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Hippie Havens CULTURE It was 40 years ago today . . . the “forever young” generation reflects on life in Vermont’s first communes

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COGNITIVE DISSONANCE Though Ken Picard’s recent article about Pine Ridge School [“Hard Lessons,” July 16] was primarily an attack on Headmaster Dana Blackhurst, in which the lone named critic lacked credibility and the others were anonymous, Picard did not bother to speak to current parents, current members of the Board of Trustees, heads of other schools or even ex-staff members who would support Dana and could provide a bigger context to this story. Picard was given those names and numbers.

Dana was the focus of the story, yet Picard did not interview him until Thursday, July 10, and the story printed Wednesday, July 16.

Wouldn’t a balanced report require adequate time for follow-up research after interviewing the main subject?

Picard did not report on our new VT scholarship but instead described it as “slashing” tuition.

Dana’s office is full of textbooks.

The photographer took pictures of them, but Picard chose to only mention toy cars and a box of Fruit Loops (gifts from former students).

Our students are taught that they are not defined by their diswww.flynncenter.org ability/learning differences. Your cover, of which I could find no other comparable example in the last decade of Seven Days, literally framed Dana by his dyslexia. How did the editors miss that this was

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Picard’s report described preDana PRS as a “tight-knit community” that was over-staffed, suffering from mission drift and racking up $1.4 million in debt — yet Dana was portrayed as the problem? Cognitive dissonance, anyone?

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goals of personal and collective sovereignty and dignity.

It is also revealing about the moral foundation of the SVR (which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Naylor) that a lifelong activist for progressive social change and small-scale economics such as myself was “dismissed” from both my active membership in the SVR and my role on the editorial board of the Vermont Commons because I publicly questioned the undemocratic nature of the

leadership (at that time, Thomas Naylor and Rob Williams).

Like McKibben, I believe that true independence comes from the feet-on-the-ground activism of pragmatists rather than from the self-important declarations and theatrics of autocratic “movements” of questionable provenance.

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BEER KART I recently read something in the Seven Daysies issue [August 6] that seriously disturbed me.

Staff writer Jon Taylor reports on The Kountry Kart Deli, the staff pick for “Best Pub Crawl Finish Line.” Taylor starts by not talking about the deli itself, but by describing the booze-soaked events which lead revelers to the Kountry Kart: “… in a bar-laden town such as Burlington, it’s damn near impossible MORE LETTERS >> 13A

PRAGMATIC SECESSION I appreciate Bill McKibben’s praise for the down-to-earth activists and practitioners of a self-sufficient Vermont, as well as his concern that the Vermont secession movement (if it can even be called a movement) is more intellectual than pragmatic [“Independence Fray,” July 23].

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»webpage BLOGGING THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION On August 25, delegates will gather in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, and Seven Days will be there! Well, sort of.

Seven Days freelancer — and St. Mike’s journalism prof — Kevin J. Kelley is headed to the convention to cover the goings-on for The Nation. That’s the Kenyan newspaper, not the liberal mag.

Kevin’s covered the U.S. for the African publication for years.

And of course, they’re interested in the event because of Barack Obama’s Kenya connection — his father was a Kenyan citizen, and his father’s family is still there.

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My wife and I caught two shows on the waterfront last weekend, Mike Gordon on Friday and the Derek Trucks Band on Sunday. Both were great, but I was especially blown away by Derek on guitar.

I realize I’m behind the times here. This guy has been wowing audiences since coming on the music scene as a 12-year-old guitar prodigy playing for the Allman Brothers Band. I have to say he was the best guitarist I’ve seen in years and I see 50+ bands a year.

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Perhaps I’m just looking for an answer to my own perpetual singlehood, but I think this is a valid question.

Kevin has graciously agreed to blog for Seven Days from Denver.

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STUCK IN VERMONT ON VACATION There’s no new web episode of “Stuck in Vermont” this week. Seven Days staff videographer Eva Sollberger is on vacation.

This is the first time Eva has taken a week off since Seven Days started featuring her videos in February 2007.

Feeling “stuck” without your weekly fix? Take this opportunity to catch up on what you’ve missed.

There are now 92 episodes of “Stuck in Vermont,” and all of them watchable on our website, www.sev endaysvt.com. Find them on the multimedia page, or by looking for them on our “search/index” page.

You can watch the latest batch on the small screen, too — a half-hour of “Stucks” airs each Monday at 8:30 p.m. and each Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. on VCAM, Channel 15.

I know many of us journalism types shun TV except for news and “The Wire.” (I have plans to catch up on that one!) But I can’t resist pointing out that one of my can’t-miss shows is back for a second season (as of July 27), and it’s dealing with some issues that seem oddly relevant to us in media today.

Odd because “Mad Men” is set in the early ‘60s, back when men were men and smoked and drank as if it were a championship sport, and women... pretty much did the same, but in pretty clothes. Series creator Matthew Weiner wasn’t there any more than I was, so I don’t know if his depiction is accurate, but it’s a lot of fun.

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ity Councilor Paul Decelles has lived in Burlingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New North End since he was a kid. As a youngster, he used to play wherever he pleased. But two years ago, after learning that a convicted sex offender lived down the block from his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home, Decelles started keeping closer tabs on his young daughter.

Around the same time, Decelles (R-Ward 7) heard about a municipality somewhere in the United States â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember where â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that passed an ordinance restricting where convicted sex offenders could live. While the ordinance struck Decelles as too â&#x20AC;&#x153;restrictive,â&#x20AC;? the idea of forbidding sex offenders from living near certain child-centric places appealed to him.

Earlier this month, Decelles suggested Burlington consider doing just that. In a resolution co-sponsored by an Independent and two fellow Republicans, Decelles asks the councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Public Safety Committee to look into barring sex offenders from living in certain areas of Burlington.

Decelles conceded there is no â&#x20AC;&#x153;silver bulletâ&#x20AC;? solution for dealing with sexual predators. He says thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why he left the language of his resolution open, to encourage community input on any resulting ordinance.

Vermont law requires offenders to keep their residency and employment information current in a statewide registry, but it does not prohibit where they live. Last month, in the wake of the abduction and murder of 12-year-old Brooke Bennett, Barre passed Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first residency restrictions, which bar offenders from living within 1000 feet of a school or recreation facility. Rutlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board of Aldermen passed a similar ordinance August 4.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear whether such residency restrictions ultimately keep sexual predators away from children. Jill Levenson, a professor at Floridaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lynn University and a co-author of a recent study on the issue in the journal Federal Probation, said 30 states have enacted laws that restrict where sex offenders can live. To date, no one has studied the relationship between sex-offender residency restrictions and rates of recidivism among sex offenders.

PAUL DECELLES Reseach has been done on other types of paroled criminals. She says restricting where they live tends to increase the likelihood that they will re-offend.

Levenson said sexual violence can be provoked by a variety of social relationships, so limiting where a sexual predator lives wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily deter him or her from reoffending. Moreover, municipal sex-offender residency restrictions can trigger a â&#x20AC;&#x153;domino effectâ&#x20AC;? of homelessness and transience. As one municipality passes an ordinance, she explained, neighboring municipalities pass increasingly restrictive ones until housing options for sex offenders are virtually eliminated.

In Orange County, Florida, for example, Levenson found that 95 percent of 137,000 residential properties were within 1000 feet of schools, parks, day-care centers and school bus stops. In Newark, New Jersey, which has a 2500-foot ban, sex offenders could only legally reside in 7 percent of the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s naive to think that we can solve the problem of sexual violence by banishing sex criminals from our communities,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have to live somewhere â&#x20AC;&#x201D; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to live somewhere â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and I think that collectively, as a society, we have a responsibility to deal with this social problem in a way that is most likely to achieve our goal of improving public safety.â&#x20AC;?

Meanwhile, according to Levensonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research, state residency restrictions have prompted numerous lawsuits across the country. In 2004, an Iowa judge ruled that a 2000-foot restriction was unconstitutional (the ruling was later overturned by the Iowa Supreme Court). Last December, the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a 1000-foot ban that would have displaced 15,000 registered sex offenders. And challenges to a 2000-foot residency restriction are pending in California.

Levensonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerns are shared by some Burlington City Councilors. Sharon Bushor (I-Ward 1) pointed out that, since children walk to school, such an ordinance might not â&#x20AC;&#x153;add protection.â&#x20AC;? Joan Shannon (D-Ward 5) cautioned that restricting sex-offenders from one neighborhood could have an

adverse effect on other neighborhoods â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a point echoed by Tim Ashe (P-Ward 3). Ashe, who works for a local affordable housing nonprofit, warned that a Burlingtononly ordinance could force sex offenders to move out of town, creating a regional problem.

At least two officials at the Vermont Department of Corrections are equally wary of municipal residency restrictions. Commissioner Robert Hoffman said he is concerned that such ordinances would displace sex offenders to poor, rural areas. David Peebles, the director of community justice at the department, points out that residency restrictions have made it difficult for offenders to secure work, use public transportation and spend time with family members â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of which have been found to reduce criminal recidivism in general. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all in a rush to do something,â&#x20AC;? Peebles said, adding that involving entire communities in strategies to prevent sex crimes â&#x20AC;&#x153;would seemingly be one of the best strategies to deal with this issue.â&#x20AC;?

Decellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; resolution calls for the Public Safety Committee to report back to the city council in November. He acknowledged that sex-offender restrictions elsewhere have proved controversial. But, he added, Burlington should at least consider such a policy in the interest of public safety. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we can pass a law to prevent one child getting hurt or killed, then I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth it,â&#x20AC;? Decelles said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My sense is that the greater community feels that as well.â&#x20AC;? >

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hen an email showed up in Sen. Virginia â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ginnyâ&#x20AC;? Lyonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; inbox in April, written in both English and Chinese, the Democrat from Chittenden County assumed it was spam. That is, until she noticed the message included her home address, phone number and a reference to a bill sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d introduced in January to regulate the disposal of electronics, known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;e-waste.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not unheard of for foreigners to comment on proposed state legislation. However, this letter didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from a foreign lobbyist, trade group or even the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. It came directly from a government official with the Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Republic of China in Beijing.

In the six-page letter, China claimed that her bill, S.256, â&#x20AC;&#x153;lacks science,â&#x20AC;? would â&#x20AC;&#x153;result in unfair-

nessâ&#x20AC;? and would create â&#x20AC;&#x153;unnecessary obstacles to trade.â&#x20AC;? As a result, China â&#x20AC;&#x153;suggests canceling or revisingâ&#x20AC;? the proposed legislation, and offered several pages of possible amendments.

Lyons, who chairs the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy, was initially â&#x20AC;&#x153;unnervedâ&#x20AC;? by the official letter, then appalled by its audacity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The notion that a foreign na-

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tional government would try to influence our democratic process and the work we do â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a citizen legislature, especially â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was really of great concern to me,â&#x20AC;? Lyons said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a public health and an environmental bill, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of even more concern.â&#x20AC;?

An estimated 50 million tons of discarded electronics from the West are shipped to developing countries each year. S.256, which never made it out of committee, proposes recapturing and recycling some of those electronics, which often contain hazardous materials such as PCBs, mercury, cadmium and lead.

Lyons never responded to the letter from China and said she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intend to. In part, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because shortly after its arrival, she received an unsolicited message on her home answering machine from someone at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), informing her

that the China letter was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a mistakeâ&#x20AC;? and that she should â&#x20AC;&#x153;disregard it.â&#x20AC;?

Lyons might have done so, had this been an isolated incident. But apparently, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not. In the last year, lawmakers in other states have reported receiving similar letters.

Last year, after Maryland House of Delegates Rep. James Hubbard introduced a bill banning lead in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toys, he received a complaint from Beijing that described his legislation as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;barrier to

trade.â&#x20AC;? Hubbard got a second letter from the Chinese after introducing a bill to ban the use of bisphenol A, a compound commonly found in childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toys and plastic bottles.

Like Lyons, Hubbard didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t acquiesce to any of Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demands.

Some observers of international trade issues are alarmed by this relatively new phenomenon and are concerned about its chilling effect on state sovereignty.

Peter Riggs is director of the Forum on Democracy and Trade, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group based in Washington, D.C., that provides advice to government officials on global trade matters. Riggs describes the letter Lyons received as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a major shot across the bow from Beijing to Burlington.â&#x20AC;?

Riggs isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motivating China to weigh in on state-level legislation in the United States, though he has several possible explanations. First, he said, China was only admitted to the World Trade

Organization eight years ago and may have finally reached the point where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comfortable pressing its own interests. The Chinese may also be looking for ways to â&#x20AC;&#x153;push backâ&#x20AC;? against the United States for filing several cases against it with the WTO, including one, joined by Europe and Canada, on auto parts.

Riggsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; third theory may be the most problematic: Since the United States is now a signatory to the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obligated to notify for-

eign trading partners about state and local laws that potentially conflict with the terms of that agreement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is about China, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also about to what degree do these international agreements intrude on normal state lawmaking powers?â&#x20AC;? Riggs adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We gave up some sovereignty when we joined the WTO. No one disputes that. But what exactly did we give up?â&#x20AC;?

Last week, in a letter to the Commerce Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s International Trade Administration, Lyons claimed that someone in the department or the USTR â&#x20AC;&#x153;notified Beijingâ&#x20AC;? just days after her bill was introduced. Lyons wants to know whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S. policy to notify our overseas trading partners about â&#x20AC;&#x153;draft regulationsâ&#x20AC;? before those laws are passed or even debated.

A spokesperson for the USTR, which negotiates U.S. international trade deals, denies any knowledge of the letter Lyons received from China, and said the office only learned of the incident when Vermont reporters began calling them last week.

Michael Brown, a Commerce Department spokesperson, confirmed that the department reviews pending state legislation for conflicts with international trade deals.

Brown said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfamiliar with the letter to Lyons, but that his office is â&#x20AC;&#x153;looking into it.â&#x20AC;?

The irony of the situation is that, until Beijing banned the importation of e-waste in 2002, China was one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest dumping grounds for spent electronics. Still, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fastest growing economy generates millions of tons of its own e-waste each year, much of which is either landfilled or recycled in environmentally harmful ways.

Given that an important part of Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy is high-tech exports, Lyons is troubled by Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to weaken global standards on the handling of e-waste. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We intend to take every democratic measure necessary to keep e-waste out of our landfills,â&#x20AC;? she said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and to protect our environment and the health of Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children.â&#x20AC;? >

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HAPPY BOBAHOLIC Alice Levittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article was some of the best news I have heard in weeks [â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bubble Brain,â&#x20AC;? August 13].

I am a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bobaholicâ&#x20AC;? (drinking the tea since third grade) and I have sorely missed the treat. I am so glad to hear that the drink is now being served down the road in South Burlington! I will no longer have to visit my boyfriend in New York City!

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A MODEST PROPOSAL Thank you, Judith Levine, for your courageous voice in the wilderness [â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poli Psy,â&#x20AC;? August 13].

If these Draconian proposals are adopted, modern Vermont criminal trials of citizens accused of sex crimes will resemble the medieval guilt-detection methods used on accused witches, as described by University of Wisconsin history professor J.P. Sommerville: â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Swimmingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;floatingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; a witch involved throwing the suspect into water, with her left hand or thumb tied to her right foot, and her right hand tied to her left foot.

The guilty would float, the innocent sink (perhaps because water would reject corrupt agents of the Devil.) A rope was tied around the suspectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s middle, to prevent the innocent drowning.â&#x20AC;?

Why not resurrect this technique and add it as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;modest proposalâ&#x20AC;? to the panoply of proposals now being considered by our elected officials in this atmosphere of hysteria? After all, the recent legislative and ad-

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START-UP SHUTDOWN Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a shame to read Shay Totten taking apparent glee while reporting on the woes of the Vermont Milk Company [â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fair Game,â&#x20AC;?

August 6]. While supporters and farmers all tell Totten that the Vermont Milk Company is a good thing, and they hope it succeeds, Totten asks, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milking whom?â&#x20AC;?

Start-up companies struggle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fact. If they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the farmers have formed start-ups a long time ago? Totten should know that after failing to become Joseph Pulitzer when he started the Vermont Guardian.

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EXTREME INSANITY Judith Levineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s article, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cruel and Unusual,â&#x20AC;? is her best, among many, on the topic of the insane, ineffective and unjust ¨sex offender¨ laws. She is to be congratulated for staying with this very unpopular point of view.

America, and Vermont evidently, remain in the grip of an extreme hysteria, which has produced only fear and pain. These laws have certainly not helped ¨victims,¨ and they have brought incredible humiliation and agony to hundreds of thousands of men and women and millions of their family members across the country. They have also seriously undermined the Constitution.

I urge readers of Seven Days to visit www.reformsexoffenderlaws. org, and become involved in the political struggle to begin to roll back this abusive wave of hatred.

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he already thinning ranks of Vermont of 2008, Gannettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s net income of $424.5 journalism will get a little thinner this million was down more than $25 milweek, thanks to newsroom cuts at The lion from the first six months of 2007.

Burlington Free Press, the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest According to a company memo postdaily newspaper. ed by media critic Jim Romenesko, In all, six staffers at the GannettGannett gave each of its U.S. â&#x20AC;&#x153;sitesâ&#x20AC;? a owned broadsheet will get the axe. specific dollar amount to cut from payAmong the first to go was columnist Ed rolls, based on previous staff cuts and Shamy, who joined the Freeps as a past financial performance. metro editor in 1999.

Gannettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share price initially rose to www.flynncenter.org The remaining five employees will be nearly $22 at news of the job cuts. But let go from several departments, on Monday, the stock fell to below $20 a Publisher Brad Robertson told â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fair share. A year ago, a share in Gannett was Game.â&#x20AC;? He declined to be more specific worth almost $50. because not all employees had been notiGannettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continuing financial diffified. Robertson first alerted the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culties could lead to future cuts.

213 workers of the impending layoffs According to the internal memo: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Friday in an email. must keep expenses in line with revenue.

In a prepared statement, Executive If advertising and circulation revenues Editor Mike Townsend said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Although continue to decline, further payroll the six employees represent less than 3 reductions may be necessary.â&#x20AC;? percent of our employee base, we are Earlier this year, McClatchy Co. cognizant of the financial and emotional announced it was laying off 1400 workimpact of this decision. The layoffs are a ers, and MediaNews Group â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which result of economic trends that are impac- owns the Brattleboro Reformer and ting advertising revenues. Unfortunately, Bennington Banner, among other we anticipate these trends to continue Vermont papers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; laid off hundreds through 2008.â&#x20AC;? in California.

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I guess it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough for the Freeps to outsource some of its graphic design to India, and move its circulation call center to Kentucky . . .

Those let go will be given one weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s severance pay for each year with the company, with medical coverage continuing through the severance period, Robertson said.

The news of the layoffs comes just a week after the Free Press hiked its newsstand price for the first time since 1995.

Citing rising production and distribution costs, the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monday through Saturday editions went from 50 to 75 cents (the Sunday price remains $1.75).

I guess it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough for the Freeps to move its circulation call center to Kentucky, and then outsource some of its graphic design to India, cost-cutting measures Seven Days reported on earlier this year.

It has not been a good year for Gannett Company Inc., which announced Aug. 15 that it would cut a total of 600 newspaper jobs and trim another 400 positions through attrition.

The nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest media company owns 85 daily newspapers, including USA Today, nearly 900 non-daily U.S. publications and 23 television stations.

According to company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the slumping national economy has caused a steep drop in advertising revenue, and in particular classified revenue. In the first six months

At this rate, could independently owned papers such as the Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus be far behind?

According to a recent report by the Pew Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Project for Excellence in Journalism, 57 percent of 259 newspapers surveyed have reduced full-time newsroom staff in the past three years.

Roughly the same number (61 percent) reported a drop in the amount of space they set aside for news.

Meanwhile, staffing to produce digital content has remained stable.

David Mindich, a journalism professor at St. Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College, said he anticipates â&#x20AC;&#x153;more and more layoffs and more and more contraction.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Newspapers today are making more modest returns on their investments,â&#x20AC;?

Mindich said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and it may get even more modest, as we have yet to figure out how to monetize the Internet.â&#x20AC;?

Mindich said that, as staffs and news holes shrink, readers lose not only international and national news, but statehouse and city hall reporting as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of these things might be less sexy than celebrity news and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;news you can use,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But they are part of what makes democracy work.â&#x20AC;?

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The guv admitted that Bush isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too popular in Vermont, but was quick to point out that Ronald Reagan never visited, either. Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, President George H.W. Bush, made it to Vermont three times. Despite being heckled by antinuke activists on a vice-presidential visit, he came two more times while president.

The reporter then asked Douglas if he considers Bush a successful president. Douglas answered, somewhat matter-offactly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too early to tell.â&#x20AC;?

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Ken Herman of Cox News is the most recent reporter to probe the story. He captured some great video of his Vermont travels, along with a story published in the Herald and Times Argus.

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Democrat Peter Welch. We all know how that turned out â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Welch eked out a victory and now stands unopposed by the GOP. The First Lady returned to Vermont earlier this summer on an official visit to the BillingsMarsh-Rockefeller National Park in Woodstock. She handed out a $50,000 national parks grant and visited friends and local dignitaries.

While Laura Bush may have the courage to step foot in Vermont, a former top aide to Dubya says the prez shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother. Ari Fleischer, a Middlebury College grad and former Bush spokesman told Herman that Vermont is â&#x20AC;&#x153;essentially a socialist state.â&#x20AC;?

Ah yes, the old socialist state of Vermont. I love my cradleto-grave health care and paid family leave, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you?

Fleischer also told Herman that Bush should avoid any overtures to visit Vermont. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would make the protests in Europe look small,â&#x20AC;? Fleischer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see any good purpose other than to check the box to say he was in all 50 states.â&#x20AC;?

Current Bush spokesman Tony Fratto told Herman: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, one state always has to be the last one visited. Vermont is a great state and if the president goes, I hope to go with him. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a schedule item to announce right now.â&#x20AC;?

Not even the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top Republican is rolling out the green carpet for the president.

In the Cox report, headlined â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s George W? A Vermont Mystery,â&#x20AC;? Herman asks Douglas if the governor would ask Bush

â&#x20AC;&#x153;So,â&#x20AC;? Herman pressed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Republican governor not willing to say this Republican president has been successful?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think, uh, history will judge,â&#x20AC;? Douglas replied.

Ouch. No more Lincoln Bedroom visits for you, governor.

Herman also got a chance to get UVM professor and pundit Garrison Nelson and Democrat Gaye Symington on camera, as well as a few folks from Brattleboro â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one of two communities in Vermont (Marlboro being the other) that issued a warrant for Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrest should he set foot in their town.

When the dapper Nelson was asked what Vermonters disagree with Bush on, he replied: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pretty much everything.â&#x20AC;?

Word.

Vermont Ds Head for Denver â&#x20AC;&#x201D; By this time next week, a group of Vermonters, from top elected officials to grassroots activists, will be in Denver for a historic Democratic National Convention.

Sen. Barack Obama will be the star, but Sen. Hillary Clinton will be able to seal her place in history by having her name placed into nomination by her delegates.

Presiding over it all is former Gov. Howard Dean, the partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chairman.

The Vermonters represent one of the most diverse group of delegates in terms of age and background. And it was one of the first to be a certified â&#x20AC;&#x153;greenâ&#x20AC;? delegation, thanks to Taylor Bates, an 18-year-old Obama

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The 24-member delegation has already met for a potluck www.flynncenter.org supper in recent weeks, and the group will meet each morning at the convention for breakfast before heading their separate ways, said Kristina Althoff, the partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director.

On the day before Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acceptance speech, the entire delegation will perform a community service project, building a playground and painting a mural in a low-income neighborhood.

Sen. Patrick Leahy will address the convention Tuesday. Although Leahy has attended in the past, this is Sen. Bernie Sandersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first national Democratic convention. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come a long way since his mayoral days railing 4x6-husky082008.indd 1 against the two corporate parties.

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Pollina, more than the other two, needs to show some sign of life. He had only $22,000 in the bank as of July 31. Symington needs to show sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gaining momentum against Douglasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; huge fundraising lead: $349,832 to $134,394.

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en Berger has an ear for heartwrenching tales. As director of the Burlington Peace & Justice Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-year-old â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recruiting for Peaceâ&#x20AC;? campaign, the 36-yearold activist travels to high schools around Vermont telling teens what recruiters wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t: that war is not nearly as fun as glossy Army press materials would have them think.

While educating students about their right to â&#x20AC;&#x153;opt outâ&#x20AC;? of schoolsanctioned recruiter databases, Berger relays real-life stories from modern-day soldiers.

Last winter, she realized those stories were brimming with dramatic potential. Having helped stagemanage productions in Burlington for a few years, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d heard about the â&#x20AC;&#x153;New Art Space Assistance,â&#x20AC;? or NASA, grants offered through the

JEN BERGER Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. So in March, while traveling to D.C. for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Soldierâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an event featuring eyewitness testimonies from veterans and active-duty soldiers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Berger filled out an application with a combatthemed play in mind. She won, and the Flynn awarded her a development space for the summer.

Bergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show, titled Sound Off: Combat Stories Revealed, will be performed this Sunday, August 24, at the FlynnSpace, followed by a Q&A session. Crafted from newspaper articles, interviews and testimonials from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winter Soldier,â&#x20AC;? the production probes the hearts and minds of four soldiers. One is AWOL (absent without leave); another is female; a third has been â&#x20AC;&#x153;stoplossed,â&#x20AC;? i.e., forced to serve after

contractual obligations have expired; and a fourth grapples with the ongoing epidemic of soldier suicide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, it shows the darker side of war,â&#x20AC;? observes Drew Cameron, a Burlington antiwar Iraq veteran who consulted on Bergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project. Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s war-inspired â&#x20AC;&#x153;Combat Paperâ&#x20AC;? artwork has been featured in galleries across the United States and in The Washington Post. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the full picture,â&#x20AC;? he says of Sound Off, â&#x20AC;&#x153;the stuff that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sanitized from, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devastating.â&#x20AC;?

Although Bergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s material was lifted directly from primary sources (similar to Jessica Blank and Erik Jensonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2002 off-Broadway play The Exonerated), she concedes that her multimedia production is still a work in progress â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the show took shape in 10 weeks through improv sessions. After gathering feedback from audience members on Sunday, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tweak the script in preparation for an anticipated statewide tour.

That said, Berger would like Sound Off â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the title is a pun on common military parlance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to spur local residents and students to action. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art is a really powerful tool for creating social change,â&#x20AC;? she asserts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope that people will take this information to the next step by calling their representatives, supporting vets, or getting involved in some way to stop the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.â&#x20AC;? > Sound Off: Combat Stories Revealed will be performed on Sunday, August 24, at 7 p.m. at FlynnSpace in Burlington. $5 suggested donation. Info, 863-5966 or www.flynntix.org.

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urlington stonemason Cubby Smith was none too pleased to find his hand-built wall at 110 Main Street destroyed earlier this month. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was disgusting,â&#x20AC;? he says, shaking his head. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It looked like a bomb hit it.â&#x20AC;? Smith estimates he lost â&#x20AC;&#x153;about a week and a halfâ&#x20AC;? of work.

The site heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking about is a courtyard at the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;BrickBoxâ&#x20AC;? building, owned by architect Bren Alvarez and her builder-contractor husband David Farrington.

Smith, 65, has been friends with Farringtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father, also named Dave, since they â&#x20AC;&#x153;played ball togetherâ&#x20AC;? at Burlington High School.

Lately heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been helping out â&#x20AC;&#x153;Juniorâ&#x20AC;? by erecting handsome, seatheight walls around the perimeter of the shaded courtyard set back from the street. The materials: Pennsylvania black ledge stone for the stacks and a lilac stone for the capstones, Smith says.

The vandals, he surmises, must have been pretty strong: Heavy stones were not just pushed over but hurled around the site â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though not through the windows of adjacent businesses. All but one section of the wall was dam-

aged (mortar isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t added until the end). The vandals may also have been inebriated and/or stoned â&#x20AC;&#x201D; evidence of both practices was found, says Alvarez, who adds that she frequently finds people sleeping at the site in the morning.

The completion of the project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is imminent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; could discourage both habits. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too bad, laments Smith, that â&#x20AC;&#x153;no one took a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;beforeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; picture.â&#x20AC;?

A sculpture placed at the site now seems to be keeping watch. Smith has rebuilt the walls, Farrington Construction has lined the courtyard and walkways with pavers, and subtle security lighting will soon follow, as will plantings compatible with Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climate, says Alvarez.

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A NEIGHBOR TESTS THE WALL ton. The couple, who renovated the complex at 208 Flynn Avenue â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and founded the Flynndog gallery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; almost a decade ago, also recently refurbished the Leavenworth Block at the corner of College and South Winooski Avenue, and they are currently working on the Nectarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building on Main Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are good people,â&#x20AC;? says Smith approvingly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They do good work.â&#x20AC;? >

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ist, has also powerfully influenced Lockwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. He says he never shared Avedonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fascination with fashion, but in shooting his subjects against a blank background that focuses all attention on the sitter, Lockwood adopts a technique closely associated with the master lensman, who died in 2004.

When he began taking pictures at age 16, Lockwood had never heard of Avedon, nor did he know much about photographic technique. He came to the medium almost instinctively â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although his mother had chronicled the childhoods of Lockwood and his four siblings in snapshots that, he says, were â&#x20AC;&#x153;quite good for someone with www.flynncenter.org no training.â&#x20AC;?

Remembering his adolescent self as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a real basement case,â&#x20AC;?

Lockwood says he was the kind of kid who stood on the sidelines photographing the jocks and, after school, retreated to a downstairs workshop in his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Jersey home to build robots. After taking He then spends three or more days the yearbook photos at his boardmanipulating the image on his ing school in Lake Placid, N.Y., computer. Some of the portraits in Lockwood attended the Rochester the show â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which measure either Institute of Technology, which at 20 by 20 or 48 by 48 inches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are that time offered the only fourso close-up that individual eye- year photography program in the brow hairs can be clearly seen, as United States.

He stayed focused on his camcan veins crisscrossing the whites era until 1977. And then he walked of a subjectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes.

Locally famous artists account away from photography, having for several of the 17 recent por- decided it was â&#x20AC;&#x153;too small a window traits included in the Shelburne to be speaking through.â&#x20AC;?

Lockwood moved to Burlington, www.flynncenter.org show. Many viewers will recognize performer Rusty DeWees, as well where he took up the piano and beas painter dug nap, pianist Elaine gan writing music. He established Greenfield, graphic designer Mi- White Crow Recording Studio as chael Jager and actor-filmmaker well as the Brautigan Library (now Allan Nicholls. But their expres- defunct), a repository for unpubsions often grant viewers a deeper lished writing based on a concept look at the person behind the ce- in a Richard Brautigan novel.

Over those intervening decades, lebrity. DeWees, for example, wears a pensive mien quite unlike his however, photography stayed with Lockwood in a subtle but insistent comical â&#x20AC;&#x153;Loggerâ&#x20AC;? persona.

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fter a 30-year sabbatical from photography, Todd R. Lockwood picked up the camera heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d acquired as a teen and started â&#x20AC;&#x153;shooting and shootingâ&#x20AC;? again.

A man who has managed several careers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including running a recording studio, a software company and an online merchandising business â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lockwood returned to his original calling in 2007, after his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death. He began with a series of portraits of his then-10year-old son, Cooper. One image in particular stood out for him because, Lockwood says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was almost in the realm of sculpture.â&#x20AC;?

Experimenting with film and digital processing, he achieved â&#x20AC;&#x153;a sort of hyper-realityâ&#x20AC;? that conveys acute physical clarity as well as psychological insights. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got really excited,â&#x20AC;? Lockwood recalls during an interview at his South Burlington home, which doubles as his photography studio. He started asking friends to come over and sit for portraits.

Selected results of those sessions, along with a few samples of Lockwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earlier work, will be displayed at the Shelburne Farms Coach Barn on August 27 and 28.

The artist says he establishes â&#x20AC;&#x153;an immediate level of trustâ&#x20AC;? by choosing subjects he has known well over the years. (Hence the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title: â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Degree of Separation.â&#x20AC;?) In the studio, â&#x20AC;&#x153;barriers came down,â&#x20AC;? and personalities were revealed.

Many of these sitters are contemporaries of the lean, whitehaired 57-year-old. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at the top of their game right now,â&#x20AC;? Lockwood surmises. Wizened features and expressive gazes â&#x20AC;&#x153;make them much better photographic subjects than they wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been 30 years ago.â&#x20AC;?

In one of the most intimate shots, Burlington musician and Vermont Public Radio host Robert Resnik is captured in a rapturous grimace as, body bent, he fingers a button accordion. Dhyani Ywahoo, leader of the Lincoln-based Sunray Meditation Society, appears similarly transported in an eyes-uplifted, seemingly clairvoyant trance.

Lockwood achieves an exceptional degree of precision by digitally scanning his black-and-white film negatives to a high resolution.

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A couple of the photos do attain an amazing painterly quality. The wash of light and shadow across richly textured skin makes the faces of film director Jay Craven and attorney Margaret Strouse appear to have been brush-stroked onto the cotton paper. Both images will startle viewers who assume a photograph can readily be distinguished from a painting.

Lockwood cites photorealist painter Chuck Close as a kind of inverse inspiration: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Close tries to push painting into a photography direction, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to push photography into a painting direction.â&#x20AC;?

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way; he hung large-scale shots from his earlier incarnation in his recording studio on Marble Ave. While assembling a slide show for his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memorial service, Lockwood found himself itchingly intrigued by the potential of photography once again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three months later,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I figured, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What the heck,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and pulled out my Hasselblad.â&#x20AC;? It was the camera heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d purchased in 1967 with the proceeds from portrait commissions for high school friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; families.

Now there will be no turning away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to see how far I can take this,â&#x20AC;? Lockwood says, gesturing toward the portrait collection heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assembling in another basement, many years removed from New Jersey. > â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Degree of Separation,â&#x20AC;? blackand-white photographic portraits

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A Gathering of Vermont Dancers Featuring dancers Laurel Dugan Tentido (Trisha Brown Company), Annemarie Waltz (Juilliard School of Dance), Chatch Pregger (Houston & Boston ballets), and Vermont dancers Sarah King, Emily Stebbins, Genevieve Pellman, and Claire Vintinner Media Support from

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ermont is an Eden for artists — some of them, anyway.

Writers and craftspeople happily hole up. With a bit of commuting, actors and opera singers can form communities.

Dancers, however, are in a tough spot — and not just because schools of ballet, modern and jazz don’t dot the rural landscape. For anything larger than a solo, dance requires an inventory of able-bodied movers. Also crucial is a space in which to rehearse and perform — a warm place with sound floorboards, preferably within driving distance of an audience.

No one is more familiar with the challenges of dancing in Vermont than Shelley Ismail, who’s been teaching ballet since 1978 from her base in Franklin County.

No one, that is, except Sharry Underwood, a former dancer, choreographer and critic who actually had the audacity to create a (nowdefunct) professional company here.

“This project is dear to her heart,” the Flynn Center’s Arnie Malina says of an upcoming performance that Underwood, now in her eighties, financed with a donation designed to shine a light on local movers. “She’s a great supporter of Vermont dance.”

That doesn’t mean she likes everything she sees, however — for years, Underwood was a dance critic for The Burlington Free Press.

“Arnie was showing her some people, and she didn’t like anything,” Ismail says. “So she contacted me and asked if I would get the program together for her. We’re trying to show there are ‘Vermont dancers,’ and there are dancers from Vermont who have gone elsewhere to become professional.”

Almost everyone on the program of “Moving Roots: A Gathering of Vermont Dancers” is — or was — Ismail’s student, including Laurel Dugan Tentido, who is a current member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company. She’s performing an excerpt from a classic Brown creation, Set and Reset, as well as a piece she choreographed herself.

Annemarie Waltz, who went from St. Albans to Les Grands Ballet Canadiens to Juilliard, is another one that got away. When she’s not making guest appearances in Vermont, she performs and teaches dance in New York City.

Ismail cast Waltz in her own contribution to the program — a piece built on the elements of a ballet class. Two portable barres are part of the staging. In corps-

de-ballet unison, six women — five of whom live and dance in Vermont — create a kinetic story line that evolves from ritual pliés and ronds de jambe to battements and grand jetés. Sarah King, Genevieve Pellman, Hayley Pierce, Emily Stebbins and Claire Vintinner make an engaging ensemble.

Chatch Pregger provides a note of contrast to the program.

He’s a man, for one, and he just moved back to his native Vermont after working with the Houston, Washington and Boston ballets. Ismail describes him as a “beautiful dancer” and a “genuine, down-toearth” guy who teaches in various studios around the state.

Pregger is presenting the second piece he’s ever choreographed, “Obrigado Brazil,” which Ismail describes as “a big piece that moves groups in interesting patterns.” Of the 10 dancers featured in it, only one hails from out of state.

That bodes well for next year.

Malina says Underwood’s grant guarantees at least four more annual gatherings. > “Moving Roots: A Gathering of Vermont Dancers” comes to the FlynnSpace this Friday, August 22, at 8 p.m. $18. Info, 863-5966 or www.flynntix.org.

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“What we’re doing now is improving the alleyway between the parking garage and the Marketplace,” Redmond explains. “Right now it’s not the greatest-looking entryway.” He notes that “things get a little congested” at the intersection of the alley and Church Street, and the “Plinths” were moved to “make the area a bit more open.” In addition, brickwork on the street is being repaired, and a new trompe l’oeil mural is being

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“PLINTHS” planned for the alley’s north wall.

“We’re trying to create public art that doesn’t take as much space,” Redmond says. “We want more of it, but we really need to think through the functionality of the

street.” Meanwhile, good to know “Plinths” will be cozy until they’re thrust once again into the cold embrace of a Vermont winter. > PAMELA POLSTON

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Sharon shook her head and smiled modestly at her friend in the back. If it’s true that the best-looking among us are also the most popular (I know, it’s unfair), then my seatmate had nothing to worry about on that score. She was truly stunning — not in a showy or flamboyant manner, but understated in her statuesque beauty.

She immediately brought to mind the newest “it” girl: Katherine Heigl, star of the TV medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy” and a string of recent hit movie comedies. This mental observation would quickly prove prescient.

“What school are you ladies attending?”

I asked as we wended our way to the first stop on Henry Street.

Sharon said, “We both recently completed our first year at UVM Medical School.

This rare night out is kind of a celebration.”

If it’s true that the bestlooking among us are also the most popular (I know, it’s unfair), then my seatmate had nothing to worry about on that score.

That makes sense, I thought to myself.

These two women had a clarity about them, a self-possession that I’ve experienced before among the med students I’ve driven.

I imagine it takes that degree of focused confidence to achieve an M.D. Sometimes, though, I forget that Burlington is even home to a medical college, and a wellrespected one at that. I guess the school matriculates about 400 students, a significant number, but they aren’t exactly party animals — which, when you think about it, is probably a good thing for their future patients.

I chuckled and said, “Everything I know about doctors and med students is from TV shows like ‘Scrubs’ and ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ I bet you get that all the time.”

The two friends laughed out loud.

“Yeah, that’s right,” Sharon said. “And we tell them that’s just how it is. Like, we’re all constantly hooking up in the supply closets.”

“I wish,” Sharon’s friend shouted out, inciting a new bout of laughter, including from me. These girls were not merely attractive but a load of fun.

On Henry Street, I stopped to drop off the woman in the back. The two friends kissed over the front seat and made plans to “do this again.” Sharon and I continued toward her apartment at the Overlook

condos off Spear Street. As we passed the university, the rain began again. Nothing new this soggy summer.

The UVM Farm came and went, and I asked, “Do you know what type of medicine you want to practice?”

“Well, I’m not certain yet, but probably general practice or perhaps OB/GYN.” She pronounced the second half of the specialty so it rhymed with “sign,” which threw me off.

“Do you mean OB/G-Y-N?” I asked, enunciating each letter in the way I’d always heard it spoken.

She chuckled and said, “Yeah, that’s it. It’s just a med school thing. What I know at this point is that I want to work closely with patients on their overall health concerns.”

“Good for you,” I said. “I know the insurance system pays much more to the specialists who do a lot of procedures.”

“Oh, don’t get me going on our insane health-care system. My husband is finishing up his ortho residence, so, between the two of us, we’re both going crazy.”

“So what was up with your friend?” I asked, changing the subject from the macro to the micro. “She seemed a little disappointed about something.”

“Very perceptive,” Sharon replied. “Julia, alas, is looking for love and just not finding it.”

“That’s surprising — she’s attractive and, heck, she’s going to be a doctor. You’d think the guys would be all over that. Could the problem be she’s studying all the time?”

“No, that’s not it. It’s not, like, a lack of suitors. She just can’t find the right guy.”

When we pulled into the Overlook development, Sharon — much to her chagrin — found herself a couple of bucks short on the fare and phoned her husband in the house to bring out some more dough.

Through the door emerged a tall, dark and hunky man every bit as gorgeous as his wife, which I guess is the way it works: The beautiful attract the beautiful. Sigh . . .

He approached the cab and came around to my open window. “Sir, I’m so sorry. I have no cash on me whatsoever. We could write you a check.”

“No, that’s OK,” I said. “You’re the orthopedic surgeon, right?”

“Uh, yeah — that’s right,” he replied with a quizzical look.

“Well, your wife is talking about OB/ GYN, so that doesn’t do me much good.

But if I ever bust a leg, can I count on you to help me out?”

“Absolutely,” he said with a laugh. “You have my word on it.”

He walked around to help Sharon out of the cab, and I watched the two of them walk hand in hand into their condo. This couple, I thought, is going to produce some seriously brilliant and attractive children. >

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In our enlightened age, when science has made it possible to be the sex you feel like rather than the one nature stuck you with, some think it stuffy to insist on doing things the old-fashioned way. Why not let transsexuals compete as the sex they change to? Obvious rejoinder: Because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no fair letting a hulking genetic male go up against smaller genetic females just because he now calls herself Kathy.

But as always, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that simple.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a history of men sneaking into womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports, typically ordinary guys trying to take advantage. One was German high jumper Hermann Ratjen, who competed in the 1936 Olympics under the name Dora Ratjen, placing fourth. (In a confession two decades later, he claimed the Nazis made him do it.) Soviet gold medal-winning sisters Tamara and Irina Press, sometimes called â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Press brothers,â&#x20AC;? were widely suspected of being males in disguise, as were several other 1960s athletes.

The last straw was North Koreaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sin Kim Dan, who was riding high in 1964 after breaking the world records for the 400- and 800-meter runs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until her father came forward, recognizing his long-lost son. Determined not to be embarrassed again, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) required women athletes to submit to a physical exam to prove their femaleness for the 1966 European track and field championships. The exam was a ludicrous procedure that involved parading en masse past three female gynecologists. Nonetheless, Time noted snarkily at the time, the Press sisters and several other female athletes decided to drop out of the competition.

The visual exam gave way to mandatory lab testing in time for the 1968 Olympics; DNA testing was introduced for the 1992 Winter Games. Blanket gender testing for the Olympics was abolished in 1999, although testing can still be done in questionable cases. As far as anyone knows, no men have snuck by recently.

But cheaters arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t our concern here. You were asking about genetically male athletes who believe they are, or ought to be, female.

Genetically anomalous athletes are rare but not unknown. Testing for the 1996 Olympics revealed that 8 of 3387 female athletes had genetic makeups that by some definitions made them male. Some women athletes have an XY chromosome pair that makes them genetically male but suffer from androgen insensitivity syndrome, meaning their external sex characteristics are for the most part female. Example: champion Spanish hurdler Maria Martinez Patino, who was disqualified from a 1985 competition by genetic tests but eventually reinstated when she protested. One nominally female athletic star apparently was a hermaphrodite.

Polish Olympic champion Stanislawa Walasiewicz (known as Stella Walsh in the U.S., where she spent most of her life) won the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100-meter run in the 1932 games and picked up the silver in that event in 1936. On autopsy following her death in 1980 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she was killed by stray gunfire during an attempted robbery â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she was

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found to have sexually ambiguous genitalia resulting from a chromosomal abnormality known as mosaicism. (A few writers claim Hermann Ratjen was also a hermaphrodite, but I can find no contemporary sources confirming this account.)

That brings us to transsexual athletes. Most often theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re normal genetic males who identify as female and want to compete as women. Tennis pro Renee Richards is perhaps the best-known case because of the fuss she made after being barred from the 1976 U.S. Open, eventually resulting in a court decision in her favor.

In 1990 the IAAF became the first major international sports body to recommend transsexuals to compete against their new peers. The International Olympic Committee followed this advice starting with the 2004 Athens games, with some restrictions. Most of these are common sense: Athletes who have sex reassignment surgery before puberty are automatically accepted as their new sex, while those who wait until after puberty must have all surgical changes completed, be legally recognized as their new sex in the country they represent, and have had hormone therapy for an extended period of time.

For male-to-female transsexuals, this generally means a minimum of two years after their gonads are removed, presumably long enough to allow any androgen-driven physical advantage to abate.

We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t heard the last of the argument. Some wonder how the IOC can crack down on performanceenhancing drugs while allowing â&#x20AC;&#x153;transathletesâ&#x20AC;? to take hormones. The objection is specious, in my opinion; most banned drugs are intended to give you an unfair advantage, while female hormones are meant to make a possible unfair advantage go away.

Still, medical advances have given sports officials some tough calls, and not just where gender is concerned. Who can forget South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oscar Pistorius, an outstanding runner and a double amputee? The IAAF banned him from competition in 2007 (the ruling was later overturned) because his artificial feet allegedly gave him too much spring.

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t’s a far cry from idyllic green athletic fields, but the chants coming from inside are unmistakable. Tucked away in building 12M in the Howe Center — an industrial park in a gritty section of downtown Rutland — is Peak Performance All Star Cheer & Fitness, the only cheerleading gym in Vermont. That’s right: a gym devoted to practicing dance maneuvers, tumbles, call-back cheers, aerial stunts and Cara Austin all the other tricks cheerleaders use to keep Cheerleading Coach fans focused on the game. It’s here, too, that Rutland all-stars hone their skills for state and New England cheering competitions.

At the helm of this boisterous and jubilant ship is Cara Austin, 33, the head coach of the Rutland High School cheerleading team, who organizes all the cheering programs in Rutland City — including a middle-school team and a program offered for children ages 5 and up through the Rutland Rec Center. All told, 140 girls — and sometimes a few boys — practice at Austin’s gym. Once a year, they converge at a Rutland football game to show off their collective moves at what may be the biggest cheerleading festival in the state.

Austin, an accountant by day and the mother of two young children, is a model of school spirit. She cheered for Rutland during high school and stepped up to coach the team after graduation, commuting to college in Albany, New York. The cheer gym is an extension of the enthusiasm she shares with her community: Founded last fall, it gave the cheerleaders much-needed space and time to practice just when they were getting squeezed by the 20 other sports that vie for square footage in the winter.

Seven Days sat down with Austin amid the gym’s mats and trampoline to learn a little bit about the cheerleader’s mystique. Bring it on!

SEVEN DAYS: What makes kids want to start cheerleading?

CARA AUSTIN: I think cheerleading is different for everybody. We have two twins here who were very competitive gymnasts, and that’s what they did for a long time. But in Vermont, there’s not a huge forum for that, and they were having to travel out of state every weekend and it was really hard on them. So they decided to do something where they could incorporate that skill into high school. I think a lot of the kids that I get for cheering are kids that have danced for a long time, kids that do gymnastics and maybe aren’t into the more traditional types of female sports like basketball or field hockey or soccer.

SD: Cheerleading tryouts have provided a lot of fodder for high school television dramas. Are yours very competitive?

CA: Yes, it can be competitive. I have run tryouts differently in the last 15 years, but the general tryout I use is

just practice. We practice for five days, and the coaching staff, which includes two other people in the winter who help out, places kids where they belong based on the skill level that we observe that week.

I know, when I tried out, you went in a room with a judging panel and did your cheer and your dance and your jumps and you were scored.

Then scores are posted and kids go look at them. We don’t do anything like that. In fact, it’s a Rutland City school policy that any athlete that’s being cut or put on JV [junior varsity] is spoken to directly by the coach.

We take them in the office and speak to everyone individually about where their skills are, what team we’re putting them on, why, and what they need to work on.

SD: What skills are you looking for in a varsity cheerleader?

CA: Cheerleading is much more athletic than it used to be, I think. Still, there’s this stigma about cheerleading being non-athletic.

We look for kids that can jump, which isn’t necessarily easy if you’re not really coordinated. Tumbling is a big skill now that’s becoming more and more necessary in cheerleading.

Not as much in the state of Vermont, because we don’t have that kind of forum, but in order for us to be competitive out of state in the New England competition. When you’re competing against the best teams from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, you have to have a lot of tumbling skills on your team.

We look for kids that can dance — that’s another big skill that we use.

And, just in general, we look for kids who are happy to be here and have the right school spirit.

Sometimes cheerleading can get a little too competitive, in the sense that it’s all focused on competition, so it’s important that the kids are cheering not just because they love to compete but because they enjoy cheering for the team and fostering that kind of school spirit.

SD: How do you come up with the cheers? Do you recycle them over the years?

CA: We definitely recycle. We use material that the kids learn at summer cheer camp. Generally, summer cheer camp is used to learn the cheers for games and floor cheers. We see what the kids like. When we’re getting ready for our competition routines, we use a choreographer, and those are new every year.

SD: Can you give me an example of a popular cheer?

CA: Oh, God, I don’t know that we have a most popular cheer. We have crowd cheers that kids like. I can’t cheer for you — I just coach!

SD: What kind of cheers do the kids like these days?

CA: I don’t think it’s necessarily words that make the kids like the cheers. In the fall, we do lots of callback cheers. You know, where the kids will say, ‘We say Rutland, you say Raiders.’ That kind of call-back is

what our kids like, and fans respond to the cheerleaders. We’ll use signs in the fall that help the fans know what we want them to say. For the most part, the fans like the call-back cheer, and things can get competitive in the stands, as far as who’s louder and things like that.

SD: Who do you compete against in the winter cheerleading competitions?

CA: In Vermont, I think there were 23 teams at State’s last year, and it goes by divisions. We’re a Division I school, so we compete against other Division I schools, like Essex, St. Johnsbury, St. Albans and South Burlington. Our biggest competition is Essex, and it always has been, even when I cheered. For most of the last 16 or 17 years, either Essex or Rutland has won the division, so it’s kind of a big rivalry. We usually take the kids somewhere out of state during the year as well, so that they can see what other teams are doing. The New England competition happens every year, and we have gone once.

We’re planning on attending that this year. There are very, very good cheer teams there, so it’s exciting for the kids to see the caliber of athlete.

SD: What do you love about coaching cheerleading?

CA: I enjoy the kids. I enjoy seeing the kids get better and move their skills to the next level. I enjoy competition; that was one of my favorite things when I cheered. We have a great group of kids, and they make practices enjoyable. I think that makes a big difference when you’re a coach. Because we spend maybe two hours a day together, five days a week.

We do lots of team-building things, too. We’ll go bowling as a team, and we’ll have team dinners.

We’ve done all sorts of different things outside of cheerleading, and in this day and age, they need to do those sorts of things to foster that commitment to each other. m

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A disclaimer posted on the ChaCha website warns that the service is “for entertainment use only.” This makes sense, as ChaCha essentially adds the element of human error to the traditional search engine. The truth, however, is that the majority of ChaCha users actually are using it for entertainment.

Sure, I get my share of questions regarding directions and weather, but for every inquiry that pops up asking, What time does Jiffy Lube close? there’s another behind it asking, So, how old are you? ChaCha users, it seems, get a kick out of getting to know their Guides.

fan page where I learned that Nick had attempted to give up soda for his New Year’s resolution but was unable to do so. I wasn’t sure if drinking soda was against the rules for Mormons, but I feigned ignorance and decided to use the find in my answer. Did you know Nick tried to give up soda for New Year’s but couldn’t?

I typed. He may but cute, but he has rotten teeth!

A client’s history can sometimes be incredibly depressing. I once received an inquiry from a woman asking how to get her boyfriend to stop cheating on her. I checked her history to find three previous questions in this order: How do I make my vagina tighter? Does getting an abortion hurt? and How do you

Someone else went as far as to ask me if I would measure his dick for him. I assured him it would be difficult to do through text messaging, but sent him a helpful link.

My first experience with a personal question came on my first night working as a Guide.

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One time a client asked if I would be their only friend.

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Users also enjoy asking things that would be impossible to know, or at least impossible to search for in public Internet records. For example, Will I ever get a girlfriend? Am I too sexy 4 my shirt? and Why is Peter being such a douchebag? Questions with a yes or no answer can easily be addressed with a quick trip to the online Magic 8 Ball. For the others, I either have to confess that I am not actually psychic, or play the role and pretend that I am.

A ChaCha client’s history is often just as entertaining as his or her current question, if not more so. It can also be extremely helpful in answering the question at hand. One of my all-time favorite queries came from a teenage girl who asked, I am obsessed with Nick Jonas. How do I learn to stop being obsessed and just be a normal fan? Not an expert on the Jonas Brothers, I opened the client’s history for some more clues on how to address her inquiry. There, I learned a little about her as a person, including that she was Mormon. Next, I opened up my search and found a Nick Jonas

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I also get my share of questions with hard and true answers, and often find them just as entertaining. Why? Because I love learning. The things I stumble across through my research as a ChaCha Guide often find their way into my conversations later in the day. Things like, How many people have tattooed their eyes? What is causation? and What is the origin of the word gig, as in music? While I average a minute and a half in my research-andresponse time, some questions prove so interesting that I completely lose track of time.

When one client asked me who Jeffrey Dahmer was, I got sucked into a Wikipedia biography and lost nine minutes!

In my first month working as a ChaCha Guide, I earned $108.40. It might not sound like a huge amount, but it is $108.40 that I did not have before. And the best part is, I did all of the work when I chose to, and enjoyed every second of my time in the Universe. Working for ChaCha allows me to cash in on two of my favorite past times: learning useless information and wasting time online.

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Media Favorite Political reporters love Middlebury College professor Eric Davis

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lthough he retired from Middlebury College in December 2007, political scientist Eric Davis is still very much at the head of the class — the political class, that is.

But rather than the best and brightest minds on the Middlebury campus, where Davis taught for 27 years, his current students are reporters, politicians and the public.

While University of Vermont professors Garrison Nelson and Frank Bryan are regularly called upon by reporters, neither of them enjoys the media profile of Davis, who seems to crop up in every form of media, offering his insights on national and local politics.

Bespectacled, bright-eyed and bearded, Davis has been a fixture on

The Eric Davis Syllabus Like every college professor, Eric Davis understands the importance of research. Here’s what he reads, watches and listens to nearly every day to stay on top of the political world: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

The New York Times Washington Post Los Angeles Times The Boston Globe The Wall Street Journal The Globe & Mail (Toronto) The Guardian (UK) London Times London Telegraph The Independent (UK) BBC News CBC News (Canada) RealClearPolitics.com The Burlington Free Press The Rutland Herald Associated Press wire Vermont Public Radio WCAX-TV Green Mountain Daily Vermont Tiger

WCAX-TV’s election-night coverage since 2002. He is also a regular on the “Mark Johnson Show” on WDEV-FM in Waterbury.

Johnson has been calling on Davis since the mid-1980s. Back then, Johnson was the city-hall reporter for The Burlington Free Press, covering Mayor Bernie Sanders, as well as some of the statewide political races.

Johnson said one key to Davis’ success is his encyclopedic mind for political facts and information, which he uses to support his analysis. Nor is Davis the kind of guest who insists on knowing what questions will be tossed his way during a live interview. That may explain why the most downloaded episodes of Johnson’s radio show feature Davis.

“There are some people who collect baseball cards, and there are some people who play golf,” Johnson says.

“Eric Davis loves politics.”

Davis attributes some of his more recent visibility to Vermont Public Radio, which, he noted, boosted its political coverage in the late 1990s.

“My sense is, from talking to people around the state,” he says, “is that my appearances on VPR have had the most impact.”

Davis was first called to analyze a political race for the media in 1984. That was the year Democrat Madeleine Kunin narrowly bested Republican attorney general John Easton to become the first woman governor of Vermont. Twenty years later, Davis became a key go-to guy for insight on Gov. Howard Dean’s run for the White House. “The national media needed someone in Vermont to tell them who is this guy running for president, and put Dean in some kind of context,” Davis recalls.

He has his own theory about why he’s become such a popular source.

After years of following Vermont news, Davis has a good understanding of the state’s politics and election law. His institutional memory is unparalleled — he maintains electoral statistics dating back several election cycles on his computer.

Davis also has a feel for what reporters need. He makes a point of returning phone calls promptly, and he can explain politics — and politicians — clearly and concisely.

Equally important, he adds, “I’m not affiliated with any political party, and I think people see me as not having a partisan axe to grind.”

Johnson, the talk-show host, agrees. After years of calling on Davis to opine on state politics, he’s still not sure if the former prof ’s personal views lean conservative or liberal.

Eric Davis was born in Boston and grew up an only child near Randolph, Mass., where he attended public schools. His parents — his father worked for a wholesale pharmaceutical company; his mother was a homemaker — subscribed to both The New York Times and The Boston Globe, and Davis started reading both when he was just a kid.

He got his first card at the Boston Public Library when he turned 12.

His mother took him there regularly until Davis entered high school, when he could trek into Boston by himself to visit the library and attend the occasional afternoon ballgame at Fenway Park.

“The reading room certainly contributed to my intellectual growth as a teenager and made me gravitate toward academics,” he notes.

Davis says the 1960 election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon left an indelible impression on him. However, he didn’t get hooked on politics until he went to Brown University. He was unsure of his major until he met professor Elmer Cornwell, a scholar on the U.S. presidency and electoral process, and Rhode Island politics.

“His classes were about real political process,” Davis recalls. “He was active in the Democratic Party in Rhode Island and was also the parliamentarian of the Rhode Island legislature, and while he was teaching us theory, he was dealing with politicians in the real world.”

After Brown, Davis attended Stanford University for graduate work, coming back east to Washington, D.C., for a year to work on his dissertation. There, he interviewed people about the legislative office of the Johnson administration. He returned to Stanford to complete his graduate work, teaching briefly at the University of California at Berkeley.

Though he liked the Bay Area, Davis says he wanted to return to New England to teach. In 1980, the right position came along at Middlebury. In his nearly three decades at the school, Davis says he watched the political sensibility and activity of students ebb and flow. “During the ’80s there was a lot of political activism among students and it had a lot to do with world events,” he surmises. “After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union, and during the Clinton years, I would say there was relatively less interest in politics. But since 9/11 and the Iraq war and the Bush elections, the interest has skyrocketed.”

Davis’ passion for politics has rubbed off on a few of his charges.

Among the most notable of his former pupils is Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush’s first White House spokesman.

“Ari took at least one seminar on the presidency,” Davis remembers. “I would say he wasn’t noticeably conservative, and what I remember about Ari is, he was very, very interested in politics from the get-go. It was no surprise at all that he went right into political work after he graduated.”

Other students have turned to political careers as well. Ben LaBolt worked for Dean’s presidential campaign and later for the campaign of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

He then joined Sen. Barack Obama’s staff as a spokesman for the senator’s Chicago offices, and now works on the Democrat’s presidential campaign.

Andrew Savage, the communications director for Democrat Rep. Peter Welch, is another of Davis’ star pupils. Savage took several classes with Davis at the helm, and has kept in touch with his old professor, whom he recalls fondly.

SEVEN DAYS | august 20-27, 2008 | feature 29A â&#x20AC;&#x153;From a 200-year-old stone chapel in Middlebury we were discussing the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electoral systems and what was making the politics and the political systems of the world work or not work, and using real-life examples,â&#x20AC;? Savage remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Often when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re studying liberal arts, it is largely a theoretical discussion.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to his work in the classroom, Davis held a number of administrative posts at Middlebury, including dean for academic planning, vice president for information technology, and secretary of the college. He was also involved in numerous research projects. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m retired and now working for myself and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of fun.â&#x20AC;?

Polite and informative when discussing politics, Davis seems almost uncomfortable talking about his private life. His wife Kitty, a music teacher to whom he has been married for 23 years, also retired last year. The couple, who have no children, live in Cornwall, three miles from the

drals started about 10 years ago. Davis and his wife have visited more than 25 of the 40 cathedrals, and he taught a class on the subject in his last two years at Middlebury.

Now that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retired, Davis is contemplating writing a book comparing the British Labour Party and the American Democratic Party, and how, after years in the political wilderness, they reformed themselves in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s to become governing parties.

Davis keeps abreast of political events around the world by maintaining a rigorous daily news-reading regimen. While The Wall Street Journal is the only newspaper he has delivered to his door, Davis spends four to six hours online reading American, British and Canadian papers. He listens to VPR, watches WCAX-TV, and reads the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three major papers. He also checks in regularly with two Vermont blogs, the liberal Green Mountain Daily and the conservative Vermont Tiger.

His meticulous research habits, coupled

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Middlebury campus, in a Victorian home with easterly views of Breadloaf Mountain.

The neatly kept home is surprisingly devoid of a political scientistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tools of the trade â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stacks of newspapers, shelves of biographies, political memorabilia. The rooms open to visitors are filled with displays of fine china, cut glass, music books, CDs and two pianos.

Beyond politics, Davis has a love for the Sunderland Black Cats, an English football club, medieval English cathedrals, and trains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would like to ride every mile of track in England where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passenger service,â&#x20AC;? Davis says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m more than half of the way there.â&#x20AC;?

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with an uncanny ability to remember key people, dates and factoids, makes Davis a formidable prognosticator.

But, to keep all that information fresh and ready for the moment when a reporter calls takes some effort. So, while Middlebury College students get ready to start classes and have their minds opened to new ideas, Davis will be studying right along with them, preparing for the first Tuesday in November. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In some ways,â&#x20AC;? Davis says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;preparing for an election-night broadcast is like preparing for an exam. I used to tell my students that I continue to pull all-nighters once every two years, on election night.â&#x20AC;? >

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revival of Hair is giving audiences in New York’s Central Park a vicarious contact high these days, but memories of the bygone Age of Aquarius in Vermont have sparked an upcoming commune reunion and a new book.

The young idealists who launched Guilford’s Total Loss Farm in 1968 found wisdom in 19th-century paeans to nature by Henry David Thoreau, such as his suggestion that “in wildness is the preservation of the world.”

They were among the estimated thousands of countercultural types who trekked to the Green Mountain State four decades ago, hoping not just to preserve the world but to make it better. Many had already tried to do that elsewhere, working to end racism, inequality and the Vietnam War, until the movement for social change began to self-destruct.

“We felt it was our responsibility to save the country, but we were worn out by the divisions and the bitterness,” recalls noted poet Verandah Porche, who came north back then.

“The goal was to start over.”

Friends, a memoir about his four years at a commune in nearby Montague, Massachusetts. He recalls those times with mixed feelings.

“Montague was a place where you could become a new person and, we thought, create a real opening in the social fabric,” Fels says during a recent phone interview. “Chalk it up to naiveté, altruism and optimism.”

The only “original pioneer’ still living at Packer Corners, Porche wonders if her group’s progressive ideas were unconsciously rooted in ancient notions of community.

“We sort of made a shtetl,” she says, referring to the Jewish enclaves once prevalent in Eastern Europe.

“The future turned retro. But what a time, taking care of each other the way we did.”

That nurturing spirit wasn’t necessarily universal, of course, and even the most placid communes often had trouble withstanding the vicissitudes of subsequent years.

Some say Vermont — with its legacy of cantankerous independence

Some say Vermont — with its legacy of cantankerous independence dating back to Ethan Allen — is where the 1960s went.

She and nine other city dwellers who shared a common vision moved into a five-room Guilford house on 90-plus acres where dairy cows had formerly grazed. Their homestead, called Packer Corners, soon became known as Total Loss Farm. About 100 former and current communards are expected to gather there for a 40th-anniversary reunion this weekend.

One of the people planning to attend, author Tom Fels of North Bennington, has just published Farm

dating back to Ethan Allen — is where the 1960s went. Lured by cheap real estate and an off-the-beaten-path lifestyle, about 75 communes once dotted the landscape, with monikers such as New Morning, Wooden Shoe, Toad Hall, Mullein Hill and Pie in the Sky. Porche calls Guilford, a kind of epicenter for the earliest back-to-thelanders, “a freak neighborhood.” But before long, other areas also witnessed urban and suburban youngsters adapt-

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ing to an agricultural existence.

The more revolutionary Red Clover Collective shot a 1971 documentary about how local police thwarted their efforts to harvest vegetables planted on the grounds of Putney’s Windham College. Entitled Free Farm, it starts with a brief manifesto on obliterating the cruelty of capitalism: “We will make Vermont a free territory,” an unseen narrator vows. “We will build a society that loves life.”

The neighboring and neighborly Packer Corners and Montague communes were largely formed by a nexus of students who continued their activism beyond the campus.

Fels attended Amherst College in the Bay State. So did fellow Montague occupant Marshall Bloom, who had befriended Porche and her then-boyfriend Ray Mungo, both from Boston University. This trio left New England in 1967 to establish the Liberation News Service (LNS) in Washington, D.C. Mungo went on to write two books, which both came out in 1970: Famous Long Ago is about the news service, which he describes as “an

uneasy coalition” of alternative-journalism factions. The Pulitzer Prizenominated Total Loss Farm chronicles his experience at Packer Corners.

Porche dropped out of BU before graduating to participate in the LNS endeavor. “It felt like a state of emergency; we couldn’t go on with our lives as planned,” she explains.

“We had a world to change.”

Eventual “divisions between blacks and whites meant that some of the guys in the movement as a whole tried to show their solidarity through ideological purity,” Porche says. “They felt compelled to commit radical acts.”

For her, the defining events were the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in early April 1968, and the ensuing riots. As D.C. burned, poignant exchanges occurred: “We’d typically ask our black friends, ‘What can we do?’

They would say, ‘Get us guns.’” Our reaction was, ‘Well, gee whiz, I don’t think so.’ Their response: ‘If you won’t get us guns, why don’t you go home and work in your own communities?’”

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wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going back to Teaneck, New Jersey,â&#x20AC;? she says. Indeed, the Garden State was not her intended destination when she told Mungo, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to go home.â&#x20AC;?

His immediate reply: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry. I know the place.â&#x20AC;?

In a recent email, Mungo â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who now lives in California â&#x20AC;&#x201D; writes that he was thinking of Guilford at that time: A college friend had â&#x20AC;&#x153;bought a small vacation cabin down the road from [Packer Corners] and thus became aware that the farmer had died and his widow was sellingâ&#x20AC;? the property. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By Memorial Day, we had gathered our friends and come to look,â&#x20AC;? Porche says. That moment was captured in a photograph by Peter Simon, brother of Carly and â&#x20AC;&#x153;kissing cousinâ&#x20AC;? of the soon-to-be Total Loss family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The house was locked, so we peered in the window.â&#x20AC;?

Porche later evoked that scene in a poem: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Remember before we signed the deed, / we posed for our future â&#x20AC;&#x201D; / â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;American Gothicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for seven: / If you lived here youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be / home now in heaven . . .â&#x20AC;?

Heaven would prove a bit elusive, although Mungo says Packer Corners was mostly harmonious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were no rules and we never took a vote on anything,â&#x20AC;? he declares. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We operated by magic. Really.â&#x20AC;?

Not so over at Montague, which Marshall Bloom began

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know we wanted a cow.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; A hay baler would just appear, or someone started taking down a wall. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wait a minute, did we all agree on this?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The numbers at Montague fluctuated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had fewer in winter, maybe four, then up to 12 in the summer,â&#x20AC;? Fels says, adding, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We fit in with our neighbors, once they got over our beards and long hair.â&#x20AC;?

Local people taught the hippies how to make butter and maple syrup, Fels points out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but they must have asked themselves, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Where does their money come from?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

To buy the $25,000 farm, Bloom had secured a loan; other Montague inhabitants, some taking odd jobs around town, chipped in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Part of the strangeness of all this was that we disavowed money,â&#x20AC;? Fels observes.

For the Packer Corners kids to cover the down payment on their own $25,000 purchase, Marty Jezer cashed in the Israel bonds heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gotten as a bar mitzvah gift. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our situation was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Porche says, quoting Karl Marx. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In general, Total Loss Farm worked better than most communes did. Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Freedom and Unityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; would certainly do as the motto for our farm.â&#x20AC;?

But the first winter was â&#x20AC;&#x153;an eye-opener,â&#x20AC;? she concedes, and the bucolic surroundings were

their Massachusetts counterparts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Packer Corners had a greater tolerance of artists; many of us were writers. We valued conversation and exchange of ideas. Montague was always sort of go-go-go. They were much more industrious,â&#x20AC;? she surmises.

Peter Simon had branched out a short distance away with Tree Frog Farm, an 80-acre Mecca that, by one account, was dedicated to â&#x20AC;&#x153;nudity, psychedelic drugs and free love.â&#x20AC;?

Mayday was an all-womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s domicile â&#x20AC;&#x153;just a stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throw over the hillâ&#x20AC;? from Total Loss, says Porche.

Other clusters of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s vagabonds didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fare as well.

A former Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Angel was behind Brotherhood of the Spirit just across the Massachusetts border. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They thought they were descended from Atlantis,â&#x20AC;?

Porche says.

Johnson Pasture in Guilford was rather â&#x20AC;&#x153;medievalâ&#x20AC;? and muddy, according to filmmaker John Douglas, now of Charlotte, who then lived at Red Clover. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In February, they were wrapped in blankets. It was very primitive.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They [Johnson Pasture] were much bigger than Packer Corners,â&#x20AC;? Porche reports. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d accept anybody. There was a small core surrounded by many drifters. That was a hardluck commune.â&#x20AC;? The worst luck: An April 1970 fire there killed four people.

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a revelation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had never been outdoors,â&#x20AC;? Porche confesses, with some exaggeration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marty had at least gone outdoors before. We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure what a commune was supposed to be. But a lot of us had lived together during college, so it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem much different here. Sharing a kitchen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we knew how to do that.â&#x20AC;?

Porche sees a clear distinction between the Vermonters and

Pasture disdained hierarchy, as did the relatively comfortable Red Clover, Montague, Total Loss and most other communes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a leader,â&#x20AC;?

Porche says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Neighbors would ask, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in charge here?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; We said we were each in charge of ourselves.â&#x20AC;?

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with several other people in January 1969. He had commandeered the LNS presses and files to rekindle the enterprise, which folded after only two issues.

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Two years earlier in New York City, this group of friends had formed the filmmakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; collective Newsreel, turning out documentaries about labor strikes, student revolts, the war, the Black Panthers and other wrenching issues of the day.

Newsreel member John Douglas had, in 1965, plunked down $18,000 to buy the 150acre Putney farm that would become Red Clover. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to live a nice country life while making films,â&#x20AC;? he says.

By 1969, he and pal Robert Kramer were editing footage they had shot in Vietnam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Robert began to think how great it would be to organize from [Vermont]. At that point, just three or four people were living on the property. Another friend had arrived, Carl Oglesby [the former president of Students for a Democratic Society]. In the winter, a bunch of us sat around the table talking about communal stuff.â&#x20AC;?

The name was chosen when Kramerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife Jane (now a Burlington resident) discovered that red clover is the official state flower. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ah, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s red, red, red,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Douglas says with a laugh.

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Left-wing beliefs ruled in a loose-knit, overarching association dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Free Vermont,â&#x20AC;? which tried to coordinate joint projects throughout the state.

Some of its best accomplishments were a Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bank for rich communes to help poorer ones; Vermont Railroad, a newspaper published at Franklin Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Earthworks commune; and, in Brattleboro, a restaurant called Common Ground and an auto shop where women learned how to fix cars to keep the counterculture fleet going at no cost.

Vermont historian Faith Pepe of Westminster West moved to Windham County in 1965 and later joined a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consciousness-raising group that included Red Clover radicals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started the first real daycare center in Vermont as a cooperative,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of us marched into the Brattleboro Reformer to demand a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column. The editor said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;If we do that, we might have to start a column on . . . birds.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

(The newspaper never did add a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column, Pepe notes, but now has one about birds.)

Advancing Red Cloverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dogma was not without its challenges. To promote unanimity, Douglas says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody slept in the same room for months.

That was supposed to be part of getting our shit together. There

was an enormous amount of self-criticism; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sometimes spend all day at it.â&#x20AC;?

Yet, he concludes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It all worked remarkably well. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember much conflict within the group.â&#x20AC;?

Outside the group was another matter. One day, a vanload of women from Boston pulled in to the commune. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were militant lesbians who wanted to use our land for target practice,â&#x20AC;?

Douglas recounts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We said it was OK to set up tents, but they began leaving notes on trees and on our door with messages like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Male dominance sucks!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Much worse, irate local citizens â&#x20AC;&#x153;shot at us and set off firecrackers,â&#x20AC;? Douglas says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They thought we were commies.â&#x20AC;?

The FBI raided Red Clover in the late fall of 1970 looking for Weather Underground fugitive Bernadine Dohrn, who wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They lined us all up, searched the house and left empty-handed,â&#x20AC;? Douglas remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It began to feel like the end of the road.â&#x20AC;?

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Recollective, a multi-commune gathering in South Hero. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We functioned at an enormous level of intensity. We thought the revolution was about to happen at any moment. We had a shortrange, apocalyptic perspective . . . which was completely wrong.â&#x20AC;?

Despite some negative experiences at the commune, Douglas has a more positive take in retrospect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those were the days,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those were definitely the days. Amazing times.â&#x20AC;?

Those times, however, did not always include cross-commune respect. Douglas had dismissed the Total Loss Farm people as â&#x20AC;&#x153;burned-out hippies.â&#x20AC;? Mungo now says the place had â&#x20AC;&#x153;elitist aesthetics.â&#x20AC;?

Porche disagrees, explaining that her group actually identified more with traditional Vermonters than with hippie chic: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a romantic attachment to our [local] mentors,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ray wore flannel shirts and overalls. His first nickname was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gramps.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Mungo reached even further back in rural lore during a 1969 canoe trip with friends; they were retracing Thoreauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1839 expedition on the Concord and Merrimack rivers in New Hampshire.

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Another Weather Underground refugee, Patricia Swinton, lived there using a pseudonym until her 1975 arrest in Brattleboro.

Her Total Loss Farm supporters managed to post bail. She was eventually acquitted.

People got tired of the poverty and isolation,â&#x20AC;? Mungo suggests.

With Porche as its longstanding matriarch, Packer Corners continues in a less populous but more multigenerational mode under the Monteverdi Artists Collaborative, a trust that Mungo set up before his 1971 departure.

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A little farther south, the Montague commune faced tragedy when Marshall Bloom committed suicide in the fall of 1969. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody saw it coming,â&#x20AC;? Fels remembers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He must have been an isolated person, even in the midst of a commune.

It probably soured some people. This was an ideal life we were supposed to be living, and Marshall was the main keeper of the ideals. I think [we] realized you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just declare the future.â&#x20AC;?

The immediate future at many Vermont communes saw original couples separating; gay people finally coming out of the closet; careers and marriages â&#x20AC;&#x201D; those previously unfathomable bourgeois institutions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; gaining favor; and children being born.

Along the way, most of those â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s aggregations disbanded or were transformed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The times changed. People grew up.

taining â&#x20AC;&#x153;some sort of commune life for 35 years,â&#x20AC;? says Fels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I left all my record albums there when I moved out in 1971. It seemed antisocial to take them.â&#x20AC;?

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he modern flush toilet dates back to 1775, when a London watchmaker named Alexander Cummings patented a design in which a measure of water remained in the bowl after each flush.

According to Lawrence Wrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clean STORY & & Decent: The Fascinating History of the IMAGE Bathroom, the Water Closet and of Sundry BRIAN Habits, Fashions and Accessories of the Toilet, WALLSTIN Cummingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; toilet was an improvement over earlier designs with one major exception: The seal on the bottom of the toilet inevitably failed, allowing the emission of foul-smelling and highly explosive sewer gas.

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In 1999, Steve Gallacher decided to add his name to the storied lore of the loo by proposing a solution to Cummingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; flaw. For Gallacher, who is 49 and the only plumber in Chelsea, it came down to a basic conflict: His tradeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stubborn reliance on wax seals was incompatible with the human urge to sit awhile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just go and get off. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re moving,â&#x20AC;? notes Gallacher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have a wax seal, and you wiggle, the wax squishes a little moreâ&#x20AC;? and changes shape.

Wax has been the standard for toilet seals for as long as anyone can remember, although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not for want of a better material. Sponge-rubber gaskets, which appeared in the 1950s, tend to pull away from the closet flange, the 3-inch opening to the sewer pipe on which the gasket sits.

And while foam gaskets are more elastic than wax seals, they are vulnerable to rot.

The Vermont inventor devoted to designing a better seal is a tall, beefy guy with brown hair, a thick mustache and clear hazel eyes. On a recent afternoon, in a small workout room in the garage behind his two-story house on Chelseaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Main Street, he recalls the â&#x20AC;&#x153;ahaâ&#x20AC;? toilet. He had recently finished installing the plumbing in a new home. Within days, the owner was complaining of a sewer-gas smell. It turned out that, while putting in a washing machine, a carpenter had pulled up and reset the toilet, tearing the wax seal in the process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is bull,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Gallacher recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most unsanitary plumbing fixture in your house, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re relying on this type of seal.â&#x20AC;?

Gallacher decided what a modern toilet seal required, above all other attributes, was memory â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the gasket had to absorb the effects of time, moisture and shifting buttocks and somehow maintain its original shape and durability. That meant finding the right material and manufacturing it at the right durometer, or hardness, to create a seal that would expand and contract evenly under various pressures, making it easy for non-professionals to install. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too hard, and you have a homeowner who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a feel for a wrench and he just cranks it down, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to break his toilet,â&#x20AC;? Gallacher says.

By 2001, with the help of a neighbor, Dartmouth College instructor Dwayne Adams, Gallacher had a prototype for a gasket of water-impermeable neoprene that, under most conditions, would never have to be replaced. Gallacher began using the seal, which he and Adams call the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Duroseal,â&#x20AC;? in his own installations, while peddling samples to plumbing suppliers.

Trying to drum up interest in a new product at a time when the economy was on a downswing, however, was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;gruelingâ&#x20AC;? business, Gallacher recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you how many trips we went on,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d meet with some people, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hmm, I like it, but I guess

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Gallacher’s prospects improved considerably on February 17, 2004, when he and Adams were awarded a patent for the Duroseal. Currently available at plumbing-supply stores in 15 states, including Vermont, New York, New Hampshire and Connecticut, the product sells for about $3.70, roughly 50 percent more than the traditional wax seal. As Gallacher sees it, the higher price shouldn’t hurt the potential of his invention to become the new standard for toilet gaskets. “Especially in a nice home,” he says, “if you’re going to quibble about a buck, buck-twenty, based on what goes into a toilet and what goes out, you’d really like one that doesn’t leak.”

The patent is quite an accomplishment for Gallacher, who has lived in Chelsea since he was a young boy. It can take years of patient persistence to win a patent; in fact, only about one in four applications succeeds in convincing government examiners that an idea is both new and useful.

Then again, those are better odds than Gallacher faced 30 years ago, when he considered a different career path: professional baseball.

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But faced with a steep climb to the top of an extremely fickle profession, Gallacher had to admit he didn’t really care about baseball. At least not as much as he cared for Sharon Preston, whom he began dating his junior year at Chelsea High. Her father, Arnold Preston, was the town plumber, and he had already brought Gallacher into the business. “A lot of people . . . would have signed if they had given ’em a glove and shoes,” Gallacher says. “But I was making more money as a plumber, and I actually liked being a plumber.”

Gallacher ended up marrying the plumber’s daughter, and he worked alongside his father-in-law, with a little moonlighting on the side, until 1992, when he started his own business. He works by himself now, relying largely on the installation of fixtures and appliances in new homes. He’s made a good living, he says, but the trade has changed over the years. Plumbing supplies are more widely available, and homeowners have learned to do their own repairs rather than pay for a professional.

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Gallacher won’t speculate on what the Duroseal could mean for his financial future. The gasket is being marketed and distributed by an Alabama company, the Jones-Stephens Corp. While it’s selling a bit more each month, Gallacher is banking on his current negotiations with a national plumbing-supply chain to push the Duroseal to the top of the market.

It’s certainly caught the attention of those who know a good toilet seal when they see one. About six months after they received their patent, Gallacher and Adams secured what might be considered the ultimate endorsement. Gerald Garrow, Vermont’s chief plumbing inspector, wrote an open letter outlining a series of tests on the seal by his apprenticeship class.

Garrow, who installed four of Gallacher’s seals in his own home, concluded there “is no product on today’s market that has this many positive features.”

Whether the Duroseal ends up solving one of the most vexing problems in the history of the flush toilet remains to be seen. But it’s certainly made one plumber’s life a lot easier.

“Four or five years ago, there were some toilets I’d have to put a wax seal under there every year,” Gallacher says. “I put these seals under there now, and I don’t go back. That’s good for me, because there are other things I’d rather do than work on a toilet.”

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“Probability #1” by David Johansen

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hotographer David Johansen takes a new look at two subjects with one overarching theme in “Light Forms and Icescapes,” his current exhibit at Grannis Gallery in Burlington. Germane to both ice and light is the artist’s notion of transience. The show’s subtitle is “Images of Ephemeral Objects and Events,” and the delicacy of Johansen’s pictures is mysterious and intriguing.

Part of the mystery is how these images were captured in the first place — Johansen doesn’t explain.

The “icescapes” are highly abstract studies in value, expressed with luminous grays and indistinct fault lines.

The “light forms” of the “Probability” series consist of sapphire-blue, diaphanous waves that seem to have been frozen while undulating in a tenebrous void. All of Johansen’s images are labeled as ink-jet prints on archival paper, but his artist’s statement describes them as photographs.

The “Probability” series’ blue-on-black waves look like phenomena generated by an oscilloscope and taken with long-exposure digital photography. That’s not necessarily what Johansen did, but the elements of movement and time are integral to his pictures.

“Probability #1” is a framed ink-jet print with an onyx void to the left side of the image and an ethereal blue mass — the shade of a gas flame — undulating like a silk veil on the right. Subtle horizontal striations in the blue “veil” create fragile contours on the translucent surface.

The composition of “Probability #5” is more dramatic. An indigo tangle of tissues is crumpled to the left side, and a shape arcs across the image. From the left, it skims the top of the composition, then dives like a monochromatic rainbow into the lower right corner.

All of the “Probability” series images measure 24 by 16 inches. Numbers 1 and 5 are horizontally oriented.

Vertical compositions include “Probability #9,” which features two billowing, slightly overlapping masses of blue, floating like jellyfish on a deep black background.

tive of a mountain face of slate grays, wrapped in encroaching layers of cloud and mist. In “Ice #1,” a fine mesh-screen pattern overlies the contours of Johansen’s gray ice surfaces. Jagged areas suggest crust, in contrast to the smoother-appearing works.

In contrast to the flitting blues of the “Probability” group, the “Ice” series captures the slow process of frozen water dissolving.

Johansen’s second series of prints contains his “icescapes.” Most of the works in the series measure 32 by 13 inches, and their rectangular format allows them to allude to landscapes. In contrast to the flitting blues of the “Probability” group, the “Ice” series captures the slow process of frozen water dissolving.

The horizontal compositions of “Ice #7” and “Ice #9” feature folded, silvery grays. In “Ice #7,” creamy contours spread across the image like smooth snowdrifts freshly deposited on a convoluted glacier. “Ice #9” is composed of stronger diagonals, and a deep, dark pit seems to melt into the left corner of the icescape.

While the horizontally composed photographs are panoramic, Johansen’s vertically oriented pieces recall Chinese landscapes. “Ice #6” is a vertical scene sugges-

In the 30-by-23-inch “Ice #4,” domes reminiscent of mountains in Yosemite press into the white upper reaches of the composition. “Ice #8,” with the same dimensions, is the most somber piece in the show. It’s darker — the lower corners are nearly black — and a lighter gray mass hangs in the middle of the composition like a storm cloud.

Johansen has devised techniques that enable him to create ambiguous, highly connotative imagery. It would be interesting to see what else his technical approach can generate. His digital prints are not wholly photographs in the traditional sense of the medium; rather, photography is simply a point of departure.

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MARC AWODEY: Senryu & Nudes, a new book juxtaposing drawings of nude figures with senryu, a Japanese style of poetry; the drawings, based on the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge, are also on display.

Through August 31 at Kasini House in Burlington. Reception: Thursday, August 21, 6-8 p.m. Info, 287-8926.

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North Avenue she shares with musician and recording artist Ryan Power is given over to Clean City Soap. (The moniker is a play on Burlington’s nickname, the Queen City.)

Bly hand-produces 3000 bars of soap a year and the paper they’re wrapped in — a dual operation that has taken over her kitchen sink, bathtub and all available space for drying racks.

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trong but pleasant aromas fill soap maker Missy Bly’s Burlington apartment on a recent weekday. And no wonder: Funneling essential oils into glass bottles, Bly is nearly hemmed in by ceiling-high stacks of freshly cut cakes and long, rectangular troughs of just-poured soap.

The oils will soon infuse more batches of her quirkily named bars, including Rake in the Grass — which smells remarkably like a freshly mowed lawn — and Village Green, with its inimitable scent of what Bly calls “a picnic on a blanket in the park in Paris, 1870.”

Bly, 35, both works and lives in her studio. Most of the rambling space on

Bly’s craft is bringing a long-neglected product back to market. As she tells it, the commercial soap industry, intent on devising a harder, longer-lasting bar, sacrificed the humectant properties of handmade soap — those qualities that help skin draw moisture from the air to replace the oils the soap washes away. “Natural soap is not as long-lasting,” she explains, “but it is smoother, silkier. This is the real glycerin bar. Those [commercial] ‘naturally clear’ glycerin bars — to me, it’s like going back to eating Wonder Bread.”

Apart from Bly’s Web-procured essential oils, everything about Clean City Soap is the polar opposite of Wonder Bread. A friend custom-made the wooden molds into which she pours her heated vegetable oil and sodium hydroxide solutions — the ingredients that cause the glycerinproducing reaction called “saponification.”

A local graphic designer helped create her logo, and Gordon Stamp & Engraving, around the corner on North Street, turned it into a stamp. Bly grows calendula, lavender, rosemary and other soap herbs in pots in her yard and processes them in a coffee grinder she rescued from ReCycle North.

And her handmade “Re-Construction” paper puts the city’s recycling methods

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to shame. Bly feeds a shredder her junk mail and bills, piles of construction paper donated by friends, used wrapping paper and old sewing patterns. After soaking the shredded mass in water, she pulps it into what she calls a “paper smoothie” in three mustard-yellow ’70s-era blenders, dumps the stuff in a vat, screens out thin layers one at a time, and press-dries them into sheets. Occasionally, whole words survive the process — like the “yea” and “33” that both appeared on a sheet she made when she turned 33. “Sometimes I think the papermaking vat is an oracle,” she jokes, flashing a goofy smile.

A wordsmith at heart, Bly loves a good pun. Hence her kid-friendly “Alphabet Soap,” a bag of 26 soap letters made with cookie cutters. In her parallel life as a singer-songwriter with a rock-pop band, Bly just released her third album — which she’s calling MB3, combining her initials and the familiar abbreviation for digitalmusic files.

Born in Rotterdam, New York, Bly vacationed with her family in Poultney as a child and returned to Vermont to earn

a degree in art at Castleton State College.

When she moved permanently to the state in 1996, she took a job cooking at an organic bakery in Williston. It was run by two women who helped shape her appreciation for Vermont. “And they made me realize you can do what you want to do,” Bly adds. She taught herself to make soap about 10 years ago from an instructional article in The Herb Companion; the battered magazine issue still sits on her shelf. Now she concocts homemade cleaning agents and uses them in a house-cleaning side business.

“Every year I learn a little more. I’m not trying to take over the world or anything,” Bly says modestly. “I want to give people what they want, but I also want to have fun doing it.” > City Market will start distributing Missy Bly’s soaps in the fall. Until then, visit her website at www.cleanbeesoap.com (a vestige of an earlier business name) or find Clean City Soap at the Burlington Artist Market in City Hall Park, Saturdays until October 20.

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RECEPTIONS << 41A ‘NAZI PERSECUTION OF HOMOSEXUALS 1933-1945’: A traveling exhibit from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum features 250 historic photographs, artwork and other documents that illustrate the German regime’s attempt to eradicate homosexuality. Through September 30 at UVM Living/Learning Center in Burlington. Reception for Outright Vermont: Thursday, August 21, 6-8 p.m. Info, 656-4200.

‘WOMEN OF WATERCOLOR . . . AND MORE’: Eight Upper Valley artist-friends who have shared work with each other for years now share their paintings with the public. August 22 through September 26 at Tunbridge Public Library in Tunbridge Village. Reception: Friday, August 22, 7-9 p.m. Info, 889-9404.

BILL RAMAGE: “The NeurAlchemist,” paintings and drawings. August 23 through September 21 at Gallery in-theField in Brandon. Reception: Saturday, August 23, 5-7 p.m. Info, 247-0125.

STUART HALL: “Four Seasons in the Snowflake Kingdom,” landscape and nature photographs. August 24 through September 28 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Reception: Sunday, August 24, 3-5 p.m. Info, 899-3211.

TODD R. LOCKWOOD: “One Degree of Separation,” black-and-white, large-scale photographic portraits of individuals important to the artist’s life. In the Coach Barn. August 26 through 28 at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne. Reception: Tuesday, August 26, 5-8 p.m. Info, 658-1270.

ONGOING :: burlington area AUTUMNAL ART: Fall and/or Vermont images by staff and customers of the art-supply store. Through October 31 at Artists’ Mediums in Williston.

BECKY KANFER: Geometry-inspired paintings. Through August 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438.

BETHANY FARRELL: “Narratives,” mixed-media gestural figures with layers of writing, magazine imagery and text. Through September 30 at Drink in Burlington. Info, 860-9463.

BRUCE PENDLETON: “Eclectic Images,” photographs of theater, dance and experimental still life. Through September 6 at Shelburne Art Center in Shelburne. Info, 985-3648.

BYRON GEIGEL: “Montage,” lively landscape paintings by the Island Pond artist, along with additional works by 14 regional artists. Through September 9 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848.

CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON: Oil and encaustic on canvas, Gates 1 & 2; JOSHUA KAHN: Color photographs from Africa, Skyway; and DAN GOTTSEGEN: Oil paintings, Escalator. Through September 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

DAVID JOHANSEN: “Light Forms and Icescapes,” images of ephemeral objects and events. Through August 31 at Grannis Gallery in Burlington. Info, 660-2032.

DON DICKSON: “Wood-Water-Rock: Photographs from Alaska, Cape Cod and Italy,” silver gelatin prints and color prints. Through September 21 at Firehouse Center Community Darkroom in Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

GREGORY ALBRIGHT: Paintings inspired by lyrical lines and lively colors, Dining Room; EMILY NICOLE WILSON: Mixed-media design abstractions, Greenhouse; and DAVID RUSSEL: Black-and-white photography, Bar. Through August 31 at Daily Planet in Burlington. Info, 862-9647.

JANET FREDERICKS: “River Scrolls: Mapping the New Haven,” monoprints and paintings inspired by moving water.

Through September 30 at The Men’s Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088.

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PHOTO BY MARC AWODEY

The canvasses of Island Pond painter Byron Geigel are highlighted in “Montage,” a 15-artist exhibit at Shelburne’s Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery. Geigel displays 11 expressionistic landscapes, while the other artists present a broad range of genres from figuration to abstraction. The artistically impeccable exhibit runs through September 9. Pictured: “The Winds of Fall” by Geigel.

JOE ROQUE: Paintings reflecting the emotions and sensations of daily life. Through August 25 at Nectar’s in Burlington. Info, 310-0065.

JOHN K. ALEXANDER: New paintings.

Through August 31 at Healthy Living in South Burlington. Info, 540-0267.

KARUNA J. JOBANPUTRA: “15 Blessings,” black-and-white photographs of people from India, Kenya and Tanzania.

Through August 31 at Davis Center, UVM in Burlington. Info, 560-4390.

KRISTEN M. WATSON: “We Wish to See God: Places of Worship,” photographs in the church nave by the summer artist-in-residence, focusing on the spaces and devices used by Vermonters.

Through August 31 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington. Info, 864-0471.

LYNNE BERARD: Watercolors of the Northeast Kingdom, in a style reminiscent of Georgia O’Keeffe; Pickering Room; and DAVE DAVIDSON: A career retrospective featuring works in glass, print and other media, Mezzanine Gallery and Reading Room Display Case.

Through August 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

MALTEX SHOW: The hallways of all four floors are filled with paintings by Valerie Ugro, Gregory Albright, Lee Arrington and Peter Williams; monoprints by Nori Lupfer and Carolyn Shattuck; photography by Jim Rathmell; and sculpture and shadowboxes by Aaron Stein. Through August 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

MARY CASSATT: FRIENDS AND FAMILY: More than 60 paintings by the great American Impressionist, on loan from private collections and other museums, explore the family theme. Through October 26 at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne. Info, 985-3346.

MR. MASTERPIECE: “The Seven Deadly Sins According to Mr. Masterpiece,” abstracted and geometry-inspired acrylic paintings by the Burlington artist.

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‘POWER OF ART: POWER TO VOTE’: A portable mural of political cartoons is designed to encourage voter and civic responsibility, inspired by stories from community members and educators.

Open to new contributions. Through August 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

‘PUNK HOUSE’: Photographs, by Abby Banks of Brattleboro, of anarchic interiors in living quarters across the country, filled with graffiti, salvaged furniture and objects, music equipment and more; also, in the back gallery, a “punk neighborhood” installation created by the Brattleboro-based art collective Tinderbox. Through September 26 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

RICK HAYES: “Best of Times, Worst of Times” — one wall features prints inspired by 9/11, the opposing wall shows “Apparition,” a photographic display of a glass sculpture, “The Crystal City.” Through August 29 at SEABA Gallery in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

ROSIE PREVOST: “Portraits: Exploring the Universal,” black-and-white portraits that explore a connection with archetypes and the universal, using a variety of approaches, from studio sessions to toy cameras.

Through September 7 at 215 College Street Artists’ Cooperative in Burlington. Info, 863-3662.

‘STITCHED TOGETHER: QUILTS AND THEIR STORIES’: Works from the permanent collection and the tales behind their creation and care. Through August 29 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

‘SUMMER SPLENDOR’: Works by members of the Essex Art League.

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WARREN KIMBLE’S AMERICA: A retrospective of the internationally known Vermont folk artist, including his new series, “Widows of War”; and ‘ART IN THE ROUND: SHELBURNE MUSEUM’S DENTZEL CAROUSEL’: Recently restored hand-carved figures, as well as panels and vintage organ, from a 1902 carousel; and ‘GROWING GREEN’: An exploration of the creative uses of plants in contemporary design; and ‘PURSE-ONALITY: HANDBAGS WITH ATTITUDE’: Hip, funny and stylish handbags; and ‘DESIGN REWIND: THE ORIGINS OF INNOVATION’: Contemporary furniture and accessories compared with 18th- and 19th-century predecessors; and ‘LONGOLAND: IT MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS’: Soft creatures by plush artist Joshua Longo; and ‘QUILTS IN BLOOM’: Stunning textile art from contemporary quilters; and Beach Lodge and Beach Gallery, re-opened with new exhibitions of big game trophies, Adirondack camp furniture and photographs of the American West. Through October 26 at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne. Info, 985-3346.

‘WATER WORKS’: Water-inspired art and objects, from pitchers to holy water sprinklers to beach-resort photographs, from the permanent collection. Through August 24 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

WILLA MAMET: Handmade, computerfree black-and-white photographs; JOELLEN MULVANEY: “Ugh-ly Beauty,” oil paintings on linen; K. LENORE SINER: “Light, Line, Color,” paintings; and JOY SPONTAK: “Reimagining Memory,” mixed media.

Through October 31 at Artpath Gallery in Burlington. Info, 563-2273.

‘WORLD VIEWS: PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY’: New Orleans paintings by Michael Savoie; “Hidden Beauty” photographs of the frozen lake by George Rooney; Vermont seasons paintings by Marilyn Neagley; and women of Senegal photographs by Micshu Harris.

Through August 31 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 651-9692.

:: central 22ND ANNUAL QUILT EXHIBITION: More than 50 contemporary quilts made by quilters of Windsor County; quilting activities and demonstrations, and an exhibit of “challenge quilts” using just two fabric colors and a star design. Through September 21 at Billings Farm and Museum in Woodstock. Info, 457-2355.

‘A FINE LINE’: Prints by David Bumbeck, Warrington Colescott and Ed Koren.

Through September 3 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

ALDEN PELLETT: “Something in the Air,” Vermont images by the outdoor/action photographer that have appeared in Vermont Life magazine over the past 20 years. Through October 31 at Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier. Info, 828-3241.

AMALIA VERALLI & HENRY ERIKSON: Photography of flowers and water, respectively. Through August 31 at Artisans’ Gallery in Waitsfield. Info, 496-6256.

ANN DIBBLE: “Canine Conundrums,” dog-inspired paintings, drawings and collages examining how the animals look at the world, relate to people and appear human. Through September 21 at The Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 223-7680.

BARRIE FISHER: Children’s portraiture, wedding and fine-art photography. Through August 31 at Fisher Photography in Waitsfield. Info, 496-5215.

BIG RED BARN ART SHOW: The barn at Lareau Farm hosts one of the feature events of the Vermont Festival of the Arts with a group exhibit of more than 30 Mad River Valley artists.

Open Thursday - Sunday. Through August 31 at American Flatbread in Waitsfield. Info, 496-4789.

BREAD & PUPPET POSTER EXHIBIT: Political posters by the renowned artist-activists. Through September 5 at Plainfield Community Center Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-4662.

BRIAN MOHR & EMILY JOHNSON: “Wild People, Wild Places 4: A Photographic Journey Through Vermont and Beyond,” color and black-and-white photos of wild places and people interacting with them. Through September 26 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 496-5434.

BRIAN ZIEGLER & TARA JENSEN: “STAMINA,” an installation completed during a 24-hour drawing marathon, explores time, endurance and the meaning of life. Through September 9 at Fort Can Gallery & Studios in Montpelier. Info, 505-0714.

‘CAPTURED ON GLASS’: A photographic essay of life in the Mad River Valley, taken from glass negatives in the collection of the Waitsfield Historical Society. Includes a narrated, on-demand slide show. Through August 31 at General Wait House in Waitsfield. Info, 496-2027.

CATHY CONE: ‘Circles, Portals, Birds and Fields,’ digital imaging and traditional printmaking. Through August 30 at Blake Memorial Library in East Corinth. Info, 439-5338.

‘FEARLESS’: Sculptures and paintings

by G. Roy Levin, Colleen McCleary, Bob Mould and Sonja Olson. Through September 30 at Cooler Gallery in White River Junction. Info, 295-8008.

GARY ECKHART & ROARKE SHARLOW: Watercolors and fine-art photography, respectively; the shared studio is open all month, Thursday - Monday, for the Vermont Festival of the Arts.

Through August 31 at Moosewalk Studios in Warren. Info, 583-2224.

‘GATES & PASSAGES’: A group, multimedia exhibit on the theme of openings, exits, pathways and other passages, Main Floor Gallery; and ‘MAKE MORE ART’: A SPA teachers’ show, Second Floor Gallery; and ‘THE USUAL SUSPECTS’: A roundup of questionable characters by Bruce McAlpine, Third Floor Gallery.

Through September 20 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

GRETCHEN ZIMMER: “A Tribute to Claude Monet,” the waterlily paintings.

Through August 31 at Rhapsody Café in Montpelier. Info, 229-6112.

HOWARD NELSON RILEY: “Riley Arts’ Summertime,” paintings of flowers, bees and landscapes in bold colors on reclaimed wood.

Through August 31 at The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Info, 223-1981.

JOHN BRICKELS: “Bolts and Bots,” clay sculptures, including a new series of robots. Through August 24 at The Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 223-7680.

LINDA MANEY: Abstract paintings. Through August 31 at Vermont Chocolatiers in Northfield. Info, 485-8056.

MAGGIE NEALE: “Musings in Color and Texture,” mixed-media paintings using beeswax, oils, fabrics and papers that explore surface quality and what lies below. Through August 31 at City Center in Montpelier. Info, 229-9446.

MARC AWODEY: The painter and Seven Days art critic shows his own work in acrylic. Through September 12 at the Feich Arts Center in Poultney. Info, 287-8926.

MATT LARSON: Digital photographs of Vermont. Through August 31 at Axel’s Frameshop in Waterbury. Info, 244-7801.

MISSY CARY STORROW & ROBIN LAHUE: “Crossings,” a spiritual interpretation of the bridges of Montpelier in various media. Through August 31 at Westview Meadows in Montpelier. Info, 485-7770.

NANCY SCHADE: “Reversals,” paintings. Through August 31 at The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com.

PAULA WOLCOTT: Figurative paintings focusing on color, composition, light and movement. Through August 31 at Blinking Light Gallery in Plainfield. Info, 454-0141.

REBECCA GOTTESMAN: “Nature’s Wonders,” large oil landscape paintings by the Upper Valley artist. Through September 30 at Tip Top Café in White River Junction. Info, 356-6200.

‘SELECTIONS 07/08’: Selected works from the award-winning artists of the gallery’s 2007-08 Local Artists show. Through August 24 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 728-9878.

THOMPSON LEHNERT: The Kent State University emeritus professor specializes in water media: transparent watercolor, gouache, egg tempera and acrylic wash works. Through October 12 at Bundy Center for the Arts in Waitsfield. Info, 496-4781.

VERMONT FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS SAMPLER: Sixteen artists present works in watercolor, oil, photography, sculpture and more, and represent the diversity of art in the Mad River Valley. Through September 30 at Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-5422.

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:: champlain valley CLAIRE CLAYMAN GEER: “Backyard Series,” watercolors and watercollages featuring abstract and semiabstract images inspired by the artist’s backyard views. Through September 1 at Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh. Info, 877-6316.

CYNTHIA GUILD KLING: Paintings of changing places by the Starksboro artist; and LIZ SASLAW: York Hill pottery.

Through September 30 at Lincoln Library in Lincoln. Info, 453-2665.

KIRSTEN HOVING: “When Trees Dream,” an exhibit of photographs by the Middlebury College art professor. Through September 6 at Walkover Gallery & Listening Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188.

KIT DONNELLY & KARLA VAN VLIET: Abstract and Chinese brush paintings, jewelry and other media by Kit Donnelly, Karla Van Vliet and other Addison County artists. Through October 31 at The Gallery at 85 North Street in Bristol. Info, 453-5813.

NORA VALDEZ: “Walking with Memories 2,” an installation of sculptures by the Argentina-born artist, about “carrying luggage” through life.

Through September 28 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

PAMELA SMITH: “See No Evil,” stylized figurative paintings. Through August 31 at Tully & Marie’s in Middlebury. Info, 388-4182.

ROBIN KENT & BARBARA EFCHAK: Humorous wall pieces and sculpture made from recycled wood that describe common experiences and human rituals; and new pottery inspired by botanical forms, respectively. Through August 31 at Brandon Artists’ Guild in Brandon. Info, 247-4956.

‘TIME WELL SPENT’: Students of the Johnson State College advanced photography and digital media programs, mentored by John Miller, took these images of elder residents at the Craftsbury Community Care Center.

Through September 6 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

:: northern ANNE CADY: “Heart in Hand,” new paintings that pay homage to the beauty of Vermont. Through August 31 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

AUGUST FEATURED ARTISTS: Paintings, hand-pulled prints, hats and hand-blown glass vessels by local artists Melissa Haberman, Heidi Lagu, Beth McAdams and David Gates. Through August 31 at Artist In Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

CAROLYN OBERST & JEFF WAY: The New York City and Northeast Kingdom artists show paintings about Vermont and from a series called “Grid Heads,” respectively. Way also shows masks he has made over 30 years in Vermont using local materials. Through August 31 at White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. Info, 563-2037.

COOPERATIVE GALLERY SHOW: Artwork by the 24 gallery members includes all styles of painting, collage, threedimensional works and notecards.

Through October 31 at Jacob Walker Art Gallery in Morristown. Info, 244-6648.

CORLISS BLAKELY: The August featured artist presents a new exhibit of paintings of Vermont scenes and antiques.

Through August 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

CRISTINA PELLECHIO & ESME THOMPSON: The ceramic artist and painter share an exhibit in the East Gallery. Through August 30 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

‘EXPOSED! 2008’: Curated by Meg McDevitt, this annual group outdoor sculpture show features works by more than two dozen artists, on the gallery lawn and sited around town. Maps of sculpture locations at the gallery and the Stowe Area Association office.

Through October 11 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

GEORGE SELLECK: “Forbidden Fruit,”sensual paintings of fruit and vegetables, in oil and acrylic.

Through August 24 at McCarthy’s Restaurant in Stowe. Info, 253-4348.

FRANKLIN COUNTY ARTISTS: A group exhibition of works in all media by established and emerging artists, including Deborah Benoit, Robert Chaperon Jr., David Juaire, Lisamarie Charlesworth, Tinka Martell and Longina Smolinski. Through October 1 at Staart Gallery in St. Albans. Info, 524-5700.

GALEN CHENEY: “Internal Combustion,” new abstract paintings; LUCY PETRIE: Pastel paintings; and works by other gallery members. Through September 7 at West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

GARY ECKHART, ELIZABETH ALLEN & ROBERT F. AIKEN: “Quintessential Vermont,” local landscape paintings in watercolor, oil and acrylic, respectively.

Through August 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

HELMUT SIBER: Paintings by the late German-born artist. Proceeds of sales will benefit the Fairbanks Museum.

Through August 23 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans’ Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 626-4287.

JOHNSON OUTDOOR SCULPTURE SHOW: Sixteen artists contribute 3-D works to a walkable sculpture exhibit around town. Map of sites at participating locations and at www.townofjohnson. com. Through October 26 at various locations in Johnson. Info, 730-3114.

RAFAEL CAUDURO: “Sin Fronteras (No Borders),” realist/surrealist paintings by the Mexican master, considered the “Diego Rivera of the 21st century.”

Through August 30 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. >

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member of the U.S. Olympic diving team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human storyline to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event.

Tracy Klujian, the expelled diver, was not raised by a single mother, never had a career-threatening injury, and did not overcome a personal tragedy of any kind before making the Olympic diving team, U.S. Olympic officials revealed today.

“Had Tracy been involved in an organ donation, as either a donor or a recipient, that would have been acceptable to us,” a diving team spokesman told reporters. “However, he was not.”

According to sources close to the diving team, Mr. Klujian had concealed the fact that he comes from an intact middle-class family that never lost its home to a flood, tornado or typhoon.

But what may have sealed Mr. Klujian’s doom, sources said, was his utter lack of a gravely ill family member to win a medal for.

“Tracy did his best to hide his background from team officials,” one source said. “But when the truth came out, he was finished.”

Had Tracy been involved in an organ donation, as either a donor or a recipient, that would have been acceptable to us. diving team spokesman

Speaking to reporters in Beijing, NBC sports chief Dick Ebersol was even less charitable, terming Mr. Klujian’s actions “a reprehensible betrayal.” “We do our best to check out all of the athletes to make sure that their backgrounds are full of compelling human drama, but we can’t catch everything,” Mr. Ebersol said. “This is a case of one really bad guy exploiting the system.”

Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of the new book The Republican Playbook. To find out more about Andy Borowitz and read his past columns, visit www.borowitzreport.com.

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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.

Difficulty this week: H H = Moderate HH = Challenging HHH = Hoo, boy!

Puzzle answers for Sudoku and Crossword on page 38B

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ligent. Having said that, however, I confidently predict that at least 58 percent of all Cancerians will exceed the mediocre norm in the coming weeks. The figure may even rise as high as 75 percent. The astrological omens suggest you have the potential to be smarter than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been. Use your acuity constructively!

(March 21-April 19): Your next assignment is to inject more fun into your job â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or into anything that feels like work, for that matter. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a head start because lately youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been playing harder than usual.

That should give you creative momentum as you reinvent your approach to activities that push you to your limits and test your resolve.

For best results, be open to the possibility that you really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to keep being bored and cranky in places where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve assumed you will always be bored and cranky.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Was there a dream

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): After study-

ing your astrological omens, I closed my eyes and asked the spirits for a psychic vision that would symbolize your imminent future. The scenario that came up was a pair of toddlers dressed in fine purple satin garments and wearing golden hats. They looked like a prince and princess, and were wandering around inside a ritual circle about ten yards in diameter, drawn with white chalk in a green meadow. Vases of cut flowers and statues of gods and goddesses ringed the circle. So what does my vision mean? Maybe this: Two magnificent possibilities have recently been born or will soon be born. You should cast a protective spell around them, letting them amble and dally within a proscribed area as their magic ripens.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some spas are

now offering their clients â&#x20AC;&#x153;butt facials.â&#x20AC;? The cost for smoothing and toning your skin in the lower realms can range up to $800 per session.

At that steep price, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in good conscience mandate the procedure for you. But the astrological omens are favorable for you to take special care of things at the bottom of your life, even if they are more metaphorical in nature.

So please brainstorm about how you could upgrade your ballast, strengthen your foundation, and give your center of gravity a boost.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Studies show that 58 percent of us think our IQs are higher than average. That canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be true, of course. But maybe one sign of a person with a below-average IQ is the delusion that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty intel-

that you abandoned some time ago? Was there a power you recklessly gave up? Do you ever think longingly about a knack or skill that withered away because you stopped wielding it with the regularity and excellence it demanded? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to revisit defeats like those, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in good shape to reimagine the original experiences in ways that could help you recover what was lost.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness,â&#x20AC;? wrote French poet Paul ValĂŠry.

From that perspective, Virgo, I bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be sparkling and brisk in the coming days. You will be cheeky and saucy, crisp and rosy, bright and well ventilated. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be so much delightfully hard-to-understand novelty flowing your way that you will be awakened again and again and again, rising to a higher level of awareness each time.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The 19th-century American philosopher Henry David Thoreau accomplished a lot. Among his voluminous body of work was Civil Disobedience, a book that inspired Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. In the 2-million-word journal he kept for more than two decades, he wrote about nature with a precision and care that prefigured modern-day environmentalism. But Thoreau also knew how to relax, and he was free of anxiety about living up to other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standards of success. One passage in his journal reads, â&#x20AC;&#x153;For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.â&#x20AC;? Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your role model for the rest of 2008, Libra. May he inspire you to give yourself the

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slack you need and compete with no one but yourself as you become more of the unique work of art you were born to be.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life

is a heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey, yours included. You have been on an epic quest ever since you first realized that your destiny is unlike anyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and that you have specific tasks to master as you pursue the long-term dreams that are uniquely meaningful to you. But like all the rest of us, you sometimes lose sight of this big-picture view for months at a time. You may even be fairly happy as you focus on your daily details without any thought of where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be years from now. If thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the rhythm youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been in lately, Scorpio â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and I suspect it is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about to change. Your immersion in the next major phase of your heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey will begin soon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Michelangelo never finished two-thirds of the sculptures he started. Basketball mega-star Michael Jordan failed on 26 different occasions when he was given the ball to try the gamewinning shot as time ran out. Of Bob Dylanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 57 albums, maybe only 15 of them are masterpieces. I bring these facts to your attention, Sagittarius, in the hope that they will give you some perspective on the down times in your own track record. More importantly, I want to let you know that in the coming weeks you should have access to the kind of energy that Michelangelo, Jordan and Dylan had when they were creating their legends.

CAPRICORN

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He goes on to say that when a person leaves the light and enters into the shadows, his vision in perplexed, being unaccustomed to the dark. And when he moves from the murk into the brightness, it takes a while for his sight to adjust to the dazzle. According to my analysis

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In addition to food, air, water, sleep and love, every human being needs stories. No one can psychically survive without the continuous flow of narrative through his or her imagination. And just as there is a big difference between the physical nourishment provided by a salad or by a candy bar, so is there a wide range of quality in the stories you expose yourself to. Soaking up the adventures of Ăźber-playboy Hugh Hefner and his three girlfriends on the TV show â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Girls Next Doorâ&#x20AC;? will probably deplete your energy and lower your intelligence, while reading Tom Robbinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; novel Jitterbug Perfume may enhance your mental hygiene and sharpen your perceptions. What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m saying here is always true, of course, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s especially important for you to keep in mind right now. From what I can tell, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ravenous for beautiful, uncanny, uplifting stories.

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movie reviews Tropic Thunder HHH

I BATTLE FATIGUE Stiller’s send-up of Vietnam war movies is heavy on tired clichés and light on laughs.

n last week’s review I bemoaned a worrisome trend.

Over the past several months, more and more comedies from once dependable laugh masters have proven dismayingly mirth-free. Examples include the Judd Apatow-produced Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the Farrellys’ update of The Heartbreak Kid and the last two movies made by Will Ferrell. I regret to report that we now must add to that list. Ben Stiller’s latest directorial effort is not the funniest film of the summer, as has been widely reported. It is not, for that matter, the funniest film of the month.

It may well be the year’s most overrated and misinterpreted. There seems to be an impression on the part of many reviewers, for example, that Tropic Thunder is an irreverent satire of the movie-making industry.

This is something of a misconception. Its story does concern the making of a mega-budget war movie in the jungles of Southeast Asia and does center on the foibles of and squabbles among the five lead actors in its cast. But almost none of the picture’s observations about Hollywood culture transcend tired and perfunctory clichés: Actors are coddled egomaniacs. Agents are motivated by self-interest. Studio brass are greedy bullies who care more about making money than creating art. Not exactly breaking news.

Stiller plays an action star in the Chuck Norris tradition. His career is on the rocks, and he desperately needs a hit. Robert Downey Jr. is an Aussie Oscar winner in the Russell Crowe tradition. He’s so heavily into his Method approach that he has his skin surgically dyed to play the part of a black soldier. Brandon T.

Jackson is a rapper-turned-actor in the Ice Cube tradition. He does not appreciate Downey’s impersonation.

Jack Black is a bloated drug fiend in the Chris Farley tradition. He is completely wasted in the role. And I don’t mean high.

The fifth principal player is Jay Baruchel. You’ll recognize him as a member of the Apatow troupe, and I suppose he’s there to represent young Hollywood, although he’s not given a chance to do much of anything but look out of place. Through a confluence of strained plot developments, the actors are relocated from the set of the production into the actual jungle. They are led to believe cameras are hidden in trees wherever they may happen to go, along with sound equipment to record their every word and movement. In reality, they are lost in the middle of nowhere. At least until they cross paths with a drug lord and Stiller is taken prisoner by his army. The rest of the film follows the others as they vacillate between making a run for the airport and mounting a rescue with prop guns.

I must say there is not a lot of laugh-out-loud mate-

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rial in play here. Downey’s performance is the most energetic and entertaining, but even it is more curious than funny. He delivers the riff on actors courting Oscar attention by playing cognitively impaired characters (à la Rain Man, Forrest Gump, I Am Sam, etc.) that has stirred up controversy. It’s unfortunate the scene’s dialogue is so over-the-top insensitive, because it’s actually the closest Stiller and cowriters Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen come to biting showbiz commentary.

Otherwise, the movie’s humor seldom rises above the level of gay jokes and fart gags.

And forget everything you may have heard about Tom Cruise using his turn here as a loutish studio boss to resurrect his career or refurbish his image. Hidden under a bald cap and inside a fat suit, he delivers a parody of Tinseltown power that contributes little to the picture besides novelty value. His character’s like something that wandered off the set of a boisterous, braindead Klump sequel.

The primary misconception, it seems to me, is that Tropic Thunder falls into the category of film industry satires like The Player, when in fact it’s assembled after the fashion of genre spoofs such as Scary Movie, Date Movie and Epic Movie. In interviews, Stiller has described it as his take on Vietnam War movies, and throughout the film you can spot comic references to Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Deer Hunter and others. In my opinion, this is the context in which the filmmaker’s latest should properly be viewed. Doing so doesn’t make the movie any funnier, but at least it puts it in appropriate perspective. Stiller hasn’t failed to meet artistic standards set by the likes of Robert Altman. He’s failed to measure up to the Wayans.

RICK KISONAK

Vicky Cristina Barcelona HHH

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MÉNAGE À BLAH Things get more talky than sexy in Allen’s ode to a sundrenched city.

how, don’t tell” is advice writers hear often; movie makers not so much. Film, after all, has to show us things: It’s a visual medium. Nonetheless, it’s advice Woody Allen might have done well to heed in making Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a film that comes with a dry-voiced, erudite third-person narrator (Christopher Evan Welch) who tells us what we’re seeing and how we should see it. And, like the narrator who crapped up Todd Field’s Little Children, he doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut.

Take the opening of the movie, in which we meet best friends Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) arriving for an extended vacation in Barcelona. The narrator gives us a thumbnail sketch of each: Vicky is getting a Master’s degree in “Catalan identity,” while the flightier Cristina has spent the past six months writing, directing and starring in “a 12-minute film she now hated.” So far, so good: Like a wry but affectionate uncle, Allen’s narrator offers an ironic angle on what we see. But then he goes all Henry James on us, and not in a good way. As Welch’s voice expounds on the contrasting ideals of Vicky and Cristina in life and love, it’s hard not to find him an extraneous bore.

That’s especially true because, a few scenes later, the actors show us everything we need to know. Sipping wine, Vicky and Cristina are approached by an older artist (Javier Bardem) whom they’ve met briefly at a gallery. Without bothering to sit down, Juan Antonio

invites both young women to fly with him to the town of Oviedo, see the sights, and “make love.” When Vicky asks him where he gets off making such a bald proposition, he bats his bedroom eyes and responds, “Life is short. And full of pain.” Vicky, who’s engaged to a stable, solvent guy back in New York, is unpersuaded. But Cristina, who’s been making eyes at Juan Antonio across the room, is already seduced. (Clearly she hasn’t seen No Country for Old Men.) Bardem and Johansson are utterly believable as people who would act on a carpe diem impulse, and the scene is one of the best in the film. But the story Allen wants to tell hinges on the conflicts of uptight Vicky, who forms her own bond with the artist after a spot of food poisoning puts Cristina temporarily out of commission. And those conflicts feel schematic and tired, as if Allen took a New Yorker piece that was “daring” in 1962 and dressed it up in modern J. Crew clothes. In our jaded global culture, it’s hard to imagine any American twentysomething could be as excited by the “freedom” of European artists as both women are. It’s also hard to imagine Vicky’s only options in life are her stultifying yuppie fiancé (Chris Messina) and a romance with a man who’s secretly still in love with his insanely jealous ex-wife.

As that ex from hell, Penélope Cruz is the best thing in the movie. She makes us believe in this woman who scares the shit out of Juan Antonio not just because she’s crazier than he’ll ever be, but also because she’s

sharp enough to have his number — and arrogant enough to flaunt it. When she accuses him of stealing her inspirations, and he sheepishly acknowledges that everyone at art school recognized her talent, she corrects him: “Not talent! Genius!” Next to this largerthan-life siren, poor Johansson suddenly looks like a simpery mouse.

But Cruz appears late in the movie and not often enough, and the issues her character raises are never resolved. Like Wes Anderson, his rightful heir, Allen doesn’t seem to be comfortable with characters who express their emotions above a civilized murmur. Unlike Anderson, however, he doesn’t appear to have much of a clue as to how young people talk these days or what they talk about. If you can ignore its narrator and some of its tone-deaf dialogue, Vicky Cristina is a gorgeous romp through a city that seems built for art and love. But with your ears as well as your eyes open, it’s hard not to regret the more substantial film that might have been.

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Rachael Taylor costars. Randall Miller directs. Producer Todd Harris is on hand to answer questions at both Friday evening shows. (110 min, PG-13. Roxy) DEATH RACE: Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat) wrote and directed this futuristic action fest about an ultra-violent game played by convicts for the amusement of the masses.

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With Christina Applegate. Peter (The Full Monty) Cattaneo directs. (102 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Sunset)

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This time around, the two play middle-aged slackers forced to cohabitate when the parents they live with marry each other. Adam (Anchorman) McKay directs. (97 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Sunset) THE DARK KNIGHTâ&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026;â&#x2DC;&#x2026; Christopher Nolan directs this follow-up to Batman Begins in which the caped crusader faces off against the Joker. Christian Bale and Heath Ledger star. With Michael Caine, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman and Maggie Gyllenhaal. (152 min, PG-13.

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wednesday 20 — sunday 24 *The Rocker 2 (Sun), 6, 8. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 5, 7:30. Mamma Mia! 2 (Sun), 4.

Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. See www.bigpicturetheater.info.

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

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2, 6:30, 9:15. Mamma Mia! 2, 7, 9:15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 2, 6:50, 9:15. Step Brothers 9:15. The Dark Knight 2, 6:40.

friday 22 — thursday 28 *The Rocker 1:40 & 3:50 (Sat & Sun), 6:50 (all week), 9:15 (Fri & Sat). Star Wars: The Clone Wars 1:30 & 4 (Sat & Sun), 6:30 (all week), 9:15 (Fri & Sat). Mamma Mia! 1:50 & 3:55 (Sat & Sun), 7 (all week), 9:15 (Fri & Sat).

Step Brothers 4:10 (Sat & Sun), 9:15 (Fri & Sat). The Dark Knight 1:20 (Sat & Sun), 6:40 (all week).

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CAPITOL SHOWPLACE

93 State Street, Montpelier, 229-0343. wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Tropic Thunder 1:30, 6:30, 9. Pineapple Express 1:30, 6:30, 9. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 1:30, 6:30. Step Brothers 9. Mamma Mia! 1:30, 6:30. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 9. The Dark Knight 6:15, 9. WALL-E 1:30. friday 22 — thursday 28 *Death Race 1:30, 6:30, 9. Tropic Thunder 1:30, 6:30, 9. Pineapple Express 1:30, 6:30, 9. Mamma Mia! 1:30, 6:30. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 9. The Dark Knight 6:15, 9. WALL-E 1:30.

See www.fgbtheaters.com.

ESSEX CINEMA

Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Rt. 15 & 289, Essex, 879-6543. wednesday 20 — thursday 21 *The Rocker 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:25, 9:40. The Dark Knight 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50. Mirrors 12, 2:30, 5, 7:25, 9:45. Pineapple Express 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 1, 4, 7:15, 9:45. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:30. Step Brothers 12:50, 3, 5:15, 7:20, 9:30.

Tropic Thunder 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45. friday 22 — thursday 28 *Death Race 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40. *The House Bunny 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30. *The Rocker 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:25, 9:40. The Dark Knight 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50. Mirrors 2:40, 7:30, 9:45. Pineapple Express 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 12:10, 5. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 7, 9:30. Tropic Thunder 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45.

Times subject to change. See www. essexcinemas.com.

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Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners, Williston, 878-2010. wednesday 20 — thursday 21 *The Rocker 1:30, 4:20, 7, 9:40.

Tropic Thunder 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45. Mirrors 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15.

The Dark Knight 12:45, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30. Pineapple Express 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 1, 3:40, 6:50, 9:25.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 3:20, 6:45, 9:20. Mamma Mia! 12:45, 3:10, 6:35, 9:10. Step Brothers 1:20, 4, 7:05, 9:35. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 12:55, 3:30, 6:20, 8:40. Journey to the Center of the Earth 1:05.

friday 22 — thursday 28 *The House Bunny 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20. *Death Race 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50. *The Rocker 1:30, 4:20, 7, 9:35. Tropic Thunder 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45. Mirrors 3:50, 6:40, 9:10. The Dark Knight 12:45, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30. Pineapple Express 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 1, 6:45. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 8:50. Mamma Mia! 3:30, 6:35, 9. Step Brothers 4, 9:25. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 12:55, 3:20, 6:20.

Journey to the Center of the Earth 1:05. Space Chimps 1:10.

Times subject to change. See www. majestic10.com.

MARQUIS THEATER

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 1, 6:30. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30. The Dark Knight 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:20.

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Times subject to change. See www. palace9.com.

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241 North Main Street, Barre, 479-4921.

friday 22 — thursday 28 *The Rocker 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30. Mirrors 9.

and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 1:35, 6:45. The Wackness 4, 9:25. Mamma Mia! 1:10, 6:55. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 3:50, 9:30.

friday 22 — thursday 28 *Bottle Shock 12:50, 3, 6:30, 9:45. *Up the Yangtze 1:05, 3:05, 6:05. *The Last Mistress 1:10, 6, 8:10.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:10. Tropic Thunder 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:20. Pineapple Express 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:35. The Dark Knight 3:15, 8.

Times subject to change. See www. merrilltheatres.net.

PALACE CINEMA 9

Fayette Road, South Burlington, 864-5610. wednesday 20 — thursday 21 *The Rocker 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30. Tropic Thunder 10:30 a.m.

(Thu), 1:25, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40. Brideshead Revisited 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25. Mamma Mia! 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:10. Pineapple Express 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30. Step Brothers 1:30, 9:15. The Dark Knight 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:25.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 3:55, 6:35.

friday 22 — thursday 28 *Man on Wire 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:25. *The House Bunny 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:30, 3:55, 6:45, 9:15. *The Rocker 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30. Brideshead Revisited 3:40, 9:05. Tropic Thunder

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1:30 (SatMon), 6:30, 8:30. Bicycle Film Series: The Triplets of Belleville 4 (Sat); Filmed by Bike & Still We Ride 4 (Sun).

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:10. Tropic Thunder 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:20. Pineapple Express 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:35. The Dark Knight 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15. Gonzo: The Life

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Tropic Thunder 6, 8. The Dark Knight 8:15. Mamma Mia! 6.

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MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMA

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wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 1:30, 6:30, 9. Mirrors 1:30, 6:30, 9.

Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841.

friday 22 — thursday 28 Pineapple Express 3 (Sat & Sun), 6, 8:30. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 6. Tropic Thunder 8:30.

Space Chimps 4 (Sat & Sun).

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ST. ALBANS DRIVE-IN THEATRE

Rte. 7 North, I-89 Exit 20, St. Albans, 524-3185. wednesday 20 — thursday 21 The Dark Knight & WALL-E. friday 22 — thursday 28 Schedule not available at press time.

Both shows start at dusk.

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

wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Tropic Thunder 7, 9:15. The Dark Knight 6:30, 9:15. Mamma Mia! 7, 9:15. friday 22 — thursday 28 Schedule not available at press time.

SUNSET DRIVE-IN

Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 862-1800. wednesday 20 — sunday 24 *Rocker & Mirrors. Star Wars: The Clone Wars & The Dark Knight. Tropic Thunder & Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Pineapple Express & Step Brothers.

First show starts at dusk. See www. sunsetdrivein.com.

WELDEN THEATER

104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 527-7888. wednesday 20 — thursday 21 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2, 4, 7, 9.

Tropic Thunder 2, 4, 7, 9. Pineapple Express 2, 4, 7, 9. friday 22 — thursday 28 Tropic Thunder 4, 7, 9. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2, 7, 9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2, 4, 7.

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But there’s no name yet for an outré concoction the Planet served up at dinner on August 17: vanilla ice cream rolled in deeply caramelized onions and served atop a gorgonzola-stuffed baked apple, alongside a glass of hard cider.

Say what? The unusual sweet-and-savory dessert won’t show up on the Planet’s menu every night, but it was a memorable finale to the resto’s most recent special pairing dinner, where microbrews rubbed shoulders with eclectic fare. Every month, the Planet teams up with a nearby brewery to offer course after course of classic, unusual and sometimes straight-up ballsy combinations. The August 17 event matched five courses and an amuse-bouche with swigs from Harpoon Brewery, which is headquartered in Boston but boasts a second location in Windsor, Vermont. Past dinners have included offerings from Rock Art in Morrisville, McNeill’s Brewery in Brattleboro and Québec’s Unibroue.

An expert from the chosen brewery addresses the crowd between courses, sharing tidbits about hops prices, upcoming products and the accompanying food.

Like several attendees at Sunday’s event,

Harpoon’s Head Brewer, Scott Shirley, was uncertain about the weird dessert: “I call the onions in the ice cream ‘brave,’” he said, laughing.

The Planet is the first place in town to host such dinners on a regular basis. For Copey Houghton, owner since 1992, showcasing the newly popular art of matching beer and food is part of a concerted strategy to put his eatery back at the top of the food chain. Since its boom years, the Planet has experienced chef turnover and some ups and downs. In the online comments section of the 7 Nights Guide to Restaurants and Bars, patrons have lamented its inconsistency. “The bold flavors and daring spices have declined into cream sauces and light seasonings,” said one disappointed soul in July 2007. “Get it together, Planet. You have so much potential,” a fan urged last December.

The Planet’s management has taken notice. “It got stagnant over the years,” Houghton admits. Over the last year and a half, he’s shaken things up by hiring a team of fresh young staffers — Manager Kristi Cook, 28, and co-chefs Bryan Lantagne, 26, and Tyler Lewis, 23. “They’re very innovative, full of spunk and the energy that’s needed for what the Daily Planet is,” Houghton says. “It’s really starting to show.”

Money talks: “Most restaurants aren’t doing the bang-up numbers they used to,” Houghton dishes, “and we’re up.” Another good sign: After another pairing dinner with Rock Art Brewery, the chefs got a standing ovation.

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for 21 hungry patrons. At the August 17 dinner, the slightly citrus-y beer paired beautifully with tuna sashimi over a mound of peppercorn-paste-smeared lemon rice, surrounded by a moat of bitter cucumber soup.

Such ideas donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spring fully formed from a chef â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s toque. It took a meeting, a trial run and lots of side conversations to go from a sampler of Harpoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offerings to a slew of successful matches.

That initial meeting took place nearly two months before the dinner. Unlike most business gatherings, it involved a six-pack, a handful of off-color jokes and some really strange

peanut butter would be difficult.

It would coat your palate and mask whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going on.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going with that,â&#x20AC;? mused Lantagne. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could brown up peanuts with bananas and deep-fry them.â&#x20AC;?

After a few more rounds of discussion, the group reached a consensus: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d match the wheat beer with a salad of spicy greens in coconut lime dressing, topped with banana and peanut â&#x20AC;&#x153;croutons.â&#x20AC;?

The rich Munich Dark sent Lewis trotting to the bar after some candied walnuts, which everyone agreed were complementary. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walnut, sausage, mushroom and cream?â&#x20AC;? Cook offered. That conversation

â&#x20AC;&#x153;croutons.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the banana is by far the best thing in this dish,â&#x20AC;? he raved.

A mustard-green salad served with the sashimi didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fare as well â&#x20AC;&#x201D; judged a bitter distraction, it was eliminated from the final version. The ravioli filling brought out the best in the Munich Dark, but sprinkles of nutmeg, added tableside, were unanimously voted an improvement.

The final savory course, lamb loin glazed with ginger, sesame and maple and served with turnips, sweet potatoes and baby corn, was just about perfect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do much with this,â&#x20AC;?

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Cook explained. The idea was to sample each of the beers, roughly arranged from lightest to darkest, and decide which flavors would go well with each.

At the end, the team knocked its least favorite beers off the list, now pared down to a halfdozen.

One would serve as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;receptionâ&#x20AC;? refreshment, along with some cheese or a light snack, while the others would accompany the dinnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s five courses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all taste the beer, read what [the brewery] suggests [as a pairing] and then run with it,â&#x20AC;? Lantagne explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to do things that are a little different, things people wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally do.â&#x20AC;?

Plenty of novel notions were inspired by the hint of banana flavor in Harpoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UFO Hefeweizen, a golden wheat beer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like bananas and peanut butter. What about peanut noodles?â&#x20AC;? Cook suggested.

Lewis nixed that: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think

resulted in big fat ravioli stuffed with sausage, â&#x20AC;&#x2122;shrooms and nuts, topped with a cream sauce.

Two hours later the beer wasgone, and the table was littered with dishes of candied walnuts, lemon and lime rinds, and blue cheese crumbles. (Does cider pair better with local Gorgonzola or a milder supermarket version? The only way to find out is to sample it with both.)

Now it was time to take the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concepts and try them out in the kitchen.

At lunchtime on a sleepy, sunny Wednesday in mid-July, Lewis and Lantagne came in early to churn out a trial run of the entire meal, set for five.

Houghton and Cook chatted about how to keep costs down and value up while the two chefs ran back and forth between the table and the stove, cooking, plating and eating.

All the dishes came out well, with only a few tweaks requested. Houghton asked the chefs to add more coconut to the salad dressing, but adored the fruity

glasses of raspberry wheat beer and found tiny tarts, made of truffle-oil-drizzled phyllo dough, salmon and prosciutto, awaiting them tableside. Attendees ranged from long-time fans of the Planet to a couple who recently relocated from Omaha to take positions at Fletcher Allen. While everybody sipped the beer, Harpoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shirley rose for an introduction: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The menu looks really wonderful,â&#x20AC;? he opined. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited about many of these pairings.â&#x20AC;?

So was everybody else. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;fried banana saladâ&#x20AC;? earned special praise for its creativity. The lamb loin was tender and sweet, perfect with the nutty Brown â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sessionâ&#x20AC;? Ale. At the end, when the chefs came out to greet the crowd, they met a hearty round of applause. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How did you come up with ice cream rolled in caramelized onions?â&#x20AC;? one bemused customer asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Long nights and lots of beer,â&#x20AC;? Lewis replied. >

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Eatus Interruptus MANY RESTOS TO OPEN LATER THAN PLANNED Opening an eatery is never easy. It requires a slew of permits and inspections, the acquisition of good staffers and many hours of labor. But some places have a harder time getting it together than others.

The Old North Endâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nunyuns, for example, was supposed to start serving up BBQ seitan sandwiches and espresso cookies in July, but probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t open its doors until sometime in September. Why? Contractor trouble. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hired someone back in April to do some work for us; it was kind of a big job,â&#x20AC;? attests Kristine Harbour, who owns the eatery with husband Paul Bonelli. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was supposed to order the equipment, take care of permits . . .â&#x20AC;?

But despite numerous promises, the offending party didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come through. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He strung us along for a couple of months,â&#x20AC;? she admits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bottom line is: He never ordered the equipment we paid for.â&#x20AC;? He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deal with permits or zoning, either. Worse, the couple had already handed over nearly $10,000.

To help make up the loss, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re fundraising. Donations are accepted, but the couple is also willing to barter with people who want to â&#x20AC;&#x153;invest in future breakfasts and lunches,â&#x20AC;?

Harbour says, Ă la The Bobcat CafĂŠ and Claireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant & Bar. People who can part with $100-plus now can eat up their investment when Nunyuns opens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d set up an account,â&#x20AC;? she explains. Participants would be able to cash in up to $25 per week.

In the meantime, Harbour and Bonelli are scheduling permits and inspections and have hired a new contractor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any more problems,â&#x20AC;? Harbour says with a sigh.

On the other side of town, Jack Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien, former owner of Red Square, Club Metronome and ½ Lounge, is getting closer to opening the saucy-sounding Bite Me Organic Pizza. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the guys,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The dudicals have been in-placed.â&#x20AC;? In English: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hired a worthy team to run the kitchen, including Erik Donaldson, a former Smokejacks sous-chef, and Roberto Seales, who has been churning out pizza dough and breads for 15 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He always wanted to be able to create something of value, not with orange shit dripping off all over the place and preservatives everywhere,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien expounds. The pies at Bite Me will be creative, organic, almost entirely local, and delivered in boxes that change weekly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The package is the message. To my knowledge this hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been done, ever,â&#x20AC;? he states.

What will be inside the boxes? That will be up to the eater, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reading something [on the menu], thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what they have to have,â&#x20AC;? he explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They can come in and make their own food. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting away from the thing where you say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want the Greek thing,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want Number 7.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do Number 7. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna have all this interesting stuff to fool with,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien declares. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The menu is a living, community thing.â&#x20AC;?

Now that Bite Me is almost ready to open, its proprietor has a couple of future projects on his mind, two of which involve the restoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roof. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning to install three wind turbines to offset the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electric bill, and plant a rooftop garden next spring.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien is in the process of learning how â&#x20AC;&#x153;to extend the growing season using heat from the ovens,â&#x20AC;? he reports.

Development Director Kevin Foley. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought that these flavors, especially the coconut one, werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t found on the U.S. market. Also, in Canada they were doing very well.â&#x20AC;?

Will we soon be spooning up LibertĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other flavors, such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;dulce de leche,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;French hazelnutâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;mokaâ&#x20AC;?? Time will tell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our plan is really to offer more flavors,â&#x20AC;? Foley asserts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But competition is very fierce on the market in the states. The main difficulty for us is the shelving; stores have limited space.â&#x20AC;?

Show your support by eating up the current offerings. As those Franklin County farmers might say, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all â&#x20AC;&#x153;wicked good.â&#x20AC;?

Another LibertĂŠ product looks like yogurt but is called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goat Fresh Cheese.â&#x20AC;? A labeling error? Nope. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A couple of years ago, we launched goat yogurt in the U.S.,â&#x20AC;? Foley explains. But a regulatory change made its sale illegal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All yogurt sold in the United States must now be made with U.S. Grade A milk,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Goat milk is very scarce in the U.S. So we were not able anymore to carry that yogurt. We had to pull the product off the shelves.â&#x20AC;?

The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clever solution: Remove one of the cultures, replace it with a cheese-making enzyme, and re-brand it as â&#x20AC;&#x153;fresh cheese.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge demand for goat products in the United States,â&#x20AC;? Foley explains.

But the name has been a stumbling block in some stores. A few declined to carry the product in its new format.

Despite its unusual name, the result looks and tastes an awful lot like yogurt. Foley, for one, prefers the new incarnation: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like it more, personally, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little less tart,â&#x20AC;? he opines.

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On Friday at 5, bartenders will tap into kegs of five award-winning Belgian beers never before sold in the Green Mountains, including â&#x20AC;&#x153;La Chouffeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maredsous 10 Tripel.â&#x20AC;? And no, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a typo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pickwickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has exclusivity as the first account in the state to feature these fines ales,â&#x20AC;? boasts cellar master Allen Van Anda.

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The flick in question is called Bottle Shock. It tells the story of a 1976 wine event at which American wines were judged better than a slew of French sips in a blind tasting. The best part: The event took place in Paris, and many of the judges were French.

To celebrate the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening at the Roxy, three French wines will be paired off against three from California, and the attendees get to judge. Early birds and night owls can both partake: The first tasting will begin at 5 p.m., with the movie following at 6:30. The second starts at 8:45 p.m., with the movie showing at 9:45. Participants will learn the winning wines via email.

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Now, two more flavors are available stateside: coconut and lemon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our mission is to offer consumers different exotic flavors,â&#x20AC;? suggests Business

Food for thought: On Wednesday, August 20, a handful of beneficent Burlington restos are contributing a portion of the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proceeds to the New Sudan Education Initiative, a Colchester-based nonprofit dedicated to building secondary schools in Sudan.

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The third of those campus customs may soon join the first two as relics of a less enlightened era. Most students today expect every meal served in their dining halls to be of at least “restaurant quality,” says Richard Riani, Sodexo’s district manager for Vermont and upstate New York.

And the worldwide institutional food provider is striving to meet those expectations, offering tastier and more varied dishes at its 6000 locations around the United States. Those include three campuses in the Burlington area: Champlain College, St. Michael’s College and the University of Vermont.

“We have students who have traveled all over the world,” notes Monica Zimmer, a spokeswoman at Sodexo USA’s corporate headquarters in Maryland.

(The former Sodexho dropped its H a couple of years ago because it made the name difficult to pronounce in some of the 81 countries where the company operates.) “If we’re going to serve a particular ethnic cuisine, we have to get it right,” Zimmer goes on. “Culinary literacy has definitely been elevated in the past 10 years or so.”

Of course, the local students who have protested Sodexo’s campus presence over the years haven’t just accused it of crimes against cuisine. In September 2004, Seven Days reported on

a Champlain College junior named Tristan McNamara who spearheaded a campaign to kick Sodexo off campus, citing the company’s ownership of forprofit prisons overseas. Though Sodexo Alliance, the Paris-based parent company, sold all its stock in the Corrections Corporation of America in 2001, the charges about the company’s involvement with overseas penitentiaries have resurfaced periodically.

Meanwhile, many student activists have shifted their focus to environmental issues, translating their planetary angst into down-home action. That attitude has put pressure on Sodexo to adopt greener practices and more localized menus — and in this respect, at least, it’s stepped up to the plate. The multinational corporation, which reported $17.7 billion in total revenues last year, has responded to student demand with a host of initiatives that might surprise campus radicals who view Big Business as irredeemably rapacious.

Sodexo says it tries hard to source its servings from local purveyors. At St. Mike’s, for example, about 30 percent of the food under the heat lamps in the Green Mountain Dining Room comes from Vermont producers or vendors, says Hank Strashnick, Sodexo’s general manager for the Colchester college.

At the University of Vermont, where Sodexo prepares an average of 8000 meals a day during the academic year, plenty of Green Mountain fare is

regularly available, says Paul Bahan, the company’s on-campus marketing director. Vegetables from the Black River Produce network of 60-some Vermont growers show up at UVM’s 15 campus dining facilities, along with artisan cheeses, Vermont Soy products, Champlain Orchards apples and cider, and Misty Knoll chickens.

Got Vermont milk? Yep — Sodexo poured the Cats 38,000 gallons’ worth from Booth Brothers Dairy of Barre last year, Bahan reports.

To highlight its localvore commitment, UVM organizes a Farmfest in September where local growers socialize with students, “putting a face on the food” they eat, Bahan adds. The farmers also do a bit of educating while they’re on campus.

Last year, they turned students on to fennel in both its raw and cooked forms. “Some were familiar with its anise taste, but they didn’t know what it looked like as a plant,” Bahan recalls.

His company is getting more concerned about its fare’s final destination, too. Last year, Sodexo started composting some of the food that goes to waste at St. Michael’s. It’s used in the flower beds and for dressing soil on campus, says Dave Cutler, director of the college’s physical plant. That same year, UVM sent 208 tons of uneaten food to the Intervale; there it was composted and spread, in part, on the Arethusa Collective Farm, which in turn supplies Sodexo with mesclun and other greens.

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Right now, not one of Sodexoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workers in the Burlington area belongs to a union, says James Haslam of the Vermont Workers Center. And he believes that amounts to an unequal situation on a campus like UVMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, where many staffers are unionized. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be treated differently from UVM staff,â&#x20AC;? Haslam says of the Sodexo workers. He points out that Sodexo workers havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t got paid for time off when UVM shuts down for a couple of extra days during inter-semester break. Nor are they eligible for the tuition remission benefits available to the children of UVM employees. Kanelstein echoes these concerns, noting that some Sodexo workers at the university have to work second jobs to get by.

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Kanelstein also points to the irony inherent in Sodexo/ UVMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sustainability Gallery,â&#x20AC;? located in the tunnel under Main Street connecting the Davis Center with Redstone Campus. There, three big-screen TVs flash pictures and blurbs about the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainability efforts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but, Kanelstein notes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;using all that energy doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem like a very sustainable thing to be doing.â&#x20AC;?

And Sodexo has drawn the ire of student protestors on yet another front. A group of UVMers forcefully challenged the university last year on the scale of the wages paid to campus workers, including many of the 250 Sodexo employees at the school. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;livable-wageâ&#x20AC;? agitation didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t produce an outcome satisfactory to student organizers, so Zelazny expects the issue to flare up again this coming academic year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a complicated and complex topic,â&#x20AC;? she says, adding that Sodexo pays its employees at UVM â&#x20AC;&#x153;competitive wages.â&#x20AC;?

Riani offers a more full-throated defense of Sodexoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pay policies for its 500 workers in Chittenden County, including those who serve food and clean up at the Shelburne Museum, Lane Press and Vermont Student Assistance Corp. He says the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s benefits package is â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most competitiveâ&#x20AC;? for food-service workers in the

In Haslamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view, the university should stop outsourcing its food service so it can treat cafeteria workers the same way it does other employees. He notes that UVM administrators talk a lot about social justice, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so now the university needs to walk the walk.â&#x20AC;?

Meanwhile, some rank-andfile trade unionists have reacted with dismay and disdain to a secret deal that the Service Employees International and Unite Here recently cut with Sodexo and a couple of other major food-service companies.

The arrangement was outed by The Wall Street Journal in May. It allows the companies to specify which of their locations and how many of their employees can be targeted for organizing drives.

Critics say the two unions sold out the cause of workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rights. But the unions defend the deal on the grounds that it enables them to gain representation at job sites where they would otherwise have none.

Fewer than 10,000 of Sodexoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 120,000 U.S. employees currently belong to a union.

Whether the recent deal will benefit any food workers at Burlington-area colleges has yet to be seen. For now, though, it appears that the primary beneficiaries of Sodexoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy makeover have been hungry students. >

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Champlain College has taken that progression a step further â&#x20AC;&#x201D; trays donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to be returned at all. The Hill Section school eliminated them last year as a result of what Riani says was a student-inspired innovation. UVM experimented with trayless service at its three resident dining halls for one week last winter. The attendant 42-percent reduction in food waste was enough to persuade the university and Sodexo to make the practice permanent and campus-wide, starting in September.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the end of a student tradition, perhaps â&#x20AC;&#x201D; no more heaping that tray with extra slices of pizza and cartons of chocolate milk. Riani says the real savings of trayless service donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from food, however.

More important is the conservation of water that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t needed to clean extra plates or hundreds of trays.

Sodexo is encouraging all 600 U.S. colleges where it operates to go trayless, corporate spokeswoman Zimmer says. The move isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t unique to Sodexo, however; large-scale food providers all over the country are promoting the same switch, UVMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bahan acknowledges.

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Strashnick estimates that in the seven years heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been at St. Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, student awareness of food-related issues has â&#x20AC;&#x153;tripled.â&#x20AC;?

Not everyone is satisfied with Sodexoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to address the new campus zeitgeist. Kate Kanelstein is a former member of UVMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Student-Labor Action Project who graduated in June.

She acknowledges Sodexo is engaging in more sustainable practices, such as purchasing local produce, but says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;they could probably be using a lot more. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no reason for them to have low-quality produce from somewhere else when so much good stuff is available

notes with pride.

Most of the locally produced food served at these Burlingtonarea colleges is organic â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a â&#x20AC;&#x153;byproductâ&#x20AC;? of Sodexoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary emphasis on local sourcing, district manager Riani points out.

Organic food can be prohibitively expensive for a company grappling with the extra costs that many of its green initiatives entail. Depending on the season and the item, the price of organics is â&#x20AC;&#x153;sometimes very competitive,â&#x20AC;? says Strashnick at St. Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other times, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beyond our budget.â&#x20AC;?

Biodegradable take-away containers can make a mess of balance sheets as well. Strashnick notes that the climbing cost of corn has made it harder for St. Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to use green packaging made of corn starch.

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James Hunter is finally earning some respect. Hailing from the Deep South (of England), the soul man has garnered worldwide praise for the strikingly potent brand of authentic soul found on his latest album, The Hard Way. Hey, Van Morrison loves him and you should, too. Catch Hunter this Saturday at the Higher Ground Ballroom with Boston soul sensation Jen Murdza.

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Every now and then, the planets align just so and provide the perfect cosmic convergence of events for pure, unbridled rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Such is the case this Friday as Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier rockabilly ensemble the Starline Rhythm Boys releases its fourth album at Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier roadhouse, Charlie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Called Live at Charlie Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Famous, the record is, well, just what the title would suggest: a live recording of an SRB show last fall at the greatest bar in Vermont. The 75-minute opus was engineered by the incomparable Chuck Eller and features guest appearances from pedal steel player Kevin Maul and SRB producer Sean Mencher.

But the real stars are, of course, Danny Coane, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Alâ&#x20AC;? Lemery and Billy Bratcher, who serve up 23 blistering hits for a capacity crowd. The disc is â&#x20AC;&#x153;seamless,â&#x20AC;? meaning there is no down time or decay between tracks.

Armed with a PBR tallboy and a shot of whiskey, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next best thing to being there in person.

Where does the time go? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve once again blown a hefty chunk of my column space, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for another rousing, rapid-fire Soundbites.

Burlington ex-pat Nick Cassarino is making a welcome return home this week. The ace guitarist has been plying his trade in NYC for the last year or so, but has two local shows lined up this weekend, Saturday at Parimaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Acoustic Lounge and again Sunday at a Barack Obama fundraiser at The Old Lantern in Charlotte.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry to report that local classic-rock outfit Fractured has called it quits.

The band had been a bar-band staple for years, but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overcome continuing lineup changes. The groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two remaining members, Scott Belisle and Scott Guptill, plan to continue playing, either with a new band or by joining an existing group. Good luck, guys.

Speaking of bar bands, JESĂ&#x161;S VANACHO thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a potentially killer show this Saturday at the Backstage Pub in Essex as The Boomflowers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; composed of former members of late, great Burlington rockers Chin Ho! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; make their debut this Saturday.

According to an email I received from guitarist Matt Vachon, the band is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;drunken countryâ&#x20AC;? cover band. Awesome. Once they get settled in, though, the plan is to write and record original tunes to throw in the mix.

Since thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a weekend coming up, it follows that there must be another outdoor music festival, right? Right. This time around itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Liberate Music & Healing Arts Festival this Saturday at the Bundy Center in Waitsfield, with Rubblebucket Orchestra, Twiddle and whole bunch of good vibes. For more info, see the calendar spotlight on page 23B. Fans of heady psych-jazz will want to be at Red Square this Monday, as two local acts melt minds and faces. First up is Gravel, a heavy fusion quartet featuring former members of Burlington sextet Leon Tubbs. After that, W.E.S.T. takes the stage. The acronym stands for Willâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electric Space Trumpet, which actually describes the band about as well as I could.

This Tuesday is the final installment of the Concert on the Green Series at Shelburne Museum with blues stars

SWEET JESUS The Burlington music scene has been struggling to fill the void left by dearly departed truck-stop rockers Chuch, who quietly called it quits earlier this year. Though the denim-clad â&#x20AC;&#x153;speedwesternâ&#x20AC;? progenitors are sorely missed, two bands have emerged from the breakup to fill our collective need for gritty rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sort of like how Uncle Tupelo split into Son Volt and Wilco, only profoundly more badass â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and amicable.

Ex-Chuch pedal steel guitarist Matt Hayes made his debut with his new outfit The Marsten Lot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the name is taken from Stephen Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic vampire thriller Salemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lot â&#x20AC;&#x201D; earlier this summer as part of Magic Hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church Street Bizarre during jazz fest. The reviews were favorable, by and large, especially from Chuch fans.

The second group, JesĂşs Vanacho, is something of a local allstar band, led by brotherly Chuch rhythm section Justin and Noah Crowther on drums and bass, respectively. Rounding out the lineup are keyboardist Adam King of Turkey Bouillon Mafia and Dead Sessions renown, and Lighting Ridge axeman Ethan Ryea. Ex-Chuch shredder Chitter Hammaker (not pictured) is pulling double duty, as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now playing with both JV and The Marsten Lot. Not surprisingly, the group is reported to be dusting off some old Chuch tunes.

JesĂşs Vanacho actually debuted earlier this summer as well. But since their inaugural Nectarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve laid pretty low. That all changes this Friday as the band headlines a show at Club Metronome with guitar god Bill Mullinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; revived project Blowtorch and Burlington punk legends The Wards.

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BRYAN KAPSCHULL, 1978-2008 When I got into music journalism, I really didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be writing obituaries. And I never dreamed Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be writing one for a good friend.

Last Saturday night/Sunday morning, Bryan Kapschull, 30, drowned after his canoe capsized off Grand Isle. He was the drummer for local blues-rock duo The Leaners. While Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen him perform a few times â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though back then it was under the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheeky moniker Pete & the Meatwhistle, which I may or may not have poked fun at in a recent column . . . sorry, Bry Guy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I actually came to know Bryan working together as part of the Bru-Tang Clan at the Magic Hat Brewing Co. When we eulogize loved ones, it seems the tendency is to focus on pretty generic parts of their persona. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He/she had the nicest smile,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He/she was such a kindhearted personâ&#x20AC;? and so on. In all honesty, you could take any of those ubiquitous sentiments and easily apply them to Bryan. Dude was a bright, fun and wonderfully goofy guy.

But my fondest memories of Bryan are working together on Saturday mornings, when we were usually the only people in the brewery. And by â&#x20AC;&#x153;working,â&#x20AC;? I mean sitting on top of the brew tower drinking coffee, listening to Arcade Fire and making fun of the endless stream of fanny-pack-clad tourists filing into the retail store from the big window overlooking the parking lot.

Behind his easy smile â&#x20AC;&#x201D; see what I mean about eulogies? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was a savagely THE LEANERS clever wit, capable of delivering hysterical, lightning-quick jabs, seemingly from out of thin air.

Given my fondness for poking fun, you can imagine how well we got along.

I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worked at Magic Hat for well over a year now.

But to me the Bru-Tang is still like family. So it follows that losing Bryan is like losing a brother. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna miss you, man. I already do.

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This weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s MontrĂŠal Film festival will have a distinctive Vermont flavor as Home, starring Marcia Gay Harden, premieres Saturday at Quarter Latin Cinemas. Burlington songwriter Gregory Douglass provided all of the piano and vocal work for the film.

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1/2 LOUNGE: DJ A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Northern Exposure with How to Stay Alive in the Woods, The Leaves, Theravada, Busted Brix (rock), 8 p.m., $5. AA. LEUNIGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Mike Martin & Geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Harley Night, 7 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Ceremony, Another Breath, I Remember (punk), 9 p.m., $6/11. 18+.

NECTARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: The Big Dirty, Joyengin (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Leno & Young (rock), 7 p.m., Free.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Dave Grippo & Matt Wright (jazz), 9 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions (Irish), 9 p.m., Free.

RASPUTINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Left Ear Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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ELIXIR: Sabrina Brown (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFĂ&#x2030;: Adam Klein (folk), 9 p.m., Donations. Kit Soden (folk), 10 p.m., Donations.

PURPLE MOON PUB: Bruce, Mark & Michael (folk-rock), 7 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Poetry Night, 7:30 p.m., Donations.

:: northern BEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KNEES: Sara Grace & The Suits (roots), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Blues Night with Funksway (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Nexus Presents Seeinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stars with Dylan Rhymes, Chris Pattison vs. Tricky Pat, Justin R.E.M. vs. Haitian (electronica), 10 p.m., $8/12. 18+ before 11 p.m.

FRANNY Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

GREEN ROOM: Fattie B. (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

HALVORSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S UPSTREET CAFĂ&#x2030;: Friends of Joe with Dave Grippo & Matt Wright (blues), 8 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Rasputina: A Radical Recital (eclectic), 8 p.m., $13/15.

AA. HOOTERS: Hooters Karaoke Extravaganza, 7:30 p.m., Free.

LEUNIGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Ellen Powell & Lars Duggan (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: WCLX Blues Night with Jenni Johnson & Friends (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Funknut, PMP (reggae, funk), 9 p.m., $5.

NECTARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S: Top Hat Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Free. The New Groove Orchestra (funk), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Karaoke with Steve LeClair, 7 p.m., Free.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: APR Songwriter Series (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Jazz Sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Group (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. Anthony Santor Trio (jazz), 11 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: Rail (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

RĂ? RĂ IRISH PUB: Josh Cramoy Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

SECOND FLOOR: Wildout! (DJ), 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

SKINNY PANCAKE: Zach DuPont (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $3-5.

:: central ELIXIR: Christine Fawson, Mark Shilanksy (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFĂ&#x2030;: The Accident That Led Me to the World (indiefolk), 8 p.m., Donations. Swedish Radar (live electronica), 9:30 p.m., Donations.

STONECUTTERS BREWHOUSE: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Honeywell (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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ELEMENTS FOOD & SPIRITS: Elements Summer Jazz Series (jazz), 6:30 p.m., Free.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: The Eames Brothers (blues), 9 p.m., Free.

OLDE YANKEE RESTAURANT: Tim Foley (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

PIECASSO: The Eames Brothers (blues), 9 p.m., Free.

THE TAMARACK GRILL AT BURKE MOUNTAIN: Ricky Golden (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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broke into the scene with legendary tribal house duo Peace Division in the early ’90s. Now flying solo, he makes a rare, small club appearance before heading to Burning Man in Nevada.

BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Steve, 9 p.m., Free.

BANANA WINDS CAFÉ & PUB: Keith Boyle & Red Steller (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 6 p.m., Free.

CHAMPLAIN LANES FAMILY FUN CENTER: U Be the Star Karaoke with Michaellea Longe, 9 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Jesús Vanacho, Blowtorch, The Wards (rock, punk), 9 p.m., $5.

EAGLES CLUB: Karaoke, 8 p.m., Free.

FRANNY O’S: The New Kings (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

GREEN ROOM: Fattie B. (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: The Wailin’ Jennys (alt-country), 8 p.m., $16/18. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: ‘50s & ‘60s Dance Party, 7 p.m., $6.

AA. ‘60s & ‘70s Dance Party, 9 p.m., $6. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Phil Abair Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Hot Neon Magic, Mike Device (‘80s New Wave), 9 p.m., $5.

NECTAR’S: Andy Schlatter (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Seth Yacovone (blues), 7 p.m., Free. The Poogie Bell Band, Rail (rock, funk), 9 p.m., $5.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Run for Cover (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Eric Lindberg (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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RASPUTIN’S: Top Hat Danceteria (DJ), 10 p.m., $3.

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RED SQUARE: Seven Days Presents “Up Your Alley” with Colin Clary & a Magog (indie-pop), 5:01 p.m., Free.

Sugar High (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Supersounds DJ, 10 p.m., Free.

SECOND FLOOR: Voodoo with DJ Robbie J. (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3/10.

SKINNY PANCAKE: That Toga Band (jazz-rock), 9 p.m., $3-5.

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:: central BLACK DOOR BAR & BISTRO: The Parker Shper Group (jazz), 9:30 p.m., $3-5.

CHARLIE O’S: Starline Rhythm Boys CD Release (rockabilly), 10 p.m., Free.

ELIXIR: John Lovejoy & Eric Von Ammon (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free.

GUSTO’S: Duke (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: The Primate Fiasco (old-time, funk), 9 p.m., Donations.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: City Limits Dance Party (DJ), 9 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Root 7 (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: The Jesters (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

:: northern BAYSIDE PAVILION: Live Music, 9 p.m., Free.

BEE’S KNEES: Andy Mullen (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Josh Brooks Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

JD’S PUB: Live Music, 9:30 p.m., $3.

RUSTY NAIL: DJ Mic E Luv (DJ), 9 p.m., $5.

THE TAMARACK GRILL AT BURKE MOUNTAIN: Crunchy Western Boys (Americana), 8:30 p.m., Free.

:: regional KRAZY HORSE SALOON: Flood (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE: Elephantbear (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

NAKED TURTLE: Natalie Ward Band (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

242 MAIN: Rosetta, Balboa, North, L’antietam (hardcore), 7 p.m., $7. AA. AVENUE BISTRO: Jenni Johnson & Friends (jazz), 8 p.m., Free.

BACKSTAGE PUB: The Boomflowers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: The Gutter Pups (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (DJ), 10 p.m., $5.

FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

GREEN ROOM: Elliott’s B-Day with DJ Haitian & Elliott Matos (house), 10 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: James Hunter, Jen Murdza (soul), 8:30 p.m., $16/18. AA. JP’S PUB: Dave Harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Rumble Doll (country), 9 p.m., Free.

MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: Traci & Paul Cassarino with Jeff Wheel (acoustic), 7 p.m., Free.

THE MONKEY HOUSE: Daydreamilla, Coolie Pool, Sons of Dawn (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

NECTAR’S: Zach DuPont (singersongwriter), 5 p.m., Free. Nicole Burke (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Heloise & the Savoir Faire, The MaxFranks, Missy Bly, James Kochalka Superstar (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

NIGHTCRAWLERS: Smokin’ Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

PARIMA ACOUSTIC LOUNGE: Myra Flynn Trio (neo-soul), 9 p.m., Free.

Nick Cassarino & Friends (jazz), 11 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Ben Cosgrove (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Frank Hoier (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free.

Alexis Babini (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. The Widowmakers (altcountry), 9 p.m., Free. Like Trains & Taxis (soul), 9 p.m., Free. Rail (rock), 11 p.m., Free.

RASPUTIN’S: Massive (DJ), 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: The Vacant Lots (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Vorcza (jazz), 9 p.m., $3.

DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ C-Low (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

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SEVEN DAYS | august 20-27, 2008 | music 13B

:: central BLACK DOOR BAR & BISTRO: The Martha Tormey Experience (standup), 8:30 p.m., $5.

CHARLIE O’S: Live Music, 10 p.m., Free.

ELIXIR: Loose Cannons (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free.

GUSTO’S: Area 51, 9 p.m., Free.

LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Bob Carlton (folk), 8 p.m., Donations. Damn Yankee String Band (Americana), 9 p.m., Donations. Prodigal String Band (old-time), 11 p.m., Donations.

POSITIVE PIE 2: Generous Thieves (reggae-rock), 10 p.m., Free.

PURPLE MOON PUB: Meet the Day (acoustic-rock), 7 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (DJ), 9 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Live Music, 7:30 p.m., Donations.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Rick Redington & The Luv (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

:: northern BEE’S KNEES: Verbal Assault (poetry), 7:30 p.m., Donations. The Hubcats (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Ragged Glory (Neil Young tribute), 9 p.m., Free.

PIECASSO: Karaoke Championship with John Wilson & Danger Dave, 9:30 p.m., Free.

RUSTY NAIL: DJ Jimmy (DJ), 9 p.m., Free.

SPRUCE PEAK AT STOWE: Pam Reit & Ira Morris (classical), 12 p.m., Free.

:: regional KRAZY HORSE SALOON: Square Pegs (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE: Out the Hasse (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

NAKED TURTLE: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

TABU CAFÉ AND NIGHTCLUB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (DJ), 5 p.m., Free.

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BACKSTAGE PUB: Karaoke with Pete, 9 p.m., Free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Ko-Ko Nuts Steel Drum Band (steel drum), 4 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: Bonjour-Hi! (electronica), 9 p.m., $3/8.

FRANNY O’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Overcast, Jasta, Dissolve, WHOARFROST (metal), 7 p.m., $15.

AA. LINCOLN INN TAVERN: Pine Street Jazz with Allison Mann (jazz), 6 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. Ecotone (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

Deborah T. (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. The Telethons (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: The Spectacles Band (rock), 8 p.m., Free. Sugar High with Tricky Pat & Elliott (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Trinity (Irish), 5 p.m., Free.

:: central LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: Moroz, Harvey, Santor Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Donations.

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1/2 Lounge, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012.

242 Main, Burlington, 862-2244.

38 Main Street Pub, 38 Main St., Winooski, 655-0072.

Akes’ Place, 134 Church St., Burlington, 864-8111.

All Fired Up, 9 Depot Sq., Barre, 479-9303.

The Alley Coffee House, 15 Haydenberry Dr., Milton, 893-1571.

American Flatbread, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999.

Ariel’s Riverside Café & Pub, 188 River St., Montpelier, 229-2295.

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 Bobcat Café, 5 Main St., Bristol, 453-3311.

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.

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.

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.

Coffee Hound, 97 Blakey Rd., Colchester, 651-8963.

Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563.

Cuzzin’s Nightclub, 230 North Main St., Barre, 479-4344.

Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 656-4636.

Dobrá Tea, 80 Church Street St., Burlington, 951-2424.

Drink, 133 St. Paul St., Burlington, 951-9463.

Elixir, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 281-7009.

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.

Hooters, 1705 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 660-8658.

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.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Twas a muggy summer night in the city of Winooski, and tensions would soon run as high as the temperature. The scene was the Monkey House, a curious little watering-hole-in-the-wall in the heart of the Onion Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curious downtown. On the barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small corner stage stood a scruffy troupe of wandering minstrels called The Powder Kegs. The capacity crowd anxiously awaited a blistering set of the twang-infused newgrass for which the group had become renowned. But then a funny thing happened.

Not elegant uptempo acoustic picking but gritty electrified strains filled the beer hall. Rock music. Loud, hooky rock music caught the crowd off-guard, as if a sonic sucker punch. Spirits were crushed. Mellows were harshed. Hippies were dazed and, ahem, confused â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more so than normal, even.

What unfolded that evening was the Phoenix-like birth of a power trio. And rising from the ashes of a (broken) string band, comes The Powder Kegsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; terrific second album, You and Your Right Now. The record opens with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love Has Gone.â&#x20AC;? Lead vocalist Ryan Dieringer croons earnestly over folksy acoustic guitar. If you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know better, you might think the remainder of the record would follow in pseudo oldtimey suit. That is until the chorus, which explodes with a soaring electric guitar line doubled by fiddle. The transformation is abrupt, jarring and absolutely stunning.

The album continues in chameleonic fashion. Even when The Powder Kegs revisit their old-time roots, as on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Love in a Time of Terrorâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Break for the Union,â&#x20AC;? they infuse definitively rock influences, much like twang-pop contemporaries The Avett Brothers. While there is enough twang and down-home sensibility sprinkled throughout to sate Americana purists, You and Your Right Now is a pop record, plain and simple.

As is often the case in rock â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll lore, the opening tale is a fable rooted in a modicum of fact. The Powder Kegs, long a darling of the Yonder Mountain/String Cheese set â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially when they summered in Vermont â&#x20AC;&#x201D; did â&#x20AC;&#x153;plug inâ&#x20AC;? that fateful night in Winooski. And while the event is hardly on par with say, Dylan going electric in Newport, according to those who were there, they were met largely with dumbfounded disapproval. However, in the wake of unrequited expectations and refund demands, a remarkable thing has emerged: one of the finer local(ish) pop-rock groups in recent memory. And the irrefutable evidence of that marvelous transformation is You and Your Right Now.

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What do Mary Shelley, Osama bin Laden and the Bounty mutineers have in common? Nothing. Unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rasputina. The chamber-rock mavericks that made cello cool again bring these (and other) disparate characters together in the guise of their 19th-century concept album, Oh Perilous World. One listen will convince anyone that lead vocalist/cellist Melora Creager is the Frida Kahlo of freak-folk: obscenely talented and just mad enough to pull it off.

On the auspicious prologue â&#x20AC;&#x153;1816,â&#x20AC;? Rasputina announces its dizzying intentions with Goth-Victorian storytelling. Oh Perilous World then unravels into a gypsy acid trip of historical fiction. Mary Todd Lincoln fighting Thursday Christianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insurrection on Pitcairn Island? Yeesh. The only uprising here is Creagerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mutiny against the classical community. The corseted Kansas native undoubtedly makes Yo Yo Ma blush, but she isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as adversarial as her tone might portend.

Instead, Creager struggles to make sense of the world. And the deeper one dives, the clearer those waters become.

She sketches modern malaise in a fever dream of vivid, lyrical imagery. Like the explosive â&#x20AC;&#x153;Choose Me for Championâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a translation of bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speech as imagined by the Pitcairn mutineers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with its dark vibrato, and bombastic nods to Queen. Or the fearsome lockstep of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Draconian Crackdown,â&#x20AC;? buried in distorted cello that would please even the Apocalyptica crowd. Second chair Sarah Bowman provides depth to these lush arrangements, while Jonathon TeBeestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driving beats propel each piece. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Incident in a Medical Clinicâ&#x20AC;? finds a Bjork-like Creager trapped between tumbling piano and a Sergeant Pepper circus. She teases willfully, then retreats, all the while insisting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want someone to be sweet to me!â&#x20AC;?

At their best, Creager and Bowman are downright seductive. The sirens move in breathy, psychedelic turns throughout â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Old Yellowcake.â&#x20AC;? Even when the lyrics are oblique, the music is too narcotic to ignore â&#x20AC;&#x201D; imagine Kate Bush and Grace Slick sharing a bottle of absinthe. Not to be undone, Jonathan TeBeestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stormy percussion turns the epic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Retinue of Moonsâ&#x20AC;? into an exhilarating jam that is tempered only by Creagerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocal shudder. When she returns to enslave the symphony, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bewitching.

The popularity of acts such as Gogol Bordello and Rasputina proves that cabaret is cool again. These are decadent spectacles in which to lose oneself. Is all of this some socio-political treatise, or just a sonic plaything? Who knows? Such is the price, and profit, of genius. One thing is for certain: Rasputina kicks ass.

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Be Still, My Beating Heart Death-defying Vermont songwriter Aaron Flinn delivers yet another solid album

BY DAN BOLLES

T

he annals of rock history are littered with stars who left us far too soon.

Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, John Bonham, Kurt Cobain. Sadly, the list goes on and on. And somehow, Keith Richards is still alive. Go figure.

In June 2003, Burlington almost lost one of its favorite sons.

Actually, we technically did for two minutes, when Vermont native Aaron Flinn, 38, literally dropped dead of a massive heart attack on the roof of Nectar’s. The jovial Berklee-trained multi-instrumentalist had just finished a typically high-energy show at Club Metronome. Upon leaving the stage, the folk-rocker complained of tightness in his chest and stepped outside to get some air. Shortly after, he collapsed, unconscious and without a pulse. “I’d like to liken it to something else,” he says during a recent

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interview at Burlington’s Radio Bean. “But it was like nothing else I’d ever experienced.”

As he puts it, the heart attack “couldn’t have gone better, really.”

A friend rushed to his aid and performed CPR. Paramedics arrived quickly and he was transferred to Fletcher Allen. His stay would be brief. He arrived on a Thursday night/Friday morning and was discharged that Sunday. “I’m a medical fluke,” he says, beaming. “I’ve had severe colds that took more out of me than death did.”

Unlike many fallen rockers, fast living or indulgent excess did not bring on Flinn’s medical woes. “It’s not like I had a coke problem I needed to cut back on,” he quips.

Even more curiously, his heart has completely repaired itself and he’s experienced no related issues since.

So what does it all mean? “I have no idea,” says Flinn, who seems unperturbed discussing his untimely demise — and subsequent rebirth. “I’m a believer that everything happens for a reason,” he says. Flinn adds that while most people might look at a brush with death as a reason to cherish every day they’re alive, he’s always carried that outlook. “It was a good confir-

mation of that perspective, I guess,” he says. “But I didn’t come out of that experience saying, ‘Now I see that life is precious.”

The value and joy of life has always informed Flinn’s music, which is typically upbeat, earnest and melodically catchy. His 1996 debut album and his longtime backing band carry the name Salad Days, a term for “the best days of your life,” which Flinn says are “every day,” without a shred of Hallmark schmaltz. Over the past 12 years he’s done countless shows around the world with such luminaries as Big Head Todd and the Monsters, The Samples and Gov’t Mule, and recorded seven albums — including a 42-track, two-disc epic. For Flinn life not only provides fertile songwriting fodder, but is the inspiration behind his latest, instrumental effort, Oroboros. Literally.

The album is bookended with the heartbeat of his first child, Ruby True Flinn, taken from an ultrasound shortly before she was born last year. The opening track, “I Want You,” actually uses the sound of Ruby’s tiny, pulsing heart to set the tune’s tempo. She makes a few more guest appearances throughout the song — as does her

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Despite the record’s prenatal star power — how many folks can say they were rockers before they were even born? — Flinn says his latest is “really just a continuation” of his ongoing songwriting evolution. “A lot of times, I just sort of feel like an antenna,” he says of his prodigious volume of work. “I’ll

look back, read some of things I’ve written and honestly wonder where it came from,” he says. “The music and the lyrics just seem to find each other.”

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Despite current appearances to the contrary, the Green Mountain State was a pretty conservative place six decades ago, when then-34-yearold photographer Rebecca Lepkoff arrived from New York City to document its inhabitants. Drawn by the communitarian ideals of Helen (pictured) and Scott Nearing, “backto-the-landers” began relocating from urban areas to Vermont, where they had trouble understanding their neighbors — hardscrabble farmers with thick accents used to “making do or doing without.” But in a brief window of time, before paved roads and post-WWII development, everyone got along, and Lepkoff got it all on film. Now compiled in the newly published book Almost Utopia: The Residents and Radicals of Pikes Falls, Vermont, 1950, the images receive an intro at a public reception attended

by Lepkoff herself — now 92 — and co-writer Greg Joly.

‘Almost Utopia’ Release Party

Saturday, August 23, 2-3 p.m. at the Pavilion Building in Montpelier. Free.

Info, 479-1417. www.vermonthistory.org

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Vermonter to Vermonter A conversation about what makes our state different, and how we can keep it that way.

Our power agreement. We have one of the best power contracts in the country with Vermont Yankee.

From 2002 through 2012, the price we all pay for power has been locked in well below the market price — saving Vermonters hundreds of millions of dollars.

Our low electricity rates. While you’ve probably noticed the price of everything going up in the past couple years, the price of Vermont Yankee electricity has stayed the same. Vermonters pay some of the lowest electricity rates in New England, thanks to our contract with Vermont Yankee. Renewing that license beyond 2012 will further give Vermont ratepayers an estimated $50 million rebate on the power they buy each year.

Our clean air. According to the US Department of Energy, we have the lowest carbon footprint of any state in the US. A major reason for this is Vermont Yankee, which supplies more than a third of our state’s electricity needs, with zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Our energy future. Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind will certainly be part of the mix looking ahead. By 2012, Vermont Yankee will have invested $32 million in renewables through the Clean Energy Fund. And with the right energy mix, Vermonters will never be held hostage by the price of oil and natural gas.

Vermont Yankee’s license will expire in 2012, so there’s not much time left to protect this vital state asset.

Vermont Yankee has been operating for 35 years as a safe, clean and reliable source of power for the communities of Vermont. Talk to your elected officials about Vermont Yankee’s license renewal, or visit SafeCleanReliable.com

Vermont Yankee www.safecleanreliable.com

Vermont Yankee is owned and operated by Entergy Nuclear

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<calendar > WED.20 activism

Burlington Peace Vigil: Activists stand together in opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Top of Church Street, Burlington, 5-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 863-2345.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Watercolor Demonstration: Painter Gary Eckhart explains his awardwinning watercolor techniques. Parade Gallery, Warren, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-5445.

dance Latin Dance Night: Timbers Restaurant hosts DJ Hector, El Salsero and Cobeo, who perform salsa music for a tapas-munching crowd. Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 583-6800.

‘Salsalina’ Practice: Work on your sensuous nightclub routines at this weekly Latin dance session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, nonmembers 6 p.m., members 7 p.m. $10. Info, 598-1077.

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Charity Bingo: Players seek matches on numbered cards, then say the magic word. Broadacres Bingo Hall, Colchester, 7 p.m. $10 for 12 cards.

Info, 860-1510.

Corn Roast and Community Dance: Donors enjoy an ear and shake a leg.

Proceeds go to the conservation of Kingsbury Community Farm. Lareau Farm Inn, Waitsfield, 6-9 p.m.

Donations. Info, 496-3567.

‘Let Me Introduce Myself’: The shy or socially inept learn to say “How do you do?” and shake hands. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-7576.

‘Lois McClure’ Public Boarding: Maritime history buffs and the generally curious explore this authentic reproduction of an 1860s canal schooner. Perkins Pier, Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 475-2022.

Spanish Conversation Group: Habla español? Brown baggers eat lunch and devour new vocab. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 12-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

fairs & festivals Caledonia County Fair: Currently in its 163rd year, the rural fest offers floral, maple, poultry and rabbit shows along with country music, a demolition derby and magic. Mountain View Park, Lyndonville, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 626-5917, saw1030@aol.com.

food & drink ‘Asian Culinary Odyssey’: Lisa and Mike Lang serve a four-course dinner that highlights their culinary experiences in Southeast Asia, featuring specialties from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Weathertop Mountain Inn, Waitsfield, 6:30 p.m. $40. Info, 496-4909.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery see how it’s made. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591.

Middlebury Farmers’ Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.

- 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 897-2121.

South End Farmers’ Market: Residents of the Queen City’s southernmost neighborhood peruse seasonal produce at outdoor stalls.

Flynndog, Burlington, 3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 660-8526.

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Animal Feeding: Watch critters do dinner with help from the animal-care staff. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. $7-9.50. Info, 864-1848.

Cloth Diapering Workshop: Parents curious about new methods of diapering get an intro to fitteds, all-in-ones, covers, pockets, prefolds and more. Sprout, Burlington, 12-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-0060.

Craftsbury Chamber Players for Kids: Young ears take in a short intro to classical music. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 1-800-639-3443.

High School Book Club: Teens entering 9th to 12th grades choose tomes to read together and take home copies. Pre-registration required.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7228, clovell@ ci.burlington.vt.us.

‘Meet the Scientist: Blue-Green Algae’: Kids join Dr. Mary Watzin for a look at the underwater plant and learn about her laboratory work. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 2 p.m. $7-9.50. Info, 864-1848.

‘A Delicate Balance’: An empty-nest couple try to toe the line between sanity and madness in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer-winning 1966 play. Akeley Memorial Building, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20, children 12 and under $10. Info, 253-3961.

‘Five Guys Named Moe’: A down-andout bachelor is revived by the music of R&B legend Louis Jordan when five musicians jump out of his radio and put him back on track. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, N.Y., 8 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512, info@ lakeplacidarts.org.

‘Indoor/Outdoor’: In Kenny Finkle’s romantic comedy about the feline set, a kitten follows the path of countless heroes by leaving home to find herself. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, Waterbury Center, 7:30 p.m. $20. Info, 498-3755.

‘June Moon’: In this Jazz-Age comedy about the unpredictability of the music business, a songwriter meets two young ladies and pens a ditty worth a fortune.

Dorset Theatre, Dorset, 3 p.m. $15-40.

Info, 867-5777.

‘Les Miserables’: Vive Jean Valjean! A thief struggles to reclaim his dignity in the hit musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel covering several decades of turbulent French history. Weston Playhouse, Weston, 3 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $31-55. Info, 824-5288.

Accessorizing Seminar: Boutique staff teach the keys to pulling clothing and add-ons together to make a great outfit. Reservations requested. Lily of the Valley, Waitsfield, 6-8 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-5455.

Bridge Club: Partners shuffle cards and chat. Godnick Senior Center, Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 287-5756.

Canines & Cocktails: Dogs are welcome at this happy-hour benefit with hors d’oeuvres, live jazz and free ice cream. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $5. Info, 862-0165.

Charity Bingo: See WED.20, 7 p.m.

Evening Bridal Show: Brides-to-be sample fashions and cake at this girls’-night-out, Vermont Wedding Association event. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 6-9:30 p.m. $5-6. Info, 459-2897.

French Conversation Group: Would-be Francophones exchange info during déjeuner. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 12-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-3338.

Ice Cream Social: Independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina and Ward 2 City Councilor Jane Knodell hand ‘round the cold stuff and show a short documentary about farming and community, followed by a film version of Charlotte’s Web for the kiddies. Boys & Girls Club, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-2008.

‘Lois McClure’ Public Boarding: See WED.20, 10 a.m.

Mt. Mansfield Scale Modelers: Hobbyists break out the superglue and sweat the small stuff at a miniatureconstruction skill swap. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 879-0765.

Stitch & Bitch: Loud-mouthed yarn handlers dish it out while fingers fly.

The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Donations. Info, 324-1914.

Vermont Chess Club: Pawn pushers strategize to better their games.

Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0198.

Stress Reduction Workshop: Tense, tired folks learn how to notice and take care of situations that leach energy.

Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8004, ext.

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Zumba Fitness: Step-by-steppers try out Latin-dance-inspired exercises mixed with high-energy, international rhythms. Olympiad Health and Racquet Club, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $10, first time free. Info, 310-6686.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. Dartmouth Double Feature: The fierce struggles of the apartheid era return in Cry, the Beloved Country, followed by the screen adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play Boesman and Lena. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. & 8:50 p.m. $7. Info, 603-646-2422.

‘Roman de Gare’: The title refers to the pulp novels sold in French train stations, but this mystery, starring Fanny Ardant, has far loftier artistic goals. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6.50. Info, 748-2600.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Barre Concert Series: The WDEV Radio Rangers round up listeners on an old-time country-western wavelength.

Currier Park, Barre, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 476-0267.

Craftsbury Chamber Players: Instrumentalists explore chamber music’s roots with selections by Bizet, Debussy and Bedrich Smetana. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. $10-20.

Info, 800-639-3443.

‘La Bohème’: The Opera Company of Middlebury stages Puccini’s famous heartbreaker about life in the 19th-century artists’ garrets of Paris. Middlebury Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $30. Info, 388-1436.

St. Andrew’s Pipes and Drums: Got kilt? This Scottish-style marching band welcomes new members to play bagpipes or percussion. St. James Episcopal Church, Essex, 7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 879-7335, jerdelyi@vhfa. org.

outdoors Aquadventure!: Kayakers and canoeists bring or borrow life vests to explore Waterbury Reservoir on a naturalist-guided tour seeking herons, loons, kingfishers and ospreys. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2:304:30 p.m. $3; call to register. Info, 244-7103.

talks ‘Princes, Orphans, Schoolkids & Apprentices’: Earth, stone and straw construction expert Tim Rieth reviews four models for natural building.

Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Warren, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

words Book Signing: Co-editors Bob Ferris and Tim Rieth discuss and autograph their new book Natural Building: Creating Communities Through Cooperation. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Warren, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

Bread Loaf Readings: Poet Carl Phillips considers restlessness in the morning, and an afternoon reading features poet Connie Voisine and shortfiction writer Helena María Viramontes.

Dusk cues verse from poet Garrett Hongo and prose from novelist Lynn Freed. Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2700.

Strafford Town House Reading Series: Local poets Cleopatra Mathis, Gary Lenhart and Jim Schley share a podium in a colonial-era landmark, preceded by a 6 p.m. picnic on the lawn. Strafford Town House, Strafford, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 765-4037.

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Burlington Peace Vigil: See WED.20, 5-5:30 p.m.

‘Meet the Candidates’ Event: Queen City residents get face time with local public-office contenders vying to represent them at a shindig hosted

by Burlington Democracy for America.

Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 651-3200.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Community Darkroom: Shutterbugs develop film and print pictures. Center for Photographic Studies, Barre, 6 p.m. $8 per hour. Info, 479-4127.

Third Thursday Gallery Tour: Art appreciators peruse the walls of 11 galleries exhibiting works by nationally recognized artists, sculptors and craftspeople. Various locations, Stowe, 5-9 p.m. Free. Info, 253-8358.

business Queen City BNI: Local members of Business Network International schmooze at a weekly breakfast meeting to help promote one another’s companies. Room 202, Vermont Technical College, Blair Park Campus, Williston, 8 a.m. First visit is free. Info, 985-9965.

fairs & festivals Caledonia County Fair: See WED.20, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Deerfield Valley Farmer’s Day Exhibition: The 91-year-old celebration of local ag features truck and horse pulls and pie-eating and sawing competitions, along with modern rides and kid-friendly activities.

Baker Field, Wilmington, 4:30-10:30 p.m. $1-6. Info, 319-0117, info@ dvfair.com.

F4: Flatbread Family Fun Fest: The farm hosts fun to the fourth degree with food from American Flatbread, prayer-flag making, games and a fire circle. Bring your drums! Lareau Farm Inn, Waitsfield, 5-8 p.m. Price varies.

Info, 496-4949.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.20, 2 p.m.

‘Hello Cupcake!’: The authors of a cookbook about the sweet treats teach techniques and share tips for making desserts works of art. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 985-3999, flyingpigevents@gmail.com.

Waterbury Farmers’ Market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and their edible inspiration at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3 p.m.

Free. Info, 279-4371.

Winooski Farmers’ Market: A teen-run stand selling produce grown in the town’s Landry Park is among the local foods, music and crafts on offer. 3:30-6:30 p.m. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6410, ext. 11.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

Morning Stories: Local tale tellers engage kids of all ages with a mix of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, songs and games. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124.

Music With Peter: The under-5 set and their caretakers keep the beat. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

‘Resisting Boredom’ Group: Teens punctuate their summer vacation with a weekly social gathering featuring movie screenings and book discussions. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Westford Storytime: Kids ponder picture books and create crafts.

Westford Library, Westford, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-5639.

Winooski Playgroup: Babies up to age 2 socialize with each other and their caregivers at a session offering music, books and toys. Winooski Memorial Library, Winooski, 11 a.m.

- 12 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6424.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’: Matthew Broderick stars in this 1986 film about an ingenious teen determined to play hooky from high school. Camp out on the top level of Montpelier’s parking garage to catch a free screening at dusk. City Center Parking Garage, Montpelier, 8:50 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604.

‘Roman de Gare’: See WED.20, 7 p.m.

‘The Towering Inferno’: In this 1974 film starring Steve McQueen, the world’s tallest building succumbs to a disastrous fire on the night of its grand opening. Town Green, Bristol, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-5885.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Ballard Park Concert Series: Singer-songwriter Vicki Russell entertains outdoor listeners with original tunes, accompanied by her guitarist husband David Michael Peters.

Ballard Park, Westport, N.Y., 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 518-962-8778.

Brown Bag Concert Series: Mark LeGrand and His Lovesick Bandits pick listeners’ locked hearts with “thinking man’s honky tonk.” Christ Church Pocket Park, Montpelier, 12 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-9604.

Craftsbury Chamber Players: Instrumentalists explore chamber music’s roots with selections by Bizet, Debussy and Bedrich Smetana.

Hardwick Town House, Hardwick, 8 p.m. $10-20. Info, 800-639-3443.

Open Mike: Poetry and performance art share stage space with solo singers, instrumentalists and bands at this weekly free-form talent show. Indigenous, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-3433, indigenousskateandsnow@gmail.com.

Rock Night: Two Champlain Valley bands — The Parts and Shotgun Blues — get wild with a night of bar music made for dancing. Old Lantern, Charlotte, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 425-2120.

Snow Farm Vineyard Concert Series: The Rhythm Rockets launch into classic rock for blanket-lounging listeners. Snow Farm Winery, South Hero, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-9463.

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scene@ CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO LAUGHING MOON CHOCOLATES, STOWE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2 P.M.

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As the creamy, dark chocolate dripped into soft clumps before their eyes, the two boys watching the chocolate-dipping demonstration at Laughing Moon Chocolates could hardly take their eyes off the gooey delicacy. It was almost like a scene out of Willy Wonka — except instead of the mass-produced Wonka Bars, these boys were drooling over locally produced artisan truffles.

Sadly, the demo lasted only 10 minutes. However, the highlight came at the end when, as I had hoped, the chocolatier offered a free sample to everyone in attendance. The crowd was limited to the two fascinated kids, their mothers and me, and we all jumped at the chance to gobble down the pricey treats.

The truffle I sampled, called “Green Mountain Sunshine,” literally melted in my mouth. It had a vodka base and was incredibly rich.

Laughing Moon also produces an enticing variety of sweet fruits coated in chocolate, butter crunch and caramel.

Not all the ingredients are local — unfortunately, cocoa beans don’t grow in Vermont — but owner Leigh Williams says the company tries to use local fruit whenever possible.

Williams, who has been creating sweet treats for six years, is quick to point out the difference between her small shop and larger chocolatiers.

“Everything is made on the premises,” she says proudly. “It’s much more of an art form than large-scale manufacturing.”

Though Laughing Moon offers some sugar- and salt-free confections, it does not, alas, have any fat-free choices. Oh, well.

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Waterbury Rotary Concert Series: The band Steel Rail rolls out heavy, high-energy bluegrass. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 244-7195.

outdoors ‘Ghost’ Hike: Night walkers tape red cellophane over flashlights to look for owls, bats and other nocturnal beasties while visiting a 100-year-old homestead and cemetery. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7-9 p.m. $3; bring a flashlight. Info, 244-7103.

sport Road Ride: Experienced cyclists join a group to train on 30-to-35-mile routes around Montpelier. Meet in the parking lot to explore various Central Vermont locations. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.

Saxon Hill Ride-Around: Beginner and intermediate riders meet up at the end of Thompson Road to join the female two-wheelers of Bellaship for a trip around the Essex “Flo” trail.

Thompson Road, Essex, 5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 999-8373, lezlee@verdantgarden. com.

Summer Biathlon Race Series: In a warm-weather version of the winter sport that combines skiing and rifle marksmanship, cross-country runners race 5K punctuated with two shooting stops. Instructions, rifle and safety clinic provided; newbies can just bring running shoes. Ethan Allen Firing Range, Jericho, registration, novice clinic, and rifle zeroing, 5 p.m.; race starts at 6 p.m. $5-10 per race; $50 for the series. Info, eabiathlon@gmail. com.

Vermont Lake Monsters: Staten Island’s Yankees go head-to-head with the Green Mountain minor-league team.

Centennial Field, Burlington, 7:05 p.m. $5-8. Info, 655-4200.

talks ‘Talking Art’: Glass blower Melanie Leppla appears in a lecture series profiling Mad-River-based female artists. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.

‘The Buzz on Bees’: Documentary filmmaker Jan Cannon and beekeeper Todd Hardie present a screening of Health & the Hive: A Beekeeper’s Journey. Shelburne Town Hall, Shelburne, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 2645018, kwoodard@shelburnevt.org.

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‘A Delicate Balance’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

‘Arsenic and Old Lace’: A drama critic discovers his two aunts are murdering men in this madcap black comedy.

Adamant Music School, Adamant, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9297.

‘Five Guys Named Moe’: See WED.20, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

Impromptu Play Reading: Theater buffs join the Valley Players as participants or audience members for an unstaged drama. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 donation.

Info, 793-0194.

‘Indoor/Outdoor’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m.

‘June Moon’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

‘Les Miserables’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m.

‘Pippin’: Charlemagne’s son searches for his purpose in life in Stephen Schwartz’s long-running Broadway musical. Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $21-25. Info, 518-962-4449.

‘Tales from the Bad Years’ Workshop Performance: Big Apple-based composer-lyricist team Brian Lowdermilk and Kait Kerrigan present a version of their new musicalin-progress, then have a back-and-forth discussion with audience members.

Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 775-0903.

Argentinean Tango: Shoulders back, chin up! With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077.

Ballroom Dance Social: Singles and couples of all ages learn ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 862-2269, elabd@comcast.net.

Equine Dance Company: In a troupe that gives new meaning to the phrase “hoofing it,” humans and horses come together for “EARTHmoves” — a piece combining modern dance with Tai Chi gestures. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4424.

Lubberland National Dance Company: Exuberant movers celebrate 2008’s election campaigns with tonguein-cheek physical commentary. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031, puppetsecretary@yahoo.com.

‘Moving Roots: A Gathering of Vermont Dancers’: Fleet-footed Vermonters who trained here and then made their names in renowned big-city companies reunite for a program ranging from ballet to jazz. See “State of the Arts,” this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $14-18. Info, 863-5966.

Street Dance: The Hitmen help listeners unwind at an outdoor summer party. Vergennes City Park, Vergennes, 7-11 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951.

words Bread Loaf Readings: Novelist Margot Livesey sums up Shakespeare for writers; then poet Louise Glück and novelist Charles Baxter share a podium. Father-son guitar-and-fiddle duo Gary and Roland Clark entertain evening listeners. Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2700.

Thurston Clarke: The author of New York Times bestseller The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 Days That Inspired America shares his work. Normandie Beach Club, Westport, N.Y., 12 p.m. $30. Info, 518-942-7607.

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‘Amusing the Muse’: Three artists join forces for a whole sensory experience: Jason Gulisano of the Green Cup Café prepares dinner, Anthony Santor plays jazz, and painter and etcher Bill Brauer entertains the eyes. The Green Cup Café, Waitsfield, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $65.

Info, 496-6682.

Anarchist Craft Circle: Creative types put their heads together over public art projects that dismantle ‘the patriarchy,’ one stitch at a time.

The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7417, rachel@thebobbin.com.

Big Blue Truck Event: Handymen and -women catch table-saw safety shows and demos of new tools. Bosch Tool Company, South Burlington, 8 a.m. 5 p.m. Free. Info, 660-2000.

Charity Bingo: See WED.20, 7 p.m.

Family Friday: Monarch Magic: In a half-hour session, folks of all ages seek caterpillars, chrysalises and orange- and yellow-winged insects after learning about metamorphosis. Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. $3. Info, 877-3406.

Golf Benefit: Golfers RSVP to raise money for the Depot Theater. Civilians join later for heavy hors d’oeuvres and zydeco by Mango Jam. Westport Country Club, Westport, N.Y., 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. $85-95, $60 for food and entertainment only. Info, 518-962-4470.

‘Lois McClure’ Public Boarding: See WED.20, 10 a.m.

Tertulia Latina: Latinoamericanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

fairs & festivals Caledonia County Fair: See WED.20, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Deerfield Valley Farmer’s Day Exhibition: See THU.21, 4:3010:30 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.20, 2 p.m.

Richmond Farmers’ Market: Live music entertains fresh-food browsers at a melody-centered market connecting farmers and cooks. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-5273.

Westford Farmers’ Market: Purveyors of produce and other edibles take a stand at outdoor stalls. Westford Common, Westford, 3:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-7405.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

‘Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!’: In this PG flick, Rick Moranis stars as an eccentric scientist who creates a top-secret machine that miniaturizes objects, including his offspring.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-7576.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘The Edge of Heaven’: Fatih Akin’s acclaimed film dramatizes the uneasy relationship between native Germans and Turkish immigrants. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6.50.

Info, 748-2600.

Wine Tasting & ‘Bottle Shock’ Screening: At two sessions, sippers older than 21 guess at the contents of masked glasses from two continents, then preview a new flick about a 1976 Paris showdown where American vintners challenged the French wine world — and won. Merrill’s Roxy Cinema, Burlington, 5-8:30 p.m. & 8:45 p.m. - midnight. $10. Info, 865-2368.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Don Sheldon & Friends: The trio performs original instrumentals that run the gamut from Latin and soft jazz to contemporary folk. Richmond Farmers’ Market, Richmond, 5-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 434-5273.

Harp Concert: Martha Gallagher, a.k.a.

“The Adirondack Harper,” sings and plucks chords in an airing of her own compositions. Grace Episcopal Church, Sheldon, 7:30 p.m. $5-10. Info, 326-4603.

‘La Bohème’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

Roy Hurd: The singer-songwriter performs his unique brand of mountain music. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

Used Instrument Sale: To benefit Central Vermont Share the Music, instrumentalists drop off old tools of their trade on Friday. On Saturday, the loot finds new homes. Bethany Church, Montpelier, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0295.

VSO ‘Symphony Sampler’ Benefit: Young violinist Mia Morrison performs Vittorio Monti’s flashy “Czardas” at the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s seasonkickoff party. East Side Restaurant & Pub, Newport, 6-8 p.m. $15-28 includes dinner. Info, 800-876-9293, ext. 10.

outdoors Aquadventure!: See WED.20, 2:304:30 p.m.

History Hike: On this guided walk through what’s now a streamside forest, cellar holes, stone walls and an old sawmill delineate the ruins of Little River Settlement. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. $3.

Info, 244-7103.

sport Vermont Lake Monsters: The Staten Island Yankees bat against the Green Mountains’ minor-league team.

Centennial Field, Burlington, 7:05 p.m. $5-8. Info, 655-4200.

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theater ‘A Delicate Balance’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

‘Arsenic and Old Lace’: See THU.21, 7:30 p.m.

‘Five Guys Named Moe’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

‘Indoor/Outdoor’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m.

‘June Moon’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

‘Les Miserables’: See WED.20, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

‘Pippin’: See THU.21, 8 p.m.

‘Tales from the Bad Years’ Workshop Performance: See THU.21, 8 p.m.

‘Three Tall Women’: The Valley Players present a staged reading of Edward Albee’s play in which strong-minded females of three different ages reflect on their lives. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $5 donation. Info, 793-0194.

words Bread Loaf Readings: Critic and poet James Longenbach considers “poetic amplitude,” and an afternoon reading features novelists Will Allison and Sandra Rodriguez Barron with shortfiction writer Ellen Litman. Novelist Ursula Hegi and poet Carl Phillips speak up after sundown. Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2700.

Poets’ Night: An open reading at a gallery’s outdoor café provides versifiers with a podium. Flynndog, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6106.

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‘Walk for Children’: UVM b-ball star Taylor Coppenrath is honorary chair of this gathering to raise funds in memory of Brooke Bennett. Battery Park, Burlington, 8 a.m. Donations. Info, 1-800-244-5373.

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agriculture Organic Garden Workshop: People learn the basics of making plants flourish without pesticides. Preregistration required. Bromley Farm, Peru, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. $20-30. Info, 434-4122, info@nofavt.org.

art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. Artist Market: Local artists show their stuff outdoors and offer original works for sale, in tandem with the Burlington Farmers’ Market. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts Plaza, Burlington, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7165.

Raku Firing: People watch handthrown pots fire up in a 1500-degree kiln — then try their hands at glazing.

The Naked Potter, Waitsfield, 3-7 p.m. $35 to participate; free to watch. Info, 496-9935, info@wilderfarminn.com.

dance Ballroom Dance Social: Singles and couples of all ages learn ballroom, swing and Latin dancing. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, 7-10 p.m. $12. Info, 862-2269, elabd@comcast.net.

Swing Dance: Lively steppers twirl to DJ’d tunes after a free half-hour beginner lesson. Champlain Club, Burlington, 8-11 p.m. $5. Info, 864-8382.

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‘Back to the Block’ Party: Lotus Entertainment DJs spin tunes for a barbecue-laced fashion show featuring threads from local hip-hop-wear companies Steez and Create Build Destroy. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 318-5139.

Charity Bingo: See WED.20, 7 p.m.

Child Seat Safety Checks: Nationally certified child-passenger-safety technicians check the fit and installation of car seats for kids, and inspect potential model recalls or missing parts. Elks Club, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 888-868-7328.

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savoir fair Summer has to end sometime. But before fall harvest festivals really get rolling, the Champlain Valley Fair affords seekers of fluffy, cotton-candied fun the chance to let their hair down at a 10-day preview of local agricultural bounty. Farm fans note blue-ribbon winners in statewide flower, craft, baked-goods and veggie competitions, or visit livestock pens to see sheep-shearing demos and flawless-complexioned cows. Radio bard Garrison Keillor grandstands with Puff-Daddy-girl-group Danity Kane and teen heartthrobs the Jonas Brothers, among other acts. An amateur-talent stage highlights local luminaries, and motor-sport showdowns, circus feats, sideshows and midway rides offer direct and vicarious thrills to consumers of fried dough and other fair fare. The season’s ultimate signal also draws a superhero: “The Dark Knight” flaps daily in a 65-pound Batman costume.

Champlain Valley Fair

Saturday, August 23 through Monday, September 1, 10 a.m. midnight at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. $5-10 admission; $4 parking. Separate tickets required for grandstand concerts and events. Info, 878-5545 or 863-5966. www.cvfair.com

Digital Video Editing: Camera wielders who’ve taken an access orientation course learn how to create non-linear narratives with Final Cut Pro software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

Dinner and a Movie: Essex Alliance Church invites divorced, widowed and single adults to meet for grown-up entertainment and conversation.

Majestic 10, Williston, 5:45 p.m. Call for cost. Info, 425-7053.

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.

Furnace Fundraiser Lawn Sale: Deal seekers stock up now on sports equipment, furniture, toys and collectibles to help heat a 200-yearold church, come winter. Waterbury Congregational Church, Waterbury, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 244-6606.

Healthy Living Grand Opening: Two days of local music and food samples encapsulate cooking demos, composting workshops, massages, face painting — and the chance to pet a llama. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569.

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.

‘Lois McClure’ Public Boarding: See WED.20, 10 a.m.

Sewing Vintage Aprons: Tie one on! Intermediate stitchers fabricate cute kitchen outfits from repurposed material. The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. $30 includes an additional hour of sewing time. Info, 862-7417, info@thebobbin. com.

Vergennes Day: Citizens of Vermont’s smallest city celebrate their town with creek cruises, pancakes, fly-wheel engine demos, a chicken barbecue, live music and more. Various locations, Vergennes, 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951.

fairs & festivals Caledonia County Fair: See WED.20, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Champlain Valley Fair: Giant pumpkins, a 50-ton sand sculpture, midway rides and natural anomalies join top musical acts and a wealth of fried food at Vermont’s largest fair.

See calendar spotlight. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. - midnight. $5-10 admission; $4 parking. Separate tickets required for grandstand concerts and events. Info, 878-5545 or 802-863-5966.

Deerfield Valley Farmer’s Day Exhibition: See THU.21, 8 a.m.

- 10:30 p.m.

Liberate Music & Arts Festival: An eclectic lineup of musicians provides the background for a day of healing arts, dance, drink and food. See calendar spotlight. Bundy Center for the Arts, Waitsfield, 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. $35 advance, $45 day of event. Info, 999-2183 or 863-5966.

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 “putting-thestone” contest. Quechee Polo Field, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. $12. Info, 295-5351, info@quecheescottishfestival.

‘Summer Fest’: Teen Challenge Vermont sponsors a motorcycle race, pig roast and a campfire-centered concert of Christian music. Common Acres Campground, Hyde Park, 10 a.m.

- midnight. $20. Info, 635-7807, programdevelopment@tcvermont.org.

food & drink AFH Farmers’ Market: Residents of UVM’s Apartments & Family Housing sell the fruits of their community gardens, plus crafts and prepared foods like Jordanian-style barbecue. Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Free. Info, 654-1735.

Burlington Farmers’ Market: Sixty-three 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. - 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-889-8188.

Capital City Farmers’ Market: More than 40 central Vermont vendors hawk fresh produce, baked goods, seedlings, crafts and more, accompanied by live music. 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4360.

‘Lobsterfest’: Crustaceans and chicken feed land-locked folks, with potato salad, cole slaw, rolls, homemade pies, iced tea and lemonade on the side.

North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church, Ferrisburgh, 4:30-6 p.m. $21 for lobster, $12 for chicken. Info, 425-3020, jsiewert@prodas.com.

Local Food Tour: Conscious eaters sign up to learn how to make the most of the Eat Local Challenge in September, with provided menu plans and recipes. City Market, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9749, NFenton@citymarket.coop.

Localvore Cooking: Food writer Melissa Pasanen, a co-author of Cooking with Shelburne Farms, demos two of the book’s recipes — then hands ‘round samples. Natural Provisions, Williston, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 876-1400.

Middlebury Farmers’ Market: See WED.20, 9 a.m.

Milton Farmers’ Market: Art and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Milton Grange, Milton, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 893-7734.

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.

Planting Hope Dinner & Fiesta: Chocobananas, tamales, a video presentation and a fair featuring Central American wares honor a local nonprofit’s support for a Nicaraguan library. Christ Church, Montpelier, 6-9 p.m. $4-7. Info, 229-4145.

Wine Tasting: Tasters try both reds and whites from Spain, a go-to country for unique vintages. Dedalus Wine Shop, Burlington, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2368, Tim@DedalusWine.com.

health & fitness Alternative Healing Demonstrations: Practitioners at The Next Level Healing Alliance teach the basics of massage, yoga healing and craniosacral therapies. Mad River Valley Health Center, Waitsfield, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3712.

Waterbirth Workshop: Parents-to-be explore the potential benefits of water immersion for labor and birth and discuss its logistics in the hospital environment. Sprout, Burlington, 2-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-0060.

kids Animal Feeding: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

Baby Wrapping Workshop: Baby-swaddlers old and new hear about different techniques and products.

Sprout, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 865-0060.

Bebop Playgroup: Adults indulge in coffee and bagels while kids up to age 3 meet their peers. Bebop Baby Shop, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 860-6842.

Clay Play: Kids experience free pottery hand building, with those over age 8 welcome to try their hands at the wheel. Waitsfield Pottery, Waitsfield, 3-5 p.m. Experience is free; there is a charge to bring pot home. Info, 496-7155.

‘Healthy Bodies’: Dr. Heather Rice uses activities and games to teach kids about nervous system and spinal health. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. & 1 p.m. $7-9.50. Info, 864-1848.

Kids’ Craft Lab: Small hands work with recycled materials to make new stuff. The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. $5 per child. Info, 862-7417, rachel@ thebobbin.com.

‘Saturday Stories’: Librarians read from popular picture books. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-0313.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’: See THU.21, bring your own chair to catch a free outdoor screening at dusk. Ben & Jerry’s Factory, Waterbury, 8:50 p.m.

Free. Info, 882-1240, ext. 2285.

‘The Edge of Heaven’: See FRI.22, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

‘The Triplets of Belleville’: Pedalheads park it for this awardwinning animated feature about a kidnapped Tour de France contender whose granny comes to the rescue.

Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 223-9604.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys: The popular folkie returns with a concert right on the border.

Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $16 US or Canadian. Info, 819-876-2020.

CD Release Party: Burlington singersongwriter Aaron Flinn and his band Salad Days celebrate their seventh fulllength album, Ouroboros. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15 advance, $18 day of show. Info, 863-5966.

O’hAnleigh: A mother-father-daughter trio performs traditional Celtic folk music. Frog Hollow, Middlebury, 1 p.m.

Free. Info, 388-3177, cgolden@clarku. edu.

Pro-Series Concert: Chinese concert pianists Zhengyu Chen and Honggen Cui collaborate on piano-duo works from Bach’s Concerto in C Minor to an arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Grounds open at 6 p.m. for picnicking. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 7:30 p.m. $18 for reserved indoor seats; $12 for outdoor seating.

Info, 928-3364.

Sister Ann Perpetua: Singer, instrumentalist and composer Michael Chorney joins some of his Hadestown cohorts for new arrangements of works

by Sun Ra, Kurt Weill and Joni Mitchell, plus original pieces. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

Used Instrument Sale: See FRI.22, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

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, Colchester, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. $5 round-trip. Info, 652-2453, info@ localmotion.org.

‘Ghost’ Hike: See THU.21, 7-9 p.m.

Mad River Valley Century Ride: Pedalers meet at the inn, then pass the Dog, White and Mad Rivers on this 100-mile bike ride through the Vermont countryside. Hyde Away Inn and Restaurant, Waitsfield, 9 a.m. $60.

Info, 496-2322.

sport Little City 5K & 10K: Runners and walkers pace themselves for various distances on paved surfaces. Vergennes City Park, Vergennes, registration 8-8:30 a.m., race 9 a.m. $15-20 includes T-shirt and refreshments. Info, 863-8412.

Saturday Morning Group Ride: Two-wheelers of all abilities practice moving en masse on a 25- to 35-mile route that emphasizes drafting, pacelines and cycling etiquette. Bring a helmet! Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.

Vermont Lake Monsters: The Burlington-based minor-league team bats against the Staten Island Yankees.

Centennial Field, Burlington, 7:05 p.m. $5-8. Info, 655-4200.

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NAMASTE MAINSTAY Come summer, choosing which of Vermont’s multiple music fests to hit can prove tricky. The Liberate Music & Arts Festival makes up in variety for what it lacks in history: Now in its second year, the one-day, one-stage gathering features fine arts booths and holistic workshops in yoga, reiki, recycling and do-ityourself composting, alongside nine music acts. Hear Afrobeat rock by Boston-to-Burlington headliners Rubblebucket Orchestra (pictured), groove to roots-reggae by Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad and Spiritual Rez, or zone out to Grateful Dead tribute outfit The Dead Sessions. In between, contemplate world peace at a sound-centered “nada upasana” vocal jam, hold out your hand for henna art, or check in on your chakras with certified Kripalu instructors — it’s all good, man.

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‘THE PALETTE OF MONET’: Former Claude Monet Foundation artistin-residence Leslie Parke sums up the famous Impressionist painter’s gardens, kitchen and use of color.

Slices of cake baked according to a recipe from Monet’s personal cookbook delineate a different palate.

The Inn at Essex, Essex Junction, 1 p.m. $5 includes cake; call for reservations. Info, 764-1413.

‘ALMOST UTOPIA’ RELEASE PARTY: The Vermont Historical Society hosts a reception and signing for a book by photographer Rebecca Lepkoff and writer Greg Joly, featuring Lepkoff’s socially significant pics shot in 1950.

See calendar spotlight. Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 2-3 p.m. Free.

Info, 479-1417.

BREAD LOAF READINGS: In a morning lecture, Mexican-born nonfiction writer Luis Alberto Urrea explains why “The Road Out of Tijuana Is Paved With Ink.” Post-lunch, Dan Albergotti, Margo Rabb and Preeta Samarasan air snippets of their poetry, short stories and novels, and poet Michael Collier and novelist-critic Thomas Mallon bring the conference to a close at an evening reading. Little Theatre, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Ripton, 9 a.m., 4:15 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2700.

‘POETRY PEACE’: More than 20 writers from Vermont and New England, including David Budbill and Cora Brooks, present readings and workshops to benefit the American Friends Service Committee. See calendar spotlight. Noble Hall, Vermont College, Montpelier, 12-7 p.m. Donations. Info, 456-1630.

theater ‘A DELICATE BALANCE’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

‘A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION’: Don’t expect to see Lindsay Lohan in this live performance by the cast of the long-lived NPR favorite. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8 p.m. $31.75-83.25. Info, 878-5545.

‘ARSENIC AND OLD LACE’: See THU.21, 1 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

IMPROVISATION WORKSHOP: Actors of all levels learn to go with the flow, assisted by the Valley Players. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 1-4 p.m. $25. Info, 793-0194.

‘INDOOR/OUTDOOR’: See WED.20, 7:30 p.m.

‘JUNE MOON’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

‘LES MISERABLES’: See WED.20, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m.

‘PIPPIN’: See THU.21, 8 p.m.

‘THE MARTHA TORMEY EXPERIENCE’: The Vermont comedian lobs gutbusters in a solo stand-up show.

Black Door Bar & Bistro, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 223-7070.

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BENEFIT BRUNCH: The eco-conscious raise funds to help the Vermont Compost Company appeal a “cease and desist” order, with local foods, guest speakers and a silent auction.

L.A.C.E., Barre, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. $25.

Info, 279-1261.

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CHARITY BINGO: See WED.20, 7 p.m.

ECO-SEW WORKSHOP: Crafters create environmentally friendly beach totes from recycled fabric. The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $25 includes materials. Info, 862-7417, rachel@thebobbin.com.

ENGLISH CONVERSATION GROUP: New Americans practice and improve their English conversation with other English learners and native speakers.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

FURNACE FUNDRAISER LAWN SALE: See SAT.23, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

HEALTHY LIVING GRAND OPENING: See SAT.23, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

HISTORIC OPEN HOUSE: The building that puts the “church” in Church Street opens its doors for a tour of Burlington’s oldest meeting house.

Unitarian Church, Burlington, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 862-5630.

‘LOIS MCCLURE’ PUBLIC BOARDING: See WED.20, 10 a.m.

SCRABBLE CLUB: Triple-letter-square seekers wage word wars. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558.

fairs & festivals CALEDONIA COUNTY FAIR: See WED.20, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See SAT.23, 10 a.m. - midnight.

DEERFIELD VALLEY FARMER’S DAY EXHIBITION: See THU.21, 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

food & drink COOKING FROM THE GARDEN: Home chefs learn how to create dinner from fresh produce provided by Salvation Farms, a program of the Vermont Foodbank. Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, 3-5 p.m. $5; call to register.

Info, 856-7573, esungus@gmail.com.

STOWE FARMERS’ MARKET: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 472-8027.

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kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

CREATIVE WRITING SAMPLER: Women Writing for (a) Change-Vermont invites girls entering grades 5-10 to sign up for an afternoon of sharing and strengthening their literary voices. 12 Howard Street, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3772, sarah@womenwritingvt.com. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;HEALTHY BODIESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See SAT.23, 11 a.m. & 1 p.m.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;FAITH RINGGOLD: THE LAST STORY QUILTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: This 28-minute documentary profiles the life and work of an African-American artist who paints on textiles. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 656-2090. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;FILMED BY BIKEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; FESTIVAL SHORTS: Selected eight-minute flicks from an annual Portland, Oregon, tribute to two-wheelers celebrate the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;most efficient and creative form of transportation.â&#x20AC;? Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE EDGE OF HEAVENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See FRI.22, 7 p.m.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND: Community musicians of all ages perform marches and medleys for bandstand connoisseurs. Battery Park, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 578-3467.

DAUGHTRY: He may not have won â&#x20AC;&#x153;American Idol,â&#x20AC;? but plenty of fans will be in attendance for a rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; good time. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $39-55. Info, 863-5966.

FISK FARM CONCERT: Husbandand-wife folk duo Tin Penny plays Americana, blues and original tunes as part of an artsy afternoon featuring textile constructions and a jewelry display. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 2-2:30 p.m., 3-3:30 p.m., 4-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 928-3364.

JOHN HIATT: The bluesy rock singersongwriter performs songs from his new album, Same Old Man. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $32.5042.50. Info, 775-0903. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;LA BOHĂ&#x2C6;MEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.20, 2 p.m.

TOM RUSSELL: The Americana singersongwriter whose songs have been covered by Johnny Cash, Iris Dement, Nanci Griffith and others unpacks a saddlebag of melodies fusing history, personal biography and political zeitgeist. Tunbridge Town Hall, Tunbridge, 7 p.m. $15-20. Info, 431-3433, folkbloke@hotmail.com.

WESTFORD SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: Vermont-based reggae band Lambsbread gigs on the green â&#x20AC;&#x201D; unless rain pushes the irie vibes into the adjacent Red Brick Meeting House. Westford Common, Westford, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-3749.

outdoors BIKE FERRY: See SAT.23, 10 a.m. 6 p.m.

SHOREBIRD SHOWDOWN: Migrating avians face scrutiny from humans and each other during a bird-spotting field trip. Meet at the viewing station on Route 17 in Addison. Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Vergennes, 8:30 a.m. Free; please register via email. Info, gmas@ greenmountainaudubon.org. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SINGLE AGAINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; HIKE: Divorced, widowed and single adults attempt a moderate-to-difficult trek to Stoweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sterling Pond organized by Essex Alliance Church. (Meet at the church to carpool.) Essex Alliance Church, Essex, 1 p.m. Free; please call to register. Info, 878-8057.

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FIELD HOCKEY PICKUP: Adult and high-school players try to be quick with their sticks. Sports & Fitness Edge, South Burlington, 5-7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 860-3343.

LAWNMOWER RACES: Grass trimmers ride high in yard-sport competitions.

New Connecticut Valley Fairgrounds, Bradford, 2 p.m. $3. Info, 222-4053.

SUNDAY BOCCE SOCIAL: Members of the Burlington Bocce Club show how to play a precision sport descended from ancient games of the Roman Empire, using the Queen Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newly constructed courts. 12-4 p.m.

Oakledge Park, Burlington, 12 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-0123.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: The Burlington-based minor-league team bat against New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hudson Valley Renegades. Centennial Field, Burlington, 5:05 p.m. $5-8. Info, 655-4200.

CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See WED.20, 2 p.m.

theater â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ARSENIC AND OLD LACEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See THU.21, 2 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;FIVE GUYS NAMED MOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.20, 7 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;JUNE MOONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See WED.20, 3 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PIPPINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See THU.21, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;SOUND OFF: COMBAT STORIES REVEALEDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Burlington-based theater artist Jen Berger shows her small-cast work-in-progress exploring the experiences of four recent U.S. vets in Iraq and Afghanistan.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

Info, 862-6825. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE GODS OF THE HILLSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Actor Jim Hogue personifies Ethan Allen and brings Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early military history to life. Unadilla Theater, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 456-8968. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE SOURDOUGH PHILOSOPHY CIRCUS & PAGEANTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homegrown theatrical troupe leavens political commentary with hands-on cookery. Circus Field and Pine Forest, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 525-3031, puppetsecretary@yahoo. com.

words â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;POETRY PEACEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See SAT.23, 12-7 p.m.

REBECCA GODWIN: The novelist who authored Keeper of the House shares fiction excerpts, followed by refreshments. BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 767-9670.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE EDGE OF HEAVENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See FRI.22, 7 p.m.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. DANITY KANE: This sultry made-for-TV girl group was assembled by Puff Daddy himself. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. $31.75. Info, 863-5966.

sport COED ROAD RIDE: Male and female pedal pushers meet in downtown Burlington, then trace a one-totwo-hour route at a moderate pace.

Road bikes only; helmets required.

Skirack, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313.

EVENING RIDE-AROUND: Kim Dannies guides intermediate and advanced riders on a jaunt with female twowheelersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; group Bellaship. Mud Pond, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 238-8586, kimdannies@gmail.com.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hudson Valley Renegades go head-to-head against the Green Mountain Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minor-league team.

Centennial Field, Burlington, 7:05 p.m. $5-8. Info, 655-4200.

talks HOME BUYER EDUCATION: This workshop walks potential property owners through buying, budgeting and getting their credit in order.

Opportunities Credit Union, Burlington, 5:30-9 p.m. Free for members, $10 nonmembers. Info, 865-3404, ext. 127, jking@oppsvt. org.

theater â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;PIPPINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: See THU.21, 8 p.m.

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VAMPIRE BOOK CLUB: Teens sink their teeth into books with bite at the first meeting of this multi-month reading group. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7228.

BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See WED.20, 5-5:30 p.m.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;HARVESTOURâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Localvores register ahead for an up-close-and-personal look at the Mad River Valley farms that feed them. Hartshorn Farm, Waitsfield, 2-5 p.m. $10-15. Info, 496-3567.

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art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. COMMUNITY DARKROOM: See THU.21, 6 p.m.

GLASS-BLOWING DEMONSTRATION: Curious spectators watch David and Melanie Leppla produce their wares, which have been displayed in the Smithsonian. Mad River Glass Gallery, Waitsfield, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-9388.

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COLOR PROFILING WORKSHOP: Boutique staff teach the basics of finding items of clothing that work for each personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique palette. Lily of the Valley, Waitsfield, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 496-5455.

fairs & festivals CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See SAT.23, 10 a.m. - midnight.

BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See WED.20, 5-5:30 p.m.

Also, see exhibitions in Section A. GLASS-BLOWING DEMONSTRATION: See MON.25, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

etc.

BIKE NIGHT: Motorcyclists pull up and park on the sidewalk at a weekly cityapproved rally with the summertime goal of attracting 1000 riders.

Donnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York Pizza, Winooski, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 655-7888.

CHARITY BINGO: See WED.20, 7 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;TIME TRAVEL TUESDAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: Visitors cook on a woodstove and churn butter, then relax as a farm family would have in the 1890s. Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $3-11. Info, 457-2355.

VBSR OUTING: Members of the public tour a specialized, eco-friendly family camp at this networking event hosted by Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. Common Ground Center, Starksboro, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 862-8347, info@vbsr.org.

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LYRIC PICK Quakers oppose violence, but they’re all about pitching in. Founded in 1917, the Quaker-affiliated American Friends Service Committee provides conscientious objectors with constructive alternatives to military service. The AFSC’s Vermont branch nourishes the roots of peace with an annual two-day poetry conference organized by Woodbury-based writer Merry Gangemi. Formerly called “Tea and Poetry” and hosted in Hardwick, this year’s Montpelier meeting features keynotes by Vermont versifiers Cora Brooks and David Budbill. The roster of 18 scheduled scribes also includes Jody Gladding, Martha Zweig, Jim Schley and Jay Parini (pictured), as well as 16-year-old Becca Comeau, a formerly homeless high schooler.

Workshops on “poetry as play” and other topics foster creativity, and Saturday sessions focus on kidfriendly music and a youth poetry slam emceed by Geof Hewitt.

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Saturday and Sunday, August 23 & 24, noon - 7 p.m. at Noble Hall, Vermont College, Montpelier. Donations.

Info, 456-1630. www.afscvt.org

fairs & festivals CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See SAT.23, 10 a.m. - midnight.

food & drink CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See WED.20, 2 p.m.

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.

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, 525-6972.

ROBERT CRAY WITH KEB’ MO’: Two acclaimed bluesmen delve deep into the genre’s Delta roots. Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, 6 p.m. $42 in advance, $45 day of show. Info, 652-0777.

health & fitness sport BASIC BIKE MAINTENANCE: Wrench HEALTHY TUESDAY: Those looking for some healing schedule a free consultation and adjustment and learn what “Network Spinal Analysis” is all about. Riverside Chiropractic, Montpelier, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 262-6097.

ZUMBA FITNESS: See THU.21, 7 p.m.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m.

ECHO STORYTIME: Young explorers discover the wonders of the natural world through books and imaginative play. ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. $7-9.50. Info, 864-1848.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘THE EDGE OF HEAVEN’: See FRI.22, 7 p.m.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B.

wielders get a grip on bicycle upkeep and repairs at a beginner-level clinic.

Skirack, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-3313.

VERMONT LAKE MONSTERS: See MON.25, Centennial Field, Burlington, 7:05 p.m. $5-8. Info, 655-4200.

WOMEN’S ROAD RIDE: Female pedal pushers congregate for wheel camaraderie in two groups covering 20- and 30-mile routes. Meet in the parking lot. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.

theater ‘JUNE MOON’: See WED.20, 8 p.m.

words WOMEN’S WRITING SESSION: Female sentence-stringers gather for a picnic-optional outing led by poet Phyllis Larrabee, to note the 88th anniversary of U.S. women’s right to vote. Post-lunch, everyone is welcome, regardless of gender.

Greenwood Lake, Woodbury, 10 a.m.

- 12 p.m. & 1-3:30 p.m. Donations.

Info, 472-3065.

Great music, theater, & dance all season long!

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Also, see exhibitions in Section A. GLASS-BLOWING DEMONSTRATION: See MON.25, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

WATERCOLOR DEMONSTRATION: See WED.20, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

fairs & festivals CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: See SAT.23, 10 a.m. - midnight.

food & drink MIDDLEBURY FARMERS’ MARKET: See WED.20, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See WED.20, 10:30 a.m. >

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SeanMisspelled, 26, l, #110849 OFF THE BEATEN PATH! I am looking for someone who enjoys spontaneity pretty much across the board - no plans, please! Just let things fall right into place - but is super-compassionate toward people, highly sensitive with a great sense of humor, and respectful of everyone and everything including yourself! A real plus is a passion for dancing and BMW motorcycles. allan1, 41, l, #101048 LOOKING FOR STRONG, ATTRACTIVE AND SMART? I’m pretty new to the area and looking to meet some new people. I love to work out; it’s a great stress reliever. I enjoy hiking, kayaking, the beach and downhill skiing. I enjoy hitting the bars with friends and relaxing at home.

I’m not much of a fan of games; I’m looking to find a LTR. above_avg, 28, #110834 CREATIVE, STIMULATING, DEPENDABLE I am a self employed contractor. After earning every year of my life, I find I am still missing a very important part of it. I am the guy you call when you have a problem, whether it be for a repair or an open ear. I have brown hair and blue eyes. Challenge my mind and win my heart! vtdcar3, 58, l, #110792 LOOKING FOR ACTION I’m only back visiting for a few days. I’m hopefully one of the most openminded and sexy guys you’ll ever meet. I’d love to meet up with you for a night or two, or go do something fun and then rock each other’s worlds till the wee hours of the morning.

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LIFE’S GREAT; SO AM I New to the online thing. I’m 5’10”, brown hair, athletic build, hazel eyes. I work a lot, so it’s hard for me to meet new people. I travel a lot for work and I like what I do. I’m looking for someone who is honest and wants to work toward a long-term relationship. So let’s get started. goingdeep, 30, l, #110810 I’M WELL, GIRLS LET’S CHILL Love to have fun and chill with friends. Love to meet new people. I love sports; soccer is my life. Play every day. Looking for a beautiful girl to have fun and chill with. If you are out there, holla. Let’s talk and get to know each other better. “YOU HEAR?” Peace. well, 18, l, #110805 HONEST, HARDWORKING, LOYAL Looking for long-term relationship. I like country music, sports and dining out. I spend my time watching movies or with my family.

Love to laugh and looking for someone to share my sense of humor. 110379, 46, u, #110797

MEN seeking MEN FUNNY, CONFIDENT, LAID-BACK, LOVE LIFE Good-looking dude who loves life, music, cooking, outdoors, good conversation, movies, food and, most of all, sex. Nice body and bottom, hairy chest and strong legs, nice smile, 33’’ waist, hung. I am looking for a single, young guy to have fun with. You need to be healthy, willing to let me have my way with you, openminded and in somewhat good shape. gardenboy, 38, #110803 LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL FRIEND FTM here looking for a BF. I am a shy person but warm up very quickly; you just have to talk. I do have a pic, and will send if you send first. I am really looking for someone around my age, no guys over 29. Someone who shares my interests and is not just looking for sex. transfag, 22, l, #110801 POSITIVE BROTHER SEEKING OTHER Hello. I am hoping to connect with an openminded, honest, humorous guy. I am single, 55, considered attractive. I try to be fearlessly honest and compassionately open, and sometimes succeed. I have a thing about honesty. I do a lot of smiling, and it seems appropriate to share that now. I have one cat, one tattoo... intimacy and brave-heart. dharmabum55, 55, u, #110582 SMART BLK GUY I am a professional African American male, 44 years old with a killer smile and killer hair. I am looking for a man of color (Black, Asian, Native American or Hispanic) who is collegetrained and 35-46 years old. Please note that I am not looking for hook-ups, but something that can be long-lasting. Social justice is key.

Alpha1906, 44, u, #102262 PATH FRIENDS WOULD NEVER CONSIDER Seeking interesting, creative, engaging, married, middle-years guy for unscripted summer adventures far beyond your present life context. A summer of your own design that you will most likely never share with her - although you really wish she’d at least appreciate the why if not the how.

By necessity, I’ll be selective. Share your thoughts. Harryhaller, 56, l, #110373

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I just want someone for reciprocal fun, and see where it goes. I love tortoises, teaching, novels, new things, writing novels/poetry. Tell me your passions. sweetstrong, 30, u, l, #110052 SHY HOUSEWIFE SEEKS FEMALE PLAYMATE I’m a shy woman bored with my marriage.

I was with a woman once before and really enjoyed the experience. Seeking someone to occupy my time and then possibly have some fun. To be blatantly honest, looks matter. I am not a “10” by any means, but not a total dog either. I expect the same from anyone who wants to contact me. halo, 36, #109677 VIVACIOUS, BUBBLY REDHEAD WANTS PLAY I am new to Burlington from NYC. I recently began playing with domination and flogging.

Looking to find playmates and possibly a more committed, sexual relationship with the right one. A switch, leaning towards bottom.

Into both men and women. Outside of the bedroom I am into photography, knitting, being outdoors, self discovery, cooking, baking, dancing, music. Looking2Play, 29, l, #109637 LOOKING I am looking for someone to hang out with and have a few drinks or go to dinners and see what happens. I have photos that i will share so send me yours, you wont be dissappointed so contact me!!! crystalline, 30, l, #109496 LOOKING TO EXPAND MY HORIZONS Let’s see. Who is Lily? I am a... well, I’ll say switch, but with developing Dominate feelings. I’m looking for a switch man that can be my Master or my Submissive depending on our mood. I am a traditional kinda girl. I want someone that is sweet, respectful, vanilla to the outside world and kinky behind closed doors. shywhitelily, 24, l, #109252 SEXY, NAKED, SUN, SPORTS, HOT TUBS Looking for some summertime playmates!

Love going to Bolton Falls. mashelle29, 26, #109076

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KIND MASTER SEEKS YOUNG, SUBMISSIVE GIRL Older man seeking young, submissive girl.

You must be willing to please my wife when told. Safe and loving play only. I will treat you with love and compassion, at the same time giving stern discipline while respecting your boundaries. I have a hot tub and great house to host in. Please respond with your age, name and picture. KindMaster, 39, #110798 ISO FEMALE BELLY DANCER For 101 romantic nights. SWPM 52 seeks NS scintillating female belly dancer to produce magical mutual fantasies. What secret delights await the Sultan’s favorite? Who knows the right words to open the mysterious door to LTR? KnightTemplar, 52, u, #107078 NEED LOTS OF FUN SEX Hey, I’m a 45-year-old white male, stocky, 5’11”, clean-shaven, 7”, love oral giving and receiving. I’m looking for a woman or couple to have fun with. DD-FREE PLEASE. clminvt1, 45, #109229 HI, AFTERNOON DELIGHTS Professional male looking for a woman interested in playing. Whats your fantasy?

Let’s chat. CentralVTMale, 52, #110718 LOVE TO PLEASE I am married but not looking to leave. I play sports so I am in shape. l love to make a woman happy physically & emotionally. I am looking for a woman in need of sexual healing.

Will travel. Needs to be discreet. Willing to fulfill your fantasies. FORFUN, 30, #110704

YOUR CHOICE: BEDROOM OR MOUNTAIN I’m looking for someone who likes to play indoors and outdoors. Hiking, skiing, skinnydipping, sex indoors and out. I’m a 36 yo professional with an average body. I’ve been 1x1-naughty081507 8/13/07 12:46 PM Page 1 told I’m very good and I have a pretty open KINKY VT FUN mind. I’m a little better endowed than average Good guy, good job, work hard/play harder. and I have an oral fixation. mikehawk, 36, Seeking Domme to tame me and make me #110883 Hers. I am loyal and very openminded. Love the great outdoors. ctrlvtkink, 41, #110675

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I am very sexual and like foreplay. I am very reserved and this is my first time doing this sort of thing. I am not picky about women, but looks do play a part. AimtoPlease, 31, #110876 KNIGHT IN CENTRAL VERMONT You are the one I am looking for. I promise respect and honesty. I want what is best for you. I believe in love at first sight, sometimes even first word. jason_centralvt, 49, l, #110856 TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT I’m looking for a man to dominate me. I’m in good shape and have a nice ass. I have very little experience with men. Would prefer someone younger than me and who is not overweight. newtothis, 42, #110850 LOOKING TO FILL THAT NEED 28-year-old male looking for a lady or young woman to hook up with here and there who can keep up in the bedroom. No strings, just looking to fill that void I have. I’m an addict. oppie242000, 28, l, #110826

SEX-DEPRIVED, SEEKING MATURE TEACHER Twenty-four-year-old, attractive, fit Irish lad seeks a rich beautiful woman who owns a brewery. SEXDEPRIVED, 24, l, #110644 I WANNA LOVE YOUR KITTY People say I’m a cat lover. I love Kitties of all shapes, sizes and colors. And I’m really good with them, too! I really know how to handle my pussycats! KittyLover, 35, l, #110595 PEOPLE LIKE ME! Hi! I’m new to this so I’d like to start off slow.

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ANY OTHER POLY FOLK AROUND? I’m a 27 yo F Scorpio, busty but not obese, smart, sane, funny bondage slut with gorgeous eyes. I’ve moved back to the Burlington area from a place with an active poly scene and I’m feeling isolated. I’m looking for like-minded friends... maybe something more with the right people. Let’s get together for tea and see where things go! ;). Schraff, 26, l, #110908 SEXALICIOUSLY SEDUCTIVE DUO SEEKS SAME We love to dress sexy, flirt and enjoy company who understand the value of laughter. We’re fun to be around and we respect everyone’s limits. We’re not pushy or aggressive, and we don’t care for those who are. Life is too short!

Let’s have sensual fun together and enjoy the sexual tension that comes with this type of activity! FiestyDuo4U, 41, l, #110710 LOOKING FOR AN ATTRACTIVE 3RD MWC 35/29, professionals, discreet, new to this, looking to take things slow, she is hot and curvy, he is nice-looking, stocky. Her: blond with blue eyes. He has brown eyes and short brown hair. We are in love, just looking to add some fun occasionally with a woman between the ages of 28 and 35. nympcouple, 35, #110709 LOVEKITTEN Hi. We are a married couple looking for a female for extra fun. We are new at this and would like to go out, maybe for drinks. We’re up for anything. We are disease-free. No drugs and please, no strings. justme1, 39, #110634 WANTING MORE Married, professional couple in our 40s. We’d like to exchange erotic emails with other couple(s). We are well educated and enjoy traveling, fine dining and sex, sex, sex. We are new to this so let’s start slow and end happy. casele, 47, u, l, #110622 HOW CREATIVE ARE YOU? We are a professional couple (38 & 40) looking to find the right person(s) to explore and play with. We enjoy the thrill of female domination in our private lives. We are looking for people who are fun and attractive and like sports and the outdoors. How much fun can you have when he is COMPLETELY under your control? :). wellkept, 38, l, #105924

HUNGRY FOR A NEW WOMAN Love sex but been a little deprived lately. Love going down on a woman and taking care of her for a long time. imlookin4fun, 37, #110574

EXCITING, FUN COUPLE Hardworking couple and homebodies. Like to entertain around pool, hot tub, cookouts.

Enjoy friends with benefits. Very easygoing and laid-back. Couples or third party welcome.

Him: straight. Her: very bi-curious. Open to all replies. Do not have account as of yet, trying site since we are new to this. vermontfriends, 41, l, #110564

THE SEX DOCTOR I’m 23, male, blond hair, blue eyes. Hot, built body. I’m looking for fun with a woman. I like to pleasure before receiving pleasure. I like controlling the mood. Up for new ways, will play in new places. I like outside fun. The harder, the better; the rougher, the more fun.

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TWO GUYS LOOKING FOR FUN We’re two straight friends looking for adventurous women who want to be with more than one guy at once. Single women or married couples are both hot. We can be as vanilla or kinky as you’re into with few exceptions. We want to help fulfill your fantasies. All ages welcome. JnElookin, 30, u, l, #110510 GORGEOUS WIFE LOOKING FOR LUST I’m a well-educated wife with a wild sexual side. I love hung, handsome, smart guys and couples who aren’t shy and don’t need a lot of hand holding. Very, very discreet. Husband can join or not. deliciouswifefun, 36, l, #110439

FIT, FRIENDLY AND LONELY I’m an active, outdoor type who’s new to the area. Looking for someone to get together with every now and then. Something like drinks, laughs, dinner and a little romance. I like women who are smart, curious and like to laugh. runman, 50, #110813

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Dearest Mistress Maeve, I find myself in a quandary. I recently started dating a woman named Mary who’s been a friend for a while. There had always been sparks between us, but one or both of us was always involved with someone else. Recently we both became single, have hung out a couple of times, and have been hooking up some.

So where’s the problem? The problem is her friend Emily. Every time I see Emily, I want her instead of Mary. The three of us, along with other friends, all spent a recent weekend whitewater rafting together. I couldn’t take my eyes off Emily, despite the fact that Mary is attractive, smart, kind and funny, and I have been thinking about her constantly.

Can I make the switch? Is this possible, or will I just ruin three friendships in the process? How would one go about it if it were?

Sincerely, One Too Many Dear OTM, Forget whitewater rafting — you’re rowing in far more dangerous waters. Crushes happen, but crushing on your girlfriend’s friend may send you up the proverbial creek without a paddle.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people decide the fate of their primary relationship based on whether they think they can seal the deal with someone else — it’s cruel and selfish. You have to decide if Mary is the right girl for you, and it’s not fair to base Mary’s worth on whether or not you think your advances to Emily will be reciprocated.

If you decide to end it with Mary, give it some time before pursuing Emily. You, Mary and the three friendships involved could use a little space to mellow before you navigate the rapids of a new relationship.

One more thought: I’m sensing a pattern here.

In previous relationships, you were pining after Mary. Now that you have Mary, you’re pining after someone else. You should give some serious consideration to your “grass is always greener” mentality. “Be here now” is a popular bumper sticker for a reason.

In the moment,

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Me: green Toyota, going to Water Tower Hill. Nice smile. Single? Hope to see you again soon. Wow! That was perfect. :) When: Monday, August 18, 2008. Where: Route 7 underpass, turning left toward St. Albans at traffic light, stopped. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904353 Hey, Mr. Postman North Street, Tuesday, Aug. 12: I am the guy in the blue car who slowed down and stopped. You came to the window, then I totally embarrassed myself by flirting with you. Are you at all interested? I’d love to share a drink or a coffee with you sometime. You looked familiar to me...

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When: Tuesday, August 12, 2008.

Where: North Street. You: Man. Me: Man. #904352 Cronus, AKA my favorite pirate Pillaging and plundering in the mud, rain dances and swilling blood were fun and surreal but R&R in the ‘holler was divine and sublime - sun, moon, porch, beer, Coltrane and Neruda - too bad you missed it! Ha! Thanks - you’re the best! When: Friday, August 8, 2008. Where: the mud, the rain and plenty of other places in between. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904351 Margie from Danville You smoked my cigar, I drank your drink.

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When: Friday, August 15, 2008. Where: Halvorson’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #904348 My Bulgarian Shushi I wish you’d realize how much you mean to me. You are a very special person. I want nothing more than to feel special to you and be a part of your life. You have my heart. When: Sunday, August 17, 2008.

Where: Sweetwaters. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904347 Beautiful woman on Automaster Shuttle You were the beautiful woman with a radiant smile on the Friday morning Automaster shuttle, on your way to GE. I noticed that you didn’t have a ring to go with that smile. Single? Let’s meet!

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I have found in this place that is circling all ‘round the sun. What a beautiful dream that could flash on the screen in a blink of an eye and be gone from me. Soft and sweet, let me hold it close and keep it here with me. When: Friday, August 15, 2008.

Where: in my mind and everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904344 LIKE~~~NESS Just when I thought I was going to fall over, you picked me back up. Art is not dead; it is at my very feet, it is in everything and everywhere. And thank you for reminding me. I’ll be seeing you around, I guess. Cheers! When: Saturday, July 5, 2008. Where: photo garden. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904342 My Knight I never believed in “Happily Ever After” until I met you. You have saved me with the goodness of your heart and soul. I may have saved your jacket for you - but you saved my heart. Guess what? When: Friday, August 15, 2008. Where: in my dreams.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #904341

CONSTANTINE, FIESTY RESTORE GREEK! Mutual lovers of books, words and madness. We spoke in Montpelier on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 9. You forgot something, and I saved it for you. Should you want it, I’m in the book (couldn’t find you - spelling is not my best quality).

When: Saturday, August 9, 2008. Where: The Restore, Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #904340 Red Square Last Wednesday night, Aug. 6, listening to Dave Grippo outdoors with 3 of your friends who were trying to find out why you are dating someone with so many red flags! Me: boldly joined in the conversation! I had on jeans and a pink shirt. Interested in a fun woman with no baggage? :) Contact me here. -Maria. When: Wednesday, August 6, 2008. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904338 Pearl Street Laundry, Aug. 14, 6 p.m.

Tall guy with short brown hair spies a beautiful redhead doing laundry and being bored. Your washer was still going when I left and I feel stupid for not making more eye contact or saying hi. So... Hi! Would you like to get a beer sometime? When: Thursday, August 14, 2008. Where: Pearl St. laundromat. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904337 Singles Event Matt, saw you on Wednesday night at Callahan Pub at the singles event. We were both new to the experience. Damn, you’re a hottie. I wanted to thank you for the beers and tell you that I really enjoyed talking with you. I would enjoy talking more and gazing into those amazing eyes of yours. Hope to hear from you. -Kim. When: Wednesday, August 13, 2008.

Where: Callahan Pub. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904336 august west, bearded blond playing frisbee Near the end of the August West Fest, I was packing my Subaru and you were playing Frisbee with some boys. I noticed you looking my way. Do I know you?

Wasn’t sure if you were looking because of interest or just wondering why I kept looking at you. Since I didn’t ask then...

Interested? Single? Want to play catch?

When: Saturday, August 9, 2008. Where: August West Fest in Jay. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904335 Beautiful bartender at Callahan’s At the Seven Days singles party, you wore a green Burton tee; I was the guy in black pants and a tan-and-black-striped shirt drinking ginger ale and cranberry.

I made the obvious pun about “gin-andjuice” but didn’t quite ask the “Single?

Interested?” question. I was thinking that you probably hear that from WAY too many male customers anyway. ;-) But if you are... When: Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Where: across the mahogany. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #904334 Downtown Citizens Bank Teller Every time I go into the downtown branch, you give me this special look that sends tingles down my spine. I see your beautiful, big, brown eyes every time I close my eyes. Think you have an engagement ring.

If so, there’s still time for me to show you what real love is. Let’s do dinner! When: Monday, August 11, 2008. Where: bank.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904332 hey mamma We made eye contact at Borders. You were going to meet up with your little ones. You were a bombshell. Give me a shout back.

We should do something exciting when you get free for a minute! When: Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Where: Borders. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904330 Sexy Landscaper You are an amazing man and I hope to wake up to you every morning. I know we’ve had some hard times but it only makes what we have so much more beautiful. I’m ready for our fresh start! Let’s make it a long adventure! When: Tuesday, August 12, 2008. Where: everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904329

Richmond Cumberland, three milk jugs Friday, Aug. 9, just after noon. Me: scruffy biker type. You: incredible Mom picking up milk in dark SUV. Opening the door with your foot was a nice touch. I said, “Must be out of milk.” I’m also a spouse and a parent, not on the prowl. However, there WAS something about you. Can you find time for an innocent cup of coffee and a motorcycle ride? No harm, no foul.

When: Saturday, August 9, 2008. Where: Cumberland Farms, Richmond. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904328 last name hawk?

You sang at my church Tuesday night. Are you in a band? If so, let me know so I can tune in! When: Tuesday, August 12, 2008. Where: Church of the Rock, St. Albans. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904327 spun my spin cycle I saw you at the Greers laundromat in Burlington around 4-ish. You have a lot of laundry and were driving a BMW. I honestly don’t know what to say - you where just plain hot. I was wearing a light green shirt and shorts. When: Tuesday, August 12, 2008. Where: Greers laundromat. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904326 Is “Molly” your pup?

I held the door for you at the Chittenden Bank, just after my dog made friends with yours, outside. Your dog is cute, my dog is cute; you’re cute, I’m cute. Let’s go for a swim! When: Monday, August 11, 2008.

Where: Chittenden Bank, Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904324 Directions to Super Cuts Last Thurs. or Fri. on Shelburne Rd. You got my attention and asked for directions to a Super Cuts. You complimented my white Ford truck; you had a white truck, too.

The shaggy hair was cute. Interested in meeting for drinks? When: Friday, August 15, 2008. Where: Shelburne Road. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #904323 Glimmering Goddess I think you may have just joined my gym, but I saw you there Saturday and Sunday glimmering with sweat and couldn’t stop staring at you out of the corner of my eye. You had on a tie-dyed shirt. I think I caught you looking my way a couple times. Care to have a workout buddy?

When: Sunday, August 10, 2008. Where: Planet Fitness. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904322 Mt. Womansfield Hi Alfred. I spy the most beautiful woman in the world picnicing near the top of Mt. Womansfield. What a perfect suggestion and lovely occasion. Thank you for slowing us down, pretty woman! Only thing I would change would have been for all of us to be there. Our children are beautiful and continue to amaze me. Love, Sissy “G.” When: Friday, August 8, 2008.

Where: Mt. Womansfield. You: Woman.

Me: Woman. #904321 Deborah, the sudoku champ Been trying to get the hang of it, but may need another lesson! Me: blond, glasses, red shirt. When: Friday, August 8, 2008.

Where: Langdon Street Cafe. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904320 Williston Starbucks I spied you drinking tea outside the Williston Starbucks and just being your usual amazing, well-dressed self. Your commentary is more refreshing than the coffee! Who’s been I-Spied now? When: Wednesday, August 6, 2008. Where: Williston Starbucks. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904319 Dancing Bambina I spy a lovely bambina dancing near Red Square. I was lucky to see you indeed.

When: Monday, August 4, 2008. Where: Burlington, in the alley. You: Woman.

Me: Man. #904318 Burlington farmers’ market To the beautiful brunette: Thanks for the long look and a perfect smile. You made my morning. When: Saturday, August 9, 2008. Where: Farmers’ Market, 9:30.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904316 I Spy Sexy Girls Skating in the rain and working the Echo Center door at the SEVEN DAYSIES soiree!

Mad love for y’all, Hell on Hot Wheels Honies! ;D When: Friday, August 8, 2008.

Where: Waterfront Park, Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904315 Jersey Boy at Starr Farm You: NJ boy with Boston/rat terrier mix.

Me: hands full with three dogs. Seemed like there was more to say, but we both ran out of time, am I wrong? Would love to meet for coffee to find out. When: Saturday, August 9, 2008. Where: Starr Farm Dog Park, Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904314 starry farm, rainy night We met in the rain. Jess and Boone hit it off; maybe we will, too. When: Friday, August 8, 2008. Where: Dog Park. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904313

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BOO BOO IN THE VALLEY When you walked out the door, I never thought it would be for the last time. A million reasons why not can’t beat the one reason why. 143. When: Sunday, August 3, 2008. Where: St. J. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904312 AND YOUR HAIR LOOKS FABULOUS I spy you hiking the city streets, exploring the parks and wandering in the meadow.

What you have given me is more than I could have asked and all that it needs to be.

The only way to explain to outsiders is that it’s right as it is. Thank you for your support and unconditional friendship. When: Thursday, August 7, 2008. Where: around.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904311 TO THE OP REACHER I hear ya, and I got a Shed to share whenever.

Other skills, too. When: Thursday, July 31, 2008. Where: The Other Place. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904310 PYT (PRETTY YOUNG THING) Words cannot express how much I will miss my lovely Lindsay. You have taught me so much in such a short time. I will miss you very much while you are off in a new city teaching others how to PYT. I love you very much and wish you my best. -Your biggest fan. When: Friday, August 8, 2008.

Where: Kiss the Cook. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904309 I SPY A GODDESS AT P.G. ADAMS Your name is Taja. You are the most amazing woman I’ve ever seen. You have the wildest eyes and prettiest smile I’ve seen. Let me take you away to an exotic island and worship the ground beneath you. When: Thursday, July 17, 2008. Where: South Burlington at P.G. Adams. You: Woman.

Me: Man. #904308

BEAUTIFUL BAR MAIDEN AT STONECUTTERS Eliza, even though the beers were tasty, it was your killer smile that almost made this solitary patron on a Friday afternoon stay for one too many. See you somewhere outside the pub? When: Friday, August 1, 2008. Where: Stonecutters Brewhouse, Barre. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #904302 I SPY AWESOME KINDNESS WARRIORS To the three women from Green Mountain Animal Defenders, braving the rain on Church Street Marketplace at 12.30 today: You totally rock! Great job for a great cause.

I admire you. When: Thursday, August 7, 2008. Where: The Marketplace. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904301 M. FROM MONTPELIER That’s all I really know; we kinda lost touch (my fault). You worked at Ri Ra’s (where I met you) for a bit before returning to work in a restaurant/bar in Montpelier. It would be great to hear from you and catch up.

When: Wednesday, June 1, 2005. Where: Ri Ra’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904300 RE: KEY FOB STYLE My fob is blue without you. Are you the fob of my dreams? Maybe we can switch key fobs sometime? Play a little tennis? Or pingpong? There are some games I really, really like to play. Wink, wink. When: Thursday, July 31, 2008. Where: the playground.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #904299 HOPEFUL You: at the stern of the boat. Me: coming down the stairs with Hope written across my shirt, waving and smiling. Sorry I missed you and for the delayed response. Coffee would be great; contact me! When: Friday, July 11, 2008. Where: Pride Cruise. You: Man. Me: Man. #904298

WOMAN AT TIFT MERRITT CONCERT You were standing in back during most of the Tift Merritt concert at Contois Auditorium.

You had blond hair and were petite. I was also standing in back, as I waited for a friend. We exchanged a few glances. I looked for you at the end, but to no avail.

When: Thursday, July 24, 2008. Where: Tift Merritt Concert, Contois Auditorium.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904305

HAZEL How much more is it going to take? How strong do the signs have to be? How many dreams do we have to dream? How much longer will the pain and longing last? Face everything or forget everything - the second one doesn’t seem to work for either of us.

When: Sunday, July 31, 2005. Where: everywhere, every day. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904297

WOMAN AT VOLUNTEERS GREEN, RICHMOND You were passing an afternoon at Volunteers Green in Richmond, possibly meeting up with a friend. You had blond hair pulled back and white pants, and wore glasses. Our eyes met a couple of times, and I said hello in passing while you were leaving. Then you drove away in an orange car. A week later, I still remember you vividly. When: Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Where: Volunteers Green, Richmond. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904304

SQUIFFY Hoping all is well with you. It’s been a while since we’ve caught up so, I thought I’d I Spy you. I miss doing homework with you. Give me a call. When: Monday, June 9, 2008.

Where: Montpelier. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #904294

UVM TRACK STAR LIZ You were at Olive Garden Tuesday night at 9:30 with three of your friends - a guy and two girls, one wearing purple pants. We talked about what it was like running at the armory. You and your friends seemed cool.

I wanted to see what you thought of mine and if you wanted to be one of them. When: Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Where: Olive Garden. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904303

TWO BROTHERS GODDESS You: sitting at the end of the bar with an older woman. Beautiful, blue eyes, great laugh, burgundy shirt. I’ve seen you a few times but I’m scared to talk to you. I think you might be dating the bartender who wears suspenders. If not, would you like to meet for a drink sometime? Me: blue shirt, watching the ball game. When: Monday, August 4, 2008. Where: Two Brothers, Middlebury. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904293

LOOKING FOR GNARLY KILLER GUY I think I saw you recently. Could it have been at SQ in South Burlington? Wanna hang out sometime, go biking or hiking? When: Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Where: at work (?). You: Man. Me: Woman. #904292 SATURDAY NIGHT BINGO HOTTIE This awesome guy sat next to me at back yard bingo in Colchester. We joked all night.

But I must say, my jokes were more like flirts. I’m interested in you and saw you give me a look and grope three times - yummy!

When: Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Where: back yard bingo. You: Man. Me: Man. #904291 HURTS AS YOU GET OLDER. “Older” skater dude huffing and puffing at the Barre skate park. Claimed I couldn’t be that old to be huffing and puffing like I was.

(I arrived earlier!) You’ll get that manual!

When: Monday, July 28, 2008. Where: Travis Mercy Memorial Skate Park, East Barre. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #904290 SHELBURNE BEACH Talked with you in the lake (and when I got out) at Shelburne Beach. You were with an elderly lady. You sort of look like Jennifer Guthrie (Dawn#4 on General Hospital, Seinfeld’s “the sponge”). Maybe you ARE Jennifer Guthrie! Let me know! When: Friday, August 1, 2008. Where: Shelburne Beach. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904288 LIKE TO SEE YOU I’ve been watching you and am in love with you. We are very different but complementary. Every time I see you, I feel like I’m being reunited with an old, old friend - maybe even a part of myself I lost somewhere. When: Monday, August 4, 2008. Where: around Montpelier, at Kismet. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #904287 YOU ROCK MY WORLD I spied the most beautiful senorita. Dinner and then dancing - what a lovely night out!

Oh, Baby, how I enjoy dancing with and for you, hair down and bottom up. You make “everything” about me dance. I wait by the phone hoping you will call me so we can “do it” all over and over and over again.

-Pool Girl. When: Sunday, August 3, 2008.

Where: Washington County. You: Woman.

Me: Woman. #904286 WOMAN WITH LONG, BLACK HAIR You were in Price Chopper in St. Albans around the end of June or July, I think. We looked at each other long enough to know we saw each other. I used to live across from you. When: Tuesday, July 1, 2008.

Where: Price Chopper. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904285 PLAYING MUSIC IN THE SUN Saw you playing your guitar down at the waterfront Friday. You had dark, shaggy hair. I don’t think you saw me; I was just another hippie chick passing by. Wanted you to know that I was drawn to you. Weird.

Anyway... “Let there be songs to fill the air.”

Be well. When: Friday, August 1, 2008.

Where: Burlington waterfront. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904283

PRICE CHOPPER ICE-CREAM HELPER You were wearing a purple shirt and couldn’t decide which flavor of Ben & Jerry’s would best suit your evening, but you were able to help me track down the flavor that I sought for a friend’s birthday party. You’re sweet, funny and cute, and I appreciated the help.

Coffee sometime, perhaps? When: Saturday, August 2, 2008. Where: Price Chopper.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #904282 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday to my clan! Ali, Wolf and Jared, you’re all growing up too fast! I love you all! May your days be full of love and laughter! -Mom. When: Monday, August 4, 2008. Where: at home. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904281 HAPPY BELATED 41ST, SPONGEBOB! I know that deep down you’d rather be likened to Jimmy Neutron, but who can beat the loveability factor of little SpongeBob? I’m very sad that I messed up my relationship with you. :( I spoke from the heart and I guess I shouldn’t have. I hope you don’t hold it against me forever! When: Thursday, July 31, 2008. Where: in my heart. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #904280 DYLAN, DYLAN, DYLAN, DYLAN Your homeboy in California says come out sometime, call. When: Friday, August 3, 2007. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Man. #904279 ROCKSTAR The way you make me feel... You knock me off of my feet... My tongue dances behind my lips for you. When: Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Where: Starbucks. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904278 MUSIC STORE DYLAN FAN Me: buying two Dylan albums. You: told me they’re your two favorites. I thought you were cute in that yellow shirt. I felt like going on about defending “Desire” but there was a line behind me. You must have good taste in music. Care to chat about it? When: Saturday, August 2, 2008. Where: Pure Pop. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904277 JOGGER, RED SHORTS, WINOOSKI I saw you and whistled thinking you were someone else but was so glad you came back to talk to me. Would have loved to get to know you more. I’m Rick; I also live in Winooski. Maybe we can get sweaty together sometime because you are so, so, so, so hot.

When: Saturday, August 2, 2008. Where: Winooski. You: Man. Me: Man. #904276 HIGHER GROUND, FIRST FRIDAY, AUG. 1 Sambuca on the rocks! It was very nice seeing you out and chatting with you. I sort of lost my voice this morning, I guess from yelling over the music. We should have exchanged numbers. When: Friday, August 1, 2008. Where: Higher Ground, First Friday. You: Man. Me: Man. #904275 GR WAITRESS You look like someone who’s into milkshakes and reptiles. Maybe we share some other common interests. Midnight pirate paddle, perhaps? When: Friday, August 1, 2008.

Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904274

LOOKING FOR MON AMIE Tammy, I hope you see this. I miss ma partenaire! Too much time has passed. My heart hurts! Let’s meet for lunch or dinner or a long walk on a nice beach. :) Time passes too quickly. I miss those big brown eyes.

Call or email me. -Robert. When: Thursday, December 16, 2004. Where: ccv. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904273 MAPLE TREE PLACE HAIRSTYLIST Your curly black hair and tattoos caught my eye through the window of your shop. Think you might have caught me staring. Single?

Can I take you to lunch? When: Thursday, July 31, 2008. Where: Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904272 OP REACH-AROUND I was reaching to poke a friend; you thought I was stealing your beer. You gave me the crazy brows and introduced yourself as Will.

Severe talent in the eyebrow department.

Any other hidden skills? Ha. You disappeared before I could ask. Share a Shed? When: Thursday, July 31, 2008. Where: The Other Place. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904271 AMAZING GIRL AT YANKEE LANES I spy the most amazing girl at Yankee Lanes Thursday night. Your name, I believe, is Kimi. I would give you the world and treat you like a queen. Please let me be your knight in shining armor. When: Thursday, July 31, 2008. Where: Yankee Lanes. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904270 HAVE A GOOD DAY! To the beautiful brunette with the great smile for whom I held the door while I was on my way out. Wish I had the time to stay and chat. Are you up for another cup of coffee? When: Friday, August 1, 2008.

Where: Starbucks, Shelburne Rd. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904269 SEEMS A PIECE OF MYSELF I spy Jennifer from Jeffersonville. Sometimes I wonder, do you know... Sometimes I wonder, will you go... Sometimes I wonder if you’re ever lonely. When: Friday, August 1, 2008. Where: in my dreams. You: Woman.

Me: Man. #904268 FARM AT THE COBBLE For my favorite blond Hinesburg organic veggie farmer: I’m going to miss you so much this coming year! You rock my socks.

When: Thursday, July 31, 2008. Where: Hinesburg Farmers’ Market. You: Woman.

Me: Woman. #904267 MY BOY WITH THE ‘FRO I’m going to miss you so much next year, baby. I love you more than words can say.

You’re amazing and you have been so good for me. Remember, we only fight because we have something worth fighting for. I love you. When: Friday, December 15, 2006. Where: everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904266 ZYDECO PINK SHOES Jazz Fest: danced - me barefoot, you in wild sneakers. Lots of smiles, had a great time.

Want to smile some more? When: Thursday, June 5, 2008. Where: waterfront jazz tent. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904265

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dance Ballet to Modern - FlynnArts: Weekly classes begin Sept.

15. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main Street, Burlington. Info: 802-652-4548, www.flynncenter.org. Experience your body as an expressive instrument and discover your unique movement capabilities! Classes aim to instill a lifelong love of dance for all ages and include Ballet, Tap for Kids, Tap/Funk, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Modern, and Fitness Dance; Zumba, Nia, and a special workshop for mature adults.

acting Acting Classes - FlynnArts: Weekly classes begin Sept. 15.

Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main Street, Burlington. Info: 802-652-4548, www.flynncenter.org. Emphasizing individual expression, creative choice and fun! Classes for kids, teens and adults include Creative Capers in Dance & Drama; Play Makers; Acting, Improv & Broadway Fun; Teen Musical Theater; Adult Acting for Bashful Beginners; and Laugh Attack: Stand Up Comedy for Men & Women.

IMPROVILICIOUS!: Sep. 10 - Oct. 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m., weekly on Wednesdays. Cost: $195/4-week class with performance. Location: Designhaus, 22 Church St., 2nd Floor, Burlington. Info: Designhaus, 802-310-5019, designhaus. org@gmail.com, designhaus.org.

Learn from an environment of play and increase laughter capacity with developmental improv games and long-form improv! Students will be encouraged to tap into individual creativity, spontaneity and intuition. Culminating event: a performance with a live studio audience on Friday, Oct. 3, coinciding with Burlington’s First Friday Art Walk.

acupuncture Longevity Workshop: Sep. 1, 6-8 p.m. No charge. Location: Optimum Health Acupunture & Chinese Herbal Medicine, 310 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 802-859-8900. The Chinese have long recognized that there is no reason for age to slow us down if we are proactive in our health. We should feel good well into our 80s and 90s. Find out how acupuncture can help you do that. Acupuncture treatment included.

astrology INTRODUCTION TO ASTROLOGY: Sep. 13 - Oct. 4, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., weekly on Saturday. Cost:

$60 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info, Pat 802-479-5017 or Sue 802-244-7909. A basic course for the novice, introducing the ancient symbol system of the stars and how it relates to your inner and outer life. Taught by Patrick Ross, P.E.

body BODY AWARENESS: Sep. 3 - Dec. 3, 11:45 a.m. - 2:45 p.m., weekly on Wednesday. Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-865-4422, www.ccv.edu. Develops the posture and movement of the body through examination and practice of a variety of body awareness techniques.

Three-credit class. Instructor, Laura Wisniewski. Call 802-652-2087 to register now by appt.

bodywork Ortho-Bionomy The Spine Phse 4: Sep. 15 - Oct. 13, 69:30 p.m. Cost: $265/$250 early registration discount. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts School of Massage, 187 St. Paul Street, Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info @ touchstonehealingar t s. com, www.touchstonehealingarts. com. Don’t be fooled by the funny name! This stuff really works. Come and explore this exciting modality that is gentle, noninvasive and highly effective. We will learn specific techniques for facilitating release of neck, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and pelvis. No prerequisites needed. See website for more details.

communication American Sign Language: Two 12-class sessions. First session begins Sept. 15, second session begins Nov. 3. Classes meet Mon. & Thurs. from 6-8 p.m. Cost: $150 /session. Participant purchases own book. Location: Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Williston. Info: Connie,

Ballet/Jazz (ages 5-7): Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 3:30-4:15 p.m., weekly on Monday. Cost: $40 /members, $60 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Stacia Judd, Family Programs Coordinator, 802862-8993, orsjudd@gbymca.org, www.gbymca.org. A fun mix of two styles for young dancers. Students will use basic techniques, skills and combinations to develop simple choreography for a parent performance at the end of the session.

Ballroom Dancing: Mondays and Thursdays in Burlington and Sunday in Shelburne. Cost: $50 /4 weeks (per person). Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley Street; Shelburne Town Hall, 5420 Shelburne Road, Burlington and Shelburne. Info: First Step Dance, Kevin Laddison, 802-598-6757, www.FirstStepDance.com. Level I classes for beginners, Level II and above for experienced dancers. We host dances (with lessons) on the second and fourth Friday of each month. No experience is necessary, just an interest in learning to dance. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance!

Beginner Ballet (ages 3-4): Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 4-4:45 p.m., weekly on Thursday. Cost: $40 /members, $60 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Greater Burlington YMCA, 266 College St., Burlington. Info: Stacia Judd, Family Programs Coordinator, 802-862-8993, orsjudd@gbymca. org, www.gbymca.org. A great first class for your budding ballet star. Students will learn basic positions and practice beginner ballet techniques through fun and imagination-inspired games.

Belly Dancing: Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 7:30-8:30 p.m., weekly on Monday. Cost: $45/members, $90 non-members for 8 weeks. Location: Greater Burlington YMCA, 266 College St., Burlington. Info: Dianne Schwartz, Group Fitness Coordinator, 802-862-8993, www. gbymca.org. While exploring this ancient fold art, you will be having too much fun to notice that you are toning muscles and improving your coordination and balance.

Dance Studio Salsalina: Cost: $12/class. Location: 266 Pine St.,

Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

Salsa classes, nightclub-style. Oneon-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

FUNDAMENTALS OF JAZZ DANCE: Sep. 8 - Dec. 15, 3-6 p.m., weekly on Monday. Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-865-4422, www.ccv.edu. An introduction to jazz dance techniques, aesthetics and theory. Three-credit class. Also includes hip-hop, Latin and African dance. Instructor, Karen Amirault.

Call 802-652-2087 to register now by appt. Open registration begins Mon. 8/11.

Hip-Hop (ages 16 & up): Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 6:30-7:30 p.m., weekly on Thursday. Cost: $45 /members, $70 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Dianne Schwartz, Group Fitness Coordinator, 802862-8993, dschwartz@gbymca. org, www.gbymca.org. Like to dance? Are you looking for a good workout that’s fun? Come learn the latest music video dance moves that will increase strength, flexibility and technique. No experience necessary!

INTRODUCTION TO TAP DANCE: Sep. 8 - Dec. 15, 6:15-9:15 p.m., weekly on Monday. Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-865-4422, www.ccv.edu. An introduction to tap dance techniques, aesthetics and theory. Three-credit class. Instructor, Karen Amirault. Call 802652-2087 to register now by appt.

Open registration begins Mon. 8/11.

design/build 6-Day Earthen Oven Intensive: Sep. 22-27. Cost: $550/6 days, including meals & camping.

Location: Black Falls Farm, Black Falls Road, Montgomery. Info: Seven Generations Natural Builders, Mark Krawczyk, 802-9992768, www.sgnb.com. Learn to build your own earthen bread and pizza oven from local, natural materials. Using wood, stone and clay, explore the entire construction process, including dry stone foundation, insulated earthen oven and wood-frame shelter. Presentations, lecture and hands-on construction cover building fundamentals, including siting, design, materials selection and more.

Site Tech A & B Review: Aug. 22, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cost: $150/lunch provided. Location: Randolph Center, Vermont. Info: freed@vtc.edu, csp.vtc.edu. Formerly Site Tech A. Field practice supported by lecture for those planning to get their Site Tech A & B certification for septic system design and for those brushing up on their soil test pit description skills. Identify soil texture, soil layers, mottling and site limitations for septic design. Bring a measuring tape and

soil-scraping tool, we’ll provide the expert guidance, the hole and the test pit logs. Instructor: Gunner McCain, McCain Consulting.

Yestermorrow Design/Build: Cost: $300/2-day class (materials fee may be applicable.) Scholarships available. Location: Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Route 100, Warren. Info: Yestermorrow Design/Build School, 802-496-5545, designbuild@ yestermorrow.org, www.yester morrow.org. GREEN REHABILITATION, 9/13-9/14: Green building and energy conservation relative to historic preservation and adaptive reuse. POWERTOOLS FOR WOMEN, 9/13-9/14: Covering a variety of power tools in a safe, friendly, supportive environment. SUPERINSULATION FOR NET-ZERO ENERGY HOMES, 9/20-9/21: Learn simple modeling of building performance and affordable approaches to insulation and weatherization.

drumming Burlington Taiko Classes: Cost: $53/Adult Beginner Class.

Location: Taiko Space, 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. $40/5 weeks. Adults 5:30-6:20 p.m. $53/6 weeks. Sessions begin 9/9. Gift certificates are available!

For a full schedule of classes or more info, go online or email.

Richmond Taiko Classes: For a full schedule of classes or more info, go to website. Location: Richmond Free Library Community Room, downtown Richmond.

Info: 802-434-2624, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org. Paid pre-registration is due 1-week before the session start dates and there is a 10-person minimum for each class.

Pre-registrants will receive $5 off their session fee (the first price shown below). Gift certificates are available! Kids & parents’ class (beginners), 6-6:50 p.m. $36/$40/4 weeks. Adult class (beginners) 77:50 p.m. $40/$44/4 weeks. Sessions begin 9/11.

empowerment HIGH SENSE PERCEPTION WORKSHOP: Sep. 9-23, 7-9 p.m., weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $45. Location: 911 Dorset Street, South Burlington. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909.

Learn to use the full range of your psychic abilities and work with energy fields. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Limited to 10 students. For directions call Kathy 802-999-8081.

YOUR INTERIOR MAPPING LANDSCAPe: September. Dates TBA. Cost: $45 Location: TBA. Safari through your inner landscape with images, metaphors, myths and symbols to illuminate your journey through life. Led by Kathy Rude, teacher and trainer.

Info, Kathy 802-879-3379 or Sue 802-244-7909.

energy Solar Design/Installation: Sep. 15-20. Cost: $950 /6 days, instruction and materials. Location: NorthWoods Stewardship Center, PO Box 220, 154 Leadership Dr, East Charleston. Info: NorthWoods Stewardship Center, Jayson Benoit, 802-723-6551, jayson@northwoodscenter.org, http://www.northwoodscenter. org. This course will cover all aspects of photovoltaics, from electricity 101 to site analysis, system sizing, components, wiring, installation, operations and maintenance. Participants will install a new PV system with acquired knowledge and skills. Configurations and design of grid and offgrid systems will be covered. Lots of hands-on practice.

fitness Latin Caribbean Cardio Dance: Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 6:30-7:30 p.m., weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $45/members, $70 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Dianne Schwartz, Group Fitness Coordinator, 802862-8993, dschwartz@gbymca. org, www.gbymca.org. Learn the heart pounding movements of the Salsa, Merengue, Samba, Soca and Reggaetone in this dance workout.

Leave this class feeling invigorated!

Nia: Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 6:30-7:30 p.m., weekly on Monday. Cost: $45 /members, $70 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Dianne Schwartz, Group Fitness Coordinator, 802-862-8993, dschwartz@gbymca.org, www. gbymca.org. Nia is a body-mindspirit fitness and lifestyle practice.

Through expressive movement that combines elements of tai-chi, yoga and dance, Nia empowers people to achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being.

healing arts Healing Touch Levels 1 & 2: Level One: Oct. 3 & 10 or Oct. 11 & 12. Level Two: Jan. 10 & 11, 2009. All classes run 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. Cost: $333/per level, $308 for HTI/AHNA members, $225 student/repeater/elders/teen. $50 materials fee. Inquire about early discounts. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, South Burlington.

Info: HarManna, LLC, Amy Billings, 802-878-0911, pictureofhealth@ harmanna.com. Level One: For anyone interested in learning more about energy therapy, exploring the magnificence of their human body and commitment to personal growth. Instructor: Lucrezia Mangione. Level Two: For students who have completed Level 1 and wish to further study. Instructor: Kathleen Scacciaferro. HTI certified, AHNA endorsed. AHNA and NCBTMB Continuing Education units. Discounts available.

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NAMI-Vermont Family to Family: Location: 5 locations Throughout the state, Berlin, Burlington, Manchester, Middlebury & White River Junction. Info: NAMI-Vermont, NAMI-Vermont, 800-639-6480, namivt@verizon. net, www.namivt.org. Family to Family: a free 12-week course offering family members of individuals with mental illness the latest facts about methods of treatment, chances for recovery, how to take care of yourself & meet other family members.

Creative Movement (ages 2.54): Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 9 a.m. - 9:45 p.m., weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $40/members, $60 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Stacia Judd, Family Programs Coordinator, 802862-8993, orsjudd@gbymca.org, www.gbymca.org. This class is a playful combination of ballet, improvisational dance, gymnastics and yoga. Parents are welcome to participate.

herbs Holistic Physiology: Cost: $480. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 250 Main St., Suite 302, Montpelier.

Info: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 802-224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org, www. vtherbcenter.org. Study the human body systems and how they function, exploring the mechanisms of fluid & electrolyte regulation, exercise & stress response, and endocrine regulation and focusing on nutrient and herbal pathways for each of the systems. See website, www.vtherbcenter.org for specific dates and times. Classes begin Thursday, Sept. 11.

Oriental Herbal Medicine: Location: Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl St., Essex Junction. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160, elementsofheal ing@verizon.net, www.element sofhealing.net. Class meets one weekend/month and will focus on the use of Chinese and Japanese herbs, working with loose herbs and combining them into formulas. Students will learn the fundamentals of Oriental diagnosis and theory, Yin Yang theory, 5 element, 8 principle, and An in study of abdominal, tongue and pulse diagnosis.

Wisdom of the Herbs School: Wild Edible Intensive 2008-2009: Enhancing Local Food Security.

Class meets for two terms, three Sundays each term from 10 a.m.

- 4 p.m. Late Summer Term: Aug. 10, Sept. 7 & Oct. 5. Still accepting applications for late summer term. Spring Term: May 24, June 14 & July 12, 2009. Tuition: $480 for both terms or $240 each term. $50 non-refundable deposit each term. VSAC non-degree grants avail.. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, South Woodbury.

Info: Annie McCleary, Director, 802-456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www.

WisdomOf TheHerbsSchool.com.

Wild harvesting food has been the way of life for most of the history of humanity. The end of the age of cheap oil and the reality of global warming require that we once again find our food locally.

jewelry Macrame as Meditation: Aug. 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $30 /2-hour class. Location: Spirit Dancer/Star Root, 125 So. Winooski Ave, Burlington. Info: Spirit Dancer/Star Root, Christa Giddinge, 802-660-8060. Macrame is the art of tying knots. In this class, we will make affirmation bracelets focusing on the repetitive process of tying knots as a meditation form. Choose from an assortment of beads made from natural materials. Join us and learn to create a daily meditation practice at home.

New! Kids Dance Party Class: Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 4:30-5:15 p.m., weekly on Monday. Cost: $40 /members, $60 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Stacia Judd, Family Programs Coordinator, 802862-8993, orsjudd@gbymca.org, www.gbymca.org. Is your child wild about High School Musical?

This class will help them learn how to move like their favorite film and pop stars. Children will enjoy a fun mix of hip-hop and party dance crazes like the Cha Cha Slide and put together their own routine to perform (ages 8-12).

Tiny Tots (12 mo. - 2.5 years): Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 10-10:40 a.m., weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $40 /members, $60 nonmembers for 8-week class. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Stacia Judd, Family Programs Coordinator, 802-8628993, orsjudd@gbymca.org, www. gbymca.org. You and your toddler will have a wonderful time meeting new friends and burning energy in this active class filled with dance, music, games, tumbling and more.

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, www.storm boarding.com. Learn one of two great water sports. Get windsurfing in 1 hour (thanks to modern equipment). Kitesurfing begins with a ground school lesson (2 hours) followed by your first water lesson (3 hours). See detailed info on www. stormboarding.com. Beginning and advanced, individual and group lessons available 7 days/week. $60-$150.

language FRENCH CLASSES, Colchester: Cost: $180/8 1.5-hr. classes.

Location: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, 304 Dupont Bldg., Ethan Allen Ave, Colchester. Info: Micheline Tremblay, 802-497-0420, michelin eatremblay@gmail.com. Classes begin Sept. 15. Four levels available: Mondays: Advanced French Conversation; Tuesdays: Beginning French; Wednesdays: Intermediate French A; Thursdays: Intermediate French B. 6:30-8 p.m. Call or email for info or to register.

Cost: Spanish classes: $150/1.15 minutes. Location: 123SpanishNow, Williston. Info: 123SpanishNow, Constancia Gomez, www.123spanishnow.com.

Beginner and Intermediate Spanish class. 10 full weeks starting first week of Sept. (day TBA), at Williston School. These classes are designed for both new and return-

ing students. Music, politics and cultural knowledge spice up the class. Led by Constancia, a native of Argentina. To register, email constanciag@123spanishnow.com or call 802-917-1776.

SPANISH IN WATERBURY CENTER: Cost: $155 /10 1-hour classes. Location: TBD, Waterbury Center.

Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 802-659-4181, spanishpara vos@gmail.com, spanishparavos. googlepages.com. Ten-week fall session begins Sept. 15-18. Learn from a native speaker in a small class environment. Beginning to Advanced Spanish classes are 1 hour per week. Available class times: Monday-Thursday, 5:306:30 and 6:50-7:50 p.m. Also: customized classes, private tutoring and lessons for children scheduled at your convenience.

martial arts AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY: Adult introductory classes begin Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 5:30 p.m. No childrens’ classes in Aug.; children’s classes resume on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 4 p.m. Open house and demonstration on Fri., Sept.

5 at 7 p.m. & Sat. Sept. 6 at 11 a.m.. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, aiki dovt.org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome. Gift certificates are available.

MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CTR: Introductory Class. Location: One minute off I-89 at Exit 17, Colchester. Info: 802-8938893. Day and evening classes for adults. Afternoon and Saturday classes for children. Group and private lessons. Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Arnis and Wing Chun Kung Fu. T’AI CHI - MONTPELIER: Cost: $90/12-week semester. Location: Montpelier Shambhala Center, 64 Main St, 3rd Fl, Montpelier. Info: Ellie Hayes, 802-456-1983. Hwa Yu T’ai Chi: Fall Semester begins Monday, Sept. 8. Introductory class: 55:45 p.m. at 64 Main St., 3rd floor, across from City Hall in Montpelier.

Instructor Ellie Hayes has been teaching T’ai Chi since 1974. Come experience the many benefits of T’ai Chi for yourself.

Vermont Aikido Open House: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N Winooski Ave, Burlington. Info: 802-862-9785, www.vermontai kido.org. Saturday, August 23, 24 p.m. Aikido demonstrations at 2:30 & 3:30, snacks and refreshments provided. INTRO CLASS: 4 consecutive Wednesdays beginning September 3, 6-7:30 p.m. CLASSES: Tues.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m., Sat.-Sun., 10-11:30 a.m. Visitors welcome!

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, cardio-respiratory 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 5-Time Brazilian Champion - Rio de Janeiro, certified 6th Degree Black Belt under Carlson Gracie.

Classes for men, women and children. First class is free.

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massage 650 HR Massage Training: Sep. 9 - May 31, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts School of Massage, 187 St. Paul Street, Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts School of Massage, 802-658-7715, info@ touchstonehealingarts.com, www. touchstonehealingarts.com. We are still accepting applications for our 650-hour Massage Practitioner Training Program. Visit our website for a detailed description of this exciting course. Fill out an online application. Spaces are limited.

Give yourself the gift of a year of deep learning and a skill that will last a lifetime!

Aromassage Therapy Class: 10-month Certified Training Course. Location: BodySoul Rehab Massage & School, 6 Fairfield Hill Road, St Albans. Info: BodySoul Rehab Massage & School, Hope Bockus, C.M.T (Instructor), 802524-9005, www.bodysoulmassag eschool.com. Saturdays, starting October 11, for 10 months. $500 scholarship for health-care professionals and cosmetologists. Financial options and payment plans available. Check our website for more info on becoming a successful therapist today. Register by Sept.

20 (only 4 openings left).

Asian Bodywork Therapy Program: Cost: $5,000/500hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl Street, Essex Junction. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160, www.elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of Oriental massage, Amma and Shiatsu.

We will explore Oriental medicine theory, the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang Theory and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, diagnostic methods of pulse, abdominal and tongue diagnosis are taught giving students the tools to treat a wide range of imbalances.

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.burl ingtonshambhalactr.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.

The Art of Being Human: Cost: $85/4 sessions (students: $45).

Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 South Winooski Ave. (corner of King St.), Burlington.

Info: Burlington Shambhala Center, 802-658-6795, burlington. shambhala.org. Shambhala Training Level I. 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. Meet for four sessions: Tuesdays, Sept.

9, 16 & 23, 6:30-9 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 13, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

music BURLINGTON COMMUNITY CHOIR: Sep. 10 - Dec. 10, 7-8:30 p.m., weekly on Wednesday. Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-865-4422, www.ccv.edu.

Explore a variety of music including spirituals, traditional and contemporary folk songs, classical and world music. No auditions required; beginners and “shower singers” welcome! Non-credit workshop. Semester dues $55. Directed

by Amity Baker. Open registration begins Mon. 8/11.

FlynnArts Music Classes!: Weekly classes begin Sept. 15.

Location: A variety of vocal and instrumental classes serving a wide age range – from young infants to veteran learners – that broaden musical knowledge, help develop coordination, and enhance performance skills. Classes include Music Makers; Group Singing Lessons; Vocal Improv; Group Guitar; Teen Musical Theater; and special Jazz Combos.

FUNDAMENTALS OF SINGING: Sep. 3 - Dec. 10, 3-5:45 p.m., weekly on Wednesday. Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-8654422, www.ccv.edu. An introduction to vocal technique, ensemble singing and musicianship for the beginning singer. Call 802-6522087 to register now by appt. Open registration begins Mon. 8/11.

MUSIC CLASSES AT CCV!: Classes start the first week of September.

Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-865-4422, www.ccv.edu.

Classes include: Music Fundamentals, Music Theory, Piano I, Guitar I, Intro to Technology in Music and Intro to Rock and Roll. Music classes cover a variety of musical styles including jazz, rock, pop, traditional and world music. Call 802-6522087 to register now by appt. Open registration begins Mon. 8/11.

painting Level I Watercolor: Sep. 18 - Oct. 30, 6:30-8:30 p.m., weekly on Thursdays. 6 weeks (no class Oct. 2). Location: Shelburne Art Center, 54 Falls Road, Shelburne.

Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802985-3648. This class offers watercolor basics for those just starting or with little experience. Learn color theory and basic watercolor techniques through color exercises and experiments with still life and elements of landscape painting.

Members $130, nonmembers $145, materials $50 (paid directly to instructor). More visual arts classes online at www.shelburneartcenter. org.

photography AUGUST WORKSHOPS @DESIGNHAUS!: Please call to reserve your spot! Cost: $50/3-hour workshop.

Location: DESIGNHAUS, 22 Church St., 2nd Floor, Burlington. Info: DESIGNHAUS, 802-310-5019, d e s i g nha u s .o r g @ g ma il .c o m, designhaus.org. Saturday, 8/23, 5:30-8:30 p.m., INTRO TO DIGITAL CAMERA: “What does this button do?” Learn it here! Monday, 8/25, 5:30-8:30 p.m., DIGITAL WORKFLOW: From capture to presentation using Photoshop, Lightroom and Photo Mechanic! Thursday, 8/28, 6-9 p.m., HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Slideshow lecture on the evolution of stylistic and technical photographic processes!

pilates A unique Pilates Experience: Cost: $45/private sessions, $25/ semi-private sessions. Location: The Pilates Den, Williston. Info: 802-318-6378, www.pilatesden. com. Discover Pilates with Polestar certified instructor Shannon Lashua. Years of experience combined with creativity promises fun, informative, stress-relieving sessions in a supportive environment. Private sessions and semi-private sessions are offered on the equipment, as well as small group mat classes, all in the comfort of a sun-filled home studio.

ABSOLUTE PILATES: Affordable, invigorating group mat classes and 1-on-1 sessions that rock your body, not your wallet. Location: Espire, 12 Gregory Drive, Suite One, South Burlington. Info: 802310-2614, www.absolutepilatesvt. com. Tone, stretch, strengthen and shape up for summer with certified classical Pilates & Polestar Pilates instructor Lynne Martens. Sculpt a great new body in group mat classes or private lessons on reformer, Wunda chair and tower unit in an attractive welcoming locale. Visit our website for pricing, class times and specials.

Natural Bodies Pilates: Call today to hear about our Back to School Specials. Join Pilates Mat and Reformer, Ballet Conditioning, or Integrative Movement classes - or combine all three in our Beginning and Intermediate Studio classes. Private sessions, class cards and per-class rates available. Free Group Introductions, and special rates on private introductions by appointment..

Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Hwy 127, just north of the Burlington Beltline), Colchester. Info: Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, lucille@natural bodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Learn to shape your body, relieve stress and develop core strength, awareness, coordination and ease of movement in a supportive environment. Enjoy movement that feels right for your body, mind and spirit. Classes are small, enlivening and fun! Experience the difference of Lucille Dyer’s 20 years’ teaching expertise. Call today!

Pilates: Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 9-10 a.m., weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $45/members, $75 nonmembers for 8 weeks. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Dianne Schwartz, Group Fitness Coordinator, 802862-8993, dschwartz@gbymca. org, www.gbymca.org. Tone and elongate muscles - isolate, activate and condition deep muscles.

Improve body mechanics, flatten abdominals, alleviate stress and refine breathing patterns. All are welcome to transform their body and mind.

Pilates Space: a division of ALL Wellness, LLC. Many package/pricing options to suit your budget. Please call for pricing details. Location: Pilates Space, 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-8639900, www.pilatesspace.net. We invite all bodies, all ages and all abilities to experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio.

We offer Pilates privates, semi-privates, and group classes, physical therapy, holistic health counseling, craniosacral therapy and Anusarainspired yoga. Free intro to Pilates – 1st and 3rd Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Please call to reserve your space in the free intro.

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psychology MYTHOLOGY: Sep. 4 - Oct. 23, 79 p.m., weekly on Thursday. Cost: $100 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-2447909. Discover some of the myths you are living in this Jung-oriented workshop. Led by Sue Mehrtens, author and teacher.

qi gong Shen Gong Qi Gong: Cost: $220 /weekend workshop. Location: Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl St., Essex Junction. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-2888160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, www.elementsofhealing. net. The Shen Gong Qi Gong set is part of the internal system of healing. These exercises strengthen the circulation of energy through the organs and increase health and sensory perception. Their primary purpose is self healing. Taught by Master Lew, a Taoist priest with over 60 years’ experience in the traditional Taoist arts.

reflexology Introduction I & Advanced II: Sep. 6-21. Cost: $250/$295 for Advanced Level II. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts School of Massage, 187 St. Paul Street, Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts School of Massage, 802-6587715, info@touchstonehealin garts.com, www.touchstoneheal ingarts.com. Learn the basics of Reflexology, including an effective choreography, in our lively and informative introductory class. Then dive deeper into another dimension and quality of your practice in the advanced component. Classes can be taken separately but build on one another. Level II includes a basic Hand Reflexology sequence.

reiki Reiki Class - Level I: Oct. 12, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Cost: $150 /6-hour class. Location: VCEM, Shelburne. Info: Vt Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Fulton, M.A., NCTMB, 802-985-9580, cindy@ energymedicinevt.com, www.en ergymedicinevt.com. Learn this ancient healing art that facilitates health on all levels: body, mind and spirit. Many also find Reiki to be a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation. In this class you will be attuned to Reiki and trained to use Reiki on your self and others.

Marriage & Partnership Workshp: Cost: $60/couple for 14-week class. Location: Burlington area location, No. Prospect Street, Burlington. Info: Christine Rushforth, 802-343-8114.

This therapist-facilitated, 14-week interactive workshop for couples combines psycho-education with experiential exercises, including small-group discussion, in-group writing and partner exercises. You will learn the latest research on what makes relationships succeed and what makes them fail. The group meets weekly for two hours.

Call for info.

sailing COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER: Learn to sail! Classes for adults, youth and families, beginning and intermediate courses and full day camps. Location: Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center, Burlington. Info: 802-864-2499, w w w.communit ysailingcenter. org. Sailboat, kayak and canoe rentals. Other sailing opportunities include Friday night 420 race series, adaptive water sports program, high school sailing team, and overnight sailing expeditions. Community Sailing Center’s mission is to provide public access to educational and recreational opportunities through sailing, paddling and other lake-oriented programs.

spirit Basic Psychic Development: Aug. 28 - Oct. 30, weekly on Thursday. Cost: $175 Location: Essex Junction, Vermont. Info: Bernice Kelman, 802-899-3542, kelman.b@juno.com.

Everyone is born with natural psychic abilities. There is nothing ‘supernatural’ about these abilities. All children are naturally psychic. We were psychic when we were children. However, our culture teaches us to shut off these abilities. You can learn simple and easy ways to tap into your own hidden abilities, to ‘become as little children’ and play as naturally as you did then, to sue your inborn talents to make your life healthier, happier, more loving and more fun. Space is limited. Reserve your space now!

spirituality Waking Our World!: 9/19, 7:30-9:30 p.m; 9/20, 9 a.m. 5:30 p.m.; 9/21, 9 a.m. - 12 noon.

Cost: $120/weekend workshop.

Sliding scale available. Lodging and meal options for reasonable cost. Location: Metta Earth Institute, Lincoln. Info: Sacred Earth Network, Mollie Matteson, 802-318-1487, www.sacredearthnetwork.org. Join others who care about the fate of the planet, and who want to reconnect with self, nature, others. Now is the time for humans to awaken to a new dream of Earth. An experiential workshop, led by Llyn Roberts of Dream Change and Bill Pfeiffer of Sacred Earth Network.

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Widowed Spouses’ Group: Thursdays, 5:15-6:45 p.m., starting in Sept. Location: Networks, Inc., 149 Cherry Street, Burlington. Info: Rebecca Brooks, MSW, LICSW, 802-863-2495. Have you lost your spouse? Join a new support group for those who are grieving the loss of their partner. Begin healing, learn coping skills, share experiences, and find support. Facilitated by experienced Hospice social worker specializing in grief and loss.

Our Nature, Our Wor(l)ds: Aug. 26 - Dec. 16, 6-8:30 p.m., weekly on Tuesdays. Cost: $410 /15 weeks of 2.5- to 3-hour circles. Location: Howard Space Center, 12 Howard Street, Burlington. Info: Women Writing for (a) Change - Vermont, Sarah Bartlett, 802-899-3772, sarah@womenwritingvt.com, www.womenwritingvt.com. Claim time for your Self and your Muse! Join a deepening community of women writing for personal insight, spiritual growth, political change. Weekly circles provide structure to set you free, prompts, feedback, support and encouragement. Sarah Bartlett is the licensed and seasoned facilitator.

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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 Street, Burlington. Info: 802-864-7902, www.iptaichi.org. The snake style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, vitality and peace of mind.

SUFI CHI GONG: Sep. 3 - Oct. 1, 7-9 p.m., weekly on Wednesday.

Cost: $75 /incl. raw materials.

Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Radha, 802-6582447. Through this unique exercise system, combining Chinese and Sufi wisdom, learn to balance ten planetary energies for body-mind integration. Led by Radha Buko, certified Sufi instructor.

theater ACTING I: Sep. 4 - Dec. 11, 6:159:15 p.m., weekly on Thursday.

Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-865-4422, www.ccv.edu. An introduction to the craft of acting.

Includes work in improvisation, monologues and dramatic scenes.

Three-credit class. Instructor, Donald Rowe. Call 802-652-2087 to register now by appt. Open registration begins Mon. 8/11.

visual arts VISUAL ART CLASSES AT CCV!: Most classes begin the week of Sept. 2. Location: CCV, Burlington. Info: 802-865-4422, www. ccv.edu. More than 30 classes including Drawing, Introduction to Studio Art, Life Drawing, Two Dimensional Design, Drawing II, Digital Photography, Graphic Design, Paper Arts, Book Arts, Printmaking, Ceramics, Sculpture, Oil Painting, Color Theory, Art History, Photography I, Printmaking and Stained Glass. CCV offers Associate Degree programs in Graphic Design, Multimedia Communications and Visual Arts. CCV art classes are taught by well-known Vermont artists. Register now!

women Start Up: Cost: $1595/15-week course. Location: Mercy Connections, 346 Shelburne Road, Burlington. Info: Women’s Small Business Program, Lorna Lyons, 802-846-7338, www.wsbp.org.

Start Up is a 110-hour, 15-week, comprehensive business-skills training course. This hands-on course will assist you in moving from a business idea to the completion of a high-quality business plan.

yoga BRISTOL YOGA AND AYURVEDA: Daily Ashtanga yoga classes for all levels. Special monthly workshops on yoga, Ayurveda, diet and nutrition, breathing and meditation. Private sessions for yoga or Ayurvedic consultations available by appointment. Cost: $14 /dropin, $110/10 classes or $100/ monthly pass. Location: Old High School, Bristol. Info: 802-4825547, www.bristolyoga.com. This classical form of yoga incorporates balance, strength and flexibility to steady the mind, strengthen the body and free the soul. Bristol Yoga is directed by Christine Hoar, who was blessed and authorized to teach by Sri K Pattabhi Jois of Mysore India, holder of the Ashtanga lineage.

BURLINGTON YOGA: August schedule: Flow classes (all levels), Tues. 8/5, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26 & Fri. 8/1, 8/29. 5:45-7:15 p.m. Cost: $14 /class. Location: Memorial Auditorium Loft, 250 Main Street, Burlington. Info: 802-658-9642, www.burlingtonyoga.com. “The yogi whose mind is ever under his control, always striving to unite with the Self, attains the peace of Nirvana - the Supreme Peace that rests in me.” Bhagavad Gita VI ‘15 Krishna to Arjuna.

ries 1: Sept. 16 - Oct. 7. Series 2: Oct. 21 - Nov. 18. Shelburne Vineyard Yoga: Elegant alignment with heart. 6-week series, $78. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:45 p.m. Series 1: Sept.

9 - Oct. 14. Series 2: Oct. 21 - Dec. 2. Taught by Margaret Dunn-Carver, an Anusara-inspired yoga teacher.

Pre-registration is required.

Yoga: Sep. 2 - Oct. 26, 9-10 a.m., weekly on Thursday. Cost: $45/members, $75 nonmembers for 8 weeks. Location: Winooski YMCA, 32 Malletts Bay Ave. in the O’Brien Community Center, Winooski. Info: Dianne Schwartz, Group Fitness Coordinator, 802862-8993, dschwartz@gbymca. org, www.gbymca.org. Integrates a heart-oriented spiritual philosophy, biomechanical alignment of the body and balanced energetic action. This practice invites us to align with our innate goodness, health, and purpose, on the mat and in our lives.

YOGA VERMONT: Daily drop-in classes, plenty of choices, open to all levels. Cost: $14 /drop-in, $110/10 classes, $120/month pass. Location: Chace Mill on Winooski River, and downtown at 113 Church St. (top floor of the Leunig’s building), Burlington. Info: 802-660-9718, www. yogavermont.com. Yoga for SixWeek Intro to Pranayama, Six-Week Intro to Kripalu, Six-Week Intro to Ashtanga, Monthly Restorative, Adaptive Yoga, Instructor Training and more listed on website. Gift certificates available. For the latest, check out our blog http://yogavermont.typepad.com.

2-BR Winooski, Hickok St. Enclosed porch, parking. No dogs.

Avail. 11/1. $875/mo. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481 x 1021, www.nevilleco.com.

2-BR, Walk 1/4 mi. to UVM HDWD, good-sized kitchen, offstreet parking, NS/PETS. Avail. now. $925/mo. incl. water, trash, parking, lawn care. Info: Voted #1 Recent UVM Survey~Diemer Properties, LLC , 802-951-2457.

3-BR Apt. Williston Log cabin at Catamount. Lg. country kitchen/DR, lg. LR. No dogs, please.

Avail Sept. 1 - June 1. $1375/mo. incl. trash/recycle, plowing, trail use. Info: 802-578-5563, eric@ catamountoutdoor.com.

3-BR Home For Rent Unfurnished ranch style home in Mallett’s Bay. 8 min. from Burlington.

Avail. 9/1. 1-BA, eat-in kitchen & LR. HDWD throughout, laundry hook-ups, garage & lg. yard. NS/ pets. $1400/mo. + utils. Info: 802-878-5001.

3-BR house Burlington Ranch house in New North End for rent or sale, overlooking beautiful field.

Open floor plan, HDWD floors, sunroom addition, tiled bar, gas fireplace. Info: 802-660-3109.

4-BR Burlington, East Ave. Parking. No pets. Avail. now. $1600/mo. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481 x1021. www. nevilleco.com.

88 Malletts Bay Ave. Lg. 1BR, full BA, HDWD, gas heat & HW, parking, laundry across the street. No dogs. $700/mo. Info: 802-862-7467.

Apt. for rent Spacious 3 or 4-BR. Incl. 2 full BA, living area, extra office, & full kitchen. $1700/mo. incl. heat. No pets. 3804 Shelburne Rd. Info: 802-862-7001, starr@vtnaturalmed.com.

Bolton Condo - SKI OUT! Ski in and out of this fun 1-BR condo right on the Mountain Road in Bolton. W/D in unit. $825/mo. + utils. Info: 802-999-1265, densh591@aol.com.

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Burlington Church St. Marketplace. Studio/office space. Great location. Heat included. Info: 802-922-8518.

SERVICE YOU DESERVE! COPPER CRANE YOGA: KIDS YOGA with Kelly Hickey. K-3rd grade Phyllis Martin, Realtor - Monday, 3:30-4:15 p.m., 8/25.

4th-6th grade - Wednesday, 3:304:15 p.m., 8/20 & 8/27. Cost: 802.482.5232 | Phyllis@vermontgreentree.com $14/drop-in, $60/5-class card, $110/10-class card, $200/20class card. Location: Copper Crane St. Avail.

Burlington 13 Murray Yoga, 179 Main St., Vergennes.

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Info: 802-877-3663, copperin at Catamount. Galley kitchen; $725/mo. + utils. Call Coburn & craneyoga.com. Individual, group spacious LR-DR w/cathedral ceilFeeley, 864-5200 ext. 229. and custom yoga classes. Thai ing. No dogs. Avail. now. $825/ Yoga Bodywork and Zero Balancing Burlington $700/mo. Cozy, mo. incl. trash/recycle, plowing, sessions by appointment. Copper quiet 3 room apt. on bus line, trail use. Info: 802-578-5563, Crane provides wise and compasgas heat, parking. No pets. eric@catamountoutdoor.com. sionate teaching to strengthen the Avail. 9/1. Info: 802-878-6691 or body, uplift the heart and calm 1-BR lakeside cabin Small cab802-862-9335. in w/ kitchen, BA, LR w/ fireplace the mind. Be yourself here. Copper Burlington South Wind 4& small dining area. Nestled in ceCrane is directed by Carolyn Conner, BR condo, 3-BA, 2-car garage. dars w/ lg. deck overlooking Lake RYT, Advanced Certified Thai Yoga No pets. $2050/mo. Info: Champlain.

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802-425-4671, jennielarson@ EVOLUTION YOGA: Mondays, Burlington 2-BR apt., Barrett gmavt.net.

5:45 p.m. Class is sliding scale, St., $1000/mo. incl. heat & hot 2-BR Close to Downtown Clean, $4-10. $5 Friday classes at 4:30 HW. 1-yr. lease. No pets. Avail. recently renovated, Old North End, p.m. Cost: $13/drop-in, $120/10immed. Info: 802-373-1360. walk downtown, off-street parkclass card for 1.5 hr. classes. $11/ Burlington 2-BR Apt. Screened ing, lg. rooms, laundry in unit, nice drop-in, $100/10-class card for 1 porch, basement, HDWD, 1-car backyard, basement storage. $1175/ hr. classes. Location: Evolution parking, No pets. 36 Rose St. Yoga, 20 Kilburn Street, Burling- mo. Info: Matt , 802-236-5516. $900/mo. + utils. OPEN HOUSE: ton. Info: 802-864-9642, www.

2-BR Colchester/Mlts. Bay 8/23 & 8/24, 10-4; 8/25, 8:30-1. evolutionvt.com. Vinyasa, Anu- Year-round cottage near lake, Info: 508-248-6886. sara-Inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar new flooring & paint, W/D hookclasses for all levels, plus babies ups. No smoking. Avail. Sept. 1. BURLINGTON 3-BR APT. 2nd floor, quiet, parking, heat & electricity and kids yoga. Prepare for birth $1125/mo.+ utils., 1st, sec. & incl. NS/pets. 1 block from UVM & and strengthen postpartum with refs. Info: 802-658-6855.

FAHC. Avail. now. $1750/mo. 1-yr. pre/postnatal yoga.

2-BR Condo Essex Jct. 1.5-BA, lease. Info: 802-658-5770.

Shelburne Yoga Series: Locagas heat & water, basement, 1st Burlington 31 Hyde St. Med. tion: Shelburne. Info: Margaret floor, W/D hookups, basement & 3-BR townhouse, 1.5-BA, laundry, Dunn-Carver, 802-238-2943, lila. garage. Lease, NS/pets. $1250/ yoga.class@gmail.com, lilayo- mo. w/ option to buy. Info: Ar- parking, DW, garbage disposal, low utils. No dogs. $1380/mo. gavt.com. Teen Yoga, ages 11-17: mand Fournier, 802-865-2010, Info: 802-862-7467.

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BURLINGTON CONDO Lg. sunny 2-BR w/ office/den, 2-BA, patio, pool, tennis, garden space, onsite laundry, propane heat, new carpet/windows. Very private.

5 mins. to lake/bike path/bus line, 10 min. to interstate. NS/ pets. $1200/mo. + utils. & sec. dep. 1-yr. lease. Avail. 9/1. Info: 802-897-2630.

Burlington House 8 rooms, sunset over lake & park. 3-BR+, 2 LR’s, DR, W/D, porches, mudroom, storage, yard, parking. Walk to lake & downtown. $1800/mo.

802-434-3172 or 802-598-5023.

Burlington Lg. house 4-BR, 2-BA, finished basement, yard w/ garden, 1-car garage, HDWD floors, W/D, extra storage, gas heat, 2 fireplaces. Cats OK. Info: 802-951-5900, amm@tpwmanagement.com, www.littleeaglebay.com.

Burlington New North End Lg. 2-BR, half of duplex, quiet family neighborhood, parking, yard, basement, W/D hookups, gas heat. Avail. 9/1. $1200/mo. + dep. & refs. Info: 802-363-2442.

Burlington Pearl St. Victorian studio, HDWD, clean & quiet. Heat & HW incl. $730/mo. NS/pets. 1yr. lease. Info: 802-372-6153.

Waterfront Burlington Apt. Incredible location, gorgeous views, on Waterfront Park, walk downtown. HDWD, W/D, fully furnished. Avail. Sept. 1 June 1. $1375/mo. + utils. Info: 802-578-6120.

Burlington, Colchester Ave 3-BR, parking, coin-op W/D. No dogs. Avail. 9/1. $1140/mo. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-6603481 x1021, www.nevilleco.com.

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10/1. 2-BR house. $920/month.

Encl. porch, hookups. No dogs.

Neville Companies, Inc. 802-6603481 x1021. www.nevilleco.com.

Burlington/Winooski Roommates needed to share lg. furnished single family home. Rent individually or w/ friends. All utils. incl. 2.5-BA, laundry, parking, lg. backyard w/ deck. $650/mo. per person + dep. Info: 802-863-9612.

Burlington: Adorable Ranch Marshall Dr.: New North End! 3BR, 1.5-BA, fireplace, yard, W/D hook-ups, 1-car garage, NO PETS. Avail. NOW; 1-year. $1375/mo.

Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Burlington: Condo, New $ Lake Forest Dr: Well-maintained 2-BR, 2.5-BA, study, cathedral ceiling, loft, deck, master w/dual closets & bath, pool. Avail. NOW; 1-year. $1700/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, www.

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Burlington: Northshore Enjoy gorgeous sunsets, spectacular lake & mountain views & beach access from this 2-BR, 1.5-BA, 1400-sq.ft. townhouse. Furnishings optional. NS/pets. 9/1; 1 year. $1450/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rental s @hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Burlington: Top Floor Apt North Ave: huge, private 3-season porch w/seasonal lake views, 2-BR, 1-BA, lots of light, W/D, walk-in pantry w/hookups. NS/ pets. Avail. 8/1; 1 year. $1100/ mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-

846-9568, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Charlotte Lg. 3-BR HDWD, 10ft. ceilings, clean, gas heat, covered porch, huge yard w/ garden space, pond, hiking trails, 3 mi. from beach. NS/cat OK. $1100/mo. + utils. Info: 802-425-3779.

COL. LAKEFRONT COTTAGE Modest furnished 2- 3-BR, 1-BA. Avail. monthly Nov.-Apr. $900/mo. + heat & utils. Lease, refs., rental application, dep. See online ad 4 info. NS/pet considered. Info: 802-862-9798.

Colchester $860/mo. Four rooms, 2-BR, natural gas heat, good location. Avail. 9/1. No pets. Info: 802-878-6691 or 802-862-9335.

Colchester Lakefront Cozy year-round furnished executive retreat on Malletts Bay. 3-BR, 2-BA, new kitchen, decks, doors & windows. Near bike path & Burlington. Info: 802-578-2460, sayrahm@gmail.com.

Colchester: Elegant Condo Wiley Rd: Fantastic 2-BR, 2-BA, 3 years old, 1265 sq.ft., W/D. Avail.

NOW; 1-year. $1500/mo. incl. heat, AC. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

DORM STYLE ROOMS NEAR UVM! 4 dorm style rooms. Avail. now. 1 block from UVM/FAHC. Going fast!

Heat & electricity incl. Laundry onsite. Info: 802-658-5770.

ESSEX 2-BR AVAIL. 9/1 Spacious, clean, parking, DW, W/D, NS/pets.

Avail. 9/1. $950/mo. Info: Karen, 802-318-8701.

Essex Jct. Whitcomb Heights II. Avail. 9/1. 3-BR townhouse, 2.5BA, HDWD, fireplace, DR, laundry, lg. yard, 2-car garage, quiet neighborhood. Pets considered. $1750/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley, 864-5200 ext. 229.

Essex Jct: Model Unit Ketcham Dr: Beautiful 3-BR, 2.5-BA, 3000-sq.ft., 3-level townhouse.

Stainless steel appliances, master suite, office, gas fireplace.

NS/pets. Avail. Aug. 15; 1 year. $2050/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Essex Townhouse Lg. updated 2+ BR, 1.5-BA townhouse w/ attached garage. Pool, ten nis courts, gas grill & W/D. Walk to Essex Shoppes & bike path.

Water incl. $1550/mo. Info: 631-875-8965.

ESSEX, NY Beautiful garden apt. of 1826 stone house. Fully furnished, all appliances, winter rental mid-September/mid-May 2009. $475/mo. + utils. Info: 518963-1100, sylviastonehouse@hotmail.com.

Essex: Autumn Knoll Condo Marion Ave: 2-BR + office, 2.5-BA townhouse, 1774 sq.ft., garage, updated appliances, breakfast nook, master suite. 1 small pet neg. $1500/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, www.

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Fabulous Hill Section Apt. Robinson Parkway 2-BR, 2nd floor, private porch, gas heat & HW, HDWD, laundry, sunny & bright. $1375/mo. + utils. Avail. 9/1.

Info: 802-310-4205.

3-BR Ferrisburgh 1.5-BA. $950/mo.

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Ferrisburgh: Stone Federal Tastefully remodeled farmhouse.

4-BR, 2.5-BA, spa-like master BA, 2 fireplaces, 3400+ sq.ft.

Furnished OR unfurnished. Avail. now; 1 year. $2000/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-8469568, www.HickokandBoardman. com.

Heated, 3-BR Duplex Lovely, quiet 3-BR in Underhill (20 mi. east of Burlington), 2-BA, kitchen w/ lg. breakfast bar. Lease, sec. dep. & refs. req. Avail. now. Info: 802-899-2304.

HILL SECTION 2-BR APT 2-BR apt. in Burlington’s hill section, North Prospect. Features natural woodworking & HDWD floors.

Quiet building, residential parking, coin-op, new furnace. refs required. Please NS/pets. $1200/ mo. +. Avail. 9/1. Info: studio404@adelphia.net.

Hinesburg Studio Apt. Quiet apt. on 10 acres. Woods, ponds, garden. Loft storage incl. Garage avail. Electricity incl., you pay propane heat. Avail. 9/1. Lease, refs. req. NS/pets. Info: 802-4822041, rosenblum_vt@yahoo.com.

Hinesburg Village Unfurnished apt., HDWD, laundry, porches, yard. NS/pets. Avail. Sept. $750/ mo. Info: 802-482-2520.

Houses For Rent Colchester Avail. 9/1. Unfurnished, huge yard, 2-BR: $1400/mo. 3-BR: $1600/mo. Malletts Bay, only 8 min. to downtown Burlington.

Info: Jeffrey Martin, 802-8630287, QFCR@aol.com.

Howard Street 1-BR Avail. 9/1.

Third floor, HDWD, private porch, full BA. Gas range, heat & HW. $795/mo. + utils. Some off-street parking. Info: 802-310-4205.

Huge 1st Floor Apt. Sweet, spacious apt. avail. now in the heart of Essex Junction. Double LR & formal dining room. Nice, big yard. Utils. incl.! Call now!

Info: Century 21 Jack Associates, Jennifer Giordano, 802-999-9906, vermontsgreenrealtor.com.

Large 1- to 2-BR 3/4-BA, W/D, woodstove, own snow removal (easy to handle). NS/pets. Avail.

Sept. Utils.: high $200, low $60 (GMP, VT Gas, Comcast). $950/mo.

Email first, please. Info: 802-3162489, acvkellyshort@comcast.net.

Milton Over 2000 sq.ft. home w/ Lake Arrowhead access in quiet neighborhood. 3-BR, 3-BA + private guest BR w/ BA. Lots of space for family, fenced backyard, very private, all appliances incl. W/D, 2-car garage. Walk to school or Husky. NS, pets neg.

Avail. 9/1. $1800/mo. + utils. + dep. Info: Sundance Services, 802-893-2348.

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So. Starksboro 1-BR House Wood heat, garden space, great views, very private. No pets.

Lease & refs. req. $700/mo. + utils. Info: 802-453-2380.

South Burlington 19 Cottage Grove Ave. 2-BR, 1.5-BA, garage, laundry hook-ups, gas heat. NS/ pets. $1200/mo. + ref. & dep.

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Stonehedge End Unit 2 or 3-BR, 1.5-BA Stonehedge townhouse, W/D, pool, bike path, park, wooded trails. NS/pets. $1300/mo. + utils. Refs., 1-yr. lease, sec. dep.

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Vergennes Energy Star Apt. W/D, DW, garage. Pets considered w/ additional dep. Incl. heat, HW, snow & trash removal & lawn care.

NS. Credit check, refs. Sec. dep.

Info: 802-877-3280.

Vergennes Waterfall Apt. Unique, penthouse-style 2-BR apt. situated in historic mill on Otter Creek Falls. Spacious & private w/ excellent water views. Off-street parking, bamboo floors, laundry & other amenities. $1250 /mo. + utils. Info: Burchfield Resources, LLC, 802-877-6879, www.burchfieldresources.com.

Winooski, Main Street Avail.

11/1. Lg. 2-BR. $915/mo. Heat & HW incl. Parking. No dogs. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1021. www.nevilleco.com.

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Plainfield 2-3-BR Home Amazing, abuts Groton State Forest, trails leave from the back yard.

Masonry heater w/ back-up oil burner, porch, 2-car garage, private location, organic garden, pet friendly. 1-year lease. Avail. now! $1050/mo. Info: 802-454-1619.

Recently Renovated 3-BR, 1 3/4-BA apt. Rent incl. heat & HW! Unfinished basement great for storage. Great location, minutes to UVM, I-89 and downtown. Info: Lyndsay Lord, 802-846-9551, assistant@buyvtrealestate.com.

Red Rocks Condo Avail. 9/1. 2BR townhouse, 1-BA w/ garage.

Located near lake & bike path. $1150/mo. + monthly condo fee.

Info: Joanne, 802-864-9899 x5.

BURLINGTON SHELBURNE/SO. Luxury 3-level, furnished townhouse. Pool/tennis & garage in private wooded setting. Incl. utils. 4 mi. to Burlington. Sept./ Oct. to May/June, $1100/mo.

Info: 802-985-8711.

SO BURL: Queen City Park Recently-renovated 2-3-BR, 2-BA private lakefront home in popular Queen City Park. Incredible views.

Avail 9/1. $1900/mo. + utils. Call, leave msg. Info: 201-493-9271.

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Unique Contemporary in a beautiful, wooded setting.

Private, secluded, yet close to everything! Great location south of I-89. Quiet, desirable neighborhood close to trails for hiking or snowshoeing. Bright, spacious rooms overlook lovely landscaping. $410,000.

call jessica hubbard coldwell Banker hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9585 www.jessicahubbard.com

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Opportunity to rent upstairs or easily convert back to single family home while you enjoy nearby Jay Peak skiing and Canada. Numerous updates throughout home. $3,000 back at closing with accepted offer. Home offers 1 year warranty. Call today! $181,000.

Call Monique Bedard Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9590 www.HickokandBoardman.com

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3 bedroom South Burlington home on a deep lot, extensively renovated to include new stainless appliances & cabinets in kitchen, new front porch, new carpeting, refinished oak floors & new gas fireplace! Lovely built-ins & archways add lots of charm. $269,000.

Call edie Brodsky Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9532 www.edieHomes.com

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Unique downtown investment due to large parcel of land which extends to riverfront! Zoned commercial and currently multi-family! Only 20 minutes to Jay Peak and close to Canada. Extensive renovations throughout.

Great river and mountain views. $125,000.

Call Monique Bedard Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9590 www.HickokandBoardman.com

This 3 bedroom single family home shows a definite pride of ownership. Enjoy the private backyard with newer vinyl stockade fence. Convenience of stackable washer/dryer. Gas fireplace in living area. One car detached garage. Pull down staircase. $199,000.

Call Michelle gray Coldwell Banker hickok & Boardman realty 802-846-9536 www.grayvermont.com

Very nice layout. 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths with screened porch and deck. Walk-out basement with finished room.

Very conveniently located to St. Mike’s, I-89, hospital and Burlington. $239,500.

Call mary Jordan Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman realty 802-846-9553 www.HickokandBoardman.com

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Fantastic Rental investment

VERY UNIQUE PROPERTY

Located on a large, fully fenced and private lot, this two bedroom Cape has expansion possibilities galore!

A large addition has already added a family room and first floor master. The second floor is sheetrocked and ready to finish. $233,950.

Don’t miss this one!! The current owner has upgraded the electrical system, siding and most windows. All essential maintenance practices have been done regularly, and all units have hardwired smoke detectors. Low maintenance, great income. $339,000.

Off Dorset St. 250 Autumn Hill Rd. Sits back on hill in the trees, totally private, architect designed 4000 sq.ft. 4-BR + passive solar home. 2 wood stoves w/ massive brick walls. Over looking a pond & meadows at Mt. Mansfield, 3 protected acres surrounded by 40 acres of conserved land. Save on your energy bill. $599,000.

Call Kate von trapp Coldwell Banker hickok & Boardman realty 802-846-9512 www.Chrisvontrapp.com

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Burlington 68A S. Willard St. rent, $600/ mo. utils. incl. 1.5-BA, W/D, kitchen, parking. NS. Artistic & intellectual environment. Avail. now.

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Burlington/Winooski Roommates needed to share lg. furnished single family home. Rent individually or with friends.

All utils. incl. 2.5-BA, laundry, parking, lg. backyard w/ deck. $650/mo. per person + dep. Info: 802-863-9612.

Essex Jct. Share 1 easygoing, dependable, NS person/couple needed to share nice home & location. All utils., cable, wireless Internet, pool, parking, snow removal, great roommates incl. $550/mo. Info: 802-879-4226.

HOUSEMATE - ESSEX JUNCTION HOUSEMATES to share 4-BR, 2.5BA house near Essex Outlets, 6 acres, gardening opportunities, screened porch, fireplace. $625/ mo. incl. utils. Call or email for info. Info: 802-878-9693, ewalt@ champlain.edu.

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Studio/Workshop Fantastic workshop/studio space avail. now. Located in the heart of Essex Junction in a great setting.

Can be used for commercial purposes. Heat & electricity incl.!

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Catering/Cafe BUSINESS FOR SALE. Turnkey, own kitchen at Higher Ground, immediate sales, $80,000 inventory, unlimited sales growth, cater to the stars. Info: Roy, 802-2332688 only.

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Williston Office Space 152 sq.ft. Office avail. on So. Brownell Rd. Reception area, kitchen, deck, cable access, and ample parking. Great location. Info: Hubbard Development Company, 802-860-2211.

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Shelburne Lg. sunny room for rent. Beautiful setting. Quiet.

Professionals only. 8 min. to downtown, near bus-line. $450/ mo. Info: 802-355-3004.

So. Burlington Laurel Hill Looking for housemates for 3BR home. Fenced-in back yard, parking, convenient location.

Pets neg. $800/mo. incl. all utils., cable, Internet. Info: Lori Bergquist, 802-238-2817.

Sunny Burlington Condo Looking for NS prof. to share 2BR condo. Sunny lg. BR. Utils. & amenities incl. $575/mo. Avail.

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Sublets/ Temporary Burlington Room for rent One BR in 4-BR apt. w/ shared living & kitchen space. Great central location: Green St. Avail. now, for school year. $450/mo. Info: 802-578-0124.

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Loft-Style Office Space Office/light production space in old mill w/ skylights, exposed beams, river views, convenient parking.

Walk to downtown Winooski in 3 min. Approx. 2000 sq.ft., can be split into up to 3 suites. $8-$12/ sq.ft. triple net, depending on configuration/fit-up. Info: Onion River Property Management, bizspace@ilovermont.com.

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Downtown Middlebury storefront in historic Battell Building for lease. 1752 sq.ft. of handicap-accessible space. Rent includes everything. Located next to newly reopened Town Hall Theater. Info: Battell LLC, 802-388-6561.

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THE LONG HOUSE

LAKEVIEW TERRACE CONDO

Beautiful home in historic Kents Corner, Calais, VT. Circa 1837 – 3+BR, 2-BA, country kitchen, porches, mudroom, barn, 2-car garage, handyman shop, spacious office, landscaped 2 acres & extraordinary school district. $379,000. 802-223-5528.

Charming 4-BR, 1.5-BA on 1.25 acres.

HDWD floors, oversized single-car garage, 8X14 shed. Screened-in back porch added in 2005. Heating system replaced in 2001.

Easy commute to Burlington and Middlebury. $280,000.

Call 802-425-5628 or 802-238-2878.

First-floor flat in a 12-unit condo association. 2-BR, lake views, front porch, full basement, off-street parking, laundry facilities & yard.

10 min. walk to downtown or lake.

Great location. $219,000.

Call Barbara, 802-860-1063.

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8/19/08 FSBO-BCallahan-080608.indd Entire 2nd floor, spacious, sunny, built 10:40:00 AM 2001. 1130 sq.ft. + basement. Clean, move-in ready. Off-street parking. 10 min. walk downtown. Gas HW/heat. W/D, AC, appliances. Fantastic! $198,500. 106 Rose St. #4, Burlington. Perry, 802-862-4012. http://burlingtonvtcondo4sale. blogspot.com

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8/5/08 FSBO-CYoder-081308.indd 10:46:37 AM Central Vermont - New construction, 3-BR, 2 full BA, all stainless steel appliances, pantry, breezeway, wrap-around deck, oversized 2-car garage, 1 acre, 2 mi. from I-89. Possible terms. $198,500.

802-485-8585.

Beautiful 3-BR, 2.5-BA. 8/11/08 Over 2:30:02 PM 2000+ sq.ft. home. 1+ acre of land w/ mountain and pastoral views.

Open floor plan w/ HDWD flooring.

Partially finished basement. 5 min. from I-89. $312,500.

802-233-1088.

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DOWNTOWN BURLINGTON HOME

HOME FOR SALE - $273,000 NEG.

8/12/08 FSBO-TGoodrich-082008.indd 11:41:39 AM Stylish 1850’s brick home, close to Church Street. 3-BR, 1-BA, all new appliances, HDWD floors, 9’ ceilings, new exterior paint, many custom touches. $238,800. www.MoreButter.com for details.

802-310-4315.

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CLASSIC FARMHOUSE IN UNDERHILL

7/7/08 FSBO-KMcManis-082008.indd 1:27:31 PM 3-BR ranch on .70 acres. All updates including roof, siding & windows done this year! In-ground pool, HDWD floors, 1-car attached garage, town water & sewer.

Room for expansion. Move-in ready!

Asking $244,900. Call 802-879-6931 for appointment.

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7/29/08 10:51:39 AM Check out our 2-BR downtown condo halfway between UVM/FAHC and Church St. Brand new windows, all appliances, other updates. 2-BR, 1-BA, 740 sq.ft. Quiet, off-street parking. $189,900. Call Kristi, 802- 318-1129.

DUPLEX FOR SALE

8/18/08 FSBO-KBrown-080608.indd 11:37:49 AM 4-BR, 2-BA on 4+ acres. Lg. organic garden, fruit trees & herb garden. HDWD, hearthstone wood stove, spa room/hot tub, 2500 sq.ft., barn, 3-car garage. $289,000. 802-524-3825.

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8/4/08 7:25:37 PM 45 min. from Montreal, 25 min. from Plattsburgh, 50 min. from Burlington. Each unit has 2-BRs, 1100 sq.ft. w/ garage, new Trio boiler. $15,000 income. $116,500.

518-298-4671.

SPECTACULAR HILL SECTION CONDO

8/5/08 FSBO-GSink-081308.indd 8:40:33 AM Buyer agents welcome! Photos/details: http://winooskiduplex.blogspot.com. First floor, 2-BR w/ big closets, spacious kitchen w/ tons counters/cabinets, DR/extra room, HDWD, 3-season porch, shed, garden, deck.

Second floor - tenant of 8 yrs. $675/mo.

802-310-6683.

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FAIRFAX COUNTRY HOME

GREAT WINOOSKI DUPLEX $243,900 FSBO-JAshley-080608.indd 1

9.5 acres river bottom 7/22/08 land. 10:30:37 AM 1890 Cape house, dairy barn, old brick schoolhouse, equipment shed, chicken coops. Beautiful rural region w/ vital agricultural community. Tunbridge. $245,000 OBO (min. offer of $220,000) submitted on or before 8/31/08. mary@anichini.com.

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8/18/08 11:42:22 AM Rare 3-BR, 1-BA River Watch condo w/FSBO-MDollenmaier-073008.indd updates; engineered HDWD floors, electric fireplace, ceramic tile, new carpet, extra kitchen cabinets, DW & new lighting fixtures. $194,500. www.380hildreddrive.com.

802-233-2057.

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8/18/08FSBO-TPawlik-072308.indd 8:53:01 PM Lovely unique home, great neighborhood, close to school, I89 & Sports Complex.

3-BR, 3-BA. Family & rec. room, den/office.

Spacious living/dining area w/ solid HDWD floors. Kitchen w/ marble tile, breakfast bar & decks. Nicely landscaped w/ in-ground lagoon pool, 2-car finished garage. Call 802-527-1664 or www.sharphome.com ID# VTABF.

3-BR RIVERWATCH CONDO

7/29/08FSBO-LSutton-082008.indd 9:44:08 AM 1825 post and beam. 4-BR, 2.5-BA. Eat-in oak kitchen w/ new appliances, two fireplaces & wood stove in family room. Five acres.

Restored barn. Great property! $370,000. 802-899-1919.

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Located on the top of Burlington’s Hill section, this unit has a particularly spectacular 4-season view of Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains and has been beautifully and completely remodeled: The design is by EKM Architecture of Montréal. The design is modern, clean and open. A complete state-of-the-art audio-visual system has been installed. All of the appliances are new, stainless steel, top-of-line and energy efficient. The entire electrical and plumbing systems have been redone to accommodate the design. Our asking price is the appraised value of the home. Go to fsbo-vt.net listing #250 for photos. $575,000.

802-860-7223.

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HAULING Man with a dump truck available for hauling junk, garbage, construction debris, green waste, etc. Free estimates. Info: Sean Rock, 802-310-1627.

Full Body Massage for Men By athletic Chinese-American.

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Info: 802-233-5037.

Massage/Spa Therapy 4 Men Jim, RN offering massage and spa services. Massage therapy - Swedish, sports/therapeutic, sensual touch. Spa services: skin therapy - micro-derm peel and anti-aging facial treatments. Body hair removal - call for details. Contact for rates and appointment times. Info: Jim, 802-310-8291, jhart1159@comcast.net, www. miraclesoftouch.com.

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Psychic Counseling And channeling w/ Bernice Kelman of Underhill, VT. 30+ yrs. experience.

Also: energy healing, chakra balancing, Reiki, rebirthing, other lives, classes & more. Info: Bernice Kelman, 802-899-3542, kelman_b@yahoo.com.

Psychic Readings GrandMother Singing Wolf & Ariel Vivaine Merrow. www.wolvessingingheyokah. com or 802-658-7478. July, Aug. Fee: $55.

Relief from life’s aches And pains. Advanced exercise based approach. Info: 802-876-1000.

Samadhi Cushions & Store Meditation cushions and benches handmade in Barnet, Vermont since 1976. Our store is open Mon.-Sat. Info: 800-331-7751, www.samadhicushions.com.

The Future in Weight Loss And it works 100% of the time. 200 people needed for Vermont area test case. At cost. Support calls included. Watch video & sign up.

Info: Dave DeBerardinis, 802-8467448, dave@directincome.net, www.YourBodyisThin.com/dd.

Home/Garden ENVIRONMENTAL PHONE CO. Donating 100% of our profits to environmental causes since 1993.

Cell phone service, long distance service, internet access. 888Earth-Tones (AAN CAN). Info: www.EARTHTONES.com.

Greenwork Wanted Seeking part- to full-time work with green business. Have experience writing & editing; interpretive trails & brochures; edible/medicinal plan and admin. assistant. Resume on request. Info: Laurie D., 802-893-1845.

ODD JOBS YOU BETCHA Pressure washing, interior/exterior painting, fences and decks, doors, windows, baseboard casing, general carpentry & roofing. Info: 802-373-2444.

1990 Nissan 300 ZX 129K mi., black. $5200.

Info: 802-989-3808.

1992 Nissan Stanza $1500 4dr., 4-cyl., 5-spd., P/S, CD, runs well. $1500/OBO. Essex Jct. Info: Patrick Lynch, 802-343-0727, ifixitfast@yahoo.com.

1992 Saab 9000S 4dr hatch Inspected through February 2009 and operating. Needs brake work, fan switch repair and some minor handy person type repairs. Good winter car. Info: 802-425-4260.

1994 Chrysler Concorde 6cyl., FWD, 124K, new brakes, good tires. Clean, inspected through 6/09, runs & drives great. In the family since new. Call for info.

Info: 802-659-4276.

1995 GMC TopKick Truck 22’ refrigeration unit, 250 hp turbo diesel engine, Class 6, no CDL. New fuel, air filter, clutch. Truck MUST sell - company is downsizing.

Info: 802-475-2940, edhenderson@gmavt.net.

1996 Honda Civic 5-spd. manual, Red, 2 dr. Hatchback, CD player, 94K, $4850. Info: Adam Wiggett, 802-728-9199.

1997 Ford Explorer 4wd Auto., great condition, very reliable. $2200. Info: Mike Flanagan, 802-496-5615.

1997 Honda Civic 5-spd. manual, green, 4-dr. sedan, AC, CD player, 129K. $4950. Info: 802-728-9199.

1997 Toyota 4Runner SR5 4WD, dark green, 158K, moon roof, running boards, roof rack, auto., new exhaust, good tires w/alloy wheels. Fair condition. $3000/ OBO. 802-318-2262.

1998 Ford Escort - 35 MPG! 4-dr., 5-spd. manual, 82K, many new parts in 2008. Extremely dependable, clean, in great mechanical condition! $2800. Info: 802-878-7732.

1998 Honda Civic EX Standard, 2-dr., silver, loaded, 178K (mostly hwy), new belts & tires. Recent tune-up. Runs & looks good inside & out. $3900/OBO. Info: 802-3739777, mjoska@gmail.com.

2000 Dodge Ram Van w/ lift V35 w/ 800 lb. hydraulic wheelchair lift, 146K, current inspection, clear title, 5.9-L engine, runs great, about 18 mpg, shifts smoothly, good oil pressure, no accidents, fair body, high-top & roof vent, 11 seats, room for 2 wheelchairs w/ ties to floor, rubber non-skid floor, A/C & heat, fair tires, new tow package. Great for transport, cargo, work, camping. Asking $5000 (books at about $7900). Info: Helen Alissoff, 802522-5606, techtranslation2000@ yahoo.com.

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2000 JEEP WRANGLER SPORT Soft top, 4x4, 5-spd., green w/ tan int., new top & tires ‘07, new radiator ‘08, just inspected. 79K mi. $5900. Info: 802-496-8980.

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CANON AE-1 PROGRAM Mint condition SLR camera including: Two lenses (28-55mm & 70210mm w/macro-capacity) 2x-close-up extension, Flash, Various lens filters, including Polarizer Shutter release cable Info: 802-655-0496.

2000 Lexus RX300 Black w/ leather, 98K, sun roof, alloy wheels, 6-CD changer, extra set of snow tires. $11,000. Info: Adam Ashe, 802-233-9593.

2001 4x4 - great truck! 87K, well maintained, good tires, very good shape, dependable. $3000.

Info: 802-598-8555.

2001 LITTLE BIG CAR Black PT Cruiser. An economical car with lots of room for people and stuff!

Loaded. Air, CD/cassette, leather, sunroof. ABS. front/side air bags.

Best offer! Info: 802-453-6467.

2003 Mazda Protege Silver, only 41K, great mpg, new brakes & summer/winter tires! Need to get something bigger. $6500.

Info: Amanda Monti, blueeye24@ aol.com.

Cars/Trucks

Open 24/7/365.

2003 Nissan Altima-Loaded!

Auto., 48K, leather, 6-CD, sun roof, etc. Beautiful car! $11,500.

Call Erika @ 802-999-7676.

2003 Passat Wagon Silver/ black, auto., cloth heated seats, sunroof, brand new Cooper WeatherMaster tires w/alloys & steel rims, 53K. $9450/OBO. Info: 802-233-8907.

2005 Buick Century Custom All options, int. & ext. like new, non-smoker, carFax title, 29K, just out of winter storage, gold mist metallic, cloth int. $12,650. View at Kaigles! Info: 802-863-4366.

2005 Toyota Corolla LE 77K, emerald, auto., incl. 4 snows.

Great car, great condition, great mpg. $9900. Call Jon in Montpelier. Info: 802-233-9330.

2005 Toyota Prius Package #8: voice-activated navigation system, smart key, 6-CD w/ 9 speakers, 70K. Currently averaging 60 mpg. Very clean. Grandma drove; she’s got new one. $19,500. Info: 802-578-2460, sayrahm@gmail. com.

Auto Auction 3 Saturdays ea. month. Open to the public. Info: 802-878-9200, THCAuction.com.

Motorcycles 1977 VINTAGE HARLEY 1200 FLH Electraglide Touring. Runs & looks good, well maintained. Don’t really want to sell, but considering offers from collectors & enthusiasts. Info: 802-496-8980.

2002 Vulcan 750cc Black & silver, 10,800 miles, custom pipes & Mustang seat, heated hand grips, decent tires, K&N air filters. Awesome bike. $3200. Info: 802-363-1559.

Antiques/ Collectibles 1924 Singer Sewing Machine Good condition. Seems to work when I crank the dial. $20 or equivalent trade. South Burlington. Info: monkeysticky@gmail. com.

Appliances/ Tools/Parts Clawfoot Tub & Surround 60” clawfoot tub, refinished 10 years ago. Replica antique faucet w/ chrome shower surround.

Very good condition. You pick up in Burlington! $300/OBO. Info: 802-497-0313.

FIREWOOD Green 16” split firewood. $200/cord. You pick up in Underhill. Call 802-899-4651.

Info: William Butler.

Free 6-Burner Gas Range Black. Burners work fine; oven works but is finicky about lighting. Call or email to come see or pick up (Barre). Info: 802-4791796, heathnhowe@aol.com.

Freezer Freezer - Frigidaire fullsize upright. Good condition.

Moving. $65. Info: 802-899-1919.

Washer/Dryer combo unit Not currently operational but believed to need only minor repairs. Very little use. Info: 802-864-3377.

Clothing/ Jewelry Diamond Earrings One pair of 18-karat white-gold “tennis” earrings. Contain 20 diamonds set in hinged wide-prong individual settings. Excellent condition. GIA appraisal: $1800. Call Stephanie.

Info: 802-882-8018.

Wedding Gown & Veil Bonnie white gown, mermaid fit, size 20.

Paid $800; asking $400. Also, Fiori cathedral veil w/ white silk trim. Paid $240; asking $100.

Info: 802-922-0074.

2005 Harley 883 Sportster Black, only 2100 miles. Excellent condition. $5300. Please call 802338-3459 or 802-482-4415.

Electronics

Boats

2007 iMac CD burner, brand new hard drive, plays DVDs, less than 1 y.o., has an extended warranty through Apple. Asking $1000/OBO. Info: Alexandra Kelley-St.Clair, 802-793-7945, beppogirl@yahoo.com.

1989 SEARAY 305 SEDAN BRDG Very roomy, well-maintained, fully equipped; low hours. Photos avail. on request. Call for details. $37,500. Info: 801-676-9283.

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GET A NEW COMPUTER Brand name laptops & desktops. Bad or no credit - no problem. Smallest weekly payments available.

It’s yours now. (AAN CAN) Info: 800-803-8819.

Optimus MPA-40 PA Amp Have no use for it so I’m selling it. $50/ OBO or trade. Money back guarantee. South Burlington. Info: monkeysticky@gmail.com.

Peavey Impulse II Monitor Have no use for it so I’m selling it. $50/OBO or trade. Money back guarantee. South Burlington.

Info: monkeysticky@gmail.com.

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

Solid gold, Dancers Exotic dancers. Adult entertainment for birthday, bachelor, bachelorette, deer camp or anytime good friends get together. #1 for fun. New talent welcome. Info: 802-658-1464.

Free Stuff Free Kitten 8 wks. old, loves dogs, black. Info: 802-238-5100.

Is Your House Haunted? If you think your house is haunted, let us check it out for free. Vermont Spirit Detective Agency. Info: Vermont Spirit Detective Agency, Matthew Borden, bigbigdeal3@ aol.com.

Vegetable Oil Have used vegetable oil that can be used for diesel fuel. Come and take it. Have a lot of it! Info: Global Markets, 802-863-9460.

Furniture 2 Twin Beds Both incl. clean mattress & box spring. 1) Unique wrought iron (swirls, leaves, birds - very country): $400/OBO. 2) Traditional wood (maybe maple) head & foot board: $95/OBO. Delivery avail. Info: 802-878-6199.

2 twin Brass Headboards Great condition. Will email pictures on request. $125/set. We also have twin mattress: $40.

Info: rhodi78@hotmail.com.

BATHROOM VANITY Oak, 31”x21”, w/ Kohler sink, Moen faucet & countertop. This complete unit is in very good condition. $125/all.

Info: 802-862-5588.

Bedroom Set, c. 1935 Three bureaus, head & base board, double mattress. Restored. $500/all. Pick up in Waitsfield. Cash only. Info: 802-496-6415.

BURLINGTON FUTON With frame and mattress cover, full size.

Non-smoking and cat-free home.

Excellent condition. Asking $350.

Info: Bob Dipaolo, 802-862-5588.

Complete Broyhill LR set Sofa, love seat, chair, coffee table, end table. Good condition. $300/OBO. Info: 802-879-6090.

Free Couches, Cheap Furn.

Free: 2 full-size couches, small shelving unit. Leather loveseat: $30. Nice dresser: $40. Queen Mattress & boxspring: $50. Pioneer car CD/MP3/SAT player: $75.

Info: Ian Patric, 585-738-1421, IanCPatric@gmail.com.

Glass Vanity W/ matching chair. $35. Info: 802-864-9558.

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Set of interior French louvered doors w/ hinges, solid pine. Fit 28” opening. $40. Info: 802-862-5588.

Kitchen Table Light wood, 32” x 62”, no chairs. Pics avail. $90/ OBO. Info: Linda Tetreault, 802893-3502, sweetlin323@aol.com.

kitchen table Light wood, 36” by 62”, no chairs. $90/OBO. Pics on request. Info: Linda Tetreault, 802893-3502, sweetlin323@aol.com.

Oak Portable Crib Beautiful, great for daycare or grandma’s house, includes crib skirt, sheets and quilt. Asking $75/OBO. Info: 802-497-0714.

Recliner, Loveseat, TV Flexsteel recliner couch, blue, good condition. Full couch, $250. Love seat, $150. $350 for both. 46” Magnavox TV. Good working condition. Free. You pick up. Info: 802-862-5604.

Garage/Estate Sales Ethan Allen Fort Yard Sale 8/23-8/24, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. 48B Hegeman Ave., Colchester. Furniture, household items. Moving, must sell everything! Info: 802-399-9555.

Multifamily yard sale Rain or shine. 67 Spaulding East Shore, Colchester (off Marble Island Rd.).

Starts at 8 a.m. on Sat., Aug. 23.

802-862-6064.

Kid Stuff Baby Jumper by Evenflow Used once, my son did not like being in something he couldn’t try crawling with. No stains. Email if interested. Info: Kristen Hoefel, khoefel@gmail.com.

Eddie Bauer Car seat Forwardfacing seat. Never been in an accident. 30-80 lbs. $20. Info: Ashlie Adams, 802-363-6965.

Fisher-Price Bouncer Great condition, only used a few times.

Son outgrew it, sadly. Need to make space in small apt. Email if interested. Info: Kristen Hoefel, khoefel@gmail.com.

Pets Dog Kennel 22”W x 24”H x 37”L. Metal, good shape, still sturdy.

Paid $75 new; asking $30. Info: Ashlie Adams, 802-363-6965.

Free Kitten Free 8-week-old black kitten. Loves dogs. Info: 802-238-5100.

HIMALAYAN KITTENS Blue eyes, sealpoint and bluepoint, M & F, very friendly. CFA registered, shots. $300. Ready to go. Give us a call. Info: 802-457-4039.

Sweet Kitty Needs Home Grey long-haired tiger needs home.

Spayed, shots, litter-trained. Shy at first but sweet & loving when she gets used to you. Email thisgirlisahippie@yahoo.com for details.

Tegu, Black and White 2-yrs.old, 75 gallon tank, heat lamp & accessories incl. Worth over $2000, asking $1500/OBRO. Info: 802-658-9656.

Wonderful Himalayan Cats Two male 4-y.o. cats. One is quiet and the other very social. Both are cute as a button and very well cared for. Info: 802-233-5476, http://burlington.craigslist.org/ pet/793557426.html.

Sports Equipment Marcy Weight Bench Virtually brand new. 3 Positions: flat, incline, decline. Plate-loaded leg extension, 40-lb. cast-iron dumbell set in case. $150. Info: 802-496-4391, mountainlandings. com/tradingpost.

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38B | august 20-27, 2008 | SEVEN DAYS

bass player wanted For classic rock band. Info: Prism, Frank M., 802-999-1410, frnkmsck@yahoo. com.

Looking 4 Funksters Who can’t get enough Funkadelic, Parliament, Bootsy, James Brown, Meters or any others from the groove nation. All musicians welcome.

Info: 802-922-0992.

« sports equipment Pacific Fitness Universal W/ leg station, extra weights & attachments. Excellent condition.

New $1500; will take $250 if you break it down. Awesome deal!

Info: 802-482-3719.

Specialized Carbon Bike 56-cm carbon frame & fork, alloy lugs; Truvativ carbon crank; Aksium wheel set; Orium tires; SelleItalia seat; Shimano 105 components & SPD/Plain pedals. $700/OBO. Info: Richard Handelsman, 802-864-4603.

Want to Buy Antiques Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates and silver.

Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Info: Dave, 802-859-8966.

Chairs Wanted Folding or stacking chairs preferred. Good condition. Will pay up to $5 per chair.

Info: 802-878-9831.

Music is good for you All my instruments can’t play themselves at once, and I can only play one at a time. Nice space in So. Burlington. Can play late, have PA, drumset & nothing to lose. Let’s rock it; tonight would be nice.

Or any other time. Info: Sean, 603-702-2543.

Root7 seeks voices Burlington’s contemporary a cappella band, Root7, is holding auditions for Alto & Bass. Must improvise parts and love performing. Ben Russell - 355-5253 or bigben@rt-7.com.

Info: Root7, rt-7.com.

For Sale Boss Digital Delay Pedal DD3, $75. Great working condition, selling to upgrade. An essential addition to any guitarist or bassist’s pedal collection. Info: 802-922-0992.

King SilverSonic Trombone Vintage 3B. Plays & looks great, slide very smooth with no inner plating wear. Pics on request. $1500, offers considered. Info: Andrew Moroz, 802-999-4186, andrew.moroz@gmail.com.

Bass Guitar Lessons For all levels/styles. Beginners welcome!

Learn technique, theory, songs, ear-training and slap-bass in a fun, professional setting. Years of teaching/playing experience.

Convenient Pine St. studio. Info: Bass Lessons with Aram, Aram Bedrosian, 802-598-8861, info@ arambedrosian.com, www.arambedrosian.com.

Guitar Instruction Berklee grad. w/25 years teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory and ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach. All ages/styles/levels. Info: Belford Guitar Studio, Rick Belford, 802864-7195, rickbelf@verizon.net, www.rickbelford.com.

Guitar instruction All styles/ levels. Emphasis on developing strong technique, thorough musicianship, personal style. Paul Asbell (Unknown Blues Band, Kilimanjaro, UVM and Middlebury College Faculty). Info: 802-8627696, www.paulasbell.com.

Guitar Lessons! $40/hr. Beginner to advanced. Become the player you want to be! Pay for 4 in advance and get a free lesson to start you off! Info: Burlington Guitar and Amp, Blaine Billingsley, 713-569-0905.

Guitar School of Vermont “Not your usual music instruction.” Attention from multiple teachers, fundamentals, theory, technique, composition. Teaching Guitarist’s Growing Musicians.

802-655-5800, www.guitarschoolofvermont.com.

Call to Artists Call for Artists/Artwork Are you a culture and social justice artist? We’re looking for artists for UVM’s Multicultural Art Gallery. We’ll host an opening reception. Please contact for details.

Info: Center for Cultural Pluralism - UVM, Wes Rodriguez, 802-6567990, www.uvm.edu/~ccpuvm.

Call to Artists Waitsfield Gallery of art, objects and design has space for some fabulous art and objects, including jewelry and furniture. Email Leanne or call her at 802-496-9180. Info: Apropo Designs, Leanne Taddonio, goapropo@yahoo.com.

Great Art Wanted! Eclectic Waitsfield Gallery of art, objects & design has space for fabulous art! Nothing too pastoral. Info: Apropo Designs, Leanne Taddonio, 802-496-9180, goapropo@ yahoo.com.

Openings/ Shows Mollie German, Pottery Exhibit showing at Wild Fibers Gallery through August. Artist Reception: Sunday, Aug. 17, 4-6 p.m. Rte. 2, South Hero. Info: Wild Fibers Gallery, Loraleh Harris, 802-373-5150

MUSIC LESSONS Piano, guitar, voice, theory, composition, songwriting.

All ages, levels, styles. 20 yrs. exp.

Friendly, individualized lessons in So. Burlington. Info: 802-864-7740, eromail13@gmail.com.

Martin 000X1 Guitar Like new condition, 5 mos. old. Great sound & action. Solid top, HPL back & sides. Amazing value. $425. Info: 802-388-2438, vfaust@middlebury.edu.

ACT 250 NOTICE APPLICATION AND HEARING #4C1209 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092

Instruction

Bands/ Musicians Bass & Drums Needed Some tracks on MySpace site. This is not our official name or site.

We’ve added a lead guitarist since these tracks were recorded.

Info: profile.myspace.com/index. cfm?fuseaction= user.viewprofile &friendid=405325443.

Andy’s Mountain Music Affordable, accessible instruction in guitar, mandolin, banjo, “Bluegrass 101” workshops and more. References, results, convenient scheduling 7 days/week!

Andy Greene, (802) 658-2462; guitboy75@hotmail.com; www. andysmountainmusic.com. Info: Andy Greene, 802-658-2462, guitboy75@hotmail.com, www.andysmountainmusic.com.

Auditions/ Casting OPEN MIC - CALL FOR TALENT Seeking poets, musicians, singers, storytellers, comics for Sept.

10 at 6 p.m. Space is limited; please sign up in advance. Ask for Michael DeSanto. Info: Phoenix Books & Cafe at Essex Shoppes & Cinema, 802-872-7111, phoenixbooks.biz.

This week’s puzzle answers. Puzzles on page 47a.

On July 31, 2008, Armand Turner filed application #4C1209 for a Project described as the construction of a PUD consisting of 26 residential units and 4,800 sf of personal/professional office space, all connected to municipal water and sewer. The Project is located on US Route 7, west of Landfill Road, in the Town of Milton. This Project will be evaluated by the District 4 Environmental Commission in accordance with the 10 environmental criteria of 10 V.S.A. § 6086(a).

A public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. at the Town of Milton Municipal Building Community Room, 43 Bombardier Road, Milton, Vermont. A site visit will be held before the hearing at 11:00 a.m. at the site (on US Route 7 in Milton, just west of Landfill Road).

The following people or organizations may participate in the hearing for this project: 1. Statutory parties: The municipality, the municipal planning commission, the regional planning commission, any adjacent municipality, municipal planning commission or regional planning commission if the project lands are located on a town boundary, and affected state agencies.

2. Adjoining property owners: May participate to the extent they can demonstrate that the proposed project will have a direct effect on their properties under the ten criteria of Act 250 pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E).

3. Other persons: May participate to the extent they can demonstrate that they have with a particularized interest protected

by Act 250 that may be affected by an act or decision by the District Commission pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(1)(E).

If you wish further information regarding participation in this hearing, please contact the District Coordinator at the address below before the date of the first hearing or prehearing. If you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify this office at least seven days prior to the above hearing date.

Copies of the application and plans for this project are available for inspection by members of the public during regular working hours at the Milton Offices, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and the District #4 Environmental Office. The application can also be viewed at the Natural Resources Board web site: www.nrb.state.vt.us/lup by clicking on “District Commission Cases” and entering the case number above.

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 12th day of August, 2008.

By: /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802.879.5662 E/ stephanie.monaghan@state. vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On August 7, 2008, Technology Park Partners and the City of South Burlington, filed application #4C0190-5G for a project generally described as: permit construction of Phase II of Technology Park from LUP #4C0190-5F. The project is located on Community Drive 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 30 Kimball Avenue, South Burlington, 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 September 9, 2008, 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 prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us

by September 9, 2008.

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 12th day of August 2008.

By /s/Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 and similar Vermont statutes which make it illegal to advertise any preference, limitations, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, presence of minor children in the family or receipt of public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or a discrimination. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate, which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings, advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis.

Any home seeker who feels her or she has encountered discrimination should contact the:

HUD Office of Fair Housing, 10 Causeway St., Boston, MA 02222-1092 (617) 565-5309.

OR Vermont Human Rights Commission, 135 State St., Drawer 33, Montpelier, VT 05633-6301. 800416-2010 Fax: 802-828-2480

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T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state.vt.us NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL To: Joseph Allen Burlington, VT 05401 RE: STORAGE UNITS #2 & 14, ROSE ST STORAGE, BURLINGTON, VT This is notice of intent to Sell your property because of your failure to make rental payments pursuant to the Storage Rental Agreements you voluntarily signed with Rose St Basement Storage. The amount you owe for the occupancy of the Units listed above at 28 Rose St in Burlington, VT is$1786.50.00(incl. fees) for the storage of your goods, which consists of the property stored by you in Unit Nos. 2 & 14.

We hereby demand that you pay the above stated sum to Rose St Basement by September 5, 2008 and if you do not make such payment in full or remove your goods, the above described goods will be sold in a commercially reasonable manner on September 6, 2008.

2. to reduce the minimum setback from the Route 7 right-ofway to 20 feet (from 100 feet); 3. to add to the Purpose Statement for the Village Commercial District; and 4. to add and clarify District Standards for the Village Commercial District, including a provision for increasing maximum lot coverage; Amendment #1 (as described above) will affect all land within the Village Commercial District on the east side of Route 7 in the West Charlotte Village; amendments #2-4 will affect all land within the Village Commercial District.

The proposed amendment will affect Table 2.3 of the Charlotte Land Use Regulations.

The full text of the proposed amendment is available for review at the Charlotte Town Office and at the Town’s web-site: http://www.charlottevt.org.

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0078-07 CnC

Peter Fisher August 11, 2008

TD Banknorth, NA, successor in interest to Banknorth, NA, Plaintiff v.

Francis P. Wilkins, Penelope L. Wilkins And Occupants residing at 1707 Lake Road, Milton, Vermont, Defendants

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL

And

To: Jenny Peck Burlington, VT 05401

GMAC Mortgage, LLC f/k/a GMAC Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff v.

Francis P. Wilkins, Penelope Momaney-Wilkins, Denis Linehan, TD Banknorth, NA, successor in interest to Banknorth, NA And Occupants residing at 1707 Lake Road, Milton, Vermont Defendants

If you wish to discuss removal of your goods or payment of these charges and avoid the impending sale of your goods you may contact Peter at (802) 660-3710 x11.

RE: STORAGE UNITS #19, ROSE ST STORAGE, BURLINGTON, VT This is notice of intent to Sell your property because of your failure to make rental payments pursuant to the Storage Rental Agreements you voluntarily signed with Rose St Basement Storage. The amount you owe for the occupancy of the Units listed above at 28 Rose St in Burlington, VT is$1040.00(incl. fees) for the storage of your goods, which consists of the property stored by you in Unit No. 19.

We hereby demand that you pay the above stated sum to Rose St Basement by September 5, 2008 and if you do not make such payment in full or remove your goods, the above described goods will be sold in a commercially reasonable manner on September 6, 2008.

If you wish to discuss removal of your goods or payment of these charges and avoid the impending sale of your goods you may contact Peter at (802) 660-3710 x11.

Peter Fisher August 11, 2008 Notice of Public Hearing To Amend the Charlotte Land Use Regulations The Charlotte Selectboard will hold a public hearing at the Charlotte Town Hall on Monday, September 8, 2008 at 7:45 PM for the purpose of receiving public comment on a proposed amendment to the Charlotte Land Use Regulations, under 24 V.S.A. §4442.

The purposes of this amendment are to make changes to Table 2.3 as follows: 1. to allow Retail Store as a Conditional Use within the Village Commercial District in the portion of the West Charlotte Village located on the east side of Route 7;

NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by GMAC Mortgage Corporation to Francis P. Wilkins dated August 7, 2003 and recorded in Volume 278, Page 685 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 3:00 P.M. on September 3, 2008, at 1707 Lake Road, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0802-07 CnC Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-FF16, Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-FF16, Plaintiff v.

Gregory L. Enzor, Toni Enzor And Occupants residing at 116 Waybury Road, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given

by Nationpoint, a Division of National City Bank to Gregory L. Enzor dated September 22, 2006 and recorded in Volume 569, Page 623 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2:15 P.M. on September 3, 2008, at 116 Waybury Road, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: BEING LOT 50 SITUATED ON THE NORTHERLY SIDE OF WAYBURY ROAD, LAUREL HILL NORTH, AS SHOWN ON A PLAN DATED JULY 1967 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK IV AT PAGE 72 OF THE COLCHESTER TOWN LAND RECORDS AND FURTHER DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEING ALL AND THE SAME LAND AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO LEONARD M. PATTISON AND LINDA M. PATTISON BY WARRANTY DEED OF JOHN S. GRUPP AND MARY ELLEN GRUPP DATED JULY 5, 1988 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 147, PAGES 134-135, OF THE TOWNO F COLCHESTER LAND RECORDS. SAID LOT IS SUBJECT TO AND HAS THE BENEFIT OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS AND AGREEMENT RECORDED IN BOOK 15, MISCELLANEOUS, PAGE 191, AS AMENDED IN BOOK 21, MISCELLANEOUS, PAGE 191 AS AMENDED IN BOOK 21, MISCELLANEOUS, PAGE 19 OF SAID LAND RECORDS. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester.

To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Frank P. Wilkins and Penelope MomaneyWilkins by Warranty Deed of A. Thibault & Sons, LLC dated January 31, 2001 and of record in Book 215, Page 669 of the said land records.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton.

By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

Aurora Loan Services, LLC, Plaintiff v.

Dennis L. Blodgett, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for First Magnus Financial Corporation And Occupants residing at 60 Holbrook Road, South Burlington, Vermont,

TD Banknorth, NA, successor in interest to Banknorth, NA By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0751-07 CnC

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Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Magnus Financial Corporation to Dennis L. Blodgett dated December 18, 2006 and recorded in Volume 770, Page 311 of the Land Records of the Town of South Burlington, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:30 P.M. on September 3, 2008, at 60 Holbrook Road, South Burlington, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Dennis L. Blodgett by Warranty Deed of Donald A. Grinde, Jr. and Karl J. Winter dated August 28, 2003, of record in Volume 634 at Page 522 of the City of South Burlington Land Records.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of South Burlington.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

Aurora Loan Services, LLC By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0 444-07 Cnc Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee, Plaintiff, v.

Brenda Provost, Dale Provost, and Any Other Occupants of 13 Hilltop Court, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage Deed dated March 16, 2006, from Brenda Provost and Dale V. Provost to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for Accredited Home Lender, Inc. Said Mortgage Deed was recorded on March 20, 2006 in Volume 553, Page 215233 of the Town of Colchester Land Records. The subject Promissory Note and Mortgage were assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for Accredited Home Lender, Inc., to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas formerly known as Banker’s Trust Company, as Trustee for IXIS 2006-HE2 by: Saxon Mortgage Services, Inc., f/k/a Meritech Mortgage Services, Inc., as its attorney in fact, by an Assignment dated April 10, 2007 and recorded on April 13, 2007, in Volume 583, Page 219-220, of the Town of Colchester 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 9:30 o’clock AM, on the 9th day of September, A.D. 2008, at the subject premises of 13 Hilltop Court, Colchester, Vermont, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage will be sold as a whole.

To wit: “Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to the Mortgagors herein by Warranty Deed of M. Elena Garcia and John D. Kushmaul dated March 16, 2006 and recorded in Volume ______, Page ____ of the Town of Colchester Land Records, and being more particularly described as follows: “A lot of land with dwelling house thereon located on the southerly side of Canyon Road, band being all of Lot NO. 65 as depicted on a plan prepared by Emerson, Abbott, Harlow and Leedy, Inc., dated September 10, 196, as revised November 7, 1968, and further revised December 11, 1968, and being Sheet One (1) of Nine (9) Sheets entitled ‘Canyon Estates IV’ and recorded in Volume 20, Page 25 of the Colchester Land Records, and now recorded at Slide 117 of said Land Records.

“The dwelling thereon is commonly known and designated as 13 Hilltop Court, Colchester, Vermont.”

Terms of Sale: Purchaser at the sale shall pay cash or certified funds, or produce a commitment letter from a band 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. 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, PO Box 108, Milton, Vermont 05468, 802893-7400.

By: /s/ Grant C. Rees, Esq. Mortgagee or Mortgagee’s Attorney Publication Dates: August 13, 2008 August 20, 2008 August 27, 2008

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.

Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

SELF HELP STRATEGIES SUPPORT GROUP Held at 50 Willard Stret, West View House. Held in day for only Howard Center, Westview House clients.

GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided.

The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register.

ANONYMOUS CO-DEPENDENTS MEETING: A group of men and women whose common purpose is recovery from co-dependence and development of healthy relationships. Weekly on Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Turningpoint Center in the Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: 802-247-3940, www. coda.org.

INSULIN PUMP SUPPORT GROUP Starting Wednesday, June 18 at the Vermont Regional Diabetes Center 6:30-8 p.m. Subjects covered will be maximizing the use of your insulin pump, tips, safety issues, travel, sensors and downloading info to your home computer. A pump company clinical trainer and Certified Diabetes Educators will be present to answer questions. All pump wearers and their family and friends are invited. Refreshments will be served and participants will receive either a free One Touch Ultra Link or Free Style Lite glucometer. For questions and directions please call The Vermont Regional Diabetes Center at 802-847-1014.

MS SUPPORT GROUP A support group for people with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers.

Sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Join others who have MS to discuss concerns, ask questions, share information and get support.

Meets the first and third Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30 p.m. in Williston. For more information contact Michele at 862-4085 and leave a message LOSS GROUP FOR KIDS An 8-week group for kids who are grieving all types of losses. Please call RiverValley Associates for more information 802-651-7520.

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Champlain Valley (NAMI: CV) is offering a free PTSD Support Group for Women on Thursdays from 12:30-2:00 p.m.

The group focuses on both support and education about PTSD. Meetings are held at the NAMI office at 14 Healey Avenue, Suite D, Plattsburgh. For more information or to register, call NAMI: CV at 561-2685.

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 6559136 or email kgcromey@aol.com.

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« support groups POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Champlain Valley (NAMI: CV) is offering a free PTSD Support Group for Women on Thursdays from 12:30-2:00 p.m.

The group focuses on both support and education about PTSD. Meetings are held at the NAMI office at 14 Healey Avenue, Suite D, Plattsburgh. For more information or to register, call NAMI: CV at 561-2685.

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 6559136 or email kgcromey@aol.com.

SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@pshift.com.

(OA) OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Tues., Thurs. & Sun., 6-7 p.m. in Barre. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre, VT (Parking in back of church/please use back entrance).

Meetings are FREE and anonymous.

For more info please call 802-8632655.

RIGHTS FOR CAREGIVERS support group – If you are a part-time caregiver for elders for an agency in Chittenden County, we need you to help everyone obtain better wages and more respect for the work we do. Contact Zoe at 802-861-6000 or zoe1944@yahoo.com.

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AL-ANON Family group 12-step.

Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802-472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick, VT. “WOMEN CHANGING” An educational support group on changing unhealthy patterns for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence.

Tuesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. Ongoing.

Join us anytime! Child care reimbursable. Ask about Survivors of Incest Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick, VT. CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children.

Meetings weekly in Winooski. For more info. call Tana at 802-8934878 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-2295724 or 1-800-children.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St. suite 7 in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Burlington evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Comfort Inn and Suites, corner of Williston Rd. and Dorset St. from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772.

FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/management of addictions, compulsions, and their resulting imbalances on our lives.

Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food?

Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a non-judgmental atmosphere.

Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@gmail.com.

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LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome weekly group w/cofacilitators.

Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations.

Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP will meet every second Tues, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Fanny Allen Hospital, lower level in the Board Room.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Mondays, 7-8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie at 760-9203.

HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what living positive has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094.

MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome. 18 years of age and older. Open discussion format.

Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, transitions, health, personal growth, grieving, healing, etc. Emotionally safe and confidential. Nonjudgmental, nonviolent. Groups led by trained cofacilitators. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations.

Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Corner of Elmwood Ave. and Allen St. Entrance on Allen St. Burlington, Vt. Every Thursday, 7-9 PM. Please be prompt. Suggested donation $5 - but none will be turned away for lack of donation. For info call: 434-8180. Visit us at lcmrc. org.

LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713.

CENTRAL VERMONT SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS COPING WITH BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES Will meet at the Easter Seals office in Berlin the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. New Members Welcome. Facilitated by Kristi Lenart, BA. For more information, call Kristi at 802-223-4744.

DISCUSS “WHAT THE BLEEP…”and “Down the Rabbit Hole” – the layman’s way toward understanding latest quantum physics discoveries linking science and spirituality.

We’ll watch segments, talk about them, share experiences. Meeting place, Burlington area TBA. Call 802-861-6000 SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the Capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles, and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions.

Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@ cs.com STARTING A WOMEN’S GROUP: Ages 45+, to meet weekly for lunch and other activities such as walking, book discussions, museum visits, matinees, and etc. Email Katherine at MKR27609@aol.com.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP: 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday. Please call or visit website for location information.

1-800-296-1445 voicemail, www. monkeyswithswings.com/vtcfidds. html.

MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER: Support group meets 5 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month in the board room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. 1-800ACS-2345.

SQUEAKY WHEELS, RUSTY HINGES: Focus groups meet at the Branon’s Pool in St. Albans for socialization, maintaining, wellbeing, improving performance of daily activities by managing aches through sharing experiences and workout in the warm water. Meeting is free, one hour pool pass, swimsuit, required.

802-527-7957.

MEN’S GROUP FORMING: To read and discuss Warrin Farrill’s groundbreaking best selling book “The Myth of Male Power”. 802-3430910.

MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE/DYSAUTONOMIA: Group forming for information sharing purposes. Please call 863-3153.

MEN’S GROUP FORMING: Based on the work of David Deida, Core Energetics, and other awareness practices. The intention of the group is to serve members into being the most extraordinary men that they can be. It is for men who are who are dying to penetrate every bit of the world with their courage, their presence, their unbridled passion and relentless love, and their deepest burning, bubbling, brilliant desire. The group will function as a means for men to support each other and serve the greater good.

We will be working with spiritual practices, the mind and body, and taking on our lives with the utmost integrity, impeccability and openness. The group is not a new age group, nor is it a group dedicated to therapy. Info, email zach@ handelgroup.com or call 917-8871276.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS): Open to anyone who has lost a loved one, friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker to suicide. The group provides a safe place where survivors can share their experiences and support each other. The Burlington support group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. at the The Comfort Inn & Suites, 5 Dorset St., South Burlington, VT. This is not a therapy group; this is a support group.

There is no fee. Please contact Linda Livendale, 802-479-9450, ljlivendale@yahoo.com.

DEBTORS ANON: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with money and debt? We can help.

Tuesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Redstone Campus First Presbyterian Church, South Prospect St. Sat. 10-11:30 a.m. Contact Brenda, 802-4970522 or Cameron, 802-363-3747.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: A group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to be a member. The only requirement is a desire to stop using. For meeting info, call 802862-4516 or visit www.cvana.org.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier.

Wednesdays, 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345.

BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749.

CONCERNED UNITED BIRTHPARENTS: A group offering support if you have lost a child to adoption or are in reunion or have yet to begin your search. 802-849-2244.

EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554.

HEPATITIS C SUPPORT GROUP: Second Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30. Community Health Center, second floor, 617 Riverside Ave., Burlington 802-355-8936.

AUTISM SUPPORT DAILY: Free support group for parents of children with autism. 600 Blair Park Road, Suite 240, Williston. 1st Monday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Call Lynn, 802-660-7240, or visit us at http://www.AutismSupportDaily. com for more info.

OCD SUPPORT GROUP/THERAPY GROUP: Come share your experience, get support from those who have been there, learn about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how to reduce its symptoms. Therapist facilitated. Weekly meetings, 802-343-8114.

AUTISM: Free support group for parents and caregivers of children with ASD. Montpelier, 2nd Sunday of the month, 3-5 p.m. at the Family Center. Call Jessica, 249-7961 for childcare inquires. More info, www.aaware.org.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington.

Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP: If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women 658-1996.

HAIR PULLERS SUPPORT GROUP: The Vermont TTM Support Group is a new support group for adult pullers (18+) affected by trichotillomania (chronic hair pulling) as well as parents of pullers. This will be a supportive, safe, comfortable and confidential environment.

Meets on the 4th Monday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Info, 453-3688 or vermont_ttmoutreach@yahoo.com.

DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION: If you suffer from either of these trance states, please call Todd, 864-4285.

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TYSON 1 1/2 YR OLD Neutered Male Domestic Short Haired SIZE/WEIGHT: Small, 10 lbs REASON HERE: I did not work out in my previous home.

KIDS: 8+ DOGS: Unknown CATS: Yes ENERGY LEVEL: Medium SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: Special diet.

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SUMMARY: Tyson is a playful guy with lots of spirit. He also loves a good scratch under the chin. He would prefer a home with no other cats and older children. He is also on a special diet that will need to be maintained.

Visit me at HSCC, 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington, Tuesday through Friday, from 1 to 6 pm, or Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. 862-0135.

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THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EAST CHAPTER of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, UVM. Info, 4825319. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause.

DIABETES EDUCATION and Support Group of Chittenden County meets the third Thursday of every month at the Williston Federated Church, 6:30-8 p.m. We often have guest speakers. Info, 847-2278.

WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present.

WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women and children in this community.

Info, 658-1996.

VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM: Info, contact MaryKay Hill, www.

VTPFAC.com or call 802-373-0351.

MIXED GENDER COMING OUT SUPPORT GROUP: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Co-facilitated by supportive peers and mentalhealth professionals and open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning adults age 23 and up. Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?.

TRANS SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUP: First Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Looking for peer support among other transgendered folks? Need a safe space to relax and be yourself? Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?

TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7-8 p.m. meeting.

Info, call Fred or Bennye, 6553317 or Patricia, 658-6904.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516, or visit www.together.net/~cvana.

Held in Burlington, South Burlington and Colchester. For more information, call 860-8388 or toll-free, 1-866-972-5266.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. Sunday meetings, 7-8:30 p.m. Men call Sandy, 863-5708. Women call Valerie, 802-760-9203.

SMOKING CESSATION GROUP: Willing to kick the habit? This free, five-week program helps quitters to follow through. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6309.

DOES YOUR PARTNER/SPOUSE HAVE AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)? Support group meets in Burlington to share experiences, challenges, laughs, resources. Want more information?

Write addpartner@yahoo.com.

WEDNESDAYS CIRCLE: A Transpersonal support group, every Wed., 6 p.m., Innerharmony Community Wellness Center, Rt. 100N, Rochester, VT. 767-6092. A sharing circle focusing on personal growth, transformation, spirituality and healing, led by Jim Dodds.

DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP: Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each simplify. 453-3612.

PARENTS TOGETHER: Support group will be meeting in Rutland on Monday evenings. Snacks and child care provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call 1-800-CHILDREN for more information.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Battered Women’s Services and Shelter of Washington County. Please call 1877-543-9498 for more info.

AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Join our support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport and its healthgiving, life-affirming qualities. Any age. No athletic experience needed. Call Linda at 802-434-4423 or email: dragonheartvermont@ gmavt.net or go to: www.dragonheartvermont.org.

NAKED IN VERMONT: The premier Nudist/Skinnydipper organization in Vermont offering information library, message board, chat room, yahoo group, and more. (ALL FREE) Visit www.nakedinvermont.com.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION New England: Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

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ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) monthly support group: For patients, caregivers and loved ones who are living or have lived with ALS. Third Thursday of the month, 1-3 p.m. Jim’s House, 1266 Creamery Rd., Williston. Info and directions, 802-862-8882 or vt@alsanne.org.

METHADONE ANONYMOUS: A medication-assisted recovery support group. Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. The Alano Club. Directions: Rt. 15 Fort Ethan Allen entrance, Barnes Ave., third right on to Hegeman Ave., #74 on left. All are welcome.

HARD-OF-HEARING support group: I’m starting a support group for adults who have a hearing loss that affects the quality of their work/family/social life. Let’s share personal experiences and knowledge of hearing-aid technology.

Marlene, 999-8005.

SKINNYDIPPERS UNITE! Visit Vermont Au Naturel. Join other naturists and like-minded people for support, discussions and more! www.vermontaunaturel.com.

MENTAL ILLNESSES: The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill holds support meetings for the families and friends of the mentally ill at Howard Center, corner of Flynn and Pine. Second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at 7 p.m. Park in Pine St. lot and walk down ramp.

862-6683 for info.

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, Transgender, Queer and Questioning: Support groups for survivors of partner violence, sexual violence and bias/hate crimes. Free and confidential. SafeSpace, 863-0003 or 866-869-7341 (toll-free).

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985-8600.

“HELLENBACH” CANCER support: Every other Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Middlebury. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer and their caretakers convene for support.

DEBTORS SUPPORT GROUP: Mondays, 7-8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 21 Buell St., Burlington. Tuesday, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, Burlington and Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m., King Street Youth Center, 87 King St., Burlington. Info, call Brenda 8937752 or Cameron, 363-3747.

BURLINGTON MEN’S GROUP: Ongoing Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3742. Area men are invited to join this weekly group for varied discussions and drumming.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free.

Info, 860-8382. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 and join a group in your area.

AL-ANON: Ongoing Wednesdays, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free.

Info, 655-6512. Seven other locations also. Info, 860-8388. Do you have a friend or relative with an alcohol problem? Al-Anon can help.

DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL violence: WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Addison County for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Info, 388-4205.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS Anonymous: Sundays, 7 p.m. Free. Info, write to P.O. Box 5843, Burlington, VT 05402. Get help through this weekly 12-step program.

ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS: Burlington, meets at Birchwood Terrace, 2nd & 4th Wed., at 1:30 p.m.

Colchester, meets at FAHC, Fanny Allen Campus, 1st Thurs. of month at 3 and 7 p.m. Shelburne, meets at The Arbors, 2nd Tues. of month at 10 a.m.

DEMENTIA & ALZHEIMER’S disease support group for the caregivers: Barre, meets at Rowan Ct., 4th Wed. of month at 3 p.m. Montpelier, 338 River St., 2nd Wed. of month at 7 p.m.

PARKINSON’S DISEASE: meets 1st Tues. of each month at the Heineburg Sr. Ctr., Heineburg Ave., Burlington. Lunch is avail. by calling 863-3982 in advance.

WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT group: FAHC. Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 5-6:30 p.m. Call Rose, 847-5714.

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At HowardCenter, we believe that everyone deserves support. We are the largest private, nonprofit community mental health agency in the state of Vermont, serving 14,000 people a year in child, youth and family services; developmental services; and mental health and substance abuse services.

Mental Health & Substance Abuse Direct Service Several direct service positions open offering a strong interdisciplinary approach working in a supportive environment with paid trainings. A great way to enjoy all Vermont has to offer while working in your community. Full- and part-time positions available earning $11.02 to $13.08 per hour, .58/milge reimbursement and benefits eligibility for positions of 20/hr per week.

for offenders with co-occurring disorders returning to the community from incarceration. This offender population will be on conditional re-entry status with the Department of Corrections. Position requires clinical skills sufficient to provide screenings, assessments, treatment planning, individual/family/group counseling and clinical case management. This position also requires the ability to represent the Agency and the Re-Entry Program to community providers and community Support outreach clinician support services involved with offenders. Master’s degree in human services To start as soon as possible! We are reopening our search for a full-time case field required and license or certification preferred. manager to work in a unique program providing intensive services to break the cycle of homelessness for persons with mental illness. This position works community elDercare clinician as part of an interagency team with the Community Health Center. Direct Three-days-a-week benefited position LICSW (ONLY) to fill a role working with experience serving persons with a major mental illness is highly desirable. This elders in the community. You will meet with elders (60+) mainly in their homes position works on the streets, in clients’ homes as well as in the Safe Harbor and provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment as needed. Most referrals Office. Bachelor’s degree required, driver’s license and reliable vehicle a must. come from the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging and you will partner with CVAA case managers to provide mental health supports as needed. Work with We will be filling this position as soon as we find the appropriate candidate! a small, dedicated team of eldercare Clinicians who enjoy the pearls of wisdom Senior clinician–chittenDen center and the challenges provided by the elderly clients.

Supervisory clinician needed for the methadone clinic to work with a diverse Child, Youth and Family Services group of patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment. Major accountabilities to include providing clinical supervision to clinicians and clinical services to patients who are receiving methadone maintenance therapy WooDSiDe care coorDinator and developing and reviewing individualized treatment plans, and providing New position within the HowardCenter/Woodside Collaboration. This position back-up for the Associate Director in her/his absence or when needed. Must includes developing individualized plans of care for children within the detention possess a Master’s degree in counseling/social work with a minimum of 5 years and residential wings of theWoodside Juvenile rehabilitation Center. Working experience. Licensure in mental health and experience in substance abuse collaboratively with Woodside staff, supervisors, and directly with clinical care coordinator as well as with external providers. Strong communication skills a preferred. must and intricate part of the position. Understanding of systems development community Support clinician as well as strong assessment and clinical skills. Working knowledge of juvenile Two full-time positions available to support persons with psychiatric justice system. Masters desired or Bachelors in the field with experience with disabilities in Chittenden County. Work as part of a multidisciplinary team youth. providing creative problem solving, advocacy, resource development, case family Worker–incluSion management, counseling and crisis support. Direct services to clients, families We are seeking a family clinician to join an innovative team supporting the and the community. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in human services field successful inclusion of students into public education. The position has and experience with persons with serious and persistent mental disorders opportunities to provide family counseling, case management, psychopreferred. education and home-school coordination. The ideal candidate will possess strong assessment, diagnostic and crisis intervention skills. The ability to work SubStance abuSe outreach Worker Engage with and identify people in the community who are homeless or collaboratively with mental health and educational teams is essential. The marginally housed as well as a source of information and guidance to others desire to provide training to direct-care staff on a variety of mental health and in need. Do street assessment of need as well as more formal assessments treatment topics is a plus. This position is full-time and requires candidates to to determine risk, referrals, avenues for continued care. These encounters possess a Master;s degree in psychology, social work or other human service are through regular outreach to community based places (i.e. Foodshelf, jail, field. Some evening hours required. Submit cover letter and resume.

ACT 1). People identified through HHP/COTS/CHC/HCHS or other agency/ profeSSional roommateS community members. Provide ongoing care coordination/case management Seeking individuals or couples to share their home, interests and knowledge regarding all issues in client support, including benefits, housing references, of life with adolescent males who have been involved with the state’s juvenile medical follow-up, substance abuse treatment, intake/discharge planning, justice rehabilitation program. These young men have received intensive advocacy, legal referrals. Lead case manager on a number of cases. treatment and are now ready to re-integrate into the community. You would be responsible for supervision and support of the young person while offenDer re-entry outpatient clinician Looking for an energetic team player with experience working with the implementing therapeutic behavioral plans. The perfect candidate for this type offender population. Important that this person be comfortable working with of work would be someone who believes in recovery and helping youth aspire to multiple systems. This clinician will provide a range of treatment services be their best. Extensive supervision, training and a generous stipend provided.

To learn more about HowardCenter, view a full listing of open positions, more details on positions listed above and to apply online visit: www.howardcenter.org.

To apply, send your resume and Cover leTTer To: Jobs@HowardCenter.org or: Human resources/Jobs HowardCenter; 160 Flynn ave; Burlington, vT 05401 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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PRIVATE RESIDENCE SUPPORT STAFF

Progressive mental health program is seeking an energetic and team-oriented individual to work in a therapeutic private residence and community setting. Responsibilities include providing a supportive and healing environment to an adult with severe and persistent mental illness, assisting in problem solving issues, and providing strength-based education with the goal of recovery. One full-time position available consisting of second and asleep overnight shifts, including one weekend day and rotational holidays. Substitute positions are also available. Applicants must have strong communication skills, be organized, have a valid driver’s license in good standing and be both genuine and compassionate.

Computer skills required. Competitive wages. Excellent benefits.

OUTPATIENT THERAPIST

Interested in being part of a group that includes a supportive team of therapists, coverage of your after hours emergencies and efficient billing staff? We are currently seeking a full-time therapist. The ideal candidate will be a generalist with a MSW/LICSW (other licensure considered) and experience treating children, adolescents, adults and families. Experience with substance abuse, DBT and group treatment is desirable. Willing to consider individual working towards licensure and supervision available. This full-time fee-for-service position has an excellent benefits package. Some evening hours required.

Clinic located close to interstate and is a short commute from Burlington and surrounding areas.

CRISIS CLINICIAN

Seeking an individual with a Master’s degree or a Bachelor’s degree with relevant clinical experience.

Position offers very competitive compensation and a flexible work schedule. Supervision towards licensure available. Crisis work requires teamwork with other professionals and agencies in the community and the ability to work under pressure and maintain a positive attitude in a constantly changing atmosphere.

042W 4VMZEXI (YX] Care for one patient and be appreciated for a job well done!

Engaging, 16-year-old girl in need of loving, dependable caregivers.

Private home is 25 minutes north of Burlington. Total assist with ADLs, g-tube, respiratory management and TLC. LPNs: Weekend Days 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., $28.00/hr.

LNAs: Weekday Evenings 4:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m., $18.00/hr. (+2 weekend day shifts a month) Call 802-893-6368 or email privdutynurse08@surfglobal.net

SCHOOL-BASED CLINICIAN, PROJECT SOAR

Project Soar, an independent alternative school serving students in grades K-12, is seeking a clinician to provide assessment, individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, skill development groups and consultation to families and school staff. Must be a positive, creative team player, skilled at collaborating with families, schools and human services agencies. Competitive salary and benefits package. Master’s degree required.

SERVICES COORDINATOR - CHILDREN

Seeking energetic person to provide case management services to children with developmental disabilities in Franklin and Grand Isle counties. Responsible for coordinating individual service plans through a client-centered approach, and facilitating the communication and arrangements necessary for high-quality consumer satisfaction. A Bachelor’s degree in a related human services field and experience working with children on the autism spectrum, as well as other developmental disabilities, such as Down Syndrome, a must. Personal car necessary for travel.

SERVICES COORDINATOR - ADULTS

Seeking energetic person to provide case management services to adults with developmental disabilities in Franklin and Grand Isle counties. Responsible for coordinating individual service plans through a client-centered approach, and facilitating the communication and arrangements necessary for high-quality consumer satisfaction. A Bachelor’s degree in a related human services field and 1 year experience are minimum requirements. Personal car necessary for travel.

EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST

The Supported Employment Team is seeking a self-motivated, energetic person to provide supported employment services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. Responsibilities include counseling, vocational assessment, job development, placement and support. Applicant must have passion for the business field and the willingness to network with employers in the community. Strong organizational and communication skills and the ability to work as a member of a team are required.

Experience in the human services field is a plus. Bachelor’s degree preferred, but an Associate’s degree and/or relevant experience will be considered.

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST

This position is an exciting opportunity to work with a dynamic team, providing advocacy and support to transition-aged adolescents experiencing a severe emotional or behavioral disturbance. This position provides independent living skills, employment and post-secondary opportunities to youth. The right candidate will possess a working knowledge of community resources, enjoy working with youth and have a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology or similar study. There is an on-call component to this position.

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Shared Home Provider Opportunities in Chittenden County Rural or suburban home sought for charming 43-year-old man on the autism spectrum. This dedicated animal lover enjoys helping with household projects such as lawn mowing and animal care. Ideal candidate is single man or couple with no children who enjoy nature & being physically active. This independent guy transitioning from his loving home will continue to be active with his family. Knowledge of nonaggressive behavioral issues & OCD sought. Earn a generous tax-free stipend and respite budget in this exciting home-based career.

For more information please contact Marisa Hamilton 802-488-6571 Sports, fishing and Chuck Norris aficionado needed to provide a home in a country setting for a middle-aged man. Best match is an individual or couple with good boundaries and no children. Generous stipend plus room and board are provided. Chittenden County only.

Please call Leigh Martin at 802-488-6520 Shared Living provider needed for a young woman who loves music, movies, friends and school. 24/7 care needed; however, this avid socialite attends school and summer camp, and has supportive direct-service care providers during the day as well. This client has significant medical needs and must have a wheelchair-accessible home; best match is a single female or couple with no young children. Generous stipend and room and board provided.

Please call Leah MacCarthy at HR Dept., 107 Fisher Pond Road, St. Albans, VT 05478. EOE 802-488-6541 tolisting place anopportunities: ad? Call Michelle Brown 865-1020 x 21 Visit our websiteNeed for a complete of our job www.ncssinc.org.

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To learn more about HowardCenter, to view a full listing of open positions, to learn more about benefits, and to apply online, visit www.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 benefit package to qualified employees.

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Staff Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians

New England Federal Credit Union, Vermont’s largest Credit Union with 7 branch locations, is a growing organization committed to excellence in price, convenience, service, simplicity, and to sharing success. NEFCU offers a stable, supportive, high-standards work environment, where employees are treated as key stakeholders. Please visit our website – www.nefcu.com – to learn more about the great opportunities and benefits that exist at NEFCU.

Human ResouRces GeneRalist

Maxor National Pharmacy Services, an employeedriven pharmacy services company established in 1926, is currently seeking a full-time Staff Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technicians for its central-fill, closed-pharmacy partnership with some of VT’s Community Health Centers, in Colchester. The pharmacy will serve the insured, uninsured, and underserved patients of the Community Health Centers. There is no walkin retail traffic, drive through windows, 12-hour shifts, nights or weekends. Hours of operation are M-F, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Pharmacists should hold a current VT pharmacist licensure.

Full-time opportunity for an experienced HR Generalist with demonstrated skills in the areas of: assessment and selection of applicants, benefits administration including employee communications, enrollment and interface with providers, administration of the HRIS (ADP) and employee census reporting, employee relations including service awards, employee recognition events and annual United Way Campaign.

This is a highly visible, service-oriented position in a two-person department working closely with Credit Union management and staff, and reporting to the Manager of HR/Organizational Development. Organizational skills, attention to detail, professional judgment, a collaborative style and the ability to work independently toward Credit Union standards and outcomes are essential qualifications for success in the position. Strong user skills in Microsoft Office and Excel are required.

Experience with the ADP human-resources platform and Survey Monkey considered a plus.

Maxor offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package including employer-matched 401(k), wellness benefits and much more. Interested applicants may download an employment application at www.maxor.com and fax to 806-324-5595 or resumes may be faxed or emailed to jobs@maxor.com. Call 802-8399119 for more information.

NEFCU enjoys being an employer of choice distinction with turnover averaging less than 10%.

More than 96% of our 165 staff members say NEFCU is a great place to work (2007 Annual Staff Survey). If you believe you have the qualifications to contribute to this environment, please send your resume and cover letter illustrating your strongest qualifications for this position and specifically, why you are interested in the opportunity to: HR@nefcu.com Please use “HR Generalist” in the subject area.

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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HEAD START PRESCHOOL TEACHER And EARLY CARE AdVOCATE POSITIOnS: Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and monthly home visits for families.

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Familiarity with Head Childhood Program Licensing Regulations is preferred. Contracted position for 6-8 hours/week, flexible schedule. Competitive hourly wage dependent upon education and experience. Please send resume and cover letter with three work references by email to: mbarrett@cvoeo.org.

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a nonprofit provider of adult education and literacy services, currently has a part-time opening at the Middlebury, VT Learning Center for a:

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Individual will coordinate work experience opportunities and support students in gaining work readiness skills.

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Long before ink meets paper, our staff edits, composes and adjusts every page, every paragraph, every element PRODUCTION EDITOR ASSISTANT The Production Editor Assistant performs services for Production to look better on paper than itsupport did in your mind.

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We are growing and expanding our services and clientele and are searching for exceptional staff in these areas: Requirements: ability to manage multiple tasks, strong communication

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Salary commensurate with experience; benefits.

Please send cover letter, resume and 3 references to: SEARCH PO Box 829 Montpelier, VT 05601-0829 or to pcavt@pcavt.org Website: www.pcavt.org EOE

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Come build your future at Middlebury College!

Career Services positions available!

Middlebury's Career Services Office is where students and alumni receive world class career counseling and recruiting services. We are seeking important new members to join our work family. If you are seeking a rewarding career move, then we encourage you to apply for one of the following job opportunities:

Employer Relations Coordinator, full-time Runs the full administrative interface between employers and Middlebury students seeking jobs and internships. Administers and supports the day-to-day on- and off-campus recruiting logistics for undergraduates and the Summer Language School Program. The central role of this position is in customizing, trouble shooting, and inputing data into our electronic recruiting system.

We seek: a pro-active, well-organized individual with excellent communication, administrative and computer skills who is able to speak with high level alumni and professionals.

Required: Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree plus 2 - 3 years administrative experience.

Internship Programs Coordinator, full-time Coordinates the implementation and development of Career Services' internship programs. This coordination requires significant ongoing communication with employers, alumni, parents and students, including the development of targeted approaches to students and solicitations to alumni/parents with the goal of expanding student participation and alumni offerings.

We seek: a well-organized individual with strong customer-service orientation and professional demeanor who has excellent writing skills and English mastery, including ability to write and graphically design newsletters and other communiquĂŠ. The ideal candidate must have excellent computer skills (PC) and familiarity with Microsoft Office.

Required: College degree or equivalent experience in undergraduate career programs preferred.

Why work for us? Middlebury College is a nationally recognized liberal arts institution. Our employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent compensation; competitive health, dental, life, disability, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. As the 10th largest employer in Vermont and an institution with operations on five continents, Middleburyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workforce is one of its most valuable assets. Thus the college is firmly committed to the success and development of its employees.

Interested? To apply on-line via our website, please visit:

http://go.middlebury.edu/jobs Please call Human Resources at (802) 443-5465 for assistance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Audit Senior PLUMBING & MECHANICAL INSPECTOR City of Burlington

This position is responsible for performing both routine and complex technical work in construction inspection to ensure that safe installation and legal compliance of building, plumbing and mechanical systems and other related codes and standards are met. High school diploma or equivalent and four years experience in general construction of plumbing and mechanical systems required.

For a complete description of this position or an application visit our website at www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us or contact Human Resources at 802-865-7145.

If interested, please send a cover letter, resume and completed City of Burlington Application by August 26, to: HR Dept., 131 Church St, Burlington, VT 05401.

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

Growing Burlington, VT, CPA firm seeks an experienced CPA or CPA candidate to join its audit team. Responsibilities include audit, review and compilation work. Competitive salary and benefit package commensurate with experience, flexible schedule, friendly work environment and career growth opportunities.

Reply in confidence to JMM & Associates P.O. Box 385 Burlington, VT 05402 or jmm@jmmcpa.net

Counter/Prep part-time or full-time

for the Cafe at the Shelburne Museum.

Must be willing to interact with customers in a high-volume setting.

Pay varies with ability.

The Museum is located on the Shelburne Road bus route.

If interested, please call Bill Hackett at 802-985-3346, ext. 3113, Mon thru Fri, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Case Manager Provide Case Management services to families who are without homes or who are at imminent risk of homelessness, as they transition to stable housing. Case Managers provide a full range of direct services to clients while working as a team within COTS’ programs and with community partners.

Willingness to learn and work with families with mental health, medical, substance abuse and employment issues required. Good written and verbal communication also required. Previous experience with homeless population, crisis intervention and housing are desirable. BSW or BA in a related discipline required plus three to five years of relevant work experience or a combination of relevant experience and education. This is a full-time position with excellent benefits package.

Send cover letter and resume by September 2 to: Mary Anne Kohn COTS PO Box 1616 Burlington, VT 05402-1616 Email: maryannek@cotsonline.org No phone calls accepted.

TTY relay 1-800-545-3323

EOE

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CIRCULATION SERVICES SPECIALIST (Part-time Evening and Weekend Supervisor)

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES

This 20-hour-per-week, year-round position provides evening and weekend supervision of library student assistants and the facility. The individual selected will support use of library services by students, faculty and staff, including circulation activities and use of research resources. Bachelor’s degree or appropriate combination of experience and education required. Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience with electronic information systems. Library, supervisory, bookstore and/or teaching experience a plus.

Must have excellent oral and written communications skills, a public service orientation and ability to work in a collegial, team-oriented environment.

This individual will consult with other supervisors to develop flexible work schedules to cover all evening and weekend hours of service.

Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to undergraduate education and be supportive of the mission of this Catholic, residential, liberal arts college. Saint Michael’s College is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, staff and student body, and encourages applications from the entire spectrum of a diverse community. This position will remain open until it is filled.

Submit cover letter and resume to smchr@smcvt.edu or mail to:

Office of Human Resources Saint Michael’s College One Winooski Park Colchester, VT 05439

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

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We are searching for a part-time LPN to provide health services under the direction of a supervising nurse to students at our Hiawatha Elementary School (PK-3). Qualified candidates must hold a valid VT LPN license and have experience working with elementary students. Position pays $15.94/ hour for 3.5 hours/day, 185 days/ year. For more information, please visit our website at www.ccsuvt.org (click on Job Opportunities).

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Contracts Specialist is responsible for working internally to create contracts. Current opening in Montpelier VT. No phone calls. info@solarworksinc.com - Familiarity with contracts and developing a strategy to organize and track this process.

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Case Manager

Full-Time with Benefits We are seeking someone can communicate well with those we support and their families. This position will require equal amounts of time coordinating services in the community and completing paperwork. Applicants should have good communication and time-management skills, and be detailoriented with documentation. Must have a Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in social services or related field.

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20 hr/wk Applicants must have knowledge of child development and strong communication skills, and be well organized. Must have a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in mental health counseling or social work.

Experience in the field of developmental disabilities preferred.

Please send resume, letter of interest and 3 references to: Francis Foundation HRD 16 Church Street Middlesex, VT 05602 Submission deadline is Sept 10, 2008.

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Francis Foundation

16 Church Street, Middlesex, VT 05602 Mental Health services for children and adults with disabilities.

English languagE TuTor office of Diversity & inclusion 10 hours per Week, Flexible schedule

Champlain College seeks a trained individual to assist the College in supporting refugee students and New American Scholarship recipients by working with them on a one-on-one basis in an academic lab to help them adjust to college and acculturation process. Other responsibilities include assisting in the identification of an English language-level assessment tool, and evaluating whether students need additional support.

The successful candidate will have experience working with English language learners and the ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Teaching experience is strongly preferred.

Submit a cover letter and resume/cv online at www.champlain.edu/hr by August 22, 2008.

Champlain College values, supports and encourages diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives of students, faculty and staff.

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www.sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] LANDSCAPERS Small landscape company dedicated to providing quality work is looking for employees. Must be motivated, responsible, and attentive to detail with own transportation and valid driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license.

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Kwiniaska Golf Club

is now taking applications for employment for the driving range, pro shop, snack bar and grounds maintenance.

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ARE YOU A FORWARD THINKER AND A STRATEGIC PLANNER? RunVermont is looking for an energetic leader to take our nonprofit organization in Burlington, Vermont to the next level. This individual will have demonstrated organizational ability to successfully plan, coordinate and manage events and programs, including the Key Bank Vermont City Marathon, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest annual event. You will be responsible for overseeing office operations, managing event directors and other personnel. Responsible for seeking, securing, reviewing and managing sponsorship contracts totaling more than $200,000 annually. If you have these skills, excel at communication and are committed to the promotion of the athletic spirit, this could be a perfect match.

The successful candidate will have five years experience in sport or event management and experience in negotiating strategic sponsorship and/or marketing partnerships. Experience working with a Board of Directors is integral to the role.

Must be personable and diplomatic and have a desire to work closely with the community.

More information is available at www.runvermont.org. To apply for this position, please email a cover letter and resume to Cindy Delaney, RunVermont Board Chair, boardchair@runvermont.org by September 1, 2008. No phone calls, please. You will receive notification that your materials were received.

Interviews will begin in mid-September. The anticipated start date for this position is January 1, 2009.

Director of Development ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Burlington, Vermont Located on the historic and beautiful waterfront in Burlington, Vermont, ECHO seeks a dynamic and effective development professional to lead the Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fundraising activities. After five successful years of exceeding audience and impact goals, ECHO is poised to launch a major strategic initiative requiring significant new resources and expanded community relationships.

The Director of Development will work closely with the Executive Director and one of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most effective Board of Trustees, and provide leadership in defining and communicating ECHOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environmental stewardship â&#x20AC;&#x153;causeâ&#x20AC;? to donors and the public at large. Position requirements include a Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree with a minimum of six years development and fundraising experience.

To apply, email a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to:

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with Director of Development in the subject field, or mail to

ECHO Director of Development Job Search, One College St. Burlington, VT 05401.

For a detailed job description, visit our website at

www.echovermont.org.

The deadline for applications is August 29, 2008.

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Administration/Concierge

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Growing Senior Living Community seeks full-time Concierge. Responsibilities include answering phone, greeting visitors, accommodating resident requests and responding to emergencies. Strong computer skills important to assist with clerical/administrative tasks. $9.00/hour.

COMPETITIVE WAGES FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE\VACATION TRAINING\ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNITY FULL- AND PART-TIME

Apply at: Shelburne Bay Senior Living 185 Pine Haven Shores Rd. Shelburne, VT 05482 Attn: Suzanne Lemire 802-985-9847

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JAVA WEB â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PROGRAMMER ANALYST Are you an experienced Java Web developer who would like to work with our VSAC team in a dynamic, professional environment, designing, developing and implementing financial aid and informational systems? If you have extensive experience designing and developing Web applications using Java, JSP, JDBC, Java Web Frameworks and SQL, we want to hear from you. Candidates must demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills, and have a strong software development skill set. Exceptional candidates will also have experience developing Java applications against LDAP and DB2, and building portlet applications for deployment in a WebSphere Portal application server. Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in computer science and 3+ years programming experience desired. .

Dynamic, professional environment with competitive compensation and generous benefits package. Emai; cover letter and resume by August 29, 2008, to Director of Human Resources at jobs@vsac.org or fax to 654-3765 or mail to: Vermont Student Assistance Corporation PO Box 2000, Winooski,VT 05404 Equal Opportunity Employer www.VSAC.org VSAC Job Info Line 654-3760 EOE

INSURANCE UNDERWRITING PROFESSIONAL The Vermont League of Cities & Townsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; valued relationship with members in support of our mission to serve and strengthen local governments makes a difference! Our property, casualty and workers compensation insurance trust is self-insured and our work culture is based on service and member retention, not profit-driven pressures. If that sounds like a change youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d welcome, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to learn more about your underwriting experience.

We are considering insurance professionals of all levels and are currently interviewing for a Senior Underwriter to directly serve our membership.

Workersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; compensation experience preferred. Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree required.

We offer a quality workplace with dedicated colleagues and an excellent total compensation package, including defined benefits and contribution plan choices with up to 12.1% total employer contribution. Please submit cover letter, resume and names and phone numbers of three references to jobsearch@vlct.org with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Underwriterâ&#x20AC;? as subject. For further information see our website: www.vlct.org/marketplace/ classifiedads.

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We are currently accepting applications for the following seasonal positions (positions available now through November 1):

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PayData Payroll Services, Inc. is looking for a new team member. If you are goal oriented, have a strong work ethic, and a desire to achieve knowledge and make a difference, PayData wants to meet you!

Client ServiCe repreSentative We currently have an opening in our Client Service Department. Our Client Service Representatives produce payrolls for clients utilizing various import methods including data entry. In addition, our Client Service Representatives work closely with our clients to maintain the company and employee databases to ensure accurate payroll processing.

Candidates must have prior customer service experience and experience handling a large volume of telephone calls; prior payroll experience is desirable.

Candidates should also possess strong communication and organizational skills, speed and accuracy in data entry, be detail oriented and possess the ability to perform multiple tasks efficiently. Experience with Windows including Word and Excel is required.

Please send resume to: VP Operations PayData Payroll Services, Inc. P.O. Box 706 Essex Jct., VT 05453 hr@paydata.com

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www.sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Shared Home Provider Looking for a kind, caring, energetic couple or single woman who wants to open their home to provide support for a woman with mild developmental disabilities. She is very engaging, social, caring and humorous. Enjoys music, and activities in the community. In addition to home supports, she also needs personal-care medical assistance. Home should be free of smoke. No pets, please. Preferably in Montpelier or Central VT area. This opportunity offers a tax-free stipend, training and additional supports.

Please contact Becky Chadwick at The Francis Foundation 802-229-6369 (ext. 221), to set up an interview.

Specialty Goods Stocker City Market is looking for a part-time Specialty Goods Stocker to offer excellent customer service to our beer and wine enthusiasts and stock our Beer and Wine department.

Experience in stocking, sales and merchandising is preferred, but not essential. Qualified candidates must have previous experience in stocking of wine and/or beer; outstanding customer service skills; excellent communication skills; multitasking skills; the ability to work well with others; and the ability to work a flexible schedule.

We offer fantastic benefits, including medical, dental, life and vision, retirement plan, generous paid time off, store discount, mass transit reimbursement, health club discounts and much more! We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fill out an application at Customer Service, print one out online at www.citymarket.coop, or send your resume via email or snail-mail to:

Francis Foundation

Sales Associate

The Outdoor Gear Exchange is hiring a Sales Associate with extensive experience in telemark skiing, climbing or paddling.

Strong customer service skills, attention to detail, knowledge of outdoor gear and a sense of humor are required. Weekend and evening hours may be required. This is a full-time position with benefits. Send a resume and cover letter letting us know why you would be perfect for the best damn gear shop.

Web Department

Our web department is looking for a new team member. The successful candidate will have customer service experience and strong attention to detail. This is not a web tech position.

Shipping and order fulfillment experience preferred.

We offer a friendly working community with good benefits and an opportunity for long-term employment. Must have a love of the outdoors, a sharp wit and the ability to work well amidst chaos. Please indicate desired position.

16 Church Street, Middlesex, VT 05602 Mental Health services for children and adults with disabilities.

RISK MANAGEMENT ANALYST The Vermont League of Cities & Towns has an exciting new opportunity for an individual with strong research and analytical skills to advance our mission of serving and strengthening Vermont local government.

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Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital located in St. Johnsbury, VT has the following positions available: â&#x20AC;˘ Part-time (.5 FTE to .75 FTE), day shift â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Staff Pharmacist for Pharmacy Department

The Risk Management Analyst role represents a growth opportunity to learn all aspects of our three member-owned insurance trusts. This position will promote enhanced operational efficiencies, evaluate risk management programs, help develop managerial priorities, and manage special projects.

â&#x20AC;˘ Full-time (.8 FTE), Saturday and Sunday 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Multi-Modality Imaging Technologist for Diagnostic Imaging Department

Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree required. Prefer experience in insurance, risk management or quantitative analysis or research.

â&#x20AC;˘ Part-time (.5 FTE), varied hours and every other weekend â&#x20AC;&#x201C; RN for Birth Center

We offer a quality workplace with dedicated colleagues and an excellent total compensation package, including defined benefits and contribution plan choices with up to 12.1% total employer contribution. Please submit cover letter, resume and names and phone numbers of three references to jobsearch@vlct.org with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Risk Management Analystâ&#x20AC;? as subject. For further information, see our website: www.vlct.org/ marketplace/classifiedads.

â&#x20AC;˘ Full-time (1.0 FTE), 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MT/MLT for Laboratory Department

NVRH offers competitive wages and excellent benefits package when working at least 20 hours/week. For a complete listing of available jobs or to apply online, please visit www.nvrh.org.

For additional information, contact: Mike Simpson, Human Resources Manager m.simpson@nvrh.org 802-748-7525

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Klingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bread Company is currently looking for an individual to join our Retail team. If you are organized, have good time management skills and like a fast-paced environment, this could be a position for you! At our Farrell Street location you would be responsible for waiting on our customers, serving our top-notch breads, pastries, sandwiches, salads and preparing numerous coffee beverages from behind the counter. We have both full-time and part-time positions available at this time. These positions are permanent and long-term positions. Please only apply if you are looking for a long-term position! If interested, please stop by our Farrell Street location and fill out an application today. On the application please be sure to write your complete availability including the fall at the top of the application. All applications will be looked at and possible candidates will be called for an interview, so please, no phone calls. Thank you.

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Klingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bread Company is currently looking for a part-time sandwich/salad maker to join our team. The position is an early morning shift, usually 4:30 - 8:30 a.m. on Sunday and 5 - 7:00 a.m. during the week. This position is very flexible as far as hours go as long as the job is getting done. The opportunity to work during the week and pick up increased hours is also a possibility to cover vacations. This position could lead to a full-time position in these departments for the right candidate! If you work well independently, are well organized and like to work in a neat and clean environment, this could be the position for you! If interested, please stop by the Farrell Street location and fill out an application today.

Klingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bread Company 10 Farrell Street, South Burlington, VT 05403

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Kenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizza Waitstaff

Full- and part-time positions available.

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Our specialty is engineering and producing finely crafted, highly technical boardroom furniture. As Project Manager, the successful candidate will possess excellent communication and organizational skills, a strong understanding of the custom manufacturing process, knowledge of a wide variety of materials and the ability to maintain professionalism under pressure. This is a factory-based, salaried position requiring direct contact with clients, architects, dealers and general contractors while acting as liaison to the in-house design and production staff. Occasional travel required.

We are an equal opportunity employer offering excellent compensation and a benefits package that includes health, dental, vision and 401(k). Please submit resume to: Project Manager Interview Team Wall/Goldfinger, Inc. 7 Belknap Street, Suite 3 Northfield, VT 05663 or email to wg@wallgoldfinger.com.

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South Burlington School District 2008-2009 School Year

Bus Drivers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; District 2 positions, 25-30 hours/week, 5 days/week, school year

Qualified candidates will have a CDL Class â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? with passenger and VT school bus endorsement, a clear driving record, and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

This position will remain open until filled.

Candidates may forward their resume and three current references to: Diane Kinnon, Human Resources Department South Burlington School District 550 Dorset Street South Burlington, VT 05403 or apply at www.schoolspring.com

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Online Content Producer Vermont Public Radio is searching for a bright, highly motivated online content producer who will contribute immediately to the design and production of ongoing interactive projects as well as to the maintenance and coordination of content on VPR.net. As a key contributor to VPR online, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll lead many content projects and work with a team of creative people bringing VPR programming to our community of listeners while also expanding that community.

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Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree required and 4 years of experience preferred with demonstrated proficiency in the tools of online content production, including HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash, audio, and video, etc. Passion for social networking and building online community is a plus. Familiarity with PHP and similar programming languages is helpful.

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Autumn Harp provides premium service and creative solutions in product development and manufacturing to the personal care market.

Accounting Analyst

We need a financial accountant to join our team to focus on: standard product costs (analysis of product costs & overhead rates); inventory (obsoletes, count accuracy); Financial Statements (review/ analysis of GL accounts; and other duties. Potential growth opportunity for the right candidate. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field; 5 years experience with progressive responsibilities within a manufacturing company; computer proficient in financial/business software; able to work independently as well as part of a team; strong communication and presentation skills; detail oriented; a strong multitasker. Supervisory experience a plus.

Warehouse Manager

We need a “hands-on” manager to be responsible for scheduling of warehouse staff and day-to-day management of warehouse activity. You will be based at our Essex facility, but will also work as needed in Bristol. Duties include: managing schedules in shipping/receiving; assuring shipment accuracy; organizing warehouse layout and bin locations; enhancing the present Kan Ban system; managing and training warehouse personnel. This is a physically demanding position. Must have 5 years of warehouse management experience, be a multitasker and talented problem solver; must meet physical requirements

61 Pine St, Bristol, VT 05443 | | Fax: 802.453.6420 | | E-mail: jobs@autumnharp.com

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Safety & Training Manager This position reports to VP/Human Resources to plan, direct and implement our safety program and ensure a safe, healthy and accident-free workplace. Will investigate incidents, administer workers’ comp programs, and maintain safety records in compliance with local, state and federal programs. Will also design, organize and/or deliver training sessions on a variety of topics; will be the lead coordinator for our newly implemented production training program. College degree; at least 5 years manufacturing experience; must be familiar with manufacturing operations and OSHA Regs; proficient computer skills including Power Point; strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; attentive to details; and able to work confidentially. Will work in both Bristol and Essex.

Production Workers

We have a variety of jobs on several shifts in both Bristol and Essex. We offer a desirable and respectful place to work. Duties include: operating machines that pour, cap, label, and pack our cosmetic and skin care products. Must be honest, respectful, reliable and willing to learn; average reading and math skills. Must meet physical requirements of the job.

We offer competitive compensation, great benefits, including profit sharing, a generously matched 401(k) Plan, and a really great place to work!

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Carpenter

Experienced required.

Own transportatin and tools. $16-$18/hour.

Call Tom at

Green Mountain Club Group

802-578-1208

between 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Easiest way to cut the cost of gas? Change your commute, work from home.

Debt-free financial solutions company exploding in the area.

Will train motivated individuals. PT/ FT positions. Call 877-521-7799 for 24-hour recorded information.

Outreach Specialist Position: The Green Mountain Club, manager and protector of the Long Trail hiking system, seeks an AmeriCorps member to fill an exciting service opportunity as Group Outreach Specialist. Responsibilities include providing educational outreach programs and workshops for schools, camps, and other groups both on and off the trail, working with volunteer trail groups, and administrative duties as required to support the Education Program.

Full-time benefits include a $13,056 (pre-tax) living allowance, $4725 (pre-tax) educational award, health insurance, school loan forbearance, many training and networking opportunities (including Wilderness First Aid/First Responder, CPR, Leave No Trace Master, and Conflict Resolution, among others) for an 11+ month commitment.

Applications are due by August 29th.

Send resume, letter of interest, and three references to: The Green Mountain Club: Group Outreach Specialist Search ATTN: Pete Antos-Ketcham 4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road Waterbury Center, VT 05677 or pantosketcham@greenmountainclub.org

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ClearBearing, Inc.

is a technology consultancy and Internet service provider (ISP) based in Burlington, Vermont’s hip South End. We’re seeking additional staff to keep pace with growth: come join the area’s premier Open Source deployment team as we do some of the coolest technology work around!

Harpers Restaurant is looking for efficient servers that are punctual, early risers. If you are friendly, outgoing and able to multi-task please stop in.

Experience is preferred but not required.

Seeking a responsible individual with a valid driver’s license and great customer service skills for 2nd & 3rd shift.

ClearNet Engineer ClearBearing needs another full-time systems/network engineer to take the lead on some of our growing number of ClearNet network management contracts. Solid knowledge of Linux systems administration (security, Samba, Apache, Sendmail/Postfix, MySQL, BIND) and TCP/IP networks (routing, firewalling, NAT) is prime; experience networking popular OSes (Windows, Mac) is essential. Advanced training will be made available to the right candidate. Stellar people skills are a must.

Please email your resumé (PDFs preferred) to jobs@clearbearing.com, or send via postal mail to: ClearBearing, Inc. 208 Flynn Avenue Building 2, Suite 2E Burlington, Vermont 05401-5421

Holiday Inn—Burlington 1068 Williston Road South Burlington, VT 05403 You may also e-mail your résumé to: nate@innvermont.com

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Shipping Clerk 2nd Shift Lane Press has an immediate opening for a shipping clerk on 2nd shift. The successful applicant will have at least one year of related experience, as well as experience operating a lift truck. Strong organizational and clerical skills, mathematical aptitude are required. UPS and Federal Express knowledge as and computer experience is preferred.

We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants should send resume and salary requirements to the address listed below, or stop by and fill out an employment application.

The Lane Press, Inc. 87 Meadowland Drive South Burlington, VT 05403 or Jobs@lanepress.com

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Adoption ServiceS cASe MAnAger Northeastern Family Institute Community Alternatives Program located in St. Albans has an opening for an Adoption Services Case Manager.

Responsibilities include treatment planning, service coordination and in-home work with children and adoptive and foster families. Strong communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to work with diverse family systems a must. Previous work with children with emotional/ behavioral challenges and adoption issues desired. Come join a small, closeknit team of dedicated children’s services providers. Master’s degree in a related field preferred.

If interested in this position, call Marc Adams at 802-524-1700 or submit cover letter and resume to: Marc Adams, NFI-CAP 35 Catherine St. EOE St. Albans, VT 05478.

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~~~Local Partnerships in Learning~~~ Serving Washington, Orange and Lamoille Counties

Children’s Farmyard

Volunteer / Communications Coordinator

Farm Educator Dates: September 1 - October 24, 2008 Responsibilities: This is an agricultural education position that involves hands-on teaching, formal and informal farm activities offered to public program participants.

Additional job responsibilities include farm chores, shuttle wagon tractor driving, gardening support, special event support, helping in youth volunteer supervision, and general guest services.

Note: This is either a 4-½-day-a-week, or 2-day-a-week position. Both would require at least one weekend day.

Qualifications: Applicants should be enthusiastic about education and agriculture, have good communication skills, a valid driver’s license, be able to lift fifty pounds and work weekends. Although applicants should have an educational bent, specific training will be provided.

If interested, please send a cover letter and resume to Keely Deutsch at kdeutsch@shelburnefarms.org or by mail to: Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne VT, 05482.

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Community-based education nonprofit seeking the person who will lead the organization’s outreach activity with skill, creativity and enthusiasm.

Responsibilities include raising local awareness of education programs for adults and teens, promotion and supervision of volunteer systems, and collaboration with development efforts.

Demonstrable skill required for creating and implementing communication plans, website maintenance, database management, producing promotional materials and publications.

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Now Hiring Part-Time Package Handlers Would you like to help people looking for a place to live while matching them with elders and persons Need to place an ad? Call Michelle Brown 865-1020 x 21 Early Morning & Evening Shifts with disabilities? HomeShare Vermont is looking for a Homesharing & Outreach Assistant starting fulltime September 24 and completing 1700 hours of service by August 21, 2009. This position will help with outreach, developing written materials and providing direct services to clients. It requires a BA or comparable life and work experience, and strong computer and writing skills. Reliable vehicle, driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license, proof of insurance and good driving record required. Compensation includes a $13,056 living allowance and basic health insurance. Once the service is completed, the member also earns a $4,725 AmeriCorps Education Award to cover student loans or future tuition costs.

Must be able to lift parcels weighing up to 70 lbs.

Individuals with leadership potential can look forward to a rewarding career at UPS. Explore the benefits of working as a Part-Time Package Handler at a growing Fortune 500 Company.

To place an employment ad Package call Michelle Brown 865-1020 x 21 Our Benefits Includes: Medical, Dental & Vision â&#x20AC;˘ Prescription Coverage â&#x20AC;˘ 401(k) â&#x20AC;˘ Paid Vacations â&#x20AC;˘ Holidays Off UPS Stock Purchase Plan â&#x20AC;˘ And Many More Benefits!

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Child & Family Respite

Full- and Part-time positions Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree preferred.

Work one-to-one with children in the community providing a mix of recreation and mental health support full- or parttime. Candidate must be available after school, evenings and weekends.

Experience working with children preferred. Must have own reliable transportation.

Submit resume to: Rutland Mental Health Services, Human Resources P.O. Box 222 Rutland, VT 05702 www.rmhsccn.org

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Lead & assistant teachers needed to join our growing childcare staff. The right candidate will have necessary education credentials, flexibility and a sense of humor.

Contact Krista at:

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Bookkeeper

123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, Vermont 05667

Director of finance Goddard College is seeking a Director of Finance. As a key team member of the Goddard College community, the Director of Finance will use his/her skills to help that community solidify Goddardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position as a global leader in progressive education.

Responsibilities include management of the Business Office which handles all aspects of accounting for the College including the following: â&#x20AC;˘ annual audits â&#x20AC;˘ annual budgets â&#x20AC;˘ accounts receivable â&#x20AC;˘ accounts payable â&#x20AC;˘ reconciliation â&#x20AC;˘ payroll processing â&#x20AC;˘ Federal, State and other mandatory reporting and compliance The ideal candidate will: â&#x20AC;˘ effectively direct and manage the accounting functions of the College â&#x20AC;˘ have excellent analytical ability and judgment â&#x20AC;˘ be well organized and efficient â&#x20AC;˘ possess innovative and creative accounting skills â&#x20AC;˘ work well independently and collaboratively â&#x20AC;˘ be forward-thinking and creative â&#x20AC;˘ have excellent technical and communication skills â&#x20AC;˘ be a team player and enjoy working with a wide range of people â&#x20AC;˘ effectively deal with contract negotiation â&#x20AC;˘ be able to effectively manage multiple tasks at once â&#x20AC;˘ deal with confidential and proprietary matters in a highly professional manner â&#x20AC;˘ possess excellent supervisory skills Qualifications: â&#x20AC;˘ Accounting degree â&#x20AC;˘ CPA preferred â&#x20AC;˘ Minimum of five years relevant experience

Reply in conďŹ dence to JMM & Associates P.O. Box 385 Burlington, VT 05402 or jmm@jmmcpa.net

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to set up an interview or email kristalacroix@yahoo.com

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Location: Montpelier, VT Compensation: commensurate with experience Education Required: BS or equivalent Experience Required: Two years Job Type: Full-time Solar Project Manager for photovoltaic and thermal installations - Vermont and Northern New Hampshire

Application process: â&#x20AC;˘ Please submit a resume and cover letter electronically to: HROFFICE@ GODDARD.EDU â&#x20AC;˘ Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until suitable candidates are found.

This is a full-time position (37.5 hours/week) and offers a generous benefits package! Please visit our website: www.goddard.edu.

Goddard College is committed to creating a college representative of a diverse global community and capable of creating change. We are actively seeking applications from qualified candidates from groups currently underrepresented in our institution for this position.

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Growing Burlington, VT, CPA ďŹ rm seeks an experienced bookkeeper to handle a variety of client projects.

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We are currently seeking a senior Project Manager for our Vermont office who will manage residential and commercial solar installations in Vermont and northern New Hampshire.

Project Managers are responsible for site evaluation, coordinating system design with our engineering department, managing installation and commissioning of systems, and overall construction management and reporting.

Qualifications: â&#x20AC;˘ Experience designing and installing photovoltaic systems â&#x20AC;˘ Experience in contracting and contract management â&#x20AC;˘ Experience in on-site construction and subcontractor management â&#x20AC;˘ Superior communication and relationship-building skills â&#x20AC;˘ Team player who listens, learns and proactively problem solves â&#x20AC;˘ Experienced computer user - proficient in Word, Excel and Outlook Please email or fax resume to 802-223-8980 or info@solarworksinc.com.

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