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AUGUST 19-26, 2009 VOL.14 NO.52

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18A Artist Frank Gonzales’ Community Mural Lets Others Paint the Town Festival of Short Plays Showcases Local Playwrights Burlington Resident Explores Identity Theory in His High-Profile E-Journal Stowe Music Event Brings a Special Guest to the Fest

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BACK TO SCHOOL: three words that send a chill down our spines. All too soon, college kids will roar back into town and little ones will trudge around laden with backpacks. No matter how far removed we get from our own school days, this annual ritual feels like a renewal. And, of course, it inspires schoolrelated stories. This week, Kevin J. Kelley interviews a highpriced college-admissions consultant and Ken Picard investigates whether using a temp agency for subs is good for Burlington schools. Meanwhile, Kirk Kardashian looks back at a unique summer “school”: Vermont’s Farm & Wilderness Camp. Look for more in weeks to come.

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< letters> ‘DOGTOWN’ DOINGS In the opening paragraph to her story, “Some Like It Red Hot” [July 29], Alice Levitt refers to Plattsburgh as “the city known to many as Wiggletown.” Actually, the nickname Wiggletown is one used by locals to refer to another community in the area, not Plattsburgh. A more appropriate nickname for Plattsburgh would be “Dogtown” — not because of the Michigans and Red Hots sold around here, but instead the chronic problem with canine litter. Watch your step when you visit. Luke T. Bush PLATTSBURGH, N.Y.

ARCHITECT OMITTED Thank you for publishing the article “Big Enough” by Kirk Kardashian [July 29], featuring his two fine Friendly On-site Computer Support photos of the building I designed for the BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Unfortunately my name was omitted: I am “the local architect” with whom the owners worked to transform the existing house into an Paperweight? art gallery and residence. I designed both the 36-foot high octagonal shingle style “lighthouse-like tower” containing a spiral stair to the living quarters and the “giant circular entrance” façade. It may interest your readers to know that my inspiration for the 16-foot diameter circular entrance was Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1948 V.C. Morris gift shop and art Friendly On-site Computer Support gallery in San Francisco. Other influences were the circular façades of

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CITY ARTS SHOULD SUPPORT THEATER Two of the letters in the July 29 issue seemed to relate to each other. The first, “Daysie Dis,” took Seven Days to task for not including any theaterrelated categories in this year’s Daysie competition. The reasoning for the omission was the lack of response in past years when such categories were included. The other letter, “Quad Questions,” was the response from Burlington International Waterfront Festival producer Jay Craven to previous comments in Seven Days. What’s the connection? Money. Our money. How much city money and time was spent on the festival and other Friendly On-site Computer Support Quad-related activities? Yes, revenue was made from tourists coming into the city to attend events. But what about the people who live here? Can we have some of that money now? Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. BurlingtonSpam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. City Arts FY ’09 budget is listed as Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. $1,067,904 (including $719,451 Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. in salaries). How much of S top! Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. that is being spent on local theaterSpam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. related activities? If money is spent Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. on bringing a show or two to BurSpam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. lington, that money leaves the city Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. along withSpam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam.Spam. the production company. Having worked with Vermont Rep, Lyric Theater Company, Green Candle Theater Company, The Open Friendly On-site Computer Support Stage and various independent productions, I have found support from City Arts, if available, difficult to

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SINNER LIFE I have admired Shay Totten for years. So I was surprised by his frothing attack on Ed Flanagan’s mishaps — stemming, Shay says, from physical trauma. Given all the data Shay gives, I wonder if he’d prefer Flanagan to be shot in the kneecaps — or worse. He who is without sin, and so forth. Jerry Weinberg SOUTH BURLINGTON

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Flying Cloud underwent a dramatic transformation. This week on our website, Yahm shares her thoughts about Flying Cloud in a 13-minute audio narrative she produced for Seven Days. In it, she includes interviews with current and former Flying Cloud administrators, as well as members of Vermont’s Abenaki tribe.

In this week’s issue, Kirk Kardashian writes about Farm & Wilderness, a collection of summer camps in Plymouth, Vermont. At one of those camps, Flying Cloud, boys once dressed in loincloths and received names at a Lakota-inspired naming ceremony called a wacipi. Sarah Yahm, a former Farm & Wilderness camper, recalls her memories of Flying Cloud in a sidebar to Kardashian’s story. Yahm remembers FC as a place where campers played “the best and most important game of ‘let’s pretend’ ever.” But over the years, Farm & Wilderness staffers began to question the use of Lakota traditions at Flying

Cloud. What are they doing? Yahm wondered, when she returned to the camp as a staffer. Are they allowed to play Indian like this?

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Went Phishin’ On Sunday night I had the pleasure of attending the final show of Phish’s 2009 comeback tour, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. They did not disappoint. The band was really in the groove, looking tight, sounding loud and just exuding a sense of celebration. I was really struck by the smiles on the faces of everyone in the band. They all just looked like they were having a great time, and that translated to the boisterous crowd of over 25,000. They played a mixture of old favorites, new tunes and some exceptional covers. Special kudos to Chris Kuroda who engineers one of the best light shows in the business. Thanks, guys, and glad you are back! Read more online... Posted August 18 by Colby Roberts

Marion Leonard, 1909-2009 Living 100 years is in itself an accomplishment. But living every minute of 100 years with vigor, passion, intelligence and dedication to making the world a better place is an accomplishment of

a higher order. Marion Leonard’s life, which ended this morning in Randolph’s Gifford Hospital, was one of the latter type. She was, and remains, an inspiration. Marion’s friend Cindy Kilgore was in touch with me over the past few days to let us know Marion was in the hospital and gradually transitioning to her next journey. “Please keep that positive energy out there,” she wrote three days ago, “because when she decides to fly, stardust will flitter in the air!” Though I never had the pleasure to meet her personally, I feel as if I got to know her a bit. In part that’s because of her prolific letters to the editor — generally on environmental and political issues. It’s also through the article former Seven Days reporter Mike Ives wrote about her last May. That was part of a piece called “Aging Audaciously,” in which we profiled uniquely admirable, activist seniors in Vermont. Marion, I believe, was the oldest of that bunch, and quite likely the sassiest. Marion is survived by her two sons, William of New York City and Christopher of Sag Harbor, and her brother Edward of Rochester, Vt., along with numerous friends, admirers and fellow warriors. She, and her handwritten letters, will be deeply missed. Read more online... Posted August 14 by Pamela Polston

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of such payoffs, er, payouts. They might consider that a pre-existing condition. A publicly run health care plan would offer people a choice if they lose insurance — or never had it to begin with — and put an end to high-deductible plans that reject people with pre-existing conditions. And if you like your current insurance plan, you can keep it, whether you’re a Congressperson or a working stiff. No one is being forced to sign up for the public plan. Either way, Congress may force everyone to buy insurance. That means, without a public option we’ll be driven into the arms of the private insurance market — a scenario that boosted stock prices for the nation’s for-profit, publicly traded health care firms last Monday. On the same day, Dean made the national talk-show rounds, advocating for a public option as part of any reform effort. The former guv told “Fair Game” that a public option is crucial to keeping costs down because it forces the private sector to compete with a public plan modeled after Medicare and health care programs for veterans. “I think the public option will be in the final bill. The president knows this is the essential part of his reforms,” Dean told “Fair Game” on the same day he appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” and “The Early Show” on CBS. Meanwhile, the South Burlington-based Democracy for America — founded by Dean and now run by his brother Jim Dean — sent an alert to its supporters calling for health care reform. The email declared, “A Healthcare bill without a public

option is D.O.A. in the House. Period.” DFA touted a list of 64 House members who have stepped up to say they would reject any health care reform measure that didn’t include a public option plan. Rep. Peter Welch is not among DFA’s “Heroes,” although he did cosponsor the public option plan that made it into the final House version of the health care bill. He said he makes a point to never voice whether he’ll vote for, or against, a bill based on a single provision. Picky, picky. The Vermont Way? — When it comes to discussing health care reform, Vermonters are more interested in constructive debate than joining the circus. Last weekend, Sen. Bernie Sanders hosted forums in Rutland and Arlington, and hundreds of people turned out. A third is scheduled for Sunday in the Northeast Kingdom town of Peacham. But while Vermont excels in debating how to improve the nation’s health care system, is it a model for the nation in terms of making that change happen? A new book, Gridlock: The Unhealthy Politics of Health Care in Vermont, claims Vermont’s efforts to date — chronic disease management, Catamount Health, information technology improvements — have done little, or nothing, to cure the state’s health care ills. And the authors know of what they write: The book was penned by Dr. Deb Richter, of Vermont Healthcare for All, and Con Hogan, Human Services Secretary under both Govs. Dean and Richard Snelling. Richter and Hogan argue that incrementalism — the Vermont-favored approach and the one Congress appears to be taking — won’t cut costs or cover the uninsured. Vermont has the numbers to prove it. From 2004 to 2007, health care costs increased an average of 7.4 percent per year, according to figures developed by the Vermont Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration. The national average was 6.5 percent per year. Tens of thousands of Vermonters remain uninsured, despite the publicly subsidized private health care option Catamount Health. In 2007 Vermonters spent $4.2 billion on health care in Vermont — nearly $7000 per man, woman and child. That’s up from $3.84 billion in 2006. I think the curve is headed in the wrong direction. Richter said she sees the casualties of this injustice every day at her practice: patients putting off treatments or procedures because they can’t afford the high deductibles associated with their health plan — if they have a health plan. They come to her sick, and in some cases, already dying. “Talk about a death panel,” said Richter, “this is about as bad as it gets.” The Peace Dividend — After 37 years, the American Friends Service Committee

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itching to run someone for governor in 2010. “The last thing I want to do is mount a statewide campaign in this economy,” she said. “It will not be easy to raise money, and we would love to find a candidate to champion our issues and issues that are important to Vermonters.” The question is: Are Democrats willing to take them up on their offer? To date, Sens. Susan Bartlett and Doug Racine have met with the Progs, but not Secretary of State Deb Markowitz. And, unless the Progs ask her, she says she doesn’t plan on meeting with them. Progressive-turnedIndependent-returnedProgressive Anthony Pollina was on Vermont Public Radio’s noontime call-in program “Vermont Edition” Friday, claiming that Markowitz’s refusal to reach out to Progs was a “bad attitude.” Maybe it’s just awkward for Vermont’s “elections chief ” to ask a political party not to run a candidate in a contest she herself will be in. After all, she regulates them. Markowitz Goes Shopping — Easy does it: I’m not making a sexist remark about a female pol trying to find a new set of pumps or power suit. Gubernatorial hopeful Markowitz — who raised a rather remarkable chunk of cash in the first half of this year — is looking for a full-time, professional campaign manager. Word is she’s getting help in her search from EMILY’s List and others. Markowitz said the decision to bring in a professional campaign manager is no indication that she’s lost faith in the dynamic duo that has been working for her: Jason Powell and Reid DeWolfe. They have more than proven themselves. Example? You don’t raise nearly $200,000 from 1000-plus people in less than six months by calling a few friends. “They have done a stellar job for me so far,” said Markowitz of the pair. “We need to build and expand on that good work because it’s going to take a strong team with experience to beat a politician like Jim Douglas.” After all, the guy’s been doing little else for the past 30 years. Phoenix Rising? — Word on the street is that buyers are lining up to purchase what’s left of the Eagle Times, the Claremont, N.H.-based daily that closed down earlier this year. The paper covered a number of towns in southeastern Vermont, and the Eagle Times also published several weekly papers in Vermont. Two suitors are preparing bids as the paper’s owner heads into bankruptcy court. A new owner could be up and running by September, according to a story in the Brattleboro

Reformer. Meanwhile, Denton Publications, the former owners of the now defunct Vermont Times, is bankrolling the resurrection of one of the weeklies. The Message of the Week was one of the smaller pubs shuttered when the Eagle Times owner declared bankruptcy. Two writers — Joe Milliken and Robert Smith — have joined forces with Denton to launch The Messenger. Based out of Bellows Falls, the paper will cover communities throughout southern Vermont, and will even circulate as far north as Rutland. Who says print is dead? Police Probe Flanagan Charges — State Sen. Ed Flanagan is now under criminal investigation for allegedly masturbating in front of patrons in the Men’s Wellness Center at the Greater Burlington YMCA. “Fair Game” first reported the incident last month, when YMCA member Tiki Archambeau filed a complaint about Flanagan with Y officials. “Fair Game” also talked to other patrons who had witnessed bizarre behavior on Flanagan’s part. The former state auditor has denied the charges, but apologized for anything he did while naked that may have been misconstrued by others. A formal complaint about Flanagan’s behavior was filed with Burlington Police last Friday. Contacted by “Fair Game,” Archambeau said he had spoken to an investigator from the Chittenden Unit for Special Investigation on Tuesday afternoon. He declined to elaborate on the nature of the CUSI investigation. Flanagan’s membership was suspended during the Y’s investigation. Flanagan said he planstp find another gym and never return to the Y. Numerous calls to the senator about the criminal probe were not returned by press time. The YMCA has declined to say publicly whether it has completed its investigation — nor will it share any details when the inquiry is over. A formal police probe has the potential to be more illuminating. It could reveal whether Flanagan’s behavior is connected to the traumatic brain injury he suffered in 2005 — an injury that some observers fear may be affecting his judgment. But a criminal investigation is not likely to help Flanagan’s chances of winning higher office, let alone reelection. Can’t wait till Wednesday for the new column? Tune into WPTZ NewsChannel 5 on Tuesday nights during the 11 p.m. newscast for a preview of “Fair Game.” m To reach Shay Totten, email shay@sevendaysvt.com.

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Basiliere explains. “People will walk in here and strange dialogue will ensue, and they won’t know if it’s reality or theater. It’s sort of like mixing the theater world with the grocery world.” “This is the kind of business that’ll sometimes close during peak business hours just so we can go swimming,” Giangreco adds. “It’s as much about a lifestyle as about making money. Our bottom line is about experiencing the process.” If it all sounds a bit off the wall, that’s the idea. Yet, despite a seemingly cavalier approach to capitalism, Giangreco insists that he and his friends are serious about the market’s underlying social mission: to bring a sense of community

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working for several years as a residential counselor. The sought-after aesthetic: Bread and Puppet Theater meets Wayne’s World. Consider, for example, the interior décor, with its neon green floors, shocking pink ceiling and canary yellow walls. What was once a ’50s-era market now looks more like a carnival funhouse, with curious holdovers from its earlier incarnation, including dangling meat hooks, old meat-cutting tables and a carousel bottle sorter jury-rigged out of chicken wire. In the basement, the guys are building a small stage for hosting local performances and readings. Above the market, on the second floor, Basiliere and Floyd are turning the former gun shop into an experimental video lab for producing short films and other content for the Mount Mansfield Community Access Television. That content may even feature customers from the market itself. “I’m in the process of writing a series of sketches and short plays that’ll take place in the market during normal business hours,”

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anything but awesomeness.” Houle puts much of the blame for this mess on the shoulders of Ron Rodjenski, Richmond’s former town administrator and acting zoning administrator. According to published reports, Rodjenski was suspended with pay back in April, then later resigned, over an alleged conflict of interest with the town’s

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new business. He’s providing something that’s really needed. “Also, he’s a young guy and an entrepreneur,” adds Hark, who is founding president of the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps. “I think it’s got success written all over it.” But not everyone in the area is thrilled by Giangreco’s radical vision for Jonesville. For the last four

months, he and his friends have been involved in a public feud with their neighbor, Isaac Cowan, a local businessman who owns an abutting warehouse occupied by several commercial tenants. Cowan did not return phone calls seeking his side of this story. But according to Richmond Selectboard Member Mary Houle, Cowan has filed a formal complaint against the project. Among other things, she says, the LTCM hasn’t gone through the town’s zoning and permitting review. Nor, she claims, has the building’s owner, Chip Spillane, secured a certificate of occupancy to allow Giangreco to live in the apartment above the store. According to her, only the store’s “owner” may live upstairs. Houle says Cowan contacted her about two weeks ago to discuss a brightly colored mural that had just been painted on one side of the building’s two-story exterior. According to Houle, the mural may violate the state’s anti-billboard law. Giangreco disagrees, pointing out that the mural “doesn’t advertise

accounting firm. It was within the context of this power vacuum that the store appears to have slipped under the regulatory radar, or so Houle claims. “If everybody’s relying on the failed town administrator’s information, then this is Ron’s fault,” says Houle. Cowan’s complaint about the mural is just the latest in the ongoing series of dust-ups between Giangreco and Cowan. Back in April, Cowan went before the town selectboard to object to Giangreco’s application for a liquor license to sell beer and wine. Despite Houle’s sole opposing vote, that application was eventually approved. Then, in July, Cowan called the police and obtained a trespass order to prevent Giangreco from driving on the dirt road that runs between the two properties. The trespass order effectively bars Giangreco from parking behind his own business. In response, Giangreco and his friends dug a makeshift ramp through their parking lot to bypass that road. At the time, Cowan told the

Burlington Free Press that he really didn’t object to the store itself. “The only problem I had with him,” Cowan said of Giangreco, “was him trespassing across my property when he was told not to.” But a few weeks ago, Giangreco alleges, Cowan effectively “preempted” the store’s potable water supply by digging a new well in a spot that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for LTCM to put one in on its own property. (State law requires wells be at least 50 feet from each other.) Both properties have been without a potable water supply since the state condemned the Jonesville water system back in 2002. Without water, the LTCM will be severely restricted in its food operations. “The entire community is in huge support of this project. There’s been nothing but support from everyone but this one person,” Giangreco complains. “But that one person has been enough to make this incredibly challenging for us.” Interestingly, Cowan has his own history of running afoul of Richmond’s regulatory process. According to court records, he built a retaining wall without a proper permit several years ago in Snipe Ireland Brook. The town fought a long and costly legal battle with him all the way to the Vermont Supreme Court and finally emerged victorious. One town official privately described the process as “a total root canal.” But other Jonesville residents are more sympathetic to Cowan, saying that the only reason he’s angry about the store is that Giangreco has been using his blog to poke fun at Cowan and Richmond’s “stodgy” political environment. Mike Santimore, who repairs lawn mowers across the road from the proposed market, describes himself as a longtime friend of Cowan’s. He rejects the suggestion that Cowan has done anything to harm Giangreco’s business efforts. “It’s gotten out of hand with Dan having this thing in the paper and him saying Isaac has stopped him from opening the store,” Santimore said. “Isaac has not stopped him from doing anything. He ain’t no town official.”

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by a grant to the festival from the National Endowment for the Arts. The outstanding performers Al heard were among 117 aspiring young artists admitted by audition to the festival. This season, they came from 25 states as well as from China, Japan, Korea, India and Costa Rica. For four weeks, they were totally immersed in the study and performance of chamber music. They practiced for hours daily, were given private instruction by an internationally acclaimed artist-faculty (numbering 32 this year), participated in master classes by world-renowned performers and were coached in the art of ensemble playing. They were also a joy to witness at the artist-faculty concerts and performances by their peers when they displayed their unbridled enthusiasm for performances with whoops and hollers! For five seasons, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival has made its home at UVM for the month of July. All concerts, whether by artist-faculty or young artists, as well as the master classes were held at the UVM Recital Hall and were open to the public. The festival has acquired a reputation among young artists for affording them performing opportunities. I hope Al will stay in touch and that he and others will suggest possible venues where next year’s students might display their extraordinary talents. Jean Pilcher BURLINGTON

SALACIOUS EXPOSE In Shay Totten’s column [Fair Game, 7/29/09], he succumbs to an unfortunate yet popular journalistic practice. His exposé of Ed Flanagan’s alleged inappropriate behavior at the YMCA is lockerroom gossip about a man whose distinguished career in public service has been marred by a terrible tragedy. Ken Picard’s article in May comprehensively addresses concerns over Flanagan’s ability to represent his constituency post-accident. Fair game. While I am a fan of Totten’s work, both he and the Seven Days editorial staff showed remarkably poor judgment here. Flanagan’s behavior as it pertains to his work in the State Senate deserves scrutiny. His actions as described in “Fair Game” have bearing on the political front simply because they appeared in print. When journalists resist temptation to report the purely salacious private behavior of our politicians, it serves us all well. I think it is worth remembering that, apart from being their constituency, we are also their neighbors. Barbara Shatara BURLINGTON

DON’T WAIT! I saw the play on opening night, and want to urge serious and occasional theatergoers to see the extraordinary production of Waiting for Godot at Lost Nation Theater [“Lost Nation Theater Brings a Light Touch to Waiting,” August 12]. It is lucid, moving, charming, surprising and beautiful. I have seldom seen a production more clarifying — of a play which, though famous, is little understood. It is living theater at its quintessential best. Cora Fauser BURLINGTON

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ART IN NATURE Marc Awodey’s review of “Exposed! 2009” was pretty off base [“In and Out,” July 29]. Most outdoor work made today is about the relationship between people and the larger environment. Site-specific pieces are not meant to be autonomous (unlike most work made for a gallery setting). By not being autonomous, they express a symbiotic relationship with the world. That is the point. This current (but recurring!) trend is probably the result of many forces — global warming, opposition to irresponsible power trips via the financial sector, the government, etc. But this doesn’t seem like the appropriate venue to explore that! I would guess about two-thirds of the pieces, or more, (including the works you mentioned) really needed trees/grass/ etc., to complete them. It is not merely about the work being so ginormous that it can’t literally fit into a gallery. Duh. Caroline Byrne WINOOSKI

WILL BURLINGTON STRIKE OUT? Only five years ago Burlington was a great place to be a baseball fan. We had major-league baseball 90 miles away, and minor-league and college baseball right here in town. Strike one: The Montréal Expos moved to Washington, D.C. Strike two: UVM announced the cancellation of its baseball program. Now we’re facing the prospect of strike three: losing the Lake Monsters. [“Field of Dreams Deferred,” August 5.] Preservation Trust of Vermont’s offer to help the community raise $7 million for Centennial Field gives us local baseball fans “that hope which springs eternal in the human breast,” to borrow a phrase from “Casey at the Bat.” We might put up even money, now, with mighty Leahy at the bat. But unless both UVM and the Lake Monsters are willing to commit to a very long-term lease, does it make sense to spend that kind of money to bring Centennial into compliance with MLB’s standards? The outlook isn’t brilliant, but thanks in part to the attention brought by your Baseball Issue, if we do strike out, at least we’ll go down swinging. Tom Simon BURLINGTON

Simon founded Vermont’s Gardner-Waterman Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. He also edited Green Mountain Boys of Summer: Vermonters in the Major Leagues, 1882-1993, published in 2000 by New England Press. CORRECTIONS: In last week’s article about the Community Halal Store on North Street, owner Abdi Sharif was misidentified as an intern at the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. In fact, he’s an interpreter for the organization. The Diocese of Vermont, Ohavi Zedek and the Islamic Society of Vermont are “supporters” of Kids4Peace, not “sponsors.”

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ack in the 1960s, the term “Kelly Girl” was shorthand for any temporary office worker who filled in for an absentee receptionist, secretary, file clerk or other office worker. In more recent years, male and female Kelly temps have become a major part of the global workforce, including those who teach reading, writing and arithmetic in the public schools. Kelly Educational Services is now the largest private provider of substitute teachers in the nation. The annual cost of supplying the Burlington School District with substitute teachers has increased by 23 percent since 2007, according to a July article in the Burlington Free Press. Although the article suggested increased absenteeism among teachers was to blame for the difference, the primary reason for the higher cost was actually buried in the story: Starting in January 2008, Burlington eliminated its substitute-coordinator position and contracted Kelly to find replacements when their teachers call in sick. Year over year, the district’s cost of providing subs has risen by more by than $103,000 — from $443,278 in 2007-08 to $546,796 in 2008-09. But does that one line item tell the whole story? Superintendent Jeanne Collins doesn’t think so. She acknowledges that switching to Kelly cost the district more money than administering the program in-house — Kelly gets $120 per day for each sub it puts in the classroom, $85 of which goes to the sub. The net, $35 per sub, adds up in a district that last year averaged 144 subs per week in 10 schools, to a weekly total of $5040. Collins says it’s not a fair comparison. The district is no longer paying a full-time substitute coordinator’s salary. It’s also saving on expenses associated with recruiting subs, conducting criminal-background checks, providing training and managing their payroll. There’s another consideration: In the past, the district was filling absentee positions only about 70 percent of the time. Under Kelly, that classroom “fulfillment rate”

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lington School Board, acknowledges that the larger issue of teacher absenteeism is something that all districts in Vermont, including Burlington, wrestle with constantly. According to the district’s own figures, about 25 percent of all teacher absences are due to mandated training, continuing-ed classes or training required by the No Child Left Behind Act. Additionally, many educational grants come with strings attached that require teachers to be out of the classroom. In the meantime, he says the district is taking steps to save money on subs wherever possible. For one, when predictable extended absences occur, such as for ma“On the Marketplace” ternity leaves, the district now fills those positions internally rather Prescription Eyewear & Sunglasses than outsourcing the work to Kelly. And, Lane says, the district is looking for other ways to keep “balancing the need to give students the best instruction possible with the cost of getting people in 2x5-optical060309.indd 1 front of the classroom.” m

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Another neighbor, Gary Svetlik of Svetlik Custom Design, rents commercial space from Cowan in the neighboring warehouse. Svetlik said he’s looking forward to the market opening, since Jonesville hasn’t had a convenience store in years. Nevertheless, Svetlik says he understands Cowan’s ire. “The reason Isaac is so pissed off about this is the stuff Dan is putting on his blog,” Svetlik explains. “To my knowledge, the only control Isaac has over Dan at any level is access to the back of the store” — a reference to the dirtroad impasse. In fact, Svetlik said he once considered buying the old Jonesville Country Store building himself, but decided against it after researching the property and discovering its numerous shortcomings. Aside from the lack of potable water and adequate septic, Svetlik claims the building also needs significant heating

and electrical upgrades. Giangreco admits he’s called out his confrontational neighbor on his blog, but always in a joking manner he considers obvious. For instance, after Cowan allegedly backed out of a mediation session arranged in late July so the two neighbors could try to work out their differences, Giangreco wrote on his blog, “The LTCM does not negotiate with terrorists.” Then, after Cowan’s recent complaint to Houle about the outdoor mural, Giangrego wrote another provocative, albeit satirical, post: “The LTCM response to this most recent act of aggression and invasion of privacy was to gear up with mullet wigs, super soakers, kendo swords, wiffleball bat and a guitar and march defiantly … over to our neighbor’s house and deliver a freshly baked Backcountry Pizza,” Giangreco wrote. “When Cowan and his selectboard vassal finally departed, we let loose an Ewok battle cry and told ghost stories around the campfire.”

Although Giangreco and his friends appear to be having fun at Cowan’s expense, Houle was less than amused. That post contained an over-the-top reference to having “annexed a small island in the Winooski River, on which the new Jonesville Underground complex will be located,” outfitted with “zip lines,” “livestock” and “several tiger pits loaded with punji sticks.” Houle, who claims she owns the island to which Giangreco referred, found those references “distressing.” “Do you know what a tiger pit is and a punji stick is?” she asks. “How would I interpret that?” As for the store itself, Houle says its permitting issues won’t fix themselves: “If this does passively go away, this effectively means that there’s no zoning in Richmond, and come on down and put a Wal-Mart in my front yard.” Rest assured, the Richmond Underground will have something snarky to say about that, too. m

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Artist Frank Gonzales’ Community Mural Lets Others Paint the Town BY CAROLYN FOX

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very week, a group of neighbors meets in downtown Burlington to erase the evidence of overnight tagging. These graffiti foes probably wouldn’t be too pleased to hear of a new assemblage adorning building walls with artistic expressions in broad daylight — that is, until they learn this wall-art project is a mural with the goal of beautifying the city. It’s also the latest brainchild of Burlington-based artist Frank Gonzales. Eighty-five-year-old Gonzales, locally known for his work as artist-in-residence at the ECHO Lake and Aquarium Center and artist-educator at Fletcher Free Library, is no mural newbie. Though he specializes in constructing puppets and masks from recycled materials, he’s organized mural productions in Vermont, California and Mexico over the years. His whale design at Edmunds Elementary School has been removed, but others, including a sprawling flora-and-fauna-themed mural painted in 1992 along a low city wall in Fairfax, Ca., still stand. Now Gonzales is looking to use the outdoor canvas as a way to bring the Queen City community together. The winning wall is the vast backside of Riverside Avenue’s Bike Recycle Vermont. A nonprofit organization formed in 2004 by Ron

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Manganiello, BRV spruces up secondhand ’cycles and passes them on to those in need of two-wheeled transport. “I respect very much what [BRV is] doing,” says Gonzales. “This is what we need more of ... And I used to be a bicycle person.” “Frank Gonzales volunteered to do a mural, and we just jumped on it,” says Manganiello, a close friend of the artist who recently collaborated on his Quad parade fi xtures. He’s not sure, but believes “this might be the biggest mural in Vermont.” The BRV team is still mapping out ideas on the theme, which, Manganiello says, “will have to do with transportation and the mountains. It will be all about the outdoors.” Having spent the weekend priming the wall space, he expects they’ll be sketching the details this week in colored chalk. From there, Gonzales will act as “orchestrator,” inviting the public to the bike shop to blend acrylic paints and add its own flair to the design. “We need to bring people in together and get [them] involved in working with paint, color and creativity,” says Gonzales. “We need to beat the drum like never before.” He believes each individual’s ideas can come together to form a united purpose and a well-founded sense of community. In a couple of months, when the completed scene spans the back of the building and parts of the roof, Gonzales predicts, “People are going to say, ‘Oh, wow — why don’t we do more of this?’”  “Creative Tuesdays with Frank Gonzales.” Every Tuesday through September 29, 3-5 p.m., at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7216. Bike Recycle Vermont is located at 664 Riverside Avenue. Info, 264-9687. bikerecycle.localmotion.org

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Festival of Short Plays Showcases Local Playwrights BY ERIK ESCKILSEN

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taging original plays is a risky proposition in the best of times, even in Vermont’s rich theatrical soil. Producers of the upcoming Ten-Fest at the Valley Players Theater in Waitsfield hope that a less-is-more approach is just the ticket. The “more” is the number of state-based bards whose work will be featured — 11 in all, some budding, others seasoned. The “less” is the length of the plays to be showcased — none running more than 10 minutes. Taking the stage for its second summer from August 20 to 23, Ten-Fest is the brainchild of the Vermont Playwrights Circle (VPC), a loose affiliation of writers who have been meeting monthly in and around Montpelier for about five years. VPC cofounder Kim Ward is a coproducer of Ten-Fest when not working her day job at the Nature Conservancy. She explains that VPC is an effort to make a network of talent available to Vermont theater companies, not a competing entity. “It truly is a network,” she says. “We’re really trying to be accessible to people.” Membership is free, Ward notes.

While Ten-Fest is VPC’s signature event — with 16 actors and six directors also on board — in recent years, the network has connected homegrown talent with such troupes as Lost Nation Theater, Moxie Productions and the Valley Players for staged readings and shows.

Producers of the upcoming Ten-Fest hope that a less-ismore approach is just the ticket. According to Ten-Fest coproducer Jeanne Beckwith, who’s also an English faculty member at Norwich University, the plays in this year’s show strike a range of stylistic notes, from the comedic to the more serious. Among them are “Flakes,” from visual artist Gerard Rinaldi, which features two characters conversing in the cab of a snow plow; John Kern’s “Birthday Wishes,” about three women, strangers to each other, who meet while fulfilling their lover’s dying wish that they sing “Happy Birthday” to him at his grave site; and Beckwith’s contribution, “Pas de

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Burlington Resident Explores Identity Theory in His High-Profile E-Journal BY MARGOT HARRISON

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t’s published original interviews with Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sarah Vowell and John Cusack, to name a few. But Identity Theory doesn’t come between glossy covers. Its staff of about 20 is composed of volunteers, and its publisher and editorin-chief’s office, at least on a recent afternoon, is a table in Burlington’s New Moon Café. Matt Borondy, a bearded, soft-spoken 30-year-old, started his online magazine — its homepage calls it “a literary website, sort of” — in 2000, shortly after his graduation from the University of Florida. He’s lived in Burlington for the past 18 months, but his staff, and readers, are farflung. In a world crowded with literary blogs, Identitytheory. com stands out, but not for the externals. It doesn’t have a cheeky title like Bookslut, and it doesn’t have splashy

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Deux,” which Ward will direct, in which a couple clashes over the husband’s refusal to learn to ballet dance. Beckwith’s play “The Great Mail Robbery” was performed as part of the 2009 Boston Theater Marathon. Beckwith and Ward applaud the variety and quality of this year’s show but see Ten-Fest as being in its infancy, with the prospect of a more established event on the horizon. “It’s gaining its own momentum,” Ward says, noting that the festival’s profile may get a boost from its official participation in the Vermont Festival of the Arts (August 1-31 & September 5-6). Beckwith’s husband and Norwich English department colleague F. Brett Cox, whose World War II-era monologue “Suspension” is also on the Ten-Fest bill, is similarly optimistic about the short play’s appeal to audiences gambling on something new. “I think, frankly, that people might be inclined to see something short,” he says. “It’s like the weather. If you don’t like it, in 10 minutes it will be over.”  Ten-Fest: A Festival of Short Plays by Vermont Playwrights, produced by Vermont Playwrights Circle. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield. August 20-22, 8 p.m.; August 23, 7 p.m. $18. Info, 5831674. www.vermontplaywrightscircle.org, www. valleyplayers.org.

graphics. (Borondy, who works as a freelance web developer, gave his site a design he calls “very basic, not intrusive.”) What it does have are book reviews; essays; short stories; blogs devoted to literature, music, film and social justice; visual art — look for local artists such as Ash Larose and Sage Tucker-Ketcham — and the aforementioned interviews. Those lengthy, informal talks — many with wellknown cultural figures — have perhaps garnered the site the most attention. Many are conducted by “editor-atlarge” Robert Birnbaum, who draws on contacts he made while publishing Boston’s Stuff Magazine in the 1990s. Borondy initially approached the generation-older journalist in hopes of publishing an interview with Howard Zinn. Birnbaum, who was “looking to get his interviews out there,” provided that conversation with Zinn, and more. His subjects have ranged from Stephen Carter and Ethan Hawke to Vermont writers Marc Estrin and Elizabeth Inness-Brown. In an August 3 interview, Paul Krassner, publisher of ’60s countercultural mag The Realist, talks to Birnbaum about working for Hustler and hobnobbing with Timothy Leary. In 2003, Sarah Cavill of the popular site Mediabis tro.com raved about Birnbaum’s interviews, calling them “luxuriously long, sometimes funny, and deeply engaged. This is why writers should be celebrities, for their intelligence and not for their hucksterism.” Cavill added that

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n Sunday, August 9, there was a birthday party at my house ... for Smokey the Bear. The forest-fire-fighting mascot turned 65 this year. My partner, Ann-Elise, made a cake. She and our two kids sang “Happy Birthday” to him. I was away that weekend, so I missed out — on the cake and on the points. The bear’s little shindig was worth 10 points in the Venture Vermont Outdoor Challenge, a self-guided scavenger hunt organized by the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. When you rack up 250 points, you get a free pass to Vermont’s state parks for the rest of 2009, and all of 2010. My family is about 30 points shy of finishing. We initially embarked on the challenge because it seemed like a great way to save money. An individual day-use season park pass is $25, a vehicle pass is $80 — not a

Often the activities are things that we mean to do, but never seem to make time for. huge savings, but still significant, especially if you’ve got kids. But after a couple months of ticking off activities on my score sheet, I realized that completing the challenge has also been its own reward. Often the activities are things that we mean to do, but never seem to make time for. Venture Vermont has motivated us to make the effort. As a result, we’ve enjoyed a wide variety of fun, low-cost, outdoor adventures. It’s almost worth paying an entry fee just to participate. To take the Venture Vermont challenge, download a score sheet from the State Parks website. It lists dozens of activities, each of them worth points. As you’re doing the activity, you take a photo of yourself to prove that you did it. When you’re done, you check it off the list. When you’ve earned 250 points, you send the score sheet and a CD with your photos to the State Parks office in Waterbury, and they send you a pass. The list includes easy-to-accomplish tasks such as identifying plants and animals (1 point each), wading in a lake (5 points), and having a picnic at a park (10 points). There are practical activities that pay off, too, such as growing a garden (15 points), hanging your laundry out to dry (10 points), and learning how to navigate using a map and compass (20 points). Creativity also advances the cause; you can make your own fishing pole with stuff you find outside (10 points), build a shelter with natural objects (10 points); or write a poem about sitting in the forest (10 points). The state parks staff also posts a new bonus activity each week on their

Facebook page, and on their blog, at vtstateparks.blogspot.com. The week of August 9, you could earn 10 points by throwing a birthday party for Smokey the Bear, hence our festivities. Thanks to Venture Vermont, our family explored Sand Bar State Park, where we discovered a nest of turtle eggs that had just hatched. We spent a day in Groton State Forest, where we skipped stones on Kettle Pond, identified loons and an Eastern newt and had a picnic at Seyon Lodge. We also climbed Mount Philo one morning in July, and got 20 points each because it was that week’s bonus. At Mount Philo, we ran into our friend Stacy Fraser, who lives in Charlotte. She was headed up with her husband and son. We told them about Venture Vermont, and now they’re doing it, too. I called her recently to ask how it was going. She told me that it ended up being a great thing to do during a summer when her family cut back on traveling. “I’ve been really trying hard all summer to find little things to do that make us feel like we’re on vacation without spending a lot of money,” she says. Getting out into the parks has been perfect for that. “Even if it’s only for half a day,” she says, “I feel more rejuvenated and refreshed, as if I were vacationing.” And she pointed out another benefit — to win the pass, you have to take pictures of yourself completing the challenge, which means you wind up with a bunch of great outdoor photos. In fact, those photos are a plus for the state, too, says Parks Sales & Service Manager Rochelle Skinner. The parks staff asks participants to sign a release, so that the images can be used for promotional purposes. “We can’t afford to have a staff photographer going around, so this was a nice way to get shots of people,” she says. “It wasn’t our sole intent by any means, but it was a nice fringe benefit.” Skinner says the program, now in its second year, was meant to incentivize Vermonters to explore the parks. Despite the fact that they give away season passes, Venture Vermont costs “virtually nothing” to run, she explains. According to Skinner, last year 200 people won free park passes. As of late July, just 20 people had submitted score sheets in 2009. Skinner expects that number to rise. “I’m getting a lot of questions on it,” she says, “so I think a lot of people are doing it.” The deadline for submitting entries is October 15, so it’s not too late to get started. m Getting by” is a column that appears every other week in Seven Days. In it, we examine how Vermonters are surviving the current economic downturn. We’ll share personal stories and money-saving strategies to help you get by during these tough times. send your tips to cathy@ sevendaysvt.com

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f there’s one thing Liz Canner knows, it’s orgasms. Lucky lady, right? But, before you make assumptions about her personal life, consider that the 41-year-old filmmaker acquired her encyclopedic knowledge of the big O almost accidentally. After years of making documentaries about social justice and human rights issues, Canner needed a break from the heavy stuff. So, rather than focusing her camera lens on pain, she set out to learn about pleasure.

Orgasm, Inc. will open this Friday, August 21, at Merrill’s Roxy Theatre in Burlington and will run for at least a week at 1 and 6:40 p.m. Filmmaker Liz Canner will be on hand opening night for a Q&A following the screening. The film will also show at Montpelier’s Savoy on September 12. orgasminc.org

But not the pleasure that comes from helping an elderly person across the street or teaching a child to read. The pleasure she wanted to explore was of a more primitive, carnal variety — the female orgasm. To that end, Canner, who just finished an appointment as Visionary-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, accepted a job at a pharmaceutical company making erotic videos for clinical trials of a drug designed to be the first Viagra for women. In essence, she became a scientific pornographer. That was nine years ago. What emerged from Canner’s work in pharmaceuticals is a near-exhaustive and often hilarious account of the science of female pleasure and the race to create a drug that will help women achieve the ultimate release. Her new film, Orgasm, Inc., explores Big Pharma’s stranglehold on women’s sexuality and the lengths to which its players will go to help women get off with pills, creams, patches or even surgically implanted electrodes. It might be a subject people don’t want to talk about, but health care professionals who have seen the film, including Dartmouth Medical School instructors who have screened it for their students, say Canner’s work is a positive step toward opening up the dialogue about female sexuality. Many of them share Canner’s concerns that the pharmaceutical industry — a $300-plus billion industry in the U.S. — is far too influential when it comes to women’s sexual health. And it’s not just a concern in this country; Orgasm, Inc. is slated to run on public television around Canada, Finland, Israel and Brazil. The film opens for a limited run at Burlington’s Roxy Theatre this Friday, and will be screened September 12 at the Savoy in Montpelier. The film’s debut at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto in May garnered rave reviews from the Toronto Star and Variety, which called the movie “buzzworthy.” Shortly after the film was released in the spring, Canner screened it at Dartmouth’s Center for Women and Gender. The standingroom-only crowd was shocked to learn about some of the

procedures available to women and the lengths that pharmaceutical companies go to develop and market a product. The film was so popular, Canner had to show it eight more times. The reception has been overwhelming, she says. Canner, a 1991 Brown University graduate, is no stranger to the documentary process. A number of her films have been broadcast on PBS and on public television around the world. She has screened films at the New York Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, among others. Canner was recently named one of the “top 10 independent filmmakers to watch” by The Independent magazine, a journal of independent filmmaking. Prior to her stint at Dartmouth, Canner was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, an honor held by former Vermont Governor Madeline Kunin in 1992. When Canner, whose studio is currently located in White River Junction, began her work with Vivus, a pharmaceutical company based in Mountain View, Calif., she never anticipated she’d be exposing the seedy side of the drug industry. “I thought this would be a film on women and pleasure,” Canner says in a telephone interview. “But when I started learning more, I saw there was something strange going on.” What she saw was an industry that appears to have helped create a disorder so it could market a drug to cure it. According to data proffered by pharmaceutical companies looking to turn a profit on problems in the sack, “female sexual dysfunction” afflicts 43 percent of American women. Oprah Winfrey, the venerable expert on all things female, called FSD a “secret epidemic” — so secret women didn’t even know they suffered from it. When she tried to get to the bottom of this diagnosis, Canner found little more than bunk science to back up claims that nearly half of American women live with this disorder.

After a naughty teaser, the film’s narrative begins with Canner at Vivus explaining her job — creating erotic films for female test subjects participating in clinical trials of the company’s orgasm cream, Alista. For the project, Canner

teamed up with Kim Airs, the motorcycleriding sex maven and owner of Boston erotica emporium Grand Opening!, to create porn that female testers would find stimulating. Surprisingly, Vivus was completely open to Canner documenting her work on film, and the company offered her unprecedented access to the process of creating a drug for the open market. In one of many candid interviews, Vivus’ bow-tied founder, Virgil Place, explains how his firm got into the business of sexual dysfunction. “Our objective was to put life back into dead penises,” Place says earnestly. His was the first company to come out with a drug to aid men with erectile dysfunction. But, shortly after Vivus won FDA approval, Pfizer, a much larger company with an advertising budget greater than the GDP of some third-world nations, introduced Viagra to the market, and the little blue pill took off. Vivus had a drug that would work for men with erectile dysfunction, but it no longer had a market. Ideally, the executives reasoned, their erectile-dysfunction drug would work for women as well. During a television interview, one of them suggested this, and immediately the price of Vivus’ stocks shot up. The company couldn’t disappoint shareholders, so it had to move forward with development of a drug that hadn’t been part of the original plan. At this point in the movie’s narrative, Canner’s skill as a journalistic filmmaker shines through. She managed to get the company’s manager of clinical research, Darby Stephens, to admit that Vivus had a drug, but no “disease entity” that it was meant to cure. “In order for us to develop drugs, we need to better and more clearly define what the disease is,” Stephens says in the film. It’s apparent from her shifty eyes and nervous laughter that she’s not entirely comfortable with that back-door approach. Throughout the film, it’s clear that the evidence for female sexual dysfunction is wishywashy at best. FSD is a collection of symptoms born largely from observational studies and surveys such as the Kinsey Reports and the work of Masters and Johnson, pioneers of human sexuality research. Dr. Alessandra Rellini, director of the Sexual Health Research Clinic at the University of Vermont — who is not in the film — concurs that the origin of FSD is murky. But, she says, so is the origin of many other psychological disorders. “The scary thing is that every single disorder comes about like this,” Rellini says, explaining how a grouping of symptoms becomes a bona fide “disorder” recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. As a case study in this process, Canner’s film is enlightening. It moves along at a steady clip, focusing heavily on the work of Dr. Leonore Tiefer, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. A staunch opponent of the medicalization of sexuality and so-called “diseasemongering,” Tiefer has waged what she calls a New View Campaign. In interviews with Canner, she advocates against “the distorted and oversimplified messages about sexuality that the pharmaceutical industry relies on” to develop and market new drugs. Tiefer believes sexuality is far more complicated than we realize, and there’s no one-size-fits-all fix for women with sexual difficulty. Rather than a catchall term like “female sexual dysfunction,” she proposes a new classification system that takes into account issues such as inhibition and individual distress within the context of relationships and culture. UVM’s Rellini, whose work is not funded by the pharmaceutical industry, points out that popping a pill is easier than the oftenmessy business of mental health therapy. She doesn’t discount that medication could be useful for some women who are not as libidinous as they’d like to be. Many of those she sees at her clinic are survivors of sexual abuse and would benefit from a pharmaceuti-

cal aid, she says. Ideally, though, Rellini would like to see drugs used in concert with psychotherapy. The problem, she says, is that public funding for research on human sexuality is nearly impossible to find. The behavioral side of sexuality is largely ignored by conventional sources of funding such as the National Institutes of Health. “There’s a rush to create a drug because there are very few behavioral approaches to address these issues,” Rellini says.

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Canner’s film suggests women are told there’s something wrong with them if they’re not writhing in ecstasy every time they have sex. and pills race toward a finish line that stays just barely out of reach. Gale H. Golden, a Burlington-based clinical social worker who specializes in clinical sexology, has her own theory about why no pharmaceutical company has developed a drug that works better than a placebo in clinical trials. From time immemorial, humans have sought the key to sexual desire, using everything from antiquated aphrodisiacs such as rhinoceros horn and tiger penis to Viagra. But, while such drugs produce physical arousal, the less easily definable quantity of “desire” remains elusive. “Viagra does not address desire,” Golden says. “Desire is the holy grail of the pharmaceutical houses. They’re trying to address it, but so far it ain’t working.” Golden, like Rellini, believes it’s important to take a balanced view of female sexuality and the role of medicine in treating sexual problems. She thinks drugs may be useful to women who are perimenopausal or menopausal, have had surgery such as a hysterectomy or are taking other medication. But the key, Golden posits, is to recognize that there is no “normal” when it comes to sexual functioning. Porn narratives aren’t normal, and neither are the stories told in the pages of Cosmopolitan. “How people define what sex is is terribly important. For a million people there are a million definitions,” Golden says. “It’s important that people don’t have unrealistic expectations. People aren’t going to get the sex lives of their twenties back.” These experts agree that, to help women move beyond the shame and frustration

associated with sexual problems, health care professionals must recognize that desire is just as much part of the sexuality equation as physical arousal. The physiological and the psychological component cannot be teased apart, says Rellini, who believes that male and female sexuality are equally complicated. Nancy Mosher, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, says that “fear-based” education is one way in which our culture inhibits women’s sexual desire. Through research conducted in 2008, Planned Parenthood learned that young women see negative and shameful messages about female sexuality as pervasive. “We need to help young people be sexual in a positive way,” Mosher says. “We need to help them understand that if they’re not orgasmic every time, well, neither are most women.” Canner’s film suggests part of the problem is that women are told there’s something wrong with them if they’re not writhing in ecstasy every time they have sex. She chronicles one patient’s search to find out what’s wrong with her lady bits. Charletta, a middle-aged married woman, has never had an orgasm during penetrative sex and seeks the help of researcher Dr. Stuart Meloy, inventor of the Orgasmatron, to give her the O of her life. The doctor was perhaps unaware of the phone-booth-sized device of the same name in Woody Allen’s 1973 hit, Sleeper. Meloy’s Orgasmatron seeks to stimulate women’s sexual organs using electrodes implanted in the patient’s spine. Instead of having a mind-blowing orgasm, though, Charletta ends up with a jittery leg and an electrode dangling out of her back. Once the device is removed, Charletta realizes there was nothing wrong with her to begin with. “The heck with all that disease stuff,” she proclaims. Canner also documents the disturbing trend of laser vaginal rejuvenation, designer laser vaginoplasty and other surgical procedures aimed at enhancing women’s sexual experiences. In the film, Dr. Susan Bennett, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, goes after doctors who do these procedures and women who think they’re necessary. “Any kind of cosmetic surgery to external genitalia is a form of genital mutilation. I can’t think of any rational reason for it,” she says. After the movie was released in May, Canner and others in the Dartmouth community founded SHEBOP — Sexual Health Education: Bring on Pleasure. The loosely organized group tracks doctors who offer to create “designer” vaginas for patients. Canner wants women to know that these couture cooters come with a high price tag: The operations can result in infection, scarring, nerve damage and loss of sensation. The movie traces the race for a “cure” for FSD, but Canner’s point is that it doesn’t really matter who wins. Within the next year, she says, women will probably have their own Viagra. But, like many of the men who are prescribed the pill, they’ll come to realize that pharmaceuticals alone don’t make them want to have sex. Canner says her disagreement is not so much with the idea of a drug to help women achieve orgasm as with the assumptions drug purveyors seem to make about who and what women are. “How these issues are being framed is the problem,” she says. “Doctors don’t have time to sit you down and talk about this, and they’re not really taught about sexuality anyway. It’s a perfect setup for an easy pill prescription.”  Got a comment on this story or a suggestion for another one? Contact Lauren Ober at lauren@ sevendaysvt.com.

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The sex Since female sexuality is rarely discussed in polite company, most people know hardly anything about it. While researching her new featurelength documentary Orgasm, Inc., filmmaker Liz Canner learned more than she ever thought she needed to know about the ins and outs of female sexuality. Below are a few of the choicest tidbits.

• There is such a thing as “G-spot amplification.” Women get it, presumably to make their secret spot less secret. A doctor shoots up the little lady sponge with collagen, the same stuff that makes your cartilage, ligaments and tendons strong. Apparently, this will help cure your “normal sexual dysfunction.” The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology rejects this “treatment,” however, along with others of its ilk such as “revirginization,” vaginal tightening and labial reduction. • In Alabama, it is illegal to sell sex toys. You can buy all the assault weapons you want, but not a dildo. In a 1998 case, Williams v. Alabama, a purveyor of “sexual devices” named Sherri Williams sued the state because it “prohibited the distribution of any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.” The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case in 2007, and as a result, ’bamans looking for a Rabbit or a Hitachi Magic Wand still have to cross state lines. • If you don’t mute the TV during commercials, you may already know there’s a new female problem called “Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder,” formerly known as PMS. Some of the symptoms of this “disorder” are mood swings, anxiety, depression, fatigue, backaches, abdominal cramps and diarrhea — basically, your garden-variety monthly pain in the ass. But because it’s now a real disease, the pharmaceutical companies can sell you a drug that fixes it. Canner says that when the patent was about to expire on Prozac, the drug’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly, rushed to find another use for it. (Drug companies are allowed to keep the patent if they can show their drug has a second legitimate medical use.) So Lilly came up with PMDD — extreme PMS — which can be treated with Prozac, rebranded as Sarafem. • For women too embarrassed to hit up their local adult toy store for the latest in self-pleasuring devices, there’s the Eros CTD — the first prescription sex toy. It’s billed as a “female sexual therapy device” and won FDA approval in 2000. CTD stands for “clitoral therapy device” and works by providing “gentle suction directly to the clitoris.” It costs more than $350, but it’s recommended by Dr. Ruth and has “no reported side effects.” Plus, it’s “clinically proven” to combat female sexual dysfunction, and you can get it in Alabama.

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ermont may be having a cooler-than-usual summer, but everywhere else America’s temperature is rising. In Las Vegas and Washington, teenagers are beating up homeless people for the thrill of it. On the greens, golfers are swinging their clubs at perpetrators of “slow play.” G.I. Joe, featuring nonstop futuristic military mayhem, was last weekend’s biggest-grossing movie. And at town hall meetings across the nation, opponents of health care reform are shouting and shoving and burning their representatives in effigy. The protesters say they represent a vast popular rage against a liberal plot to turn America into a totalitarian state. “This is truly a drive to put the population under complete government control,” comments one typical blog reader about “Obamacare.” “They will decide who lives and who dies. God help you if you didn’t vote for this marxist SOB. If his brown shirts have the opportunity they’ll eliminate you.” The Dems counter that the antireformers are not a grassroots movement at all, but a media show funded by Big Pharma and orchestrated by national pro-business, antitax groups such as FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, whose other worthy causes include, respectively, defeat of the beverage tax and defense of the tobacco industry against antismoking legislation. Indeed, the disgruntlement is not as widespread as Fox News would have you believe. Among respondents to a recent Time poll, for instance, 63 percent “would support providing health care coverage for all Americans, even if the government had to subsidize those who could not afford it.” Fifty-five percent wanted a public option, and to pay for the plan, 57 percent were fine with raising taxes on people earning more than $280,000 a year. But American public opinion is fickle, and the poll was conducted in the last week of July, before the media started covering the enragés 24/7. Facts about the reform are unlikely to quell the storm either, as Obama keeps insisting they will. In meeting after meeting, jeers meet representatives’ reassurances that Washington will not (alas) establish a single-payer system. These are the same folks who deplore motorcycle helmet laws and public schooling. They don’t like the gu’ment, and they wouldn’t trust a politician to mow their lawn. In fact, the protests are both an Astroturf campaign financed by the insurance and medical industry lobbies and the pained cry of a native movement flung from the center of power to its margins, like Sarah Palin packed onto a helicopter to Alaska. As in all modern American politics, the passions are organic

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The health care protests are both an Astroturf campaign financed by the insurance and medical industry lobbies and the pained cry of a native movement flung from the center of power to its margins. and media-pumped, authentic and manufactured — and there’s no bright line between the two. I’ve been watching these people on YouTube and reading their fulminations in the blogosphere and, as anyone can see, there’s anger here, all right. But angry may be the wrong word for how the protesters are behaving. Rather, they are apoplectic. Piqued. Irritated. Agitated. Theirs is agitation as the progressive organizer Saul Alinsky conceived it: both a public emotion and a political tactic that involves ratcheting up the ressentiment of the protesters, empowering them to confront the powerful — the politician or CEO. The idea, wrote Alinsky, is to “rub raw the sores of discontent,” then deploy it. FreedomWorks has adopted Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as its training manual. But there’s a pesky difference: He was siding with disenfranchised poor people and workers, whereas the organization stands up for rich taxpayers and corporations. How to turn the victor into a victim? You can simply keep asserting your victimhood, like Rush Limbaugh at the height of the Bush years griping about left-wing domination of the media and politics. Or you can find another oppressor. Many of the anti-reformers are happy with their health insurance; they just don’t want to pay taxes to extend the privilege. Since helping the less fortunate might broadly be viewed as a public good, taxes themselves, in any amount, must be figured as a “burden,” indeed, a tyranny. Still, for others in the tea party movement, its ideology appears to fight personal need and desire — to pit “freedom” against the ability to take a sick kid to the doctor without going bankrupt. How do you get an unemployed guy, like the one recently interviewed on National Public Radio, to oppose government-funded job creation? How do you persuade an

uninsured person such as Ken Gladney — the St. Louis resident who took up a collection to pay his medical bill after an alleged beating by union “thugs” — to despise affordable health care? For these people, too, the solution must look worse than their problem. Confusing claims and conspiracy theories are circulated: Medicaid might be taken over by the government! A congressional panel will euthanize medically expensive senior citizens! To perpetuate the paranoia, protesters disrupt public events rather than engage in public conversation. In town hall meetings, they are asking questions larded with misinformation, then cutting the speaker off before he or she has a chance to respond. Such an exchange guarantees that the interrogator — and, not incidentally, the audience — learns nothing, certainly nothing to assuage the alarm the question has engendered. Learning nothing, everyone also gets nothing: no possibility of hope, no idea to realize creatively, no goal to work toward. And the activists husband their useful frustration. As any barroom denizen or battered spouse will tell you, the combination of cultivated grievance and foiled conversation is a volatile one. It’s a mood that can move a golfer to raise his nine-iron or a bunch of boys to search out a park dweller to stab. And it can set fists flying at the school gym. But when violence erupts, the movement’s spokespeople can claim perfectly plausible deniability. Hitting your neighbor or sending a death threat to your representative is deplorable, of course! But you can’t blame these people. They’re frustrated! It’s all classic right-wing organizing: hysteria as discourse; temper tantrum as social movement. And, contrary to the Democrats’ naïve hopes, it works. It works because opponents of almost anything are more passionate than proponents, even

— especially — when the proponents outnumber their foes. Securely in the majority, observing the dicey tactics of the other side, the proponents step back, unwilling to risk reputation or safety to defend a cause they think will win without them. In their absence, the loud, aggressive minority has its way (often with the help of corporations hiding quietly behind their foundations). And that’s how you end up with the Defense of Marriage Act — or a chaotic, costly and crappy health care system. But a strategy of fomented frustration also has its weakness: You get frustration and risk burnout. Bitterness is a brittle motivator; an army that marches on its spleen may not have the wherewithal to stick out the battle to the end. What is the end? That’s another glitch in the strategy. Unlike other conservative oppositional politics, the anti of health care reform has no clear pro. Antiabortion activists are pro-life; they really want to save fetuses. Anti-gay-marriage forces really believe in the superiority of heterosexuality. What right-wing libertarians want, in a sense, is nothing: no government. But nothing is a hard desire to sustain. In health care, moreover, getting nothing means keeping what you already have: the “free” insurance market. A demonstrator in a photo posted to the Huffington Post held up a placard reading, “No Health Care!” No health care would be an insurer’s dream come true. What profits would pile up if only they could eliminate those costly doctors’ visits! But might the placard wavers wake up some morning with no health care and realize they want it? Supporters of reform cannot sit around waiting for the tea partiers to go soft steeping in their own frustration. We have our own frustrated millions to mobilize: Americans so fed up with commercial medicine that they’re willing to pay taxes to care for everyone. But frustration is only a catalyst. In the end, patience — what my partner, a former legislator, calls “staying in the room” — may be the virtue that wins the day. Congress has had about four months to sort out one of the most vexing policy problems confronting the U.S. The Obama administration’s exhortation to hurry up and “get it done” — and Congress’ own mantra that if the legislators don’t succeed this fall, they will fail — is self-defeating and self-fulfilling. What if they don’t finish by Thanksgiving? Should they move on to something more pressing, like a federal Driving While Distracted felony statute? The opponents are counting on Americans’ low tolerance for frustration — and representatives’ terror of the two-year election cycle — to defeat health care reform. But in government as in life, things worth doing usually take longer than expected. Citizens need to speak their impatience with a government that has done not too much but too little, then patiently hold elected officials to getting the right thing done. m

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of their range.” She does this by urging students to go “above and beyond” what their competitors have to offer. “Develop what makes you special,” Hernandez says she advises them — putting emphasis, she insists, on scholarly achievement rather than on marketing techniques. But, once students have done what they can to maximize their academic potential, “I package them,” she adds. That entails giving tips on which extracurriculars to pursue, what to include in application essays, and what to wear and how to act at an interview — all without leaving traces of her involvement that might prejudice admissions officers against a candidate. Hernandez acknowledges that some of the parents with whom she does business are “obnoxious overachievers.” Asian families, who account for a high percentage of her clients, may be particularly driven to win the admissions race

Southeastern University in Florida. “I knew the doctor title would give me more credibility,” she explains in her rapid-fire cadence. Hernandez talks like a cheetah runs, all the while nervously brushing back her short black hair. Her delivery is consistent with her Type-Triple-A personality. The former Michele Dogin grew up in a Jewish household in New York City’s northern suburbs. As her high school’s valedictorian and star soccer goalie, she was recruited by Harvard and Cornell as well as by Dartmouth. She says today she loves living in “old-fashioned” Vermont because it keeps her from getting too wired. Hernandez taught Spanish and English for two years at the Putney School in the 1990s. Later, she lived in Addison County with her first husband, Blas Hernandez, who taught Spanish at Middlebury College. Following a sojourn in Oregon, Hernandez moved to Weybridge with her second

ers should be flipped.” It’s misleading to focus on her prices, Hernandez continues. She says she gives scholarships to a few kids who couldn’t otherwise afford her boot camp, and offers general written advice for as little as $49. She’s also a community activist. In addition to serving on the Weybridge school board, she’s currently battling Middlebury Union High School officials over academic standards and expectations for students. Only two of her clients live in Vermont, Hernandez notes, agreeing with Mason’s comment that the state’s culture is averse to the elitism she is seen as representing. But at least four other college admission counselors do operate in Vermont, according to a listing on the website of the Independent Educational Consultants Association. This group, to which Hernandez does not belong, is trying to establish official standards for the profession. One member is Barbara

The process of deciding who does and doesn’t get admitted to the most selective schools is partly subjective and mostly secretive; it can be influenced by donations, “legacy” considerations for the children of alumni and pure cronyism. no matter the cost, she says. And there are limits to how much obsessive behavior she’ll tolerate. “If someone announces they’ll only look at Harvard, Yale and Princeton, then I’m not going to work with them,” Hernandez says. But her professed goal of finding the best match for a student, regardless of a school’s brand, isn’t reflected in the subtitle of her 1999 mega-selling book A Is for Admission: The Insider’s Guide to Getting Into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges. Warner Books gave Hernandez a $450,000 advance for that manuscript after it became the booty in a bidding war involving deep-pocketed publishers such as Random House and Simon & Schuster — all eager to profit from the author’s insider tips. The “academic index formula” is one piece of classified information Hernandez picked up at Dartmouth and subsequently revealed to buyers of her book. It’s simply a compilation of a high schooler’s GPA and standardized test scores. Admissions officials “lie about it” by claiming the formula isn’t a key determinant in the selection process,” Hernandez says. She argues that the criteria for acceptance into top colleges should be “transparent and open to all.” Flanagan agrees that schools at the highest rungs would do well to “demystify” their admissions decisions. But if they did, they might put Hernandez out of a job. The consultant graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth in 1989. She earned a master’s degree in English and comparative literature from Columbia and picked up a doctorate in education from Nova

husband, Bruce Bayliss, a retired history teacher and headmaster, and her two kids and two dogs. The family’s home on 110 acres of Snake Mountain includes an observatory — astronomy is one of Hernandez’s hobbies. So are reading up to four books a week and training for mini-triathlons. Her perch at the highest price point among the country’s 5000 college admission counselors suggests a desire for financial security that may be rooted in past struggles. Hernandez says her parents weren’t wealthy, and she was “impoverished” by the loans she needed to finance her Ivy education. She collected unemployment for six months while living in Florida at the time of her divorce. And much of the $450,000 advance for the first of her four books was eaten up by the settlement with her ex-husband, she says. When she began counseling kids in Florida after losing her job as an academic dean at a private high school, Hernandez was charging $2000 per client. She soon learned that a consultant in New York, whom she views as less qualified than herself, was asking $29,000 for a two-year package. Hernandez raised her rates accordingly. She isn’t embarrassed by her earnings. “My business is unique,” Hernandez declares. She points out that the $40,000 payment buys around-the-clock availability for four years, along with a 40-page report she writes on each student. The incensed reactions to her rates “have to do with the fact that people begrudge educators making a lot of money,” Hernandez says. She suggests that “the pay for teachers and for investment bank-

LeWinter, a former psychologist for the Essex Junction school system, who now counsels about 15 students a year. She charges $150 for an initial consultation, $600 for a package of five sessions and $2500 for “hand-holding from beginning to end” for those who have “hit a bump in their high school careers with a bad semester or a bad year.” LeWinter adds that “it’s not the name of the college that’s critical; it’s whether a college is a good fit for a particular kid.” Unlike Hernandez, however, LeWinter doesn’t deal almost exclusively with aspirants to elite schools; she has counseled a couple of clients to apply to the Community College of Vermont. Hernandez may not always pick her words diplomatically when she describes her work, but can she be faulted for exploiting a market niche? Terming the college selection process “dysfunctional,” she asks why counselors like herself should be criticized when the system itself is at fault. It’s a fair point. But, then again, plenty of American students have managed to get accepted to selective colleges based on their own merits. And others may have benefited from less costly coaching. Noting that she doesn’t know Hernandez personally, LeWinter says she’s hesitant to pass judgment. Instead, she offers an analogy rather different from the one that likens admissions counseling to brain surgery: “You can get from Point A to Point B in a Kia, a Prius or a Lamborghini. Some people say they need a Lamborghini. It depends on your values.” m

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ack in 2002, author Frank McCourt offered an audience in New York City his philosophy on raising well-adjusted kids: “Give children nothing,” he said, “because American children get everything, and they get it immediately. It’s on the television — ‘I want it now!’ — and they get it now because we have to keep the little buggers quiet.” McCourt, who died recently, was raised dirt-poor in Brooklyn and then Ireland. When he was young, as he related in his best-selling memoir, his most prized possessions were his dreams of the New York skyline. His point about today’s kids is that they are unjustly denied the privilege of idleness and dreams; their reality so swells with activity and abundance that they have little left to yearn for. McCourt’s prescription? “I want to see children sitting under a tree,” he mused in his lecture. “I want to see them sitting on the banks of the Mississippi or the Hudson or any place, with a fishing line. I want to see them doing nothing, and I want to see them dreaming.” It’s unlikely McCourt ever visited Farm & Wilderness, a not-for-profit summer camp in Plymouth. But if he had, his eyes might have gleamed with delight. Every morning at this hidden oasis beside the mirror-like Woodward Reservoir, about 450 campers, ranging in age from 9 to 17, spend 20 minutes — 45 on Sundays — in Silent Meeting. Sitting beneath the green canopy, listening to the birds sing, they do nothing but think and reflect. If the spirit urges, a camper may stand up and share a thought. It lingers in the stillness and then floats away. “The great thing about it,” says counselor Tulio Browning, 42, “is you create a space and they fill it.” Remove on-demand entertainment — iPods, computers, TV — and the campers fill that space, too, with basic games such as tug-of-war, or by pitching stones into a coffee can. The scene here probably didn’t look too different 70 years ago, when Kenneth

and Susan Webb founded F&W on a plot of abandoned farmland. The Webbs were both educators interested in the pedagogical reform philosophy of John Dewey, which centered on experiential and collaborative learning. They were also Quakers who, in accordance with the teachings of George Fox, the originator of the Religious Society of Friends, valued simplicity, equality, honesty, service and nonviolence. These beliefs combined with spirituality and inclusiveness in the idea that God is the light within each person, and that everyone’s light is equally brilliant and worthy of discovery. The aim of the summer camps at F&W, explains executive director Pieter Bohen, “is to facilitate that light to shine as brightly as possible.” From a single program for boys, F&W has swelled to a co-ed camp with seven separate programs on 4000 acres. In 1973, the Webbs’ family business became a nonprofit educational organization. For a long time, a “clothing-optional” policy prevailed at the camp: The Webbs were nudists, believing that nakedness was essential to inclusiveness because it fostered an acceptance of bodies. Times changed, and concerned comments from parents started trickling in. In the late 1980s, clothing was mandated everywhere but at the waterfront, but some parents still complained, and eventually the policy began affecting enrollment numbers. Bohen says the administration wondered if the policy was actually having the opposite of its intended effect, by excluding people — Latinos and Muslims, for instance — who are offended by public nudity. As a result of those reflections, this year is the first that clothing must be worn everywhere at F&W. Not all campers are sanguine about the change. “Who isn’t a fan of being naked?” asks Hilde Alexander, a 16-year old girl with little braids sprinkled throughout her curly hair. Another aspect of inclusiveness is

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racial diversity. Bohen says F&W was one of the first racially integrated summer camps in the United States, giving scholarships to Japanese children from internment camps during World War II. Still, ethnic diversity isn’t easy to achieve at a rural camp in the whitest state in the country, and today only about 20 percent of the campers are nonwhite. F&W started with just one camp — Timberlake, for boys ages 9 to 14, which still teaches outdoor living skills, homesteading and farming, creative arts, and how to build useful things from wood and rock and nails. When I visit the camp on a cool, overcast morning in mid-July, a team of Timberlake campers is building a terraced trail from the main road down to their living quarters — 11-person cabins with translucent roofs and one or two walls. The six boys — some from New York, Vermont, and Poland — are variously wielding shovels and pickaxes and fortifying a berm with logs. Infusing them with his brand of enthusiasm, Bohen declares that “this is a perfect example of work as love made visible.” It’s a common saying at the camp, one that campers repeat to me numerous times during the day. Indian Brook, the female counterpart to Timberlake, was added to the curriculum in 1941. Nicole SutherlandMaiden, its current director, calls it “a camp to see if you like camp.” She says she loves

watching the girls accomplish something they never thought possible, such as a 12-mile hike, felling a tree with an axe or climbing a rock wall: “There’s an immense will with them.” Then there’s Tamarack Farm, a co-ed camp for 15-to-17year-olds who manage a small organic farm and focus on building a community through

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When I was a camper at Farm & Wilderness in the early ’90s, I went to Indian Brook and Tamarack Farm, but I really wanted to go to Flying Cloud, the boys-only Indian camp up on the side of Saltash Mountain. The campers there wore loincloths, received Indian names in a Lakota ceremony called a wacipi, and spent the summer living what looked to me like the best and most important game of “let’s pretend” ever. But when I went back to the camp as a staffer about 10 years later — armed with my liberal arts education and my lefty politics — I had a very different reaction. What are they doing? I thought. Lakota traditions in Vermont? Are they allowed to play Indian like this? What are they thinking?!? Turns out I wasn’t the only one having some misgivings; other members of Flying Cloud and the Farm & Wilderness community were asking the same questions. Assuming Native American dress and rituals is an American tradition that goes all the way back to the Boston Tea Party: When those patriot dissidents dumped Earl Gray into Boston Harbor, they were wearing war paint and feathers. Americans have appropriated Native traditions and dress to serve all sorts of disparate purposes and agendas over the past few centuries. I wanted to figure out how Flying Cloud, this Quaker back-tothe-lander hippie camp, fit into that larger history. According to Philip Deloria, author of Playing Indian, taking on an Indian identity has always been a way for non-native Americans to liberate themselves from the social restrictions of mainstream society; to discover a more “primal,” “authentic” and “pure” way of life. Deloria suggests that members of the ’60s counterculture adopted indigenous identities and lifestyles because they symbolized “everything that could be true about America” and represented an escape from conformity. But, he writes, “like those who had come before, they found that Indian-ness

inevitably required real native people, and that those people called everything into question. Playing Indian, as always, had a tendency to lead one into, rather than out of, contradiction.” That certainly was the case for Flying Cloud. Its founders turned to an Indian way of life in an attempt to live more simply, more purely, more sustainably, more authentically. And, like others before them, they found themselves in the middle of a big mess. As a result, Flying Cloud has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade. Camp leaders have removed the Indian-ness from its rituals and tried to recreate new ones that still have the same power. To understand how and why this transformation took place, I spoke with current and former camp administrators, as well as members of Vermont’s Abenaki tribe. I wove the interviews into a 13-minute audio narrative, available on the Seven Days website. Listen to it to find out how Flying Cloud has managed to keep the magic of its old rituals while creating new ones that don’t appropriate native culture. Campers tell me the clearing up on Saltash mountain feels as sacred today as it always did. Something tells me that if I were a camper now, I would still be jealous that I couldn’t go live on the mountain with the boys and learn to do all the cool things they do every day — tend a forest garden, learn to track animals and get a new name that represents their finest qualities. It’s still the best and most important game of “let’s pretend” I’ve seen around. But now they’re playing themselves, not playing Indian. — SArAh YAhm Sarah Yahm is an independent audio producer whose work is featured on the Third Coast International Audio Festival website and has been licensed by various National Public Radio affiliates. She teaches courses in oral history, documentary studies and sociology at Burlington College, the Community College of Vermont and the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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“There wasn’t a single day this year that I didn’t think about camp.” Sun is streaming through the big bay windows that look down toward the barns, greenhouse, chicken coop and orderly rows of lush vegetables, all of which is overseen by John Adams, the farm manager. Tamarack has a commercial-grade milking parlor, and Bohen says the camp will soon start selling milk to the Woodstock Farmers Market. Higher on the hillside above the lake, Timberlake and Indian Brook have their own gardens, cultivated organically since the farm was founded. “This is so cool!” Bohen exclaims to me as we walk by a raspberry patch. “Having young boys out gardening!” Most of the campers spend four to six hours a week in the gardens, some more. These F&W camps are all about agricultural domesticity, but others are geared toward wilderness living. One is Flying Cloud (see sidebar), a remote outpost on Saltash Mountain where boys ages 11 to 14 live in yurts and teepees, run a primitive community and learn wilderness survival skills. Another is Saltash Mountain Camp, a co-ed experience for 11-to-14-year-olds on Lake Ninevah in Plymouth, which

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At about 12:30, a giant circle forms on the lawn in front of the lodge, everyone holding hands and listening to announcements moderated by two campers in the center. When the meeting is over, they all visit the outdoor hand-washing stations and get a squirt of waterless germ-killing foam — swine flu is the worry — before heading inside to eat grilled-cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. Tom Barrup, 58, has been the director of Tamarack Farm for the past 26 years. He’s tall, with a lightbulb-shaped head of curly brown and gray hair that narrows into a skinny, deeply lined face with blue eyes. Like many of the staff here, Barrup first came to F&W as a camper. Then he started to work here and just kept coming back. Barrup has a subtle, relaxed way of organizing that gives the campers nearly as much control as the leaders. He’s a believer in the group leadership model, because it forces everyone to hear everyone else’s opinions and needs. “It’s a really powerful way to learn some empathy,” he says, adding that “it’s more improv than doing theater out of a script. And here, everybody has a part to play.”

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Every morning at this hidden oasis beside the mirror-like Woodward Reservoir, about 450 campers spend 20 minutes in Silent Meeting. Inside, I sit down with four campers, all eager to talk about how much they love F&W. One spent the morning working on the cupola for the new barn. Others tended the garden and harvested hay, or helped build the sliding barn doors. “It was a lot of hard work,” one says, “but it pays off when you get to see it done.” They tell me a lot of them get “campsick” — that is, they miss this place when they go home. Some even start counting down the number of days until camp starts on their Facebook pages. “It’s so different from outside camp,” a female camper says. “You can actually be yourself here. You can wear a dress or whatever!” “This is what gets you through the school year,” says another. “There’s so much love in this place, it’s just so amazing!”

melds wilderness and the arts. Also on Lake Ninevah, Questers, for 15-to-17year-old boys and girls, offers an extended stay in the wilderness and the chance for campers to design and execute their own outing. Whether they stay for three and a half or seven weeks, work the gardens or live in the woods, the campers are outdoors most of the time. And they don’t get to touch a cellphone or look at their email. But, judging by their enthusiasm, they don’t mind being incommunicado. Bohen says F&W isn’t about denying technology; it’s about encouraging other, less tangible skills in young people whose lives are already saturated with information. “We’re not Luddites,” he says. “That’s not the intent. The intent is to create an experience that allows us to build a human experience in its purest form.” m 2x6-KingdomOutdoors081909.indd 1

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Museum at Noon: “Buffalo Soldiers in Vermont”: Staff guide visitors through the current exhibition of photographs and artifacts about America’s African American soldiers. Wednesday, August 19, 12:15-1:30 p.m., Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington. Info, 656-0570. The Energy Project: Patrick Marold Lecture: The local artist discusses his new wind-energy landscape installation, featuring 1000 light-generating windmills along I-89 in South Burlington’s Technology Park. Tuesday, August 25, 7-8:30 p.m., Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

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ew migrations in human history have been as extensive as the march of Europeans across the North American continent through the United States and eastern Canada. As these newcomers altered the environment, dominated other cultures and gradually redefined their own identities to become “Americans” and “Canadians,” they also carried the fine arts of Western civilization to the Pacific. “Expanding Horizons,” an exhibit on view at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts through September 27, presents painting and photography by many of the most notable artists working from the 1850s through the first two decades of the 20th century. While examples from the Hudson River School and Canada’s Group of Seven loom large in the show, other currents and subtexts are discernible. The exhibition includes more than 200 pieces, which the museum organized as a coherent narrative — generous wall text documents the eras and styles according to geography. The works of key Canadians and Americans, presented side by side, don’t seem dissimilar. As the countries matured, so did their senses of self, and the artwork reflects that. It’s clear, though, that the American artists had more influence on Canadians than vice versa. As New York City painters of the Hudson River School fanned out to swoon over the grandeur of Niagara Falls or Yosemite in the mid-19th century, some Canadian painters did the same. As described in a curatorial statement, “Some of the leading figures of Canadian painting during these years ... were strongly influenced by American contemporaries.” How could they not have been? The Hudson River School’s Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and his well-known colleagues were producing quite dramatic works. That pattern can be seen until about 40 years after Canadian confederation in 1867. In the early 20th century, Canadians consciously began laying the foundation for a national identity in the visual arts. Québec artist Horatio Walker (1858-1938) was strongly indebted to the French Barbizon School; like many Canadians from the show’s

later sections, he was inspired by European developments as well as those in New York. In Walker’s 1904 “The Ice Cutters,” rural workers live close to the land, and his vigorous painting style is direct and simplified. Walker, who traveled to Europe only in adulthood, developed a rugged style of figuration that was more realistic and natural than that of the Romantic era. The evolution of figuration can be seen as a subtext of “Expanding Horizons.” Another may be the role of photography in the 19th century. Viewers may be most familiar with antique albumen print portraits on cabinet cards, but landscape was also a prominent subject. Seven photographs by Canadian William Notman (1826-1891) appear in the show. The earliest is “St. Anne Falls Near Québec” from 1860; the latest dates from 1889. “The Glacier, Mt. Sir Donald and C.P.R. Hotel” documents a train arriving at a tourist hotel in the Rockies. In the foreground stand acres of clear-cut forest. “Progress,” in the form of environmental degradation, was often celebrated by early photographers. An important survey of 20th-century Canadian painters appears in the exhibition. Tom Thomson’s (1877-1917) “Northern Lights” demonstrates some of the mysticism of works by the Group of Seven, which is considered the first distinctly Canadian art movement. It was specifically rooted in responses to the natural world; no equivalent contemporary assembly of American painters was so firmly dedicated to landscape. In the U.S., most landscape painters were still aesthetically enrolled in the Hudson River School or else were third- and fourthgeneration Impressionists. A few exceptions, such as Georgia O’Keeffe and Maurice Prendergast, do appear in the show. As U.S. artists continue to learn more about their kinship with those north of the border, cultural influence may become a two-way street. Someday Canadian visual artists may appear on our national radar screen alongside Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and William Shatner.

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‘Clear Visions’: An exhibition of new works by Norwich photographer Jon Olsen and Hardwick glassblowers Harry and Wendy Besett, all inspired by nature and mastery of form. August 21 through September 29 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans’ Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Reception: Saturday, August 22, 3-5 p.m. Info, 748-0158. Deborah Holmes & John Armstrong: “Vermont Living,” watercolors and prints, and rustic furniture, respectively. Through September 30 at Art on Main in Bristol. Reception: Saturday, August 22, 5-7 p.m. Info, 453-4032. ‘Facing the Trees/Seeing the World’: Photographs by David R. Levitt, landscape oil paintings by Louise Arnold, floral watercolors by Sachiko Yoshida and bronze sculptures by Nancy Schade. August 23 through September 23 at Hangman Frame Shop & Gallery in Hardwick. Reception: The reception includes poetry readings by Ann Day, Victor Densmore and Evelyn Webler. Sunday, August 23, 2-6 p.m. Info, 525-4405.

ongoing :: burlington area ‘A Beckoning Country: Art and Objects from the Lake Champlain Valley’: In celebration of the quadricentennial anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s arrival to the lake that bears his name, the works in this exhibit examine the features of the Champlain Valley landscape through objects and art created from and inspired by it since pre-European contact. Through September 20 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. Aline Smithson: Images from three of the nationally known photographer’s collections: “Arrangement in Green and Black”; “In Case of Rain”; and “Toy Camera.” Through August 31 at Pine Street Art Works in Burlington. Info, 863-8100. Anna Dibble: “Dog People,” 17 prints on fine-art paper of selected oil paintings and collages. Through September 30 at Healthy Living in South Burlington. Info, 824-4369. ‘Best in Show’: A group exhibit of animal art in a variety of media and styles. Through August 31 at Rose Street Artists’ Co-op in Burlington. Info, rosestreetgallery@hotmail.com.

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‘Bright Young Things’: The new gallery, behind the SEABA office on Flynn Avenue, opens with a group show featuring the work of 10 emerging artists in a variety of media and styles. Through August 23 at Borough Gallery & Studio in Burlington. Info, 782-1675. ‘Buffalo Soldiers in Vermont’: Rare historic photographs of African American army soldiers who fought in several wars for their country, including the 10th Cavalry Unit that marched into Vermont in 1909; the exhibit marks the centennial of that march. Through September 13 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0570. Carol MacDonald: Monoprints, Gates 1 & 2; Marc Awodey: Mixed-media paintings, Skyway; and Nancy Reuben: Mixed media. Through August 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. ‘Contemporary Explorations: Twelve Artists View Lake Champlain’: The almost-great lake inspires a collection of works in various media and styles from Bonnie Acker, Elizabeth Allen, Anne Austin, Skye Forest, Janet Fredericks, Kathleen Kolb, Virginia McNeice, Jeannie Peterson, Dianne Shullenberger, Brian Sweetland, Arlene Targan and Adelaide Murphy Tyrol. Through September 19 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848. Daniel Tomaino: “Abstraction of Consciousness,” paintings that address “internal narration” and explore experience through language and symbols. Through August 31 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 355-2337. ‘Designing for the Environment’: An anniversary exhibit of display boards that illustrates the company’s commitment to sustainable design with projects spanning four decades. Through August 31 at TruexCullins Architecture & Interior Design in Burlington. Info, 658-2775. Ed Clark: “Manholes & Mandalas,” photography on handmade paper by the northern New York artist and professor. Through September 5 at Green Door Studio in Burlington. Info, 316-1124. Elizabeth Billings: “The Ties That Bind,” ikat weavings with embroidered text from the Vermont artist’s Handprint Series, as well as a large weaving of twigs from local trees. Through October 4 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0570.

PLEASE NOTE: Exhibitions and spotlights are written by Pamela Polston. Listings are restricted to exhibits in truly public places; exceptions may be made at the discretion of the editor. Submit art exhibitions at sevendaysvt.com/art or send via email by Thursday at 5 p.m., including info phone number, to galleries@sevendaysvt.com. Details and images encouraged.

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<exhibitions> rAy Voide: Nature and landscape paintings. Fifty percent of sales will go to benefit Burlington’s Committee on Temporary Shelter. Through August 31 at Viva Espresso in Burlington. Info, 660-8482. robert WAldo bruNelle Jr.: “Jawbreaker,” new figurative paintings “both sweet and sour” by the Vermont artist. Through September 30 at Artspace 106 at The Men’s Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088. s.p. GoodMAN: “81 Days and Nights,” an exhibit of small landscape and still-life paintings and larger digital prints. Through September 26 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington. Info, 652-4500. ‘the childreN beloNG to the city, the city beloNGs to the childreN’: Images of children using the city throughout the seasons, in conjunction with the Burlington Children’s Space, whose programming nurtures the curiosity and interests of little ones within the scope of local culture and resources. Through August 27 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. ‘treAsures ANd tAles of lAKe chAMplAiN’: Selected objects and stories from members of the community displayed as a component of the current exhibit, “A Beckoning Country.” Through September 20 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. ‘WArreN KiMble’s AMericA’: The renowned, Brandon-based folk artist shows his paintings and mixed-media works of barns, flags, landscapes and animals in the 1871 Lighthouse. Through October 25 at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne. Info, 985-3346.

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roGer irWiN The former dairy farmer turned his attention from bovines to less placid creatures — that is, through the lens of a camera. Now Irwin spends quiet hours near his farm in Maidstone observing animals from waxwings to moose, and capturing the details of life in the wild in painterly photographs. Some of his images are on display through September in the Governor’s Office, Pavilion Building, in Montpelier. Pictured: “Painted Bull.”

Art classes at the Fleming Museum provide an exciting opportunity for children to explore the Museum’s collection, experiment with art materials, and create their own works of art inspired by the galleries. University of Vermont art education students, supervised by their instructor Lisa Brunini Harvey, M.Ed., teach the classes, which offer individualized attention.

ongoing << 33A MAltex Group exhibit: Eight local artists show photographs, paintings and collage works on all four floors of the postindustrial building. Through August 31 at The Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. MichAel KuK: “Healthy America: The Ironic McDonald’s Series #1,” photographs, installation and constructions provide a visual commentary on the super-sized lifestyle. Through August 31 at SEABA Gallery in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

Ned cAstle: “Indigenous Expressions,” black-and-white photographs of regional native identities, defined from the perspective of the subjects, with archival pigments on fine-art paper. Through December 31 at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington. Info, 864-1848. ‘outside the box’: A group show of multiple media by members of the Essex Art League Through August 31 at Phoenix Books in Essex. Info, 862-3014.

bArbArA leber: “Birch Trees,” paintings by the local artist. Through August 31 at The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. biG red bArN Art shoW: A group show of works in various media by local artists is part of a monthlong celebration of the arts in the Mad River Valley. Open Thursday through Sunday; times vary. Through August 30 at Lareau Farm Inn in Waitsfield. Info, 496-4789.

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CelebrAting Montpelier’s WAter treAtMent plAnt: Photographs, history and a mural extol the virtues of purifying the capital city’s most vital fluid. Through September 30 at Montpelier City Hall in Montpelier. Info, 229-5676. ChArlotte potok retrospeCtive: The gallery celebrates its 10th birthday with an exhibition of pottery by its late founder. Through August 31 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141. hope rAppAport: “Portraits in Painting,” works in oil. Through September 30 at The Shoe Horn in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454. ‘inspired by stories’: In this juried show, 18 artists reflect on the historical collection of the Sullivan Museum with original works of art, on display with the objects that inspired them. Through August 28 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University in Northfield. Info, 485-2448.

loCAl Artists group shoW: Brandon-based folk artist Warren Kimble shares an exhibit with watercolorists Margaret Stringer and Peter Huntoon, photographer Fred Michel and ceramic artists Diane Rosenmiller, Nicholas Seidner and Liza Myers. Through August 28 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College in Poultney. Info, 287-8926. lois eby: Abstract paintings by the Vermont artist inspired by Asian brush and ink. Through August 28 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. MAry AdMAsiAn: “Pins and Needles,” mixed-media work that turns white paint, molded cloth, pins, needles and thread into paintings of two-plus dimensions. Through September 20 at The Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 223-7680. ‘MAsterWorks’: An exhibit of paintings by Pat Adams, William Bailey, Bernard Chaet, Lois Dodd,

‘the Figure & beyond’: A show of work by Warren-based painter Billy Brauer and his students over the past 40 years. August 25 through October 25 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743. ‘the vietnAM WAr: A reFleCtion’: Photographs, equipment, artifacts and memory books of Vermonters killed in the Vietnam War, and other memorabilia make up this historic exhibit. Through November 11 at The Pain House in Northfield. Info, 485-4297. verMont FestivAl oF the Arts sAMpler exhibit: Thirteen artists from the Mad River Valley bring diverse works to the capital city. Through August 31 at Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-3292. ‘Working it out: A multimedia group show that depicts a variety of work and the tools we use in our lives, Main floor Gallery; Cully renWiCk: Pieces from the artist’s “Coffee Trees” Suite, Second Floor Gallery; and neldA

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Pictured: “Lonesome Home.” The show is on view through September 13. JAyne shoup: “Home Grown: Painting in Middlesex,” vibrant landscape and floral paintings inspired by the artist’s environs. Through August 31 at Red Hen Bakery in Middlesex. Info, 223-0100. leslie bArtlett: “Give Me Your Hands: The Barre Sculptors & Their Stone,” expressive hand “portraits” of stone carvers by the Gloucester, Mass., photographer, along with large quarry photos printed on fabric and hung like scrolls. Through September 4 at Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. lindsey vlAdykA: “New England State Fairs,” large-scale, black-and-white photographs; and “neW Work, neW direCtions”: A collection of photographs by 2009 grads of the BFA photography program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Through August 30 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 728-9878.

Paul Resika and Steve Trefonides. Through August 23 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. peter Arthur WeyrAuCh: Largeformat black-and-white prints by the landscape/nature photographer. Through September 30 at Restaurant Phoebe in Montpelier. Info, 262-3500. roger irWin: “Northeast Kingdom Nature Photography,” images of Vermont wildlife and wild landscapes. Through September 30 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. ruth hAMilton & MArC AWodey: “Visual Poetics,” landscape, 3D and abstract paintings related to the natural world by the Vermont artists. Through September 7 at Fox Hill Center for the Arts in Poultney. Info, 884-4100. ‘sCulptCyCle’: The second annual outdoor exhibit of sculptures made from recycled bicycle parts features more than 20 creations by regional artists and are scattered around downtown. Through October 31 at various locations in Montpelier. Info, 223-9604. sue sChiller & nAnCy WightMAn: The printmakers show new works. Through August 31 at Two Rivers Center in Montpelier. Info, 295-5901.

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the genie appeared before dawn Chris Wright was born and raised in Vermont. He attained his master’s in fine art at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., and was co-fellow at the Center For Cartoon Studies in 20082009. To further explore his mind and madness, visit www.cwright.livejournal.com.

“Drawn and Paneled” is a collaboration between Seven Days and the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, featuring works by past and present students. These pages are archived at www.7dvt.com/center-for-cartoon-studies. For more info, visit CCS online at www.cartoonstudies.org.

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<exhibitions> ongoing << 35A ‘Discover 1609: NAvigAtiNg through history’: An exhibit that provides an enriched perspective on Samuel de Champlain, his native allies and their activities in the region; includes a timeline both before and since the French explorer arrived in the area. Through October 18 at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. Info, 475-2022. JohN cuomo: “Birds and Other Creatures,” sculptures in mixed media by the Italian-New Yorker. Through August 23 at Gallery in-the-Field in Brandon. Info, 247-0125. LiNDA reyNoLDs: “Deep Space and Goat’s Grace,” natural-world watercolors in an impressionistic style, along with studies of angora goats. Through August 31 at Charlotte Senior Center in Charlotte. Info, 425-3612. rAymoND huDsoN: Woodcut prints by the master print maker, using the shui yin, or water printing, method and 19th-century papers. Through August 31 at Walkover Gallery & Listening Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. rebeccA Lepkoff: “Almost Utopia: In Search of the Good Life in Mid-Century America,” black-and-white photographs depicting the daily life at Pikes Falls, Vt., a community that formed around pioneer back-to-the-landers Helen and Scott Nearing. Through September 15 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. ‘refLectioNs oN bAsiN hArbor’: In this 23rd annual juried exhibition, 21 Vermont artists-in-residence show works inspired by, and painted at, the Lake Champlain resort. August 21 through 31 at Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes. Info, 475-2311. sAmANthA tALbot keLLy: The Montpelier artist makes a fashion statement with newspapers, representing the collective consciousness in our interconnected lives. Through September 8 at The Brick Box Gallery, Paramount Theatre in Rutland. Info, 235-2734. tAD merrick: “A Certain Ambiguity,” personal images from the longtime commercial photographer. Through September 13 at Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222. the bLue swANs: The Middleburybased group of nine local artists collaborate on a mixed-media, cross-pollinated exhibit dedicated to the theme of “house.” Through September 5 at The Art House in Middlebury. Info, 458-0464.

:: northern Amy c. storey: “Amor Vincit Omnia,” a show of recent paintings. Through September 5 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College in Johnson. Info, 635-1469. August feAtureD Artists: This month the gallery showcases paintings by Chepe Cuadra, Beth McAdams and Henry Trask Reilly, and stained glass by Karen Scheffler. Through August 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403. ‘ceLebrAtioN of Art AND poetry’: Vermont artists Axel Stohlberg, Marie Lapre Grabon, Ann Young, Justin Wood, Carol Drury and Harriet Wood show their works. Through August 19 at Hangman Frame Shop & Gallery in Hardwick. Info, 456-8708. eLLis JAcobsoN & victoriA ZoLNoski: “About Face,” giant masks by the sculptor and theater artist; and “The Peep Show,” pre-Raphaelite photographs featuring beauty in nature and femininity, respectively. Open on Sundays or by appointment. Through August 31 at White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. Info, 563-2037. eric tobiN: “A Fresh Start,” a collection of new landscapes by the plein-air painter. Through August 31 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818. ‘exposeD! 2009’: This annual exhibit includes sculptures sited outdoors and in the gallery, featuring works in multiple media by regional artists. Through October 10 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

‘fiNe LiNes’: The exhibition features eight Vermont artists whose expertise lies in the drawn line: Harald Aksdal, Monica Baustert-Sweetzer, Viiu Niiler, Bill Lewis, Joshua Derner, Dianne Shullenberger, Peter Miller and Mark Heitzman. Through October 25 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. giovANNA cecchetti & sumru tekiN: “Secret Stories,” paintings inspired by the Amazon rainforest, and mixed-media paper works, respectively. Through August 23 at West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943. JAcob wALker Art cooperAtive: Having lost their gallery, the 17 members take their artwork in oil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel to this accommodating exhibition space. Through October 16 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 244-6648. JuDy beyer: The Wisconsin artist shows her watercolor paintings. Through September 6 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3251. ‘LAND AND Light’: The annual exhibit of New England landscape paintings features 99 works by 68 artists around the region, juried by Stowe artist Rett Sturman. Through September 20 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100. LyNNe berArD, meLviN hArris & stefAN voLAtiLe-wooD: Three new artists to the gallery show their paintings in floral watercolor, computer-generated landscapes, and hyperrealist acrylics, respectively. Also cLAire DuNN returns to the gallery with black-and-white photographs of local buildings, as well as new abstract paintings in watercolor and acrylic. Through October 24 at Staart Gallery in St. Albans. Info, 524-5700. susAN LArkiN: “Paintings of the Champlain Islands,” recent works in oil and pastel by the Isle La Motte landscape painter. Through October 10 at Merchants Bank in South Hero. Info, 928-3081.

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:: regional ‘Dog DAys’: An exhibit about man’s (and woman’s) best friend; all proceeds from sales of works by local artists will benefit the North Country SPCA. Through September 5 at Premises Storefront Gallery in Essex, N.Y. Info, 518-963-7150. ‘expANDiNg horiZoNs’: Painting and photography of the American and Canadian landscape, 1860-1918, examining the artistic expression of the two countries’ westward momentum in works by the best artists of the period. Through September 27 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts in Montréal. Info, 514-285-1600. feLix De LA coNchA: “Private Portraits/ Public Conversations,” a multimedia exhibit of 51 portraits that explore how members of the Upper Valley and Dartmouth communities have encountered conflict and how they made, or are making, their journey toward reconciliation. Through September 27 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2426. ‘frANce iN trANsformAtioN: the cAricAture of hoNore DAumier’: The witty political cartoons by the 19th-century French artist, created when his country was experiencing great cultural and social change, still resonate today. Through August 24 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2426. ‘weAriNg weALth AND styLiNg iDeNtity: tApis from LAmpuNg, south sumAtrA, iNDoNesiA’: Ornate tube dresses created by elite women of these Southeast Asian lands feature cotton and silk threads colored with ancestral dyes and embellished with gold, silver, embroidery and appliqued mirrors, and communicate family contacts, station and identity. Through August 31 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2426. m

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Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each 9-box square contains all of the numbers one to nine. The same numbers cannot be repeated in a row or column.

Fill the grid using the numbers 1-6, only once in each row and column. The numbers in each heavily outlined “cage” must combine to produce the target number in the top corner, using the mathematical operation indicated. A one-box cage should be filled in with the target number in the top corner. A number can be repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.

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listened to very attentively as a child. Perhaps you were dressed in clothes you didn’t like, hugged only three times a year, and fed food you were allergic to. I suppose it’s even possible that your parents were psychotic drug dealers who kept you chained to a radiator in their squalid basement. If that’s the case, Aries, I would understand if you had an urge to devote the next three decades to bewailing your bitter past and scheming up ways to wreak revenge on the cruel world. But if you have ever been curious about whether there might be better ways to allocate your time and energy, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have it in your power to overcome your toughest memories and set out on a course to become almost as secure as if those bad things had never happened.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let’s say you’re lis-

tening to your favorite band on a stereo system. There is a place between the two speakers where you will hear the two streams of music blend perfectly, exactly as the sound engineer intended. This place is called the sweet spot. If you play tennis or baseball, you know about another version of the term “sweet spot.” It’s the area on the racquet or the bat where you get best results when striking the ball. According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, this will be your ruling metaphor for the next three weeks. You have arrived at your very own sweet spot — the embodiment of all that is melodious, graceful, delicious, aromatic and effective.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Squirrels often bury

the nuts they find, intending to come back and retrieve their bounty at a later time. The only trouble is, they sometimes forget where their hiding places are, and the nuts go uneaten. This, at least, is the story told by children’s book writer Beatrice Potter, and I regard her as an authority on such matters. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because you’re entering a phase when it will be wise for you to track down and accumulate extra reserves of a prime resource. As you do, make sure you remember all the pertinent details that will allow you to fully access them when you need them in the future.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For better or worse,

you are at least temporarily becoming more psychic. It could be a blessing, or it might be a bit of a burden. You may really enjoy having an enhanced ability to tune in to what people are thinking and feeling, and it could prove eminently useful. Knowing what’s really on everyone’s mind might give you a significant edge as you work to turn grand fantasies into well-grounded realities. But it also might tax your empathy or tempt you to ignore boundaries that should be upheld. I hope that by informing you of this situation, I have made it far more likely that your higher sensitivity will be a gift instead of a glitch.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your strategies are very

close to working. The results you’ve generated so far are almost useful, bordering on successful, and on the brink of being beautiful. My question now is: You won’t stop here, will you? You’ve already garnered a measure of recognition. You’ve gotten a taste of victory over your old bugaboos. Will you be satisfied with these partial breakthroughs, or will you fight and kick and scratch to strip away the almosts and ascend to utter triumph?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): No more rotten dessert, Virgo. No more silky danger or juicy poison. No more worthless treasures or empty successes or idiotic brilliance. Soon all those crazy-making experiences will be gone, blasted, dead. By this time next week, the bad influences that were trying to pass themselves off as good influences will have fallen away in response to your courageous drive for authenticity. You will be primed to restore your innocence and play in places where purity is the rule, not the exception. Already, the wisdom of your wild heart is regenerating, giving

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’d like to discuss The Game. Do you know what I mean? I’m talking about The Unnamed Game. The Uber-Game that is so vast and all-encompassing that it’s virtually a secret. What if you discovered that one of the seemingly sacrosanct rules of The Game was really just a local ordinance, and no longer applied if you played in a different arena or at a higher level? And what if I said that in this different arena or higher level, new allies are poised to introduce you to loopholes and shortcuts you never imagined existed? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I think you’ve

been lurking and slinking long enough, Capricorn. For now, you’ve learned all you need to know about wrestling with camouflage and subterfuge. You’ve done all you could to clean up the crooked places and bring integrity to the twisted stories. Now it’s high time for you to come out and play — to exit the claustrophobic maze and make a break for wide-open spaces. Some cautionary advice: To keep from getting pinched by trick endings, make sure all sales are final and all goodbyes are complete.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Technically, this

would be an excellent time to shuck all your responsibilities and plunge into a week-long bacchanalia, complete with rowdy feasting and delirious dancing and lunatic laughter and erotic abandon and mindaltering emotions. Realistically, though, while such an interlude might do wonders for your relationship with yourself, it could dampen your relationships with people who rely on you. Unless of course you could coax them into joining you on your binge.

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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard HHH

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or me, the path to movie criticism began at the Boston Phoenix newspaper, where I sold advertising space to transsexual prostitutes. These entrepreneurs of pleasure were not my only customers, of course, just the ones I remember most vividly. The year was 1979. Dreaming of glory in the world of big-city alternative journalism, I had applied for a job at the Phoenix and, to my surprise, was immediately granted an interview with its second-incommand. As it turned out, however, he wasn’t the weekly’s editor but its sales director, an individual I would come to learn was legendary for his boiler-room tactics, tyrannical management style and natural gift for psychological manipulation. I had woken that morning with fantasies of becoming the next Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe. I went to bed the Phoenix’s new classified advertising sales manager. At the time, the paper was well known for — and, to a significant degree, financially fueled by — its infamous classifieds section. Sure, we sold help-wanted notices and ads for rental apartments. What distinguished our listings, though, were our “personal ads” — barely disguised offerings for sexual services of every variety imaginable, along with a good many it had never occurred to me to imagine. When I wasn’t expecting the police to storm the place, I frequently spent my time wondering what my mother would think about her former altar boy earning a living as a print-outlet pimp for street-walking she-males. To say the least, my three years at the Phoenix were a learning experience. One thing about which I learned a great deal was the camaraderie that develops when a group of strangers are thrown together in a high-pressure sales environment. Eventually, I would move on to take a

job as marketing director of the Vanguard Press, Burlington’s dearly departed alternative weekly, and, through a fluke, get a shot at writing its movie reviews. Which is the long way around of explaining why I have a special fondness for films about the breed of people who sell for a living, movies such as Glengarry Glen Ross, Boiler Room, Tin Men and, now, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. The first release from the production company formed by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) and the feature debut of “Chappelle Show” writer/ director Neal Brennan, The Goods stars Jeremy Piven as super-salesman for hire Don Ready. When he’s not enjoying breakfast in a strip club or inciting an orgy at 50,000 feet in a passenger jet, Ready sells cars. He leads a team of mercenaries who specialize in saving dealerships on the brink by staging blow-out sales that are a twisted cross between a three-ring circus and a revival meeting. Ready’s crew consists of Brent (David Koechner), Jibby (Ving Rhames) and Babs (Kathryn Hahn), and, in tried and true Anchorman tradition, it’s beyond motley:

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uick, name a hit movie from South Africa. Until now, the only name likely to come up was The Gods Must Be Crazy, the 1980 comic saga of a Bushman whose life is disrupted by a Coke bottle tossed from a plane. That sleeper success has almost nothing in common with District 9, a science-fiction film set in modern Johannesburg from 30-year-old first-time feature director Neill Blomkamp. For one thing, District 9 benefits from all the marketing muscle of Lord of the Rings impresario Peter Jackson. (After Jackson recruited Blomkamp for a big Hollywood project that fell through, he offered to produce the commercial director’s own script as a consolation prize.) Gods didn’t touch the most contentious topic in South African politics of its day, whereas District 9, which was largely shot in the bleak landscape of Soweto, is built on an apartheid metaphor. Then there’s the fact that one film is a gentle, absurdist romp, the other a bloodspattered action drama shot in the seat-of-the-pants style of 28 Days Later. But for all this, the two films do share a secret weapon: They go back to basics. Critics hailed The Gods Must Be Crazy as a return to classic slapstick in an age of bloated, high-concept comedies. Similarly, in a genre where budgets and plots tend to spiral out of control, District 9 has an easily summarized story and visual effects that illustrate it: no more, no less. It’s not particularly original. (The core concept — extraterrestrial asylum seekers land on Earth and become second-class citizens — was explored in the 1990s Alien Nation movie and TV series.) But, by virtue of the director’s solid choices, the movie succeeds in making audiences give a damn where more ambitious Hollywood efforts have failed.

The film opens with pseudo-documentary footage of first alien contact in the early 1980s. A mothership hovers over Johannesburg — essentially the world’s biggest backyard wreck, because its huddled masses of passengers don’t have pilots’ licenses. Human-sized, with insectoid heads, clicking speech and crustacean claws, the aliens are derisively christened “prawns” by the natives, who have no desire to share their city with this baffling, sometimes brutal race. The newcomers are policed by a private contractor, Multi-National United, and herded into a shantytown called District 9, where they become Johannesburg’s lowest of the low. But when humans still complain about the undesirables’ crime and scavenging, MNU gears up to relocate them, by force if necessary. It sounds like a setup for one heavy-handed political allegory. But, like Korean monster flick The Host, District 9 benefits from pivoting on a character who’s basically a buffoon. As Wikus van der Merwe, the hapless MNU operative assigned to oversee the relocation, Sharlto Copley initially comes off as an Afrikaner version of Michael Scott from “The Office.” He’s cluelessly glib and cheerfully pompous about his job, whether he’s torching a

It’s lewd, crude, rude and politically incorrect with a vengeance. All four leads are a laugh and a half, but Hahn’s performance has “breakout” written all over it. Her Babs isn’t merely one of the guys. She’s twice the predator, twice the partier, and twice the pervert any of her coworkers would ever claim to be. James Brolin costars in the role of Ben Selleck, owner of the ailing Selleck Motors, a closeted husband who immediately hits on Brent. He’s also father to Peter (Rob Riggle), a 10-year-old who has the body of a strapping adult as the result of a hyperactive pituitary gland. One of the picture’s most tasteless and hilarious running bits involves Babs’ carefully calculated scheme to seduce the overgrown tyke. Will Ready and company succeed in unloading all 200-plus used cars on Selleck’s Temecula, Calif., lot over the course of a Fourth of July weekend and save the day? Will the sales machine seal the deal with his client’s daughter (Jordana Spiro)? Will Bo Bice’s brother Eric show up to perform and draw massive crowds of potential customers? Are mutton chops a good look for Ferrell? (He’s a riot in a series of cameos.) These and many of life’s even less important questions are answered in the course of The Goods’ gag-plastered, variously surreal and deliriously dumb 90 minutes. The movie doesn’t even try to break new ground — it’s shot entirely on location in familiar Ferrell-McKay territory. But, speaking of questions, ask yourself this: In the waning days of a movie season dominated by robots, atticdwelling aliens and Hasbro action figures, is there any place you’d really rather be? Rick Kisonak

houseful of alien eggs or plying a cute little “prawn” with candy. No matter how ugly his tasks, this company man does them with a big smile on his face for the camera crew … until he’s exposed to an alien substance that starts changing him physically. Then Wikus finds himself with no choice but to empathize with nonhumans, and the audience takes a harrowing journey with him. Copley’s serio-comic performance is a weird choice for this sort of film; according to Blomkamp, the first-time actor developed the character in sketch-comedy style, improvising all his dialogue. Yet the result is a protagonist whose plausible, fallible, perversely likeable humanity is never in doubt, even when he picks up a big gun and goes Schwarzenegger. By the last third, we’re rooting for him to shoot it, too. There are bones to pick with District 9. Blomkamp jumps in and out of the mockumentary conceit whenever he feels like it, and the shifts to obvious fiction can be jarring. Certain key facts about the aliens remain murky: If they possess super-weapons only they can use, as we learn early on, why haven’t they mounted an organized resistance to human oppression? (Blomkamp offers a decent explanation for this in interviews; too bad he didn’t figure out how to do so on-screen.) Physical transformation scenes reminiscent of Cronenberg’s The Fly will freak out some viewers — and thrill others. For a movie rife with violence and disturbing imagery, District 9 has a guiding spirit that’s surprisingly sweet and even hokey. But that’s part of its charm. If Spielberg’s E.T. had been greeted on the landing pad by Homeland Security, his story might have gone something like this. Margot Harrison

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PONYOHHHH1/2 From worldrenowned master of animation Hayao (Spirited Away) Miyazaki comes this “Little Mermaid”inspired story of a goldfish and her dream of one day becoming human. Featuring a voice cast including Matt Damon, Tina Fey and Lily Tomlin. (101 min, G. Palace) THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFEHH1/2 Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams play a couple whose relationship is perfect except for one problem: They never know when he’s going to disappear and pop up in another time and place. Rare genetic anomaly or boneheaded plot device — you be the judge. Based on Audrey Niffenegger’s 2004 best-selling weeper. Arliss Howard costars. Robert Schwentke directs. (107 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLENHH Clearly America hasn’t had enough of Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox cavorting with huge, wise-cracking computer graphics. Michael Bay once again helms this sequel, in which the defeated Decepticons return to Earth for, you know, revenge, and lots of noisy machines transform into other noisy machines. With Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro and Rainn Wilson. (147 min, PG-13. Sunset; ends 8/20) THE UGLY TRUTHH1/2 Robert (Legally Blonde) Luketic directs this romantic comedy about a morning TV show producer and the new cohost for whom she’s absolutely certain she could never develop feelings. Starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. (101 min, R. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, St. Albans Drive-In, Sunset)

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48 Carroll Rd. (off Rte. 100), Waitsfield, 496-8994. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 Food, Inc. 4, 6, 8. Aliens in the Attic 4. The Ugly Truth 8. friday 21 — sunday 23 G-Force 2, 4. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2, 5, 7. Food, Inc. 6, 8. Check www.bigpicturetheater.info for updates.

BIJOU CINEPLEX 1-2-3-4 Rte. 100, Morrisville, 888-3293.

wednesday 19 — thursday 20 District 9 1:30, 6:40, 9. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 1:20, 6:50, 9. The Ugly Truth 7:10, 9. G-Force 1:10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7. Aliens in the Attic 1. friday 21 — thursday 27 *Inglourious Basterds 1 & 3:45 (Sat & Sun), 6:45 (all week), 9:15 (Fri-Sun). The Ugly Truth 3:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:55 (all week), 9 (Fri-Sun). District 9 1:30 & 3:50 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week), 9 (Fri-Sun). G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 3:40 (Sat & Sun), 6:50 (all week), 9 (Fri-Sun). G-Force 1:20 (Sat & Sun). Aliens in the Attic 1:10 (Sat & Sun). Times subject to change. See www.bijou4. com.

CAPITOL SHOWPLACE

93 State St., Montpelier, 229-0343. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 The Time Traveler’s Wife 1:30, 6:30, 9. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 1:30, 6:30, 9. Julie & Julia 1:30, 6:30, 9. G-Force 1:30. Funny People 6:15, 9. Aliens in the Attic 1:30. The Ugly Truth 6:30, 9. friday 21 — thursday 27 *Inglourious Basterds 1:15 (Sat & Sun), 6:15 & 9 (Fri & Sat), 7 (Sun-Thu). *Post Grad 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. The Time Traveler’s Wife 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. Julie & Julia 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. See www.fgbtheaters.com.

ESSEX CINEMA

Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Rte. 15 & 289, Essex, 879-6543. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 A Perfect Getaway 1, 9:45. District 9 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45. Funny People 3:30, 6:50. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 1, 4, 7, 9:40. G-Force (in 3-D) 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 1:15, 4:40, 8. Julie & Julia 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30. The Time Traveler’s Wife 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20. The Ugly Truth 12:30, 2:40, 4:55, 7:25, 9:30. friday 21 — thursday 27 *Inglourious Basterds 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20. *Shorts 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:10, 9:15. *X-Games 3D: The Movie (in 3-D) 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:10, 9:20. District 9 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 1, 4, 7, 9:40. G-Force (in 3-D) 1, 6:40. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 3:15, 9. Julie & Julia 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30. The Time Traveler’s Wife 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20. Times subject to change. See www. essexcinemas.com.

MAJESTIC 10

190 Boxwood St. (beside Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners), Williston, 878-2010. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 District 9 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45. The

Time Traveler’s Wife 1, 4, 7, 9:35. Bandslam 12:40, 3:20, 6:25, 8:50. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 12:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:30. Julie & Julia 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30. The Ugly Truth 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12, 3:10, 6:20, 9:25. G-Force (in 3-D) 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 6:30. Aliens in the Attic 2:30. Funny People 6:15. The Hangover 9:20.

Bandslam 1:15. District 9 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 12:50, 3:35, 6:45 (except Tue), 9:30. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 3:50, 7:10, 9:25. The Time Traveler’s Wife 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:10.

friday 21 — thursday 27 *Inglourious Basterds 12, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30. *Shorts 12:05, 2:20, 6:40, 8:45. *Post Grad 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:25. *X-Games 3D: The Movie (in 3-D) 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7:05, 9:20. District 9 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45. The Time Traveler’s Wife 1, 4, 7, 9:35. Bandslam 4:20. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 8:50. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35. Julie & Julia 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30. The Ugly Truth 6:35. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 12:10, 3:20, 6:30. G-Force (in 3-D) 12:40, 3:30. The Hangover 9:40.

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MARQUIS THEATER

Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2:45, 7:15. Funny People 8. G-Force 3:30, 6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 3, 7. friday 21 — thursday 27 *Inglourious Basterds 2:30 (Sat & Sun), 6 & 9:15 (Fri & Sat), 7 (Sun-Thu). G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2:45 (Sat & Sun), 6:15 & 9 (Fri & Sat), 7:15 (Sun-Thu). G-Force 3:30 (Sat & Sun), 6. The Ugly Truth 8.

MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMA 222 College St., Burlington, 864-3456.

wednesday 19 — thursday 20 Departures 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15. District 9 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:25. The Time Traveler’s Wife 1:20, 3:30, 7:10, 9:30. Julie & Julia 1:25, 4, 6:35, 9:10. The Hurt Locker 1:05, 3:40, 6:45, 9:20. Funny People 1:10, 8:45. Moon 4:05, 6:50. friday 21 — thursday 27 ***I Puritani 11 a.m. (Sun), 6 (Thu). *Inglourious Basterds 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20. *Orgasm, Inc. 1, 6:40. The Time Traveler’s Wife 1:20, 3:30, 7:10, 9:30. Julie & Julia 1:25, 4, 6:50, 9:10. District 9 1:15, 4:10, 7, 9:25. The Hurt Locker 1:05 (except Sun), 3:45 (except Thu), 6:45 (except Thu), 9:35. Departures 3, 8:35. Times subject to change. ***For special event descriptions, see Calendar in Section B or www.merrilltheatres.net.

PALACE CINEMA 9

10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 ***RiffTrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space 8 (Thu). Ponyo 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 2:35, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25. The Time Traveler’s Wife 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:20, 4, 6:40, 9:10. Bandslam 1:15, 3:50, 6:35, 9:05. District 9 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35. (500) Days of Summer 12:15, 2:25, 4:40, 7, 9:20. Funny People 9:30 (Wed only). G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 12:50, 3:35, 6:45, 9:40. Harry Potter and the HalfBlood Prince 12, 3:15, 6:25 (Wed only). Julie & Julia 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15. Aliens in the Attic 12:30. friday 21 — thursday 27 ***Tony Dungy’s Red Zone ’09 8 (Tue). *Inglourious Basterds 12:05, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40. *Shorts 12, 2:15, 4:30, 6:35, 8:40 (except Tue). (500) Days of Summer 12:15, 2:25, 4:40, 7, 9:20. Julie & Julia 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1, 3:45, 6:35, 9:15. Ponyo 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20.

Times subject to change. ***For special event descriptions, see Calendar in Section B or www.palace9.com.

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ST. ALBANS DRIVE-IN

Rte. 7 North, St. Albans, 524-1148. friday 21 — thursday 27 Aliens in the Attic & The Ugly Truth. First show starts at dusk.

THE SAVOY THEATER

26 Main St., Montpelier, 229-0509. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 Chéri 6:30, 8:30. friday 21 — thursday 27 Moon 1:30 (Sat-Mon), 6:30, 8:30. See www.savoytheater.com.

STOWE CINEMA 3 PLEX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678.

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wednesday 19 — thursday 20 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 7, 9:15. Julie & Julia 7, 9:15. Funny People 6:30, 9:10. friday 21 — thursday 27 *Inglourious Basterds 2:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9:15. Julie & Julia 2:30 & 4:40 (Sat & Sun), 7, 9:15. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2:30 & 4:40 (Sat & Sun), 7, 9:15.

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155 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard & The Hangover. District 9 & The Ugly Truth. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince & Funny People. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra & Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. friday 21 — thursday 27 *Shorts & G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. *Inglourious Basterds & Funny People. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard & The Hangover. District 9 & The Ugly Truth. First shows start at dusk. See sunsetdrivein. com.

WELDEN THEATER

104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888. wednesday 19 — thursday 20 District 9 2, 4, 7, 9. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 4, 7, 9. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 2, 4, 7, 9:15. G-Force 2. friday 21 — thursday 27 *Inglourious Basterds 2, 6:45, 9:30. *Shorts 2, 4, 6. District 9 2, 7, 9:15. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 4:30. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 4, 7:30, 9:30.

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instead of staying at home, people suddenly started whispering — and, yes, twittering — about exciting new eateries. and Grill in Stowe. Now the buzz is about another upcoming Stowe eatery called Santos Cocina Latina, this one offering Puerto Rican cuisine, and about the “global street food” Radio Bean owner Lee Anderson plans to serve at ¡Duino! (Duende). Finally, new Asian — and particularly Vietnamese — restaurants continue

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— such as the Bluebird — may have equally passionate admirers and detractors, no one can deny one thing: They’re not just new, they’re novel. “Wouldn’t you have thought that when times got tough, a lot of people would fall back on the … absolute standard crowd pleasers that we subscribe to here?” muses Rux Martin of Vergennes, who has edited numerous cookbooks for Houghton Mifflin. An adventurous eater, she is glad they didn’t, and points to the influence of some relative newcomers to Vermont as a factor. “We need more small, ethnic things run by people, like the Vietnamese, who have moved here and are actually cooking what they ate at home.” There’s one obvious reason for more new restaurants to open during a recession: Property values have dropped, and many contractors find themselves eager for work. Still, opening a restaurant, particularly one with an innovative or risky concept, isn’t cheap. The creativity we’re seeing this year may have to do with entrepreneurs in a tough climate needing to differentiate themselves from the competition. For some, though, “fresh” is also a matter of principle. The rise — or, more precisely, the trickle-down — of localvore notions accords with recession ideals of self-sufficiency and frugality. When even new diners and minimarts are touting their locally sourced produce, the “fresh equals flavorful” equation is a solid consumer draw. And Burlington’s new restaurants ride the trend with style. everyone was too busy recovering from the night’s celebrations to notice, but when Asiana Noodle Shop opened on Burlington’s Church Street on New Year’s Day, it was an omen of good eats to come. The pan-Asian spot offers fare from China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and other Eastern countries — a risky recipe that too often results in a restaurant doing too many things not very well. But Asiana juggles its many cuisines with aplomb. Authentic ramen, served in a bowl the size of a bisected basketball, comes over curly egg noodles with >> 04B

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SarahLove admits. But many, including the foodies surveyed for this article, wax rhapsodic about the Bluebird. Penny Cluse owner Charles Reeves raves, “The place is fabulous. Aaron [Josinsky]’s a great chef, and the menu is his love child. The execution is excellent.” But, he acknowledges, “It’s not going to appeal to everybody.” It does appeal to serious carnivores hip to the head-to-tail ethos and to localvores, who will be glad to learn that, save for the seafood, nearly every animal or vegetable plated at the Bluebird is seasonal and locally sourced. Here’s the thing: While eating locally may mean eating frugally when “local” is your garden, it generally translates into higher prices when you’re dining out. At restaurants such as the Bluebird, consumers pay for Vermont ingredients and a commitment to making food from scratch that extends from the sausages to the

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students have been sampling The Spot on Shelburne Road, a new surf-themed joint that dishes up healthy fare, dotted with the occasional mango or pineapple, at breakfast and lunch. Some restaurants offer the appeal of the exotic; others trade on the excitement of the out there. It’s safe to say there are two kinds of eaters: those who would munch on deep-fried cockscombs — yes, from roosters’ heads — if they were offered, and those who would gag and run in the opposite direction. And it’s also safe to guess that diners of the former persuasion are among the Bluebird Tavern’s enthusiasts. (Its chef, Aaron Josinsky, served cockscombs at last week’s Vermont Fresh Network Forum.) They’re the ones who won’t be fazed when a fat, fried sardine comes with its head on and its battered and deep-fried spine on the side, as one did at the “gastropub” last Tuesday. The 120-seat Bluebird isn’t universally beloved. Perhaps because it bills itself as a “pub” and serves certain dishes associated with “fast food” — fried chicken, hot dogs, burgers — some patrons have quailed at the portion-to-price ratio. The deviled farm egg “snack” with crispy pork costs $4 and comes with a single halved egg and the equivalent of a sole strip of bacon. Of late, the place has taken a bit of a beating in the online comments section of the 7 Nights dining guide, where eaters offer feedback. “I find the portions to be so small they are comical,” notes a commenter with the username TonyO. Others find the descriptions hard to decipher: “I didn’t know what … 75 percent of the items on the menu [were],”

mayo, mustard and ketchup. When the “free” stuff that arrives with your fries isn’t Heinz, you can expect to see the labor costs of whipping it up reflected on your bill. Those who appreciate localvore cuisine without the offal may prefer The Belted Cow, Essex Junction’s fanciest new restaurant. Its offerings are “inventive, [made of ] extremely good ingredients, very well composed,” says Odin Cathcart, exhibitions director at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Cathcart, who bills himself a “hardcore foodie” and “amateur chef,” returned to Vermont in February after years away, sampling more urban restaurant scenes. He says Vermont “seems to be a lot more diverse than I remember it 10 years ago.” Another newly opened place on Cathcart’s go-to list is Frida’s Taqueria, a casual, authentic Mexican restaurant in Stowe. “I lived in Santa Fe for two years, so it’s really hard for me to have any South American or Mexican food in Vermont, because they can’t spice it the way I’d like them to,” says Cathcart, voicing a common complaint. “But [the chef ] still did some pretty challenging things. I eat with my eyes, and the plating was absolutely gorgeous. The food was excellent.” This fall, Stowe will step farther south of the border with the opening of Santos Cocina Latina, which will showcase dishes inspired by the owners’ Puerto Rican heritage. Think empanadas, ceviche, wholebarbecued pigs and mofongo, a dish made of mashed plantains. Nick Karabelas isn’t Teutonic — his family is Greek — but he spent

much of his youth in Switzerland, where his father worked in the pharmaceutical industry. There he learned to love the hearty, Germanstyle fare he’ll serve at Das Bierhaus, scheduled to open on October 1 with sausages, sauerkraut and potatoes in abundance. Why did the New Hampshire native pick Burlington for his first restaurant venture? Karabelas says he has “been coming to the area for the last five years as a consumer … Burlington has a market made up of foodies, and I think they have been underserved. There weren’t a lot of [restaurant] choices.” He credits the current food boom to “entrepreneurs seeing that there’s a market to tap into.” Reeves of Penny Cluse, an eatery with an enduringly winning formula, agrees that Burlington’s dining scene needed some shaking up. “The complacency, yeah, it’s there,” he says. “People find what they can do with their businesses, and they don’t want to change. I can kind of understand that side of the coin.” “The more competition the better; it will keep people on their toes,” says new blood Karabelas. As for Reeves, he believes older eateries can stay fresh and compete with newbies as long as their owners are “able to evolve … Understand the things that are happening in the wider food world, and let your restaurant continue to develop.” As interesting as Burlington dining is getting, some market niches haven’t been filled. Bruce Hatrak, a lawyer for Bombardier Aerospace and an adventurous eater, enjoys the fare at the Bluebird and Asiana Noodle Shop, but he hopes to see even more variety. “It always seems to be improving incrementally,” he says. “I’d like to see a Middle Eastern mezze-type place — Lebanese or Turkish, not an Ahli Baba’s kebab place … An Ethiopian place would be kind of cool.” ¡Duino! (Duende) could appease some of Hatrak’s desires. Chef Richard Witting, who is helping draft the North Winooski spot’s menu, noted last week in an email that he’s been researching global street food in an effort to “fill some of the culinary gaps in the Burlington palate.” This time next year, you could be picking up Ethiopian injera bread, the Japanese vegetable pancake called okonomiyaki and Middle Eastern manakeesh flatbread on the same block that houses the Vermont Sandwich Company. Of course, we still don’t know which of these newcomers will be around next year. It’s a process of natural selection, with local diners only too happy to cull the candidates. Charles Reeves, for one, says he feels confident about the potential of The Spot and the Bluebird: “I think they’re great additions, and they’re young, and a year from now they’ll be standards. I’m psyched they’re both here.” And some are just overjoyed to have choices. “It’s a complete sea change,” says Rux Martin. “Finally, Burlington [fare] doesn’t feel like that awful ’burbs food.” m

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Pancake-battered catfish fingers and smoky pulled pork may not often share space on a menu with tapas, but they soon will at River Run in Plainfield. Jimmy Kennedy, owner since 1991 of the Mississippi-style restaurant — voted one of USA Today’s Top 10 Catfish Restaurants in the country — recently sold to Ignacio Ruiz. Kennedy will stay on as chef. Ruiz, who says his grandmother, Nelly Blanco, was the first female chef on Spanish-language television, fell in love with River Run’s Southern-style fare when he brought his wife there to celebrate Mother’s Day this May. “I was looking around the Montpelier area for restaurants,” he says. For his part, Kennedy “needed a little bit of help with managerial and bookkeeping,” he says, though he assures that “everything was OK” with the restaurant’s financial status. Though Ruiz is eager to add his own touch to the menu, he stresses, “My first thing is to keep it the way it has been, and people have been enjoying it all this time. The last thing I want to do is alienate people.” In a move that could maintain that status quo or even expand the restaurant’s clientele, Ruiz recently applied for membership in the Vermont Fresh Network. New relationships with local farmers will facilitate the addition of more veggie-friendly menu items, he says. But what about Ruiz’s Spanish flair? On Saturday, August 22, Kennedy will debut paella, albóndigas (veal and pork meatballs), tortilla de patatas (potato omelet), Spanish cheeses and jamón ibérico. That last item, the ham, is a rare treat, made from black Iberian pigs finished on acorns. Some cultural fusion is in the works, too. Says Ruiz, “We’ll run Jimmy’s catfish with saffron.”

August First bakery opened Monday, 16 days after its eponymous date. Besides baker Phil Merrick’s sourdough boules and kalamata olive loaves, look for Greek salad with olives and feta. Merrick recommends chicken-curry-salad and salmon-salad sandwiches on seven-grain or sourdough bread. Of the spot’s soft opening on Friday he exclaims, “Everyone loved the cinnamon rolls!”

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hour-long special on the subject of food providers in Vermont, with a particular focus on the Northeast Kingdom. According to show producer Karen Katz, “After researching many areas within Vermont, we came across the town of Hardwick and found that this was a community truly committed to creating a healthy food system for the 21st century.” Hardwick’s “food system” has already been featured in a muchballyhooed article in the New York Times, as well as in the pages of EatingWell, Gourmet and, of course, Seven Days. Katz says Lagasse’s show will address some nearby foodie destinations that most other media outlets have overlooked. The Lakeview Inn in Greensboro will serve as a home base for the crew, which will film on its grounds and in its kitchen when not on location. Whole shows will be devoted to Cedar Circle Farm, where Lagasse will spotlight cooking with pumpkins and gourds, and Woods Cider Mill for its cider and maple products. Also in the limelight: Chef Jason Tostrup of the Inn at Weathersfield, who works only with environmentally responsible suppliers; and Long Trail Brewing Company, the largest company to sign on to the Central Vermont Public Service “Cow Power” program, which supports farmers by using methane to power buildings. The one-hour “Emeril Green” special will focus on the Hardwick-area food system as a whole, with segments filmed at Pete’s Greens, Jasper Hill Farm, Claire’s Restaurant, Vermont Soy and High Mowing Organic Seeds. The last two businesses are owned, respectively, by Center for an Agricultural Economy founder Andrew Meyer and the organization’s president, Tom Stearns. Stearns shares that High Mowing Seeds will also be featured on an upcoming episode of HDNet’s original series “Dan Rather Reports.” Though Stearns says he pushed for an hour-long show to cover all that Hardwick has to offer, the town will most likely garner only a 15-minute segment. If that’s the case, “Dan Rather himself won’t come up, but the whole camera crew will,” says Stearns. “They may want to do an in-studio appearance with one of us while the show is airing.” Amid all this attention, Stearns still needs to find time to host the annual Field Days at High Mowing Seeds on September 13. At the Wolcott farm, he will preview unreleased veggie, herb and flower varieties, Meyer and representatives from the University of Vermont will educate prospective farmers on growing soybeans, and NECI cooks will prepare an array of free local food. — ALICE LEVITT

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arah Wright and Giles Smith haven’t gotten much sleep in the past two months. But that’s not a bad thing. When they became proprietors of Hostel Tevere, Warren’s newest lodging and dining offering, Wright and Smith didn’t expect much shuteye. Having both spent plenty of time in hostels while living in and traveling around Europe, the pair knew what to anticipate when they opened their business — late nights, early mornings and a lot of laundry in between. All three are welcome symptoms of their success. Hostel Tevere (pronounced TEV-er-ray) is based on a simple concept — a reasonably priced year-round dorm that serves upscale food at bargain-basement prices. Considering the popularity of hostels in Europe, especially in tourist-heavy areas, it sounds like a no-brainer. Yet Erica Housekeeper, communications director at the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing, says the state has only about three other hostels, none with “hostel” in its name. She speculates that Americans may view hostels as places for broke student travelers to rest their heads, and potential guests could be turned off by the idea of bunking with a rowdy college kid. But Hostel Tevere seems to have had little trouble attracting a diverse clientele, from older couples passing through to cyclists in town for a race. The hostel, named for the Italian moniker of the Tiber River, began as a kernel of an idea that Wright and Smith kicked around while living in Rome. Wright, 25, was working as an architect at an Italian firm, and Smith, 26, tended bar and gave tours of the city. A year ago, the couple began to think about starting their own hostel. Wright grew up in an inn on Cape Cod, and Smith was no stranger to the hospitality business. The Mad River Valley seemed like a perfect site, they reasoned. Wright had family in Warren and had skied in the area many times during the years she spent studying at the University of Vermont before transfering. “We just thought it would be a great idea,” she says. “It’d be fun to run a hostel now, but later in life ... oh, my God, never.” With Wright’s parents serving as their business partners, the couple began looking for property in January and bought the building on

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Powderhound Road at the base of the Sugarbush Access Road in May. The white clapboard farmhouse, built in the 1860s, was formerly the Powderhound Inn and Sweetwoods Grill & Bar, and seemed perfect for a hostel. The first floor has ample space for a cozy bar and sunny dining room, as well as a lounge with a wood-burning stove and a mudroom for

helped with the painting. The beds, which Wright designed, were made by a local welder and are much classier than your average hostel fare — those shaky children’s bunk beds with loose springs that creak in the night. These are outfitted with new mattresses and crisp pastel sheets that match the room, and each is topped with a fluffy white duvet. Wright admits to spending a

Yestermorrow Design/Build School, the hostel’s neighbor just down Route 100. Unlike many hostel bars, which can feel exclusive, Hostel Tevere’s pub has a welcoming, comfortable vibe. Magazines such as Time and National Geographic cover a table between two armchairs. The tables hold fresh flowers in vases, and a dog bed and water dish are

greens from the hostel’s garden, sliced almonds, local blueberries and a light vinaigrette. Then come marinated pork roast with a mango, strawberry and red onion chutney, herb-roasted potatoes and honey-glazed carrots. The lone vegetarian at the table is treated to skewers of red and yellow bell peppers and onions, as well as pineapple and mango kebabs. For dessert, diners have

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guests’ sporting equipment. The upstairs features three generous rooms, as well as private quarters where Wright and Smith sleep when they’re not seeing to guests. While the idea of sleeping in a room with strangers may not appeal to everyone, Hostel Tevere makes the arrangement as comfortable as possible. The two tastefully appointed rooms each have three custom-made bunk beds and can accommodate a total of 12 people. Wright says they’re working on fixing up another room that will be full of single beds. The walls are all freshly painted in understated blues, browns and grays. Smith jokes that some of their early guests

small fortune at IKEA equipping the bedrooms. Each bunk bed boasts a playful nightstand, an old wine crate flipped on its side that holds reading spectacles, water glasses and a book — an especially homey touch. “We wanted it to be nice enough to change the perception of a hostel,” Wright says. The first floor is where all the action happens. During the day, guests are out and about, but most of them congregate in the bar before dinner. A flat-screen television and a bartender with cocktail expertise draw folks to the pub, which is right off the main dining room. It doesn’t just attract guests; on a recent Saturday night, the bar was filled with students from

tucked in a corner. The couple’s dog, Cesare, a skinny pit bull mix with a head the size of a basketball and a waist that looks corseted, mills about under foot. Around 7:30, guests of the hostel are invited to eat together. Jessica Wright, Sarah’s sister and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, cooks a family-style meal that may be reminiscent of your mother’s cooking — that is, if your mom really knew her way around the kitchen. On this night, the eight guests gather at a charmingly set cedar table on the patio. While breakfast is open to the public, the three-course dinner is reserved for guests. The meal begins with a salad featuring

a choice of chocolate mousse or blueberry crumble. The evening meal stands out for its simplicity and for Jessica Wright’s attention to detail. That makes sense, since the chef, who is 23, holds a degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in hospitality management and has worked in fine dining in Vegas and San Diego. When her sister offered her the job as Hostel Tevere’s head chef, Wright packed up her San Diego apartment and headed back east. She figured working at the hostel would give her a chance to run her own kitchen while staying closer to her family, she says. While Wright’s comprehensive dinners hit the spot after a day of hiking or biking in the

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Days visited, the guests filling the bunks included friends of Yestermorrow students and guys who were bike racing at Sugarbush. Wright and Smith are cautiously optimistic that snowfall will bring even more business from people who want to do some big mountain skiing but aren’t willing to pay big mountain prices. Until then, they’re reluctant to call their idea a success. “We’ll have to wait until the winter,” Wright says, “to see if this hostel thing works.” m

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Alexander’s Pub at the Lincoln Inn: Eagle Country Music Night, 7 p.m., Free. Breakwater Café: Shakedown (rock), 5:30 p.m., Free. Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Northern Exposure with Mighty Ficus, Prana, Kip’n’Co, Kevin Sheltra (rock), 8:30 p.m., $5. Lift: Comme Ci with DJs Capsule & Monaco (house), 9 p.m., Free. Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. Nectar’s: True School Wednesday with Nastee & A-Dog (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Radio Bean: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Red Square: Gordon Stone Band with Jimmy Ryan (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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Charlie O’s: Blue Fox (blues), 8 p.m., Free. Langdon Street Café: Susie Brown, Allison Polans, Shannon Pelcher (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Donations. The Honeycutters (folk), 9 p.m., Donations.

:: champlain valley 51 Main: Fred Barnes (piano), 6 p.m., Free. City Limits: Karaoke with Balance Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

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1/2 Lounge: Jah Red (Latin soul), 7 p.m., Free.

Alexander’s Pub at the Lincoln Inn: WCLX Blues Night with Creme du Blue, 7 p.m., Free. Breakwater Café: Demus & Big Dog (reggae), 5:30 p.m., Free. Franny O’s: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. Green Room: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café: Friends of Joe with Matt Wright & Chris Peterman (blues), 7 p.m., Free. JP’s Pub: Lord Silky, Y69 (punk), 9 p.m., Free. Lift: DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 9 p.m., Free. The Monkey House: Rats Cops, tooth ache., Neon Magus, The Le Duo (experimental), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. Nectar’s: The Mumbles (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Nightcrawlers: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free.

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:: northern Bee’s Knees: Eric Sommer (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

:: regional Monopole Downstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. Tabu Café and Nightclub: Karaoke Night with Sassy Entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

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I also have nothing against the Liberate festival. In fact, if that’s what you’re into, I absolutely think you should go this weekend. In addition to the aforementioned bands, this year’s lineup is jam-packed — pun mostly intended — with a slew of local and regional acts of both the established and up-and-coming variety. There will be great localvore food. Great art. Great yoga, even! This is exactly the sort of typically Vermont event I’ve been cautioning you not to overlook in the face of all the marquee music we’ve had this summer. Why? Because small, grassroots fests like Liberate are where you are most likely to discover a new band that blows your mind. Or, to borrow a phrase, to find more music than you know.

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I really didn’t want to do this. Since the following incident occurred several weeks ago, a great internal debate has raged within my caffeine-addled brain as to whether it would be appropriate to regale you with this sordid tale. On the one hand, I would like to think I’m above resorting to embarrassing my peers in the pages of this esteemed paper. On the other hand, this particular story has annoyed the hell out of me every time I’ve thought about it. So, I’m gonna tell it, if only to get it off my chest — and maybe even make a point to boot. Here it goes. Say what you want about Burlington’s Quad celebration last month, there were some wonderful moments to be had, especially when this summer’s finicky weather allowed Waterfront Park shows to go on as scheduled. In fact, one of those shows, Ween and antibalas, probably makes my year-end list of live music highlights. While exiting that show — and scurrying to get home before the next biblical downpour — a young, dreadlocked gentleman, whom I would later recognize as a member of my summer softball league, stopped me and handed me a flyer. “You should write about this,” he said. Glancing down, I saw the words “Liberate Music and Arts Festival” across the top of the handbill. “Oh, right. I wrote about this last year. It sounded like fun,” I said. I had both mentioned the fest in my column and spotlighted it the previous summer — much as I’m doing in this very issue (see spotlight, page 09B). We exchanged a few brief pleasantries before he said, “If only you wrote as well as you play softball.” WTF? Summoning every ounce of will I had not to react badly to his barb, I feigned a smile and said, “Ha. Well, I am pretty good at softball.” “Yeah, you are,” he responded. “But there is way more music out there than you know.” “Ohhh-kay,” I said and walked away. Now, I have never claimed omniscience when it comes to music. Anyone who does is a fool, a liar or aDaM DiEtCh both. I have no doubt there are folks reading this whose overall knowledge of music dwarfs my own. I also have no doubt that, in many cases, the reverse is true. I’m not an oracle. But neither are you. There is So, the moral of this story is twofold. One, if you want to draw my more music out there than anyone knows. And that’s part of the fun. attention to a show or festival, you don’t have to insult me, or assume As I peered down at the flyer, I’ll admit to some curiosity regarding I won’t write about it because it features music I may not be into what I would find. And just what sort of wondrous musical revelation personally (which actually isn’t the case here). awaited my anxious gaze? Drum roll, please! And two, whatever you do, don’t piss off a guy with a widely read The new Deal … huh? weekly column and expect to get away with it. I have nothing against the New Deal — or Liberate’s other headliner, the ryan Montbleau Band. But to directly insult someone you barely know in the preceding manner suggests I should have an awakening of groundbreaking importance, right? Or at least discover a band that hasn’t played in Vermont dozens of times — or that I Speaking of small, grassroots summer fests, the busy folks at haven’t written about on several occasions, as I have the New Deal and Montpelier’s Halogen Media — who also have a hand in the Liberate several other bands on this year’s bill. Festival — are serving up a unique shindig this weekend: the

RhinoFest Music Festival, which runs Friday through Sunday in Plainfield. Friday’s offerings feature the curiously named Casio Bastard, the indie-ish alt-rock stylings of Brooklyn’s Governours, Montpeculiarbased electro-reggae stalwarts Maddub, local world-funk fusionists D’Moja and eclectic Burlington turntablist DJ haitian. Things really get cooking on Saturday with a lineup including songwriter scott Graves, folk duo tin penny, alt-folk trio rogue Birds, Greyspoke, Bossman, Electric sorcery, the Gordon stone Band, philadelphia slick and festival headliner Break science, featuring Lettuce’s adam Dietch. As if that wasn’t enough, RhinoFest will also feature a homebrewing demonstration by Local Potion, aDaM FrEhM the burning of a hand-carved sculpture — think Burning Man — and, should all that rockin’ leave you a bit tensed up, rub downs from Body Charge Massage. The $35 advance ticket — $45 at the gate — can be purchased online at www.rhinofestvt.com and includes parking, camping and running water.

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:: burlington area 1/2 LOuNgE: Cool Breesers with Tricky Pat & Luis Calderin (eclectic), 5 p.m., Free. Bonjour-Hi! (mashup), 10 p.m., Free. ALExANdER’s PuB AT THE LINCOLN INN: The growlers (rock), 4 p.m., Free. sturcrazie (rock), 10 p.m., Free. BACksTAgE PuB: karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free. BREAkwATER CAfé: Phil Abair Band (rock), 6 p.m., Free. CLuB METRONOME: No diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5. gREEN ROOM: dJ Luis Calderin (electro), 10 p.m., Free. HIgHER gROuNd BALLROOM: de La soul, dam-funk (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., $23/25. AA. JP’s PuB: dave Harrison’s starstruck karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. LIfT: The Mash up with dJ Russell (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOuNgE: Tracie, Paul & Josh Cassarino (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. NECTAR’s: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Rough francis, The Vacant Lots, Blowtorch, Cave Bees (rock), 9 p.m., $5. NIgHTCRAwLERs: High Rollers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. PARIMA ACOusTIC LOuNgE: Aaron flinn’s salad days (rock), 9 p.m., $5. PARIMA MAIN sTAgE: free2Bu featuring dJ QdO (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RAdIO BEAN: susie Brown (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Mark Lemaire (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. Clara Berry (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. The dirtminers (rock), 10 p.m., Free. RAsPuTIN’s: Top Hat danceteria (DJ), 10 p.m., $3.

REd sQuARE: Rick Redington & The Luv (rock), 6 p.m., Free. sounds Clever & The Valley Horns (funk), 9 p.m., $3. Nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3. Rí Rá IRIsH PuB: supersounds dJ, 10 p.m., Free. VERMONT PuB & BREwERY: Events Are Objects (indie-rock), 10 p.m., Free.

:: central BLACk dOOR BAR & BIsTRO: The Mumbles (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5. CHARLIE O’s: The Eames Brothers Band, Bear Motor (mountain blues), 10 p.m., Free. gusTO’s: The Complaints (rock), 9 p.m., Free. LANgdON sTREET CAfé: Happy Hour with Abby Jenne (rock), 6 p.m., Donations. uPbrella! (funk), 9 p.m., Donations.

:: champlain valley 51 MAIN: Justin Levinson (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITs: Top Hat Entertainment dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. ON THE RIsE BAkERY: The steph Pappas Experience (rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations. TwO BROTHERs TAVERN: The grift (jam-pop), 10 p.m., $3.

:: northern BEE’s kNEEs: Laslo Cameo (roots), 7:30 p.m., Donations. Jd’s PuB: Live Music, 9:30 p.m., $3. MATTERHORN: Joe Moore Rocks with Creme du Bleu (rock), 9 p.m., $5. RusTY NAIL: dJ Johnny (Top 40), 10 p.m., $5.

:: regional MONOPOLE: Peacock Tunes & Trivia, 5 p.m., Free. Eat, sleep, funk (funk), 10 p.m., Free. MONOPOLE dOwNsTAIRs: gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free.

NAkEd TuRTLE: Craig Hurwitz (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free. groove Junkies (jam), 10 p.m., Free. OLIVE RIdLEY’s: Benjamin Bright (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

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BEE’s KNEEs: music & the muse with Tom Begich & Tim mason (poetry, folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. mATTERhORN: John schafer Band (rock), 9 p.m., $5. PIECAssO: Karaoke Championship with John wilson & danger dave, 9:30 p.m., Free. RUsTY NAIL: Lotus Entertainment (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5. ThE TAmARACK gRILL AT BURKE mOUNTAIN: sky Blue Boys (bluegrass), 8:30 p.m., $5.

BEE's KNEEs: Noah hahn & dan haley (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. ThE hUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Jazz on Tap (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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:: regional mONOPOLE: Capital Zen (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LOUNgE: heal-In sessions with Reverence & Nickel B (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. CLUB mETRONOmE: Open mic Night with mikey P of Elephantbear, 9 p.m., Free.

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Saturday, August 22nd 7 PM

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Thu. 08.20 9pm BuRETTE AND CODY LEE

Fri. 08.21 5PM Cool breezes (Tricky Pat ) 10pm BK2VT (electro hip-hop mash-up)

w.DJ Francise & Mike Device Sat. 08.22

7pm Mark Lemarie w. Cindy van Empel (new acoustic guitar and vocals) 10pm STEREOPHONIX w. TRICKY PAT (jazzy/downtempo)

Sun. 08.23/7pm

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Rob Douglas, Moonflower and friends

Mon. 08.24/10 pm

HEAL-IN SESSIONS (roots/dub) w. REVERENCE & NICKEL B. Tue. 08.25/10 pm

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51 mAIN: Replacement Parts (blues), 8 p.m., Free. CITY LImITs: dance Party with dJ Earl (DJ), 9 p.m., Free. TwO BROThERs TAVERN: dJ dizzle (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

BLACK dOOR BAR & BIsTRO: Ohm (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5. ThE CENTER BAKERY & CAFé: Billy Caldwell (acoustic), 9:30 a.m., Free. ChARLIE O’s: Live music, 10 p.m., Free. gUsTO’s: 8084 (rock), 9 p.m., Free. POsITIVE PIE 2: white Party with dJ michael michael (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., Free.

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SUN.23 1/2 LOUNgE: Funhouse with dJ Rob douglas, moonflower & Friends (eclectic DJs), 7 p.m., Free. ALExANdER's PUB AT ThE LINCOLN INN: Pine street Jazz with matt wright, 6 p.m., Free. BACKsTAgE PUB: Karaoke with Pete, 9 p.m., Free. BREAKwATER CAFé: J2 & dubee (reggae), 4 p.m., Free. CLUB mETRONOmE: Family Night Open Jam, 10 p.m., Free (18+). FRANNY O's: Balance dJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. NECTAR's: mi Yard Reggae Night with Big dog & demus (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. NIghTCRAwLERs: Karaoke with steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free. RAdIO BEAN: Old Time sessions, 1 p.m., Free. Trio gusto (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. Colonial Radio (folk), 7 p.m., Free. sidewalk dave (folk), 9 p.m., Free. Last Two sharks (folk), 10 p.m., Free. REd sqUARE: myra Flynn & spark (neo-soul), 8 p.m., Free. Vidi Vici (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. Rí Rá IRIsh PUB: Trinity (Irish), 5 p.m., Free.

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(Self-released, CD) When James Kochalka files his taxes, what do you suppose he puts down as his job title? Musician? Cartoonist? The allencompassing artiste? Based on the strength of his latest record, Digital Elf, I would like to propose a more fitting, albeit obvious, title: Superstar. Burlington’s resident bizzarro renaissance man wears many artistic hats, and he wears them all exceedingly well. Granted, his singular weirdness is not for everyone. Much as his long-running comic strip “American Elf” occasionally draws bewildered detractors in the “Letters to the Editor” section of Seven Days, so, too, will some dismiss Kochalka’s music as little more than the unhinged ramblings of an adolescent man-child. Which, of course, is absolutely accurate. It is also precisely what makes Kochalka’s work, whether on the page or the stage, so uniquely appealing — or, appalling, depending. Kochalka composed and performed all the music for Digital Elf using an 8-bit sound chip from a Game Boy Advance video game system. No samples were used; each cybernated sound was built from scratch. Ever wonder what a rock band composed of Cylons from the original Battlestar Galactica might sound like? This is your answer — especially on the song “Bacharach Galactica.” Ahem. Digital Elf’s, er, “chippy” atmosphere lends a further degree of irreverence to Kochalka’s music that might surprise even longtime fans. Taken as a whole, the nanobyte nonsense occasionally borders on willfully obnoxious. But as none of the disc’s 15 tracks even sniffs the two-minute mark — the entire album clocks in at a shade under 20 minutes — such moments are fleeting. Moreover, any — OK, most — grating cutesiness is tempered by the songwriter’s imaginative comedic wit. Take the album’s second track, the North vs. South (End) anthem, “Old North Ender.” Anyone who has ever resided north of Pearl Street in Burlington will appreciate Kochalka’s barbs at that ’hood’s less savory characteristics and characters. “I’ve siphoned more gas than I’m ever gonna huff. / When you live in the North End you gotta stay tough,” he muses. Then there is the cyberbully pushback — my personal favorite — “BLOG.” Kolchalka sings, “You can diss me in your blog, you can treat me like a dog, you can write whatever you like. / You can diss me in your blog, but I ain’t nobody’s dog, and I’ll beat you down tonight!” This leads to the chorus in which Kochalka and friends raucously spew the title word over and over as if some lyrical expectorant. “Buh-LAAAAAHG!” It’s as clever a riposte to the inanity of the blogosphere as any I’ve encountered. James Kochalka: musician, cartoonist and, now, social-media critic. Superstar, indeed. dan Bolles

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Furthermore, what exactly is the sound of one hand clapping? And if God is omnipotent, could he make a stone so big even he couldn’t lift it? These are questions that have perplexed the world’s great thinkers for millennia. They are also similar to the conundrum that plagues the self-titled debut from Brooklyn’s Bucky Hayes and the Radio, and that vexes music critics tasked with writing about it. Here’s the thing. There is nothing really wrong with Bucky Hayes and the Radio. Nothing. Hayes has a pleasant voice. He writes pleasant melodies with pleasant lyrics about seemingly pleasant love. If you wanted to make a pleasant little folk-pop album, you’d probably be pleased as punch if this disc was the fruit of your labors. There is simply nothing wrong with Bucky Hayes and the Radio. But here, my friends, is the rub: That is also exactly what’s wrong with it. “Milquetoast” almost seems too exotic a word to use in describing the 10 songs comprising this quartet’s freshman outing. Aggressively uninteresting, the album will offend no one. Conversely, neither will it inspire spirited flights of musical fancy. Opener “Back in NY” sets the humdrum tone. The bright, bouncy acoustic pop number concerns the creature comforts of domesticity. Hayes’ edgeless ruminations resemble a sort of blissed-out Jack Johnson — hardly known for lyrical grit to begin with — if the surfer-dudecum-songwriter had OD’ed on Valium. Hayes sings, “What you got on the stove? / Mashed potatoes and gravy. / That’s my favorite dish. / Won’t you fix a plate for me?” I’m reminded of an old-ish saying, “Go big or go home.” Hayes, it seems, prefers the latter. And that’s fine. The issue is that good art, engaging art, never mind great art, requires risk on the part of the artist. And at virtually no point does Hayes seem ready to take the plunge. Instead, he sits on the dock of the bay and dangles his toes in the water. Songs such as “Diamonds and Gold,” or “Oh! It’s Love” suggest an inner desire to break the mold and try something new. Sadly, Hayes never quite gets there. His lyrics, while not necessarily contrived, are bland and predictable. So, too, do his melodies, progressions and song structures tread on safe, familiar ground. Again, there’s nothing really wrong with that. But there’s nothing especially right, either. Bucky Hayes and the Radio play Burlington’s Radio Bean this Saturday, August 22. dan Bolles

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242 main: arma, kill What i adore, thrill of a gunfight, Hester prynne (hardcore), 7 p.m., $7. AA. BreakWater Café: sideshow Bob (rock), 5:30 p.m., Free. lift: Comme Ci with DJ Capsule (house), 9 p.m., Free. manHattan piZZa & pUB: open mic with andy lugo, 10 p.m., Free. tHe monkey HoUse: the racoonist, paper Castles, Hume (indie), 9 p.m., $6. neCtar's: true school Wednesday with nastee & a-Dog (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. raDio Bean: ensemble v (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. reD sqUare: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. grippo/sklar quintet (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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venues411 1/2 Lounge, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012. 242 Main St., Burlington, 862-2244. 38 Main Street Pub, 38 Main St., Winooski, 655-0072. 51 Main, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. Akes’ Place, 134 Church St., Burlington, 864-8111. Alexander’s Pub at the Lincoln Inn, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. The Alley Coffee House, 15 Haydenberry Dr., Milton, 893-1571. American Flatbread, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999. Avenue Bistro, 1127 North Ave., Burlington, 652-9999. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. Backstreet, 17 Hudson St., St. Albans, 527-2400. Banana Winds Café & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752. Barre Opera House, 6 North Main St., Barre, 476-8188. Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Dr., Vergennes, 1-800-622-4000. Battery Park, Burlington, 865-7166. Bayside Pavilion, 13 Georgia Shore Rd., St. Albans, 524-0909. The Bearded Frog, 5247 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-9877. Bee’s Knees, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. Big Fatty’s BBQ, 55 Main St., Burlington, 864-5513. Big Moose Pub at the Fire & Ice Restaurant, 28 Seymour St., Middlebury, 388-0361. Big Picture Theater & Café, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. Black Bear Tavern & Grill, 205 Hastings Hill, St. Johnsbury, 748-1428. Black Door Bar & Bistro, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 223-7070. The Blue Note Café, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. The Bobcat Café, 5 Main St., Bristol, 453-3311. Burnham Hall, 52 East River Rd., Lincoln, 453-3803. Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Rd., Bolton Valley, 434-3444. Bonz Smokehouse & Grill, 97 Portland St., Morrisville, 888-6283. Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865-2711. Breakwater Café, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276. The Brewski, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. The Bristol Bakery, 16 Main St., Bristol, 453-3280. B.U. Emporium, 163 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 658-4292. Bundy Center for the Arts, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-4781. Buono’s Lounge, 3182 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2232. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 149 Church St., Burlington, 865-7166. Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800. Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101. The Center Bakery & Café, 2007 Guptil Road, Waterbury Center, 244-7500. Champlain Lanes Family Fun Center, 2630 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2576. Charlemont Restaurant, 116 Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-4242. Charlie B’s, 1746 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-7355. Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. Cider House BBQ & Pub, 1675 Rt. 2, Waterbury, 244-8400. City Limits, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. City Sports Grille, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720. Coffee Hound, 97 Blakey Rd., Colchester, 651-8963. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. Dan’s Place, 31 Main Street, Bristol, 453-2774. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 656-4636. Designhaus, 22 Church St., Burlington, 310-5019.

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Dobrá Tea, 80 Church St., Burlington, 951-2424. Drink, 133 St. Paul St., Burlington, 951-9463. Finnigan’s Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864-8209. Flynn Center/FlynnSpace, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863-5966. Franny O’s, 733 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. Giovanni’s Trattoria, 15 Bridge St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-5856. Good Times Café, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. Great Falls Club, Frog Hollow Alley, Middlebury, 388-0239. Green Door Studio, 18 Howard St., Burlington, 316-1124. Green Room, 86 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-9669. Ground Round Restaurant, 1633 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-1122. Gusto’s, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. Harbor Lounge at Courtyard Marriott, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 864-4700. Hardwick Town House, 127 Church St., Hardwick, 456-8966. Harper’s Restaurant at Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-6363. Higher Ground, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777. The Hub, Airport Dr., Bristol, 453-3678. The Hub Pizzeria & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626. Iron Lantern, Route 4A, Castleton, 468-5474. JD’s Pub, 2879 Rt. 105, East Berkshire, 933-8924. JP’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. Jeff’s Maine Seafood, 65 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-6135. Koffee Kat, 104 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-8433. Krazy Horse Saloon, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-570-8888. L.A.C.E., 159 North Main St., Barre, 476-4276. Langdon St. Café, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667. Leunig’s, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088. Localfolk Smokehouse, Jct. Rt. 100 & 17, Waitsfield, 496-5623. Mad River Unplugged at Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910. Maggie’s, 124 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-562-9317. Main St. Grill & Bar, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. Main St. Museum, 58 Bridge St., White River Jct., 356-2776. Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776. Mary’s at the Inn at Baldwin Creek, 1868 N. Route 116, Bristol, 424-2432. Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. McKee’s Pub, 19 East Allen St., Winooski, 655-0048. Memorial Auditorium, 250 Main St., Burlington, 864-6044. The Monkey House, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563. Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222. Monty’s Old Brick Pub, 7921 Williston Rd., Williston, 316-4262. Muddy Waters, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466. Murray’s Tavern, 4 Lincoln Pl., Essex Jct., 878-4901. Music Box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533. Naked Turtle, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200. Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771. Nightcrawlers, 127 Porter’s Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067. Odd Fellows Hall, 1416 North Ave., Burlington, 862-3209. Old Lantern, 3620 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte, 425-2120. Olde Yankee Restaurant, Rt. 15, Jericho, 899-1116.

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Olive Ridley’s, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-324-2200. On the Rise Bakery, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787. Orion Pub & Grill, Route 108, Jeffersonville, 644-8884. Overtime Saloon, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357. Paramount Theater, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570. Parima, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 864-7917. Park Place Tavern, 38 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3015. Peabody’s Pub, 11 Clinton St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-561-0158. Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035. Piecasso, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411. Positive Pie 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453. The Pour House, 1930 Williston Rd., South Burlington, 862-3653. Purple Moon Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. Radio Bean, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346. Rasputin’s, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324. Red Mill Restaurant at Basin Harbor, Vergennes, 475-2311. Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909. Rhythm & Brews Coffeehouse at Living and Learning, UVM, Burlington, 656-4211. Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782. Rí Rá Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401. River Run Restaurant, 65 Main St., Plainfield, 454-1246. Roque’s Restaurante Mexicano & Cantina, 3 Main St., Burlington, 657-3377. Rozzi’s Lakeshore Tavern, 1022 West Lakeshore Dr., Colchester, 863-2342. Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744. Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. Shooters Saloon, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777. Skinny Pancake, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188. Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202. Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6607. St. John’s Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, 864-9778. Starry Night Café, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. Stowe Coffee House, 57B Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-2189. Stowehof Inn, 434 Edson Hill Rd., Stowe, 253-9722. Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864-9800. Tabu Café & Nightclub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-0666. Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., East Burke, 626-7394. T Bones Restaurant & Bar, 38 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 654-8008. Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655-9542. Three Mountain Lodge Restaurant, Smugglers’ Notch Rd., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-5736. Two Brothers Tavern, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002. Two Friends Bistro, 1210 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 658-4810. Three Bean Café, 22 Pleasant St., Randolph, 728-3533. Upper Deck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-6585. Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910. Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St., Vergennes, 877-6737. Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500. Village Tavern at Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Jeffersonville, 644-6765. Wasted City Studios, 1610 Troy Ave., Colchester, 324-8935. Waterbury Wings, 1 South Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827. Watershed Tavern, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100. Waterfront Theatre, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 862-7469.

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Island Hopping Nectar’s has really gone south … in a good way By Dan Bolles

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h, Martha’s Vineyard! The (occasionally) sunsoaked island off the coast of Cape Cod is a playground of presidents, the rich and famous, and fanny-pack-clad day tourists. Mobbed in the summer months and all but deserted in the winter, it is New England’s quintessential vacation spot. But for all its many wonders — sandy beaches, windblown bluffs, fresh seafood — one aspect of island life has long been incredibly dull: live music. In fairness, destinations such as the Vineyard, Nantucket or Rhode Island’s Block Island are hardly rock ’n’ roll paradises. What typically passes for nightly entertainment consists of your average bar band playing familiar rock covers. But that hasn’t always been the case, at least not on the Vineyard — which counts James Taylor among its most famous residents. In the late 1970s, two Vineyard locals opened a club in Edgartown called the Hot Tin Roof. Over the years, the nightclub achieved near legendary status nationwide, due to the big-name acts who frequently graced the stage (Peter Tosh, Mick Jagger, et al.), the celebrities who sweated on its dance floor, and the fact that songwriter Carly Simon was one of the club’s principal backers. Hot Tin Roof changed hands and names several times over the ensuing years. Most recently, it was a nightclub called the Outerland, which For more info about nectar’s MV, visit www.nectarsmv.com.

closed its doors last summer. But original live music has made a return to the island this summer, and its new home boasts a distinctive Green Mountain flair. The owners of iconic Burlington nightclub Nectar’s have leased the Hot Tin Roof building through November and brought their booking know-how — not to mention gravy fries — to the new venue, now called Nectar’s MV. Though the weather hasn’t fully cooperated, general manager Alex Budney — who worked in a similar capacity at the original Burlington club — claims this first season has been a success. He says the island’s residents have embraced the new 830-person-capacity club and its homegrown booking philosophy.

“The response from locals has been amazing,” he claims, speaking to Seven Days by phone from Martha’s Vineyard. Budney concedes, though, that the Vineyard’s music scene is perhaps not as vibrant as Burlington’s. “To call it a ‘scene’ might be a bit of a stretch,” he says. “I mean, it’s a little bubble. People here are into stuff that was hip years ago.” Perhaps predictably, reggae reigns supreme on Martha’s Vineyard. “You could tell people there is a chicken playing reggae and they’d show up,” jokes Budney. Irie birds aside, he notes the scene that does exist seems to relish finally having a place to call home. “There aren’t really any venues here

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There are hundreds of musicians here. But you really kind of have to go look for them, because these folks are not always playing in obvious places. alex BuDney, general Manager, nectar’s MV Because the high tourist season on the island is so short — Budney estimates six to eight weeks — Nectar’s MV focuses on bringing in well-known, big-ticket artists on a weekly basis to get the most bang for their buck. But he has also employed similar, locally focused strategies in booking the club, as he did in Burlington. Specifically, Budney has instituted a Vineyard version of his Monday “Family Night Jam” at Club Metronome, which is sort of a cross between an open mic and a local showcase.

that do original music, or that foster original local music. What couple of venues they have in the small towns are strictly for cover bands,” Budney says, adding, “Every town here has a Grateful Dead cover band.” He points to bands such as long-running jam outfit Entrain and now-defunct jam-pop natives — and briefly, Burlington residents — Lucy Vincent as some of the more popular groups. But for the most part, he says the Martha’s Vineyard scene centers on singer-songwriters.

also call the island home. “Really, there are hundreds of musicians here,” he says. “But you really kind of have to go look for them, because these folks are not always playing in obvious places.” Beyond locals, the Nectar’s MV calendar has been stocked with a bounty of bigger-name acts. Between now and Labor Day weekend — when the club will scale back to opening only one or two nights per week — artists such as the Rebirth Brass Band, Martin Sexton, the Wailers and Leo Kottke are all scheduled

to appear. There’s some notable symmetry between the MV calendar and that of the flagship Nectar’s as well. Songwriter Zach Deputy has August residencies at both clubs. And Boston’s Spiritual Rez — a Nectar’s VT staple — will play next month. Budney says he’s not sure if Nectar’s will continue the Vineyard experiment beyond this summer, though he sounds hopeful. “This really is the month to tell,” he says, referring to the rapidly closing tourist-season window. “But I have been feeling a sense of optimism based on how we’ve been doing so far, what the expectations are and how the club has done in the past.” He goes on to say that the Nectar’s cachet has gone a long way towards buoying that optimism. “It’s overwhelming how supportive people are,” he says. “And, kind of surprisingly, the Vermont and Burlington connections have brought in a lot of positivity about what we’re doing down here.” m

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WED.19 education SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE: Families of students through eighth grade tour the classrooms and learn about the public-ed alternative. Central Vermont Catholic School, Barre, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 476-5015.

environment RENEWABLE ENERGY WORKSHOP: Colin Sorenson from Alteris Renewables details how homeowners can harness photovoltaic, solarthermal and wind power. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.com.

etc. 'ASSET MAPPING': John Maeck of Burlington Permaculture leads folks in charting a collective diagram of the community's financial systems, incentives and resources, before showing them how to link in. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-2768. BOOK SALE: Hardbacks, paperbacks, DVDs and other media find their way into bargain hunters' bags at this week-long library clean-out. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5519. ORIGAMI INSTRUCTION: Delicate squares of paper crease into folded cranes at this kickoff event: Over the next year, the library aims to create 1000 origami cranes to send to Hiroshima for Peace Day, the 65th anniversary of its bombing. Bradford Public Library, Bradford, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536.

fairs & festivals VERMONT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: Painters, photographers and craftspeople around the valley open their doors to visitors for exhibits, workshops and demos — including roughly 50 free events — during "August is Art." Schedule available at www.VermontArtFest.com. Various locations, Mad River Valley, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Various prices. Info, 496-6682.

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ONE MAN’S TRASH You know you march to the beat of a different drummer when you look at kitchen utensils, snowboards, pots and pans, or car parts and see ... musical instruments. That’s what “junk percussionist” Donald Knaack does. Known as the “Junkman,” the conservatory-trained musician now “exclusively composes for and performs on junk and recycled materials,” according to his website. The Manchester Center resident has shared his unique method of recycling through a full-length opera, concerts that finish with “junkjams” (where the audience chimes in), and his school-based program called Help Our Planet, which teaches little ones the three Rs along with environmental citizenry. Hear the Junkman take on rock, jazz and world-music genres with his salvaged scraps. ‘JUNK MUSIC’

Thursday, August 20, 7-8 p.m., at Bent Northrop Memorial Library in Fairfield. Info, 827-3945. www.junkmusic.org

'ADORATION': A young orphan struggles to come to terms with his family's turbulent past and turns to the Internet for support in Atom Egoyan's 2009 film about the search for identity in the digital age. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $6.50. Info, 748-2600. 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY': Jon Voight plays a hayseed hustler who forms an unlikely friendship with Dustin Hoffman's sleazy crook character in this X-rated, Oscar-winning 1969 flick. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576.

food & drink 'BARBECUE CHICKEN & CORN ON THE COB DINNER': Families fill up at an outdoor feast in the heat of summer, before heading to the Volunteer's Green to hear refrains by the Richmond Community Band at 6:30 p.m. Richmond Congregational Church, Richmond, 5:30 p.m. $3.50-8. Info, 434-2053.

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CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS FARMERS MARKET: Shoppers browse through a wide selection of local fruits, veggies and handmade crafts. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3420. 'EATING WELL ON A BUDGET': Foodies put a lid on spending by learning to freeze and can summer fruits and veggies, before taking a tour of the bulk foods section. Sign up at the customer service desk. City Market, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. MIDDLEBURY FARMERS MARKET: Crafts, cheeses, breads and fresh veggies vie for spots in shoppers' totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0178. NEW NORTH END FARMERS MARKET: Local veggies, root beer, artisanbaked goods and more mix with live tunes for easy shopping. North Avenue Alliance Church, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@hotmail.com. SOUTH END FARMERS MARKET: Residents of the Queen City's southernmost neighborhood peruse seasonal produce at outdoor stalls. Flynndog, Burlington, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-8526.

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MAD MONEY Oscar Wilde is credited with saying, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Taking the recent Wall Street shenanigans and their disastrous effects into account, Jerry Sterner’s 1989 play Other People’s Money seems to support that theory. The drama, enacted this week by the Waterbury Festival Players, delves deep into the world of WED.19 - SAT.22; WED.26 - SAT.29 modern finance, following Wall Street artist Lawrence Garfinkle (aka “Larry the Liquidator”) as he goes head to head with a lawyer after attempting to take control of an undervalued community biz. “The obvious economic aspects of it are amazingly timely,” says director George Pierce. “You, as an audience, are forced to question your own morality — what would you do in that situation?” Catch the play to put your own ethics to the test. ‘OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY’

Wednesday through Saturday, August 19-22, and Wednesday through Saturday, August 26-29, 7:30 p.m., at the Waterbury Festival Playhouse, Route 100, Waterbury Center. $20-22. Info, 498-3755. www.waterburyfestivalplayers.com

THE GOLDEN EARS Are your ears burning? Let’s hope not — at Lareau Farm’s annual Corn Roast and Community Dance, those husked cobs should be scorched right to juicy perfection. For the fourth year, neighbors meet and mingle over the sweet summer produce, flatbreads and ice cream at this outdoor music and movement shebang. This time around, folks cut a rug — or, should we say, a lawn? — to straight Americana ditties by Vermont native Tammy Fletcher, aka the “Mountain Girl” (pictured). Backed by her Green Mountain State band, which formed in late 2005, she’ll perform country tunes with Arethastyle vocals that have graced venues from the Apollo Theater in Harlem to Gaiety Theater in Dublin. This benefit for the Mad River Neighborhood Association is sure to give you, well, an earful.

health & fitness ZUMBA BURLINGTON: Exercise in disguise? People of all ages and abilities get a workout at what appears to be a Latin-dance party. North End Studio, Burlington, 5:456:45 p.m. $7. Info, 734-5621.

kids BABYTIME: Crawling tots and their parents group up with comrades for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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The Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger’s upcoming fundraiser proves you don’t have to be “eating for two” to feed more mouths than your own. The more people who nosh at the first-ever Rising Star Chef Food & Wine Show, the more resources go to little ones. Culinary artists from up and down the East Coast join Topnotch Resort’s Executive Chef Mark Timms to dish out delicious plates crafted from donated local farm ingredients. “This whole thing is a brainchild of Mark Timms,” said VCECH’s Outreach and Marketing Specialist Ann Janda, noting that the chef experienced hunger as a child. All the dough raised at this edible event, which also includes wine and beer tastings, supports the nonprofit’s sustainable hunger solutions. That sounds like a good reason to clean your plate. ‘RISING STAR CHEF FOOD & WINE SHOW’

Saturday, August 22, noon - 5 p.m., at Topnotch Resort & Spa in Stowe. $25-30. Info, 253-6497. www.vtnohunger.org

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<calendar > WED.19 << 19B 'Back-to-School Stories': Little ones prepare for what some call "the most wonderful time of the year" with books and activities. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. Craftsbury Chamber Players Mini Concerts: Classical musicians preview their pieces for music-lovin' little ones and their guests. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 1-800-639-3443. 'Découpage Collage Box': Imaginative children gather in the Owl Cottage Family Activity Center to fashion a keepsake travel tote. Shelburne Museum, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Regular admission, $10-20. Info, 985-3346. Pajama Storytime: Kids cuddle up in their nightclothes for an hour of bedtime stories, cookies and milk. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. 'StarQuest': Families get an out-of-thisworld experience through this fournight astronomical program exploring NASA missions, rockets and gravity with Fairbanks Museum educator Bobby Farlice-Rubio. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2372, ext. 111. 'Wacky Wednesdays': Kids 8 and up participate in activities to engage the brain, move the body and create contraptions. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $7.50-9.50. Info, 864-1848.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Craftsbury Chamber Players Summer Concert Series: Called the "best" ensemble in Vermont by Yankee Magazine, these musicians perform classical airs by Haydn, Françaix and Ravel. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8-20. Info, 1-800-639-3443. 'Music on the Porch': Steve Lotspeich lends his musical stylings to a picnic on the porch. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain Coffee Visitor Center & Café, Waterbury, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 882-2289. 'Slice of Summer' Music Series: Alternative, folk and Americana tunes emerge from The Leaves' medley of instruments. Piecasso, Stowe, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 253-4411. 'The Barber of Seville': Opera North revives Rossini's comedy about nobles and commoners caught in a love triangle. Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, N.H., 2 p.m. $25-85. Info, 603-448-0400.

outdoors Wednesday Garden Walks: Greenthumb enthusiasts meet at Bostwick Garden to meander through bushes and blooms, learning "All About Pruning." Shelburne Museum, 1 p.m. Regular admission, $10-20. Info, 985-3346.

sport 'Pick-Up Broomball': Runners tackle a new game by sweeping the ice to score goals. Leddy Park Arena, Burlington, 8-9:30 p.m. $5; additional $2 for equipment rental. Info, 865-7558.

talks 'An Introduction to the Burlington Theatre Lab': Founder Michael Jordan Evans analyzes what actors must do to light up the stage each time. Outer Space Café, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-1053. Buzz Ferver: Photos and stories from the compost "visionary" detail advanced uses of leftovers for urban gardening, green roofs and other efforts that can regenerate the built environment. Yestermorrow Design/ Build School, Warren, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

'Foreign Policy & the Citizen': Perplexed, angry or curious about U.S. foreign policy? Join a 27-year vet of the U.S. Foreign Service at this open discussion exploring ways private citizens can help shape our actions in the world. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8483.

theater 'Alice in Wonderland': Kooky dances, puppetry and costumes create a vivid picture of Lewis Carroll's world down the rabbit hole in the Dorset Theatre Festival's family-friendly production. Dorset Theatre, 7 p.m. $16. Info, 867-5777. Auditions for 'Two Dragons & a Taste of Saki': Aspiring actors tackle script readings and improvisation for roles in the Fairfax Community Theatre Company's October production. Brick Meeting House, Westford, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 849-6638. 'Bus Stop': A blizzard strands eight unlikely folks in a Kansas diner in William Inge's romantic comedy. Pendragon Theater, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 518-891-1854. 'Footloose': Everybody cuts loose with this musical stage version of the film about a town that has outlawed dancing — and the boy who breaks the rules. Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 253-3961. 'Marry Me a Little': Dorset Theatre actors perform songs by Stephen Sondheim in a musical story that juxtaposes the dreams of two lonely hearts, each alone on a Saturday night. Dorset Theatre, 3 p.m. $37-42. Info, 867-5777. 'Other People's Money': Directed by George Pierce, the Waterbury Festival Players explore greed and desire in the trappings of the modern financial world. See calendar spotlight. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. $20-22. Info, 498-3755. 'Rent': Based on Puccini’s La Bohème, this New York City East Village tale enacted by national talent follows artists and bohemians as they grapple with life, death, love and art. Weston Playhouse, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $32-40. Info, 824-5288. 'She Stoops to Conquer': After realizing the man she wants to marry gets nervous around upper-class women, Kate poses as a barmaid to put him at ease in Oliver Goldsmith's love story. Unadilla Theater, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968. 'The Musical of Musicals': Four actors tell the time-honored tale of a damsel in distress in the style of five different musical theater composers. Weston Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $28-33. Info, 824-8167.

words Bread Loaf Readings: Lynn Freed lectures on "Travel and the Creative Impulse" in the morning, before Matthew Dickman, Cecilia Rodríguez Milané and Ann Hood share passages in the late afternoon. Vikram Chandra and Arthur Size take the podium at dusk. Little Theatre. Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5483.

THU.20 dance Argentine Tango Lessons: It takes two to tango, but no partner is necessary to learn this vibrant style of movement, which originated in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 4:30-6:30 p.m. $10. Info, 723-4014.

etc. Basic Computer Tutoring for Seniors: Volunteer Emily Moynihan helps preregistered seniors conquer newfangled technology in a no-stress environment. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9-10 a.m. & 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Book Sale: See WED.19, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

'Canines & Cocktails': Pooch pals lap up drinks and music by the Patricia Julien Trio. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5 donation. Info, 862-0135. Corn Roast & Community Dance: Crowds enjoy an earful of corn and live music by Tammy Fletcher, and shake a leg at this benefit for the Mad River Neighborhood Association. Lareau Farm Inn, Waitsfield, 6-9 p.m. $15; $40 per family. Info, 229-4266. Scale Modelers: Hobbyists of all interest and skill levels meet to engineer tiny replicas, share tips and hold contests. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0765. 'Steppin' Out!': Folks hop aboard the Ticonderoga and set sail for fun times with cocktails, music and an auction to support the museum. Shelburne Museum, 7-9 p.m. $100. Info, 9853346, ext. 3399. Thursdays at the Intervale: Folks learn more about heirloom apples in a day devoted to local food, the local economy and land stewardship, before catching a talk on "Local Business and Living Economies" and tunes by the Xander Naylor Trio. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 660-0440, ext. 101.

fairs & festivals Vermont Festival of the Arts: See WED.19, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

film 'Adoration': See WED.19, 7 p.m. 'O' Horten': When a painfully shy train engineer is forced to retire, he comes face to face with death and chaos at every corner in Bent Hammer's 2007 Norwegian film. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576.

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'RiffTrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space': Internet comedy sensation RiffTrax.com provides wisecracking commentary in real time to a screening of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s 1959 sci-fi film, often called the "worst movie ever made." Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $12.50. Info, 864-5610.

food & drink Hinesburg Farmers Market: Growers sell bunched greens, goat meat and root veggies among vendors of pies, handmade soap and knitwear. United Church of Hinesburg, 3:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3904. Mills Riverside Farmers Market: A local band serenades passersby grazing through fresh goods and knickknacks. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 899-5899. Peacham Farmers Market: Seasonal berries and produce mingle with homemade crafts and baked goods from the village. Peacham Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3632. Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer their soil-grown and homemade wealth for shoppers to bring home. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 734-6175.

kids 'Become a Junior Ranger!': Kids ages 7 to 10 explore the grounds with a park ranger and complete a variety of activities to earn a badge. Carriage Barn Visitor Center, MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, Woodstock, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3368, ext. 22. Craftsbury Chamber Players Mini Concerts: See WED.19, Fellowship Hall, Greensboro United Church of Christ, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 1-800-6393443. 'Découpage Collage Box': See WED.19, 12:30-4:30 p.m. 'StarQuest': See WED.19, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Young Writers' Workshop: Scribes tote a notebook, writing utensils and creative enthusiasm to a pencil-pushing exercise led by local writer Rabia Gail. Bradford Public Library, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536. Youth Book Discussion: Eager readers dive into conversation about Ellen Hopkins' Crank, following a girl who encounters a type of monster on a bus trip to visit her absentee father. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. 'Carmen': Georges Bizet's tale follows a much-desired gypsy girl as she alternately seduces a proud soldier and a bullfighter. Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $25-85. Info, 603-448-0400. Craftsbury Chamber Players Summer Concert Series: See WED.17, Hardwick Town House, Hardwick, 8 p.m. $8-20. Info, 1-800639-3443. 'Groovin' on the Green' Concert Series: Buddy Dubay and The Minor Key sound out kid-powered rock on the village green. Maple Tree Place, Williston, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-9100. 'Junk Music': Donald Knaack, known as "The Junkman," transforms trashed and recycled items into instruments as he creates unusual percussion sounds. See calendar spotlight. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 827-3945. Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre Kings: Rock 'n' roll hounds relish the flair of this New York-based band's 1950s-style rockabilly beats. Ballard Park, Westport, N.Y. 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 518-962-8778, info@ artsnorth.org. 'Music Festival of the Americas': Members of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas kick off the music series with a "Midsummer Night's Soirée," featuring chamber music. See “State of the Arts”. Topnotch Resort & Spa, Stowe, 8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 760-6797. Robert Resnik & Marty Morrissey: The duo performs folk and traditional Vermont tunes at this open-air summer social hosted by the Friends of the Bixby and the Bixby Trustees. Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2211. Rotary Concert Series: Steel Rail perform high-energy bluegrass sounds for community fans. Rain site: Thatcher Brook School. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 598-2199. The Dave Keller Band: The band executes original blues and soul sounds in the warm summer air. Christ Church Pocket Park, Montpelier, noon - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604.

outdoors Outside Thursdays: Fresh-air enthusiasts convene to paddle, hike or swim as a group. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2647.

sport Dr. Bike: A cycle-shop pro introduces free wheelers to the basics of brakes, shifting and commuter maintenance. Skirack, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313.

Lake Monsters 'Strike Out Hunger' Game: The Burlington-based minor-league team goes to bat for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf in this special ball game. Centennial Field, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free with donation of nonperishable food items. Info, 861-9700. Saucony Fun Run: Run Center staff lead joggers of all ages on a moderately paced traverse through town. Skirack, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313. 'Trail Rock 'n' Run': Runners of all ages and levels pound a recreational trail with Skirack. Meet at the Burton Snowboards lot at 152 Industrial Parkway. Red Rocks Park, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313.

talks 'Deindustrialized Health Care Forum': Frances McManus of the Transition Town initiative hosts an open discussion about the sustainable benefits of preventive medical care. Revolution, White River Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 299-5907. Ron Krupp: The local author of Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America's Farm and Food Crisis offers up practical actions for Vermonters. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

theater 'Alice in Wonderland': See WED.19, 3 p.m. 'Bare Naked': Will Wiggins uses spoken word performance poetry, videos and dance to explore the transition from living behind a façade to garnering enough courage to be honest. See "State of the Arts", this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966. 'Footloose': See WED.19, 8 p.m. Informational Meeting for 'The Full Monty': The production team for the Lyric Theatre Company's upcoming comedy gives an overview of the casting process as it scouts out onstage and behind-the-scenes crew members. South Burlington High School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1484. 'Marry Me a Little': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'Other People's Money': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'Rent': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'She Stoops to Conquer': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'Ten-Fest': Eleven Vermont actors star in a lineup of 10-minute plays, ranging from the zany to the sublime. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 583-1674. 'The Musical of Musicals': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'Waiting for Godot': Playwright Samuel Beckett wove his idols, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, into his two comical tramp protagonists, but underneath the vaudeville antics, this play explores fundamental life questions about hope and faith. Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10-25. Info, 229-0492.

words Bread Loaf Readings: Alan Shapiro lectures on "Translation as 'Linguistic Hospitality'" in the morning, before Louise Glück shares passages in the late afternoon. Gary and Roland Clark take the podium at dusk with a musical program. Little Theatre. Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5483.

FRI.21 dance Ballroom Dance Social: Singles and couples of all ages learn ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7-10 p.m. $10-14. Info, 862-2269.

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BrEad & PuPPEt thEatEr dancEs: Folks flock to the Papier Mâché Cathedral to catch the Lubberland National Dance Company performing "Dirt Cheap Money Dances," followed by "Dirt Floor Cathedral Dances." Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 8-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 525-3031.

etc. 'a FEast For thE arts': A gourmet dinner, entertainment by Café Noir and an art auction celebrate local artists and the Vermont Festival of the Arts. Timbers Restaurant, Warren, 7 p.m. $60. Info, 496-6682. BirthdaY LakE cruisE: Bird lovers and naturalists celebrate Birds of Vermont Museum founder Bob Spear's 90th birthday with a spin around the lake, accompanied by festive eats and, of course, birding. Meet at Larabee's Point in Shoreham. Lake Champlain, 6-8 p.m. $25-30. Info, 434-2167. Book saLE: See WED.19, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Brown Bag LunchEon sEriEs: Researchers and grad students of UVM's Transportation Research Center share their roadwork in a Q&A-style midday meet. The topic: "Do Sidewalks Matter?" Farrell Hall, UVM, Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 656-3131. 'hard timEs sPEciaL': Die-hard baseball fans who may have given up cable in dicey economic times gather to watch broadcast games. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. 'intro to nonvioLEnt communication': NVC trainer Pan Vera helps participants ID their "life-affirming" and "lifealienating" language before leading a practice session for better body talk. Burlington Friends Meeting, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1761.

fairs & festivals 'LiBEratE music & arts FEstivaL': An eclectic lineup of musicians provides the background for two days of healing arts, dance, camping and food. 845 Poor Farm Road, Sheldon, noon - midnight. $40-50 per day; $60-70 weekend pass. Info, 999-2183. 'out in thE adirondacks': The "out" population celebrates with a weekend of outdoor activities and performing arts acts, including comedy by Steve Hayes, music from Catie Curtis, an open mic night and an Adirondack square dance. Great Camp Sagamore, Raquette Lake, N.Y., 9 a.m. - 11 p.m. Various prices. Info, 315-354-5311, ext. 21. vErmont FEstivaL oF thE arts: See WED.19, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

film 'L'auBErgE EsPagnoLE': When aimless young Parisian Xavier signs up as a Spanish exchange student to pad out his résumé, he doesn't realize his new friends in Barcelona will help him discover the fun of living. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576. 'moviEs on thE hiLL': Folks gather to watch the 2004 flick Howl's Moving Castle, in which a shy young woman is cursed with an elderly body by a witch. Seating begins at 7 p.m.; movie starts at dusk. Rain date: Saturday. Vermont College, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8600. 'summEr rEntaL': The Chester family tries to combat Murphy's Law in Carl Reiner's vacation-gone-wrong flick. Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 877-6737. 'vaLEntino: thE Last EmPEror': Director Matt Tyner's fly-on-the-wall film explores the world of haute couture fashion through Italy's famous designer and his longtime business partner, Giancarlo Giammetti. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6.50. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink charLottE FarmErs markEt: Farmers within 10 miles of the park share their bountiful homegrown goods with neighbors as they hike and picnic nearby. Mt. Philo State Park, Charlotte, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 425-2390. 'FoodwaYs FridaYs': Recipes from the 19th century get a revival as folks learn how heirloom garden veggies become seasonal dishes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $3-11. Info, 457-2355. hardwick FarmErs markEt: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with fresh produce and handcrafted goods. Route 15 West, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 626-7225. richmond FarmErs markEt: Live music entertains fresh-food browsers at a melody-centered market connecting farmers and cooks. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-5273. wEstFord FarmErs markEt: Purveyors of produce and other edibles take a stand at outdoor stalls. Westford Common, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-9053.

health & fitness ZumBa BurLington: See WED.19, 5:45-6:45 p.m.

kids 'animatEd LitEracY daY with thE travELing storYtELLEr': Representations of the Gingerbread Boy, Ugly Duckling, Three Pigs and the Wolf pop out of book pages to further entertain young readers. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. cEntraL vErmont chamBEr music FEstivaL: A musical ensemble performs fun classical compositions for kids in "Where in the World Are the Festival Musicians?" Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 11 a.m. $1-3. Info, 728-6464. 'découPagE coLLagE Box': See WED.19, 12:30-4:30 p.m. 'racE to witch mountain': A cabbie seeks help from a UFO expert to protect two young siblings with special powers in this 2009 adventure film. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. summEr storY timE: Young explorers discover the wonders of the natural world through books and imaginative play. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. $7.50-9.50. Info, 864-1848. 'thE Four LittLE Pigs': The Youth Theater Lab adds an extra piglet — and a singing one, at that! — to the equation in this modern musical adaptation of the classic fairy tale. Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. $5. Info, 229-0492. Youth markEt daY: Area kids peddle their handmade or homegrown goods at an open-air market brimming with hands-on farm-and-food activities for little ones. Richmond Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 434-5273.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. isLand Pond summEr concErt sEriEs: The Belairs bring upbeat 1950s and '60s dance music to the park. Check out the nearby artisan and outdoor market, too. Gazebo Park, Island Pond, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 723-6194. 'music FEstivaL oF thE amEricas': Members of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas join renowned songbirds in "A Night at the Opera: Till Death Do Us Part," a program of arias, duets and trios from Carmen, La Traviata and La Bohème. Topnotch Resort & Spa, Stowe, 8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 760-6797. othEr coLors: This strolling band features Shane and Charlotte Brodie's guitar, fiddle, mandolin and vocal stylings in original and improv arrangements. Richmond Farmers Market, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 434-5273.

tgiF summEr concErt sEriEs: Folks welcome in the weekend with live tunes by the Starline Rhythm Boys at the gazebo. Rain location: St. Albans City Hall Gymnasium. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 524-1500, ext. 260. 'thE BarBEr oF sEviLLE': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. thE dan tYminski Band: The vocalist plays the popular bluegrass and country tunes that have put his band on the music scene map. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $22.50-32.50. Info, 775-0903. viLLagE harmonY: Teen singers from Canada and New England perform American shape-note, gospel, Renaissance and South African songs and dances. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $5-10 suggested donation. Info, 426-3210.

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17th Annual Summer Series of Chamber Music Concerts August 9th - 23rd, 2009

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August 22nd at 8 pm Moszkowski, dohnányi and Mendelssohn info and Tickets - 802.728.6464

More Concerts & Special Events Montpelier - August 20th at 8 pm Unitarian Church - Montpelier, VT Randolph - August 21st at 11 am ChildREn’S ConCERT at Chandler Music hall Tickets onlY at the door, Children $1/Adult $3 Randolph - August 23rd at 12:30 pm ConCERT & ConTRA dAnCE - Free - info: 802.728.5575

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'aLicE in wondErLand': See WED.19, 3 p.m. 'Bus stoP': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'FivE FLights': This quirky and comedic play about a family struggling with loss explores religion, sexuality, commitment and longing. Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 8 p.m. $12-15. Info, 518-878-3104. 'FootLoosE': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'in sEarch oF air': Vignettes in words and movement chronicle a learning-disabled girl's struggle to break the code of reading and access the wider world in Lida Winfield's comic, adults-only performance. Phantom Theater, The Edgcomb Barn, Warren, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 496-5997. 'marrY mE a LittLE': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'othEr PEoPLE's monEY': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'rEnt': See WED.19, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. 'smokEY JoE's caFé': This Grammy award-winning musical theater revue features a lineup of pop standards, rock 'n' roll, and rhythm and blues tunes by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $12-25. Info, 518-962-4449. 'tEn-FEst': See THU.20, 8 p.m. 'thE gods oF thE hiLLs': Actor Jim Hogue gives iconic hero Ethan Allen a new lease on life in this historical play. Unadilla Theater, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $9. Info, 456-1123. 'thE musicaL oF musicaLs': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'waiting For godot': See THU.20, 8 p.m.

words BrEad LoaF rEadings: Jennifer Grotz lectures on "An Anxiety of Influence for Girls" in the morning, before David Barber, Frances de Pontes Peebles and Josh Weil share passages of their work in the late afternoon. Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch take the podium at dusk. Little Theatre. Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5483. Brown Bag Book cLuB: Lovers of the written word pack a lunch and meet to discuss Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:301:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

SAT.22 dance PErFormancE workshoP & audition: French choreographers Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon seek dancers and community members to help explore movement and sound in their new production, "Society of Spectacle." Dance Studio, Serkin Center for Performing Arts, Marlboro, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 579-3766, sara@ vermontperformancelab.com. summEr contra dancE: Caller George Marshall keeps feet moving to music from the Clayfoot Strutters. Potluck supper at 6:30 p.m.; dance starts at 8. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 6:30-11 p.m. $10-15. Info, 889-3246.

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'A Day in Montgomery: Harvest Fest & Art Show': This old-fashioned country fair features blooming flowers, homemade eats, a farmers market and crafts by local artisans. Village Green, Montgomery, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 933-5048. 'Liberate Music & Arts Festival': See FRI.21, noon - midnight. 'Out in the Adirondacks': See FRI.21, 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. Quechee Scottish Festival: Bagpipe bands, sheepdog trials, plaid skirts and, of course, haggis all figure prominently in this annual celebration of Scottish heritage. Don't miss the first pipe and drum band competition at 1:30 p.m. Quechee Polo Field, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 295-5351, info@ quecheescottishfestival. Vermont Festival of the Arts: See WED.19, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

'19th-Century Children's Games': The young at heart take a step back in time with old-fashioned diversions such as croquet, badminton, blindman's bluff and marbles. Noyes House Museum, Morrisville, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 888-7617. 'Apartment Garden Workshop': Localvores with nonexistent lawns learn to grow greens that are ready to harvest in seven to 10 days with just a cupboard and a windowsill. City Market, Burlington, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. 'Body Scrubs & Bath Salts': Pamper your body with some summer lovin' through seasonally inspired, homemade cleansers created with herbal education coordinator Cristi Nunziata. Sign up at the customer service desk. City Market, Burlington, noon - 1 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 861-9700. Burlington Cohousing Potluck: Hungry people bring a dish to share as they meet, mingle and learn about collaborative living. East Village Cohousing, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-0120. Carving Demos: Robert Spear, Jr., and Ingrid Brown whittle life-size wooden recreations of birds. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. $3-6. Info, 434-2167. Cob Oven Class & Plant Walk: Using a centuries-old Welsh technique, folks learn to construct a wood-fired bread and pizza oven, before an outdoor stroll to ID the fauna. The Gathering Inn at Hancock, 1-4 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 767-3734. 'Dream Ride': Harley riders raise funds and awareness for Special Olympics Vermont before a daylong ride to Farmington, Ct., for a 40-mile loop with cyclists from other states the next day. Registration is at 9 a.m.; ride leaves at 10. Green Mountain Harley-Davidson, Essex Junction, 9 a.m. Various prices. Info, 863-5222. 'Foundations of Nonviolent Communication': Folks work to improve relationships with others by better expressing their needs, under the guidance of NVC trainer Pan Vera. Burlington Friends Meeting, Burlington, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-1761. French Roundtable: Speakers at various skill levels order café during an open practice session. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. Historic Tour of UVM: Folks register online, then meet at Ira Allen's statue to tour the campus' modest early clapboards and grand Victorians, led by UVM Emeritus Professor William Averyt. UVM Waterman Building, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 656-3131. 'Innovative Homes of the Mad River Valley Tour': Architects lead a tour through five residential structures that take steps toward the future. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Warren, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. $50 includes lunch. Info, 496-5545. 'Neighbors' Day': Birdwatchers gather for an old-fashioned ice cream social from 1-2 p.m. and daylong open access to the museum for local residents. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 434-2167. 'Village Building Convergence': Montpelier comes alive with a week full of workshops pertaining to sustainable living, practical homesteading skills and the local community. Visit www. villageconvergencevt.org for a full schedule. Various downtown locations, Montpelier, 6-10 p.m. Various prices. Info, 454-1167. 'Walk to End Child Abuse': Concerned community members raise awareness of the victims of Shaken Baby Syndrome through a walk, followed by music from Mark Sustic and Gary Dulabaum. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Battery Park, Burlington, 10 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-5724. Yard Sale: Shoppers scout out recycled goods to add to their home collections. River Rock School, Montpelier, 9 a.m. 2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4700.

film 'Adoration': See WED.19, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576. 'Valentino: The Last Emperor': See FRI.21, 1:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.

food & drink Burlington Farmers Market: Vendors sell everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to ethnic cuisine to pottery to artisan cheese. Burlington City Hall Park, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-889-8188. Capital City Farmers Market: Fresh produce, perennials, seedlings, homebaked foods and handmade crafts lure local buyers throughout the growing season. Capital City Farmers Market, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4360. Champlain Islands Farmers Market: Shoppers browse through a wide selection of local fruits, veggies and handmade crafts. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3420. Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.19, 9 a.m. - noon. Northwest Farmers Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m. 2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821. 'Rising Star Chef Food & Wine Show': Vermont's culinary experts join Topnotch's chef Mark Timms in creating samples of their signature dishes for foodies. With wine and beer tastings to boot, this event benefits the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger. See calendar spotlight. Topnotch Resort & Spa, Stowe, 12-5 p.m. $25-30. Info, 253-6497. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables at a presentation of the season's best. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472. St. Johnsbury-Caledonia Farmers Market: Folks browse through local baked goods, handmade crafts and fresh produce. St. Johnsbury Farmers Market, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 626-8396. Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local bands enliven an outdoor outlet for homegrown herbs, flowers and fruits, and handmade breads, cheeses and syrups. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027. Williston Farmers Market: Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at a weekly openair affair. Town Green, Williston, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7728.

health & fitness Zumba Burlington: See WED.19, 9-10 a.m.

kids 'Dance Stories': Eager listeners turn their attention to spoken tales of movement, before testing out some ballet steps of their own. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

'Découpage Collage Box': See WED.19, 12:30-4:30 p.m. 'Meet the Scientist: Extreme Weather': Meteorologist Gib Brown leads kids on a "ride" through lightning and a tornado as he helps unravel the causes of nature's temper tantrums. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. $7.50-9.50. Info, 864-1848. 'The Four Little Pigs': See FRI.21, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. 'Carmen': See THU.20, 7:30 p.m. Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival: A musical ensemble performs classical compositions for strings and piano by Schubert, Chausson, Moszkowski and more. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 8 p.m. $20 for adults. Info, 728-6464. 'Mad 4 Music': For the fourth year, a lineup of local bands plays a lively medley of tunes. Colleen Mayes, Sharon & Erica, James Kinne, the Queen City Hot Club and Swing Noire all take the stage. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 6-9 p.m. $3 per band. Info, 496-8994. 'Music Festival of the Americas': Members of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas play "Summer Classics," dance-inducing works including Piazzola's Tangazo, Márquez’s Danzón No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in E Minor. Topnotch Resort & Spa, Stowe, 8 p.m. $10-25. Info, 760-6797. Saltarello: Sarah Cantor, Angus Lansing and Andrus Madsen perform Handel's solo sonatas on recorder, viola da gamba and harpsichord. Strafford Town House, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 617-669-4202.

'Rain Garden Tour': Folks feeling downtrodden by all the downpours visit Williston, Essex Junction and Winooski to see intricate bowl-shaped gardens that capture storm runoff and protect local waterways. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 8657895, ext. 104.

sport '666 Mountain Bike Race': Intense cyclists hit the slopes in a six- to eight-mile course with a variety of tricky terrain. Amee Farm, Pittsfield, 9 a.m. $10-40. Info, 309-642-2230, andy@peak.com.

talks Artist Talk: Creators of The Art of Lake Champlain: Inspiring Landscape share stories about the lake and its environs as they sign their John Hancocks on book covers. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

theater 'Alice in Wonderland': See WED.19, 3 p.m. 'Candida': When two men compete for Candida's love, the question is ... What does she feel? George Bernard Shaw's fast-paced comedy examines themes of marriage, rivalry and domestic power. Pendragon Theater, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 518-891-1854. 'Feast of Fools': Catch the New York Theatre Workshop's work-in-progress story about Harry Hay, the founder of an underground organization striving to achieve equal rights for homosexuals. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 603-646-2422. 'Five Flights': See FRI.21, 8 p.m. 'Footloose': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'In Search of Air': See FRI.21, 8 p.m. 'Marry Me a Little': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'Other People's Money': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'Rent': See WED.19, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. 'Smokey Joe's Café': See FRI.21, 8 p.m. 'Ten-Fest': See THU.20, 8 p.m. 'The Gods of the Hills': See FRI.21, 7:30 p.m. 'The Musical of Musicals': See WED.19, 2:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'Twilight Time': Catch the New York Theatre Workshop's work-in-progress play by Mark Crispin Miller about the lasting effects of the Bush-Cheney era. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m. $5-10. Info, 603-646-2422. 'Waiting for Godot': See THU.20, 8 p.m.

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See spotlight, p.18B They Might Be Gypsies: This fatherson duo strums guitars for high-energy gypsy-swing sounds drawing on folk, jazz and bluegrass origins. The Art House, Middlebury, 8:30-11 p.m. $8. Info, 458-0464. Tim Janis: The young composer who has worked with the likes of Paul McCartney and Billy Joel plays an intimate concert. United Church, Warren, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 496-6682. Vermont Suzuki Violins: Young Vermont musicians share their command of bows and strings at an open concert. Brown Dog Books & Gifts, Hinesburg, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 482-5189.

outdoors Bike Ferry: Cyclists go the distance between Burlington and the Champlain Islands on what used to be a railroad bed, thanks to Local Motion’s causeway-bridging ferry. Colchester Causeway, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 316-6382, brian@localmotion.org.

Bread Loaf Readings: Maud Casey lectures on "The Power of Imagined Figures in Historical Fiction" in the morning, before Peter Campion, Myronn Hardy and Kirsten Megner-Anderson share passages in the late afternoon. Lisa Fugard, Michael Collier and David Shields take the podium at dusk. Little Theatre. Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5483.

SUN.23 activism Peacham Town Meeting: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders hosts a discussion of economic issues facing the country and Vermont — and offers free grub. Congregational Church, Peacham, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-339-9834. 'Workshop for Social Activists': Burlington Friends Meeting and the Peace and Justice Center host this info session on making the world a better place through effective communication with those who hold different views. Burlington Friends Meeting, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 865-1761.

etc. Chess Club: Tabletop warriors do battle at the behest of players of all ages and abilities. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. Corn Roast & Veggie Ball: Lovers of summer produce feast on vegetarian appetizers and seasonal desserts before dancing to airs by Jenni Johnson and friends, in support of garden-based education programs. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 4:30-8:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 861-4769. Dungeons & Dragons: Paper-andpencil adventures await imaginative XP earners. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. Fundraising Dinner & Live Auction: Neighbors support Friends of East Avenue by joining for an authentic Nepali feast and bidding on jewelry, household items and more. East Village Cohousing, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $10-25 donation. Info, 399-2475. 'Hard Times Special': See FRI.21, 1:35 p.m. 'Intro to Nonviolent Communication': Folks explore peaceful methods of verbal and body language. Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1730. Scrabble Club: Triple-letter-square seekers wage word wars. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558. 'Storytelling Circle': Neighbors share their stories as part of Montpelier's Village Building Convergence. Trinity United Methodist Church, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1730. 'Village Building Convergence': See SAT.22, 10:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

fairs & festivals Vermont Cheesemakers' Festival: Got cheese? Hundreds of dairy lovers, chefs and artisan cheesemakers from around the state sample more than 100 varieties, partake in tasting seminars and catch cooking demos at this inaugural fête. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $20. Info, 800-884-6287. Vermont Festival of the Arts: See WED.19, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

film 'Up': Pixar's hilarious film follows a 78-year-old's helium balloon journey to the wilds of South America ... where he discovers his biggest nightmare has tagged along. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. & 4 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576. 'Valentino: The Last Emperor': See FRI.21, 7 p.m.

food & drink 'Best Bartenders Challenge': Bottoms up! Barkeeps serve tasty libations in a one-upping to benefit the Lamoille Cancer Network. Mr. Pickwick's at Ye Olde England Inne, Stowe, 11 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 253-5320. 'Ice Cream Sundays': Visitors ditch the ice cream man to churn their own flavors while learning about the scientific and historical aspects of the tradition. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, noon & 3 p.m. $3-11. Info, 457-2355. South Burlington Farmers Market: Growers and producers parcel out the fruits of the soil to folks looking to buy local. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569. Stowe Farmers Market: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.

kids 'Découpage Collage Box': See WED.19, 12:30-4:30 p.m.

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'REad to a dog': Stories form a bond between young readers and Deali, a Pembroke corgi from Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. CEntRaL VERmont ChamBER musiC FEstiVaL: A musical ensemble performs classical compositions for strings and piano by Mendelssohn, Dohnaghy and Schubert over lunch. A contra dance session follows at 2 p.m. Three Stallion Inn, Randolph, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 728-6464. 'i PuRitani': Big voices come to the cinema as opera fans catch Bellini's tale of love during the English Civil War in high-def, prerecorded at Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Merrill's Roxy Cinema, Burlington, 11 a.m. $18-20. Info, 864-3456. 'mad 4 musiC': See SAT.22, noon & 6 p.m. maPLE Jam: This a cappella jazz ensemble matches vocal harmonies to arrangements of songs by the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and more. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 928-3364. summER sounds ConCERt: Young Tradition produce polished folk and traditional refrains. Highgate Municipal Park, Highgate Center, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 868-3351. 'thE BaRBER oF sEViLLE': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m.

outdoors BikE FERRY: See SAT.22, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. mEdiCinaL PLant WaLk: Tour guide Adrienne Allison directs strollers' eyes to the natural healers sprouting in backyards and parks. Montpelier High School, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1167. Rain gaRdEn touR: Greenskeepers join guides Emma Melvin and Mark Krawczyk on a city stint to view plots that absorb stormwater and reduce water pollution. Montpelier High School, 10:30 a.m. - noon. Free. Info, 999-2768. 'suCCEssFuL BLuEBERRY gRoWing & tasting': Love the juicy summer berries? Learn how to set up your own backyard patch in this workshop covering soil, fertility needs, spacing and mulching. Preregister. Elmore Roots Nursery, Wolcott, 1-3 p.m. $10. Info, 888-3305.

theater 'aLiCE in WondERLand': See WED.19, 12 p.m. 'FiVE FLights': See FRI.21, 2 p.m. 'maRRY mE a LittLE': See WED.19, 3 p.m. 'smokEY JoE's CaFé': See FRI.21, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. 'tEn-FEst': See THU.20, 7 p.m. 'thE diRt ChEaP monEY CiRCus & PagEant': An inventive, politically charged performance highlights an all-afternoon event made up of museum tours and smaller shows. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 2:30-5 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 525-3031. 'thE gin gamE': The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama focuses on the isolation and detachment that sometimes accompany old age. Pendragon Theater, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 8 p.m. $15. Info, 518-891-1854, pdragon@northnet.org. 'thE musiCaL oF musiCaLs': See WED.19, 4 p.m. 'Waiting FoR godot': See THU.20, 2 p.m.

words 'august REading sERiEs': Writers Rick Hawley, Gary Margolis and Sue Ellen Thompson take a break from scribbling pages to share passages, thoughts and experiences. BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670.

MON.24 dance aFRo-CaRiBBEan danCE CLass: Penelope Newcomb leads high-energy, imaginative dances for all skill levels, derived from Cuba, Haiti and Brazil, to the beat of live drums. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5-6:30 p.m. $10. Info, 723-4014.

etc. VERmont PuBLiC Radio CommunitY gathERing: As VPR Classical expands transmission into Brandon, radio staffers discuss the details with town members. Brandon Music, noon - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 465-4071. 'ViLLagE BuiLding ConVERgEnCE': See SAT.22, 9:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.

fairs & festivals VERmont FEstiVaL oF thE aRts: See WED.19, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

film 'VaLEntino: thE Last EmPERoR': See FRI.21, 7 p.m.

food & drink 'BaCkYaRd gouRmEt mushRoom gaRdEning': Garden experts Alissa White and Mark Krawczyk shed light on the best 'shroom conditions. 190 Main Street, Montpelier, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-2768. 'inCREdiBLE EdiBLE intERVaLE touR': Food enthusiasts meet local farmers and sample their homegrown bounty. Pre-tour lunch, tasting and discussion at 11:30 a.m. at Half Pint Farm. Intervale Center, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. $15-40. Info, 922-7346.

health & fitness 'hERBs & nutRition FoR BaLanCing BLood sugaR': Instructor Guido Masé enlightens eaters on how plants and simple dietary strategies can combat common problems related to hypoglycemia, pre-diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. City Market, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. ZumBa BuRLington: See WED.19, 5:45-6:45 p.m.

kids 'CiRCus stiLL LiFEs': Imaginative children gather in the Owl Cottage Family Activity Center to create a static scene from the Big Top, based on the work of artist Patty Zeigler. Shelburne Museum, 12:30-4:30 p.m. Regular admission, $10-20. Info, 985-3346. musiC With PEtER: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. aFRo-BRaZiLian PERCussion CLass: Community band Sambatucada teaches the pulsating rhythms of samba, samba reggae, baião and maracatu. Switchback Brewery, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-7107. VERgEnnEs CitY Band: A brass band welcomes musicians of all ages at an outdoor concert of gazebo faves. Vergennes City Park, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 877-2005. VERmont FiddLE oRChEstRa REhEaRsaL: Bows make vibrations on stringed instruments as the orchestra tunes up its tunes in practice sessions. New members welcome. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 877343-3531, info@vtfiddleorchestra. org.

outdoors 'EdiBLE LandsCaPE instaLLation': Neighbors pitch in on revamping the land with terrace building, fruit tree and shrub installation, design discussion and more. 190 Main Street, Montpelier, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 999-2768.

talks 'undERstanding montPELiER's WatERWaYs': Ann Smith of Friends of the Winooski educates locals on the health of area channels and ongoing water projects. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 223-1730. 'ViLLagE PLanning': Folks band together to imagine the ecological future of Montpelier and beyond with Permaculture designer and educator Mark Krawczyk. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 999-2768.

theater auditions FoR 'thE FuLL montY': Thespians master singing, dancing and line reading to score roles in Lyric Theatre Company's fall production of the British comedy. South Burlington High School, 6-11 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1484. 'smokEY JoE's CaFé': See FRI.21, 8 p.m.

words Book disCussion sERiEs: Bibliophiles wrap their minds around Michael White's A Brother's Blood through reading and discussion. Quechee Public Library, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 295-1232. gEoF hEWitt: The poet shares lines from Robert Frost's famous works and leads a discussion comparing Frost's portrayal of Vermont with how he might see it today. West Fairlee Congregational Church, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 333-4285.

TUE.25 etc. C-sPan CiViCs Bus: The traveling multimedia demo center and TV production unit welcomes folks aboard to tour the operation. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. dinnER & siLEnt auCtion: Debbi Craig plucks delicate harp strings to create the music of Wales, Ireland and Scotland as folks dine and bid to support the Slate Valley Museum. Preregister. Fair Haven Inn, 5:30 p.m. $36.50. Info, 518-642-1417. 'ExPLoRing thE Path to EnLightEnmEnt': Fill your head with facts about Tibetan Buddhism while filling your body with a sense of peace in this meditation and discussion series. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 633-4136. knit night: Crafty needle workers (crocheters, too) share their talents and company as they give yarn a makeover. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. PausE CaFé: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:15-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088. 'timE tRaVEL tuEsdaY': Visitors cook on a woodstove and churn butter, then relax as a farm family would have in the 1890s. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. $3-11. Info, 457-2355. 'uLtimatE haPPinEss & Buddhism': Folks striving to create unshakable happiness through Nichiren Buddhism swap stories about their experiences. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 310-2187. 'ViLLagE BuiLding ConVERgEnCE': See SAT.22, 9:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.

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August 26, Wed., 7:30 p.m. Schubert • Shostakovich • Dvo˘rák August 28, Fri., 7:30 p.m. Ludwig • Kurtag Schumann • Messiaen August 30, Sun., 3:00 p.m. Schafer • Dvo˘rák • Schubert Soovin Kim, Artistic Director Soovin Kim, violin Jennifer Frautschi, violin Hsin-Yun Huang, viola Edward Arron, cello Alisa Weilerstein, cello David Shifrin, clarinet Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano Jeewon Park, piano Hyunah Yu, soprano David Ludwig, composer-in-residence

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Some of the amazing roles we are casting include: Jerry Lukowski- An unemployed mill worker. 30-40. Range: Rock Tenor. Sings in 10 numbers. “I'm out of work, divorced, in debt up to my balls ... And if I don't make some money soon they won't let me see my kid. I'm fed up, frustrated, angry and, oh yeah, scrap.” Jerry is a complex emotional character with serious heart and charisma, and genuine tenderness for his son. Body type = preferably good-looking (his “nice rear” is referenced). Noah “Horse” T. Simmons– a retired African American mill worker. 50+. Range: Baritone/Tenor. Sings in 5 numbers. D3-Bb5. His “break-dancing days are probably over” but he sings and dances the funky show-stopping, 'Big Black Man.' Excellent mover with great dead-pan comedy. Body type = Black man (not necessarily big!). It is a key component of the character. Jeannette Burmeister – the piano player. 50+. Range: Low alto belter. She's seen it all and been there before. You can't shock her, but she'll shock you as she says what's really on her mind! Shows up with a piano to play for the guys totally out of the blue. Steals the show with her 'Showbiz' number. And other roles including: Dave (Jerry’s overweight best friend), Malcolm and Ethan (a fledgling gay couple), Nathan (Jerry’s 12 year old son), Georgie and Pam, Harold and Vicki, and MORE! 12 Men, 8 Women, 1 Boy.

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Thursdays @ 5:30 P.M. & saTurdays @ 7 a.M. inside seven days

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fairs & festivals

'ediBle landscape & small Fruits For Vermont': Nicko Rubin of East Hill Tree Farm dishes about the state's thriving comestibles. 190 Main Street, Montpelier, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 999-2768.

Vermont FestiVal oF the arts: See WED.19, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

film 'red Zone '09': Best-selling author and Super Bowl Champion football coach Tony Dungy gives an exciting playby-play of the secrets of the game. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 8-10 p.m. $15. Info, 864-5610. 'Valentino: the last emperor': See FRI.21, 7 p.m.

2009 Season

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Footloose celebrates a small town's victory of youthful energy over close-mindedness with explosive dancing and the rockin' rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated TOP 40 score! Stage Adaptation by Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie. Based on the original screenplay by Dean Pitchford. Music by Tom Snow. Lyrics by Dean Pitchford. Additional Music by Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and Jim Steinman.

Order Tickets Online: www.stowetheatre.com tickets@stowetheatre.com Information: 802-253-3961 All performances at 8p.m. Stowe Town Hall Theatre, 67 Main Street, Stowe

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'documentary & raw Food discussion': Folks catch a showing of the "Eating" DVD, which advocates a change in diet, while munching on raw treats. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5 for members; $7 for nonmembers. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202. Green drinks: Environmental fans and professionals raise a glass over networking and discussion. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-7999. old north end Farmers market: Local farmers sell the fruits of their fields, and their labor. H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3073.

Great music,

theater, & dance lauGhter yoGa: What's so funny? allburstseason long! Giggles out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual health and well-being. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 8-9 a.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.

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kids 'circus still liFes': See MON.24, 12:30-4:30 p.m. creatiVe tuesdays with Frank GonZaleZ: Artists of all ages bring old newspaper to create puppets, masks and other dramatic papier-mâché. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. 'music with roBert resnik': The host of a weekly folk and world music show on VPR explores tunes with music lovers of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Also, see clubdates in Section B. Green mountain chorus: Men who like to sing learn four-part harmonies at an open meeting of this all-guy barbershop group. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5439, w1sj@arrl.net. northeast kinGdom shape note sinG: Singers of early American music arrange themselves in a hollow square for four-part "fa-so-la-mi" hymns. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 525-3031.

Ira Glass Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson “Loud and Rich”

Broadway National Tour

“Avenue Q”

Cirque Mechanics

“Birdhouse Factory” “MOMIX: REMIX” Best of MOMIX

For a complete season brochure, call 802652-4554

A Tribute to Billie Holiday

Dee Dee Bridgewater: “Lady Day” Tap Dogs “A Canadian Brass Christmas”

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“Camelot”

Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company

“Serenade / The Proposition”

“From the Top” with Christopher O’Riley featuring the Vermont Youth Orchestra and other special guests

outdoors 'ediBle landscape installation': See MON.24, 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. wiGGly worms: Toddlers ages 3 to 5 and their parents go sleuthing for squirmy subterranean friends. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-2 p.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 for each additional child. Info, 434-3068.

Pre-season discounts end Sept. 16.

Ed Asner is “FDR” Broadway National Tour

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

'Get to know your Bike': A cycleshop pro introduces free wheelers to vehicle anatomy, flat fixes and roadside skills. Skirack, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313.

“Porgy and Bess”

African Children’s Choir

153 Main St., Burlington, VT 802.652.4500

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theater 'alice in wonderland': See WED.19, 3 p.m. auditions For 'the Full monty': See MON.24, 6-11 p.m. 'candida': See SAT.22, 8 p.m. 'marry me a little': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'the musical oF musicals': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m.

WED.26 environment enerGy workshop: Folks looking to reduce their carbon footprint check in with Alteris Renewables for solar-electric, solar-thermal and wind solutions. City Market, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

etc. aarp saFe driVer course: Motor vehicle operators ages 50 and up take a quick trip into the classroom for a how-to refresher. Winooski Senior Center, Winooski, 1-5 p.m. $12-14. Info, 655-6425. italian conVersation Group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869. new memBer orientation social: Female volunteers dive into the Junior League of Champlain Valley, an organization that plans community projects to improve the quality of life for children, women and families. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9785. 'VillaGe BuildinG conVerGence': See SAT.22, 4-8 p.m.

fairs & festivals Vermont FestiVal oF the arts: See WED.19, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.

film 'Bike-in moVie theatre': Vermont Community Access Media and Outer Space Café team up to show big-screen faves out of doors for two-wheeled travelers. Outer Space Café, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 378-6162. 'Brüno': A flamboyant Austrian fashionista (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) creates an upset when he visits Red State America in Larry Charles' 2009 comedy. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576. 'Valentino: the last emperor': See FRI.21, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

food & drink champlain islands Farmers market: See WED.19, 4-7 p.m. middleBury Farmers market: See WED.19, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. new north end Farmers market: See WED.19, 3-6:30 p.m. south end Farmers market: See WED.19, 3:30-6:30 p.m.

health & fitness ZumBa BurlinGton: See WED.19, 5:45-6:45 p.m.

kids BaBytime: See WED.19, 10:30 a.m. 'circus still liFes': See MON.24, 12:30-4:30 p.m. 'liVe action role play': Little ones play out imaginative scenarios as they create characters and improvise actions and words. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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oriGami instruction: Delicate squares crease into intricate, threedimensional flowers as youngsters learn the ancient art of paper folding. Preregister. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. lake champlain chamBer music FestiVal: As part of a newly founded classical-music fest, musicians perform the sounds of Schubert and Shostakovich. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $10-25 includes post-concert dessert and coffee. Info, 863-5966. 'music on the porch': Rich Magnuson and the Swingin' Vermont Big Band lend their musical stylings to a picnic on the porch. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain Coffee Visitor Center & Café, Waterbury, 5:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 882-2289. 'slice oF summer' music series: The Eames Brothers Band keep cool with smooth blues, rock and jam arrangements. Piecasso, Stowe, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 253-4411. summit school showcase: Special guests Didymo join local master folk musicians Dan Haley, Katie Trautz, Mark Greenberg and more in an evening of tunes. Langdon Street Café, Montpelier, 8-11 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 917-1186, music@ summit-school.org.

outdoors monarch ButterFly taGGinG: In 2007, a black and orange flier identified at the nature center was recovered in Mexico. Folks catch, tag and release the migrating Monarchs to help with future connections. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

sport 'pick-up BroomBall': See WED.19, 8-9:30 p.m.

talks 'ForeiGn policy & the citiZen': See WED.19, 5:30-6:30 p.m. mark west: The founding director of the Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology covers some tough stuff in "Pressure Building (Concrete Falls in Love)" as he shares his techniques for forming concrete in affordable fabric sheets. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Warren, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

theater 'alice in wonderland': See WED.19, 7 p.m. auditions For 'the Full monty': See MON.24, 6-11 p.m. 'Footloose': See WED.19, 8 p.m. 'marry me a little': See WED.19, 3 p.m. 'other people's money': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'the musical oF musicals': See WED.19, 7:30 p.m. 'yc moVement theatre': Three artists create a fluid combination of movement and narrative as they work to express the beauty of the human soul. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $12. Info, 518-962-4449.

words 'Vermont reads' Book discussion: Bookworms dive into conversation about Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536. m

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Peace of Wild Thing Calling out to PeaceofWildThing ... beep beep bloop beep beep. OK, so I don’t know Morse code. Saw your profile - it drew me in. Just had to reach out & say hi. Hi! To the one who sounds so very intriguing: Hope this message finds its way to you. One Long Trail venturer to another. Stargazing. When: Saturday, August 8, 2009. Where: Seven Days Personals. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #906218

Social Distortion front row To the beautiful brunette, hand in the air, singing along center stage at Social Distortion: You rock. Let’s catch a show sometime. When: Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Where: Higher Ground Social Distortion. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906247

Stay in touch :) Enjoy the move & the new job, hun. I hope everything works out! I’d travel up to VT again even from Connecticut just to see your pretty smile. Miss ya so much! When: Friday, August 7, 2009. Where: St. Albans. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906233

august 2006 OK, I don’t know if this is the right person, but if it is, I’m still (unfortunately) in the pizza game. So call me there & ask for me, otherwise I will know this was a missed connection. When: Saturday, August 8, 2009. Where: I Spy. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906246

Dave You’re really fun to hang out with. I’ll miss you while I’m at college. Don’t worry, I love you. When: Monday, August 10, 2009. Where: my house. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906232

SPINACH! nonorganic? Saw you at Price Chopper. We discussed spinach briefly. Then later you offered up your Price Chopper card! Too bad my tongue dries up & shrivels around super-hot girls. You: super-cute brunette, salad shopping as well. Me: spinach shopper in need of Price Chopper card. Not sure if this works, but spy me back or contact me - however this works! Assistance w/tossed salad needed!? When: Thursday, August 13, 2009. Where: spinach aisle (conventional/nonorganic)?. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906244 Hey Mister I’m sure you know this, but, indeed, there comes a time when one cannot win. Even as one objects to it being a game, it enables the game. Therefore, I hope that you know in your heart that I really appreciate when you pass me that growler. When: Tuesday, August 11, 2009. Where: Motion calender. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906243 10 years ago Ten years ago we started an amazing “something” that ended abruptly because I was leaving town. I still remember triple buckets, campfires at the lot, listening to the Rolling Stones, giving the cops “a show”, and the morning you broke my heart in your kitchen. We completely lost touch a few years back, but I still think of you... When: Friday, June 19, 2009. Where: Richmond/Williston. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906242 Tall, sexy liftech man Our eyes connected & my heart stopped. You smiled at me & I smiled back. I was scared to talk to you, but glad I did. Maybe next time I can give you the ride ;) When: Sunday, April 20, 2008. Where: Heaven. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906241 Cute VTer at Saratoga Track I know it is a bit desperate, but I have to try something to see you again. I chickened out asking for your number because we both seemed a bit buzzed, and were just enjoying the exhilaration generated from the ambiance of the track & betting. Do you do other things besides gamble? I’d love to know. When: Friday, August 7, 2009. Where: Saratoga, NY. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906239 Tequila shivers at the Optometrist’s It was “Dilation Thursday” at Eyecare VT, and I couldn’t help but think you looked darn cute when you did the Tequila (eye drop) shiver. Now that your “hell week” is over, care to meet for a coffee sometime? When: Thursday, August 13, 2009. Where: Essex Jct. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906238 Ben & Jerry’s beauty You had amazing style, a bright yellow tank top, beautiful dreadlocks, a great smile & unforgettable eyes. I helped you fill a box full of chocolates; after you paid we locked eyes and exchanged smiles. Because of you I’ll remember that minute for the rest of my life. Let me know if you want to grab some coffee or tea sometime. When: Thursday, August 13, 2009. Where: Ben & Jerry’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906237 Mr. Mike’s U braces me blue shirt I was at Mr. Mike’s last night - you had braces & a blue shirt? Your friend in white. Didn’t know if you were talking to me or not, so if it seemed like I was ignoring you, I’m sorry. If you would do a redo on the conversation, I’m up for it. I was wearing a blue shirt w/ Chinese writing on it. When: Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Where: Mr. Mike’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906235 McDouble man I saw you chowing McDoubles on Mansfield Ave. You were so sexy. 8 in 13 minutes ... wow. Hot stuff, champ. When: Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Where: Mansfield Ave. You: Man. Me: Man. #906234

Gorgeous Tilley’s Waitress Came in w/ some friends last Saturday night & you recommended a great glass of red wine. I asked you where to go out that night. Wish I had seen you there. Hoping to run into you soon. When: Saturday, August 1, 2009. Where: Tilley’s Cafe. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906231 and the bus stop’s off limits I’m forming a petition to draft an act to propose a motion to make it a municipal misdemeanor to walk in front of my house looking all beautiful & long-haired & wearing black, and stuff. When: Tuesday, August 11, 2009. Where: plead the fifth. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906230 Let’s go sailing You: brunette, had on a peach-colored shirt, black shorts, and said you’re from France (fluent in 4 languges?) but spending the summer in VT. You are absolutely gorgeous, but I (blue shirt, khakis) took off in my green BMW before asking for your number. Let’s go sailing sometime soon. When: Sunday, August 9, 2009. Where: waterfront Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906229 Drinks & conversation in Burlington You: beautiful brown eyes, small green top & jeans. I had orange sunglasses on, jacket & cargos. We went out for drinks in Burlington a while back; you told me there’s no such thing as a fairytale. When we gonna chat again? When: Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Where: downtown Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906228 The Coffee That Got Away Who knew coffee theft could be so serendipitous? (And beautiful doesn’t even begin to describe my eyes...) I’ll take you up on your offer, just let me know when. And thanks for making my day! When: Thursday, July 30, 2009. Where: Starbucks. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906226 You liked my comedy You recognized me at the post office back around the middle of July (I can’t remember the exact date), and said you had liked my comedy at the Flynn. I wanted to talk more, but my boss... But I have more funny things to say if you’re interested. When: Wednesday, July 15, 2009. Where: E. Montpelier Post Office. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906225 Skirack to Farmers Market Saturday It was nice to talk to you, but I am not slick enough to have gotten your number. We did not get a coffee, but the orange juice was great! Are you single? When: Saturday, August 8, 2009. Where: farmers market. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #906224

August 2006 Saw you in I Spy in Seven Days paper dated around July 20 week. I don’t know if I found the “one” that I never had a “Happy Ending” with, but if I did ... because yes, it has been about 3 years now, I, too, think of you. When: Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Where: Seven Days I Spy ad. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906217 Shelburne Farms Blonde Beauty You are intelligent, caring, compassionate, funny & beautiful. You are a good friend, a wonderful teacher & an amazing lover. Thanks for a great week in Vermont and know that I am looking forward to building our dreams together. I miss you already. When: Friday, July 31, 2009. Where: Shelburne. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906216 Heading west just past Cluse Walking out of the parking garage, east end of Cherry, to Penny Cluse for breakfast, I spy with my little eye a tall, attractive, Asian guy w/ a City Market bag. Met you for the first time in March while working. Flirting brightened the day. You said you work at Seventh Generation. We’re perfect strangers, but thinking of you fondly. When: Thursday, July 23, 2009. Where: Burlington on Cherry St. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #906215 GIRL AT SNEAKERS FRIDAY MORNING To the redheaded girl w/ a green Cape Cod shirt sitting outside at Sneakers on Friday morning. You caught my eye. Are you single? When: Friday, August 7, 2009. Where: Sneakers. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906214 beautiful funny smart listmaker Amy: I met you Thursday at the Up Top Tavern (?) in Vergennes, all too briefly. You are gorgeous & smart & funny and I want to take you out to dinner. I don’t fish anymore, but most of the rest of the list seems to mesh. - Eric When: Thursday, August 6, 2009. Where: Vergennes. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #906213 Hey Yourself Scout Finch Who needs computers & cars? Metal Messiah wants a shipyard. When: Saturday, July 11, 2009. Where: Wes. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906212 cute barista at speeder’s You served me a chai latte at Speeder’s on Pine St. I had on a yellow sweater & a nametag from work which (I hope) you kept looking at. I said I’d never been there before; you were telling me that it’s a woman-owned business. Want to go out for drinks? (You’re probably sick of coffee.) When: Sunday, July 5, 2009. Where: Speeder & Earl’s on Pine St. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #906210

Dear Mistress Maeve, I’m a 28-year-old lesbian with a quandary about dicks — fake ones, that is. My girlfriend and I want to purchase a strap-on dildo (for me to wear and her to receive), but we’ve come upon a stumbling cock, er ... stumbling block. I would prefer a realistic-looking dildo... My girlfriend prefers sparkly dildos in all shades of purple. She says that if she wanted to have sex with a lifelike penis, she’d have sex with a man. I think it’s hot to mess around with gender roles, plus, I don’t see anything sexy about romping around with a big purple member. How do we get over this hurdle and get to the fun stuff? Signed, Dick Tracy Dear Dick Tracy, For me, the transcendence of traditional gender roles is inherently erotic; therefore, the idea of a biological female strapping on a realistic dildo is totally hot. Unlike your girlfriend, I don’t see it as a substitute for having sex with a “real man.” I see it as a way to turn up your nose at society’s binary gender system and have some fun in the process. That said, why are you so “rigid” when it comes to your cock? I’ve had plenty of fun with lifelike dildos — but I’ve also had some memorable times with strap-ons shaped like dolphins or spaceships and even one molded to look like Barack Obama (appropriately nicknamed “Commander-In-Chief”). My advice to both of you is to lighten up. Don’t get too attached to one type of sex toy or one way of having sex. If you remain open-minded about dildos, gender roles and pleasure, you’ll have a much more rewarding sex life. Buy two dildos — one realistic and one playful — then pledge to explore with both. The couple that plays together stays together.

Strapped,

Book of stamps, video return We two were in line at the post office & then, a few hours later, returned movies simultaneously. Was that a wedding ring? When: Thursday, August 6, 2009. Where: Montpelier. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906208

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Hey Lala! I think you’re quite attractive. Would you like to meet up for a drink? Let me know... When: Thursday, August 6, 2009. Where: around. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906207

Cat & Mouse on i89 You were driving a 3 series BMW. I was driving a silver Infiniti G35 coupe. I had fun; too bad you had to get off so soon. Let’s play again. When: Thursday, August 6, 2009. Where: between Burlington & Exit 12 on 89. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906223

Easygoinggoingeasy I spied you on Two 2 Tango before I was ready. Unfortunately for me, now that I am ready, you are hiding. Please be in touch if you want to come out & play! When: Sunday, February 1, 2009. Where: Two 2 Tango. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906206

Dinner at Splash Last August S, I might be a thousand miles away but still think of you often & how much I enjoyed your company for all of one quick month last year. You’re a beautiful woman & deserve to be happy. I still hope to return to VT, and will take you up on Air Hockey yet. N When: Saturday, August 9, 2008. Where: at the waterfront. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906221

Colchester Point Rd. Jogger - What a hottie! On Wednesday evening I was walking w/ my friend (I’m the tall one) and you said ‘hi’ as you went by. You looked even better from behind when you passed us again in the other direction. Would love to see you again. When: Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Where: Colchester Point Rd. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906205

One Cool Lady In a black dress. You were carrying Hannafords bags & you asked about the Riverside bus. You had a really marvelous Celtic knot tattooed on your shoulder. I think we might share a faith & you certainly intrigue me. Want to meetand-talk somewhere caffeinated? No strings. I had tan slacks & a dark-blue shirt w/ white squares. - QuirkyBard When: Saturday, August 8, 2009. Where: Cherry St. bus stop. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #906219

I LOVE YOU HELEN Baby, I am sorry for all I have put you through. I can’t breathe without you. You are my heart & soul. We are going to be okay. I am so blessed that you are my lady. My love will never fade. Let’s get our love back. I am FOREVER YOURS! When: Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Where: between the sheets. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #906204

Cutie searching for North Union I was walking down North St. You approached me on your bike. You were looking for North Union. We figured it out together. Why didn’t I ask your name? I don’t know ... I should have. Hopefully you’re an I Spy reader. I’d love to show you around more. When: Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Where: North St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906203 the Bagel Market girl Every time I walk in, your smile catches my eye. You’re always very nice to me ... even though I always get the same thing. You’re really cute, I just haven’t found the breath to say anything. Maybe sometime we can meet outside of our professions & have a decent conversation? When: Sunday, August 2, 2009. Where: the Bagel Market in Essex Junc. You: Woman. Me: Man. #906202

Tuesday Central Beverage Essex You: man leaving counter at Central Beverage market in Essex Jct. I was girl in blue shirt & shorts. Then saw you in your black truck outside. I’ve run into you before?! Maybe Hannafords in Essex? Wondered if you are interested? You are quite attractive, I must say. LOL When: Tuesday, August 4, 2009. Where: Central Beverage, Essex Jct. You: Man. Me: Woman. #906201 Sun Moon & Stars The first thing I think of when I wake up & the last thing I think of before I fall asleep at night is you. My dreams show us together w/ our dogs & our dream home and we are very happy. Let’s make these dreams come true! When: Monday, August 3, 2009. Where: my dreams. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #906199

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dance Ballroom Dance Classes: Location: The Champlain Club, Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 802-598-6757, www.FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and interme-

diate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance! Dance Studio Salsalina: Cost: $13/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walkins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! Elements of Ballet: Join beginning-level adult/teen ballet classes Wednesday evenings at 6:35 p.m. Beginning/Intermediate students join our Saturday morning Combination Studio Class; 10:15-11:45 a.m. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Rte. 127, 5 minutes from the Burlington waterfront), Colchester. Info: 802-863-3369, Lucille @NaturalBodiesPilates. com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Develop your rhythmic abilities, artistic sensibilities, mind-body connection and creative spirit. Enjoy strength, posture and body sculpting. Experience how dancers achieve that lengthened look, and find out how good ballet stretches really feel. Combination Studio students: Practice Pilates Mat and Reformer, Jump Board, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and a full ballet barre. Introduction to Tap Dance: Sep. 14 - Dec. 14, 6:15-9:15 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Location: CCV, Burlington. An introduction to tap dance techniques, aesthetics and theory. Three-credit class. Instructor, Karen Amirault. Register now through August 28 at www.ccv.edu or by appointment, 802-865-4422.

drumming Burlington Taiko Classes: Location: Taiko Space (across from Outer Space Deli), 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Taiko, 802-999-4255, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org, www.burlingtontaiko.com. Beginning classes Tuesdays - Kids, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $47/6 weeks. Adults 5:30-6:20 p.m., $53/6 weeks. Session begins 10/28. Advanced Beginner/Ensemble class meets weekly on Mondays at 5:30-6:50 p.m., $48/6 weeks, beginning 10/27. Gift certificates are available! For a full schedule of classes or more info, go online or email.

herbs Wisdom of the Herbs School: Wild Edible Intensive 2009: Enhancing Local Food Security. Taught by Annie McCleary and George Lisi. Sundays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Summer Term: August 9, September 20 and October 4, 2009. Tuition $300. $50 nonrefundable

deposit each term. VSAC nondegree grants available. Primitive Skills: Shelter Water Fire Food (new program!) taught by Nicholas Neddo of Roots School. Sept. 5-6 and 19-20, 2009. Tuition $400. Nonrefundable deposit $50. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: Annie McCleary, Director, 802-456-8122, annie@ w isdomof theherbsschool.com, www.WisdomOf TheHerbsSchool. com. Unique experiential programs embracing the wild plants, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Learn through herb walks and nature adventures, communion with Nature, hands-on wild harvesting and preparation of wild edibles and herbal home remedies, with intention and gratitude.

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Shipwreck Exploration: Cost: $18/person for a 1-hour tour. Location: Perkins Pier, Slip #34 at the Boathouse - in front of ECHO, next to Friendship, Burlington. Info: Shipwrecktour.com, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@ stormboarding.com, www.shipwrecktour.com. See incredibly wellpreserved wrecks from the 1800s without getting wet. We use an ROV camera - everything it sees, we see on screens on board. This is a unique and exciting outing great for families. We combine technology and history with a great boat trip on Lake Champlain. All ages.

Asian Bodywork Therapy Program: Cost: $5,000/500-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, Suite 109, Essex Junction. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-2888160, scott@elementsofhealing. net, www.elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of Oriental massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught.

martial arts kitesurfing/ windsurfing Kitesurf & Windsurfing Classes: Location: Lake Champlain: Charlie’s Boathouse, North end of North Ave., Burlington. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@ stormboarding.com. Learn one of two great water sports. Get windsurfing in one hour (thanks to modern equipment). Kitesurfing begins with a ground school lesson (two hours) followed by your first water lesson (three hours). See detailed info on www.stormboarding.com. Beginning and advanced, individual and group lessons available 7 days/ week. $60-$150.

language French Classes this Fall: Cost: $225/10-week session. Location: Alliance-Francaise, Lake Champlain Region, #304 Dupont Building, 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Micheline Tremblay, 802-497-0420, www.aflcr. org/classes.html. Alliance-Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region French School offers evening French classes at multiple levels taught by experienced teachers who are native French speakers. Four 10-week sessions run Sept. 14-Nov. 19. Classes meet 6:30-8:00 p.m. Tuition: $225.00 due with registration/includes membership in AFLCR. SPANISH FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN: Cost: $155/10 1-hour classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 802-659-4181, spanishparavos@ gmail.com, www.spanishwaterburycenter.com. New fall Spanish class offerings. September 1-10: Rapid Spanish for Travelers. Beginning week of September 14 for 10 weeks: adult evening classes, Sunrise Spanish, Spanish for Seniors. Sign up together discount. Also private classes, tutoring, lessons for children. See our website for complete information or contact us for details.

AIKIDO: Adult classes meet 7 days a week. Children’s classes resume on Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 4 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, aikidovt.org. This non-competitive Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome! Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 5th Dan - Vermont’s only fully certified (shidoin) Aikido teacher. T’AI CHI - MONTPELIER: Cost: $108/12-week semester. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St., 3rd floor, Montpelier. Info: Ellie Hayes, 802-456-1983. Hwa Yu T’ai Chi: Fall Semester begins Monday, Sept. 14, runs 12 weeks., $9/class. Introductory class: 5-5:45 p.m. at 64 Main St., 3rd floor, across from City Hall. Instructor Ellie Hayes has been teaching T’ai Chi since 1974. Come experience the many benefits of T’ai Chi for yourself. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Road, Williston. Info: 802-6604072, www.bjjusa.com. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a complete martial-arts system; it enhances balance, flexibility, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness and builds personal courage and self-confidence. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense classes, Boxing, Muay-Thai Kickboxing and MMA for all levels. Head instructor is five-time Brazilian Champion Rio de Janeiro, certified 6th Degree Black Belt under Carlson Gracie. Classes for men, women and children. First class is free. Vermont Aikido: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-8629785, vermontaikido.org. Practice the graceful martial art of Aikido in a safe, supportive environment. Aikido training teaches body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Visitors are always welcome in the dojo! Class hours are at our homepage.

Rehab & Spa Massage Classes: Location: BodySoul Spa & School, 132 N. Main St., St. Albans. Info: BodySoul Spa & School , Hope Bockus, C.I.A.M.T, 802-524-9005, www.bodysoulmassageschool.com. A very popular 10-month rehab massage and bodywork course. Offering class times on Mondays (Start 9/7) or Sundays (Start 9/13). Pick your class day and additional electives. Specializing in training you for a career in rehab massage care. Filling up quickly. Call now. 524-9005.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-658-6795, www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Two intro meditation programs: Starting Sept. 11. See our website. Cost: $95/program ($50 for students). Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave. (corner of King St.), Burlington. Info: Burlington Shambhala Center, 802-658-6795, w w w.burlingtonshambhalac tr. org. “Shambhala Training Level I” and “Meditation in Everyday Life.” Shambhala warriorship is a path of nonaggression born from the bravery and gentleness of meeting our world without bias or judgment. This path shows how to view the challenges of daily life in our modern society as opportunities for both contemplative practice and social action. Shambhala training includes group and individual instruction in meditation, personal interviews with a meditation instructor, discussion groups and talks by a senior teacher.

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Strong, graceful trees frame the setting for this second floor flat-style Condo. Open, spacious living/dining room boasts handsome Hearthstone woodstove and sliding door to screened porch. Carport with storage, plus community pool/tennis courts. $152,500

Or be sorry. This Burlington 3 bedroom Ranch offers a wood-burning fireplace in the spacious living room, master bath, central air conditioning for summer comfort and wood furnace to economize or heat during power failures. Large deck overlooks yard. $219,500

call nancy desany coldwell Banker hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9540 www.Vermonttrademarkhomes.com

call nancy desany coldwell Banker hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9540 www.Vermonttrademarkhomes.com

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Close to Lake Champlain and near downtown. Interior has been freshly painted and carpet has been replaced. Large full bath and laundry on the main level and two floors of living space. Ultra high efficiency heating system. Off-street parking. $161,000

Exceptionally well-maintained first floor living. Gracious foyer, small den, kitchen/bar, formal dining, sunken living with fireplace & built-ins. Lower level has family room, office and tons of storage. Enclosed private courtyard.Westfacing deck. $429,000.

Call Chris Von trapp Coldwell banker hickok & boardman realty (802) 846-9525 www.Chrisvontrapp.com

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This 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home is a great value for downtown Burlington. Just two blocks from Church Street, this home is a short walk to the bus route, restaurants and other amenities. Seller is a Vermont licensed realtor.

Call edie Brodsky Coldwell Banker hickok & Boardman realty 802-846-9532 edie@hickokandBoardman.com

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Absolutely wonderful Ledgewood East Townhouse in Burlington’s South End. Steps from Oakledge Park, Lake Champlain and bike path. Totally renovated with beautiful finishes throughout. $249,900

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Wonderful year round cottage with 2-Bdrms & lake views! 2 decks, 24` above ground pool, near boat ramp, mooring rights, & just minutes to bike path. Many new upgrades: some new windows, heater, pool pump, remodeled bathroom, ext. doors, etc. Asking $174,900.

ONE LOFT LEFT! Come to the Open House to see our last loft! Open House Saturday 1:00-3:00 p.m. (161 St. Paul Street)

Gretchen A. Hidell 802-999-4677 Chenette Real Estate DreamHomes@GretchenRealtor.net

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To Be Built Cape style home near village and CVU. First floor master bedroom, ample kitchen, energy efficient heating system & full front porch. Municipal utilities! Second floor is unfinished & rough plumbed-Other design possibilities available, call today! $272,000.

1860’s farmhouse, on 5 acres. 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, wood and tile floors, beautiful family room addition, large private deck. 20X30 barn with run-in for livestock or two car garage. 22X30 heated workshop. $297,500.

One level living, 3 bedroom ranch home. Hardwood floors, new carpet, fresh paint & a new roof. Large kitchen with plenty of cabinet space and dining area with deck. Views of rolling hills on 1 pleasantly landscaped acre. $219,000.

Incredible historic building on the national preservation register. Presently the home of Sherwood Real Estate and The Richford Antique and Craft Center. The registered trademark `The Pink Lady` will be conveyed to the buyer with the property. All antiques are negotiable. All original woodwork. Also, the building is featured in the East Coast Victorian book. Three floor sprinkler system. Broker owned. $319,000.

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« classes WEEKLY MEDITATION RETREAT: Wed. nights at 6:30 p.m. Cost: $15/class. Location: King Street Holistic Center, 35 King St., Burlington. Info: Barry Weiss, 802343-7265. Meditation is the most effective stress-reduction technique in the world today. And a retreat is the most essential next step in your spiritual progress. You’ve got to get away from it all and practice the art of sitting still - and watch the ripples unfold into your daily life.

music Burlington Community Choir: Sep. 9 - Dec. 2, 7-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $55/semester dues. Location: CCV, Burlington. Explore a variety of music including spirituals, traditional and contemporary folk songs, classical and

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world music. No auditions required; beginners and “shower singers” welcome! Non-credit workshop. Directed by Amity Baker. Register now through August 28 at www.ccv.edu or by appointment, 802-865-4422.

Fundamentals of Singing: Sep. 8 - Dec. 15, 11:45-2:45 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Location: CCV, Burlington. An introduction to vocal technique, ensemble singing and musicianship for the beginning singer. Instructor, Amity Baker. Register now through August 28 at www.ccv.edu or by appointment, 802-865-4422. Music Classes at CCV!: Classes start the week of Sept. 7. Location: CCV, Burlington. Classes include: Piano I, Guitar I, Introduction to Technology in Music and Introduction to Rock & Roll. Music classes cover a variety of musical styles including jazz, rock, pop, traditional and world music. Register now through August 28 at www. ccv.edu or by appointment, 802865-4422.

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pilates ALL Wellness, LLC: Many package/pricing options to suit your budget. Please call for pricing details. Location: 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-863-9900, www.pilatesspace.net. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, Physical Therapy, Yoga and Health Counseling services. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. First mat class is free! Also, please join us for a free introduction to the reformer, the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 - just call to sign up. Natural Bodies Pilates: Discover the difference that true core strength makes for you in your life. See our full schedule of classes online, and call for spe-

cial rates on packages and class cards. Call for a free half-hour consultation to come in, see the studio and find out how to get started. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Rte. 127, 5 minutes from Burlington’s waterfront), Colchester. Info: 802-863-3369, Lucille@NaturalBodiesPilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Develop advanced body-mind awareness along with your articulate, strong and flexible body in a relaxed studio environment. Challenge your ability for coordination, flowing movement, and balance in small classes and private sessions. Join Pilates Mat and Reformer, Integrative Movement, Elements of Ballet classes, or try our 90-Minute Combination Studio class.

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spirituality ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY: Sep. 9-30, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $60 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802244-7909. Discover the “hidden wisdom in the Holy Gospel” in this workshop that uses exercises and hands-on experience to reveal the deeper layers of meaning in both the Old and New Testament. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

stand up paddleboarding Stand-Up Paddleboarding: Mon & Wed: 7-8 a.m.; Tues. & Thurs: noon-1; Tues.: 5-6 p.m. and Wed. 6-7 p.m. Plus on your own schedule by appointment. Cost: $18/person per outing.

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Location: Lake Champlain, Burlington based, but will visit other waterways. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@stormboarding.com, www. stormboarding.com. Stand-up paddling is easy to learn, fun, beautiful and a great full-body workout. Outings focus on core strength, balance, flexibility, having fun and enjoying the lake. Weekends feature family events, exploration outings & race series. Custom outings available - great for families or visiting friends. Burlington based but mobile.

tai chi Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 802-8647902, www.iptaichi.org. The Yang

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tarot TAROT AND THE PERSONAL PATH: Sep. 15 - Nov. 3, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $100 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: or Sue, 802-244-7909, Kevin, 802436-2969. Learn the Tarot through exploration of your own temperament using the cards as a lens for learning. Appropriate for both beginners and experienced Tarot students. Led by Kevin Quigley, Tarot reader and Feng Shui practitioner.

visual arts Visual Art Classes at CCV: Classes start Sept. 8. Location: CCV, Burlington. More than 30 classes including Introduction to Studio Art, Drawing I and II, 2-D Design, Life Drawing I and II, Digital Photography, Graphic Design, Paper Arts, Ceramics, Oil Painting, Acrylic Painting, Color Theory, Watercolor, Book Arts, Art History, Photography I and II, Foundations of Sculpture, Printmaking and Stained Glass - taught by wellknown Vermont artists. CCV offers a two-year program in Graphic Design and Visual Arts. Register now through August 28 at www.ccv.edu or by appointment, 802-865-4422.

yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels, conveniently located in Burlington. Cost: $14/10-class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates. Mon., Wed., Fri. 4:30 p.m. classes are sliding scale $5-$10. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802-864-9642, www.evolutionvt.com. Our staff of all certified teachers are skilled with beginners as well as students wanting to refine their practice. Vinyasa, Anusara-Inspired, Kripalu, Iyengar and babies/kids classes available. Prepare for birth and strengthen post-partum with pre/ post-natal yoga. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog. The Studio at The Field House: Daily yoga & Pilates classes for all levels. Drop-ins welcome; no membership required. Cost: $15/ drop-in, $60/month (6 classes). Unlimited yoga, $70 (incl. club membership). Location: 166 Athletic Drive, Shelburne. Info: 802985-4406, www.shelburneathleticclub.com. Vinyasa, Iyengar, Anusara, Yin, Ashtanga & Kripalu classes as well as reformer, mat & senior Pilates.

Cars/Trucks 1983 300TD retrofit Wonderful condition, fantastic car to change to biodiesel. Extra winter tires on rims. Sunroof. Well maintained. No accidents. Info: 802-8645460. 1984 Corvette Convertible Enjoy summer while driving this classic 1984 Corvette hardtop convertible. White with red leather interior. Looks good. Runs great. 47,000 miles. Stored winters. Info: 802-343-0648, harrycarson521@gmail.com.

Harley FXWG Shovel Stroker 100% rebuild, 1980 engine, 1976 frame. Harley title. 8K since reassembly. S&S forged pistons, stroker motor, SU card, dual plugged, powder coated heads & bottom end, a classic shovelhead sport bike. Very powerful & fast. Over 15K invested. Info: 802-8604965.

Scooter 2009 Yamaha 125cc Scooter Must sell! Burgundy red. Has 60 miles. Automatic. $3000 new, sell for $2000. Will negotiate. Info: 802-985-9137.

1998 Subaru Legacy Wagon Official VT car. Excellent allaround car. Engine has 50K. New brakes, clutch, etc. Good winter tires. It may be old, but it runs great. Must sell. Info: 802-2727883. 2001 well-kept AWD AudiA6 Motivated seller! Has been well maintained in the year that I’ve owned it. Leather interior, power everything, sunroof, new tires also incl. Info: wkdkeating@ gmail.com. 2002 Saturn 4-dr. Rust & dent resistant, 37+ mpt highway, well-maintained car. Only selling because I can walk to work. Recently inspected for major defects by local mechanic. Info: 802-6589960. 2002 Toyota RAV4 AWD Highly rated, fuel-efficient, reliable SUV. Woman owned, well maintained, runs great. 94K but drives like new & has many more miles left! Info: 802-434-5149. 2003 Nissan Maxima SE Clean, 3.5L, 245hp, V6 auto. ltd. slip w/ sport suspension & 17” alloy wheels, silver w/ black cloth, power S/M & HID xenon headlights. 92K. $8000/OBO. Info: 802-249-1261. 2005 Toyota Forerunner Very nice. Well maintained, factory CD, new oversized snow tires, clean interior, only minor cosmetic dings, which are reflected in the price. Info: 802-496-9027. 2006 Certified Fusion SE 4-cyl. auto. 30+ mpg! Classy dune pearl clearcoat ext., sueded tan cloth int. Like new! Only 16K & 6-yr./100K powertrain warranty! $16,495. Info: EJ Barrette and Sons, Inc., 802-868-3327, www. barretteford.com. Auto Auction 3 Saturdays ea. month. Open to the public. Info: 802-878-9200, THCAuction.com.

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Burlington Avail. now, 515 S. Union St., 4-BR lg. house, HDWD floors, fireplace, DR, 2-car garage, basement, full BA, 2 porches, W/D. $2200/mo. Avail. 9/1. 3- & 4-BR apts. & house. $1425-$2200/mo. No dogs. Info: 802-862-7467. Burlington Convenient location blocks away from downtown. 1-BR. $700/mo. Avail. immed. Info: 802-863-4634. Burlington Elmwood Ave. Avail. now. 2-BR, upstairs apartment, 3/4-BA. No pets. Close to downtown. Call Coburn & Feeley, 802-864-5200 ext. 229. Burlington Colchester Ave. 3 BR. Parking, W/D. No dogs. Avail now. $1170/mo. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1030. www.nevilleco.com. Burlington Duplex 2-BR Lg. South End duplex, newly remodeled, gas heat. $1250/mo., incl. trash, water, winter parking, backyard. Deposit, refs., lease, no pets. Info: 802-660-8957. Burlington Duplex 3-BR Large remodeled So. End duplex. 3-BR, 1-BA, new gas furnace, $1550/ mo., incl. water, trash, winter parking, backyard. Deposit, refs., lease, no pets. Info: 802-6608957. Burlington School St. 1- & 2-BR apts. $825-$1300/mo. Avail. Sept. 1. Off-street parking, W/D. Incl. rubbish & heat. Lease thru 7/31/10. NS/pets/candles. Refs. req. Info: 802-862-4888.

1990 560 SEL Mercedes Benz White, low mileage. Nice car. $3800. Info: 802-372-3400. 1996 Subaru Legacy Wagon 4WD. Always serviced. 143K. Just inspected. Auto., cruise, electric windows, etc. Must see. Everything works great. Body rust. Only $1500. 496-3927.

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For Rent 1 BR + OFFICE/DR Stowe. New house, great location/views, near village, DW, gas fireplace, W/D, satellite TV, storage, parking, plowing, yard, NS/pets. Required: Lease, refs., security. $850/mo. + utils. 617-512-7394. 1-3-BR Affordable Apts. 1-BR apts., $817/mo. 2-BR, $966/mo. 3-BR, $1179/mo. Incl. heat & HW! Weekly yoga classes, fitness center, movie room & monthly community events! To qualify: 1 person makes less than $31,740/ yr., 2 people <$36,300 combined, 3 people <$40,800 combined, 4 people <$45,360 combined. Info: Keen’s Crossing, 802-655-1810, www.keenscrossing.com. 2/3 BR, Great Location Beautiful, light-filled apt. Wide pine floors, efficient gas heat/range, enclosed sun porch, 10 min walk to Church St. Tenant pays heat/ electric. No pets. Oct 1. Year lease. Info: Jamie Garvey, 802863-0188, gridguide.com. Avail. now Burlington 485 Colchester Ave. (3) 2-BR apts. Freshly painted, spacious. Heat, HW, parking incl. On the bus line, convenient to UVM/hospital. Dep., 1-yr. lease. NS/pets. $1000$1150/mo. Info: 802-985-4196. BURLINGTON Brookes Ave. Entire 2nd floor: quiet, bright Victorian; 6-room, 2-BR apt.; eatin kitchen; balcony; backyard; parking; basement W/D; storage. Lease, deposit. Avail. Sept 1. $1290/mo. + utils. Info: 802-8993015. Bristol 3-BR apt. in beautiful, convenient downtown Bristol. Incl. water, sewer, off-street reserved parking, storage unit. Tenant pays heat, electric. NS/pets. $775/mo. Avail. Sept. 1. Info: 802-453-4065. Burlington 3-BR w/ nice open deck, new paint/flooring. Lg. eatin kitchen w/ dishwasher. Excellent parking. NS/pets. Avail. now. $1650/mo. Info: 802-598-8782.

Burlington Vermont House Avail now. Downtown on Main St. 2-BR, 1.5-BA, W/D, parking, heat & A/C incl. 5th floor corner unit w/ lake views. Small dog considered. $1600/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley, 802-864-5200 ext. 229 Info: 802-864-5200. Burlington Waterfront Apt. Incredible location, gorgeous views, on Waterfront Park, walk downtown. HDWD, W/D, fully furnished. Avail. Sept. 1 - June 1+. $1375/mo. + utils. Info: 802-5786120. Burlington, Lg. 2-BR Front deck, W/D, 3-season porch, private backyard, parking, walk to downtown. NS. Avail. Sept. 1. $1000/mo. + utils. Info: 802-9996631. Burlington, North Ave. Avail. now. 2 BR, parking, hookups, no dogs. $875/mo. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1030. Burlington/Winooski Roommates wanted to share lg. furnished house. All utils. incl.! 2.5-BA, W/D, parking, on bus line. No pets. Rent individually or w/ friends. Year lease or summer sublets avail. $650/mo. per person + dep. Info: 802-863-9612. Charlotte Lg. Studio apt. in private home. $650/mo. incl. all. Avail. Sept. 1. Info: Mike, 802734-0470. Church St. Marketplace Studio, clean, quiet. Avail. Sept. 1. NS/pets. 1-yr. lease. $604/mo. Info: 802-922-8518. Church Street Marketplace Studio, HDWD floors, heat incl. Avail. 9/1. NS/pets. $709/mo. Info: 802-922-8518. Colchester Avail. Oct. Spacious 3-BR. Garage. Yard. Master suite & BA. Dining, living, den, beach & mooring. Pool. $1900/mo. + utils. Refs. & dep. Discount possible. Info: 802-399-5821. Colchester 2-BR APT. Clean, modern, on top floor. Utils. incl. Fully carpeted w/ DW & coinop W/D on site. Income-based, credit check required. 1st month’s rent free for those who qualify. $1020/mo. Avail. now. Info: 802578-6389, cpoland1125@yahoo. com.

Colchester 3-BR Home Ranch, 2-BA, 2 car, gas fireplace, HDWD floors, lg. fenced lot, new appliances, gas heat. Pet considered. NS. $1795/mo. Info: kpepperfl@ gmail.com. Colchester 4-BR house 1.5BA, Pergo flooring, W/D hookups, house renovated in 2004. NS/ pets. Garbage/snow removal incl. Avail. 9/1 or sooner. $1350/mo. + utils. Info: 802-324-6446. Colchester Village, 1-BR In quiet neighborhood. No pets. $760/mo. incl. all heat, electric, parking, garbage, plowing. 802-876-7843. Info: Pierre Apartments. Colchester: Private Beach Overlake Dr: 4-BR, 3.5-BA, 3,800 sq.ft. contemporary in private lakeshore community. Fantastic views, garage, master suite, fireplace, finished basement. Available Sept. 1; 1 year. $2400/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com. Cozy country apt. Quiet studio located 25 min. from S. Burlington, Middlebury & Mad River Glen. Incl. heat, electricity, water, sewer & cable. 6-mo. lease & sec. dep. required. Info: Rene Carpenter, 802-453-5954. Downtown Burlington Condo Nice, great location, central heat & A/C, many extras, lg. closets, HDWD, easy secure access, scenic city views. Clean & quiet building. Info: HandyManDan, Daniel McCarthy, 802-864-0799, handymandanvt@hotmail.com. E. Charlotte on 40 Acres Spacious contemporary, 3500 sq.ft., 3-car garage, sunroom, DR, master BA, family BA, powder room, den, 2 BRs all on main level. Lower Level has 3 BRs, kitchenette, 2 full BAs & 2 living areas & storage/utility rooms. Lg. patio. Balcony off master BR. Deck off sunporch, W/D incl., HDWD/ berber, private & serene setting, meadows, 40 acres. Super layout for an extended family, au-pair, in-law or guest accommodation. Tenant responsible for utils., trash, lawncare, snow removal. Water softener. Info: Astra Apartments, Andrea Tieso, 802-8649282, www.astra383.com. ESSEX JCT 2-BR CONDO Bright, clean, quiet upstairs unit. Recently renovated w/ new windows/flooring. W/D on site. 1-car garage w/ storage. NS/pets. Utils. not incl. $925/mo. + sec. dep. Avail. Sept. 1. Info: Louise Daigle, 802-879-5125. ESSEX JCT. BIG 3-BR HOUSE Office space, lg. eat-in kitchen, garage, unfinished basement, gas heat, W/D, DW, deck, backyard, 2 driveways, NS/cats/dogs, refs., credit check, dep., 1-yr. lease, $1500/mo. + utils. Water, sewer, trash pickup, lawn care incl. Info: Jan Morse, 802-343-4631, janmorse@comcast.net. Elegant 3-BR On convenient Dorset St. location. Brand new carpets & appliances, A/C, natural gas heat incl. Private setting. $1600/mo. No dogs. Info: Gisela, 802-864-9869. Essex Jct. 1- or 2-BR home, private lot, easily heated. $875/ mo. + utils. Rent reduction possible for small lawn care. NS/pets. Credit history req. First/last, sec. dep. Info: 802-372-3400. HUNTINGTON 1 BR BROOKSIDE Spacious, winterized, unfurnished w/ woodstove, Rinnai & Empire heaters, sauna, loft, swimming holes, outdoor electric hot tub hookup; DSL, satellite TV avail. Next to hike/ski/Catamount trails on Camel’s Hump Rd. Burlington not far. Pet possible. 6-mo. lease starts Nov. 1. $1000/mo.+ Info: 518-817-7164.

House for Rent Burlington 4-BR, 2-BA, on quiet street. Furnished. Lg. fenced-in backyard. Near beach, bike path & good schools. Upstairs BA w/ 2-person jacuzzi. Avail. Sept. 1. Info: Tjark Aldeborgh, 802-233-5425. Ledgewood Condo For Rent Lg. sunny 2 BR w/ bonus room, patio, pool, tennis, on-site W/D, propane heat, new carpet/windows. Quiet, private, 5 mins. to lake, bike path. Near shopping/ interstate. NS/pets. 1-yr. lease. $1300/mo. & sec. dep. Credit check & refs. Avail. Sept. 1. Lv msg. Info: 802-897-2630. Lg. 4-BR in Winooski Avail. Sept. 1. Quiet neighborhood, near UVM, SMC, FAHC, on bus line, fenced yard, HW, WD, off-street parking. $1400/mo. +. NS/dogs. Info: 802-238-6161. Luxury Apartments Keen’s Crossing! Are you looking for the space & convenience of a home in an apt. setting? 17 floor plans, incl., variously: lg. closets, bay windows, private exterior entrance, W/D hookups, central A/C! Our community offers many amenities, such as fitness & movie rooms. Prices vary, but all incl. heat, HW, sewer/trash. Call for details & pricing! EHO ADA. Info: Keen’s Crossing, 802-655-1810, www.keenscrossing.com. Panton Private 2-BR, 2-BA 38acre country estate. Great room, formal DR, 3 porches, pond, hiking, ski trails. Immediate occupancy possible. $1900/mo. + utils. Info: 800-639-8052. Private Williston Condo 1/2 of duplex for sale. Lg. yard, deck, W/D, DW, close to Interstate & shopping. Built in 2006, $1350/ mo. Call Alex. Info: 802-310-3933, apkpopwp@myfairpoint.net. Richmond Village Beautiful 3-BR, 1.5-BA recently renovated apt. HDWD, DW, parking for two cars, 15 mins. to Burlington. Avail. Oct. 1. NS. Some pets allowed. $1,350/mo. + utils. Info: 802-434-4993. Richmond Village Sm. 2-BR, unfurnished. Parking, lease, credit check, refs. NS/pets. Please lv. msg. Info: 802-434-3238. Richmond Village Sm. 1-BR, furnished. Parking, lease, credit check, refs. Furnished. Info: 802434-3238. S. Burl: Mint Shape! Butler Farms: Freshly painted, 4-BR, office, 3-BA, master w/ whirlpool, sauna, loft. 2 car, 2780 sq.ft. $2200/mo. Sign by Sept. 1, half off full mo. rent. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rental s @ hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com. S. Burlington Treetop condominium, 2-BR, natural gas, carport, W/D hookups, tennis, pool. NS/pets. $1100/mo. + utils. Refs. req. Avail. now. Info: 802-9858564. Shelburne 2-BR Apt. Quiet, country setting, upstairs, NS, incl. heat, rubbish, plowing, W/D Hookups. Avail. Sept 1 or later. Charlie. Info: 802-985-0727. Ski in-out Bolton Condo Great spot, top of Bolton Access Rd. 1 lg. BR, lg. closets, freshly carpeted, W/D hookup, $850/mo. + utils. Lease w/ buy option. Info: 802-999-1265, ft1103@aol.com. Stonehedge Condo for Rent Great location: Close to UVM, hospital, & town. End unit: Clean, bright, new paint, fireplace, carport, W/D. Steps to the bike path & public park. Avail. Aug. 15. Info: 802-233-3478.

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FSBO-CReiss081909.indd 10:08:36 AM 3000 sq.ft. home includes8/11/09 motherin-law apartment with separate entrance. Total of 14 rooms which consists of 3 bathrooms, 7 bedrooms, dining room, 2 eat-in kitchens, office and a laundry room. Large yard (.52 acre lot), 2 story barn, attached sheds, many perennials. Walk to restaurants, stores and schools. $292,000. Info: 802-453-4739.

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8/12/09FSBO-JBenjamin081909.indd 3:08:22 PM This Malletts Bay home has 2 bedrooms, finished basement, loft, an office with lake views, dock and two deep water moorings. Located on a private gated road only 15 minutes to downtown Burlington. $650,000. Info: 802-238-0660 or jmp617@myfairpoint.net.

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Maintenance free living on Lake Champlain. 2-BR, 2.5-BA, 1400 sq.ft. Garage. Great views. Near bike path w/ beach access. Fireplace, deck, tennis, pool. Amazing sunsets year round. $278,999. 802-734-6770.

Net zero energy, beautifully crafted 3 bedroom home. Stunning views, access to conserved land with trails, walking distance to town, to be built this fall by an award winning construction company. HDWD floors, natural slate, geothermal radiant heat powered by integrated solar panels. This home will not have utility bills. $478,000. Vermont Building Resources, 482-3295.

2-3 BR ranch. New efficient hot water boiler in 2008. Newer kitchen and bath, hardwood floors, HUGE fenced yard, attached garage, Ethan Allen Park, K-8 schools just around the corner. $218,000 at 27 Charity Street. Info: 865-1778.

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6:45:00 PM Opportunity knocks to buy8/17/09 this FSBO-JParadee081909.indd move in ready 3 bdrm, 2 bath, 2 car garage home. ½ acre lot, HW floors, gas FP, new appliances, new carpet/ flooring, family room & more. Close to bike path, shopping & elementary. Owner/Broker. $224,900. 802-3557453.

Lowest priced South Cove8/17/09 home &11:26:12 AM owner financing! Not a cookie cutter home – wonderful contemporary with flexible floor plan. 4-5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, association beach, many updates, mooring, near bike path & shopping. Owner/Broker. $549,900. 802-355-7453.

IndIan Creek Condo

FSBO-KPepperBurlington-080509.indd 1:16:05 PM 8/4/09 10:20:22 AM 2-BR condo at Indian Creek, S.1 Burlington. Bright, sunny unit in fabulous location Cozy 2 bedroom, one bath8/14/09 farm style close to shopping, schools & recreation. 12 min. to downtown, 5 min. to Rte. 89. house with lots of charm. Many Unit is located at far end of complex w/ minimal traffic. Excellent condition w/ recent updates including new wood recent paint, carpeting & tile. Unit incl. 1.5-BA, ample closet space, fireplace living floors, wood-stove and updated room, solarium kitchen, deck, one car garage. Indian Creek is a park like complex w/ bathroom. Deep back yard. A must mature vegetation, pool & tennis courts. See indiancreekcondos.org for more info. see! $178,000. For info contact Matt, & photos. $219,500. 802-881-2811. 802-484-7213.

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8/11/09 10:39:54 AM The Meadows, 5 bedroom, 2 FSBO-MLatiolais081909.indd bathroom. Hardwood floors. New family room and cherry kitchen. Garage, full high dry basement. Large covered porch. Walk to stores, schools, Hubbard park, the pool and state house. $296,000. 802-4970890 or 802-522-4852.

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SUNNY CONDO FOR RENT Quiet S.Burlington neighborhood, fully furnished, covered porch, pool & tennis courts, carport, 2 BRs, 1 BA, W/D. $1400/mo. + utils., 1st, last & security. 802-846-7868. WINOOSKI 2 BR, 2ND FLOOR Apt. Gas heat, off-street parking, small porch, near bus line, attic for storage, $950/mo. + utils. & sec. dep., 1-yr. lease. NS. Info: 802-6554150, drobe95494@aol.com.

Richmond duplex

8/17/09 FSBO-PCharow-062409.indd 6:35:12 PM 1350 sq.ft. 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch home on 2.2 acres. Tile/hardwood. Paved road 1/2 mile from Monkton/ Bristol Road. Year-round stream nearby. Freshly painted, well maintained home ready to move in. $158,000. Info: 802-349-6008.

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6/22/09 Investor or owner occupied will 10:30:01 AM find this a great opportunity. Side by side duplex; walk to village, easy access to I-89, 3-BR each unit, yard space, parking, lg. barn for storage or workspace. Excellent rental history. $270,000. 802-999-2025 or quepasa.t@gmail.com for more photos & info.

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11:28:51 AM Beautiful old Adirondack8/17/09 lakefrontFSBO-PNorris081909.indd cottage on Willsboro Pt. 5-BR, great room, stone fireplace, sleeping porch, deck, dock, nice beach, mooring, half acre with gardens and outbuilding. 1 hr. from Burlington. Unique place & setting. $419,000. Info: 518-963-4568 or tcwick56@comcast.net.

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WATERBURY VILLAGE HOUSE Small 3 BR near state offices, stores, etc. Easy commute to Burlington, Montpelier, skiing. Low utility costs. Pets OK. NS. $975/ mo. + security. 802-224-6514, lv. msg. Info: 802-224-6514. WINOOSKI 4-BR apt. 1st floor of duplex. Front porch, yard, offstreet parking, basement, W/D. $1400/mo. + utils. Avail. 9/1. 802-660-1808 or 802-863-0157.

WINOOSKI RENT HOUSE/TO OWN Rent or rent to own, new carpets in 4 BRs, HDWD/tile flooring, lg. kitchen, parking, full basement, W/D hookups, $1700/mo. + utils., deposit, refs., credit check. Info: 802-734-1050.

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WINOOSKI SUNNY & AIRY APT! 1 mile from campus. Great location! Lg. yard. Screened-in porch. HDWD. 2 BRs. Lots of charm. Bright, huge kitchen w/ gas stove. $900/mo. 802-310-4611.

WINOOSKI GREAT LOCATION This 4-BR apt. is located near all colleges & hospitals. Incl. 2 floors of living, deck, W/D hookups, garbage, water, parking. $1450/mo. Sept. 1. Info: 802-316-1912.

HINESBURG 2000 mobile home, Mountain View Park, 119 Patricia Place. 3-BR, 1-NA, home in nice condition. New tub & shower, nice deck. $38,000. Info: 802-7344716, 315-412-4560.

WAITSFIELD FURNISHED CONDO 1-BR, 2 lofts, W/D, DW, trails. $750/mo. incl. full woodshed, plowing, shoveling, tennis, pool, sauna, trash. NS/pets. 1-yr. lease. Avail. Oct. 1. 802-496-4772, 802793-4112.

WINOOSKI LECLAIR ST. Avail. Sept. 1. 1 BR. $700/mo. Parking. 2nd floor. Quiet neighborhood. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-6603481 x1030. www.nevilleco.com.

RIVERVIEW, RICHMOND 2-BR mobile home, very nice, HDWD floor LR, eat-in kitchen, 2-door refrigerator, cathedral ceiling, gas heat, deck, shed. Financing possible. Sale after divorce. $30,500. Info: 802-253-8841.

3 bedroom, 3 bath 9-yr-old8/18/09 houseFSBO-TBass072909.indd in9:51:34 AM Burlington’s South End. Active and passive solar (photovoltaic, water), tight construction, low-e windows, 5-star rating. Open design. Huge attic. 1-car garage. $449,900. 802863-2014.

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BURLINGTON NNE CONDO 1-BR avail. in 2-BR condo. Quiet building in Valade Park. Avail. Aug. 15 or Sept. 1. $600/mo. + utils. Info: 802-318-6404.

ALL AREAS - RENTMATES.COM Browse hundreds of online listings w/ photos & maps. Find your roommate w/ a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Rentmates.com. (AAN CAN) BURL HOME IN NEW NORTH END Furnished lg. rm. Grad student/ professional only. Share 7-room home, 2 full BA, W/D, parking, NS, quiet & peaceful environment. Avail. Sept. 1. $600/mo.

BURLINGTON 68A S. Willard St. Furnished basement room. Graduate student/professional preferred. 1.5-BA, W/D, kitchen, parking. NS. Artistic & intellectual environment. $535/mo. incl. utils. 802-660-7172 or 802-5987423. Avail. 8/27.

BURLINGTON/WINOOSKI Roommates wanted to share lg. furnished house. All utils. incl.! 2.5-BA, W/D, parking, on busline. No pets. Rent individually or w/ friends. Year lease or summer sublets avail. $650/mo. per person + dep. Info: 802-863-9612.

CHARLOTTE Female wanted for village apt. Pets negotiable. Avail. Oct. 1. $800/mo. incl. parking, W/D, all utils. (except phone). Dep. req. Donna, 4254168, lv. msg. EARLY BIRD - OCT. 1 132 Hinesburg Rd., S. Burlington. Ground floor, huge backyard, full cellar. All services within walking distance. Gas heat, on bus line. Cable, quiet neighborhood. $500/ mo. + utils. Call Barry, 802-3631837 before 2 p.m., between 9-11 p.m. & Sundays. FOR 3+BR Wicked cute house in New North End. 2 working professionals seeking a 3rd housemate. Off-street parking + garage. W/D in basement. Avail. Sept. 1. Info: Stanley Selig, 802-233-5564, plumbson54@myfairpoint.net.

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8sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Show and tell. View and post up to 6 photos per ad online. Jericho A country home, dog friendly, non-smoker. Private bed, bath, garage. Utils. incl. Avail. now. $600/mo. Info: 802899-3219. Jericho Homeshare W/ Utils Well-kept home w/ 3 spare rooms. Single mid-age male seeks housemate. Power, heat, cable, Internet, parking, W/D incl. Deck. $650/mo. 802-899-2654. Monkton FarmHouse Large rooms, W/D, master BA, cathedral ceilings. 20 acres. 19 miles to Kennedy Dr. Barn, garden space, etc. Amenities/utils. incl. Horses & pets OK. $450/mo. Info: 802453-3457. RooMmate Wanted for Condo Quiet, mature roommate wanted. In Essex. $475/mo. + utils., security, lease. Minutes to IBM, 20 to Burlington. Looking for med/grad student/professional. Available Sept. 1. NS/pets. Info: 802-3555593. Roommate great house 3rd roommate needed, 5 min. to downtown/UVM, bright, sunny, lg. BR, garage, basement, 1.5-BA, W/D. Looking for someone friendly/responsible. $600/mo. + utils. Avail. Sept. 1. Info: miff_ana@ yahoo.com. S. Burlington Looking for a roommate, prof. male or female, grad. student preferred. 1-BR, full BA, plenty of parking, all utils. incl. $650/mo. Close to UVM/hospital. Info: 802-238-9041. S. Burlington Condo Quiet 2-BR, 1-BA, furnished. Respectful, considerate, fun professional or grad. student. Parking, W/D, Internet, pool. $625/mo. + 1/2 gas heat. NS/pets. Avail. 9/1. 802-578-3594, 802-863-0402. SUNNY ROOM TO RENT in BURL Female housemate to share 2-BR condo. Lg. BR w/ some furniture & spacious closet. NS/pets. $550/ mo. + utils. Need more info? 8652447 or psherbs@hotmail.com. Sweet, quiet Burl. house Looking for a responsible, considerate housemate to share a peaceful, laid-back home with beaches, parks, and bike path within a couple blocks. Secluded, friendly neighborhood. I’m respectful, open-minded, calm. Avail. Sept 1. $550.00/mo., share util. Info: 802-864-2890.

Housing Wanted 3-4 BR wanted Young professionals in need of a 3+ bedroom house or apt. in Chittenden or Franklin counties, even as far as Jeffersonville. We have a small older dog (dachshund) & 1 cat. Info: Brant Newton, 802-3708447.

Land Underhill Building Lots All state & local permits in place. Town water, power, phone & natural gas to lots. Southern exposure w/ Adirondack views. $149,000. Info: 802-899-4737, 802-8992511.

Sublets/ Temporary Sunny Winooski Apt.! Bright, 2nd floor. Heat incl.! Sun porch, spacious LR. Avail. Oct. 1 - May 31. Sec. dep. negotiable. Info: Kerrie Johnson, 802-881-3057, kerrie.johnson@uvm.edu.

Office/ Commercial Awesome Country Store Turnkey business in prime country location. This property offers tremendous opportunity w/ additional growth potential. Unique property w/ country charm. Willing to train. Info: 802-343-5694. Bristol Village Office/studio space, 1000 sq.ft, private BA, HDWD, lg. new windows. Ideal for office use, classes of all kinds including yoga/massage or artist studio. $575/mo. + utils. Free rent of qualified tenants. Avail. now. Info: 802-453-5841. Convenience Store Great location in Colchester, gas pumps. Great cash flow, good profit. Info: 802-233-2949. Downtown Burlington Office Block from Church St. at RU12? Community Center. Avail. now. $575/mo. 325 sq.ft. or $425/ mo. 265 sq.ft. Rent neg. Utils., Internet incl. Use of copier, fax, common areas, kitchen incl. Info: 802-860-7812, thecenter@ru12. org. Main Street Landing On Burlington’s waterfront has affordable office & retail space. Dynamic environment with progressive and forward-thinking businesses. Mainstreetlanding.com, click on space available. S. Burlington office space 750 sq.ft. office on Swift St. near Shelburne Rd., lg. room w/ small office. Rent incl. parking & utils. $725/mo. Info: Patrick Waters, 802-425-3258. S. End Artists Comm. at 180 Flynn Ave. Artist space opening 9/1. Very private 900 sq.ft. loft, private BA. Possibility to share w/ 2nd artist. Divided areas. Must see. Parking/utils. incl. Info: Manny, 802-363-7557. Unique Professional Space In S. Union Victorian Building. 3 rooms plus oversized receptionist area, kitchenette & powder room. 3 off-street parking. Wired for high-speed internet & telephone network. $1850/mo. incl. water/ sewer, rubbish, snow removal & grounds maintenance. Walking distance to downtown. Call Mary Anne at 238-4914. Info: 802-8623174, vtlaw@aol.com.

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Furniture Hide-a-bed couch $150, dining table w/ 4 chairs $75. All in excellent shape. Info: Diane Nichols, 802-782-8080.

12-Volt Battery New, w/ only 4 hours, Leisure World brand. $45. Burlington, 802-324-3113. Pellet & Wood Stoves Brand new. Savings up to 50% off! Premium oak pellets, $200/ton. Aug. 22 free tax day. Essex Jct. Info: Oakwood Farm, Multi-fuel appliances, Glenn, 802-764-5822.

Electronics Sirius Boombox In perfect condition! Great sound! Listen to your Sirius satellite radio anywhere! $40. Info: 802-497-0192.

HOT TUB Spa - 2009 model Loaded w/ jets & horsepower, ozonator, cover, insulated & efficient. Under full warranty, never used. Retails $4495. Sell $2800. 802-734-0788.

Old Town Canoe/Sailing kit 16 ft. $1000/OBO. Great condition, has barely been used. Info: Jacob Jimmo, 802-734-2807.

Donate dog supplies NNEDR At 668 Pine St., Burlington. We appreciate crates, beds/blankets, new chew toys & bones, collars/ leashes, dog food/treats. Info: Northern New Engand Dog Rescue/Play Dog Play, adopt@nnedr. org, nnedr.org OR playdogvt.com.

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Jake! American bulldog mix, lg. male, utd, neutered, microchipped, house trained, rescued from high-kill in S.C, about 2 years old, adoption fee, homeowners only. Info: Lynsey Barrows, 802-349-7594.

Ikea King-Size Bedroom set Bed, mattress, 2 nightstands & a dresser. Info: 603-799-1881. Kid’s Furniture - NEW Kid’s furniture, new in boxes. Solid wood. Crib, 3 in 2, $345. Bunk bed w/ ladder, $350. Twin bed w/ trundle, $450. Twin mattress, $105. Nighstand, $95. 802-735-3431.

New Collapsible Dog Kennel Never used, canvas, pop-up. Lightweight, w/ zipper pockets, mesh windows & a handle to transport. For med.-sized dogs. Asking $80. Info: 802-497-0192.

Mattress & Box - NEW Therapedic Euro Top w/ warranty. Never used, new. Sell $275. 802-7353431.

Reba Rescued from high-kill, utd, spayed, micro-chipped, heartworm neg. Previous owners abused her. She’s recovering from severe mange. Homeowners only! Adoption fee/application. Info: Lynsey Barrows, 802-349-7594, lynsey.barrows@uvm.edu.

Entertainment/ Tickets Drivers w/ late-model vehicles possessing entertainment and MC qualities wanted to host shows w/ exotic dancers. Info: 802-658-1464.

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Solid gold, Dancers Exotic dancers. Adult entertainment for birthday, bachelor, bachelorette, Mardi Gras parties or any time good friends get together. #1 for fun. New talent welcome. Info: 802-658-1464.

Huge Moving Sale Sat 8/22! 8 am-2 pm Jericho East, 13 Buttercup Lane, near Rte. 15. Furniture, freezer, unique books, adult/children. CDs, vintage vinyl, household goods, yard tools, and more.

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Elliptical Machince Nordic Track, brand new. Must sell. Asking $500. Info: 802-338-6523.

Adopt or foster, NNEDR Check out www.nnedr.org to find out more about adopting or fostering dogs in need. Info: Northern New England Dog Rescue, adopt@ nnedr.org.

Meea Rescued from high-kill, utd, spayed, micro-chipped, heartworm neg, good with dogs, unsure of cats. Homeowners only. Info: Lynsey Barrows, 802-3497594.

Memory Foam Mattress Visco w/ allergen-resistant cover. Warranty incl., still in plastic, never used. Twin $350, full $450, queen $550, king $675. 802-598-0316.

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Rescue Pups For Adoption Adoption fee & process. 10-weekold spayed F collie/retriever mix. 14-week-old neutered M dobie mix. Friendly, social, some training. Info: Good Karma Rescue, 802-229-9435, goodkarmarescue@gmail.com, www. goodkarmarescue.org. Rescue a Super Sweet Pup NNEDR Featured Pet: Roxanne (aka Roxy). She is a fun, loving, trained year-old pup who needs to find a home. Info: Northern New England Dog Rescue, www.nnedr. org. Tropical Fish 3 large Discus (Marlboro Reds) breeding pair, plus extra male. Info: 802-3725906.

Antiques Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates, silver. Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Info: Dave, 802-859-8966. Cash For Records & Stereos LPs, 45 RPMs, stereos, concert posters, music memorabilia, instruments. Convenient drop-offs in Montpelier (State St.) & Burlington (corner of Church & Bank). Buy/sell/trade. Info: Burlington Records & Riverwalk Records, 802-223-3334, saiddone@hotmail.com, www.BurlingtonRecords.com.

Bands/ Musicians Blink/182 femme cover band Drummer seeks guit-vox and bassvox for all-female Blink182 tribute band. Music, fun, paid gigs & tours. Contact Jane w/ your previous recordings if interested. Info: 802-825-2165. Drums, guitar, keys, voice I am a drummer, guitarist, keyboardist, & singer looking for the right project. 32 years old & have played many venues in Burlington. Call Eric. Info: 802399-8235, www.myspace.com/ dragontemple. Guitarist/Bassist Experienced, avail. for part-time situation & fill-in-work. Most styles of rock, blues, country, etc. Excellent equipment & attitude. Some vocals. Located in Brandon, Vt. Info: 802-247-6990, www.bluefrets.com.

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Instruction Andy’s Mountain Music Affordable, accessible instruction in guitar, mandolin, banjo & more. All ages/skill levels/interests! Supportive, professional teacher offering references, results & convenient scheduling 7 days a week. Info: Andy Greene, 802-658-2462, guitboy75@hotmail.com, www. andysmountainmusic.com. Bass Guitar Lessons For all levels/styles. Learn technique, theory, songs, ear training, slap-bass. Years of teaching/playing experience. “...one of the most highly sought-after session & touring bass guitarists in the country...” -Northeast Performer Magazine. Info: Bass Lessons with Aram, Aram Bedrosian, 802-598-8861, info@arambedrosian.com, www. arambedrosian.com. Drum Lessons Have fun while achieving your goals as a drummer! Experienced, professional & active drummer seeks students of all ages, styles & abilities for private instruction. Study at your convenience in my Burlington studio, or in your own practice space. I offer a custom curriculum, flexible scheduling & the best rates around. Info: steve@ stevehadeka.com. Guitar Instruction Berklee grad. w/25 years teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory & ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach. All ages/styles/levels. Info: Belford Guitar Studio, Rick Belford, 802-864-7195, rickbelf@ myfairpoint.net, www.rickbelford.com.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On August 13, 2009, Twin Oaks Master Association, filed application #4C0294-6A for a project generally described as: an amendment of their permit for the approved reconstruction of the existing stormwater facilities with an new access road. The project is located on Twin Oaks Terrace in the City of South Burlington, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the South Burlington Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above. No hearing will be held unless, on or before August 31, 2009, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria 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 interested person must include a petition for party status. 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 District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners, other interested persons granted party status pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c). Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(5). Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 14th day of August, 2009. By/s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state.vt.us CITY OF BURLINGTON In the Year Two Thousand Nine An Ordinance in Relation to COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE - Stormwater Performance Standards #ZA 09-16 Sponsor: Planning Dept.; Ordinance Comm. Public Hearing Dates 08/10/09 First reading: 07/13/09 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 08/10/09 Action: adopted Date: 08/10/09 Published: 08/19/09 Effective: 09/09/09 It is hereby Ordained by the City Council of the City of Burlington, as follows: That the Comprehensive Development Ordinance of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Section 5.5.3 thereof as set forth in the document attached hereto. Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance PROPOSED ZA-09-16 Stormwater Performance Standards As adopted by the City Council on 10 August 2009 Changes shown (underline to be added, strike-out to be deleted) are proposed changes to the Burlington Comprehensive Development Ordinance. Sec. 5.5.3 Stormwater and Erosion Control All new development and redevelopment projects that require a zoning permit shall be required to demonstrate compliance with that entail earth work including, but not limited to, excavation, grading, and filling, shall be subject to the standards in Article 3, Stormwater & Erosion Control of Chapter 26 of the City Code of Ordinances: Wastewater, Stormwater, and Pollution Control. This Section establishes minimum stormwater management requirements and erosion controls to protect and safeguard the general health, safety, and welfare of the public residing within this community. This ordinance seeks to meet that purpose through the following objectives: • minimize stormwater runoff from development in order to reduce flooding, siltation, streambank erosion, and to maintain the integrity of natural stream channels; • prevent erosion and the transport of sediment and pollutants off lot, onto the City of Burlington streets and sidewalks, into the City of Burlington stormwater system, and/or waters of the State; • minimize the effects of nonpoint source pollution on local

surface and subsurface water quality; • minimize the total volume of surface water runoff that flows from any specific site during and following development in order to replicate the pre-development hydrology to the maximum extent practicable; • reduce stormwater runoff rates and volumes, soil erosion and non-point source pollution, wherever possible, through stormwater management controls and to ensure that these management controls are properly maintained and pose no threat to public safety; • wherever possible provide stormwater management and erosion control strategies that lead to an overall improvement in the quality of the waters of the state; and, • meet the requirements of the Vermont’s 2002 Stormwater Management Rules and Guidance Vol. I and II (or latest state standard). (a) Applicability: This Section shall apply to all new development and redevelopment projects for which major impact review is required pursuant to the requirements of Article 3, Part 5, and/or those where a 400 square foot or more increase in impervious surface or amount of disturbed area is proposed and/ or, regardless of the amount of impervious surface or disturbed area proposed, where any change in existing hydrological conditions is proposed. All projects must meet “as best possible” the requirements of Vermont’s current stormwater standards. The city engineer at the department of public works shall determine whether the stormwater requirements have been met as best possible. Applicable stormwater management and erosion control standards shall be determined by whether a project is subject to Major Impact review or not. (b) Exemptions: Any silvicultural and agricultural activity undertaken consistent with applicable Acceptable Management Practices (AMP) published by the state of Vermont shall be exempt from these stormwater performance criteria. (c) Design Manual: The dept. of public works may furnish additional policy, criteria, and information, for the proper implementation of the requirements of this Section and may provide such information in a Design Manual which may include a list of acceptable stormwater treatment practices, including the specific design criteria for each stormwater practice. The manual may be updated and expanded from time to time, at the discretion of the dept. of public works, based on improvements in engineering, science, monitoring, and local maintenance experience. Stormwater treatment practices that are designed and constructed in accordance with these design and sizing criteria will be presumed to meet the minimum water quality performance standards. (d) Erosion Control and Stormwater Management Standards – Major Impact Projects: 1. Application Submittal Requirements - Erosion Prevention Sediment Control (ESPC) Plan: Unless otherwise exempted by this Article, every zoning permit application subject to the provisions of Art. 3, Part 5 - Major Impact Review shall be accompanied by an “Erosion Prevention Sediment Control (ESPC) Plan” in order for the permit application to be considered. The ESPC Plan shall: A. Identify the contractor who is responsible for installing, implementing, and maintaining the EPSC plan and measures; B. Identify the onsite contractor who is responsible for the day-to-day monitoring, oversight, and inspections required by the EPSC plan; C. Assure that any amendments to the project EPSC plan are filed with the department of public

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works and the DRB; D. Provide that the erosion control measures remain in place until vegetation has become established on all disturbed surfaces and clearly identify under what conditions final site stabilization has occurred; and, E. Provide a process whereby the departments of public works and code enforcement participate in the final site stabilization program. The Erosion Prevention Sediment Control Plan shall seek to: F. Prevent erosion and the transport of sediment off lot, onto the public streets and sidewalks, into the municipal stormwater system, and/or waters of the State; G. Prevent parking of any construction or construction related vehicles on city owned green space. Damage to green space shall be immediately addressed; H. Take any and all steps necessary to abate erosion and to clean up all resulting sediment deposited, discharged or found to exist off lot, on city streets and sidewalks, and/or in the city stormwater system; I. Maintain project erosion prevention and sediment control devices/ measures and perform requisite cleanup of resulting sedimentation. This may include, but is not limited to, daily sweeping of streets and sidewalks and cleaning city stormwater catch basins; J. Specify appropriate seed and fertilizer applications that are ecologically sound and site specific; K. Specify an appropriate mulch when and where needed and adequate anchoring measures to prevent blow away; L. Specify an effective grass re-vegetation program. Turf replacement is recommended in areas where re-vegetation of grass proves difficult with seeding and mulch. To reestablish all existing and proposed green space and where practical consider porous (pervious) pavers; M. Engage the contractor to be proactive in planning and executing construction phase activities with the goal of preventing erosion and controlling sediment; N. Identify the parties to the EPSC plan and clearly define their respective roles and responsibilities including, but not limited to, the contractor, the onsite coordinator, those responsible for project adherence to the EPSC, and those participating in inspections and acceptance of final site stabilization; and, O. Define the overall strategy for the EPSC plan by: i) Limiting actual disturbance area and time of disturbance; ii) Employing proper site stabilization (addressing soil preparation for final seeding and landscaping, seed, pesticide/herbicide use, and mulch); iii) Specifying stone and/or grass swale lining where appropriate; iv) Specifying where necessary to employ erosion control blankets or mats; v) Specifying locations for silt fence and construction barrier fence; and, vi) Specifying catch basin inlet protection during construction clean up and maintenance and after construction system operation and maintenance. Prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy, the project engineer must certify in writing that, among other things, the project EPSC plan as approved by the department of public works has been complied with and final site stabilization has occurred. This certification shall be filed with the administrative officer. Information requirements for the Erosion Prevention Sediment Control Plan may be adjusted or waived by the city engineer for a particular development application upon written request of the applicant, provided that at least one of the following circumstances can be demonstrated: P. Alternative measures for on-site

and/or off-site management of stormwater have been proposed, and theses measures comply with local ordinance(s). Q. It is otherwise demonstrated that the proposed development will not produce any significant change to the existing pre-application hydrology. 2. Application Submittal Requirements - Stormwater Management Plan: Unless otherwise exempted by this Article, every zoning permit application requiring Major Impact Review must be accompanied by a “Stormwater Management Plan” in order for the application to be considered. The city shall prescribe the form(s) and information that shall be submitted to determine compliance with this Section, with sufficient copies for necessary referrals and records. The requirements for stormwater management facilities may be waived in whole or in part by the DRB, provided that it is demonstrated by the applicant that at least one of the following conditions applies: A. Alternative measures for on-site and/or off-site management of stormwater have been proposed, and these measures comply with local ordinance(s); and/or, B. It is otherwise demonstrated that the proposed development will not produce any significant change to the existing pre-application hydrology. 3. General Performance Criteria for Stormwater Management: The latest edition of the Vermont Stormwater Management Manual shall be used as the standard for general performance criteria for stormwater management. 4. Integrated Management Practices: Applicants shall utilize Integrated Management Practices/Best Management Practices to meet the standards established in 3 above using one or more approved design options. Low Impact Design options are encouraged. Descriptions and standard details of approved Integrated Management Consideration shall be given in all stormwater management strategies to the relationship between temporary facilities required and installed during construction as part of soil erosion and sedimentation control regulations; and permanent facilities designed to manage stormwater post construction on an on-going basis. 5. Maintenance: Stormwater Management Facilities that are constructed on privatelyowned land and that are not within a public easement shall be maintained by the owner of the subject property. Stormwater Management Facilities that are constructed on public land, within public rights-of-way, and/ or within public easements shall be maintained by the public body with ownership/jurisdiction. The following requirements shall be met for all stormwater management facilities that are constructed on privately-owned property and not within a public easement. A. Maintenance Easement: Prior to the issuance of any permit that has a stormwater management facility as one of the requirements of the permit, the applicant or owner of the site must execute a maintenance easement agreement that shall be binding on all subsequent owners of land served by the stormwater management facility. The agreement shall provide for access to the facility at reasonable times for periodic inspection by the city, or its contractor or agent, and for regular or special assessments of property owners to ensure that the facility is maintained in proper working condition to meet design standards and any other provisions established by this Section. The property owner shall record such easement, in a form and format approved by the city attorney, in the city land records with the city clerk’s office. B. Maintenance Covenants:

Maintenance of all stormwater management facilities shall be ensured through the creation of a formal maintenance covenant in a form and format approved by the city attorney, in the city land records with the city clerk’s office. this covenant shall be entitled, “Stormwater Operations and Maintenance Plan.” A schedule for maintenance and inspections shall be included as part of the covenant. The owners, or the owner’s assigns, are responsible for maintenance of stormwater management facilities; however, the city may, under certain circumstances, accept dedication of existing or future stormwater management facilities for public maintenance and inspection. C. Requirements for Maintenance Covenants: All stormwater management facilities must be inspected by the responsible party, in accordance with the approved schedule in the Stormwater Operations and Maintenance Plan, to identify maintenance and repair needs, and to ensure compliance with the requirements of this ordinance. Any identified maintenance and/ or repair needs found must be promptly addressed by the responsible party. The inspection and maintenance requirement may be increased as deemed necessary by the city to ensure proper functioning of the stormwater management facility. D. Records of Installation and Maintenance Activities: Parties responsible for the inspection, operation, and maintenance of a stormwater management facility shall make records of the installation and of all maintenance and repairs and shall retain the records for at least 5 years. These records shall be made available to the city engineer upon request and/or as specifically outlined in the maintenance covenant. E. Failure to Maintain Practices: If a responsible party fails or refuses to meet the requirements of the maintenance covenant, the city, after reasonable notice, may correct a violation of the design standards or maintenance needs by performing all necessary work to place the facility in proper working condition. In the event that the stormwater management facility becomes a danger to public safety or public health, or is otherwise not functioning as designed, the city shall notify the party responsible for maintenance of the stormwater management facility in writing. Upon receipt of that notice, the responsible person shall have thirty (30) days to effect maintenance and repair of the facility in an approved manner. After proper notice, the city may assess the owner(s) of the facility for the cost of repair work and any penalties; and the cost of the work shall be a lien on the property, or prorated against the beneficial users of the property, and may be placed on the tax bill and collected as ordinary taxes by the city. F. Inspection: (i) Inspection of Stormwater Facilities: Inspections shall be conducted as prescribed by the Stormwater Operations Maintenance Plan covenant. Additional inspections may be conducted by the City on any reasonable basis, including but not limited to: routine inspections; random inspections; inspections based upon complaints or other notice of possible violations; inspection of drainage basins or areas identified as higher than typical sources of sediment or other contaminants or pollutants; inspections of businesses or industries of a type associated with higher than usual discharges of contaminants or pollutants or with discharges of a type that are more likely than the typical discharge to cause violations of State or Federal water or sediment quality standards or the National Pollut-

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« legals ant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permit; and joint inspections with other agencies inspecting under environmental or safety laws. Inspections may include, but are not limited to: reviewing maintenance and repair records; sampling discharges, surface water, groundwater, and material or water in drainage control facilities; and evaluating the condition of drainage control facilities and other stormwater treatment practices. (ii) Right-of-Entry for Inspection: When any new drainage control facility is installed on private property, or when any new connection is made between private property and a public drainage control system the property owner shall grant to the city the right to enter the property at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner for the purpose of inspection. This includes the right to enter a property when the city has a reasonable basis to believe that a violation of this ordinance is occurring or has occurred, and to enter when necessary for abatement of a public nuisance or correction of a violation of this ordinance. (e) Erosion Control and Stormwater Management Standards – Projects Not Subject to Major Impact Review: 1. Application Submittal Requirements for Erosion Control & Stormwater Management: Unless otherwise exempted by this Article, every zoning permit application not subject to Art. 3, Part 5 - Major Impact Review and involving a 400 square foot or more increase in impervious surface or amount of disturbed area must be accompanied by an erosion control and stormwater runoff plan. Information requirements may be adjusted or waived by the city engineer for a particular development application upon written request of the applicant, provided that at least one of the following circumstances can be demonstrated: A. Alternative measures for on-site and/or off-site management of stormwater have been proposed, and theses measures comply with local ordinance(s); and/or, B. It is otherwise demonstrated that the proposed development will not produce any significant change to the existing pre-application hydrology. The erosion control and stormwater runoff plan shall include, at a minimum, the following items depicted on a site plan: C. Indication of disturbance limits and the protection of existing vegetation that is to be preserved; D. Clearing and grading limits that do not exceed maximum lot coverage at any one time; E. Diverting the flow of runoff and melt water away from cleared and graded areas; F. Temporary and permanent stabilization of the site; and, G. The protection of any channels that may become enlarged or destabilized from erosion. 2. General Performance Criteria for Erosion Control & Stormwater Management: The following are required stormwater management performance criteria:

A. All earthen material associated with, or disturbed by, the project shall be retained on the subject property. B. Bare earthen material shall immediately be stabilized with erosion control netting and/or with seed and mulch to establish vegetative cover. C. The rate and volume of stormwater runoff post-construction shall not exceed the pre-construction rate or volume. D. Land disturbance within the stream channel of any ephemeral stream shall be minimized. E. Applicants shall utilize Integrated Management Practices/ Best Management Practices on an ongoing basis. 3. Maintenance: Stormwater management facilities that are constructed on privatelyowned land and that are not within a public easement shall be maintained by the owner of the subject property. Stormwater Management Facilities that are constructed on public land, within public rights-of-way, and/ or within public easements shall be maintained by the public body with ownership/jurisdiction. In all cases, stormwater facilities shall be kept in working order and shall be inspected and maintained at least annually. * Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added. NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS that, pursuant to an order of the Chittenden Superior Court in the matter entitled Peoples Trust Company of St. Albans v. Bruce R. Moulton, et al (docket no. S83008CnC), a sheriff’s sale of the following described property shall take place at the premises located at 550 Route 7 South, Milton, Vermont at 10:00 a.m. on October 10, 2009. The property to be sold is described as follows: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Bruce Moulton by Quit Claim Deed of Tracie G. Moulton dated October 14, 2003 and recorded in volume 285 on pages 500-501 of the Town of Milton Land Records, and more particularly described as follows: Being one lot of land, together with the buildings thereon, located on the southeasterly side of U.S. Route 7, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot One as shown on a plan of land entitled “Subdivision Map, Bruce & Tracie Moulton, 797 U.S. Route Seven (7), Milton, Vermont 05468”, prepared by Brooks Land Surveying, dated October 27, 1993, last revised on May 16, 1997, and recorded as Map Slide 243, Map 292 of the Map Records of the Town of Milton. Being part of the same land and premises conveyed to Bruce Moulton and Tracie G. Moulton by Quit Claim Deed of Bruce Moulton dated October 11, 1996 and recorded in book 177, Page 483 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton. Being part of the same lands and premises conveyed to Bruce Moulton by Warranty Deed of Burton G. Riley and Norma R. Bowman dated November 30, 1993 and recorded in Volume 155 at page 571 of said Land Records. Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned instruments, the records thereof, and the references therein contained, all in further aid of this description. The property shall be sold at such time to the highest bidder, subject to all real estate taxes or other assessments of the Town of Milton,

if any, on said land and premises, and subject to any superior liens or other encumbrances. Terms of the sale are cash or certified funds, or the purchaser may produce a commitment letter from a bank, mortgage company or other lender licensed to do business in the State of Vermont at the time of sale. In any case, a $10,000 deposit in cash or certified funds shall required at the time of sale. Dated at Burlington this 4th day of August, 2009. Kevin McLaughlin, Sheriff OPENINGS BURLINGTON CITY COMMISSIONS/BOARDS On Monday, September 14, 2009, the Burlington City Council will fill vacancies on the following City Commissions/Boards: Design Advisory Board Term Expires 6/30/10 One Opening Development Review Board (Alternate) Term Expires 6/30/11 One Opening Housing Board of Review Term Expires 6/30/14 One Opening Fence Viewer Term Expires 6/30/10 Two Openings Board of Tax Appeals Term Expires 6/30/10 One Opening Telecommunications Advisory Committee Term Expires 6/30/11 One Opening Applications are available at the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, Second Floor, City Hall, and must be received in the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office by 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Applicants must be nominated by a member of the City Council to be considered for a position; a list of Council members is also available at the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office. Please call the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office at 865-7136 for further information. PUBLIC NOTICE The Annual meeting of the Board of Directors for VERMONT DENTAL CARE PROGRAMS will be held on Monday September 21, at 5:30pm at the office of Vermont Dental Care at 32 Malletts Bay Ave, Winooski, Vermont. For further information please call Sandra at 655-2385. PUBLIC NOTICE The Annual Report of The Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Fund, Inc. is available at the address noted below, for inspection during normal business hours by any citizen who so requests within 180 DAYS after the publication of this notice of its availibility. The Krzyzowa/Kreisau Foundation, Inc. 88 Old Pump Road Essex, VT 05452-2742 The principal manager is Mark Huessy, Secretary, telephone 802899-5158. PUBLIC NOTICE The Annual Report of The Krzyzowa/Kreisau Foundation, Inc. is available at the address noted below, for inspection during normal business hours by any citizen who so requests within 180 DAYS after the publication of this notice of its availibility.

The Krzyzowa/Kreisau Foundation, Inc. 88 Old Pump Road Essex, VT 05452-2742 The principal manager is Mark Huessy, Secretary, telephone 802899-5158. STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF CHITTENDEN, SS IN RE: 113 NORTH STREET, WINOOSKI Docket No. S955-09CnC ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1. A Petition for Declaration to Quiet Title for 113 North Street (the “Property”) in Winooski, Vermont, has been made to the Vermont Superior Court for Chittenden County on behalf of Citifinancial, Inc., as Petitioner by Jon Anderson, Esq. of Burak, Anderson & Melloni, PLC, P.O. Box 787, 30 Main Street, Ste 210, Burlington, VT 05402 (Phone: 802-862-0500). 2. The purpose of the Petition is to quiet title to such Property possibly by appointing Jon Anderson, Esq. special trustee to convey the Property. The Property may be further described as the land and premises described by a certain Warranty Deed from Yvette Niquette to the Yvette Niquette Trust, dated November 10, 1992, and recorded as Book 85, Page 358 of the City of Winooski Land Records wherein the conveyed premises are described as follows: A lot of land with all buildings thereon situated on the east side of North Street in said City of Winooski, commonly known and designated as #113 on said North Street, having a frontage of 61’, more or less, on North Street, and a depth of 125’ and being all and the same lands and premises which were conveyed to Antonio A. Niquette (now deceased) and Yvette Niquette by Warranty Deed of Bruno L. Piche and Annette V. Piche dated March 24, 1944 and of record in Volume 11 at Page 190 of the Land Records of the City of Winooski. 3. If you claim an interest in the Property, you are hereby summoned and required to serve upon Burak Anderson & Melloni, PLC, Plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is Burak Anderson & Melloni, PLC, 30 Main Street, P.O. Box 787, Burlington, VT 05402-0787, an Answer to the Petition within 45 days of the date of first publication noted below. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. Your Answer must also be filed with the Court. Unless otherwise provided in Rule 13(a), your Answer must state as a counterclaim any related claim which you may have against the Plaintiff, or you will thereafter be barred from making such claim in any other action. YOUR ANSWER MUST STATE SUCH A COUNTERCLAIM WHETHER OR NOT THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE PETITION IS FOR DAMAGE COVERED BY A LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICY UNDER WHICH THE INSURER HAS THE RIGHT OR OBLIGATION TO CONDUCT THE DEFENSE. If you believe that the Petitioner is not entitled to all or part of the claim set forth in the Petition, or if you believe that you have a counterclaim against the Petitioner, you may wish to consult an attorney. If you feel that you cannot afford to pay an attorney’s fee, you may ask the clerk of the court for information about places where you may seek legal assistance. Dated this 4th day of August, 2009.

Dennis R. Pearson Judge, Superior Court of Chittenden County Name of Newspaper: Seven Days First Publication Date: 8/12/09 Second Publication Date: 8/19/09 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S 0456-06 CnC Washington Mutual Bank, NA, Plaintiff, v Rebecca Lee Samanci, Yavuz Samanci and The Vermont Community Loan Fund, Inc., Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage Deed dated June 18, 2002 from Yavuz Samanci and Rebecca Samanci to Universal Mortgage Corporation. Said Mortgage Deed was recorded on June 24, 2004 in Volume 98, Pages 394-409 of the Town of Westford Land Records. The subject Promissory Note and Mortgage were assigned from Universal Mortgage Corporation to Washington Mutual Bank by an Assignment dated June 18, 2002 and recorded on August 12, 2002 in Volume 99, Pages 329-330 of the Town of Westford Land Records. The undersigned represents the present holder for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same which will be sold at Public Auction at 10:00 o’clock AM, on the 1st day of September, A.D. 2009, at the subject premises of 851 Woods Hollow Road, in Westford, Vermont, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage will be sold as a whole. To wit: “Being a parcel of land and premises conveyed to Rebecca L. Samanci and Yavuz Samanci by Warranty Deed of Armistead Mason Lee, Eleanor Ruggles Cobb Lee, Ronald Lee Elson and Eleanor R. Leen Elson dated November 27, 1993, recorded in Volume 71 at Pages 33-35 of the Town of Westford Land Records. “Being a parcel of land and premises conveyed to Rebecca L. Samanci and Yavuz Samanci by Warranty Deed of Armistead Mason Lee and Eleanor Ruggles Cobb Lee dated August 5, 1994, recorded in Volume 74, at Pages 290-292 of said Land Records. “Being a parcel of land and premises conveyed to Rebecca L. Samanci and Yavuz Samanci by Warranty Deed of Armistead Mason Lee and Eleanor Ruggles Cobb Lee dated June 8, 1995, recorded in Volume 74 at Pages 293-295 of said Land Records. “Being a parcel of land and premises conveyed to Rebecca L. Samanci and Yavuz Samanci by Warranty Deed of Armistead Mason Lee and Eleanor Ruggles Cobb Lee dated August 5, 1994, recorded in Volume 76 at Pages 122-124 of said Land Records. “Being three parcels of land located in Westford, Vermont. Generally the premises may be described as being the 1 1/2 acre, more or less, home site located on the easterly side of of [sic] Woods Hollow Road and lastly being another parcel containing approximately 1 acre in size located on the easterly side of Woods Hollow Road, which said parcel sits southerly and adjacent to the 1 1/2 acre home site. “Subject to and benefitted by all rights of ways, easements, covenants, permits and rights of record. “Reference is hereby made to the above mentioned instruments, the records thereof and the references therein contained in further aid of this description.”

Terms of Sale: Purchaser at the sale shall pay cash or certified funds, or produce a commitment letter from a bank or mortgage company or other lender licensed to do business in the State of Vermont at the time of the sale for the amount of the winning bid. In any case the winning bidder shall be required to produce $10,000.00 (ten-thousand dollars) cash or certified funds at the close of auction as the deposit against the sale. The sale will be subject to the Confirmation Order of the Chittenden Superior Court. The property will be sold subject to all unpaid property taxes and town/city assessments, if any. In the event the auction terms are confirmed by the Superior Court aforesaid, and the winning bidder is unwilling or unable consummate the sale, the deposit shall be forfeit. In the event the sale is not confirmed the deposit will be returned without interest. 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 or inquire at Grant C. Rees, Attorney, P.O. Box 108, Milton, Vermont 05468, 802-8937400. By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff Publication Dates: August 5, 2009 August 12, 2009 August 19, 2009 Town of Williston Public Works Department Offers the following vehicle for sale to the highest bidder: 2007 Ford Crown Victoria Auto, air, V-8 White, 4 door sedan Mileage – 120,000 This vehicle can be viewed at the Public Works Office. The vehicle is being sold in “as is condition”. The minimum bid accepted for this vehicle is $4,000.00. Sealed bids will be accepted until 2:00pm, Thursday, August 27, 2009 in the Public Works Office, 7900 Williston Road, Williston, VT 05495

DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (tollfree) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636, 24/7. AMERICAN LUNG ASSOC. FREEDOM FROM SMOKING CLASSES: Sept. 10 - Oct. 29, Thursday, 5:30-7 p.m. $35 for workbook & CD. Limited Financial Assistance is avail. Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington (above Climb High). Registration required at 865-2452.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON

Nursing Skills Lab/ Clinical Instructors

Assistant Chief Administrative Officer for Finance

Castleton State College is seeking part-time skills lab/clinical instructors for the fall semester to supervise nursing students during weekday hours (4-6 hours per day, 2-3 days per week) in the skills lab and/ or the clinical setting beginning the week of August 24, 2009. Recent clinical experience and eligibility for VT nursing license required. Minimum requirement is a bachelor’s degree in Nursing. The ideal candidate will also possess a master’s degree in Nursing or a related field. Review of applications will begin immediately, and applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

This is a full-time position in the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office that is responsible for managing the financial, accounting, personnel and administrative activities of the City Clerk/Treasurer’s office. Responsibilities include coordinating all City accounting functions, central payroll, investments, and administration of the City’s budget program. Ideal candidate would possess a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with major in accounting or finance or a related field. Master’s degree preferred. A minimum of five years of relevant experience in accounting, finance and personnel administration with at least two years of supervisory and fund accounting experience is required.

Please forward completed Castleton application for employment (available online at www.castleton,edu), a cover letter and vitae with references to: Dr. Joseph T. Mark, Academic Dean, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT 05735

For a complete description or City of Burlington application, visit our website at www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us or contact Human Resources at 802-865-7145. If interested, send resume, cover letter, and City of Burlington application to:

CSC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

HR Dept., 131 Church St. Burlington, VT 05401

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People Movers... Going Places. We Have The Perfect Part Time Job For You! Come join the world’s largest bus company as a School Bus and/or Charter Bus Driver. You’ll find great pay, great people, and a great place to work. We’re looking ahead to the fall season and plan to have our School Bus Drivers and Charter Bus Drivers trained and ready to go. We have opportunities available in the Westford, Enosburg, St. Albans, Berlin, Brattleboro, Fair Haven, S. Duxbury, White River Junction and Hyde Park areas and we offer: • Excellent Wages • Part-time Hours

Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE

• Opportunity to earn bonuses • Full Training Provided

Candidates must be 21 or older with 3 years continuous driving license. All candidates must be able to pass a drug test and background check.

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Burlington City Kids After-School Program Counselor and Team Leader

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City of Burlington, Parks and Recreation Dept. The City Kids After-School Program is currently hiring counselors and team leaders for the 2009 school season. Hours are 2-5:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. Applications are available at the Parks and Recreation Department, 645 Pine St., or on the web at: http://www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us/application.html Submit City of Burlington applications to: Parks and Recreation 645 Pine Street, Suite B Burlington, VT 05401 For more information call 802-864-0123, or visit the Parks and Recreation website at: www.enjoyburlington.com.

Email resume to: michael.ericsson@firstgroup.com

A Safer And Better Way To The School Day

EOE by choice.

Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply. EOE. Bayard Advertising Agency, Inc.

JOB #: 0021743500 CLIENT: First Student PUBS: Seven Days

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Driver eDucation instructor Applicants for part time driver education road instruction. Compensation will be at $23/hour. Applicants must have Driver’s Education certification. Qualified candidates are invited to send a letter of interest, resume, certification and three letters of reference to: Robert Phillips, Principal Spaulding High School 155 Ayers Street Barre, VT 05641

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Part-time assistant Teacher needed for small Burlington preschool serving families with Jewish affiliation. Must have experience working with children ages 18 months through age 5, Early Childhood degree preferred. The successful candidate must also have great energy, enthusiasm, warmth and a sense of humor. Hours are 12-5, Monday through Thursday, and 12-3 on Friday.

EOE

Please reply by August 26 to Lisa Rosen Ryan, Gan Yeladim Preschool, 57 South Williams Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401 or by email to lisa@chabadvt.org.

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HowardCenter improves the well-being of children, adults, families and communities.

Child, Youth and FamilY ServiCeS Children’s Crisis CliniCian Immediate opening for a Children’s Crisis Clinician with First Call, the 24/7 crisis team providing outreach and phone support to children and families in Chittenden County (Full-time, 37.5-hour schedule with shifts on Wed, Fri and Sat). A Master’s degree in a human service field, with at least one year of experience with mental health work, and a valid driver’s license are required. Children’s Crisis CliniCian substitute Immediate opening for Children’s Crisis Clinician Substitutes with First Call, the 24/7 crisis team providing outreach and phone support to children and families in Chittenden County. Bachelors degree in Human Services and one year of mental health work experience required. Valid driver’s license required.

develoPmental ServiCeS training speCialist Laid-back man in his early 30’s, needs 30 hours of on the job and community inclusion support. This UVM employee enjoys his job, working out at the UVM gym and other social activities. Ideal match is someone patient and interested in long term job commitment. Hours are 9am to 3pm, Monday thru Friday, with pick-up and dropoff in Hinesburg.

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mental health and SuBStanCe aBuSe administrative assistant ii HowardCenter is seeking a front-desk administrative assistant for our Adult Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse counseling services. Qualified candidate will possess a positive and upbeat personality with excellent oral and written skills. Candidates should also have front-desk experience that includes heavy phone, interpersonal contact, and excellent computer skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook is required. Outstanding customer service skills are a must. This busy and exciting front-office position includes, but is not limited to, assisting clinicians with paperwork, offering support in performing of urinalysis for clients and collecting payments. This is a 37.5 hour/week position that offers an excellent benefits package. burlington outreaCh program CliniCian Seeking motivated individual to initiate and staff an innovative pilot program working with the Burlington Police Department. This 2nd-shift position, located at the BPD, will use an outreach model to establish relationships with an identified population, to reduce current reliance on the BPD’s need to respond to and solve social problems. Challenging position requiring excellent communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to collaborate with systems that have competing perspectives. Responsibilities include interim case management and the development of strategies for minimizing dysfunctional behavior in the community. Individual needs to develop innovative approaches to intractable problems. Knowledge in substance abuse, mental health and transition-age youth and family issues as well as competence in program development required. Knowledge of community resources and the ability to relate to a wide spectrum of clients is essential. Bachelor’s degree in human services field and minimum of 2 years’ experience in related field required. Other relevant certifications highly desired. Resumes by September 1, 2009. Full-time with benefits. CliniCian adult drug treatment Court support Treatment Court Clinician. Looking for an energetic, committed individual who is interested in providing mental health/substance abuse services for people participating in the Chittenden County Treatment Courts. Master’s degree in human services field required and license desired.

Visit www.howardcenter.org for more details and a complete list of employment opportunities.

Person needed to deliver, install, service and repair fitness equipment. Full-time position. Heavy lifting and mechanical skills required. Detail- and service-oriented, good communication and problem solving skills, neat, professional appearance a must. Inquire in person. Personal Fitness Interiors 4050 Williston Road, So. Burlington

Employment Consultant A challenging position in partnership with the Brain Injury Association of Vermont. Based in Waterbury, this position will be responsible for educating and supporting Vermont business across the state to train and hire individuals with brain injury, with a specific focus on serving the needs of returning veterans with brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. This position will also be responsible for motivating and supporting individual job seekers with brain injury, including job search, securing employment and providing ongoing follow-up. Ideal candidate will have knowledge of the business community, veteran’s issues and traumatic brain injury, and will be able to maintain positive rapport with clients, employers and military. Requires a self-starter with attention to detail and creative problem-solving skills. Minimum qualifications include HS diploma, reliable transportation, good interpersonal and communication skills, and computer knowledge. Salary begins at $25,000 plus benefits. Send a cover letter and resume summarizing relevant experience and interest to: VABIR, 75 Talcott Rd, Suite 30 Williston, VT 05495.

training speCialist Independent 44 y/o man is looking for support in the Burlington area. Focus of work will be in his apartment providing oversight of meals and medication administration and in developing other life skills. Ideal candidate is peer age male who enjoys watching, attending, and discussing sporting events. Human services support ideal for this benefits-eligible position. 20 morning hours. speCialized Community support Worker Direct service positions (2) available for compassionate, creative, and dedicated women to provide AWAKE overnight coverage to either a 9-year-old boy or a 19-year-old young woman, both with developmental disabilities and intensive medical needs, in their Burlington homes. Ideal candidates are experienced, but we will train the right people. Great jobs for Nursing or Graduate Students!

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Make a difference Founded in 1787, Castleton is a college community that values personal interaction with students and among colleagues. Your work will be appreciated here. You can help us make a difference in the lives of our students, and for the benefit of Vermont. Castleton State College is seeking applications for a Dean of Nursing to serve as a nurse educator/administrator overseeing and leading the Associate in Science in Nursing Program and to develop and lead a Bachelor in Science in Nursing Program with a RN-to-BSN track. Master’s degree in nursing and doctorate in nursing or related field, plus three to five years of relevant teaching and administrative experience including recent experience in nursing administration and teaching in nursing education, or a combination of education and experience from comparable knowledge and skills are required. Applicants must either possess or be qualified for a Vermont license as a registered nurse. Salary is within the VSC salary range for a Grade 18, plus an excellent benefit package. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled. Send letter of application, a Castleton employment application (available on www.castleton.edu), and vitae with list of references to: Office of Human Resources Castleton State College Castleton, Vermont 05735 CSC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY.

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NCSS, Inc., 107 Fisher Pond Road, St. Albans, VT 05478 • EOE

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holiday inn-Burlington 1068 Williston road south Burlington, vt 05403

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Busy multistate law firm seeks an Office Manager for its Vergennes, Vermont location to keep all aspects of its operations functioning smoothly and efficiently. Position focuses on the management of processes and services that support the law firm (but not the management of professional staff). Duties will require oversight in the following areas: (i) facilities management and office administration; (ii) human resources- and staffing-related activities; and (iii) systems and technology. Qualified candidates must be highly organized, adept at problem-solving, tech-savvy, enjoy a fast-paced work environment and have a strong sense of responsibility. Position requires precise communication and instructionfollowing skills; a hard-work ethic; a polished and professional demeanor; a commitment to highest quality work; and a good sense of humor and perspective. Familiarity with technology and Microsoft advanced office software is key. We offer a base salary of $40K-$50K per year, commensurate with experience and skills; contribution to health insurance; paid vacation; and a workplace where the day flies by. Position will occasionally require weekend and/or evening hours, as needed. A college degree is preferred, but not required.

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Certified Pilates Instructors

Part-Time Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner for busy urgent care/occupational health practice. Candidates must have Vermont Medical License and have at least 3-5 years experience in emergency room, family practice or urgent care setting. We offer flexible hours, no on-call and benefits. Reply to: andrew.conte@cvurgentcare.com.

Executive Assistant Vermont Land Trust has an opportunity for an experienced Executive Assistant to join our vibrant land conservation organization in a key support role for the President, Board of Trustees, and fundraising department in our Montpelier headquarters. If you can anticipate the needs of others and have excellent listening, organizational, technical and communication skills, we want to talk with you. Visit our website at www.vlt.org to learn more about us and details about this job. Salary range starts at $35,000. Apply by August 24, 2009.

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New Full-Time Position Seeking a stand-out talent with meticulous attention to detail. Minimum 2 years professional experience. Strong print skills a must. Creative Suite mastery. Team player. Fast-paced, creative environment. Web development skills a strong +.

The ideal candidate will have long-term-care experience and is able to work independently. Please apply via email or in person at: The Ethan Allen Residence 1200 North Ave. Burlington, VT 05408 (across from the DMV)

8/14/09 3:51:25 PM Established green construction company looking for an ambitious, mechanically inclined carpenter, interested in all aspects of green construction. Salary commensurate with experience. Car (or bike) and tools required. Contact Chuck, 802-482-3295.

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The Ethan Allen Residence, a small residential care community for seniors, is seeking 2 experienced LPNs. Both of these positions are 6:30 am- 4 pm and include every other weekend off. These positions are 69.5 hours in a 2-week pay period.

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We are accepting applications from certified Pilates instructors looking for opportunities to schedule private appointments and teach group Mat and Reformer classes. Dance experience preferred. Please send your cover letter and resume with certification details, compensation requirements, and references.

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The Dragonfly Café has immediate openings for: experienCeD servers: Weekend day shifts. evening shifts during the week and weekends. sous Chef: fri. and sat. days, sun.-Mon. evenings. please apply in person from 2 to 4pm. Dragonfly Café •18 Severance Green Colchester, Vermont • 878-6100

337 College St. Burlington, VT 05401 nelson@lisaius.com

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Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), we are now hiring for the following positions:

Staff accountant- Assist with the accounting of funding for ARRA.

Requires a degree in Accounting and two years of job-related progressively responsible work experience in accounting. Prefer experience in governmental accounting including working with Fundware; laws/ statutes, and federal regulations and how they relate to program areas. Must have excellent computer skills and strong experience with Excel. Salary commensurate with experience. Projected length of position-end of December 2010. 20-25 hours/week. Excellent benefits. to apply: send letter of interest, resume and 3 references by September 3rd to accntjob@cvoeo.org.

network adminiStrator- Become part of the team that

administers all servers and networks throughout the agency. Provide help desk support to users at locations throughout Chittenden, Addison, and Franklin counties. Bachelor’s degree in Computers Science/Information Technology or related field plus three to five years of relevant experience. Experience with Windows server and desktop operating systems required. Experience with Cisco network devices desirable. Salary commensurate with experience. 30 hrs/week. Excellent benefits. to apply: send letter of interest, resume and 3 references by September 3rd to itjob@cvoeo.org.

admin aSSiStant- Detail oriented individual needed to enter data

into our Homeless Management Information System (HMIS). Must have excellent computer skills and ability to work independently. Projected length of position-end of December 2010. Salary commensurate with experience. 20 hours/week. Excellent benefits. to apply: send letter of interest, resume and 3 references by September 3rd to adminjob@cvoeo.org

for further information on all openings go to www.cvoeo.org no phone calls, please. Minorities and diverse cultural groups are encouraged to apply. CVOEO is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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department of mathematics about saint michael’s college: Saint Michael’s College has been designated, through a survey conducted in 2009 by The Chronicle of Higher Education, to be a Great College to Work For, one of only ten colleges with fewer than 3,000 students to be so designated. Saint Michael’s is a residential, Catholic, liberal arts college in Vermont where 2,000 undergraduates from around the United States and the world take part in a fully engaging, total college life of the mind, body and spirit. Saint Michael’s is among the elite ranks of only 270 colleges and universities nationwide allowed to host a Phi Beta Kappa national honor society chapter on campus, making clear why Newsweek magazine labeled the college a “hidden treasure” that “deserves more national recognition.” Saint Michael’s is included in The Princeton Review’s Best 368 Colleges guidebook. Job description: The Department of Mathematics at Saint Michael’s College invites applications for a full-time, one-semester visiting instructorship in mathematics for Spring of 2010. The teaching load for this position is 4 courses (12 credit hours). The likely areas of teaching include statistics, calculus, and finite mathematics. requirements: Candidates are expected to have a strong, successful record in teaching Master’s degree is required PhD and background in statistics preferred Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2009 and continue until position is filled. additional information: Saint Michael’s College is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity, equity, and inclusiveness across our campus community and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to undergraduate teaching and be supportive of the mission of this Catholic, residential, liberal arts college.

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WINGS OVER BURLINGTON Now accepting applications for the following positions with some immediate openings: Room Attendants Laundry Attendants Shared Space Attendants

We’re looking for motivated and outgoing DRIVERS, Cooks & Phone Staff to join us at the Blue Mall in S. Burlington. Come join the family and enjoy great pay and a fun environment!

Contact: Kathleen, 802-860-1112 x 5928

Call 802-863-WING (9464) for more info.

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Admissions and Retention, Burlington

Seeking a full-time customer service oriented professional with responsibilities including development and delivery of services to enhance admissions and retention functions in the site (outreach, admissions appointments, new student orientation, and triage advising) in addition to participation in academic and administrative activities, including registration and some college-wide work.

What: Career Readiness Certificate Orientation

Where: Vermont Department of Labor, 63 Pearl Street, Burlington

Master’s degree required; Readiness to assume team leadership with a focus on the new student and related systems, resources, and services; Excellent communication and technology skills; Demonstrated success managing student services programs, working with college constituents, and reaching out to multi-generational students. Facility with social media required. Some flexibility in work hours required.

part-time/full-time

When: Tuesday, September 1, at 10 a.m. or 1p.m., and Thursday, September 3, at 10 a.m. or 5 p.m. For more info, please come to an orientation session or call VDOL, 802-863-7676.

Please visit www.ccv.edu for requirements and application instructions. CCV strongly encourages applications from members

2121 Essex Rd. of ethnic minority groups and other under-represented backgrounds. CCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer, in Taft Corners,Williston compliance with ADA requirements. Call 802-878-5524 before 11 a.m. or after 2 p.m. for an 2x5.5-CCV-burlington081209.indd 1 8/10/09 appointment & ask for Angela.

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Staff Accountant

HowardCenter improves the well-being of children, adults, families and communities.

Vermont Housing Finance Agency has an immediate opening for a staff accountant within the finance department in our Burlington office. This is a great opportunity for a highly organized, energetic, team-focused individual. This is an hourly position, working 37.5 hours per week. Primary responsibilities include accounts payable, cash receipts and assisting the controller in creating, maintaining and updating various worksheets, detail schedules and trial balances in support of the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing process. This position is also responsible for HUD Sec. 8 and IRP accounting, all IRS 1098/1099 year-end reporting and other miscellaneous accounting functions.

AssistAnt stAff RecRuiteR Responsible, organized, and creative team player sought for Assistant Staff Recruiter position. Primary responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and orientating on-call substitute staff to administrative procedures. Proficient computer skills and database knowledge required. 30 hours, benefits eligible. AdministRAtive AssistAnt ii FULL TIME front desk and administrative support person sought for dynamic professional downtown office. Ability to perform a variety of office duties including greeting visitors, call management, information organization and distribution, and database/spreadsheet required. Monday thru Friday, 8:30 – 5:00. Benefits eligible.

Visit www.howardcenter.org for more details and a complete list of employment opportunities. HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY.

A minimum two-year business or accounting degree or equivalent work experience, or two-year degree and six months experience in a similar position is required. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office products (Outlook, Excel and Word). One year of experience with an automated accounts payable system is required. Experience with an interfaced general ledger software system is preferred. Must be highly organized with attention to detail, high level of accuracy, able to handle multiple tasks, meet deadlines, have a desire to take on and learn new things, and work with a wide range of individuals, internal and external to the agency. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. Flexibility and a strong work ethic are an absolute must. Competitive salary and excellent benefits package. Please send resume, salary requirement and references by Wednesday, August 26, to our Human Resources/Office Manager:

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Seasonal Opportunities Available for our Warehouse Crew and Call Center Team Warehouse duties include picking orders, packing orders and restocking. Sustained focus and attention to detail are key skills needed for this position. You should also be able to quickly shift tasks in response to changing priorities. Work hours are Monday through Friday with three weekend days possible in early December. Call Center responsibilities include taking phone orders and providing product and order status information. Strong communication, computer and customer-service skills are necessary for success. Both roles may lead to permanent employment after the holidays. To apply, go to novanatural.com, click on “jobs” at the bottom of the home page and download an application form. Return the completed application to

Vermont Housing Finance Agency PO Box 408 Burlington, VT 05402-0408 or mpanton@vhfa.org An Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Burlington Children’s spaCe

Lawyer

Burlington Children’s Space is a community-based, nonprofit Early Care and Education program. We are seeking an experienced professional to join our Preschool team. A strong background in developmentally appropriate practice, the ability to team teach and plan using emergent curriculum as a base for responsive practice. An Early Education degree or endorsement required. Flexibility, creativity and a good sense of humor are essential in working with our active, inquiring and diverse preschoolers. Familiarity with NAEYC, Head Start and Creative Curriculum Assessment a plus!

Lawyer with 5 years transactional and litigation experience wanted by Fead Construction Law, PLC in South Burlington. Must have excellent research, writing and interpersonal skills and attention to detail. Familiarity with AIA forms desired. The firm focuses on agreements and disputes in the construction industry. Comparable pay and benefits in a small, congenial office.

Burlington Children’s Space 241 North Winooski Ave. Burlington, VT 05401 hduhamel@burlingtonchildrensspace.org

Email cover letter, resume and writing sample to clouatre@feadlaw.com.

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Deli Manager & Deli Assistants MAnAger: cooking experience, knowledge of ordering, pricing, inventory management and menu planning are required. AssistAnt: cooking experience is required. Both positions need familiarity with natural and organic products. Send or email resume and references to: Natural Provisions 329 Harvest Lane, Suite 100, Williston, VT 05495 info@naturalprovisions.com

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AmeriCorps CommuniCAtions CoordinAtor to promote awareness of PCAV’s programs conducted statewide and nationally. The job is based in Montpelier. Duties include but are not limited to: creating public service announcements; developing, managing and keeping current PCAV’s websites and newsletters; arranging media interviews; overseeing mailings, and other duties as assigned by the executive and deputy directors. A valid Vermont driver’s license is required. AmeriCorps is a government-funded, national communityservice program. When serving a full term of AmeriCorps (@1700 hours in 11 months), you will receive a Living Allowance stipend of $11,100 and are eligible to earn a $4725 education award, health insurance, childcare, (must meet income eligibility requirements), reimbursement for mileage and other benefits.

Caring Hearts & Healing Hands

Have you cared for a friend or family member during their illness or injury? Have you helped a parent or grandparent through a difficult time or brought groceries to an elderly neighbor? The Visiting Nurse Association is seeking Care Providers with this type of experience or with an interest in helping others to care for our clients. Work one-on-one in client’s homes in the Chittenden and Grand Isle County areas. Help with house cleaning, cooking, running errands, personal hygiene care, and of course companionship. Work flexible hours that fit your schedule in the morning, afternoon, evening, awake Occupational Therapist Pottoil hearg vevio id as overnight or liste weekends. high diploma (or dubbo ceweta opiAing dfil school coe. Thitt waqpt iatch, eduso driver’s ullum, wan gfnag and ginnipi como lotyiu bulggoi GED),thi a valid license vehicle, as well as grabizze wawule innst duob callupe. Thitt waqpt the ability to lift 50 pounds aregommag all required.

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AmeriCorps FAmily support progrAms CoordinAtor to develop and manage parent education and support groups. The job is based in Montpelier and would involve travel in central Vermont. Duties include recruitment and supervision of volunteers, community organizing and group development. Must have reliable transportation. Candidate must have knowledge of child development and child abuse dynamics, belief in parent education/support, and passion for helping families. AmeriCorps is a government-funded, national communityservice program. When serving a full term of AmeriCorps (@1700 hours in 11 months), you will receive a Living Allowance stipend of $11,100 and are eligible to earn a $4725 education award, health insurance, childcare (must meet income eligibility requirements), mileage and other benefits. Please send cover letter, resume and 3 references to: Prevent Child Abuse Vermont Coordinator Search - PO Box 829 Montpelier, VT 05601-0829 or to pcavt@pcavt.org Website: www.pcavt.org EOE

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TOWN OF RICHMOND Town Administrator

Vermont InformatIon technology leaders, Inc. montpelier, Vermont

Vice President of Finance Reporting to the President and CEO, the VP of Finance will have overall responsibility for the design and management of VITL financial systems including budget, accounting, audit and support for the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors. VITL is tasked with overseeing the effective and efficient deployment of health information technology in support of Vermont’s health reform initiatives. VITL receives state and federal funding from multiple sources to carry out its functions. As such, it is critical to create a financial system that permits a high level of confidence in the effective management of the public’s resources. The successful candidate should have a minimum of 7-10 years of progressively responsible financial management experience. Health care and non-profit experience are extremely valuable. Experience working with state and federal funding is essential. Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. 144 Main Street, Suite 1, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802) 223-4100 (ph & FAX) • njlang@vitl.net

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The Town of Richmond, VT (pop. 4100) seeks to fill the full-time permanent position of Town Administrator. Responsibilities include day-to-day operation of the municipal government and ensuring responsible administration of local and state policy, procedure and regulation. A full job description and job announcement is available at www.richmondvt.com under “Documents.” The position will remain open until filled. Application review begins September 3, 2009. Please send cover letter, resume and three current references to: Town Administrator Search P.O. Box 285 Richmond, VT 05477 or cmader@gmavt.net. Questions: Peter Parent, Selectboard Chair, at (802) 434-3666 or taxregnow@aol.com. EOE.

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www.sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Licensed Psychotherapist

Manager

Two days available in well-established women‘s practice on Burlington waterfront. Beautiful suite with kitchen. Parking included.

Regional Energy Company seeks manager for its Waitsfield, Vt. location. Prior experience in the propane, fuel Oil or HVAC business is required. Excellent salary, bonus incentive and benefit package will be offered to the right candidate.

CornerStone Psychotherapy 802-651-7524

Please send confidential inquiries and resumes to jon.whittle@inergyservices.com. EOE

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Preschool Teacher Our licensed center is seeking a flexible, fun, and energetic preschool teacher and extended daycare provider. Responsibilities include planning and implementing curriculum in a team-teaching situation, working with parents, assessing needs and growth of children, and nurturing the safe development of children ages 3-8 years. Candidates should have at least 2 years of relevant experience. Associate’s degree preferred.

Need people interested in marketing services no one else can or has but that EVERYONE uses and needs. Earn 5 figures monthly RESIDUAL income. Will train.

877-521-7799

Home Provider Opportunity Champlain Community Services

CCS is seeking a responsible couple or individual to open their home to a 25-yearold man. This gentleman is a sweet and endearing person with great family support, a sensitive support team, and weekday supports. He loves to listen to music, watch cooking shows and play video games. He likes to be a part of a home. He loves animals, children, adaptive skiing, adaptive sailing and being a part of a dynamic life. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required, along with a desire to make a positive impact on the life of another by increasing their quality of life. A generous tax-free stipend, respite, accessibility modifications, ongoing training and supports are provided by CCS. For more information, please contact Al Frugoli at ext. 108 or afrugoli@ccs-vt.org.

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Part-time position in S. Burlington. Flexible hours, great workplace. Vermont Tent Company – We’re Much More Than Tents! New England’s premier special event company is seeking hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join our team. We are currently accepting applications for the following seasonal positions (positions available immediately through November 1):

Fax resume and cover letter to 802-383-4629 or email to info@rcmcvt.com.

New integrative medical practice located in Rutland, Vermont, desires energetic, self-directed bachelor’s or master’s level individual to market and manage an eight-practitioner office.

Please send resumes to: Sanctuary Integrative Medicine PC, 71 Allen Street, Suite 203, Rutland, Vermont 05701 Partner with

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Vermont Center for Afterschool Excellence seeks a dynamic statewide leader to drive this new grant -funded position. The center is responsible for statewide afterschool initiatives in the following areas: best practice, coaching, training, evaluation, and sustainability.

8/11/09 9:46:54 AM PART-TIME COOK NEEDED

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The candidate should have a proven track record in the following areas:

We are looking for a cook to prepare an evening meal for 17 people 5 evenings a week. There is a kitchen and cookware available on site.

• Directing a high-quality afterschool initiative • Experience leading and sustaining an organization or initiative • Exemplary analytical skills including experience with research and evaluation • Exemplary communication skills including aptitude in Web 2.0 tools

Please call Beth at

802-865-2248

of humor and a love for children. Duties to include: creating a safe and nurturing environment that meets the individual needs of children, written and verbal communication with families, lesson planning, observation and assessment of children’s play and getting down to the children’s level. Applicant must have experience working with young children in an early care and education program and minimum of a CDA. Benefits. EOE. Interested applicants please submit letter of interest and resume to: CIPCC- South, Attn: Liz Lamphere, 114 South Street, South Hero, VT 05486.

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Director of eDucation Located on the historic and beautiful waterfront in Burlington, Vermont, ECHO seeks a dynamic and effective professional to lead the center’s education activities. After six successful years of exceeding audience and impact goals, ECHO is poised to launch major strategic initiatives requiring creativity, significant new resources and expanded community relationships. The Director of Education will work closely with the Executive Director, senior management and the education team to envision, create and deliver on our mission of promoting and enhancing stewardship of Lake Champlain. Position requirements include a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of five years in the education field and considerable grant-writing success. Experience in nonformal educational settings, including online strategies, are of particular interest. To apply, email a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to jobs@echovermont.org with Director of Education in the subject field.

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Send a letter of intent, resume, and a concise portfolio of work by August 28 on behalf of the VSEA search committee to: Darlene Worth champlain Valley educator Development center P.o. Box 670, Burlington, Vt 05402

Six travel consultants/agents needed immediately; bonus/commissions. Part/full-time. Will train.

Call Phyllis 802-343-0331.

One College St., Burlington, VT 05401. For a detailed job description, visit our website at www.echovermont.org. The deadline for applications is September 4, 2009. EOE

Or email to worth@champlain.edu

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Our NAEYC accredited, 5 STAR, nonprofit early care and education program is seeking a full-time classroom teacher to join our team in the toddler classroom.

Medical Office Manager 8/17/09 12:18:08 PM Qualified candidates must be energetic, enthusiastic, and flexible, with a sense

To schedule an interview call: Mike Lubas 802-864-1080 or email resume to: jobs@vttent.com Vermont Tent is an EOE.

This is a consultant position and medical benefits are the responsibility of the consultant.

Teaching Assistants

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Vermont Center for Afterschool Excellence Position Announcement:

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Toddler Teacher

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“Reaching out from the heart to those in need.” St. Joseph’s Residential Care Home has an immediate opening for a

Dining Aide (Part-Time) Dining Services Aide to assist in the preparation and serving of meals in a polite, safe, and sanitary manner. Wash dishes and maintain stock using sanitary and infection-control guidelines. Assist with cleaning and maintaining a friendly approachable atmosphere for residents. Complies with state and federal health regulations for food handling. If interested, please send resumes to danderson@vermontcatholic.org or mail to David Anderson, St. Joseph’s Residential Care Home 243 N. Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05401. (802) 864-0264

Trade ComplianCe SpeCialiST Concept2, the market-leading manufacturer of indoor rowing machines and racing oars, seeks a Trade Compliance Specialist to develop, operate and maintain a global customs and environmental compliance program. Must have 2+ years of experience in a related field and demonstrated familiarity with US Customs Law, the Harmonized Tariff System, Schedule B Export Code System, Free Trade Agreements, Origin and Product Marking Requirements. Successful Concept2 employees combine self-sufficiency and personal accountability with strong teamwork skills. Concept2 has an informal office setting, flexible work schedule and excellent compensation and benefits.

EOE

Submit resume and cover letter to lewis Franco, Human resources by email to lewisf@concept2.com, fax to 802-888-4697, or by mail to Concept 2, inc., 105 industrial park, morrisville, VT 05661. Concept2 is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Associate, GIS Specialist

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Associate, GIS Specialist sought by ARD, Inc, (Burlington, VT) Provide geospatial expertise in multiple int’l dvlpmt projects. Apply GIS from mobile thru server configurations. Engage in proactive verbal & written outreach to clients & colleagues within & outside US. Resp for support applic & continued expansion of GIS activities across our bus. sectors, viz., Envrmt & Natural Resource (ENR), Agriculture, Democracy & Governance, Water Resources & Infrastructure, Info & Knowl Mgmt Services, Land Tenure & Property Rights & Economic Growth. Essential Qualifications: Use GIS/image processing s/ware packages incl ESRI ArcGIS product suite & other, non-spatial, d/base systems; Customize &/or dvlp GIS tools & web applics using ArcGIS Server or ArcGIS Engine or ArcIMS; Implmt FGDC Metadata stds within Professional Geo-d/base; Contribute tech knowl & skills, in addition to his/her GIS & related skills, to 1 or more of following sectors: Envrmt & Natural Resource (ENR), Agriculture, Democracy & Governance, Water Resources & Infrastructure, Info & Knowl Mgmt Services. Engage in spatial planning & mgmt, as well as spatial data analysis; Must write, dvlp & sell proposals for applic of GIS; Overseas travel, (short- & medium-term assignments) reqd 25%-30% of time; Must process multiple projects w/ competing deadlines & complete same within reqd client timeframes; Must make written & verbal presentations to mgrs, clients & colleagues in connection w/ projects. Must have proof of legal authorization to work in U.S.

Email resume & salary history/reqmts to homeofficejobs@ardinc.com

“FROM ADDICTION TO RECOVERY”

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OUTPATIENT THERAPIST

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Are you interested in being part of a group that includes a supportive team of therapists, coverage of your afterhours emergencies and efficient billing staff? We are currently seeking a full-time therapist who is a generalist and interested in working with children, adolescents, adults and families. Specialization with children also desirable. Experience with substance abuse, DBT and group treatment preferred. The ideal candidate will be an MSW/LICSW. Willing to consider other licensure. This full-time, fee-for-service position has an excellent benefits package. Some evening hours required. Our clinic is located close to Interstate 89 and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas. The ideal candidate may qualify for the National Health Services Federal loan forgiveness program, which is substantial.

HR Dept., 107 Fisher Pond Road, St. Albans, VT 05478. EOE Visit our website for a complete listing of our job opportunities: www.ncssinc.org.

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An inpatient substance abuse facility has the following position available: INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM

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Seeking full-time, licensed clinical Social Worker and/or master’s-level Mental Health professional with a CADC/LADC to facilitate intensive outpatient groups; includes three nights per week, Burlington based. Mail, fax or email resumes by August 28, 2009, to: Maple Leaf Farm Associates, Inc. 10 Maple Leaf Road Underhill, VT 05489 Phone: 802-899-2911 Fax: 802-899-3617 Email: info@mapleleaf.org

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FUll-TiME liFE PEr DiEM SOciAl WOrkEr intervention Specialist

Provide after-hours case management/ social work services to patients and their families in our Er and inpatient units. Utilize your crisis intervention, advocacy and problem-solving skills; provide resource and referral information and assist with discharge planning. Work on-call evenings/nights and the very occasional weekend. Posting #7086

A United Way Member Agency

Apply at

www.FletcherAllen.org

Fletcher Allen proudly offers a non-smoking work environment. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

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Champlain Valley Agency on Aging is a private nonprofit United Way organization focused on helping people age with independence and dignity. In order to better serve our clients’ needs, we are currently seeking:

Case Manager: Multifaceted field position in Chittenden County providing assessment, coordination and monitoring of community services and benefits for people age 60+. Must have excellent assessment, organizational and communication skills, ability to balance large caseload, to work independently and as part of a dynamic team. BA/BS required. Minimum 3 years social service experience. Competitive salary with excellent benefits.

catering/sales manager Foot in the door opportunity: the Hilton Burlington seeks an experienced professional to join their team. Must be exceptionally organized and highly motivated to produce results. The ideal candidate will have timely, outstanding, and consistent follow-through abilities. Must be able to work independently as well as function productively as a team player with individuals from varying backgrounds. Will be responsible for all aspects of booking and servicing of catered events with a special emphasis in social-market segments. Previous hotel experience suggested.

Send resume and cover letter to: Champlain Valley Agency on Aging, Inc. 76 Pearl Street, Suite 201, Essex Junction, Vermont 05452 or email: info@cvaa.org

Email resume with cover letter and references in confidence to: rob.chambers@hilton.com. No phone calls, please.

www.cvaa.org CVAA is an equal opportunity employer.

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Burlington Area Shared Living Opportunities

Waitsfield’s own natural food store seeks a professional Sales Associate with natural food and supplement experience. Must posses outstanding customer service skills, be hard working and detail oriented. We are a socially responsible business and provide a livable wage.

Please email resume to sweetpea@gmavt.net

DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES STAFF

Specialized Community Care is looking for part-time staffing for a variety or programs in Addison and Rutland counties. Experience with personal care, behavioral management, and a comfort level for working with aggressive individuals preferred. Please call us at 802-879-3100 or email us at: sccnorth@surfglobal.net

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Active single woman sought for Shared Living Provider opportunity with a 20 y/o woman on the Autism Spectrum, in her Colchester apartment. Ideal candidate is positive, has prior support experience, valid driver’s license and reliable car. Live rent free, split the utilities, and earn a generous monthly tax free stipend as an integral member of this client’s support team. One weekend off per month. Please contact Leah MacCarthy, 488-6541, LeahM@HowardCenter.org. HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to qualified employees.

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Live Rent Free by providing minimal daily living support to a dynamic and very independent 30 y/o woman with developmental disabilities. Female roommate sought to share this spacious 2-bedroom new apartment just south of downtown off Shelburne Road, with parking and on the bus line. Call Tina Hatin @ 488-6572 to learn more.

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Village Wine & Coffee

looking for part-time help with a basic working knowledge of retail wine sales and love for wine and coffee. Barista skills a plus. love for the grape and the bean a must! Customer service skills are essential. for more information, please call

802-985-8922.

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Vermont Public Interest Research Group

Are you tired of not getting recognized for your outstanding attitude? Join the team that cares about you!

Ben & Jerry’s in Waterbury, VT seeks friendly, energetic & enthusiastic guest service professionals. Tour Host, Gift Host, and Scooper positions available for fun, exciting, fast-paced jobs! These temporary positions are available mid-August – late October. Up to 40 hrs a week with a variety of shifts. One weekend day required. Plus 3 free pints a day!

VPIRG is looking for a mission-driven individual with strong data-analysis and information-management skills to join our team. The Data and Membership Coordinator will provide information and database management, contribute to all aspects of fundraising and development, and manage membership services. The right candidate will bring a passion for our issues and a love for data analysis and the metrics of grassroots organizing and fundraising success.

Essex Location: Assistant Manager Servers Drivers

So.Burlington Location: Servers Drivers Assistant Manager

St. Albans Location:

Responsibilities include database development for three interrelated systems; managing data and information exchange internally and with outside vendors; providing data analysis for all aspects of the organization’s work; assisting in the integration of data-driven strategies into advocacy campaigns, field organizing, fundraising and membership development. This is the ideal position for an analytical, creative data guru with a passion for public interest issues and grassroots activism. This is a full-time, non-exempt position based in Montpelier. Competitive salary; employer-paid health, dental and disability insurance; employer-matching IRA contributions; six weeks paid annual leave. Submit cover letter and resume via email to colleen@vpirg.org and reference “Data Coordinator” in your subject line.

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Call 882-1240, ext 2287.

Data & Membership Coordinator

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For more info visit: www.vpirg.org VPIRG, 141 Main St. #6, Montpelier, VT 05602 v. 802-223-5221 f. 802-223-6855

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Housekeeping Supervisor

Assistant Director

Shift worked may be 3pm-11pm, 4pm-12:30am, or 6pm-2:30am. Weekly schedule will be Sunday-Thursday, but some flexibility is required base on the needs of the department.

The Charlotte Children’s Center is looking for a fun, energetic, and creative Assistant Director to join our team. CCC is a nonprofit center servicing children ages 6 weeks to 6 years. We are also NAEYC accredited and have 4 STARS.

Working collaboratively with the Operations Manager, the Supervisor of Housekeeping will oversee employees engaged in maintaining a clean, healthy and safe hospital environment. The supervisor will schedule and monitor employees work along with making quality control checks to assure that all work meets the department standards. The ideal candidate must be a high school graduate with a minimum of 2 years of technical expertise in housekeeping techniques. Prior institutional supervisory experience is desired.

Candidate must: • Have excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. • Support professional development as well as continue to grow professionally as an administrator. • Have knowledge of office skills and QuickBooks. • Support director with office duties as well as supporting staff and stepping into programs when needed.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online at:

www.dhmc.org One Medical Center Drive Lebanon, NH 03756

The candidate must have degree in ECE as well as 2 years of experience working with children ages 6 weeks - 6 years. Please send a cover letter and resume to Kristy Sargent @ccc@gmavt.net.

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PCC has been developing and supporting our pediatric-specific practice management software for the last 26 years and we are excited about this year’s release of the first version of our EHR. When people visit our Champlain Mill office, they almost always tell us, “I wish I could work in a place like this!” Perhaps you, too, desire the friendly, casual, hardworking, customer-supportive environment offered by our 40-employee company.

Web ApplicAtion progrAmmer PCC seeks a web application programmer to join our active development team. This position requires initiative, teamwork and productivity. The successful PCC programmer produces elegant solutions with efficient, clear code. This position requires 3+ years experience in developing web-based applications with PHP, Python or Java. A bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred. To learn more about PCC and how to apply, visit our website at

The deadline for submitting your application is August 28. No phone calls, please.

Photographer/ “Next Generation” Journalist Hearst Television Inc. owned, NBC affiliate in Burlington, VT/Plattsburgh, NY market is looking for an experienced video journalist who can shoot, edit, post stories to the web and occasionally write news stories. This person will also serve as a “background” reporter. This position is based in our Plattsburgh, NY newsroom. We are a tapeless newsroom and have SNG and ENG capability. If you’ve got good story ideas, a creative eye and you enjoy being part of a team please send tape/resume/cover letter stating referral source to:

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Publication:

Seven Days

Run Date:

Wednesday August 19

program director

Section:

Medical HW

Size:

2 col x 4”

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced team player to manage our dynamic programs. Candidates should have a record of leading Harger Howe & Walsh and managing programs, and have experience in land use planning and law, community and economic development, housing and transportation issues, an understanding of legislative, state and local government process, and Vermont-based experience. For a complete job description and application details, go to www.smartgrowthvermont.org. No phone calls, please. 110 Main Street • Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 864-6310 • info@smartgrowthvermont.org

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Director of Finance

Full-Charge Bookkeepers Apply for this Job 88 King Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 HR@champlainhousingtrust.org

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Champlain Housing Trust, a non-profit organization serving the affordable housing needs of Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, seeks a dynamic, entrepreneurial Director of Finance to direct and oversee the organization’s accounting team and financial operations. The position involves managing a complex revenue stream made up of public & private grant funding, earned income from properties, and fund raising & development activities. With the executive leadership team, the Director of Finance develops and implements strategic & fiscal goals; manages financial risks, provides financial performance & forecasts to the CEO, Board and Funders, acts as liaison for all banking/credit facilities & auditors, and ensures compliance with all fiscal and program conditions.

Send cover letter and resume via e-mail to: hr@hmc2agency.com, subject line: Full-charge bookkeeper.

Qualified candidate must have Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in accounting, finance or business, a general knowledge of GAAP, a minimum of five years of management experience and demonstrate a commitment to CHT’s membership-based model of communitycontrolled and permanently affordable housing.

Or mail to: HR at hmc2 advertising, 65 Millet Street, Suite 301 Richmond, VT 05477.

Richmond, Vermont

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Price Smart is dedicated to forging growth and Ad #Growth Vermont 09-DART10-0000373 conservation solutions for Vermont communities and rural countryside.

Tim Doane, Chief Photographer WPTZ/WNNE 553 Roosevelt Highway Colchester, VT 05446

hmc2 advertising, a full-service advertising agency, is seeking a highly skilled full-charge bookkeeper who is extremely knowledgeable in accounts payable and receivable, bookkeeping, front-office procedures, and accounting software systems and how they support business process. Expertise in Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.) and experience with general office equipment and procedures, like filing, phone answering, supply ordering, etc. are necessary. Advertising agency experience a plus! A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, or related field is preferred, but equivalent training and experience will be considered.

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WPTZ/WNNE is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to providing broad outreach regarding job vacancies at our station. We seek the help of local organizations in referring qualified applicants to us. Organizations that wish to receive our vacancy information should contact Amy Rundall at WPTZ/WNNE by calling (518) 561-5555 or (802) 655-0027, ext. 520.

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We are an equal opportunity employer

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Equal Opportunity Employer–committed to a diverse workplace.

Competitive salary commensurate with experience. Benefits include health insurance, vacation, holiday, sick leave and 403(b). Cover letter and resume by August 31st to Human Resources, Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or email HR@champlainhousingtrust.org. No phone calls, please.

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> Further develop and steward the Terry brand and oversee all marketing creative and communication. > Direct all catalog circulation planning and production, all media and web marketing, and the development of a retail concept store. > Lead all product development and merchandising functions including visual merchandising, product forecasting, sourcing/purchasing, line development and inventory management.

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Our ideal candidate is able to think strategically yet grasp and work with details and possesses excellent skills to further develop and evolve streamlined processes and systems. This person demonstrates balanced knowledge and aptitude for both the creative and analytics of marketing and merchandising and effectively drives profitability. We are also seeking a strong leader and communicator who works well in a fast paced, highly collaborative work environment. Terry Precision Cycling is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural background are encouraged. Please submit resume and cover letter to: Human Resources Terry Precision Cycling 1657 East Park Drive Macedon, NY 14502 OR email: hr@terrybicycles.com

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Kerry Prendergast RN, ADNS Birchwood Terrace Healthcare 43 Starr Farm Rd. Burlington, Vermont 05408 802-863-6384 Sue.Fortin@kindredhealthcare.com EOE

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AdministrAtive/outreAch Seeking Administrative Assistant/Community Outreach Coordinator to support a small but growing nonprofit organization. Ability to work within a flexible and changing environment is important. The primary component of the position will involve organizational and administrative duties, computer work, and regular interaction and outreach with the public. Position will include newsletter development, so experience in this area is a bonus. This job requires attention to detail, flexibility, and a strong work ethic. This is a .75 FTE or 32 hours/ week non-salaried position that includes benefits. Experience working with youth/teens is a bonus.

Coordinator of Academic Services, Middlebury

Seeking a half-time customer-service-oriented professional with responsibilities including student advising and registration; faculty support and supervision; and curriculum oversight in the areas of basic skills, writing, social sciences and the humanities. Additional areas of responsibility: student services, learning center, student advisory board and collaborative partnerships. Master’s degree required. Excellent verbal, writing and computer skills; experience with post-secondary students is highly desirable, as is familiarity with basic skills and issues of academic preparedness. Half-time schedule will include early evening hours a minimum of two days/week and flexibility to meet needs of the academic calendar.

For more information about the coalition, please visit our website at www.miltonyouth.org. Please submit cover letter, resume and three references to:

Please visit www.ccv.edu for requirements and application instructions.

Kim Dellinger, Milton Community Youth Coalition kdellinger@miltonyouth.org PO Box 543, Milton, VT 05468. Or you may email to kdellinger@miltonyouth.org. EOE.

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Full-time or part-time positions. Day and evening shifts. Shift differentials: $2 for evenings. Come work with the best team. Salary based on experience. Get a paycheck every week! Call to make an appointment.

Best of Burlington Magazine is looking for a seasoned advertising salesperson to fill a newly created sales/sales management position. We’re growing and need the right person to maintain an active list as well as oversee staff. The right candidate MUST enjoy cold calling, growing new business, building professional relationships and helping other salespeople do the same. Candidate must live in the Champlain Valley. Compensation based on commission and bonus structure only. Very flexible hours and schedule.

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Terry Precision Cycling, a manufacturer and direct marketer of women’s cycling apparel and accessories, bicycles and bicycle saddles, is looking for a Vice President of Marketing as it relocates to Burlington from Rochester, NY. A highly creative and innovative individual with a sense for women’s apparel trends and at least 10 years relevant management experience will be responsible for all multi-channel direct marketing activities, product development, and merchandising. Key responsibilities include:

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CCV strongly encourages applications from members of ethnic minority groups and other underrepresented backgrounds. CCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer, in compliance with ADA requirements.

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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HEAD START

Community Inclusion Facilitator CCS is seeking individuals to provide inclusion supports to people with developmental disabilities. The following positions are available: 20 hours per week Work closely with a young woman with autism in a one-on-one setting at her home and in the community. 28 hours per week Support a variety of individuals one on one at the workplace and accessing the community. 24 hours per week Support a variety of individuals in a one-on-one setting by helping them reach their goals. If you would like to join our team, please submit a letter of interest and resume to Karen Ciechanowicz, staff@ccs-vt.org.

Champlain Community Services 512 Troy Avenue, Suite 1, Colchester, VT 05446 802-655-0511

PRESCHOOL TEACHER POSITION (Winooski): Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and monthly home visits for families. Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children. 40 hours/week, 42 weeks/year. Starting wage $15.33–16.64/hour. Position includes health plan and excellent benefits, and requires bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education or related education field, VT educator’s license, classroom experience, and experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. Successful applicants must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; proficiency in MS Word, email and Internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. People of color, and from diverse cultural groups, especially encouraged to apply. EOE. Please send resume and cover letter with three work references by email to: pirish@cvoeo.org. No phone calls, please.

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