burlington VT region. Our offices are in downtown Winooski along the river in a great walking environment with a variety of restaurants, services and businesses. The workplace is friendly and flexible.

The individual selected must be a self starter, able to work independently and stick to deadlines. Regular night meetings will be expected. Valid driver’s license required. Salary is dependent upon qualifications.

Please send a letter of interest and resume (with references and contact information) to Charlie Baker, Executive Director at: cbaker@ccrpcvt.org. We will begin reviewing resumes on November 27th. This position will remain open until filled.

Applicants should be available for an interview.

No phone calls please.

CCRPC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Green Mountain Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is seeking full and part time LNAs, LPNs & RNs for ALL shifts.

The HR Administrative Assistant will report to the Director of Human Resources and will perform a variety of responsible clerical, technical, administrative and office support duties for the District’s Human Resources Department. The HR Administrative Assistant provides information and assistance to school district employees and the public regarding human resources activities, processes, policies, and procedures and prepares various communications on behalf of the Director of Human Resources. This position is full-time, 40 hours per week.

Excellent rates and Benefits Available!!

For full position description and to apply: bsdvt.org/careers.

• Tuition Reimbursement Program (Students Welcome!)

The Burlington School District is an E.O.E. and is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination.

• Relocation Assistance Available • Sign-on bonuses for new employees

475 Ethan Allen Avenue Colchester, VT 05446 Phone: (802) 655-1025

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• Small facility environment allowing for high staff to patient ratio

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HR Senior Trainer Berlin, VT

• Paid Vacation & Many Other Benefits!

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There is no better time to join the NSB team!

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Full Stack Developer

Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as an HR Senior Trainer in our Berlin Operations Center. This position offers a strong opportunity to work for an established and growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank.

Job Responsibilities & Requirements

Select is seeking a Full Stack Developer and technologist with a focus on market innovation through software. This position will lead ongoing feature development, maintenance, and overall operation of a web-based custom client application and custom ERP system. This opportunity is ideal for a highly experienced coder that is looking for a high level of product and platform ownership in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment.

See our full listing online for more details.

• The HR Senior Trainer will be responsible for working with the SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer to build the organization’s depth by developing staff for future positions. This individual will design and develop creative learning solutions that include, but are not limited to eLearning, classroom, virtual classes, train-the-trainer, and blended learning solutions. We are looking for someone who is highly collaborative, possesses strong presentation and communication skills, and has a passion for employee development.

Responsibilities:

Qualifications

• Major feature planning and development, including collaboration with partners

• Bachelor’s degree in business or communications and five to seven years of training and employee development experience.

• Application performance monitoring and tuning; dependency tracking and patching • Collaboration with teams to identify workflow opportunities and implement solutions

Find out what NSB can offer you

• Inter-system integration via APIs

• NSB offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, profit sharing, matching 401(K) retirement program, professional development opportunities, and a positive work environment supported by a team culture.

Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday through Friday generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• Bug tracking, resolution, and hotfixes

Qualifications & Competencies: • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience • Experience with modern front-end Javascript frameworks (Elixir.js,React.js) • Experience with functional back-end frameworks (Elixir/Phoenix or Ruby on Rails)

Please submit your application and resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred)

• 4+ years software programming experience • Knowledge of current database-driven web application MVC architecture and design

Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank - Human Resources P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC

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MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN Exciting, Engaging and Empowering our Community!

Champlain College seeks a "person of all trades" to be part of a high functioning, dedicated crew of maintenance professionals! Our team consists of highly motivated, versatile individuals who work hard every day to ensure our beautiful campus is maintained to the highest of standards for our students, faculty and staff. This is a hands-on position preserving, supporting and maintaining all of our administrative and residential life buildings.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical, service, and organizational skills. Must be experienced in all aspects of building maintenance, including carpentry, electrical, plumbing and heating; mechanical skills desirable. The ability/willingness to be on call during the winter season for snow removal and work occasional overtime is needed as part of this position. High school diploma and valid driver's license required.

Full description and to apply go to: www.champlain.edu.

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Northern New England’s premier performing arts center has an exciting opportunity to join our team as

CREATIVE PRODUCER OF THE SUMMER FLYNN YOUTH PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

for outpatient Physical Therapy Practice in Shelburne.

We are in search of a full time (40 hours a week) receptionist Responsible for the artistic and logistical direction for 2-3 for our outpatient physical youth summer shows for ages 10 and up. 2-3 weeks of therapy practice. Our ideal intensive rehearsal culminate in 4-7 public performances candidate is a highly motivated in the FlynnSpace black box theater. Applicants with business professional who experience in youth theater production, teaching, and has a strong attention to program management are encouraged to apply. detail, ability to multitask, strong communication skills Please review the complete job description: and a passion for customer flynncenter.org/about-us/employment-and-internshipservice. Job duties include opportunities.html but are not limited to greeting patients, scheduling, insurance Please submit application materials to: verification, document Flynn Center for the Performing Arts preparation and answering Human Resources Department RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE multiline phone system. Some 153 Main Street medical office experience Burlington, Vermont 05401ASSISTANT LOAN preferred but willing to train the or email HResources@flynncenter.org. candidate.

We are seeking a full time Residential Mortgageright Loan The Flynn Center is an employer committed to hiring a breadth of professionals, Assistant for our growing South Burlington Loan Send Office. resume to and therefore will interview a qualified group of diverse candidates; we This individual will be responsible for performing a vajasonfi tzgerald@deept.com. particularly encourage applications from women and people of color. riety ofcalls, administrative duties to provide loan originaNo phone please. EOE. Position starts December 16th.

COORDINATOR

tion and documentation support for our Mortgage Loan Officers. Other responsibilities include overseeing the completion and accuracy of loan documents, process1 11/8/193v-DeePhysicalTherapy111319.indd 1:36 PM 1 11/11/19 ing loans and ensuring proper loan documentation including input of information and preparing all related loan documents, follow up on verifications and credit reports, preparation of loans for underwriting, as well as commitment letters, notes, and other loan documentation and set up, assisting customers with advances on to home lines and providing all other loan community bank, Union Bank continues be aconstruction highly successful local, full service Vermont support needed.

Requirements include excellent writhaving served our customers for over 125 years. We provide the full array of personal and ten and oral and a minimum years ourselves on being business banking products and communication, services our customers expect. of We2 pride of prior residential loan experience with a familiarity of an employer of choice by offering challenging and rewarding career opportunities, including secondary market mortgage is preferable advancement opportunities withinloan our products Chittenden County offices. but not required. Attention to detail, strong organizaWe are seeking an individual for a full-time Customer Service Specialist position in our Williston tional skills, and the ability to multi-task are essential.

The Vermont Agricultural Water Quality Partnership (VAWQP) seeks a full-time Coordinator to advance its mission of improving agricultural water 5v-FlynnCenter111319.indd quality in Vermont by coordinating partner efforts to provide educational, technical and financial assistance to the farming community.

The VAWQP is a collaboration of Federal, State and Local agencies and organizations working to improve water quality, soil health, wildlife habitats and the viability of Vermont’s working landscape. The Coordinator will convene, lead and support the steering committee, working groups and regional coordinators to implement the Partnership’s strategic plan, which includes research, implementation of conservation practices, public outreach and discussion of standards and policy.

Knowledge of Vermont’s agricultural water quality challenges and opportunities, strong facilitation and organizational skills, ability to maintain neutrality working with a variety of stakeholders, experience with event coordination, aptitude for public speaking, excellent written communications, and effective use of social media are required.

Salary range is $44,000-$50,000 annually, depending on experience. Benefits and paid leave provided.

Visit vacd.org for detailed job description. Send resume, cover letter and three references in a single pdf file by 8 am, Monday, November 18th to tucker.malone@vt.nacdnet.net. EOE.

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branch office. In this role, the successful candidate will provide Teller and Personal Banker services and support for our current and prospective customers. We are looking for an individual who is driven to provide outstanding customer service, is technologically adept, and has a continuous desire to learn. Prior banking experience is helpful but not required. We will provide the training and knowledge base for the right individual who has a passion for helping others.

Union Bank offers competitive wages, a comprehensive Wages for this position will be commensurate with experience.

Union Bank offers a comprehensive ts employees, package, training forthree professional benefits program for benefi full time including options ofdevelopmedical insurance coverage, strong hours andplan with a generous two dental insurancement, options, life advancement and disability potential, coverage, stable a robust 401(k) a supportive environment. ed and applications company match,work and paid vacation, Qualifi personal sick leave. may apply with a cover letter, resume, professional references and salary requirements to:

To be considered for this position, please submit a cover letter, resume, and references to:

Human Resources-Union Bank PO Box 667

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Equal Housing Lender

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Residential Mortgage Loan Assistant - LPO Seven Days, 3.83 x 7

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ROUTE SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Foley Services is looking for a Route Service Representative (RSR) to service, manage and grow customer accounts in our Linen, Uniform and Mat Rental business. If you are interested in a career in service and driving with great opportunities, this is the position for you.

RSRs drive a truck along an established route and service and sell within an existing customer base. It is a physical, fast-paced, indoor/outdoor position in which the RSR delivers and picks up soiled linen, uniforms, mats and other rental products.

RSRs are the face of Foley Services to our customers and must work to build rapport with key decision makers, ensure quality standards, and proactively solve customer concerns.

Responsibilities also include growing our existing customer base by upselling Untitled-13 and cross-selling additional services, negotiating service agreement renewals, and controlling inventory all while working professionally, safely, and complying with any applicable State or Federal regulations.

Qualifications - Qualified candidates must meet all requirements outlined by the DOT for driving a regulated vehicle weighing more than 10,000 lbs. In order to comply with DOT requirements qualified candidates must, prior to their first day of employment: • Have a valid driver’s license • Be at least 21 years of age • Obtain a DOT medical certification • Provide documentation regarding their previous employment

Central Vermont

There is no better time to join NSB’s team!

This is a rewarding opportunity! To support our growth plans, we offer unique opportunities, including advancement, ongoing training, mentoring and the opportunity to develop your business skills.

We offer a competitive base pay plus commission and comprehensive benefits: Medical/Prescription Wellness Program Basic Life Insurance Short/Long-Term Disability

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Northfield Savings Bank, founded in 1867, is the largest banking institution headquartered in Vermont. We are looking for a professional to join our team as Mortgage Banker for Central Vermont. This position offers a strong opportunity to work for an established and growing premier Vermont mutual savings bank.

Job Responsibilities • The Mortgage Banker will be responsible for originating a variety of new residential loans. Responsibilities for this position include interviewing applicants, collecting financial data and making recommendations regarding Northfield Savings Bank loan products. We are looking for someone who has an understanding of the borrower’s needs and who will provide assistance to our customers with the purchase process from application to closing.

Requirements • The Mortgage Banker must possess excellent communication and customer service skills. A Bachelor’s Degree and two to four years of experience in a financial institution or related area is required along with registering with the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System. Mortgage origination experience and a good understanding of banking products, services, policies and procedures are preferred.

401(k) Vacation/Holiday/Sick- Pay Uniforms Footwear allowance

Foley Services is team driven, and the true spirit we share gives us a competitive edge. It’s a culture that exudes a high degree of professionalism at every level of our business. It’s a culture that maximizes the career development of all of our employee-partners, regardless of their job title and description.

Foley Services is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and will make all employment related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

For more than 125 years, Foley Services has offered highly-specialized services to businesses of all types. Foley provides uniforms, linen and mat rental to a wide and diverse variety of business customers throughout Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. We are service professionals, providing valuable services to meet the needs of our customers, large and small businesses, alike. We operate from our 50,000 sq. ft. production facility in Rutland VT, and our distribution center is Colchester VT. Call 1-800-639-0110 x222 to schedule an interview or email your resume and request an application to jobs@foleylinen.com.

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Successful candidates will also possess: • The ability to meet the physical requirements of the position.

• A High School diploma, GED, or Military Service, preferred.

• The ability to demonstrate strong customer service skills, preferred.

• Self-motivation and the drive to work in an environment that relies on teamwork to meet goals.

• A positive attitude, along with ambition, organization and strong communication skills.

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Northfield Savings Bank hours of operation are Monday through Friday generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Please submit your application and resume in confidence to: Careers@nsbvt.com (Preferred) Or mail: Northfield Savings Bank - Human Resources P.O. Box 7180, Barre, VT 05641-7180 Equal Opportunity Employer/Member FDIC

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We’re Growing Build Your Future With Us! Estimator The candidate shall be detailed oriented and able to work on multiple tasks all while meeting project deadlines. A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a construction-related area with five years of Estimating/Construction experience is preferred. Proficiency in MC2 ICE, OST, PlanSwift, and Excel is desirable.

Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals-AFT is hiring a smart, motivated organizer who is willing to work hard for social justice at the workplace. Apply by 12/1/19. Full job description: unionjobs.com/listing.php?id=16237.

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Bread Loaf offers a competitive salary and benefits package including health, dental and vision plans, short and long term disability plans, an HRA, a flexible spending plan, life insurance, paid vacation and a 401(k) plan with employer match. Visit our website at www.breadloaf.com for a full company description.

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To apply online: http://www.breadloaf.com/contact/careers Please send resume to: resumes@breadloaf.com

Instrumart is looking to hire a detail-oriented and hard-working person to join our Customer Service team. Our CSRs are the primary contact for order entry and sales processing.

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The ideal candidate will have: • Customer service orientation. You pride yourself on being helpful and are enthusiastic about making a difference for our customers.

FARMERS TO YOU, a disruptive collaboration of families and farmers, is looking for a Marketing Coordinator to optimize our marketing and communications programs, articulate the value of our products & services and to support Farmers To You in our mission of connecting Vermont producers with Boston area families.

As Marketing Coordinator you will be responsible for executing a broad array of activities and media outreach including digital advertising, grassroots marketing, event coordination, project management, social media execution, inbound marketing, and content development. Your creative thinking skills and strategies will be an essential part in driving our narrative, enhancing company image, strengthening customer relationships, and encouraging business growth through effective campaigns.

The ideal candidate will be creative and innovative, multimedia savvy, well-organized, and must be an excellent writer and communicator. We are looking for a Marketing Coordinator who will contribute to the total effectiveness of Farmers To You, communicating openly, solving problems proactively, offering creative ideas and working as a positive and engaged team member.

Complete Job Description can be found at: farmerstoyou.com/employment.php.

To apply, please submit cover letter and resume to humanresources@farmerstoyou.com.

Farmers To You is a web based regional food marketplace that matches appropriately scaled regenerative farms with a deeply relational retail delivery system that meets families’ desires for clean, vibrant flavorful food from people they know and trust, where they want to be met – close to home.

We value employees who share our passion for Healthy Farms, Healthy Families and a Healthy Planet.

• Experience with the sales cycle of a reseller or distributor: quotes, customer sales orders, vendor purchase requests, inventory, shipping, returns.

• High levels of self-motivation and personal initiative.

• Technical aptitude. You’re tech-savvy and can quickly figure out new systems.

• Intellectual curiosity. You have a natural interest in learning new things and considering process improvements.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills. You will be communicating with all of our internal departments on a daily basis, as well as our external customers, both over the phone and via email.

• Excellent attention to detail and a capacity to work in a fast-paced environment. This position values a balance of speed and accuracy.

• A strong aptitude for multitasking and organizational skills.

COMPANY/TEAM CULTURE The right team member will: • Be flexible, trusting, and willing to share a workload with their fellow team members.

• Be a motivated self-starter.

• Maintain a positive attitude and tone even when dealing with stressors. We want to hear your smile in the office and on the phone!

• Recognize that contributing to the success of your coworkers, and the company as a whole, is an integral part of one’s own success at Instrumart.

• Be solution focused.

Previous experience and/or prior knowledge of our products would be beneficial in this position, but are not required. Experience working with NetSuite (or similar business management software) and multi-line telephone systems preferred.

For more information and to apply, visit: www.instrumart.com/jobs Instrumart is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital, disability or veteran status.

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Small Burlington law firm seeks part-time legal secretary/assistant.

Proficiency in Word and Excel, experience with transcription equipment, and excellent communication skills required. Previous experience a plus. Minimum of 12 hours and up to 20 hours per week; flexibility desired. Fax cover letter and resume to Jenny at (802) 658-5685 by December 1, 2019.

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Cathedral Square, a nonprofit organization providing housing and services to seniors throughout Vermont, is currently seeking: SASH® Coordinator The goal of the SASH model is to enhance the coordination of person-centered health and wellness services in order to assist residents to remain in their homes as their health and functional needs change. The primary function of the SASH Coordinator is to build trusting relationships with participants in order to develop a thorough knowledge of each participant’s strengths and challenges as they pertain to remaining safely in his or her home.

Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or equivalent combination of background and experience. Hours and location: Four Winds Community in St. Albans, 38 hours per week.

SASH Program Associate We are seeking a part-time Program Associate to provide administrative support to the SASH Statewide Administrative Team. This position manages the statewide staff directories, monthly newsletter, our referral tracking system and our online and in-person trainings.

The ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work with frequent interruption is required. Must possess at least two years of administrative experience and a technical aptitude; comfort with software applications like Microsoft Office and Outlook. This position is located in South Burlington. CSC offers competitive salary and a friendly working environment.

Maintenance Technician We are looking for an organized individual to perform a wide range of maintenance and repair needs for residential properties. Tasks will include, but are not limited to, carpentry/ painting, apartment turnovers, HVAC, electrical and plumbing repairs, cleaning common areas, snow shoveling, landscaping and on call. Must possess a high school diploma and 2 years of related experience, reliable transportation, 10v-CathedralSquare111319.indd 1

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valid driver’s license, your own hand tools and ability to lift 60 lbs. Position location varies, (2) Full-time positions available.

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LPN Provides care and services to residents who are functionally, physically or socially impaired within the scope of license at our Assisted Living Residence, under the direction of the RN Supervisor. Provides nurse duties to include medication management and administration, assessment, and treatment. S/he supports a philosophy of aging in place consistent with the mission of assisted living and in compliance with the State of Vermont Level III Assisted Living/Residential Care Home regulations. Must possess a Vermont LPN license. Experience in long-term care setting preferred. Hours and location: 10-12 hours every Saturday at Memory Care at Allen Brook in Williston.

Cook Do you have a passion for cooking and enjoy connecting with the people you serve?

We have the job for you! We encourage our staff to use their passion and skills to influence a creative menu for our residents.

This role provides an opportunity for both independence and collaboration with the kitchen team. We are looking for cooking experience, positive attitude, and reliability.

Full time (36 hours per week) at Burlington and Williston locations and part time (12-15 hours per week) in Williston.

Wake Robin seeks a Maintenance person to join our Staff. Our maintenance team utilizes a variety of technical skills to repair and maintain electrical, plumbing, security, and air quality systems throughout the facility and in resident homes. Qualified candidate will have well-rounded maintenance skills and must have specific experience and/or training in HVAC systems, as well as a strong aptitude for computer-based operational systems. This is an opportunity to join a stable and talented team of individuals dedicated to doing good work, for great people, in a beautiful setting.

HOUSEKEEPER - Full Time Sometimes “cleaning” just isn’t enough. Our housekeepers care for people by caring for their homes. Housekeepers are critical to the wellbeing of residents, and the residents tell us this every day. If you love to clean and want to be an active part of our residents’ wellbeing, this is the community for you. We offer a beautiful work environment, excellent benefits, and a chance to be thanked every day. Candidates with previous training or experience as professional cleaners preferred.

CUSTODIAN - Full Time Evenings This service position performs a variety of custodial, floor maintenance, light maintenance and repair duties under general supervision throughout the Wake Robin campus, common areas, independent living units, and health center. A minimum of one year of hands-on experience as custodian/housekeeper or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.

CSC offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits, wellness program and a friendly working environment.

Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. Interested candidates can send their resumes to hr@wakerobin.com or fill out an application at wakerobin.com/employment. Wake Robin is an EOE.

Visit cathedralsquare.org for full job descriptions and apply online today!

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Now in its 35th year of existence, with full Lake Champlain Waldorf School is undergoing a transformation of leadership at every level.

We are looking for a Marketing and Outreach Director with troduc- a desire to work collaboratively within an evolving goverfor three nance and school structure.

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

This position is responsible for developing and executing both internal and external marketing plans to increase enrollment and retention at LCWS and to increase the visibility of the Lake Champlain Waldorf School in local communities.

Hours/week: 40 hours/week, year-round Compensation: Salaried, exempt, at $37,000-$39,000, with full benefits as outlined in the Personnel Handbook.

To initiate your application, please send a letter of introduction, resume, brief biography and contact information for 3 professional references to: jdarland@lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org.

The Lake Champlain Waldorf School promotes respect for all students, employees and applicants, and prohibits discrimination to the full extent required by law, including discrimination based on race, color, ethnic or national origin, religion, creed, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, familial or marital status, military status, or any other category which is protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

EARLY HEAD START INFANT/TODDLER HOME VISITOR INFANT/TODDLER EARLY CARE ADVOCATE (Franklin EARLY County) HEAD START (Otter Creek Children’s Center - Middlebury)

Provide services in home-based settings to program participants to: support prenatal education and Provide or support center-based care of infants and toddlers so as to enhance their physical, services to promoteand healthy prenatal outcomes provide for pregnant provide supporttothe care of social, emotional, cognitive development; socialwomen; service visits foror families support infants and toddlers so as to enhance their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development; parents in the care, nurturing and coordination of health services for their infants and toddlers; support the carefamily and nurturing ofgoals. their infants and toddlers; and help parents move and helpparents parentsinaddress needs and toward self-sufficiency and independent living.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field and RequiRements: Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related relevant work experience including training in infant and toddler development or education a bachelor’sfield, degree in social work, human services, family counseling or related field, and relevant work with demonstrable experience and training inservices, the provision of services for infants and toddlers.

40 experience including training infant and toddler development.

Alsoofpreferred are experience in hours per week, 52 weeks perin year.

Starting wage upon completion 60 –working day period: curriculum planning and implementation, outcome assessment, and working with children $16.30 to 18.36/ per hour.

Health plan andchild excellent benefits. with special needs. 32 hours per week, full year. Starting wage upon completion of 60-working day SuCCESSful appliCantS muSt HavE: excellent verbal and written communication period: $20.28–24.22/hour, depending upon qualifications.

Health plan and excellent benefits. skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; proficiency in mS Word, e-mail and internet; Skills: Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills in exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. must be energetic, positive, mature, documentation and record-keeping, proficiency in Microsoft Word, email and Internet, and professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. a commitment to be exceptionally organized with great attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, social justice diplomatic, and to working with families with limited extra-mile financial resources Clean professional, motivated, and have a can-do, attitude. is A necessary. commitment to driving record and access to reliable transportation required. must demonstrate physical ability to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean carry outrecord required driving andtasks. access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required Pleaseletter specify site/location submit resume andtocover letter with Please submit resumetasks. and cover with three workand references via email pirish@cvoeo.org. three work references via email to: hdstjobs@cvoeo.org No phone calls, please.

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When you work for the State of Vermont, you and your work matter. A career with the State puts you on a rich and rewarding professional path. You’ll find jobs in dozens of fields – not to mention an outstanding total compensation package.

VOC REHAB COUNSELOR (TRANSITION) – WHITE RIVER JUNCTION

The Transition Counselor provides support to high school students with physical, psychological or cognitive disabilities in the career development process and will assist students in preparing for careers and employment through assessment and related guidance. The position works closely with an Employment Consultant to develop a variety of work experiences including job shadows, unpaid internships and employer-paid jobs. Previous work with adolescents is extremely helpful. Local travel required. Please Note: This position is being recruited at multiple levels. If you would like to be considered for more than one level, you MUST apply to the specific Job Requisition: VR Associate. Job ID #3159, VR Counselor I Job ID #3158 or VR Counselor II Job ID #3140. For

more information, contact Shaun Donahue at (802) 295-4144 or shaun.donahue@vermont.gov. Department: Disabilities Aging & Independent Living. Status: Full Time. Application Deadline: November 12, 2019.

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DISTRICT FACILITIES MANAGER – PITTSFORD

The Department of Buildings and General Services (BGS) at the State of Vermont is seeking a District Facilities Manager (DFM) to oversee the Southwest region. This is a multi-faceted position that will be responsible for administrative, planning, maintenance and supervisory work at several locations within the district. Strong candidates will have supervisory and or managerial experience in the facilities field working with a diverse staff. For more information, contact John Hebert at john.hebert@vermont.gov. Department:

Buildings and General Services. Status: Full Time. Job Id # 3122. Application Deadline: November 20, 2019.

TOBACCO PREVENTION SPECIALIST – BURLINGTON The Vermont Department of Health Tobacco Control Program is seeking a team player to manage communitybased grants, trainings and communications to reduce tobacco-related diseases and health disparities in Vermont. If you are committed to making an impact on population-level health, are experienced with project management and program implementation, and passionate about applying tobacco prevention best and promising practices, this job is for you. For more information, contact Rhonda Williams at rhonda.williams@

Promote Vermont and welcome visitors at Randolph Information Center. Customer service tasks; providing information to visitors, map reading, and record keeping. Custodial tasks; hourly cleaning of restrooms, mopping, snow removal. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds and use Microsoft Office software. Be a selfstarter, work independently, possess attention to detail. Evenings, weekends and holidays required. For more

vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID # 3138. Application Deadline: November 19, 2019.

FEDERAL PROGRAMS ADMINIS TRATOR – WATERBURY

H E A LT H E Q U I T Y & R E F U G E E P R O G R A M A D M I N I S T R A T O R – BURLINGTON

information, contact Heather McLain at heather.mclain@vermont.gov. Status: Full Time. Job ID #2365.

Application Deadline: November 20, 2019.

heidi.klein@vermont.gov. Status: Full Time – Limited Service. Job ID # 3161. Application Deadline: November 24, 2019.

Learn more at: careers.vermont.gov

The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity Employer

information, contact Bevan Quinn at bevan.quinn@vermont.gov. Department: Building & General Services.

Status: Full Time – Interim. Job ID # 3118. Application Deadline: November 20, 2019.

The Department for Children’s and Families Family Services Division, Revenue Enhancement Unit is recruiting for a Federal Programs Administrator. Position will assist in fiscal management. Responsibilities will include, data gathering and support to the Division related to the budget, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, maximizing federal revenue, monitoring grants and contracts. Candidate must see connection between financial/business functions and core mission of the Family Services Division. Must know Excel. For more

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The Vermont Department of Health is currently seeking candidates dedicated to the coordination of health equity and refugee health efforts. This position ensures that plans, policies, and procedures effectively address health inequities, also works with statewide and federal partners in supporting newly arriving refugees in accessing appropriate health care services. Ideal candidates will have a passion for public health and a commitment to working with people from various backgrounds. For more information, contact Heidi Klein at

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Hunger Mountain Co-op is committed to doing business locally whenever possible. We are Seven Days’ largest circulation point in central Vermont. To meet the demand, hundreds of papers are delivered on Wednesday and again on Friday.

Seven Days is reaching the audience we want to reach and supports our community.

Many people who are not actively looking for jobs still look at the employment section in print and online and end up telling a friend or applying themselves.

We believe Seven Days helps us connect with the candidates that we are trying to find.

JAY W. WISNER HR Manager Hunger Mountain Co-op

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Strong-willed. Loyal. Free spirit.

That’s how Angela Bowser-Camilletti’s mother described her after she passed away from opioid-use disorder.

Lost a loved one to this disease?

Please consider submitting their story to All Our Hearts, Seven Days’ new online project memorializing those with opioid-use disorder who have died.

Your remembrances can educate, change minds, awaken empathy — and inspire action.

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