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Evil or Mentally Ill? Last month, six people died and 13 more were wounded in a shooting spree at a supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding a constituent event. Accused gunman Jared Loughner has since been charged with attempted assassination of a federal official. Commentators across the country have speculated about what led to the shootings, repeatedly referring to them as “evil.” Last week, Burlington playwright James Lantz penned a personal essay in which he argues that Loughner isn’t evil — he’s mentally ill. The essay appeared on Blurt, the Seven Days staff blog. “I know mental illness,” writes Lantz. “I’ve seen it up close and unleashed. And the more I read about this young man’s slide into insanity, the more it sounds eerily similar to somebody close to me, and his slide years earlier... The tragedy last month was not the result of failed parenting, weak gun laws, a bad community college or inflated national rhetoric. Instead, the sound heard in Tucson on that sunny Saturday morning was the great snap of our weak commitment to the mentally ill breaking, and this time it broke bad.” Read Lantz’s essay at sevendaysvt.com, and read about Gov. Shumlin’s proposed cuts to Vermont’s mental health services in this week’s “Fair Game” on p.12.
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Oh frabjous day, callooh, callay. After months and years of bad news from every corner, on almost every subject, at last I have found an article that shows solutions to a big problem — how to fix the health care mess in our state [“For Health Care Reform, Dr. Hsiao Is the Man With the Plan,” January 19]. Like a good solution to a lot of other problems: When it appears, it can be reasonable, logical and doable. Thank you to Kevin J. Kelley — and more so to Dr. William Hsiao. Mary Lighthall
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I was both pleased and heartened to read Megan James’ article, “Raising the Barre” [January 19] about the attributes and benefits of the study of ballet. Ballet is 500 years old, and if the value of anything is how long it hangs around, then this thing is priceless. Yet, as Jonathan Franzen offers in his timely novel, Freedom: “all the real things, the authentic things, the honest things are dying off … intellectually and culturally.” I worry when I attend performances of the New York City Ballet at Saratoga each summer, and note the dwindling and aging of the audience witnessing a brilliant company of Balanchine dancers articulating this most extraordinary art form. Still, in spite of all the misconceptions and, yes, ignorance about ballet, Jennifer
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In last week’s “Fair Game,” Shay Totten incorrectly reported that longtime Barre-Montpelier Times Argus editor Andrew Nemethy, who was laid off January 13, has declined a job at the Vermont Press Bureau. In fact, there has only been a preliminary discussion about the post and no offer made or rejected. In “Roll Out the Barrels” Corin Hirsch wrote that Sean Lawson stated that hops contain cannabinoids. In fact, Lawson pointed out that while hops are part of the cannabaceae family, they do not contain illegal THC, the active cannabinoid in cannabis.
Homan’s recent history of it, Apollo’s Angels, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for months now; the widespread interest in and fascination with the current film Black Swan has garnered Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture; and now Megan’s article in Seven Days is giving notice to local practitioners. Bravo! Well, how about giving ballet another 500 years, at least? Personally, ballet has given little ole me so much that I owe my very life to it. Patty Smith
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Thanks for an excellent article exposing, yet again, the incredible intimidation that the pro-gun lobby in our state has continued to exert upon our legislators and politicians, even at the expense of child safety [“Aiming Low,” January 26]. I was particularly disappointed at the quote from Sen. Anthony Pollina, for whom I have voted in the past. His suggestion that the law regarding safe storage of
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What about the bottle pickers? Ken Picard’s discussion of proposed bottle-bill revisions leaves them completely out of the picture [“Is Vermont’s Bottle Bill Ready for Recycling?” January 26]. However, we do hear a lot in the article from the lobbyists for the beverage association. Frankly, I don’t care much about the profits of the wholesale beverage industry, but I do care about the small army of pickers who work hard every day to keep the streets free of redeemable glass and aluminum. Why is our bottle bill not celebrated as a rare triumph of the free market? And where is the basic contradiction between holding the manufacturers responsible for excess packaging (bravo!) and holding on to an expanded deposit bottle bill that has worked well?
firearms now proposed in the legislature (H.83) is a “knee-jerk reaction to recent events” is preposterous and insulting to all of us who have been working for years in diligent and careful ways that respect excellent research showing such laws save lives and prevent suicide. Shame on him for a knee-jerk statement! The simple truth is that suicide is the second-leading cause of death for Vermont teens 15-19 years of age, and most youth suicide in this state is carried out with guns. True, as Mr. Cutler points out, guns are widely accessible to youth in our state. But we don’t have to accept the fatalistic statement that “sometimes things [will] happen” as a result. There is widespread agreement among groups across the spectrum, from the NRA to the American Academy of Pediatrics, that guns should be locked up and stored without ammunition when kept in homes with children. Certainly this should be a common-sense issue for owners in homes where anyone is felt to be at significant risk of self-harm. This child-safety law would not in any way restrict the rights of anyone to keep or bear arms; it simply codifies that owners have a responsibility to store them in a way that minimizes the risk of serious injury or death. There are no provisions to enter homes or check for safe storage — these laws only apply in the event that injury has resulted from reckless storage. I hope that legislators will have the courage to look seriously at this bill and will see that it can help to protect our young people without infringing on anyone’s rights.
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What cynic has not teared up at a wedding, sincerely wishing the couple a long and happy union? Who does not root for the boy to get the girl — or the boy? We always want things to work out. And that optimism parlays into multiple industries devoted to the pursuit and celebration of … mating. In this issue we consider A WEDDING FAVOR YOU CAN SMOKE; the proper care of VINTAGE RINGS; the NAME-CHANGE DILEMMA; wannabe WEDDING OFFICIANTS; and an ARRANGED MARRIAGE. We also report the “he said/she said” about A DATE SET UP BY SEVEN DAYS. While it did not result in a love connection, maybe it helped our plucky singles hone their strategies — for next time? As Alexander Pope wrote nearly three centuries ago, hope springs eternal.
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Stomping Grounds Walk on water — in its crystalline form, anyway. The 15th annual Snowshoe Festival offers heaps of opportunities for traipsing through snowfall, from guided nature excursions to workshops for igloo building and dog sledding. Cold feet? Get toasty while learning how to cook by the campfire. SEE CALENDAR LISTING ON PAGE 54
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Spectacular Spectacular Last summer, Shelburne Museum brought us “Circus Day in America: 1870-1950.” Now, UVM’s Fleming Museum of Art offers three thrilling, likeminded exhibits: “Under the Big Top: The Fine Art of Circus in America,” “Georges Rouault: Cirque de L’Etoile Filante” and “Masked Spectacle: Commedia dell’Arte and Bread & Puppet Theater.” Here’s an easy opportunity to run away to the big top. SEE ART REVIEW ON PAGE 70
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’Tis the time of year to remark upon the weather. No one captures Vermont’s seasons — all five of them — quite like Putney’s Sandglass Theater in All Weather Ballads: A Love Story. A melting pot of puppetry, original folk songs, comedy, tragedy and the requisite cursing of the elements, this performance follows two Vermonters through the years. See it at St. Johnsbury School on Saturday, or at Lost Nation Theater’s Winterfest February 10-13.
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understand these proposed cuts.” The budget cuts, if approved, would boost caseloads for mental health workers from 35 to nearly 60 in some parts of the state. Wait lists for outpatient services would increase from weeks to months, Tessler said. It will also mean that many adults now living independently would get less support and be at greater risk of ending up back in group homes, hospitalized — or worse. FLOYD NEASE, executive director of the consumer-based Vermont Association for Mental Health, said he was “shocked” by Shumlin’s budget proposal. As House Majority Leader, Nease led the charge against Douglas’ budget cuts because of their potential impact on the most vulnerable.
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The state should redirect some of the $12 million being saved by cancelled plans to build a 15-bed secure residential mental health facility on regional mental health services, Nease said. He also has another suggestion. “I know this sounds odd coming from a guy who helped get three bridges replaced in his district, but you could stop all optional paving projects and not have to make these cuts,” said Nease. “We could choose people over pavement.”
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Last week’s public hearing on Burlington Telecom was as much about the 2012 mayor’s race as about a beleaguered municipal telecom that owes taxpayers $17 million. Councilors KAREN PAUL (I-Ward 6), JOAN SHANNON (D-Ward 5) and KURT WRIGHT (R-Ward 4) — all considered possible mayoral candidates — took great
pains to distance themselves from the BT debacle, while lobbing pot shots at Burlington Mayor BOB KISS. Despite calls for his resignation and demands that he apologize to voters, Kiss didn’t rise to the bait — or even raise his voice. Each of the three “candidate” councilors did his or her best to represent the “taxpayer.” Shannon reminded residents that the council took the lead in creating a Blue Ribbon Panel, a special audit committee to review the city’s and BT’s financials. It also disallowed BT’s use of the cash pool. Paul took Kiss to task for spreading misinformation: The mayor continues to claim that BT would now be financially stable if the administration had been allowed to negotiate a deal with Piper Jaffray in late 2009. Even the consultants hired to turn BT around admitted that notion was folly. That the council went along with some of Kiss and Chief Administrative Officer JONATHAN LEOPOLD’s plans should not be seen as an act of complicity, Wright insisted. “Could we have figured this thing out?” asked Wright. “It was a trust issue. We trusted that the administration was not doing what we later found out it was.” Wright urged Kiss to admit “serious mistakes were made” as a way to rebuild trust in city government. Kiss didn’t waver, insisting that he and Leopold have only had the city’s best interests in mind.
Off the Block
The 44 residents at Wharf Lane in Burlington were spared eviction last week on the very day it was scheduled to happen. The Burlington Housing Authority and the Vermont Housing Finance Agency brokered a deal to buy both Wharf Lane and neighboring Bobbin Mill apartments from Pizzagalli Properites, according to PAUL DETTMAN, BHA’s executive director. Dettman said the agreement — to be signed off on officially this week — would see a near-term purchase of Wharf Lane with a closing on the Bobbin Mill no later than December 2012. One clarification: In last week’s column, I referenced the annual revenues of Pizzagalli Construction — not Pizzagalli Properties. Although the former company still bears the family name, it is now employee-owned. The
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Sen. Bernie SanderS’ (I-VT) eight-hour lecture about the evils of capitalism, combined with his criticism of the Federal Reserve, have earned him a seat on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee. No foolin’. This 20-member panel holds hearings, performs research and advises Congress on the economy. It was established by the Employment Act of 1946, with the charge to make “a continuing study of matters relating to the U.S. economy.” Sanders’ own campaign economics have greatly improved thanks to his mid-December “Filibernie.” He now has $535,000 cash on hand, according to his most recent Federal Elections Committee report.
If either Mesick or Jenkins wins, the Democrats would hold an outright majority on the 14-member council. Question is: Will the incumbents prove invinceable?
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Cable TV viewers in the United States are getting a decidedly Western view of the unrest in Egypt. That is, unless you’re a Burlington Telecom subscriber. BT is one of the few cable outlets in the U.S. that offers Al Jazeera English. You can find AJE on Channel 132, tucked between TruTV — formerly Court TV — and FOX Business. Maybe the situation in Egypt will help boost BT’s subscriber base. Then again, the last thing Mayor Bob Kiss needs is unending footage of people rioting in the streets, calling for the resignation of an unpopular leader.
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The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus is laying off staff and the Burlington Free Press still has its mandatory unpaid furloughs. Meanwhile, VTDigger.org is hiring. Digger-in-Chief anne gaLLoway has brought on her first full-time staffer: Josh Larkin will serve as Digger’s director of design and technology and will also contribute articles. Larkin and Galloway worked together at the Times Argus, where Galloway was laid off more than a year ago and Larkin worked as a reporter. Speaking of second chances, here are two more: More than four years ago, Out in the Mountains ended its 21-year run as Vermont’s only free, monthly LGBTQ publication. A new crew of volunteers is now hoping to relaunch the pub as an online community newspaper. The nascent site can be found at OITM.org. In December, Seven Days purchased KidsVT, the state’s only parenting publication. The first issue hit the stands Tuesday with a new logo and design, and all local content. m
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In an odd-numbered year, with no general election in sight, the major parties tend to rearrange the deck chairs. Vermont Democratic Party Executive Director roBert dempSey announced last weekend he is calling it quits as soon as a successor is found, while Vermont Republican Party Chairman Steve LarraBee announced two weeks ago he’s leaving his post, too. Former GOP lawmaker and government exec pat mcdonaLd is emerging as a lead candidate among the Rs. McDonald ran Lt. Gov. phiL Scott’s winning 2010 campaign — just one of two GOP candidates to be elected to statewide office. The other was Auditor tom SaLmon. dan riLey, chairman of the Bennington County GOP, previously ran for the post. He said McDonald would be a great pick. “Her whole management style, beginning with open and direct communication, is perfect for the Vermont Republican Party at this time,” said Riley. mark SneLLing, who lost the race to Scott, is working behind the scenes to help reorganize the party and is being urged by some to consider the chairman post.
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up unannounced in the house and bedrooms. Pinillos expected to be “bunking” with another woman. She didn’t think that meant they’d be sharing one mattress on the floor. In another room, three women shared another single mattress. “Why am I supposed to sleep in the same bed with this woman? She’s a complete stranger to me,” Pinillos complained. “So I ended up sleeping on the couch,” she said. Pinillos’ allegations were echoed by those of three other Peruvian women interviewed for this story. All were employed by Samosaman until just last week, when a fellow Peruvian, now a permanent Vermont resident living in Franklin County, “rescued” them from their situation and took them into her home. The four Peruvians, all university students from Lima on summer break, expressed bitterness, disappointment and anger at the way they’d been treated in Vermont. Each said she paid more than $3000 for the opportunity to come to the United States under the federal J-1 Summer Work Travel Program, which allows foreign students to work here for as long as four months.
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According to a U.S. state depart- employment arrangement “didn’t work ment spokesperson, the program has out” because of his delays in opening exploded in popularity in recent years, a new café in Montpelier, where he’d growing from 54,700 participants in expected them to work. That setback 2000 to 130,000 in 2010. The state de- also reduced his need for workers in partment doesn’t keep track of where the industrial kitchen he operates in the program participants live and work. Winooski. Ndibalema claimed that, as soon Nor does the Vermont Department of Labor monitor how many J-1 visa as he realized there wasn’t enough holders are currently employed in the work for the Peruvians, he contacted state — though anecdotal evidence sug- the agency that sponsored their J-1 gests many foreign students are coming visas — American Work Experience of to Vermont to work in the state’s ski Greenwich, Conn. — and asked that they resorts, hotels, cruise ships and other be reassigned to another employer, or even another state. tourism-related businesses. “A few of them had already left and It doesn’t always go well. A recent Associated Press investigation revealed went to other states,” he asserted, adding widespread abuses in the J-1 visa pro- that it was his first experience using the gram. Lured by the promise of well- J-1 visa program. The Peruvian women said paying jobs and the opportunity to live and travel in the United States, many Ndibalema’s inexperience with the overseas students fork over thousands program is no excuse for the way they of dollars to private, third-party brokers were treated. They said he should have to provide them with work and housing, worked with their sponsor, AWE, to coronly to find they’ve signed up for over- rect the problems. “We trusted the company that we crowded living arrangements and danwere going to work with somebody with gerous, potentially illegal employment. The AP investigation discovered that experience in this kind of exchange some J-1 visa holders were placed in program,” said Naiara Preguntegui, a 20-year-old strip clubs when college student they expected from Lima. “But to be working in restaurants. Some when we got here, our emstudent workers were paid less ployer told us it was the first than $1 per hour, time he’d ever while others done something were forced to like this.” Not sleep in shifts because their only were the S ta fany D ue ãs C i e z a housing accomgirls unable to modations were work other jobs — they lacked so overcrowded. Currently, two federal probes are inves- Social Security numbers — but they had tigating allegations of human trafficking no transportation in and out of Barre and often resorted to hitchhiking to get related to J-1 visas. No one has made such harsh ac- to work and back. cusations against Ndibalema, himself a Preguntegui had many of the same recent immigrant to the United States. complaints as Pinillos. Though her conNdibalema came to Vermont from the tract clearly specified that she’d get at Republic of Congo with his wife and least 40 hours of work each week, some two children in 2000 and has grown a weeks she spent fewer than eight hours successful restaurant business, which at Samosaman. Her last paycheck, dated has been profiled twice by Seven Days. January 27, was for $19.20 for a twoHe also appeared in the April 11, issue week period. of Parade magazine last year, where his Ndibalema wouldn’t disclose how salary was listed at $222,800. much he paid his employees, though Ndibalema, 39, denied virtually all the his most recent pay stubs for the four Peruvian women’s allegations against Peruvian women indicate a rate of him. He did admit that their full-time $8.15 per hour, which complies with
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Shortly before press time, the Franklin County Peruvian woman who “rescued” the four young women last week notified Seven Days that Ndibalema had purchased four plane tickets so the women could leave Vermont. “It’s not about the money,” Ndibalema explained. “I tried to do my best as a humanitarian. I’m a citizen of the world.” All four Peruvians left the state last weekend, but not before sharing their impressions of the time they spent here. “We hate Vermont,” said Stafany Dueãs Cieza, 20, as the others all nodded in agreement. “Why did he bring us here if he don’t have work for everybody?” “I’d go to other states, but I wouldn’t come here again,” Pinillos added. “It’s not just about the money. We’re losing our vacations. Now we could be on a beach with our friends and family.” m
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Vermont’s current minimum-wage law. Ndibalema denied he charged the women anything for their accommodations, which he described as “very good”; he said he invested $16,000 in new furniture for the house in Barre City, which he owns. However, copies of the four women’s pay stubs, provided to Seven Days last week, reveal a $200 “cash advance” deducted from each one. When asked about the $200-per-person charges, Ndibalema explained that they covered the cost of utilities, including electricity, cable TV and Internet access. According to the Vermont Department of Labor, it’s illegal for employers to withhold more than $80 per month from a worker’s paycheck to cover housing expenses. An employer may charge more for housing, but it can’t be automatically deducted from the wages. Was $200 worth the price the women paid? A Barre City fire inspector visited the house in December after one of the residents filed a complaint. According to Barre City Fire Chief Tim Bombardier, the inspector found no major fire-code violations, but did confirm that a lot of people were living there. No citations could be issued, since Barre City has no maximum-occupancy standards for private homes. Ndibalema admitted that, for a “short time,” he had 11 employees living in the house at 39 Beckley Street. However, he denied that the bedrooms lacked doors and the bathroom had no lock. Asked whether his tenants were forced to share beds, Ndibalema just laughed. “They’re young girls! They wanted to stay together,” he said. “They didn’t want me to separate them. They cried!” Ndibalema’s contract with American Work Experience apparently didn’t include any oversight of the workers’ housing. An AWE spokesperson wouldn’t comment on the situation in Montpelier or answer any questions about the company itself. “We’ve adopted a policy of not talking to reporters anymore,” the spokesperson said. The company website describes it as a “fully designated sponsor of J-1 cultural exchange programs.” But the performance and compliance chief at the Vermont Department of Labor recently opened an investigation into Samosaman’s labor practices. She wouldn’t comment on her findings. The staff of Sen. Bernie Sanders is also aware of, but wouldn’t comment
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urlington City Councilor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak (PWard 3) doesn’t take taxicabs very often, but she vividly remembers one very expensive ride from Nectar’s to the Courtyard Marriott and back. Under the city’s “zone system” of pricing, the six-block trip should have cost her $6 or $7. The cabbie charged her $14. The situation hasn’t changed much over the years. In 2008, a Seven Days investigation documented what Burlington taxi riders have known for years: The zone system is routinely ignored and unenforced, meaning a cab fare from Point A to Point B can cost almost anything, depending who’s driving. What’s new is the city’s response: A total rewrite of the taxi regulations that would replace the zone system with meters. Draft regulations headed to the Burlington City Council this month would also subject taxi drivers to random drug tests and biennial physicals, and crack down on bad habits that city officials say they’ve tolerated for far too long: cab drivers smoking, watching porn, sleeping in parked taxis and dressing sloppily, for example. Mulvaney-Stanak, who also sits on the city’s Taxi Licensing Board, says the new regulations come in response to “chronic complaints” — often from cabbies themselves — about price gouging, a glut of taxis on city streets, offensive behavior and a lack of enforcement of the existing rules. “Right now it’s a little bit like the Wild West out there,” says Mulvaney-Stanak, who says the goal is to create “very consistent standards for drivers.” For cabbies, those “consistent standards” would mean no cellphones or “improper dress,” such as exposed boxer
shorts or exposed midriffs. No watching porn or “lounging” in the cab. Violators can already lose their taxi license for such offenses. Under the new rules, they could also face fines of up to $500. Queen City cabbies are fuming about the proposed rules change, threatening to sue the city or pull out of Burlington altogether if it goes through. While many agree the system needs fixing, they view the city’s solution as an “overreach” that will lead to a cabbie exodus. “If the city is so bullheaded that they can’t work with us, we just won’t service the city of Burlington,” threatens Paul Robar, owner of Burlington’s largest taxi company, Benways Transportation. “We would take every legal action known to mankind to fight them.” Robar admits the zone system is widely abused, but he opposes switching to meters because, he claims, it would be more expensive for his customers. Under the zone system, rides within Burlington now cost $6.53 to $14.37, depending on the distance. The 60-page draft taxi rules make no mention of what Burlington meter rates would be. Fares would continue to be set by the city council, with adjustments pegged to federal transportation rates set by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Any time gas prices rise 25 percent in a six-month period, a two-thirds majority of the city council — at a petitioner’s request — could adjust meter rates. Today, taxis that work from Burlington International Airport are already required to be equipped with meters. Fares from BTV are $8.50 for the first two miles, plus $2.75 per mile for the next eight miles and $2.10 for every mile after that. The metered return ride usually works out to be more expensive than the nonmetered one that brought you to the plane. At the January public hearing, one cabbie suggested the city meter rates be set at $8 for the first mile and 60 cents for each additional quarter mile. “Anything less will result in an unsafe taxi fleet,” the cabbie said, meaning taxi drivers won’t earn enough to maintain their vehicles properly. Today, zone pricing only applies to rides that begin and end in Burlington. Customers who start or end their trips elsewhere are free to negotiate prices with cabbies. That’s created a sort of free-market system for cab fares that taxi meters would do away with. Under the new regs,
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My sincere sympathies to the families of the youngsters who took their own lives [“Aiming Low,” January 26]. It is already illegal for anyone under 16 to possess a firearm without parental consent. It’s already illegal to provide anyone under 16 with a firearm without parental consent. And it’s already illegal for anyone to possess a firearm in a school building or on a bus. (13 VSA sections 4008, 4007 and 4004, respectively). A new law requiring that each owner lock up his or her firearms is virtually unenforceable and won’t prevent any future tragedies.
Laws merely provide a framework for prosecution after the event. The most appropriate shrine to the memories of these youngsters is to improve the mental-health and suicide prevention programs in our schools. Paul Gross
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Judith Levine’s “Poli Psy” column “All Against All” [January 19], offers a valuable perspective on the ideological and cultural roots of American violence, with one significant distortion. In a grossly self-serving manner, she denies the culpability of the media in feeding, propagating or encouraging social violence. Given that we are no longer a
local, oral culture, in which information is passed primarily by word of mouth, none of the right-wing messages she declaims would have been heard without some form of print or airwave or digital media to disseminate them. This makes not only the authors of antisocial words liable for the real-world effects of language, but perhaps even more so the media which allow those words a wide audience without, at least, a concurrent editorial rebuke. After-the-fact armchair pontifications offer little more than a sop to blood already on the ground. robert riversong
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facility. The outpatient dialysis service at the Medical Center Campus dialysis unit is unusual in that this chance is skewed. When outpatients become too sick to be treated at a satellite unit, the hospital outpatient unit, which has more resources because it also treats very sick inpatients, accepts that patient. There is no provision for analyzing outcomes at a facility that deliberately accepts outpatients whose dialysis care is challenging. There’s another problem with the article in paragraph nine, which states: “Brumsted’s claim is supported by another study: Last year’s report by the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group revealed 6.3
percent of FAHC’s cardiac patients die of postoperative renal failure; the regional average is 3.8 percent.” This is false. The statistic refers to the percentage of patients who experienced postoperative renal failure or renal insufficiency among the most recent 500 cases as of the end of June 2010, where the surgery was only for coronary bypass grafts. It is not a measure of mortality. It is not a measure of those who required dialysis — many don’t. It is not a measure of all cardiac patients, but a subset of certain heart surgery patients. Regarding concerns stated in the article about staff and staff levels: The commitment by Fresenius Medical Care to hire existing clinical staff and maintain the current staffing levels is stated in the signed letter of intent, as is the commitment to our maintaining medical direction at those units. The same commitments will be included in the completed contract. Fletcher Allen chose Fresenius, in part, because the organization is comfortable with Fresenius’ commitment to maintaining the quality of care Fletcher Allen provides for its patients. Misleading stories such as this unnecessarily upset patients and their families, and impugn health care providers without reason.
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The article “Fletcher Allen Tops the Charts in Death by Dialysis” [January 19] was a misinterpretation of complex data, and in one instance a wrong characterization of a heart surgery statistic. The headline implies that mortality data indicate the deaths of patients treated at Fletcher Allen’s dialysis units were related to inferior dialysis care, with resulting high mortality. The article gave the public the wrong impression, and did a disservice to our dialysis caregivers and the patients they treat. There are two issues that need to be addressed in considering dialysis care. One is the use of the appropriate method for comparing outcomes among outpatient dialysis facilities (the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, CMS, does not collect inpatient dialysis data). The second relates to the structure of Fletcher Allen’s dialysis service. First, the percentage of deaths cannot be meaningfully compared as was done here. This is because the patient characteristics at one unit may be very different from those at another unit. If one unit has sicker patients, it may have a higher death rate. To compare outcomes, a correction must be made for health differences (known as risks) among patients. The risk-adjusted death rate describing dialysis facility outcomes is the measure that CMS uses to compare dialysis facilities, not the crude percentage rates that appeared in the article. The other problem with comparing outcomes is unit size. It is easier for a small dialysis unit to have either all very sick patients or all very healthy patients, making for large differences between death rates at small facilities that happen just by chance. Statistical methods also adjust for this possibility and are used to help fairly compare outcomes.
Deaths may be outside of the control of the unit. For example, over the four years in question there were five deaths at Fletcher Allen’s Central Vermont Dialysis Unit. Three of the deaths were patients who made the decision to stop treatment; one died from heart disease, and one from infection. The raw 40 percent death rate at that unit cited in the article is not really different from the 20 percent national average when CMS analyzes the data incorporating the appropriate adjustments. Second, when CMS compares outcomes, there is the underlying assumption that chance will be a major factor in the percentage of sick patients at a
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lynn Center patrons who bought tickets to Waiting for Godot might have thought the wait was almost over: The Christopher McElroen production, set in post-Katrina New Orleans and performed by African American actors, was scheduled for this Saturday, February 5. Instead, the show has been canceled.
The reason? The Samuel Beckett estate suddenly pulled the rights to the play, according to Flynn artistic director ARNIE MALINA. “We found out a week ago, and it was a startling development, because the same company got the rights a year ago to perform the play,” he says. Indeed, last year’s tour included stops at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College and at Middlebury College. “Apparently the increased publicity the piece has gotten over the year drew the attention of one of the [Beckett] family members, and he made the decision they didn’t want the specifics of Godot
associated with New Orleans,” Malina explains. Which is puzzling, because what better expresses unrequited expectations than the citizens of the Crescent City waiting for help after the devastating hurricane and flooding? Remember FEMA? Why wouldn’t the family of the Irish dramatist applaud such a poignant and riveting update of the 1953 play? The production was nominated for a 2010 Elliot Norton Award for its presentation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art has acquired the archives from the site-specific production; they’re on view through September 12, if you happen to be heading to New York City. McElroen’s original conception is exactly what Flynn-goers will be able to see, as it turns out. “What we’re replacing it with on screen is the film version of the New Orleans one,” says Malina. That would be the one staged on a rooftop in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward, and in a
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30-foot pool of water. The piece merges Beckett’s words with the rhythms of hip-hop and speech patterns of African Americans living in New Orleans. McElroen, a New York-based producer and director whom Malina calls “a really innovative force in theater,” will be on hand to discuss the work, political activism and the difficulty of getting the rights to the play — and, one imagines, the ease of losing them. Though the Flynn is reimbursing
ticket holders for Godot, patrons may want to come around on Saturday night for the unique opportunity to witness the New Orleans play — free! — on the theater’s new stage-to-ceiling movie screen, and have an audience with the director. Actor J. Kyle Manzay, who played Estragon (“Gogo”) in Godot, is coming, as well. In addition to the Saturday night presentation, Manzay and McElroen are conducting a master acting workshop
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“It was packed ... about 150 people,” says VICTOR GUADAGNO, who wrote, produced and directed the film. He says he noticed “a few legislative reps” in the audience, along with municipal representatives and lakeside homeowners. Perhaps most vocal, though, were the farmers. The “bloom” of the documentary’s title is the toxic blue-green algae, caused by phosphorus, that closes lake beaches and kills pets. The film pinpoints agricultural fertilizer runoff as one major source of that pollution. The other two are urban stormwater and aging wastewater treatment plants. Some of the film’s interviewees suggest that politicians aren’t addressing lake pollution because agriculture has sacred-cow status — so to speak — in Vermont. “Listen to any politician who’s running for office,” says DENNIS HILL, assistant principal of Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans. “They will talk about
saving the farms ... They are playing on the myth of dairy in Vermont.” Another interviewee says traditional ag isn’t contributing much to the state’s economy. Naturally, farmers at the screening had something to say about that. “I took an earful from people,” says Guadagno. “[Farmers] take it personally. They feel like they’re criticizing their lifestyle.” But overall, he says, the debate was balanced and had a “very civilized,” townmeeting feel. Among the attendees was ROGER chair of the Farmer’s RAINVILLE, Watershed Alliance, whose members say ag is already working to clean up its act. Rainville appears in the film, too, presenting a farmer’s perspective: “It’s pretty hard to get motivated to start looking at a potential water-quality issue,” he says, “when you can’t even feed your kids.” It’s no surprise, says Guadagno, that the agriculture section of the 28-minute film has provoked the most controversy: “No one has a personal connection to stormwater or to a wastewater-treatment system.” But Guadagno and executive
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FILM pollution came from the foundation, says Guadagno. But Erickson says the topic was already “near and dear to my heart. Since my time in Vermont, it just seems like this is an issue that’s been highly politicized, and we haven’t got a whole lot of traction on it.” With a $35,000 budget, says Erickson, the team shot Bloom over three months starting last September. Veteran character actor Chris Cooper, who won an Oscar for his role in Adaptation, did the voiceover narration. The film alternates between talkinghead interviews and deceptively pretty shots of the autumnal lake. Some, taken from the air, reveal the bright-green “blooms” of algae spreading like some alien fungus. To comply with the Clean Water Act, Vermont must set a target for the “total
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Burlington, staffing the theater and presenting the film and workshop are “the cost of doing business,” he notes philosophically. “Things happen sometimes.” At least a show has been salvaged for the Godot spot, even if it’s not the scheduled one and will be offered at a loss to the Flynn. Earlier last month, a show
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shallow individual might venture that it’s a tower named after a guy called Eiffel. (I don’t mean to give short shrift to the possibility of a Ms. Eiffel, but female tower builders weren’t numerous in 19th-century France.) And, in fact, the prime mover behind the Eiffel Tower was the French structural engineer Gustave Eiffel, who also designed the interior framework for the Statue of Liberty. Nonetheless, Sweety, I join you in believing such an answer leaves important aspects of the subject unexplored. Popular reference works are no help. For example, if we turn to Wikipedia, we learn “the tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World’s Fair,” or, as the French in their parochial way preferred to express it, l’Exposition universelle de 1889. The Eiffel Tower stands at one end of the Champs de Mars, a large green space in central Paris commonly used for such public spectacles. Cross the Seine, perambulate respectfully beneath the tower, and there you are. But, come on. The Eiffel
Earth, to see an entrance arch that might have been bought on sale at Menard’s. Still, grand is one thing, extravagant is another. The reigning tallest structure in the world at the time, the Washington Monument, was a mere 169 meters (555 feet) in height, and as of 1890 the tallest conventional building — meaning one you could work or live in — was the New York World Building, at a puny 94 meters (309 feet). A more economical people than the French, therefore, might have said: If we were to erect a tower of 200 meters rather than 300-plus, we’d accomplish our primary objectives — having an entrance arch, securing our place in the record books and dazzling the rustics — while nonetheless leaving
ourselves a sizable sum that we might prudently invest in treasury bonds. But they didn’t. Eiffel’s pitch for the project was specifically that he could build a 300-meter tower, and the expo planners bought it. Fact is, the Eiffel Tower arguably holds the record for ratio of grandiosity to usefulness of any structure in the world. (Some will say the Statue of Liberty comes close, but let’s remember who dreamed that up.) This is a matter worth pondering. People have been building tall structures since the days of Babylon — mostly for the glory, of course, but usually with some ostensible higher purpose in mind. Temples and cathedrals celebrate the divine; the pyramids are tombs; the Washington Monument commemorates the first U.S. president. The tallest building in the world at the moment, the 160-story Burj Khalifa in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, is 828 meters tall (2717 feet). One suspects this is somewhat larger than was demanded by the local real estate market, but the fact remains that the Burj Khalifa is a building, containing habitable space. Not so the Eiffel Tower — at least not to any great extent. It was vanity architecture in close to pure form. That’s not to say it was a sinkhole financially. The tower has an observation deck,
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out on your own, and an owl does come along, you’re history,” Winfield says. “You want to nudge your way into the middle of the flock, not be out on the edges.” Burlington is also a warmer place, literally, than the ’burbs. “It’s 5 to 10 degrees warmer near the waterfront before the broad lake freezes,” Newman notes. Despite all these comforts of civilization, crows, like other wild animals, don’t really like to hang out around humans, Winfield adds. “Birds actually get just a fraction of their sustenance from bird feeders,” she notes. So, once summer comes and rural living gets easier, many crows are outta here. The comparative harshness of the current winter may be forcing more crows than usual to come to town, both the ornithologists suggest. They also point to the possibility of a baby boom among local crows this past spring. But neither Newman nor Winfield reports hearing in birding chat rooms about any crow eruptions in Burlington or elsewhere in Vermont. Those tweeting so excitedly about crowds of crows congregating downtown and in the neighorhoods “might be flatlanders unaccustomed to what’s a regular occurrence,” Winfield says. She recalls recent arrivals telling her with amazement of all the crows in their neighborhood. “They were in the
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witter has recently been all aflutter about a seeming uptick in Burlington’s crow population. Is there actually, as ornithologists term it, an “eruption” of crows in the Queen City this winter? Probably not, veteran wildlife watchers concur. Crows are always more numerous in urban areas in winter than in summer, notes Carol Winfield, a zoologist and founder of the Vermont Wildlife Rescue Association. “Some birds don’t migrate because they can
make a living here,” she says. “It’s normal for crows to roost in Burlington in winter,” adds Craig Newman, a wildlife rehabilitator and director of Outreach for Earth Stewardship. “I’ve seen hundreds of them in the trees on First Night.” It’s not like crows are tracking all those “Best of” ratings, but they do enjoy the amenities Burlington offers — especially food, water and shelter. Winfield points out that “food gets harder to find this time of year, and humans are a great source of food for adaptable, intelligent creatures like crows.” We can be relied on to provide “road kill, garbage and bird feeders,” she says. Carrion is a crow’s favorite dish, Winfield notes, but adds, “They’ll eat anything: mice, fruit, vegetables, French fries.” That probably explains the noisy scene at Intervale Compost, where hundreds of crows and seagulls squawk hysterically while circling mounds of decomposing organic matter. The comparative scarcity of predators is another big reason why crows prefer urban life, Newman notes. There aren’t nearly as many great horned owls — Crow Enemy No. 1 — on the Church Street Marketplace as in, say, the Green Mountain Audubon Center in Huntington. And it’s wise for crows to stay well away from owls these days, because “owls are pretty hungry now, too,” Winfield says. Even if a starving predator should be prowling the Intervale, crows know there’s safety in numbers, she continues. “If you’re
neighborhood before you were,” Winfield says she informs the newcomers. Crows do attract attention, she adds — “They’re big and they’re noisy.” Someone just becoming aware of Vermont’s fauna might first alight on crows, Newman says, because “they’re the most common wild species of animal that people encounter.” Maybe, too, proposes Mark LaBarr, conservation biologist and land steward for Audubon Vermont, the phenomenon has more to do with social media than with Corvus brachyrhynchos (the American crow) itself. “What now becomes a widely circulated rumor would in the past have stopped with just a couple of people,” LaBarr says. It’s true that crows creep out some humans. They’re associated in legends and literature with death and despair (think of Poe’s poem about the crow’s close cousin, “The Raven”). Consider also that, while scientists speak of a “flock” of crows, folklorists refer to a crow gathering as a “murder.” Their fondness for dead meat may largely account for this linkage in the popular imagination, as may crows’ discomfiting call and their funereal plumage. Whatever their rep, crows are clearly unwelcome in Watertown, N.Y., where an honest-to-God eruption does seem to have occurred. The upstate city has been exploding fireworks and blaring recordings of crow distress calls in an effort to shoo away the estimated 15,000 of them roosting in Watertown nightly. Eruptions have also been reported in Syracuse, Utica and Mount Auburn, N.Y. The last locale has gone so far as to stage a crow-shooting contest. Newman doesn’t endorse such extreme measures, but he acknowledges that poop can be a problem. “All those crows up in the trees can plop a lot of guano on cars below,” he observes. “It’s pretty amazing.”
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y now, most readers of Seven I, too, extend my fervent wishes Days must know that the barn to Johnson for a fast recovery. After at Pete’s Greens in Craftsbury all, he isn’t only a respected leader of burned to the ground on the Vermont’s localvore agriculture movefrigid night of January 12, taking with ment. He’s a neighbor and a member it all the farm’s packing and storage of a well-known and beloved family Romantic Dining Casual Atmosphere equipment, and a quarter-million dol- in these parts. His brother, Andrew, 27 Bridge St, Richmond lars’ worth of produce and meat. The an Olympian Nordic skier, and sisters, barn itself was insured for only three- landscaper Anners and floral designer Tues-Sun • 434-3148 quarters of its value, the food not at all. Danika, are just as ambitious, industriAt least for the moment, Pete Johnson ous and charming. The community mourned the too-early death of their 12v-toscano020211.indd 1 1/31/11 1:42 PMhas lost the farm. Support from all over Vermont ma- mother, Nancy, not long ago. terialized immediately, from the jug of It is hard to separate Pete’s Greens small-change donations on the check- from Pete Johnson himself. That’s a out counter at Buffalo Mountain Co-op good thing about local business: It has to the Bid for the Barn online auction a face, someone to be held accountable AFTER DARK Seven Days MUSIC SERIES that last week raised almost $65,000 — or to help in an emergency. That per1/16th ad: on hundreds of contributed products sonal connection also makes it easier to 2.3 xamong 3.67 vertical and services, them a handspun forgive a mistake, even if it might affect Chris Smither 1.11 alpaca hat from Common Crook Farm, your own livelihood, and underinsurSaturday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. a family consultation from Mad River ance to the tune of several hundred United Methodist Church Valley Counseling and a lobster dinner thousand dollars is one big business $18 advance, $20 at the door from Stowe Seafood. The solidarity — blunder. After all, Pete’s Greens is no “Smither delivers one of the most and the breadth — of Vermont’s small- ConAgra, but neither is it a struggling riveting live shows you are ever likely business community is impressive to family farm. The food community is to see”—Rollingstone.com behold. showing admirable goodwill. P.O. Box 684 Middlebury, VT 05753 In a commentary on Vermont Public It was in the light of these events — e-mail: aftdark@sover.net Radio, food writer Marialisa Calta the flaming barn, the glowing response www.afterdarkmusicseries.com asked whether the absence of Pete’s — that I watched with dismay as that (802) 388-0216 Greens would make a difference in the other Pete, Vermont’s new Democratic Tickets on sale now at: Main Street Stationery, bigger scheme of things. “Does it really Gov. Shumlin, outlined his proposed the Middlebury Inn and by mail matter,” she asked, “that patrons of state budget last week. The governor’s high-end restaurants won’t be dining principal plan for filling the $176 milon Johnson’s braised fennel this season? lion budget gap is to toss in the splinters 12v-AfterDark011211.indd 1 1/6/11 1:06 PM Or that members of his CSA will have hacked off the state-funded agencies to survive without deliveries of nitrate- that serve the mentally ill, the elderly free bacon?” and others in need; he’s also shaving She answered her question with a the state’s commitment to local public hearty yes, cataloging the trickle-down schools. for a UVM research Study effects of the farm’s wholesale business, Just like Pete Johnson’s catastroof Behavioral-Biological Factors its Good Eats CSA and its charitable conphe, these losses bite into the rest of Affecting Cigarette Smoking. tributions: $100,000 of food purchased the economy and leave individuals We are looking for people who are: each winter from other local produc- hurting. Service reductions will put • Healthy Adults, 18-55 years old ers for the CSA; dozens of Vermont the most vulnerable out in the cold, • Available once everydayTim for O’Brien restaurants whose reputations are built and nonprofits will have to pick up Chris Smither 15 consecutive days onp.m. serving local organic foods; 35,000 the pieces. School boards will choose Saturday, February 12 at 7:00 United Methodist Church, Middlebury. pounds of produce donated annually to between laying off staff and burdening We offer flexible sessions: the Vermont Food Bank; 11 wintertime their towns with higher property taxes. PO Boxa 684 • Approximately 25 minutes day $18 adv/$20 at door whom Calta assumed Rutlandwould Herald Government workers will have less to Middlebury, VT 05753 employees AFTER DARK For tickets/info call: aftdark@sover.net 3-3/16 wide x 2spend high”downtown — for instance, on MUSIC SERIES www.afterdarkmusicseries.com (802)be furloughed. 388-0216 Pete’s Greens is a major player in the meals at localvore restaurants. They’ve 1.11 If you’ve ever caught one of Chris’ live perforlocal economy, or a certain gentrified already agreed to a two-year, 3 percent mances, you know it’s hard not to come away knocked out amount of music that comes segment thereof, and that economy is wage cut. Upbytothe $650 compensation out of one man. His guitar playing is remarkably bereaved until the enterprise sends up You might say all this pain results not forbits more info fluid. 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necessity. And I’m not arguing that nonprofit clinics should be supported and private enterprises left on their own when disaster strikes. Pete Johnson is important to Vermont’s economy and its community life. But equally important is the kindergarten teacher and the town clerk and the guy who plows the roads. Equally important are the workers who don’t own companies and the nonprofits that, beyond fulfilling their missions, provide good jobs. No doubt, it feels better to give voluntarily to the handsome fellow who grows your spinach than to be compelled to pay taxes to benefit a surly runaway teen or buy a box of Xerox paper for some bureaucratic office. But government provides mutual aid, too. And when the state cuts $4 of services for every dollar it raises in revenue — Vermont’s record in recent years, according to PAI — that’s not very mutual. I’ve been thinking of making lapel pins that say “Raise My Taxes.” I invite those financially secure folks to show their commitment to Vermont by joining me in putting one on. And the legislature should muster the courage to take our advice. Please, keep helping the Pete Johnsons when their barns burn down. But Vermont and the nation are burning, too, and it’s time we all carried water to put the fires out. m
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lizabeth Herrick says her presence at wedding receptions comes as a surprise to guests — especially when they discover she’s the one hand rolling their cigars. “It’s funny, because they’re usually not expecting me,” says Herrick, owner of the Vermont Cigar Factory. “They’re expecting someone in a fedora with a mustache … But they still expect me to know what I’m doing.” That she does. Despite her company’s brick-and-mortar-sounding name, Herrick is the Vermont Cigar Factory’s sole torcedora, or cigar roller. Since 2004, she’s been hiring herself out for weddings and other special events where the hosts want to add an element of panache to the affair. And what better symbol of the good life than a premium, hand-rolled cigar? “It adds that extra something,” Herrick explains. “There are only a few places where the nonsmoker will smoke a cigar: a business deal, on the golf course, a birth announcement and at a wedding.” Herrick doesn’t seem like a stereotypical cigar aficionado — the 39-yearold account manager for Burlington’s
Dealer.com looks outdoorsy and athletic — but she learned her craft from a true master. For years her parents vacationed in Key West, where her father befriended a Cuban man named Angel Garcia who always rolled his own stogies. Fascinated by the process, Herrick asked Garcia to teach her the skill of cigar making, as well as the history and traditions that surround it. Today, she still uses the 100-year-old cigar cutter and wooden cigar board that Garcia gave her. The latter features an image of the Virgin Mary and is “like a shrine,” she says, a testament to the Cuban’s reverence for his craft. Herrick explains how she typically works a wedding: First, she meets with the bride and groom in advance to find out how many guests they’re expecting, so she can estimate how many cigars they’ll need. For example, for a 100person affair, Herrick may recommend preparing up to 60 cigars in advance. “You’d be surprised how many people actually want a cigar,” she says, “whether they want to smoke it right there or keep it as a souvenir.” Herrick also asks the couple for their wedding colors so she can create
personalized cigar labels. These can include the newlyweds’ names, the date of the affair and its location. On the big day, Herrick sets up her equipment at a predetermined time and place. She might roll cigars during the cocktail hour, or as an after-dinner treat. Herrick then offers a one- to two-hour demonstration in which she explains the cigar-rolling process, the history of cigar making, and the different characteristics of the tobaccos she uses. She always has some prerolled cigars on hand for guests who want to fire up while they watch. Herrick uses Cuban-seed, broadleaf tobacco that’s grown in the Connecticut Valley and cured in the Dominican Republic. She’s very particular about the cuts of tobacco she uses, both for the filler and wrapper. Since most of the cigar’s flavor derives from the wrapper, she says, sometimes she cures it beforehand with Cognac or Bailey’s Irish Cream. Herrick keeps more than one variety of tobacco on hand, too, to ensure that she can please the cigar neophyte and the connoisseur alike. “In every wedding, there’s a handful of people who know exactly what they like, but they’re not entirely sure why
they like it,” she says. “Other people are open to whatever you’re presenting. They want to know what they’re tasting and how it all works.” Herrick rolls her cigars in different lengths and thicknesses. In recent years, as cigars have grown in popularity — especially among women — she tends to roll smaller cigars, such as robustos and toros, which are shorter and feature a full-flavored but mild tobacco. She rolls other types as well, including the Cubano Rose, the Chukka Torpedo, the Pony Boy and the Clara Corona. For more seasoned cigar smokers, Herrick chooses a darker, shade-grown broadleaf tobacco with more dominant veins, which, she says, creates a “more rugged cigar.” Like a wine connoisseur, Herrick enjoys explaining to her guests the various flavors and textures of the tobacco they’re experiencing as they smoke, pointing out which ones are “leathery” or “earthy.” Also, she makes sure her guests don’t commit a grievous cigarsmoker faux pas: lighting the cigar with a lighter, which can contaminate its flavor with butane. Wood matches only, she insists. Herrick doesn’t just work weddings. Over the years she’s been hired for a variety of gigs all over the country, including celebrity golf tournaments, fundraisers, corporate parties, even an Irish wake. She’s met members of the New England Patriots at a golf tournament, where she set up on the 10th hole and had cigars ready to smoke when the players rolled up in their carts. Herrick was even hired to work the June 2009 wedding reception of Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, which was held in the outfield at Fenway Park. “That was great!” says Herrick, herself a Boston native. “I got to run the bases, something I wanted to do since I was 2.” For couples-to-be who are interested in offering their guests a Vermont Cigar Factory experience, Herrick recommends they contact her well in advance of the big day. Though winter is her quiet season, she can be booked every weekend during the summer. Herrick’s price depends on how many cigars she rolls and how long she
An Idyllic Vermont Mountain Setting stays. Typically, she charges a flat “rolling fee” to cover her demonstration. Additionally, the cigars themselves range from $6 to $8, depending on the wrappers and type of tobacco used. As any experienced cigar smoker knows, that’s a bargain for a premium, handrolled cigar, especially since the federal tax increased dramatically in 2009. Vermont’s stringent smoking laws generally require that stogies be smoked outdoors if employees are present. Herrick advises her couples and other event planners to check with the venue manager beforehand to ensure there’s a suitable place for guests to light up.
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inter may be the worst time of the year to be single. The days are dark and bleak, the streets are empty and lonely, and it feels like everyone but you is snuggled up with their sweetie on a bearskin rug in front of a crackling fire. We here at Seven Days wanted to do something about that. So we decided to play Cupid by setting up two singles on a blind date. Then, we hoped, we’d sit back and watch some sparks fly. To find these brave singles, we donned our matchmaker hats and scoured our personal ads to find two folks we felt might make a good match. Then we gave them some cash and sent them to the Daily Planet, voted Burlington’s Best First-Date Restaurant in our annual Seven Daysies award. The rest was up to them. Here’s how it went down.
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What’s your type? Physically active. Someone who likes to sail, do stuff like that. I’m a very particular person. I would rather be single than dating someone who isn’t right for me. I wouldn’t date someone just for the hell of it, just to date someone. I’d just like to go out with someone who has similar interests and likes to be active outdoors.
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The Date Daily Planet, Burlington, 7 p.m. SailH2O: I was actually not real positive going into the date, but I’m generally a positive person. I figured I probably wouldn’t be matched with someone who was compatible. But I was going to have a nice meal with someone and chat. Optimisticblonde: You always get a little nervous on a blind date. I’ve just been on so many dates and a lot of blind dates, and I wasn’t too stressed. And I know the Daily Planet really well, so it was a comfort place for me.
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SailH2O: I was there 10 minutes early. I think she was 10 minutes late. I was disappointed when I saw her. Optimisticblonde: He was sitting on the couch when I came in, but I didn’t know that. I was waiting for the hostess, so we’re both standing there, and he asked me if I was here for the Seven Days thing and I was, like, “Yeah,” and he said, “Well, I guess I’m your date.” And I was, like, “OK,
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Why are you a catch? I think I’m a pretty attractive woman who is realistically attractive. I’m 36; I’m not a college student. I’m very accomplished. I’m independent. I like to travel. I’m not needy. I’m almost unneedy. And I’m up for a lot. I’m really committed to philanthropy and doing good work and making sure my heart is connected with my actions. I’m exceptionally outgoing and really playful. And I’m a bit witty in an evil way. What’s your dream date? Well, I’d totally do what we did the other night I loved that. That’s great. The person would be more interested in me, obviously.
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SailH2O: I’m sure she’s a great woman. But typically I date women in their late twenties to early thirties. I felt like I was sitting across from someone who was in her fifties. It’s not a big deal; I’m just saying. Physical attraction is half of it for me, at least. I just wasn’t attracted to her physically.
Optimisticblonde: I didn’t feel like he asked me a lot about myself. Like, I was being the redirector. I share my whole story with everyone, so I want guys to actually ask me about myself. So, I didn’t share anything with him in that way. He asked me a little a bit about what I do. I felt like he was not interested in me at all.
Optimisticblonde: We went to the back and sat, and it was, like, “Who are you? What’s your name?” kind of stuff. That was fine. I wasn’t super attracted to him. He’s not a bad-looking guy. I possibly would go out with him again, just because I’ve been on so many blind dates that have been way worse. But this wasn’t this instant, heartpounding Wow. SailH2O: I talked most of the time. I just talked about my life and everything. And I asked her some questions about what she did. Pretty much the conversation was just based on job-related things and other things I do on the
SailH2O: Initially, I was skeptical whether or not I was going to have fun. I just felt like — it’s difficult, obviously, to meet people who have similar interests. I’ve been on hundreds of dates. OK, maybe not hundreds. But I’ve only been on five second dates, by choice. I just figured I wouldn’t be sitting across from someone who had the same passions as I do. But I had a good time chatting with her. Optimisticblonde: It was definitely a good conversation. But he talked a lot about his dating history and his other
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Optimisticblonde: I don’t consider him a strong personality, and that’s awkward, because I’m a very strong personality. I tried to step back and not talk about myself, and I would try to get him to open up. He’s a little pessimistic about dating. SailH2O: She wanted to know if I wanted to go out again when we left. It was kind of awkward saying, “I don’t think we’re compatible.” So I didn’t even say anything to her. We hugged and parted pretty much immediately. I didn’t feel like I wanted to exchange numbers, because I wasn’t into her physically. Or really just interested, period. Optimisticblonde: I wondered if he would kiss me. But no, he walked out and walked away from me. He’s not a toucher. It could have been me, because he wasn’t attracted to me. He’s very shy, and I knew that, but literally he turned and walked away. And I was like, “OK, later.” I think it was awkward for him, like, “Oh, how do we do this?”
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SailH2O: If I had to rate the date, I don’t know. Maybe a two [out of five]. Optimisticblonde: I think I’d probably give it, like, a three, but maybe that’s generous. But I’ve been on really bad dates before. I’ve been on dates where in the first 10 minutes the guy is telling me about his Weight Watchers plan and talking about his points. And I’ve gotten up and left.
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You say you’re a positive person, but I’m not seeing it. You said you weren’t really positive going into the date and that you didn’t have faith that you’d be matched with someone compatible. That doesn’t sound positive — it sounds downright depressing. Lighten up! You’re dating in Vermont — embrace all opportunities for human contact, especially in the deep freeze of winter. I can see why you’re dating women 10 to 15 years younger than you — you’re immature. Physical attraction and chemistry are very important, but so are humility and kindness. Insulting a woman’s looks is simply uncalled for. Plus, you’re 41 and still single — perhaps it’s time for you to raise the age requirement? You did most of the talking and think the conversation was “great” — that should be a red flag for you. On future dates, be sure to ask as many questions as you’re answering. No one likes a blabbermouth. Parting ways after a lackluster first date can be awkward, but you need to man up and be able to say, “I had a nice time hanging out with you, but I don’t think we’re a match.” In the grand scheme of things, it’s the most mature and polite thing to do — certainly a lot less inelegant than walking away without a word. m
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If you’re asked to officiate a friend’s or family member’s wedding and you don’t want to become ordained on the Internet, the state offers temporary officiant certificates. Between July 2009 and June 2010, Vermont issued 530 of them — earning a welcome chunk of change for a state plagued with budget deficits. These certificates cost $100 and are good for one day only. With one in hand, you are able to sign a marriage license, send it to the town clerk who issued it and, within 10 days, it’s official — you have married the couple. Vermont accepts other types of certification, including ordinations from Internet services such as the Universal Life Church, which are typically free. What if, down the line, the courts declare your officiant’s clergy status invalid? No problem, says Linda Hall, who administers Vermont’s temporary-officiant certification. In other words, you don’t get out of the marriage if the officiant wasn’t legit. — L.O. sec.state.vt.us/municipal/ officiant.htm
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ive years ago, a friend asked me if I would consider being in her wedding. But she didn’t want me to stand by her side as a bridesmaid in a meringue dress, or to perform a dramatic reading of her favorite poem. Nor did she care to have me toss flower petals or carry rings on a satin pillow. No, what my friend wanted from me was more complicated than sashaying down the aisle and smiling pretty. She wanted me to marry her. And her fiancé. Together. Forever. I must admit that, at first blush, the request was thrilling. Who has more authority, more power over the tenor of the ceremony, than the officiant? This is the person who asks the couple if they take each other in sickness and in health, for all the days of their lives. Who unites two souls. Who is
responsible for the service’s success or failure. That’s a lot of pressure for one person who is neither religious nor romantic. The more I thought about it, the less officiating sounded like such a great proposition. What did I know about marriage and the ultimate commitment? I didn’t know any married folks who stuck it out to the end except my grandparents, and I don’t think they even liked each other. Wouldn’t I be more supportive as a gleaming face smiling up at the couple from the rows of guests, rather than standing in front of them on the dais asking them, “Do you...?” In the end, my desire to be part of the wedding defeated my trepidation. I agreed to officiate. While the ceremony was not without its hiccups, it was unique, and the couple was pleased.
It was a win-win deal for all of us. They got a meaningful ceremony with an appropriate mix of humor and poignancy, and I got to join an everincreasing group of lay people who can say they have hitched two of their pals. In recent years, the number of people getting ordained through virtual ministries such as the Universal Life Church has exploded. Anecdotal evidence suggests weddings performed by friends and family are on the upswing. Perhaps this is because people have come to believe that marriage is less about religion and its attendant hierarchy and doctrinal contradictions, and more about community and family. What clerical figures still have over us lay folks, at least in terms of marrying people, are the twin advantages of history and experience, as well as an
acute understanding of ceremony. Priests, ministers and rabbis know how to get the job done. Most of us, unless we’re theatrical types who can improvise, do not. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn. Before you take on the responsibility of being the officiant, you need to ask yourself if you can handle it, says Kathryn Blume, a nondenominational minister (her ordination came from an ad in the back of Rolling Stone years ago) who performs roughly 40 weddings a year. Committing to running the ceremony will require a level of comfort with public speaking, something that Blume, an actor and theater director, certainly has. If that prospect makes you queasy, perhaps it’s best to take a pass. “Don’t say yes unless you’re really willing to do it,” Blume counsels. “There’s no reason to stress out a friendship over such a big occasion. This is not the time to challenge yourself.” Once you say yes to performing a friend’s or family member’s wedding, you need to figure out what the couple wants, says Moretti, a mono-named officiant with a decade of experience marrying people. His first suggestion for the couple: Stay away from traditional wedding guides. “I advise every couple to not read anything on [TheKnot.com] or in Emily
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t didn’t surprise jeweler David “It takes a tremendous amount of Sisco that the bride-to-be who heat to get platinum to flow,” he says. For wanted her vintage engagement white gold and silver, the melting point ring resized was nervous to commit is 1600 to 1800 degrees; for platinum, to a jeweler. Sizing a ring isn’t a big deal; it’s roughly 3500 degrees. If you don’t jewelers do it all the time. But for some- have a laser, you have to use a solder one who has just inherited an estate metal that melts at a lower temperature, piece, it can be scary to leave it in the so as not to melt the whole ring. hands of a stranger. Finding a jeweler Sisco puts his hands inside the mais like finding a dentist, Sisco says. “You chine and aims the laser at the joint, setwant to find somebody you trust.” ting off tiny fireworks. While he works, Luckily, there’s an embarrassment he talks about marriage. of riches in our area when it comes to “I’m on my second one,” he says. jewelers. Downtown Burlington alone “I can tell you this: If you guys comboasts more than half a dozen. “We municate with one another, you’ll go a know each other; we’re competitors,” long way. Stop communicating and you Sisco says. “But there’s won’t.” nobody on Church Of course it helps to Street you’d get a bad share some interests, job from.” which Sisco and his wife, On a recent afterDolores Kurjan, do. In fact, noon, Sisco and fellow she’s the owner of Vintage jeweler Neil Wiener Jewelers on College Street are working on rings in and contracted him for the studio they share. this job. The place is dusty, with Kurjan, 47, can trace fluorescent lights and a her love of vintage jewelry tinny radio. Both men to a single, stunning ring D O L O R ES K U R JA N have worked as jewelers she first saw more than for more than 20 years a decade ago. She was — Sisco owns Designers’ working at Designers’ Circle on Church Street — and you can Circle when a woman came in with a tell by the graceful way they navigate 1930s 18-carat white-gold ring with delthe cluttered room that they’ve shared a icate filigree and a sea of European-cut work space much of that time. diamonds. The woman’s daughter had Sisco, 56, is resizing an engagement inherited it from an aunt but didn’t want ring from the 1920s. It’s platinum with it; she wanted to buy a new computer. delicate filigree, a half-carat center “I fantasized about that ring,” Kurjan diamond and six tiny melee diamonds says, but the store didn’t deal in vintage around it. He plans to reduce the ring jewelry at the time. So she bought it herby two sizes while sparing an engraving self. “I still have the ring, but I’m sure from its previous owner. To do this, he’ll that computer’s long gone,” she notes. have to cut from the side. On a recent afternoon, Kurjan is Sisco saws through the band, nimbly wearing a long, Victorian necklace avoiding his fingers — “This will cut adorned with a cross chock-full of amright to the bone,” he says — then gin- ethysts. It’s not hers, she says; it’s a piece gerly uses pliers to bring the sides to- she’s selling, but it spoke to her today. gether. Next, most jewelers use a torch The shop, she says somewhat guiltily, to fuse the joint, but a few Vermont “is like a big jewelry box … I try not to jewelers use lasers. Sisco is one of them. [wear too much of it], because then I The $30,000 instrument allows him to want to keep it.” use platinum as his solder metal, matchVintage Jewelers’ showroom is a ing the host metal of the ring. wonderland of sparkles and baubles,
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once spent an entire math class writing “Megan Miller,” over and over, in the pages of my Trapper Keeper. Oh, Doug Miller, you were so dreamy! It was no coincidence that I was cast as your wife in our fourthgrade musical, Rip Van Winkle. Your blond hair, your math smarts, your enthusiastic participation in chorus. You were the Gilbert Blythe to my Anne Shirley. We were meant to be together. Like so many young girls, I engaged in the ritual of fantasy name changing long before I had my first boyfriend — or dared talk to boys, for that matter. I grew out of it. I went to college and dipped my toes in women’s and gender studies just enough to start feeling I was getting shortchanged in life simply because I was a woman. Then I started writing for newspapers and saw my name in print. What a name! I thought, week after week (such is the heady influence of a byline). I’m never giving it up. I felt proud of my work and my identity. I couldn’t imagine being anyone else. Until a few weeks ago, when I asked my fiancé — in that jokey way you do when you’re testing emotional waters — if he’d be hurt if I didn’t take his last name. His earnest response took me aback. “Yeah,” he said. “I kind of would.” Daniel doesn’t cling to traditional gender roles. He talks seriously about being a stay-at-home dad. He has a weakness for self-help novels. I’ve known him to set up a full-service salon in our bathroom to cut my hair and wax my legs. I never imagined he would care what I did with his name. So I went looking for some history. The first American woman to keep her maiden name after marriage was Lucy Stone, a Massachusetts suffragette in the 1850s. A league of Lucy Stoners exists to this day, fighting to keep women from abandoning their names,
which they consider a form of sex discrimination. But, according to a study conducted several years ago at Harvard, the percentage of women keeping their maiden names after marriage dropped between 1990 and 2000, from 23 to 17 percent. In some ways, I’d more easily give up Megan. My mother named me after Meggie Cleary from the hit ’80s miniseries “The Thorn Birds.” When I was in middle school, she made me watch it with her. She wept through the entire thing; I thought it was creepy. What could a girl my age possibly see in lechy old priest Richard Chamberlain? But “James” is another story. I love its single syllable, its simple masculinity. It connects me to my English family, to my grandmother Olive in London, who was literally blown off the toilet when a Nazi doodlebug dropped on the house next door (she survived to enthusiastically tell the tale). It connects me to my father. My mother thinks I should do it — change my name. “That’s the whole point of getting married,” she says. “It’s about forming a union, becoming family.” Her parents never even gave her a middle name. Why bother? they figured. She’s just going to get married anyway. She eagerly took my father’s name, all but dooming her maiden name to oblivion. Until recently, when she started writing professionally again — she had written for newspapers before she married — and quietly slipped the name back into her byline. A friend of mine has been married more than a decade but still has to mouth out the spelling of her husband’s name every time she writes it. A bank clerk caught her doing it recently and asked to see extra ID. Lately she’s considered going back to her maiden name. Many of my unmarried friends say they’ll never take their partners’ names. Some are PhD candidates
Norwich UNiversity preseNts the todd lectUre series But when I began to consider taking his name, something strange happened: I started to feel the weight of what I’ve signed up for. When we get married, we won’t just be throwing a party for our family and friends; we’ll be agreeing to merge our lives — for the rest of our lives. That’s a big fucking deal. I don’t want it to feel incidental. I can’t pretend that a commitment so huge won’t change me. And Daniel? He says it’s just as scary sharing his name with me. What if I resent him for it? He jokes that he’ll be forever indebted to me. Never again can he refuse my requests for a back rub, never again override my picks on our Netflix queue.
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Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by February 15, 2011. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c) (5). Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 18th day of January, 2011. By /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On January 18, 2011, Homestead Design, Inc., filed application #4C1014-6 for a Project generally described as: construction of a 3,000 sf bank building with 13 off street parking spaces and 22 on-street parking spaces; 1,250 lf of Commonwealth Ave; a 20’ temporary access road connecting Commonwealth Ave. and Carmichael Street and adding 22 AM peak hour trips to the overall project maximum impact. The Project is located on Commonwealth Ave. in the Town of Essex, 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 Essex Municipal
Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above.
By /s/Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us RETIREMENT BD., Human Resources Department Eleven PERSONNEL— Retirement System
No hearing will be held unless, on or before February 15, 2011, 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.
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Earned compensation shall mean the full rate of normal compensation paid to an employee for working the full normal time for his position. Normal compensation shall not include extra payments for working on holidays, overtime work, shift differentials, longevity pay, payments for unused disability leave or bonuses. In cases where normal compensation includes shelter and/or board, the retirement board shall determine the value of that part of the normal compensation not paid in money. In no case shall there be a benefit accrual on earned compensation amounts in any year that exceed the compensation limit in effect under section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Balance of Sec. 24-14 as written. Sec. 24-19. When
Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Nonparty participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(5). Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 21st day of January 2011.
That Chapter 24, Personnel, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sections 24-14, 24-19, 24-21, 24-22, 24-23, 24-29, 24-41 thereof to read as follows: Sec. 24-14 Definitions. Accumulated contributions shall mean the sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to his individual account in the system, plus interest accruing thereon at a rate of five and one-half (5 1/2) per cent per annum; provided, however, that such interest will accrue only on those contributions made after June 30, 1980. No amounts shall be deducted from the compensation of a Class B member.
sevendaysvt.com/classifieds membership required. Except for those individuals who are permitted by the city council to retain membership in a retirement system other than the city retirement system, any employee who enters into service with the city shall within two (2) weeks after being hired submit to the office of the city treasurer a completed application form for membership in the city retirement system. Such employee shall become a member of the retirement system as a condition of employment. provided his age upon entering employment is less than the normal retirement age for his class. The foregoing maximum entry age limitation shall not be applicable to the office of mayor, nor to appointive officer working fulltime for the city, and any such member shall receive creditable service for all service since the latter of his date of employment or July 1, 1967. Upon acquisition of permanent employee status, membership in the retirement system shall be considered as attained retroactive to
the date the individual commenced work for the city as an employee; provided, however, that a Class A employee must, in addition, be approved by the medical examiners as medically qualified for Class A type of employment, and Class A employees and Class B employees must submit sufficient proof of birth in order to obtain membership in the retirement system. The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to persons hired pursuant to funding provided under the so-called Emergency Employment Act, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Law Enforcement Assistance Act or other federal or state-financed employment program. The city council, in connection with the recruitment of any particular employee, may, in its sole discretion, waive the requirement for membership in the city retirement system and allow such employee to retain membership in an alternate retirement system under such conditions as may be agreed upon between
the city and such employee. Sec. 24-21. Statement of service, military service; treatment of break in service. (a) through (f) As written. (g) Anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding, credit for any period of absence from service due to any class of full-time military, naval or air service approved by the retirement board, whether before or after July 1, 1954, shall be allowed as prior service credit and a prior service certificate issued therefor in the case of any employee who left the service of the city to enter such full-time military, naval or air service, and, for the purposes of the retirement system, the earnable compensation of the employee at the time of entering such service shall be the earnable compensation for the period thereof. However, this subsection shall not apply to any employee not returning to the active service of the city within one hundred twenty (120) days of his discharge from such fill-time
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or the total annual actuarial assumptions for the period such accumulated contributions had been withdrawn, whichever is higher. The amount to be repaid will be increased by an interest amount for the period of repayment as established by the retirement board. Upon such repayment, the member shall be entitled to apply his creditable service earned as a Class A employee prior to his separation from city service along with that earned subsequent to his return to Class A service for the determination of a single Class A retirement benefit. A former Class A member who withdrew his accumulated contributions to the retirement system and who again becomes a Class A member but does not repay his withdrawn accumulated contributions shall have his prior Class A service for which his accumulated contributions have been withdrawn treated as Class B service. A former Class A member who withdrew his accumulated contributions to the retirement system and who becomes a
Open 24/7/365. Post & browse ads at your convenience. Class B member shall not be entitled to repay his withdrawn Class A accumulated contributions in order to have his Class A service treated as other than Class B service upon his subsequent retirement. A former member may withdraw his accumulated contributions and the retirement board shall establish procedures governing the distribution of these accumulated contributions, including the terms and conditions under which such amounts may be rolled over to another retirement plan. Balance of Sec. 24-21 as written. Sec. 24-22. Retirement; benefits. (a) through (i) As written. (j) Plan benefits shall be distributed to an employee no later than April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which he or she attains age seventy and one-half (70 1/2, or in which he or she retires, whichever occurs later. Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, the retirement system will comply with a good
faith interpretation of section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. (k) Plan benefits and contributions shall not exceed the limitations established in section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Sec. 24-29. Method of financing; fund established. All the assets of the retirement system shall be credited, according to the purpose for which they are held, in a fund, namely, the city retirement system fund. Said fund shall be composed as follows: (a) As written. (b) The contributions made by the city to the city retirement fund shall be deposited. The contributions of the city for benefits under the retirement system shall consist of a percentage of the earned compensation of members to be known as the “normal contribution,” and an additional dollar amount to be known as the “accrued liability contribution.” The contributions shall be fixed on the basis of the liabilities of the system
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as shown by actuarial valuation. Immediately after making each valuation during the period over which the accrued liability contribution is payable, the board shall determine the percentage normal contribution rate as a percentage of the earned compensation of members which is the value of the difference between the benefits accrued for service to the valuation date and the benefit based on service to one (1) year after the valuation date, reduced by required Class A and Class B member contributions. The accrued liability contribution, or unfunded past service contribution, is the difference between the total liabilities and the assets. The total amount payable in city contributions to the fund in each year shall be not less than the rates per cent known as the normal contribution rate of the total compensation earnable by all members, plus the annual accrued liability contribution amount required to fund the remaining accrued liability over a
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Dombek Lang by Warranty Deed of Erik V. Lundberg and Rosa M. Lundberg dated January 30, 2003 and recorded in Volume 212 at Page 337 of the Town of Jericho Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Jericho. 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 Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 14th day of January, 2010. US Bank, N.A. By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403
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twenty-year period from date of establishment, and provided that the aggregate payment by the city shall be sufficient, when combined with the amount in the fund of city contributions, to provide the benefits payable out of the fund during the year then current. All interest and dividends earned on the funds of the retirement system shall be credited to the city retirement system fund. Any forfeiture of plan benefits shall be used to reduce the city’s contribution to the plan otherwise payable. Prior to the satisfaction of all plan liabilities, assets of the retirement fund shall not be used for any purpose other than for the exclusive benefit of members and
beneficiaries. Sec. 24-41. Survivor income benefit. (a) A survivor income benefit will be payable to the eligible survivors, if any, of a member who dies in service as an employee prior to his retirement in accordance with the provisions of this section. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this section and any contract between a life insurance company and the retirement board to carry out the provisions of this section, then the provisions of such contract shall be binding and control. Effective January 1, 2007, if a member dies during a period of qualified military service (as defined in section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended), the eligible survivors of the member shall be entitled to survivor benefits as if the member had resumed and then terminated employment on account of death. (b) thru (e) As written.
* Material stricken out deleted. ** Material underlined added. STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S16-10 Cn US Bank, N.A., Plaintiff v. Richard A. Lang, Teresa V. Dombek-Lang a/k/a Teresa V. Lang, United States of America, Department of the Treasury - Internal Revenue Service and Occupants residing at 28 White Oaks Drive, Jericho, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by US Bank, N.A. to Richard A. Lang dated January 31, 2003 and recorded in Volume 212, Page 340 of the Land Records of the Town of Jericho, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of
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the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 P.M. on February 15, 2011, at 28 White Oaks Drive, Jericho, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Richard A. Lang and Teresa
STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S344-10 Cnc Wells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff v. Lynne S. Berry, David T. Berry, Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. and Occupants residing at 8 Abare Avenue, Essex,
Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Wells Fargo Bank, NA to Lynne S. Berry dated February 28, 2005 and recorded in Volume 641, Page 427 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, 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 9:00 A.M. on March 1, 2011, at 8 Abare Avenue, Essex, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to David J. Berry and Lynne S. Berry by Warranty Deed of Vermont Residential Services, LLC dated February 15, 2005 and recorded March 7, 2005 in Volume 641, Page 424 of the Town of Essex Land Records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex. 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 Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403,
802 660-9000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 27th day of January, 2011. Wells Fargo Bank, NA By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. 129-10 Cnc EverHome Mortgage Company, Plaintiff v. James Yandow, New England Federal Credit Union and Occupants residing at 178 River Road, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by EverHome Mortgage Company to James Yandow dated December 22, 2003 and recorded in Volume 475, Page 154 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 9:30 A.M. on February 15, 2011, at 178 River Road, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Travis Lavallee and April Lavallee by Warranty Deed of Roberta Mattison Smith dated 6 June 2002 and
recorded in Volume 391, Page 135 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester. 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 Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 17th day of January, 2010. EverHome Mortgage Company By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S1098-09 Cnc HSBC Bank, USA, National Association, as Trustee for NAAC 2007-2, Plaintiff v. Anthony J. Sineni, III, Michael J Di Vincenzo and Occupants residing at 882 East Lakeshore Drive, Colchester,
SEVENDAYSVT.COM/CLASSIFIEDS Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by HSBC Bank, USA, National Association, as Trustee for NAAC 2007-2 to Anthony J. Sineni, III dated February 2, 2007 and recorded in Volume 578, Page 434 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 8:00 A.M. on February 22, 2011, at 882 East Lakeshore Drive, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Meaning and intending hereby to convey all of the same land and premises as conveyed to Anthony J. Sineni by Quitclaim Deed of Peter G. Kopchik, Jr. and Carol A. Kopchik dated October 2, 2003 and recorded October 9, 2003 in Book 467, Page 117-118 of the Colchester Land Records.
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.
Docket No. 33552 In re the Estate of GREGORY BARNETT Late of Charlotte, VERMONT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate Gregory Barnett, late of Charlotte, Vermont. I have been appointed as Executor of the above named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within four months of the date of first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy filed with the register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described above within the four month deadline. Dated: January 24, 2011 Signed: Barry Barnett, Executor. Address: c/o Michael J. Harris, Esq. Counsel for Executor Collins, McMahon & Harris PLLC 308 Main Street Burlington VT 05402 Name of Publication: Seven Days Vermont First Publication Date: January 26, 2011 Second Publication Date: February 2, 2011 Address of Probate Court: Probate Court District of Chittenden P.O.Box 511 Burlington VT 05402-0511
DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 24th day of January, 2011.
Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff v. Anthony Cottone, Marjorie Moore and Occupants residing at 139 Malletts Bay Avenue, Winooski, Vermont, Defendants
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NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Sovereign Bank to Anthony Cottone dated
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 Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.
Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff, v Jennifer Hallee, and Any Other occupants of 305 Lime Kiln Road, So. Burlington, Vermont, Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage Deed dated May 29, 2007 from Jennifer Hallee to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Company. Said Mortgage Deed was recorded on May 30, 2007 in Volume 784, Pages 195-216 of the City of South Burlington Lane Records. The subject Mortgage was assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Company to Nationwide Advantage Mortgage Company by Assignment dated February 11, 2010 and recorded on February 17, 2010 in Volume 920, Pages 128-129 of the City of South Burlington 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 12:00 o’clock PM, on the 22nd day of February, A.D. 2011, at the subject premises of 305 Lime Kiln Road, So. Burlington, 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 Jennifer Hallee by Warranty Deed of Mika Fujiwara dated May 29, 2007 and recorded [May 30, 2007] in Volume [784], Page [192-194] of the Land Records of the City of South Burlington, and being more particularly described as follows: “Being Condominium Unit No. B230 (the “Unit”) of Cedar Bluff Condominium (the “Condominium”) as described and depicted in the Declaration of Condominium for Cedar Bluff Condominiums and all Exhibits thereto, dated October 4, 2001 in Volume 522 at Pages 317-363 of the City of South Burlington Land Records (the “Declaration”) and Amendment to Declaration of Condominium and all Exhibits thereto, dated February 19, 2002 and recorded on February 19, 2002 in Volume 540, Page 561 of the City of South Burlington Land Records, (the “Amendment
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to Declaration”), together with the Unit’s Allocated Interest in the Common Elements of the Condominium as depicted and described in Exhibit “D” of said Amendment to Declaration (the Unit an dits Allocated Interest are collectively referred to herein as the “Property”). The post office address of the Unit is Unit B230, Cedar Bluff Condominiums, 305 Lime Kiln Road, South Burlington, Vermont 05403. “Reference is hereby made to the instruments aforementioned, and the records thereof, and the instruments therein referred to, and the records thereof, in further aid of this description.”
assessments, if any. In the event the auction terms are confirmed by the Superior Court aforesaid, and the winning bidder is unwilling or unable consummate the sale, the deposit shall be forfeit. In the event the sale is not confirmed the deposit will be returned without interest.
Terms of Sale: Purchaser at the sale shall pay cash or certified funds, or produce a commitment letter from a bank or mortgage company or other lender licensed to do business in the State of Vermont at the time of the sale for the amount of the winning bid. In any case the winning bidder shall be required to produce $10,000.00 (ten-thousand dollars) cash or certified funds at the close of auction as the deposit against the sale. The sale will be subject to the Confirmation Order of the Vermont Superior Court, Chittenden Civil Division. The property will be sold subject to all unpaid property taxes and town/city
By: Grant C. Rees, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff
Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the 16th of the month of February, 2011 to satisfy the debt of Kathleen Bradley. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. This is not a public sale.
The Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.
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Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Grant C. Rees, Attorney, PO Box 108, Milton, Vermont 05468, 802-893-7400.
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Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the City of Winooski.
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To Wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Marjorie Moore and Anthony Cottone by Warranty Deed of David H. Jarvis and July L. Jarvis dated November 16, 2007 and recorded November 20, 2007 in the City of Winooski Land Records.
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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.
November 16, 2007 and recorded in Volume 126, Page 291 of the Land Records of the City of Winooski, 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 8:00 A.M. on March 1, 2011, at 139 Malletts Bay Avenue, Winooski, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:
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The CVOEO Mobile Home Project is looking for a dedicated, compassionate individual to assume the role of a part-time resident counselor. Will work with an energetic and dedicated agency team on mobile home park issues in Vermont. Provide advocacy and housing counseling services including information and referrals about mobile home rehab, foreclosure/repossession, debt/credit issues and home financing options. Provide information, advice and referral on landlord/tenant issues. Expand and maintain updated list of available resources. Maintain a database of client information and fulfill grant reporting requirements. Work with various governmental and non-profit agencies on mobile home park issues. Some in-state travel involved. QUALIFICATIONS: Must be committed to social justice. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Relevant experience in areas such as housing counseling, low income advocacy OR: experience from which equivalent applicable knowledge and skills have been gained. A good driving record and access to a private vehicle is necessary. 20 hours/week. $13/hour; excellent benefits.
To learn more about this position, visit our website at www.ksvc.com. Please send your cover letter, resume and salary requirements to jobs@ksvc.com.
Position end date 8/31/2013. P R O D U C T S
www.ksvc.com | 212 Battery St., Burlington, VT 05401
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Customer Experience Rep Vermont-based Internet investment newsletter company seeks to hire a motivated and upbeat customer experience representative. We are a small, growing, online publishing company with a fun and motivated staff of professionals.
Program Manager for Operations Developmental ServiceS DiviSion
this newly created position will manage, coordinate and support the dayto-day administrative activities of our many Developmental Services programs and staff while assisting the Director in the leadership of the division.
Full-time job, great benefits.
the right individual will possess excellent organizational and interpersonal skills in order to manage the diverse tasks associated with this new role; must be comfortable making hard decisions and sometimes delivering difficult messages. This position will engage in creative problem solving and collaboration among teams, staff and other agency divisions, along with some external venues; thus exceptional oral and written communication is necessary.
Some challenges you will face within the human services system include service delivery and funding accountability alongside strained budgets. therefore, a heavy emphasis on ensuring the division is meeting mandates, and coupling high quality care with fiscal responsibility is essential. providing leadership in quality initiatives, risk management and program outcomes will be an important aspect of this position. Hence, some familiarity of the Developmental Services systems is important.
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CHAMPLAIN FARMS
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IMMEDIATE OPENINGS!
master’s degree in appropriate discipline preferred.
NCSS, Inc., 107 Fisher Pond Rd., St. Albans, VT 05478 hr@ncssinc.org
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Colchester FT deli clerk Day shift,
possibly some nights and weekends. Baking/cooking experienced preferred.
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PT Clerk Must be available
all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays. Contact Crystal at 156 Roosevelt Highway, Colchester.
Winooski FT Assistant Manager
Seasonal Call Center Jobs
GARDENER’S SUPPLY CALL CENTER: Customer Sales & Service 128 Intervale Road, Burlington, VT 05401 For more info, call 660-4611
We have SEASONAL positions through July 10
Spring Job Fair 3:00–5:30 PM
Prior experience preferred. Must be available all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays. Contact Judi at jwilson@champlainfarms.com.
PT Clerk Must be available
all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays.
Wednesdays, February 2, 9 & 16
Contact Amber at 280 East Allen St., Winooski.
Enosburg PT Clerk Must be available
all shifts, nights, weekends and holidays
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Animal Care and Adoption Staff
OPEN POSITIONS
Energy Consultant deadline: Feb. 7, 2011 Energy Associate deadline: Feb. 7, 2011
The Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC) is a mission-driven nonprofit organization, founded in 1986, that is dedicated to reducing the economic, social, and environmental costs of energy consumption through costeffective energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies.
VEIC operates Efficiency Vermont - the nation’s first statewide ‘energy efficiency utility’ as well as other To apply, send your resume implementation services across and cover letter to the country. resume@veic.org Visit www.veic.org/jobs to learn more about this position, our VEIC strives to cultivate exceptional work environment, a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal and comprehensive benefits package. opportunity employer.
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HSCC is seeking enthusiastic and well-qualified candidates interested in joining our Animal Care & Adoption team. A commitment to animal welfare, a solid work ethic, an outgoing personality, and a sense of humor are a must. To apply, and to view a complete job description, visit www.chittendenhumane.org/ aboutus/join-our-team. 142 Kindness Court, So. Burlington, VT 05403
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Become a Part of Our Exceptional Team! Adult Outpatient Division Emergency Team Clinician - Weekends: Master’s-level Mental Health Professionals with excellent clinical skills and crisis experience wanted for a part-time or full-time benefit eligible positions on our agency Emergency Team, working one or three week-end shift(s) per month, 52 hours per shift. This person will provide face-to-face and phone intervention to individuals in crisis. A concentrated Saturday AM through Monday at noon schedule leaves most of your days free. Weekend hours are worked from home with some call-outs. Prior experience providing mental health services in community settings is desirable. Licensure preferred. Strong assessment skills and willingness to collaborate broadly are required. Applicant must live within 30 minutes of Middlebury. Emergency Team Clinician- Weekdays: Seeking an energetic, flexible Master’s level mental health clinician to provide phone and face-to-face crisis intervention. Requires excellent assessment skills, sound clinical judgment, a strong team orientation, and commitment to community mental health. Excellent orientation, supervision and support provided. Prior experience providing mental health services in community settings is desirable. Licensure preferred. Part-time or full-time, some negotiation possible. Benefits available. Applicant must live within 30 minutes of Middlebury. 1:54 PM Community Rehabilitation and Treatment Division Crisis Support Services Coordinator: Seeking Masters level mental health professional with strong familiarity in recovery approaches for coping with major mental health conditions, as well as excellent leadership, organizational, and teaming skills to coordinate an innovative new project designed to create new resources for adults coping with mental health crises in Addison County. Responsibilities will include coordinating a 1-2 bed crisis support program co-located at a group home site, as well as assisting with other crisis support services in collaboration with our Emergency Team. This is a full time benefit eligible position. Applicant must have a clean, valid driver’s license.
CONTROLLER The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center (SPPAC) opened its doors to the public in December 2010. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, the performing arts center presents a wide spectrum of family friendly events including; theater, music, dance, comedy, film and multimedia presentations. The Controller is responsible for the implementation and maintenance of sound fiscal procedures and practices essential to the smooth operations and sustainability of the organization. S/he will oversee, and perform, all daily accounting functions including AP/AR, payroll, and cash management; and will coordinate the annual audit. The Controller works with the SPPAC Executive Director and Treasurer to develop and implement the annual operating budget, cash flow projections and capital budgets. The successful candidate has experience in developing and implementing financial and business policies and procedures for not-forprofit organizations, and a strong familiarity of financial management in both not-for-profit and for-profit corporations. Experience working with arts, cultural or education institution is preferred. This is a full-time position with a competitive salary and benefits package.
Visit www.stowe.com/employment to view the position’s qualifications and/or submit your cover letter, resume and salary requirements to jobs@stowe.com.
Crisis Support Consultant: Seeking Masters level or well experienced mental health professional with excellent counseling skills and a strong familiarity with recovery approaches for coping with major mental health conditions to participate in an innovative new project offering residential support, supportive counseling, and service coordination for adults coping with mental health crises in Addison County. Responsibilities include assisting with staffing a residential crisis support program as well as some off site crisis service coordination. This is a full time benefit eligible position. Applicant must have a clean, valid driver’s license. Youth & Family Division Intensive School Supports Program Interventionist(s): To provide direct intervention and training to foster the development of communication, social skills, adaptive behavior, daily living and academic or pre-academic skills to children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder/Emotional Behavioral Disability. Bachelors degree, preferably in education or human services field. These are 37.5 hour per week benefit eligible positions.
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database administrator Agri-Mark Inc., the largest dairy manufacturing and consumer products cooperative in New England and owner of the Cabot (“World’s Best Cheddar”) and McCadam cheese brands, has an excellent opportunity available to join our Information Services Team. We are looking for an experienced database administrator to join our information services team. The right individual will be a part of a highly motivated technical team and will interact with the internal development team as well as contribute independently with minimal supervision. We are looking for an individual with a willingness to learn new tools/techniques and a drive to succeed. This position will report to the Manager – corporate IT infrastructure and will be located in either our Montpelier VT, or Methuen MA, offices based upon the location of the selected candidate. It will also require periodic travel to other Agri-Mark / Cabot locations as required in support of local projects. Job responsibilities include (but are not limited to): •Database administration of SQL Server including installation, backup/recovery, security and maintenance •Implement business logic, manage SQL stored procedures, triggers and database scripts •SQL Server performance tuning and troubleshooting applications •Database design, analysis, troubleshooting and SQL scripting among other database maintenance •Create and maintain data warehouses •Create, schedule and maintain SSIS packages •Develop appropriate database and project application documentation as required. •Assist and advise in Application/System and database design. •Configure and administer SharePoint 2007 servers, services and applications. The skills/competencies/qualifications: •5+ years experience with SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 are a must •Extensive experience in designing, supporting and troubleshooting databases •Microsoft DBA certification required •Strong demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft Sharepoint •Good understanding of SQL Server Clustering, T-SQL and related database tools •Experience configuring and supporting server hardware and windows operating system a plus •Networking service system administration is a plus •Working knowledge of IBM DB2 and Oracle data bases is a major plus. •Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills are an absolute MUST have •Strong PC application skills (MS Word, Powerpoint, Visio (or other flowcharting tools), Excel) •Strong analytical mindset (ability to break down processes into discreet steps) •Keen attention to detail •Be highly motivated and capable of delivering on major projects on time and within budget. •Have a strong customer focus and be results driven. •Minimum of a 2-year degree (bachelor’s degree strongly preferred) Qualified candidates should forward their resumes with salary requirements to: Agri-Mark, Inc., 100 Milk St., Methuen, MA 01844 Attn: Human Resources. Email: HR@agrimark.net. EEO-AA
Pepsi Bottling Ventures is hiring for the following positions:
Bulk CR Fleet Mechanic B Trainee Interested candidates should apply at www.pepsibottlingventures.com.
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Cheesemaking and Shipping Assistant
Executive Director The Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC), a national nonprofit corporation based in Montpelier, Vermont, is seeking a skilled executive director to build on our exceptional work in establishing community-scale biomass applications for environmental benefit and community economic development. The ideal candidate will share BERC’s commitment to developing sustainable biomass energy projects. Reporting to the board of directors, he or she will provide leadership, manage the organization’s day-to-day affairs, and work with the board and staff to chart its future direction. The position does not require a technical background in biomass or renewable energy, but an understanding of renewable energy issues, policies, and opportunities, especially at the institutional and community levels, is highly desirable. For more information on BERC and a full job description, visit www.biomasscenter.org. To apply, email resume, cover letter and salary requirements to: kingsley@inrsllc.com, or BERC Search Committee c/o INRS llc 107 Elm Street, Suite 100-G Portland, ME 04101
Seeking dependable, quality- 5v-BERC-020211.indd focused individual to join the cheese team at Shelburne Farms. Primary duties include: • Assist cheesemakers in every step of cheese production and processing • Pick and pack orders for shipping; run mail-order system. General Requirements: We are looking for a team player that is flexible, fun to work with and wants to learn about the world of cheesemaking. Position requires significant physical strength and endurance. Dependability, cleanliness and attention to detail are essential. Ideal candidate will have farm, food processing or shipping experience. Full-time seasonal, March through December holidays. Five days per week, including one weekend day.
Resume reviews will begin on February 15, 2011. BERC is an equal opportunity employer.
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Grow your c areer in a place you’ll love
Major Gift/ annual Fund officer at Fletcher allen, we’ve brought humanity hope and healing to our friends and neighbors for over a century. as development professionals, we are also called to give the best of ourselves to our patients and their families. we work hard to provide our clinical teams the resources they need to care for our patients. Join us and develop the career you want. Level I Trauma center Leadership circle award, Practice Greenhealth 2010 Best workplaces for commuters, National center for Transit research Professional development Great compensation and benefits
To learn more about this position, visit www.shelburnefarms.org. Please email or mail resume to: Nat Bacon, Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Rd. Shelburne, VT 05482 nbacon@shelburnefarms.org
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Alpine SnowGuards and its sister company EcoFasten Solar are seeking a talented, enthusiastic office assistant for our Morrisville manufacturing office. The ideal candidate would have an associate’s degree or equivalent experience, excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong computer, organizational and time-management skills, and function as a team player. We offer a competitive benefit package and wage based upon experience. Please apply by mail: Alpine SnowGuards, 289 Harrel St., Morrisville, VT 05661, by fax: 802-888-9326, or by email: karen@alpinesnowguards.com.
Seeking…exceptional individuals with a desire to transform lives and build brighter futures by sharing hope with others; and making every day count.
Cashiers
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Child and Family ServiCeS A division of Rutland Mental Health Services and the Community Care Network
licensed alcohol and drug abuse Clinician Master’s degree required, 37.5 hours/week Adolescent Substance Abuse and Mental Health Program is seeking a master’slevel clinician with a LADC license to provide comprehensive assessments and group/individual/family counseling. Previous experience with adolescents preferred. Candidate will have an understanding of Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for substance abuse treatment. Candidate will be able to provide co-occurring treatment for substance abuse and mental health as needed. Please visit our website for more information. www.rmhsccn.org / 802-775-2381 / EOE
Bourne's Shell, 760 Shelburne Rd., So. Burlington, has part-time hours available for friendly, motivated people, weeknights, weekend afternoons and evenings. Inquire in person, 802-658-6460. $8.50/start.
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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE. Carbon Harvest Energy is a developer of greenhouse 5v-RutlandMental-020211.indd 1 1/31/11 12:04:18 PM aquaponics systems (hydroponics + aquaculture) fueled by landfill gas to energy power plants. Our Central Vermont Substance Abuse Services company is growing rapidly, is a nonprofit organization located in Berlin, VT. We provide a wide range with projects in Vermont, of addictions-related prevention, intervention and treatment services. New Hampshire and New We are currently seeking candidates for the following positions: York. We seek experienced and creative professionals to lead our design, operations and administration teams in Full or part time. We are seeking an RN or experienced LPN to work in a the following positions:
Nurse
Clinician Full and part-time positions available for candidates interested in providing outpatient counseling, case consultation, case management, and assessment services to adults and/or adolescents. Duties include conducting clinical assessments, formulating diagnoses, and making recommendations for treatment. Master’s degree is required. License/certification preferred. Individuals who are interested in being part of a dynamic team are encouraged to apply. We offer a competitive salary and an excellent, flexible, benefits package. For a complete listing of our job openings, please visit Jobsinvt.com. For consideration of one of the above positions, please send your resume and letter of interest to: Melissa Turner, HR Coordinator, mturner@claramartin.org, or to Clara Martin Center, P.O. Box G, Randolph Center, VT 05060 EOE
SUPERINTENDENT OF PARK OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
Burlington company seeks leaders in
RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
medication-assisted therapy program in Berlin to provide direct counseling and support, and to coordinate care between our psychiatrist, our patients, and local primary care physicians. Direct care includes screening, assessment, care planning, involvement in patient induction process, case management and referral. Position is flexible to be full or part time, and is eligible for our flexible benefits package.
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The City of Burlington Parks & Recreation Department seeks a talented professional to lead its parks, forestry and facilities operations and maintenance as our
• Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Plant Manager • Greenhouse Manager • Aquaculture or Aquaponics Manager • Mechanical Engineer • Administrative / Business Development Assistant See www.carbonharvest energy.com for details and contact information. Deadline for applications is February 18, 2011.
Under the leadership of the Parks & Recreation Director, the Parks Superintendent has responsibility for fulfilling the department’s mission, goals, objectives and strategies in managing the parks system, coordinates with and represents the executive team of the department. This is a visible, professional position responsible for managing planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating the maintenance and upkeep of parks, recreation and special facilities. Burlington Parks & Recreation Department operates public parks, recreation and public facilities and programs to its approximately 39,000 Burlington residents and thousands of visitors. The department manages 37 parks and conservation properties, comprising 850 acres, 13 miles of paved recreational paths, five special recreation facilities, three cemeteries and six public buildings.
The ideal candidate should possess: A minimum of six years of progressively responsible supervisory experience in municipal parks operations and maintenance. * A master’s degree is preferred, as is certification as a Parks & Recreation Professional, or the ability to obtain such within one year of appointment. * Thorough knowledge of park management, land use, conservation and park operations, turf maintenance, and modern building construction. * Demonstrated leadership, managerial presentation and judgment skills with a proven record of developing effective working relationships with coworkers, employees, community leaders, and public. * Experience in budget and fiscal management with the ability to effectively interpret, project, and justify operational and capital budget proposals to policy bodies. * Skills in critical thinking, communication, strategic planning, and leadership * Ability to create and sustain a spirit of teamwork and accountability * Ability to work comfortably and diplomatically within a diverse community with fairness and openness to varying opinions, interests and needs * An approachable, positive and energetic nature To apply for this position, please submit a City of Burlington application, resume, and cover letter by February 11, 2011 to Human Resources Department, 131 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401. For a complete job description and City of Burlington Application visit our website at www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us. EOE
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Hairdresser
to rent space in my small, busy, nicely located salon in Williston. Must be licensed and have own insurance. Come and talk to me at 590 N. Brownell Rd., or call 802-864-0703.
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Our team is looking for reliable, motivated people to work from home, full or part time.
Private home-care nurse needed for adult quadriplegic in a relaxed environment, located in downtown Burlington.
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web programmer/analyst
Monday evenings/per diem work available (3:30-11:30 p.m.), 11:17:58 AM wages commensurate with position. Position available NOW!
Agri-Mark Inc., the largest dairy manufacturing and consumer products cooperative in New England and owner of the Cabot (“World’s Best Cheddar”) and McCadam cheese brands, has an excellent opportunity available to join our Information Services Team.
Send resume to NSChurch@gmail.com. 802-233-2897
We are looking for an experienced web programmer/ analyst to join our information services team. You will work with members of the business team to design system solutions that meet approved business requirements. In addition, you will be able to work as a contributing team member within the established software architectural framework to develop, deploy, enhance and support w applications. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, be a proficient problem solver, have the ability to acquire new skills quickly, and to thrive in a team environment.
Development Campaign CoorDinator
This position will report to the director of application development and will be located in either our Montpelier, VT, or Methuen, MA, offices based upon the location of the selected candidate. It will also require periodic travel to other Agri-Mark/Cabot locations as required in support of local projects. Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or Information Systems preferred) with at least four to six years of related work experience required • 4+ years of web development experience using: • ASP.NET MVC • jQuery • Object • Relational Mapping (LINQ to SQL, ADO.Net Entity Framework, NHibernate) • SQL Server • C# • SVN • Strong business and systems analytical skills • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Enthusiastic, creative and flexible • Solid requirements gathering, database design, diagramming, coding and documentation skills • Good working knowledge of Windows Environment • Experience working with users at all levels Send resume to hr@agrimark.net.
A St. Albans manufacturing company is currently seeking candidates for a
Human Resource Generalist. This position holds primary responsibilities for all day-to-day HR functions. Responsibilities include: benefits administration, coordination of annual benefit renewals and open enrollment, vacation tracking, FMLA, WC administration, maintaining employee files and updating our HRIS/payroll system. We are seeking candidates with at least three years of HR Generalist experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment, and a bachelor’s in Business/HR Management or related field. Candidates should possess a solid working knowledge of major state and federal employment laws including, but not limited to: FMLA, FLSA, ADA, OSHA and VT protective legislation; a proven track record working effectively with all levels of staff and management; strong documentation, organization and communication skills; and be a proficient user of Word, Excel and Access. Location: St. Albans, Vt. Compensation: $38 - $45,000 DOE Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster. Please, no phone calls about this job! Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
ReSOURCE is seeking a parttime, one-year Development Campaign Coordinator who will Send resume to Superior Technical Ceramics develop and implement special 600 Industrial Park Rd., St. Albans, VT 05478 projects that raise community rlesperance@ceramics.net awareness and support for ReSOURCE’s projects and programs, and to raise funds for ReSOURCE Social Enterprise in 5v-SuperTech-020211.indd 1 1/31/11 Barre, Vt. Submit a letter of interest, resume, and a writing sample to: jobs@resourcevt.org. More information at www.resourcevt.org. EOE
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HowardCenter improves the well-being of children, adults, families and communities.
Developmental Services Specialized community Support Worker 20-year-old woman who enjoys movies, Zumba, art classes and animals needs 20 afternoon hours of support in the Essex/Burlington areas. Ideal candidate is a near-peerage female who enjoys being active and has considerable clinical experience. Crisis support experience and an unflappable attitude strongly desired. Benefits eligible.
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Home Instead Senior Care, a provider of non-medical companionship and home helper services to seniors in their homes, is seeking friendly, cheerful, and dependable people. CAREGivers assist seniors with companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, personal care, errands, and more. Part-time, flexible scheduling, including: Daytime, evening, weekend and overnight shifts currently available. No heavy lifting.
Please call 802-860-8205
intenSive community Support Worker Interesting 16-year-old young man on the autism spectrum with a great sense of humor and an active lifestyle needs 20 afternoon hours of support in the Richmond/Burlington areas. This guy thrives with structure and with someone who is confident and comfortable, understated, and sensitive to communication issues. Great opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge, learn/practice behavior management strategies and different communication techniques. Ideal candidate is a near-peer-age male who also enjoys reading, going to the gym and hiking. Benefits eligible. criSiS intervention SpecialiSt Seeking a skilled and dynamic individual to provide crisis support for people with developmental disabilities. Ideal candidate will have a combination of significant clinical and interpersonal skills. 30 hours/week, nights and potentially weekends. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Outstanding opportunity for graduate students. Specialized community Support Worker 19-year-old young man who enjoys shooting hoops at the Y needs 15 hours of after-school support. Ideal candidate is easygoing and willing to try new activities. Candidates must be comfortable providing personal care and be able to maintain clear boundaries. Weekdays 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. Visit www.howardcenter.org for more details and a complete list of employment opportunities.
HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to qualified employees.
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mental health clinicians We at New England Counseling and Trauma Associates would like to offer licensed clinicians an opportunity to join our practice. We are a group of experienced mental health clinicians providing therapeutic services to children, adolescents, adults and families. NECTA offers the following: A well-respected/established mental health practice; a strong referral base; office infrastructure that includes high-speed Internet access, fax, phone and copies; a highly collaborative environment; bimonthly peer consultation; consultation and training with national experts in the field of trauma. Send resume to mbustamantes@yahoo.com.
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Are you interested in expanding your horizons in the dentistry field? Are you a team player with a great attitude? Do you thrive in a diverse, fastpaced environment with an emphasis on excellent patient care? Then our office is for you. We are seeking a highly motivated
Hygiene Assistant to join our team.
Current radiology certification required; knowledge of Dentrix software is a plus. Competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please submit resume and letter of interest to carolyn.efd70@gmail.com.
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master’s-level clinician NFI’s Community Based Services is looking for a skilled therapist to join our team as a Program Clinician. This person will provide individual, family, and group therapy as well as work closely with program leadership in providing wrap-around services. This is an excellent opportunity for a licensed master’s-level clinician to join our dynamic team in providing excellent, creative and innovative treatment. This full-time, benefitted position requires Vermont licensure. Please send your resume to kathycostello@nafi.com, or nFi, 30 airport rd., so. Burlington, vt 05403.
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Maple Leaf Farm, an inpatient substance-abuse program, has the following positions open:
Full-time Licensed
Clinical Social Worker and/or master’s-level
Mental Health Professional with a CADC/LADC. Duties include group and individual addictions counseling and case management as well as IOP group facilitation. Ideal candidate will have at least five years post-master’s experience providing substance abuse treatment to a diverse population of adults, excellent writing and group facilitation skills, and knowledge of short-term, cognitive behavioral treatment approaches with persons diagnosed with substance-use disorders and co-occurring mental-health disorders.
3/5 part-time evening
Milieu Counselor, ideally with experience in the field of addictions treatment, to provide supervision to a population of adult males and females who are recovering from the effects of alcohol/drug dependency.
Per diem
Counselors for evenings and weekends, ideally with experience in the field of addictions treatment. Responsibilities include group addictions psycho-education/counseling and milieu management. The ability to work cooperatively within a clinical team is a must. Individual and group supervision provided. For more information regarding our program and available employment opportunities please visit our website: www.mapleleaf.org. Email cover letter and resumes to MichaelZ@mapleleaf.org, or mail to: Michael A. Zacharias, Ph.D. — Clinical Director, Maple Leaf Farm, 10 Maple Leaf Rd., Underhill, VT 05489
DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Provide a progressive vision and strategic direction in developing dynamic and innovative programs, services, collections, and curriculum-integrated information literacy instruction. Ensure strategic development of appropriate information resources and instructional capacity for campus-based and growing online programs. Provide leadership in a team environment to ensure excellence in programs and services, provide strong advocacy within the University, promote collaboration with other libraries and consortia, demonstrate ongoing scholarly and professional achievement, and strategically manage the Kreitzberg Library’s fiscal priorities.
RESEARCH ANALYST Carry out qualitative and quantitative research projects and aid in strategic decision making for the School of Graduate & Continuing Studies. The Research Analyst will aid in data collection, work with a variety of primary and secondary data sources, conduct statistical and qualitative data analyses, and prepare actionable reports that tie back to the projects’ objectives, among other activities.
USER SUPPORT SPECIALIST Seeking a highly motivated individual, who possesses excellent customer service skills, and has experience servicing and troubleshooting Mac OS computers in a Windows environment. User Support Specialists are responsible for providing computing and telecommunications support to the Norwich community via email, phones and walk-ins. Responsibilities include installing, configuring, troubleshooting and repairing a wide variety of microcomputer hardware, related peripherals and software as well as a variety of audio/visual systems. Please visit our website, www.norwich.edu/jobs, for further information and how to apply for these and other great jobs. Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, group life and long-term disability insurance, flexible-spending accounts for health and dependent care, retirement annuity plan and tuition scholarships for eligible employees and their family members.
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Positions available through
Gallagher, Flynn & Company
EmbroidEry opErator
Gallagher, Flynn & Company is assisting local companies with searches for the following positions:
Financial Analyst
help manage costing and inventory, prepare monthly financial packages, special projects. Position could grow to accounting Manager. bs plus five years of finance work in manufacturing required. burlington area.
Manufacturing Engineer
Provide support to shop floor, engineering, purchasing, quality and contract administration. Problem-solving to improve manufacturing capabilities, quality and efficiency. lean experience required; three to five years of manufacturing experience desired. burlington area.
Senior Design Engineer
Plan and direct projects through all stages of design, development, manufacture, test and commissioning. Provide client technical support. bsMe plus 6-10 years of manufacturing engineering design with industrial rotating machinery required, plus solidworks and asMe code knowledge. burlington area.
Hiring for all positions, including Directors
Leaps & Bounds is
looking for motivated, flexible team players to join our growing
childcare team
in Essex, Williston, Milton and soon-to-be South Burlington locations. Must have experience, education and a sense of humor! Pay based on education and experience. Contact Krista at 802-879-2021 or kristalacroix@yahoo.com.
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interested applicants are asked to submit resumes to: careers4@selectdesign.com, or 208 Flynn ave., burlington, Vt 05401
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Human Resource Generalist
benefits administration and renewal coordination, FMla, workers’ comp administration, maintaining employee files, updating hris/payroll system. Degree plus three years of hr administrative experience desired, preferably in manufacturing. st. albans area.
Select Design has an immediate opening in our embroidery department. Experience is preferred, but will train the right candidate. We are a creative company that rewards those who bring a little heart and soul to their work and a commitment to be part of our evolution. Join our team in providing custom apparel to clients such as Pepsi, Magic Hat, Timberland and B&J’s. Competitive salary based on experience and abilities. Benefits include 401(k), profit sharing, health and dental plans.
CLINICAL CASE MANAGER
35-40-Hour Position
Frank Sadowski Gallagher, Flynn & Company fsadowski@gfc.com
Spruce Mountain Inn is a small, nationally known residential treatment program in Plainfield, Vt. We are seeking a detailoriented person with excellent communication, problem-solving and clinical skills. Function as a 6t-gallagherandflynn020211.indd 1 1/31/11 3:12:02 PM 1/31/11 2:44:16 PM member of a multidisciplinary 4t-LodgeOtterCreek-020211.indd 1 MAPLE LEAF FARM team and provide intensive From Addiction to Recovery case-management services to a Wanted: Teaching team member to spark curiosity and maintain small caseload of young-adult consistency and kindness with nine toddlers! Must have a strong clients within the context of a or background in early education, enjoy the company and spirit of young highly structured therapeutic children, plan curriculum, complete paperwork, change diapers, enjoy community. Master’s degree and the outdoors, be able to pass criminal background check and keep experience in case management 20-32 hours/week, to assist in the primary care unit. Duties sense of humor and calm even when you hear “no” all day long! desired. License preferred. include phlebotomy, assisting nurses with patient admissions, Send letter of interest and ACC has been serving the community for 22 years and offers a nurturing clinic flow and clinic clerical duties. Ideal candidate will resume via email to and emergent environment for children. Join our dedicated team of have an interest in working with a diverse patient population professionals and committed Grant Leibersberger, working on recovery. Candidate needs to be able to work families who make ACC a great Assistant Director some weekends and evenings. place to work and play! Great pay, Spruce Mountain Inn benefits and generous time off. Mail or fax resumes to PO Box 153 Plainfield, VT 05667-0153. Maple Leaf Farm Associates, Inc., Please send resume and three 10 Maple Leaf Rd., Underhill, VT 05489. Email: written references to Phone: 802-899-2911 Fax: 802-899-3617 info@sprucemountaininn.com acckatie@myfairpoint.net. Email: info@mapleleaf.org
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• BA degree in business management or a related field • 5+ years experience in a management or leadership role • 5+ years experience with SOVT, SOI or similar organization in a professional or volunteer roll • Committment to exceptional customer service and the mission of Special Olympics • Demonstrated background and successful track record in development and fundraising for an organization • Excellent verbal, written and inter-personal communication skills • Strong analytical/quantitative skills for program design, budget planning and monitoring of program results • Experience managing significant line item budgets • Prior nonprofit Board of Director experience highly preferred • U.S. citizenship or a valid U.S. work permit is an absolute requirement
The Converse Home in downtown Burlington is looking for a full-time cook salaries, to prepare great meals for We offer competitive benefits, and shift differentials For more information or to schedule an interview, please call our 66 residents. Previous cooking and Donna at 802.862.0401 or e-mail donna@conversehome.com baking experience required. ServSafe certification is a plus. Work as part of a busy but fun team that focuses on quality customer service. 272 Church Street, Burlington,Vermont 05401 info@conversehome.com Hours areemail: Sun. 10:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., www.conversehome.com Mon. through Thursday, 6 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. with Fri. and Sat. off. Send resume to Karen@conversehome.com.
To be considered, applicants must submit the following via an email attachment to vtsojobs@vtso.org: • A letter of application explaining individual qualifications for this opportunity
• A list of at least four professional references including name, contact information and statement DVANCED of relationship to the reference
Vt., is one of Vermont’s fastest-growing aerospace companies. LMS specializes in the design, development, manufacture and testing of fuel management systems for the commercial, military and general aviation markets.
LMS is looking for a team player with a can-do attitude who can perform engineering duties in the planning, designing and maintenance of fuel management products relating to the aerospace and defense industries. Knowledge of design techniques, 3-D modeling software and blueprint reading required. Experience with Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks preferred.
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LMS offers a competitive benefits package including health, life and AD&D insurance, dental insurance, vacation pay, personal time, vacation stipend, tuition reimbursement, wellness, 401(k), and pension plan. Interested parties may apply to hr@liquidmeasurement.com.
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LMS is an EEO employer. (Equal Employment Opportunity).
a nationwide fundraising comAdvanced • Reference to President pany, is seeking Marketing Coordinator Concert Ticket & CEO Application in the individuals to staff our South email subject line. Sales VT office. Ashgate Publishing, a leading independent academic Burlington,
No phone calls will be accepted.
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Liquid Measurement Systems, located in Georgia,
• RN or LPN - Full and part-time, day and evening shifts available • LNA or RCA - Part-time evening and night shifts available
Special Olympics Vermont (www.vtso.org) has an immediate opening for a President/CEO to lead our organization in its mission to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. The President and CEO is the chief administrative official of Special Olympics Vermont and is responsible for providing strategic leadership and long-term direction and achieving financial goals set by the Board of Directors. The primary function of the President/CEO is to guide and direct the program in accordance with the standards, policies and procedures set forth by Special Olympics Inc. and the Special Olympics Vermont Board of Directors. Go to www.vtso.org/contact.php for a full position description.
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publisher, is seeking a Marketing Coordinator in our Burlington office.
South positions Burlington • Full- and part-time The Marketing Coordinator’s responsibilities include, but are not limited F/T PERMANENT POSITION to, preparing and executing promotional plans for assigned publications; • M-F, 12-9 pm, NO WEEKENDS creating printed and electronic marketing literature and overseeing Clear speaking voice and great • $400 per week after training + bonus programdistribution to relevant markets; providing input into e-Marketing activities • Top producersattendance making $600-$850 per week and website; disseminating information to key customers, booksellers and libraries; researching new marketing outlets; offering support to authors record required. $11 per401K, hour • Full company benefits including and key accounts; representing Ashgate Publishing at academic book fairs 1/31/11 5:02:29 PMafter training medical & dental and conferences in the US and Canada. weekly bonus structure. • No experienceplus necessary Qualifications and experience: $440-$800 wk • Management opportunity • The candidate must have excellent editing, written, verbal
achievable. PAID vacations, and copywriting skills. Vermont State Parks is hiring two full-time, seasonal innkeepers for Looking for highly motivated, holidays and sick days. 10-month positions at one of Vermont’s most unique state parks. • Graphic Design experience and application of Indesign Seyon Lodge is a historic lodge on Noyes Pond in Groton, Vt. career-oriented people with good and Photoshop are required. Group life, vision and dental. Seeking responsible and creative individuals, a couple,communication or close For interview,• The successful candidate will have a bachelor’s degree ROOMskills. for advancement. companions to live at and manage operations that cater to fly and at least 2-3 years’ experience in the publishing industry Complimentary tickets. fishing, weddings/civil unions, small group functions, dining or marketing-related field. and overnight lodging. Minimum qualifications: Two to four If leaving a message, only enthusiastic people years’ experience in hotel/resort, restaurant, or park/recreation Ashgate offers an excellent benefits package and a great working management, or a related leisure/travel service field. Positions will be called back. environment. Applications will be accepted until Friday, February 18th. begin mid-April 2011. Call
CALL 802-652-9629.
Visit www.vtstateparks.com for information. Send application to Parks regional Manager, Five Perry St., Suite 20, Barre, Vt 05641, or susan.bulmer@state.vt.us. Deadline: February 9, 2011.
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802-652-9629 to schedule an interview.
To apply, please send a cover letter, resume and salary requirements to: Human Resources, Ashgate Publishing Company Email: marketing@ashgate.com Ashgate is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V
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AdministrAtive AssistAnt
Join Us As We Continue To Grow
Colchester: Full time—40 hours per week
Family Time Coaches
Vermont Adult Learning, a nonprofit statewide provider of adult education and literacy services, seeks an organized and outgoing individual to provide administrative assistance at the Learning Center located in Colchester, Vt. This full-time position offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible, paid time off. Visit our web site, www.vtadultlearning.org for more information. Resume Deadline: February 11, 2011 E q u a l Op p Ort uni t y E mp l OyEr
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Project Manager/ Producer
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Come join our expanding Marketing Team! We have a full-time opening for a Project Manager/Producer based in Montpelier, VT. There may be flexibility to work from a Burlington location. This position is responsible for the complete lifecycle of online and offline projects from development to delivery. This includes working with key stakeholders on projects, managing resources, budget tracking and analysis of projects. This PM/Producer will work closely with the Director of Integrated Services and other key stakeholders to understand scope of project and assure delivery based on business requirements.
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This position is responsible for the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and evaluation of recreational services. Bachelor’s degree with specialization in Community Recreation services or closely related field required. Two yrs. exp. in supervision/administration of Recreational Services required. Must be able to obtain and maintain a CPRP, or a CTRS certification. For a complete description, or to apply, Visit our website: www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us.
Web Developer
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Vermont Sports magazine seeks a part-time print advertising salesperson.
We are seeking an experienced .NET web developer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or related discipline, 2–3 years’ experience in web development using the .NET 4.0 framework, advanced HTML/CSS/ XSL skills, competence in Windows Server – IIS6/&, MSFT SQL Server, Adobe CS4, and MSVisualStudio. Ektron 8.x CMS experience helpful. For more information visit, www.jvillagenetwork.com/careers
Sales experience and knowledge of the outdoors Seven Days // 3.83" x 3.46" // BW // Jvillage Help Wanted - Web Developer industry strongly preferred. 4t-Jvillage020211.indd 1 Strong computer skills and high-speed Internet connection a must. We offer Burlington, VT flexible hours and the ability to work from home.
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Energy Efficiency Engineer and Technology Consultant
Send resume to mail@skybarsch.com, or 19 High St. Orleans, VT 05860.
Cabot offers a competitive starting salary and excellent benefits package. Please send resume and cover letter to:
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BURLINGTON PARKS AND RECREATION
Easter Seals has immediate openings for two full time Family Time Coaches based in our office in Williston VT. Family Time Coaching is a ground If interested, send resume, cover letter and City of Burlington application breaking practice providing parenting by February 11, 2011, to: Human Resources, 131 Church Street, support and education to families Floor 2, Burlington, VT 05401. working with DCF. Coaches receive Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are highly encouraged statewide training and group conto apply. EOE sultation monthly, as well as weekly clinical and administrative support, in working towards certification. Requirements: Experience working with high risk children and families; 3:26:59 PM 1/31/11 4:22:31 PM knowledge of child development and 4t-CityofBurlington-PublicWksCMYK-020211.indd 1 facilitation skills preferred. Creative, enthusiastic applicants welcomed. Interested candidates please e-mail your resume to: Jvillage Network engages and grows the membership communities nskar@eastersealsnh.org, or of Jewish organizations by creating affordable, easy-to-update fax: 603-623-3461. custom websites with engaging interactive tools and vibrant online www.eastersealsvt.org content. Our members include synagogues, schools, JCCs, Federations, camps, Hillels and other Jewish non-profits.
The successful candidate must have prior interactive/digital media & traditional agency experience. 3+ years of interactive project management experience. Comprehensive knowledge of interactive/ internet communications projects. Solid experience of successfully developing projects from start to finish. Strong interpersonal skills and ability to be a leader in high pressure situations. Basic understanding of various web languages. Ability to create basic wireframes and a strong web and technical knowledge & capacity to stay ahead of the technology curve. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Human Resources Department Cabot Creamery One Home Farm Way Montpelier, VT 05602 Phone: (802) 563-3892 Fax: (802) 563-2173 Email: jobs@cabotcheese.com EOE M/F/D/V
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Licensed 1/31/11 3:27:57 PM Psychotherapist
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Space available in wellestablished women‘s practice on Burlington waterfront. Sublet is an option. Parking included. CornerStone Psychotherapy 802-651-7508
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Navigant Consulting seeks an experienced consultant to join our energyefficiency consulting practice in Burlington, Vt. This individual will perform a wide range of activities including energy simulation modeling, research and spreadsheet analysis, market and technology assessments (including possible field work on residential and commercial buildings), and energy-efficiency program and policy planning and evaluation. Qualified candidates will have a strong interest in energy efficiency, ability to multitask, and a BS in engineering (preferably mechanical or electrical) with 4 years of relevant experience or master’s, with at least 2 years of relevant experience. Candidates with SAS and eQuest experience helpful. Please send resume, cover letter, and three references to eric.skoien@ navigantconsulting.com with “Vermont” in the subject title as well as applying at: www.navigantconsulting.com/careers/experienced_hires/
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PARTS MANAGER Howard P. Fairfield LLC, one of New England’s leading suppliers of specialty municipal equipment, is seeking a dedicated, hands-on parts manager for our Morrisville, Vt. facility. Duties include waiting on internal and external customers, fulfilling orders, reviewing, monitoring and placing stock orders, creating customer invoices and pack slips, inventory control, and shipping and receiving. This position requires the ability to multitask, as well as excellent customer service and computer skills. Forklift experience is a plus. If you are a dynamic individual who is self motivated and committed to responding to customer needs, please bring your resume and stop by the office located at Wabun Ave. in Morrisville, or send your cover letter and resume to: Howard P. Fairfield LLC Attn: Human Resources Manager PO Box 188 Skowhegan, ME 04976 jeaninelibby@hpfairfield.com.
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Business Manager Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union is seeking a Business Manager to plan, organize, supervise, and direct the fiscal and business affairs of our multiple school districts. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: preparing and monitoring school budgets; assigning funds to categorical programs with respect to how the funds can be used; creating efficient systems within the business office to insure deadlines; working with others to monitor budgets; technology (software applications); and communicating clearly through both written and oral presentations. The applicant should possess in-depth and proficient knowledge of financial/accounting (grant management, state and federal reporting requirements). It is preferred that the applicant have specific knowledge of Vermont School Accounting processes, procedures and deadlines. Knowledge of special education service plan development is advantageous.
The Business Manager will supervise financial staff and assist superintendent in general areas of financial planning, budgeting and decision making, as well as provide regular financial reporting and analysis. The Business Manager will share oversight of construction and food service programs. This is a full-time position a team-oriented person. for Job Requirements A bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting, finance, or business administration. A minimum of two years’ relevant experience preferred. Salary $72,000. to $78,000. To apply: Send a personal letter of application, current resume, and a minimum of four work-related letters of reference to Wendy Guyette, HR Coordinator, Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union, PO Box 338, Hardwick, VT 05843, or email wguyette@ossu.org. Included with your packet, please respond to the questions below: 1) What are the major economic challenges and opportunities that face public education today? What are some practical solutions that you would bring to this position? 2) Please describe your personality and the positive team-related skills that you would bring to this job. The person offered employment must complete the criminal records process. EO E 7t-OrleansSWSU-020211.indd 1
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Director of Finance and Administration The Vermont Community Loan Fund, a nonprofit financial institution, is recruiting a financial professional to help us meet our goal of providing economic and housing opportunities to low- and moderate-income Vermonters. This full-time employee will be a key member of senior management, involved in both strategic and tactical decision making. The ideal candidate will demonstrate expertise in most or all of the following: financial planning, cash management, budgeting, accounting, policy development and implementation, organizational leadership, staff supervision, human resources management and information systems management. Knowledge of nonprofit fund accounting is highly beneficial. The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a commitment to social and economic justice. A complete job description can be found at www.vclf.org. Send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to hr@vclf.org. V C L F I S A N EQ U A L O P P O R T U N I T Y E M P L OY E R
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Alyssum, Incorporated
Program manager grounds for Health, a Vermontbased, international women’s health organization, seeks experienced program manager for our cervical-cancer prevention programs in Africa and Latin America. Must have Spanish language skills, management and international experience, and a desire to travel. Join us and our partners in the specialty coffee industry in this exciting, leading-edge project. Salary DOE. 25-30% travel. Visit www.groundsforhealth.org to learn more. Send letter and resume by February 15 to: info@groundsforhealth.org.
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A peer-hosted alternative
Seeking an Executive Director. Alyssum Inc. is a new Vermont organization dedicated to providing a peer-operated, non-medical, holistic approach to mental wellness and recovery for Vermonters who are experiencing emotional crisis. This alternative to psychiatric hospitalization will provide a safe, mutually supportive, non- 3V-GroundsForHealth-020211.indd judgmental, educational and self-empowering environment at a respite guesthouse in the central Vermont area. The executive director has the responsibility of carrying out the mission, policies and programs of Alyssum, as determined by the board of directors. This person will oversee ongoing operations of the organization as well as providing direct service and crisis intervention. The executive director will be responsible for the operations of a two-bed respite guesthouse operated by peers that affords individuals the opportunity to engage in the principles of wellness, recovery and peer support, and to emerge from crisis with wisdom and the personal responsibility skills for living well. Initial funding for Alyssum will be in place. The executive director will be charged with maintaining a strong funding base into the future. Candidates should have experiential knowledge with the mental health system and lived experience as a peer. Administrative experience and work in a peer-centered organization are important. To apply online, send a cover letter, resume and 3 references with the subject line “ED Search” to research@madriver.com or mail it to
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The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) seeks a committed professional to manage a growing number of corporate partnerships. The manager’s duties include identifying, building and maintaining corporate partnerships; raising ISC’s profile at relevant conferences and events; writing case studies and success stories; preparation of funding proposals and reports; prospect management; research; and participation in strategic and operational planning within the institutional advancement team. See www.iscvt.org/who_we_ are/jobs/ for complete description and application details.
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Hunger Free Vermont is Vermont’s leading hunger advocacy and education organization. Join a dynamic team of smart, creative and professional advocates and educators while enjoying a culture that promotes professional development, a strong work/life balance, and the joy of sharing meals together!
Development Director Hunger Free Vermont seeks a full-time development director to develop, implement and lead the organizational fundraising plan in consultation and coordination with the executive director and development/communications team. The development director is the lead corporate/foundation grant writer, creates the organizational plan and strategies for major donor solicitations, oversees direct-response solicitation, and will lead the creation of the planned giving program. Position requires excellent verbal and written communication skills, proven ability to supervise employees, lead teams, manage complex projects, and build positive relationships with internal and external partners. Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years experience in development or a related field required. Cover letter and resume accepted through February 15. Interviews begin immediately. Position will be filled as soon as a well-qualified candidate is identified. Please send application to ADuncan@hungerfreevt.org or Alida Duncan Hunger Free Vermont 38 Eastwood Drive - Suite 100 South Burlington, VT 05403
Alyssum ED Search c/o Mad River Research, 164 White Pine Drive, Waitsfield, VT 05673. ISC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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when bids were tallied on the evening of January 30, the grand total was $64,669. Some “backroom bidding” on Monday brought the final donation to $65,119. If all goes well, the Craftsbury farm will have little trouble paying for new facilities.
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Winter can be a static season, but a few Burlington restaurants are dealing with shakeups. PacIFIc RIM announced — again — that it’s staying open, at least for another month. For months, the Asian-fusion eatery has been in limbo as plans for a building renovation evolved. Last fall, landlord JoE McnEIL announced that he planned to modernize the creamand-red building on St. Paul Street where the eatery has resided since 1999. Pacific Rim owner RIch BRanDt says McNeil first gave him word that he needed to close in October, then pushed that date back to December, then to the end of January. On the brink of a January 29 closure, Brandt learned that the renovation had been held up again until March or even later. Now he plans to stay
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in the online auction ended on Sunday, January 23. The goal was to raise money to help Pete’s Greens farm in Craftsbury rebuild the barn it lost in a fire last month. By the end of the auction, 336 items had been on the block, most of which were bought for well more than their stated value. A dinner for two at hEn oF thE wooD at thE gRIst MILL brought in 489 percent more than its actual worth. According to organizer RoBIn McDERMott of the MaD
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to start a restaurant but he couldn’t cook, so he found DonaLD BILLIngs.” Billings, formerly of cattaILs REstauRant in Brandon, was on board with Logan’s vision of an eatery that would help teach Rutland county residents about the health benefits of fresh, minimally processed food. “I think Burlington is on top of it, Brattleboro is on top of it, but Rutland really [didn’t] have a localvore restaurant,” says the younger Logan, who left a career in health communications and marketing in Boston to help get Roots off the ground. The focus on supporting local farms is evident from the moment diners enter Roots. While folks wait to be seated, they can look at pictures and read short descriptions of each farm that provides food to the restaurant. Billings’ cuisine isn’t limited to health food. There’s a cheese fondue appetizer, and Allison raves about the smoked-pork sandwich, which uses meat from BRown BoaR FaRM in East Wells, Vt. However, plenty of menu options are gluten free, including emu from nEshoBE FaRM baked with chipotle peppers, caramelized onions and garlic, then served over BLuE LEDgE FaRM goat-cheese mashed potatoes. Billings is equipped to whip up vegan dishes or whatever patients require to meet FirstLine Therapy standards, a protocol meant to reverse or manage chronic illness. Sounds like Roots has a solid Rx.
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manager stacy annE LEaRy joined the team, their vision of a “regional, extremely intimate local cucina” began to fall into place. The chef promises guests will still be able to get their pomodoro over housemade linguine, but with the option of “L’Amante-style food,” he says, referring to the upscale Burlington eatery. This is likely to be no idle boast. Leary is a former nEw EngLanD cuLInaRy InstItutE instructor who calls BLuEBIRD tavERn’s MIchaEL cLauss his best friend. He was planning to return to the Inn at shELBuRnE FaRMs REstauRant as DavID hugo’s sous chef before Rustico’s owners, PEtER and JEssIca EDELMann, snapped him up. Rustico’s used local produce from the start, but Leary has upped the proportions. He buys 90 percent of his produce locally and says, “I feel very strongly about that farmer-chef relationship. I really believe it’s a key to your health to eat organically and eat fresh.”
Leary buys only local, prime beef for the steaks he dry-ages at the restaurant himself. He serves the 16-ounce Pt FaRM ribeye with homemade gnocchi and marchand de vin sauce. For vegetarians, the chef gets particularly creative with a “mock bone marrow” vegetable trio. The dish features a beet, a celery root and a squash filled with their own pureed insides, mixed with local curds and cream, and served with traditional sides of parsley salad and capers. “They’re roasted on top and fatty and smooth in the middle,” describes Leary. Whatever he’s making, Leary says it’s important to him to retain his classical French techniques. He admits that, because of his uncompromising standards, prices at the restaurant have risen by a third. However, Leary feels certain it’s worth it. “I peel my own tomatoes and make tomato sauce,” he says. “We do everything from scratch.”
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food Slice of Life « p.44 a simple yet sophisticated piece. The party exits, promising to follow up with fabric swatches. “Sometimes people are very forthcoming and know exactly what they want. Other times, they’re looking at you to direct them,” Williams explains. I can see why she took the reins on this design — more than an hour into the tasting. Turns out, many brides are looking for the same theme, anyway. “In the ‘city,’ you’d call it ‘shabby chic,’” Williams says, “but here it’s called ‘rustic elegance’” — probably because most Vermont vows take place in barns. Clients want to incorporate natural elements into their cakes, and that’s one reason Williams has become rather
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good at creating a birchbark effect with buttercream and chocolate shavings. Along with red velvet cake, it’s one of the most popular requests she’s had for the upcoming year. The rest of the afternoon, however, is devoted to cake design with a winter theme. Williams is working on a display cake for a Vermont Wedding Salon photo shoot, and she’s already rolled narrow strips of white gum paste into small spirals, creating snowflakes with a quilling effect. It looks stunning, but even she admits it’s a tedious process. Under Williams’ instruction, I try to wrap strips of the gum paste — a stiffer form of fondant that dries hard — around a tiny dowel, but the stuff quickly becomes brittle and cracks. My clumsy attempts to smooth it back together yield misshapen little curlicues. After 10 minutes with no improvement, I give up. “One of the weird things about what we do is that it’s art, but it’s edible,”
some white fondant (seriously, the stuff is $17 for two pounds). Composed of gelatin, confectioner’s sugar, corn syrup and glycerin, it’s still a mystery to me. At home, I open the bucket, only to be bowled over by an artificially sweet smell. I hesitantly nibble a small pinch. The fondant is like Pillsbury frosting out of a can with the texture of Play-Doh. The very last thing I want to do is put it on my homemade cake. In fact, I have high hopes that this is the best vanilla cake I’ve ever made. It’s moist, delicately sweet and dense enough to stack well. And my vanilla buttercream is silky perfection. For extra creaminess, I whisked flour, vanilla and milk over medium heat until they thickened, before beating them into whipped butter and sugar. I’m tempted to eat it by the spoonful, but instead I take a tip from Williams and pipe a frosting border around the edges of two layers. I fill the well inside the
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he’ll need to close, and for how long. “[Closing] could be a blessing in disguise,” Brandt admits — given that his family has a baby on the way. Meanwhile, the reprieve gives him time to figure out where he’ll store his tables, chairs and equipment during the months-long renovation. “Now we can take a breather,” he says. But he’s unsure when, if and where he’ll reopen. At nearby ChurCh & MaIn, the kitchen has had a changing of the guard: Chef BEn BrEzIC left two weeks ago, and sous chef Mark MErCEr has taken his place. The amiable Mercer was too busy during a recent lunch
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arts and crafts. The thing I’m working on doesn’t even seem edible. I fill two pastry bags with decorative icing, tinted kelly green and aqua, and begin to embellish the white surface with the vinelike spirals and flourishes that I usually doodle on scrap paper. That ... doesn’t look bad, actually. In fact, I do so much intricate piping that it essentially hides my fondant flaws. I end up with a slightly lopsided work of art — nothing as lovely or polished as you’d find in a cake shop, but I’m proud nonetheless. Eating it is a total afterthought. Once my coworkers have ravaged the cake’s top layer the next day, I cut a slice and peel off the fondant. The chocolate ganache nicely accents all the sweet vanilla, but, honestly? I’m not in the mood for cake. I could really go for a salad. m
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border with a semisweet chocolate ganache before stacking and frosting. I have two 9-inch and two 4-inch rounds, essentially ready to eat ... but they look as vanilla as they’re going to taste. I sigh and reach for the fondant. After rolling it out, I enlist my boyfriend’s help in lifting and draping the sheet over the cake. Then I work quickly, trying to smooth it. But I’ve put on too much buttercream. As I fruitlessly try to pat out the many wrinkles in the fondant, the frosting starts to ooze out the bottom, giving my cake a bulbous shape. I’ve certainly nailed the “rustic” part of “rustic elegance.” Disheartened, I shove it all in the fridge and leave it overnight. The next day, with newfound resolution or perhaps wild abandon, I decide to cover the wrinkles with a wide fondant ribbon around the bottom of each layer. Now that the cake is cold and hard, applying the fondant is much easier. I slap it on. At some point, I realize I’ve exited the realm of baking, and am just doing
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And she proposes that the cultural shift at work in Montpelier is a microcosm of a larger movement toward more approachable high-quality food. “We’re an open kitchen. This is all part of that shift — sharing recipes with customers, explaining techniques in depth,” Podhaizer says. Salt is the antithesis of a restaurant filled with “ghostly, flitting servers and someone in a tall hat,” as Podhaizer puts it. Starting this week, she’ll begin sharing her secrets in weekend cooking classes at the restaurant. Those who just come for the food will find whimsical menus based on places, events or whatever catches Podhaizer and Green’s fancies. The current menu features Vermontified takes on Alsatian food. Before that, it was dishes influenced by Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Next week, the three-week cycle will begin again with Italian small plates. Podhaizer says upcoming menus will include a Shakespeare-themed bill of fare, and raspberry sorbet and other Prince-inspired dishes for the Purple One’s birthday. The themed menus aren’t just attention getters — Podhaizer sees them as a fun way to work around the limitations of Vermont’s winter produce, which she knew all too well as a critic. “I think it’s easy to fall into a cuisine rut where everything is cider braised,” she says. “We decided to let each menu have some outer inspiration to force us to try new recipes and techniques and use Vermont ingredients in all kinds of different ways.” On the Alsatian menu, the most prevalent product is pork, which hails from three different local farms. The standout dish is a plate of extra-large, perfectly al dente ravioli filled with a mix of pork liver and sausage. Nutmeg-cream sauce brings out the slightly gamy flavor of the meat, but also subdues and sweetens it. Tender chard adds nutrition, but goes down easily in the decadent dish. The choucroute garnie, with a base of mild sauerkraut made from Blackwell Roots Farm cabbage, includes dark, house-smoked pork hock from Jericho
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ingredients in settings that are far from stodgy fine dining. If the comings and goings sound a bit incestuous, the restaurateurs say they wouldn’t have it any other way. When asked where the Black Door’s customers are heading for dinner now, Bilodeau immediately mentions Kismet. Maderia says that, as local chefs, farmers and producers cooperate more and more, “When I go out, I feel like the town has gotten smaller. I feel like things are shifting.” Podhaizer also sees clear advantages to food businesses aligning instead of competing. “If people consider [Montpelier] a destination for dining, it benefits everybody,” she says.
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accompanying Anchor Porter, with its chocolaty finish, is an ideal match for the preserved plums. Three Penny’s kitchen is limited to a hot plate, toaster oven, panini press and half a soda cooler. But, as he prepares dishes, Bilodeau says he hasn’t felt challenged by his new digs. “I’ve had more fun here than I have in quite some time,” he admits. “I deliver the food and answer questions; I do my own dishes. It has a lot of the same personal feel of a dinner party.” Like Podhaizer, Bilodeau says his cuisine is heavily based on Vermont’s natural assets. He prefers to make everything from scratch rather than using out-of-state products such as olives and almonds, previously staples at Three Penny. While busily researching foods that pair well with brews, Bilodeau has also learned a fair amount of Vermont food history, he says. Way back when, the carbohydrates in beer qualified it as a foodstuff in its own right. Bilodeau now has plans to produce an old-time product: bread made from a starter of hops.
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own on Main Street, Bilodeau has also gotten an education since he started at Three Penny Taproom on January 18. The chef says that before joining the taproom team, he was far from a beer aficionado. However, with the guidance of owners Matt McCarthy, Scott Kerner and Wes Hamilton, he’s learning not just to pair his food with suds, but to cook with them. “The whole idea is these guys put so much effort to serving the world’s finest beers, I have to make food to match them,” he says. On a first look at lunchtime last week, Three Penny isn’t so different from any other watering hole. A few older gentlemen nurse a beer or three, watching ESPN. Then one of them pipes up, “If I’m drunk on Scotch and I hear Mozart’s Requiem, I will cry.”
It’s Montpelier, all right, where even the barflies have a certain quirky sophistication. Bilodeau’s focus is on using of-themoment local produce, so he changes his menu daily. The current soup of the day is actually a heavy mash of pease pudding, bolstered with pork fat, onions and Smuttynose Old Brown Dog. Atop the sweet and meaty-tasting puree are ribbons of salty pork that melt with each bite. Amiable McCarthy, who stands at the bar, excitedly pairs each dish with a brew. Creamy, fatty Danish-style chicken-liver pâté is sweetened with Flag Hill Farm’s Pomme de Vie apple brandy. McCarthy recommends washing it down with North Coast Brewing Company’s Scrimshaw Pilsner, a refreshing, bright counterpoint to the darker, more earthy flavors of the liver. Cured pork jowls are lightly spiced and served with pickled prunes. The
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Settlers Farm, juicy braised shoulder from Maple Wind Farm, and sweetly garlic-flavored and red-pepper-flecked sausage prepared by Peter Colman, owner and salumiere of Vermont Salumi at East Montpelier’s Cate Farm. When not processing pork products, Colman joins Podhaizer as a jack-of-all-trades, working the front of the house, and making salads, coffee and dessert. Pork is showcased yet again this week in an apple tart with crunchy chunks of housemade bacon resting on a bed of white-wine-flavored, caramelized fennel. Salt is expecting its meat retail license any minute, says Podhaizer, who plans to sell Colman’s frozen sausages along with her own house-muddled salts in flavors including blood orange-bay leaf, lemon and smoked paprika. To get diners in a saline mood, chewy, crusty bread arrives at the beginning of each meal with softened, unsalted Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery butter and a trio of salts. Diners are encouraged to try some of each, and judge the difference between salts from Maine and the Himalayas and the housesmoked kind. Podhaizer makes the desserts, including an almond-packed financier with mirabelle-plum sauce. The sweet mirabelles in the puree give the illusion of a honey-filled dessert with nary a bee involved. More of a “salt and fat tooth” herself, Podhaizer says she has been surprised to find herself enjoying her de facto role as pastry chef — she and Green are also providing goodies to the Savoy Theater concessions. “There’s this really visceral reaction to sweet things you had as a child, perhaps,” Podhaizer guesses. “I think part of the reason I’ve enjoyed it so much is it makes people so happy.”
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2.5 | MUSIC Some Kind of Wonderful Talk about transparency: While many musicians remain tight-lipped about the real-life circumstances behind their tunes, San Francisco-based David Berkeley could write a book about them. Actually, he did. Thirteen essays in the soon-to-be-released 140 Goats and a Guitar capture Berkeley’s inspiration for each song on his new album, Some Kind of Cure. But you don’t have to study up on the short stories to make sense of his concert at Morrisville’s River Arts Center this Saturday; DAVID BERKELEY word has it the troubadour is equally forthcoming in person, Saturday, February 5, 5-7 p.m., at River Arts Center setting up each indie-folk number with a tale. With themes of in Morrisville. $10. Info, fatherhood, love and longing, these are “songs to swoon by,” 888-1261. riverartsvt.org writes Rolling Stone.
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Neverending Story BURLINGTON WINTER FESTIVAL Friday, February 4, 5-8 p.m., and Saturday, February 5, 10 a.m.4 p.m., at various downtown locations in Burlington. Various prices; $1 “Ice Breaker” button. Info, 370-6249 or 864-0123. burlingtonwinterfestival. wordpress.com or enjoyburlington.com
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Words regularly spring to life on stage, but this week’s “The Art of the Storyteller” delves into the nitty-gritty of narratives like never before. Filmmaker, actor, playwright and Northern Stage producing director Catherine Doherty sits down with bestselling author and Hanover, N.H., resident Jodi Picoult (pictured) for a conversation about structure, voice, dialogue, the publishing world and, really, whatever else comes up. Perhaps Picoult’s reaction to Hollywood’s alternative ending for My Sister’s Keeper, or why she chose ‘THE ART OF THE to write for the “Wonder Woman” comic-book STORYTELLER’ Monday, February 7, 7:30 p.m., series. It’s “incredibly exciting” and “very different at Briggs Opera House in than her normal book tours,” says Doherty, noting White River Junction. $10-35. that Picoult “comes to see [Northern Stage] shows on Proceeds benefit Northern Stage. Info, 296-7000. a regular basis.” Write on. northernstage.org
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Chittenden County Philatelic Club: Stamp collectors of all levels of interest and experience swap sticky squares, and stories about them. GE Healthcare Building, South Burlington, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 660-4817, laineyrapp@yahoo.com. Lunch & Learn: Knowledge about the “Basics of Seed Starting” sprouts from a discussion with speaker David Boucher. Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433.
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‘Tarot for Life’: Those with a basic knowledge of the cards practice reading them with Sherri Glebus. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $8-10. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.com.
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‘Fitzcarraldo’: A big dreamer wants to build an opera house in the jungle in Werner Herzog’s 1982 masterwork. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘Inside Job’: Charles Ferguson’s 2010 documentary shines a harsh spotlight on those responsible for 2008’s economic meltdown. Cinema 1, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’: Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston star in John Huston’s 1948 adventure film about gold and greed. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com.
food & drink
Chocolate-Dipping Demo: Fans of cocoa-covered confectionery experience the tempering and dipping process. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591. ‘The Open Table’: Chefs Claudine Marlett and Michael Hays prepare a community meal for diners who contribute what they can, whether it be in money, labor, skills or simply their company. LACE, Barre, 6-8 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 476-4276.
kids
Children’s Story Time: Little ones sidle up to the story stage for winter-themed tales. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. Enosburg Playgroup: Children and their adult caregivers immerse themselves in singing activities and more. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Fairfax Playgroup: Multicultural stories and activities accent child’s play. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. High School Book Group: Bookworms crack open the tomes they like to read. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Highgate Story Hour: Good listeners soak up classic fairy tales. Highgate Public Library, Highgate Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Ice Skating for Homeschoolers: Independent learners hit the ice. Ice Barn, Milton, noon-2 p.m. $3 includes skating and rentals; $10 for skating lessons. Info, 893-4237. Middle School Book Group: Young people discuss their current reads. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Milton Baby Playgroup: New moms, dads and babies socialize on a weekly basis. New Life Fellowship, Milton, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 893-4922. wed.02
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The cry of a bird, the whistle of a gusty wind ... Tuva’s Huun Huur Tu make a traditional concert sound more like a walk through nature. The foursome is known for preserving the ancient art of xöömei, or throat singing, where vocalists produce two to three music notes at a time. The group pairs the resulting pitches and drones with rare instruments like the doshpuluur and igil — as well as more familiar keyboards, drums and guitars — for sparse, sinuous songs. It boils down to “throat singing tempered by electronica,” as the Huffington Post puts it. TIME Magazine says to “save it for when in a cosmic mood.” Better hope that mood strikes next Huun Huur Tu Wednesday morning, when Wednesday, February 9, 9:30 Huun Huur Tu perform a.m., at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph. $6. Info, 728-6464. as part of Chandler chandler-arts.org Music Hall’s daytime performance series.
‘Plauderabend’: Conversationalists with a basic knowledge of the German language put their skills to use over dinner. Zen Gardens, South Burlington, 6 p.m. Free; cost of food. Info, 862-1677 or 863-5036.
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Milton Historical Society Meeting: Never mind the frosty temps; folks reminisce about picnics and drive-in eateries over hot dogs, salads and root beer ... and a screening of A Hot Dog Program. Milton Historical Society, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 8934546 or 363-2598, miltonhistorical@yahoo.com.
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Montgomery Story Hour: Little lit lovers flip pages before snacking. Montgomery Town Library, Montgomery Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Preschool Discovery Program: How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? Three- to 5-yearolds distinguish fact from folklore in a Groundhog Day celebration. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5. Info, 229-6206. Science Magic: Kids in grades three and up use simple household materials in fantastical tricks. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
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‘Dartmouth Idol’ Semi-Finals: Student superstars strut their stuff at a karaoke competition. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $3-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
sport
Night Rider Series: Skiers and riders compete in the illuminated terrain parks for prizes. Bolton Valley Resort, 4:30 p.m. $18 includes lift ticket; $12 for season-pass holders. Info, 434-6804.
talks
Aine Donovan: In a world of ever-shifting social norms, the executive director of Dartmouth College’s Ethics Institute presents a path to “Reconstructing Honor.” St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291, ext. 301. ‘Borders, Boundaries and Bullies’ Lecture Series: A weekly series explores the mental and physical walls that divide us, as well as the ties that bind us together. Rural Vermont director Jared Carter discusses “The Cuban Embargo: Separation From Our Nearest Neighbors.” Burlington College, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. Clay Jenkinson: The award-winning historical interpreter portrays one of our most colorful presidents in “The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt.” Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.
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Irene Kacandes: A Dartmouth College professor studies the lasting appeal of Anne Frank and her diary. Goodrich Memorial Library, Newport, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 334-7902. Jim Leach: Mind your manners! The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities discusses good etiquette and respectful engagement in “Civility in a Fractured Society.” Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Lamoille County Osher Lecture Series: Singer-songwriter Rebecca Padula dissects Vermont folk music through the ages in a multimedia presentation. Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30 p.m. $5. Info, 253-9011. Sienna Craig: In “The Science of Healing: Practicing, Producing and Consuming Tibetan Medicine,” the Dartmouth anthropologist ruminates on the meeting point of conventional biomedical standards and cultural authenticity. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. Tom Luxon: This Dartmouth College professor explains the impact of 17th-century poet John Milton on paving the way toward same-sex marriages. Norwich Public Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 649-1184.
theater
‘Oliver Twist’: Charles Dickens’ original words thread through a new take on his novel, presented by Vermont Stage Company and featuring original music by David Symons. See theater review, this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $27-32.50. Info, 863-5966. ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’: Catherine Doherty stars as a guide to visiting extraterrestrials in this one-woman show by Northern Stage. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $5-58. Info, 2919009, ext. 10.
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Cynthia Huntington: In the face of a changing environment, the former New Hampshire poet laureate elaborates on “Poetry of the Earth: Reimagining Nature.” Rutland Free Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. Writers’ Group: Wordsmiths put pen to paper in response to prompts — and then share their results. Johnson Public Library, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 363-5541.
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VBSR Legislative Reception: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility members mingle with lawmakers and chat about the organization’s goals for the 2011 session. Julio’s Cantina, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 862-8347, info@vbsr.org.
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Colchester Avenue Transportation Corridor Plan: Speak up about plans for the stretch of road between Prospect Street and the Winooski bridge. Pizza is provided. McClure Conference Room, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-1794.
environment
Vermont Climate-Action Day: Folks passionate about our planet spark a statewide movement through a 10 a.m. rally, a Climate Community Schmooze and Strategy Session, and conversations with legislators. Preregister. Room 11, Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free.
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Chess Club: Checkmate! Board-game players try to attack the king with sly strategies. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $2-3. Info, 363-5803. Plattsburgh Alumni Assocation’s ‘Evening of Fun & Networking’: SUNY Plattsburgh president John Ettling and his wife, Lisa Lewis, bring news from the university. Preregister. Second floor, BCA Center, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 800-964-1889, alumni@plattsburgh.edu. ‘The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self’: In this fiveweek class and book-study group, students explore the parts of themselves they would rather not be. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 876-7696, lane2love@yahoo.com.
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‘Inside Job’: See WED.02, 7 p.m. ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’: In this Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary winner, a band of women conspire to bring peace to Liberia, ending a decades-long civil war. Postfilm discussion with Paij Wadley-Bailey, cofounder of Rwanda/WILPF. Band Room, U-32 High School, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0321.
food & drink
Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.02, 2 p.m. Community Dinner & Seed Swap: Vermonters share a meal and gardening tips. Hardwick United Church, noon-1 p.m. Info, 533-9929. ‘Grow Your Own Mushrooms’: Alissa White tutors fungi fans in cultivating ‘shrooms in their homes or backyards for culinary uses. Preregister. City Market, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $20 includes mushroom kit. Info, 861-9700.
health & fitness
Alexander Technique Class: Instructors Sami Pincus and Stephanie Sohns guide participants to correct negative posture and movement habits that cause stress, tension, discomfort and pain. Touchstone Healing Arts School, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $25 to drop in. Info, 777-3370 or 310-4610.
Infant & Child CPR: A training session prepares people for medical emergencies. This course meets the requirements for childcare providers’ CPR certifications. Shelburne Rescue, 6:30-10 p.m. $25; space is limited; preregister. Info, 985-5125. Strong Living Exercise: Fitness enthusiasts undergo strength training for good health. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 8 a.m. Free. Info, 443-1654.
kids
Alburgh Playgroup: Tots form friendships over stories, songs and crafts. Alburgh Family Center, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Crafts With Clothes: Third through eighth graders add fashionable flair to jeans and T-shirts. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Fletcher Playgroup: Little ones make use of the open gym before snack time. Fletcher Elementary School, Cambridge, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. ‘Food for Thought’ Library Volunteers: Pizza sparks discussion of books and library projects for teens. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Franklin Story Hour: Lovers of the written word perk up for read-aloud tales and adventures with lyrics. Haston Library, Franklin, 1010:45 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Kids’ Story Time: Snacks and activities chase an hour of tales. LACE, Barre, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4276. Music With Raphael: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Open Computer Time: Teens play games and browse the web on library laptops. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403. PJ Story Time: Little kids rock nightgowns and flannels as special guests read from books. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Writing Group Thursdays: Seventh- through 12th-grade poets polish their words in a workshop. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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Burlington Songwriters: Lyricists share and critique original works. Heineberg Community & Senior Center, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 859-1822. Noontime Music: Organist Lynnette Combs conquers this keyboard instrument. Coffee and tea provided. First Baptist Church, Burlington, 12:1512:45 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6515.
outdoors
‘Ski Inn’ & Lunch: Cross-country skiers explore the scenic lodge trails in a group excursion, returning in time for a soup and sandwich buffet. Please call ahead. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 9:45 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, 533-2647.
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Central Vermont Food System Council: Winter Quarterly Meeting: A potluck kicks off a lecture on “The Farm to Plate Report’s Release and What It Means for Vermont’s Food System” by Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund’s Ellen Kahler. Cafeteria, Montpelier High School, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9506. Dave Anderson: The adventure hound expounds on his worldwide expeditions in “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger.” Alumni Conference Room, Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-5292. David Goodman: In a multimedia slide show, the author and ski guru behind Best Backcountry Skiing in the Northeast: 50 Classic Ski Tours in New England and New York — now with a 20th-anniversary edition — reminisces about his favorite adventures on snow. Onion River Sports, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.
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‘MYethiOPIA’: As part of Winterfest, Lost Nation Theater hosts B-town native David Schein’s witty recollection of his time spent teaching safe sex in Africa. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $1520. Info, 229-0492. National Theatre of London: Catamount Arts Center: Derek Jacobi stars in a broadcast adaptation of Shakespeare’s dramatic masterpiece King Lear, which probes the nature of human existence. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $10-23. Info, 748-2600. National Theatre of London: Lake Placid Center for the Arts: See above listing, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512.
National Theatre of London: Loew Auditorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 603-646-2422. National Theatre of London: Town Hall Theater: See above listing, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $17. Info, 382-9222. ‘Oliver Twist’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m.
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Book Discussion Series: ‘New England Uncovered’: Readers find more to our region than meets the eye in Russell Banks’ Affliction. Joslin Memorial Library, Waitsfield, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 583-1935. Book Discussion Series: ‘What a Character’: Voracious readers consider the lasting impact of fictional protagonists, using J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye as a guide. Morristown Centennial Library, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 888-2616. Dyad Communication: Participants learn to speak and truly be heard in this evening of contemplative conversation. Parlor Room, Bethany Church, Montpelier, 6:15-8:45 p.m. $10; donations accepted. Info, 522-5855, maggie@vibrance.us. Story Time: Lit lovers of all ages take in fanciful tales. Bud & Bella’s Bookshop, Randolph, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 728-5509.
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‘knIghts In ItAly’ spAghettI DInneR: The Knights of Columbus celebrate stringy, saucesmothered pasta. St. Ambrose Parish, Bristol, 5-7 p.m. $4-8. Info, 453-2488.
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, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077.
locAlvoRe DInneR: Menu items range from brisket braised in apple cider to grilled smashed potatoes to butternut-squash-and-apple soup at this fundraiser for Pete’s Greens. Applecheek Farm, Hyde Park, 6 p.m. $15-30; free for kids under 3. Info, 888-4482.
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DRum & DAnce: Feel the rhythm and keep the beat at a percussion lesson for all skill levels. Shelburne Town Hall, drum practice from 6:30-7 p.m.; drum and dance from 7-9:30 p.m. $3-5. Info, 862-5017, jaswmbrown@gmail.com. englIsh countRy DAnce: Those keen on Jane Austen’s favorite pastime make rural rounds to music by Lar Duggan, Albert Joy, Margaret Smith, McKinley James and Roxann Nickerson. All dances are taught. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9:30 p.m. $5-8; bring finger food to share. Info, 899-2378. tAngo FRIDAys: Learn the footwork and adopt the attitude for this sensual dance through a TangoFlow workout and beginning technique class. The Art House, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $20 to drop in. Info, 458-0464.
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‘All thRough the nIght ... get A ‘hAnDle’ on sleep’: Learn to achieve that sweet slumber through this neurodevelopmental perspective from Elizabeth Frishkoff of the HANDLE Institute of New England. Willow Morning Garden, Shelburne, 6:30-9 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 413-528-0477. communIty heRbAlIsm clAss: VCIH graduate Heather Irvine remedies various skin problems in “Making Great Salves.” Preregister. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $1012. Info, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org. ‘nAme thAt movIe!’: Cinemaddicts try to correctly title films by screening a barrage of short clips at happy hour. The CinéClub, Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m. $2.50. Info, 229-0598. penguIn plunge pReRegIstRAtIon pARty: Go on, take the plunge ... Folks check in early while grabbing snacks from Mexicali Grill & Cantina, entering raffles and listening to tunes. Union Station, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5222, ext. 105.
monthly WIne DInneR: Chef Dennis Vieira stirs up a “Pig and Pinot” menu of local food designed to complement Washington and Oregon wines. Red Clover Inn & Restaurant, Killington, 6:30 p.m. $75 plus tax and tip. Info, 775-2290, innkeepers@ redcloverinn.com.
‘bIts AnD pIeces: An evenIng WIth FRAnk mouRIs’: After a thorough video-clip summary of the Oscar winner’s career in collage animations, the audience engages in a discussion with Mouris himself. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 603-646-2422.
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begInneR yogA clAss: Newbies practice the physical and mental aspects of this Indian discipline with instructor Don Randall. Randall Retreat, Monkton, 6:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 233-8403.
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at the Skinny Pancake (89 Main St. , Montpelier) Every second Tuesday of the month, environmental fans and professionals meet up for a beer, networking and discussion at Green Drinks. This informal crowd is a lively mixture of folks from NGOs, academia, government and business. Find employment, friends and new ideas! THIS MONTH’S PRESENTER:
the hIbeRnAtoRs: Bring your own picnic for a concert of bluegrass, swing, rock and country favorites. Cheese plates and wine available. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, New Haven, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7368.
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snoWshoe Romp: Winter walkers disperse their weight with strap-on footwear for a lantern-lit excursion. Hot chocolate and a bonfire follow. Old Shelter, Hubbard Park, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 229-9409.
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colchesteR WInteR cARnIvAl: A three-day town party includes music and dance performances, a pancake breakfast, a Play-Doh extravaganza, horse-drawn hay rides, skating with cops and more. Colchester High School, 5-8:30 p.m. $4-5. Info, 264-5643 or 862-3425.
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buRlIngton WInteR FestIvAl: For the 19th year, the Queen City becomes a snowy scene of live performances, children’s activities, dogsled rides and more. See calendar spotlight. Various downtown locations, Burlington, 5-8 p.m. Various prices; $1 “Ice Breaker” button. Info, 370-6249 or 864-0123.
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spAghettI DInneR & sIlent AuctIon: Pile that plate high! This pasta party supports the Green Mountain Kids After School Program. VFW Post, Morrisville, 5-8 p.m. $3-5; $14 per family of four. Info, 730-4080, ckoniuto@hotmail.com.
teRtulIA lAtInA: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.
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Faith Adventure Series: With the help of photos, speaker Bill Eddy reminisces about his 1990 trip to Israel and Egypt. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6764.
theater
‘MYethiOPIA’: See THU.03, 7:30 p.m. ‘Oliver Twist’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m. ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m.
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Final Cut Pro Open Lab: Apprentice film editors complete three tracks of exercises as a VCAM staff member lends a hand. Preregister. VCAM studio, Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.
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‘Creative Cupcakes’: Feed your inner artist with edible, hands-on artwork. Preregister. Davis Studio Gallery, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24. Info, 425-2700.
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Calcutta Dinner & Silent Auction: Dine and dance the night away — with plenty of chances to take home prizes — at this fundraiser for Swanton Recreation. VFW, Swanton, 7 p.m. $100 per couple. Info, 868-2493.
‘Theater Blitz’: The curtain opens on theater students in one-act plays. Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-565-0145, schwarl@plattsburgh.edu.
Local Farm Tour: High Mowing Organic Seeds president Tom Stearns leads an afternoon tour of the seed facility at 4 p.m. Dinner and discussion follow at the Highland Lodge & Ski Touring Center. High Mowing Organic Seeds, Wolcott, 4-8:30 p.m. Free for tour and talk; $22.50 for dinner. Info, 533-2647.
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Burlington Parks & Recreation Family Activity Expo: Games, activities, crafts and entertainment options let kids and parents warm up between bouts of cold-weather fun outdoors. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $2. Info, 864-0123.
Colchester-Milton Rotary Club Auction: Bidding battles begin over gift certificates and local items. Proceeds support high school scholarships, food shelves, school music and athletic programs, and other community initiatives. Colchester High School, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 658-4182.
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‘Girlie Chat’: The authors of Boys Before Business: The Single Girl’s Guide to Having It All highlight an evening of beauty makeovers, fitness consultations and a workshop about finding “Mr. Right.” Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, 5-9 p.m. $40; $70 for two. Info, 238-7524. ‘Got Milkers? Migrant Farmworkers in Vermont’: Members of the Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project present a screening of Silenced Voices before a potluck and talk about Vermont agriculture. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0782. VCAM Access Orientation: Video production hounds get an overview of facilities, policies and procedures. Preregister. VCAM studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.
Transition Town Montpelier Community Potluck & Gathering: Neighbors and friends join a sustainability mission at a midday meal. Bring a dish to share, along with your own tableware. Hayes Room, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, noon-2 p.m. Free. Info, 456-8122.
‘have heART’: Lovebirds make their own valentines, and artists are on hand to do custom work, at this benefit for the Craft Emergency Relief Fund. Gymnasium, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-2306.
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Family Contra & International Dance: The Bosnian Lilies perform a participatory dance, and callers organize steppers to tunes by the Fiddleheads and more. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6-8 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $10 suggested donation per family. Info, 849-6968 or 233-5293. Making ‘The Hall’: Participants experiment with the improvisational structures used to generate movement in Selene Colburn’s work-in-progress piece. Burlington Dances, 3-5:30 p.m. $13-15. Info, 863-3369. Urban Reach Dance Convention: More than 100 aspiring hip-hop dancers learn moves from sought-after choreographers such as Marty Kudelka, David Moore, LaJon Dantzler and Laura Edwards. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 8 a.m.1:30 p.m. $170-185; $10-20 entry fee for Saturday’s Showcase and Freestyle Battle at 5 p.m., or $5 to watch. Info, 863-6600. VSO Waltz Night: Twirlers take a break from 3/4-time to bid on upscale silentauction items at this black-tie affair set to live accompaniment from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Proceeds benefit statewide VSO programs. Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 6 p.m. $175-325 includes dinner; cash bar; call for reservations. Info, 800-876-9293, ext. 25.
Burlington Winter Festival: See FRI.04, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Colchester Winter Carnival: See FRI.04, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Indoor Winter Craft Fair: More than 35 local crafters and regional artisans display their handmade wares. University Mall, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. Lakeside Preschool Winter Festival: Hot cider and homemade donuts warm up bodies busy with snowshoe trail races, sledding and ice skating. Proceeds benefit the school. Lakeside Preschool at Black Kettle Farm, Essex, N.Y., 1-5 p.m. $7 for adults; $20 per family. Info, 518-963-8222. Snowshoe Festival: Strap-on footwear is the star in a wintry day of nature walks, equipment demos, igloo building, a dogsledding workshop, hot chocolate and more. Green Mountain Club Visitor Center, Waterbury Center, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $8-10; free for kids under 12. Info, 244-7037.
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‘Last Train Home’: Lixin Fan’s documentary looks into the world’s largest human migration as millions of people travel home to China for the New Year’s holiday. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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‘A Gift From the Heart’ Dinner & Silent Auction: Dancing and karaoke spice up a dinner of roast turkey or vegetarian lasagna. Proceeds benefit Central Vermont Catholic School. Knights of Columbus Hall, Barre, 6 p.m. $30; $55 per couple; cash bar; free childcare on site. Info, 793-8307. Cacao Workshop: Chocoholics consider the plant’s healing qualities — along with the history, farming, processing and politics involved — in this multisensory presentation with Sandra Lory. Preregister. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 1-2 p.m. $5-7. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.com.
North Hero Tumble Time: Free-play stations around the gym keep youngsters — and their adult companions — on the go. North Hero Elementary School, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Open Tot Gym & Infant/Parent Playtime: Snacks fuel feats of athleticism. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Read to a Dog: Stories form a bond between young readers and Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.
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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: This long-standing English chamber ensemble gives life to classical works. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $26.50-32.50. Info, 775-0903.
Capital City Winter Farmers Market: Root veggies, honey, fresh mesclun and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown grub, complete with a variety of vendor demonstrations. Gymnasium, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958.
Dartmouth College Glee Club: Gleeks concentrate on the genius of Samuel Barber in Prayers of Kierkegaard, Knoxville, Summer of 1918 and Adagio for Strings. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $5-26. Info, 603-646-2422.
Champlain Islands Winter Farmers Market: Baked items, apples, winter greens, cheeses and meats sustain shoppers in search of locally grown goods. South Hero Congregational Church, 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-5912.
David Berkeley: A San Franciscan singer-songwriter celebrates the recent release of Some Kind of Cure. Ben Guihan opens. See calendar spotlight. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 5-7 p.m. $10. Info, 888-1261.
Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.02, 2 p.m.
Recorder-Playing Group: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net.
Dip Dinner: Diners load up on buffet offerings and pay by the scoop. Proceeds benefit the Enosburg Food Shelf. American Legion, Enosburg Falls, 4:30-7 p.m. $1 per plate; 50¢ per dip. Info, 933-2007. Ham & Roast Beef Buffet: Got meat? The Colchester Knights of Columbus hosts this community dinner, complete with $500 in door prizes. Holy Cross Church, Colchester, 6 p.m. $15. Info, 862-1756.
health & fitness
Holistic Healing Fair: Healers specializing in massage, oneness experience, reflexology, Reiki, acupuncture and more share the benefits of their fields. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $25 admission includes four 15-minute healing sessions. Info, 876-7696, lane2love@yahoo. com. Learn CPR: Vermonters learn to think — and act — on their feet when faced with a medical emergency. Participants receive a CPR book and certification card through the Emergency Care and Safety Institute. Preregister. Richmond Rescue, 1-3 p.m. $25. Info, 434-2394. Muscular dystrophy Association Muscle Walk: Families go the distance to support local individuals who have been affected by neuromuscular diseases. Tarrant Field House, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8:30 a.m. Info, 862-6424.
kids
Berkshire Tumble Time: Provided snacks fuel exercise for tots. Gym, Berkshire Elementary School, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Children’s Story Time: Little ones sidle up to the story stage for canine tales with more bark than bite. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. ‘Kids VT’ Camp & School Fair: Representatives from more than 40 Vermont organizations share information about upcoming programs. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 9855482, fair@kidsvt.com.
Ripton Community Coffeehouse: Burlington-based band the Grift offer originals and bluegrass covers. Ripton Community House, 7:30 p.m. $3-9. Info, 388-9782. Stanley Jordan Trio: A Grammy-nominated guitarist heads up distinctive blends of jazz, rock and classical music. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $38-45. Info, 253-3000. The Carolina Chocolate Drops: A musical trio breathes youthful energy into old-time African American Appalachian string-band tunes. See music section, this issue. Barre Opera House, 8 p.m. $10-29. Info, 476-8188. The Kind Buds: An acoustic duo raises guitar refrains. Hostel Tevere, Warren, 10 p.m. $5. Info, 496-9222. Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra: Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture opens this winter concert, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, op. 86, follow. Preconcert talk by VPO music director Lou Kosma, 7:10 p.m. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 793-4210. Young Tradition Showcase: A frenzy of music and dance fills the auditorium. Performers include Sarah Blair and Maria Naumann, Tim Cummings and Haliana Burhans, and members of the Heather Morris School of Dance. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 3-5 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $10 suggested donation per family. Info, 849-6968.
outdoors
‘All About Bears’: In for a wild time? Take a look at bite marks on the Kent Thomas Nature Center while learning about the large mammals of our forest. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $15-25; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117. BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont Snow Days: Folks relish free access to trails, snowshoe and cross-country ski rentals, and snacks. Catamount Outdoor Family Center, Williston, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 764-4858.
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Sleigh RideS: Weather permitting, jingling horses trot visitors over the snow on a wintry tour of rolling acres. Rides depart every half hour from the Welcome Center. Shelburne Farms, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. $6-8; free for kids under 3. Info, 985-8442.
talks
Cabin FeveR StoRieS: Jan Albers, Earl Bessette and Erwin “Red” Clark share tales of snowstorms past, including the Great Blizzard of 1888. Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2117. ChRiStoPheR MCelRoen: Though the performance of Waiting for Godot is canceled, the director discusses the meaning of the post-Hurricane Katrina production with the help of video clips. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5966.
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‘Challenge CoRPoRate authoRity: aSSeRt the PeoPle’S RightS’: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom holds a five-week study group focusing on corporate personhood, global corporatization and democracy. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. ‘dRaWing on WinteR’: Adults view the natural world as art in this botany and sketching workshop. Preregister. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-3:30 p.m. $20. Info, 434-3068. FRenCh-engliSh ConveRSation gRouP: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
fairs & festivals
ColCheSteR WinteR CaRnival: See FRI.04, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. indooR WinteR CRaFt FaiR: See SAT.05, noon6 p.m.
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‘all WeatheR balladS: a love StoRy’: Sandglass Theater explores the modern rural experience with two puppets. Auditorium, St. Johnsbury School, 7:30 p.m. $12-22. Info, 748-2600. ‘an evening oF CeltiC MuSiC and danCe’: The Green Mountain Celts, Dominique Dodge and Tim Cummings bring traditional Scottish and Irish tunes to life, and the St. Andrews Highland Dancers perform lively steps. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Jericho, 7 p.m. $8-10; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 878-3840.
gRotoWSki aCting WoRkShoP: Intermediate and advanced adults and teens study bodycentered character development with the cast of Waiting for Godot. Chase Dance Studio, Flynn Center, Burlington, 1 p.m. $25; space is limited; preregister. Info, 863-5966. national theatRe oF london: CataMount aRtS CenteR: See THU.03, 2 p.m. ‘oliveR tWiSt’: See WED.02, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘the SeaRCh FoR SignS oF intelligent liFe in the univeRSe’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m.
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ChoColate-diPPing deMo: See WED.02, 2 p.m. SPRing healthSouRCe ClaSS: NECI chef John Barton puts cold-weather veggies to good use in health-conscious dishes such as winter-squash cheesecake, spaghetti-squash stir-fry and kale meatballs. Preregister. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2278.
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babySitteR Mingle: Parents of tots in need of minding meet potential student caregivers — and kids in attendance get a say in the matter. Preregister. Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 656-9405, alicia.taylor@uvm.edu. lolliPoP Ski RaCe: Young skiers don racing bibs for a fun zip down the “Mighty Mite” hill. Olympian Barbara Ann Cochran works the stopwatch and offers encouragement. Cochran’s Ski Area, Richmond, 1 p.m. Free with purchase of a $14 youth lift ticket. Info, 434-2479. Read to a dog: See SAT.05, 1-2 p.m.
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bill SChubaRt: The Vermont author of Fat People explores how easily food can overwhelm a life in a talk and book signing. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
The Senior Accountant position is a full-time position that is responsible for providing senior-level accounting services, including supervision, in support of the city’s central accounting function. The position may also provide accounting services to several other major city departments, including Burlington International Airport and Burlington Telecom. Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration, or related field and three years of relevant experience in accounting.
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‘Waiting FoR godot’: CANCELED. By transporting Samuel Beckett’s play to a post-Hurricane Katrina landscape, director Christopher McElroen puts the work in a new perspective, addressing deep issues about race, class and, well, waiting. Free preperformance lecture, 6:30-7:30 p.m., at the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25-39. Info, 863-5966.
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‘Funny buSineSS’ CoMedy-hyPnoSiS ShoW: The audience becomes part of the spectacle at this laughter-filled performance by hypnotist Steve Wronker. Auditorium. Spaulding High School, Barre, 7 p.m. $6-9; free for children under 5. Info, 522-4414.
‘Moby diCk’: An obsessed captain leads his crew on a dangerous — and, for most, deadly — quest to hunt the white whale in John Huston’s 1956 interpretation of the Herman Melville classic. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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Penguin Plunge: Stouthearted swimmers parade in a costume contest, then dunk themselves in Lake Champlain to raise funds for the Special Olympics. Waterfront Park, Burlington, registration begins at 8 a.m.; plunge at 11 a.m. $25 registration fee plus $150 pledge minimum; free to watch. Info, 863-5222, ext. 105.
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Susannah Blachly & Patti Casey: The singer-songwriters play New England-flavored bluegrass and folk to celebrate the Athenaeum’s 140th year. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291. ‘The Animal Kingdom’: The calls of the wild figure prominently in this program with mezzo soprano Erma Mellinger and pianist Greg Hayes. Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 3 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra: See SAT.05. Preconcert talk by VPO music director Lou Kosma, 3:10 p.m. Barre Opera House, 3:10 p.m. $515. Info, 476-8188. m-pact: The acclaimed pop-jazz vocal ensemble offers “Signed, Sealed and Delivered,” the music of Motown, doo-wop and more. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m. $23-30. Info, 253-3000.
outdoors
Sleigh Rides: See SAT.05, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. ‘The Art and Science of Tracking’: Go sleuthing for signs of bird and animal life on this moderately difficult educational excursion. Mad River Glen Ski Area, Fayston, 10:30 a.m. $15-25; $65 per family of four. Info, 496-3551, ext. 117.
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2011 Frozen Onion Winter Bike Race 2.0: Chip the icicles off your trusty steed for a lungburning loop with lap options. Proceeds benefit the rebuilding of the Pete’s Greens’ barn. Montpelier, registration, 8:30 a.m.; race 10 a.m. Morse Farm Ski Center, $25 includes postrace food. Info, 229-9409, thefolks@onionriver.com.
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Infant Story Hour: Kiddos up to age 2 absorb spoken-word yarns. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 476-7550, aldrichlibrary@ charter.net. Learn to Knit: All materials are supplied for this stitching circle with Joan Kahn. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Music With Mia: Tots form a circle for a special story hour with sing-along tunes. Center Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. Stories With Megan: Preschoolers ages 2 to 5 expand their imaginations through storytelling, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Teen Advisory Board: Middle and high schoolers help librarians plan cool programs and order new books. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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Mad River Chorale Rehearsals: No auditions are necessary to join this community choir, which meets weekly to give voice to song selections from America’s greatest composers. Harwood Union High School, South Duxbury, 6:45-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 496-4781.
‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’: See WED.02, 5 p.m.
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‘Oliver Twist’: See WED.02, 2 p.m.
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Herbal Clinic: Sign up for an appointment to explore the art of natural healing one on one with students and professors from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.
Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Rehearsals: New and established members of the nonprofit community orchestra fiddle around in a jam session at 6 p.m. before practice time at 7 p.m. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 877343-3531, info@vtfiddleorchestra.org.
‘MYethiOPIA’: See THU.03, 2 p.m.
Poetry Open Mic: Scribes speak in stanzas of their own creation. Block Gallery, Winooski, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5150.
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‘A New Look at Aging’: Interactive conversations thread through this five-week workshop about perceptions of old age, processing life experiences, changing roles and identities, and more. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 6:45-8:45 p.m. $10 materials fee. Info, 985-3355 or 985-3819. Community Herbalism Class: Sweet-toothed folks rejoice when VCIH faculty member Larken Bunce discusses “Chocolate: Transformation From Guilty Pleasure to Divine Healer.” Preregister. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; $5 materials fee. Info, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.org.
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‘A Taste of Chocolate’: Amarah’s Chocolate Company summarizes the history of this sweettooth staple before a tasting of different varieties. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free; space is limited; preregister. Info, 878-4918. Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.02, 2 p.m.
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Golden Sun Healing Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 922-9090.
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Aura Healing Clinic: People receive treatment for and feedback about their personal energy fields.
Haviland Smith: The retired station chief of the CIA considers “Counter-Terrorism and American Foreign Policy Today.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. Megan Force & Isabel Kloumann: Starry-eyed listeners learn about the nature and origins of R Coronae Borealis from two UVM astrophysics students. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.
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‘LA Party’: A die-hard vegan falls off the wagon, leading to a wild night on the town, in this video-enhanced performance conceived and directed by Phil Soltanoff. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-26. Info, 603-646-2422.
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Marjorie Cady Memorial Writers Group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@comcast.net. ‘The Art of the Storyteller’: Best-selling author Jodi Picoult divulges how her tales develop — and much more — in an interview with Catherine Doherty. Proceeds benefit Northern Stage. See calendar spotlight. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $10-35. Info, 296-7000.
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Village-Building Convergence Organizers’ Meeting: New faces are welcomed at a planning meeting for the third annual Village-Building Convergence, held in June. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 276-3839, jennifer@twinpondretreat.com.
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Green Drinks: Activists and professionals for a cleaner environment raise a glass over networking and discussion. The Skinny Pancake, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2253.
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‘Basic Introduction to Camera Use’: Budding videographers learn about media production in this taping workshop. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 862-3966, ext. 16, morourke@cctv.org. Entrepreneurship Day Celebration: Biz kids honor the do-it-yourself spirit through networking, exhibits, an announcement of the “Building Entrepreneurship Education in Our Schools” winners and more. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2852. Pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088. ‘Spend Smart’: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money. Preregister. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1417, ext. 104, growingmoney@cvoeo.org.
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Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.02, 2 p.m. ‘Cooking With Miso’: Foodies learn about the health benefits of this Japanese seasoning while whipping up a batch of soup. Preregister. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700. Soup & Bread Night: Vermonters support the Enosburg Food Shelf by filling up on hearty homemade eats. Champions Sports Tavern at the Dairy Center, Enosburg Falls, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Food is free; donations accepted. Info, 933-2030. ‘The Farmers Fat Tuesday’: Dinner guests learn more about the Vermont Natural Resources Council and statewide environmental movements over grass-fed beef and veggie burgers. Ten percent of sales benefit VNRC. The Farmers Diner, Middlebury, 5-8 p.m. $18. Info, 458-0455.
Fairfax Story Hour: Songs, tales and crafts captivate kiddos. Fairfax Community Library, 9:3010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Frosty & Friends Therapy Dogs: Young readers share their favorite texts with friendly pooches. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Kids’ Story Hour: Literature hounds show up for tall tales. Kids under 3 meet at 10 a.m.; ages 3 to 5 meet at 10:30 a.m. East Barre Branch Library, Barre, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 476-5118. Music With Raphael: See THU.03, 10:45 a.m. Music With Robert: The host of a weekly folkand world-music show on VPR explores tunes with music lovers of all ages. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Open Computer Time: See THU.03, 3-4:30 p.m. Science & Stories: Little ones have a hoot learning about what makes owls such stellar nighttime hunters. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/ Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386. South Hero Playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. St. Albans Playgroup: Creative activities and storytelling engage the mind. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. Story Hour: Tales and picture books catch the attention of little tykes. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Story Time for Tots: Three- to 5-year-olds savor stories, songs, crafts and company. CarpenterCarse Library, Hinesburg, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 482-2878.
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‘Reporting Live From War Zones: Journalists Tell Their Stories From the Front Lines’: WDEV’s Mark Johnson moderates this panel discussion with input from Sam Hemingway and Ryan Mercer of the Burlington Free Press, Darren Perron and Lance MacKenzie of WCAX, and author and retired foreign correspondent Louis Salome. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-6434 or 861-2343.
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Laughter Yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional, and spiritual health and well-being. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.
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Children’s Story Hour: Two- to 5-yearolds tune in for audible prose. Aldrich Public Library, Barre, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 476-7550, aldrichlibrary@charter.net. Craftacular Tuesdays: Creative kids get caught up in low-tech projects. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Creative Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must
Mary Holland: The author of Naturally Curious: A Photography Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods and Marshes of New England takes listeners through the four seasons. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. ‘extempo’ Live Original Storytelling: Amateur raconteurs deliver polished, first-person, 5-minute-long true stories at an open-mic evening, sans notes. Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 8:30 p.m. Free to participants; $10 donation to the Youth Service Bureau to watch. Info, 229-0598.
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Networking Luncheon for Vermont Healers: Area herbalists, health practitioners, educators and others receive advice on “How to Create a Marketing and Promotional Plan for Your Business.” Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 225-5960, info@vermonthealers.org.
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Winooski Coalition for a Safe and Peaceful Community: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by planning community
fiND SElEct EVENtS oN twittEr @7dayscalendar events, sharing resources, networking and more. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.
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EmbroidErErs’ Guild mEEtinG: Needleworkers check out the sewing projects of their peers and get a little stitching done. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0198. italian ConvErsation Group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Call for cancellations in inclement weather. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869. Knit niGht: Crafty needleworkers (crocheters, too) share their talents and company as they give yarn a makeover. Phoenix Books, Essex, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111. lunCh & lEarn: Green thumbs learn how to “Breathe New Life Into Seasonally Blooming Plants” from speaker Judith Keyes. Gardener’s Supply, Williston, noon-12:45 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. sEaba swEEthEarts soirEE: South Enders socialize at a Valentine-themed affair with sweet treats, live music by the Queen City Hot Club, tango demonstrations, art and raffle prizes. SEABA Center, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. $10 for members; $15 for nonmembers; cash bar. Info, 859-9222. vErmont nonprofit lEGislativE day: Nonprofit colleagues meet legislators and gain usable advocacy skills in workshops. Common Good Vermont annual meeting, 9:30-10 a.m. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. $10. Info, 862-1645, ext. 21.
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lGbtQ moviE niGht: Popcorn accompanies a screening of Rose Troche’s 1994 film Go Fish, about a small group of lesbian friends in Chicago. R.U.1.2? Community Center, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812. ‘pEnniEs from hEavEn’: Look out for fancy footwork by Steve Martin and Christopher Walken in Herbert Ross’ 1981 film about a sheet-music salesman. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.
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fEElGood Community dinnEr: Ten percent of proceeds from drinks or dinner benefit this UVM student-led movement, working to empower people to end world hunger. Bluebird Tavern, Burlington, 5-10 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 203-417-7421.
‘thE opEn tablE’: See WED.02, 6-8 p.m.
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ChildrEn’s story timE: Little ones sidle up to the story stage for page-turning tales about farm animals. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. EnosburG playGroup: See WED.02, 9-11 a.m. fairfax playGroup: See WED.02, 10-11 a.m. hiGhGatE story hour: See WED.02, 10-11 a.m. iCE sKatinG for homEsChoolErs: See WED.02, noon-2 p.m.
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‘aQuarius and thE rEbirth of GnostiC Christianity’: A PowerPoint presentation illuminates the relevance of Gnosticism in our times. 6 Fairfield Hill Road, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@goldenrosycross.org. ‘bordErs, boundariEs and bulliEs’ lECturE sEriEs: A weekly series explores the mental and physical walls that divide us, as well as the ties that bind us together. Political scientist and economics instructor Kara Alnasrawi discusses free residence and restricted immigration. Burlington College, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.
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GEorGE ‘pEsKunCK’ larabEE: A member of the Abenaki Sokokiak Nation of Missisquoi covers the history, culture and language of this New England tribe. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail. com. lamoillE County oshEr lECturE sEriEs: From transnational identity to regime change to oil politics, UVM professor F. Gregory Gause explores “American ‘En-Gulfed’: Why Every American President Gets Caught in the Persian Gulf.” Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9011.
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‘why fair tradE?’: Panelists Dr. Jeffrey Ayres, Dr. Robert Letovsky, Gaby Ochoa and Sandy Wynne converse about political, economic, ethical and practical issues. Farrell Room, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.
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‘olivEr twist’: See WED.02, 7:30 p.m. ‘strEEt bEat’: Urban rhythms, dancing and drumming on found objects collide in this high-energy show. Fuller Hall, St. Johnsbury Academy, 10:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. $4. Info, 748-2600.
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flynn CEntEr/flEtChEr frEE booK disCussion Group: Author Marc Estrin leads bibliophiles in a gab about Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211. major jaCKson: As part of JSC’s Spring Author Series, the award-winning Vermont poet reads work aloud. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1343. sprinG hEalthsourCE Class: Nutrition educator and author Joan Dye Gussow looks to the future of food and sustainability in her new book Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life and Vegetables. Preregister. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 847-2278. writErs’ Group: See WED.02, 7-9 p.m. ‘you ComE, too’: Spend winter considering the words of influential poets, including Mary Oliver and Emily Dickinson, through readings and discussion. Vermont Humanities Council, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626, ext. 304. m
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movinG & GroovinG with ChristinE: Young ones jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Recommended for ages 2 to 5, but all are welcome. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.
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classes art ART CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU: 200 winter/spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, www.cvuhs.org/access. Two watercolor classes with Ginny Joyner, Pastel Portraits, Drawing for Beginners, Painting with Water Soluble Oils, Print Making, Calligraphy, Solar Etching, Darkroom Use. ART AT STUDIO PLACE ARTS: Location: Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St., Barre. Info: Studio Place Arts, Sue Higby, 802-4797069, shigby@sover.net, www. studioplacearts.com. Learn the Art of Photography with Andrew Wellman, Figure Sculpture in Clay with Pat DeGogorza, Monoprints and Collagraphs with LynaLou Nordstrom, Book Arts with Elissa Campbell, Pastels with Carol Gargon, Portraiture with Marie LaPre Grabon, Clay with Georgia Landau. Full descriptions online.
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JEWELRY: JEWELRY & METAL DESIGN: Weekly on Wed., Feb. 9-Mar. 23 (no class Feb. 23), 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $175/nonmembers, $157.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Make your own earrings, bracelets, necklaces and more, while discovering the art of fine metal craftsmanship. Students will learn many techniques including sawing, forming, polishing and soldering while working with copper, brass or silver. Some basic supplies and equipment will be provided. Limit: 12. PHOTO: DIGITAL WORKFLOW: Feb. 17-Mar. 24, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $250/nonmembers, $225/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW files, organization, fine-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on an Epson 3880 will all be covered. Limit: 6.
body BODY & MIND CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU: 200 Winter/Spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, www.cvuhs. org/access. Core Strength, Weight Training, Zumba, Yoga (4 choices), Swing or Ballroom,
WORKING W/ FIBROMYALGIA: Mar. 26-27, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $275/($250 if paid by Mar. 5; $50 nonrefundable if you withdraw after Mar. 5); 16 CEUs. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington, VT. Info: Dianne Swafford, 802-734-1121, swaf fordperson@hotmail.com. The principles of Ortho-Bionomy can be applied in many different circumstances and situations, providing participants with more specialized approaches and applications. This class focuses on the characteristics of fibromyalgia and the stressors that may help create the physical imbalances that cause its discomfort. We will explore the ways in which Ortho-Bionomy can help those with fibromyalgia. Terri Lee, instructor.
computers COMPUTER CLASSES IN HINESBURG: 200 winter/spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802482-7194, www.cvuhs.org/ac cess. Computer & Internet Basics Tutorial, iWant iPods & iPhones, Google Aps, Improve Your Internet Experience, Windows Security: File and Control Panels, OpenOffice, Google Sketch Up, Skype, PowerPoint, Publisher, MS Word Basics and More, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up: The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, Website Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Web Essentials, Social Networking for Families, Personalized Lessons. Full descriptions online. Senior discount 65+.
craft CRAFT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU: 200 winter/spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-4827194, www.cvuhs.org/access. Beach Glass Birdbath, Mosaic Birdbath, Tiffany-Style Garden Frame, Woodworking, Welding, Wood Carving, Bead/Wire Jewelry Making, Metalsmithing, Spindle and Knobs, Wooden Bowl Turning, Rug Hooking: 2 levels, 3 Bag Sewing, Pillows Sewing, Clothes-Making Skills, Crochet, Cheap/Dirty Framing, Mosaic
cooking CULINARY ARTS: 200 winter/ spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, www.cvuhs. org/access. One-night hands-on classes where you eat well! Thai Cuisine, Vietnamese Specialties, Turkish, Colombian Specialties, Indian, Dim Sum, Szechuan, Moroccan, Greek Coastal, Argentinian, Chicken Parm Classico, Winter Soups/Foccacia, Beef Bourguignon, Raw Foods, Gelato, Berry Pie, Valentine Cookies, Cheese Making: Chevre/Feta From Goat’s Milk. Full descriptions online. Senior Discount 65+.
series begins this Thursday, Feb. 3. 7-8 p.m. Beginning Salsa. A great way to get started and make some new friends. Then, 8-9 p.m. very cool “Ladies Styling” with Shannon and some amazing turning combinations. Interested in checking the newest dance craze in Burlington. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., near Lake Champlain Chocolates, just behind New World Tortilla, Burlington. Info: Sabrina, 802-540-0044, www. southendstudiovt.com. Why take lessons from us? David has been teaching salsa dancing in Burlington for over 12 years now. Little Known Fact #3: David has taught everyone that is teaching in Burlington how to Salsa! “David’s a great teacher. He’s the best!” -DJ Raul, Amigos Entertainment. “David was my first salsa dance teacher.”-Angel, Zumba instructor. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Cost: $13/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@ salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., 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! LEARN TO SWING DANCE: Cost: $60/6-week series ($50 for students/seniors). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: www.lindyver mont.com, 802-860-7501. Great fun, exercise and socializing, with fabulous music. Learn in a welcoming and lighthearted environment. Classes start every six weeks: Tuesdays for beginners; Wednesdays for upper levels. Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl.
davis studio dance BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: Location: The Champlain Club, Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 802-598-6757, kevin@ firststepdance.com, www. FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance! BURLINGTON’S BEST SALSA: DAVID LARSON & SOUTH END STUDIO: Burlington’s newest (& nicest) place to dance. Yes! Now there are 2 salsa dance studios in Burlington. New class
DESIGNER JEANS: Feb. 1-15, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $100/class. Location: Davis Studio, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, info@ davisstudiovt.com. Learn to embellish jeans by focusing on applique, stitching, sewing and printing techniques to create a one-of-a-kind pair of designer jeans! Bring in the jeans in your life that need a little lift. We will provide all other necessary materials. Register online at www. davisstudiovt.com. Adult class. Instructor: Claudia Venon. PRINTING ON FABRIC: Feb. 1-15, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $100/class. Location: Davis Studio, 4 Howard St., Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, info@davisstudiovt.com. Learn DAVIS STUDIO
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PRINT: DRYPOINT: Feb. 16-Mar. 23, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $175/nonmembers, $157.50 BCA/members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Discover the ancient
Call 802-865-7166 for info or register online at BurlingtonCityArts.com. Teacher bios are also available online.
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Garden Frame, Cake Decorating (3 choices), Knitting (3 choices), Hula-Hoop Making. Full descriptions online. Senior discount 65+. TOKENS OF LOVE VALENTINE CARDS: Feb. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $20/2-hour hands-on workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-865-4372, info@purpleshut ter.com, www.purpleshutter. com. Come for a cozy evening of creativity, making beautiful keepsake Valentines. All the supplies & inspiration will be provided, along with tea, chocolate & patient assistance. We’ll be working with glass gems, glittery gold paint, fabric, collage/decoupage & more. Each participant will be able to make several to take home.
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PHOTO: VACATION CAMP: Feb. 22-25, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Cost: $150/nonmembers, $135/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Explore digital photography in this four-day vacation camp! This camp will include guided photo shoots in downtown Burlington and will cover the basics of making edits in Photoshop. Students will also print their own 8x10 images on our photo printer. Bring a charged camera and cords on the first day. No experience necessary. Ages 9 to 12. Limit: 6.
Salsa, Hip Hop, Jazzercise, Clawhammer Banjo (2 levels), Voice-Overs, Guitar (2 levels), Beg. Piano, Piano: Return to Keyboard, SongBasket: Karen Sutherland, Creative Dance 4-7 year olds, Mindful Meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique, Mother’s Day Manicure, Soapmaking, Fabulous Facial, Energy Medicine, and Juggling. Full descriptions online. Senior discount 65+.
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CLAY: TEAPOTS & JARS: Feb. 12Mar. 19, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $175/nonmembers, $157.50/BCA members. Clay sold separately @ $20/25 lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Have you wanted to work in sets? Learn new techniques to help you throw and shape precisely. Must be able to center and pull walls with at least two pounds of clay. Over 20 hours per week of open studio time included in addition to the class! Limit: 10. DESIGN: ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR: Mar. 14-Apr. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $185/nonmembers, $166.50/ BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator: Lay out and design posters and
FASHION DRAWING WORKSHOP: Mar. 12-13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $115/nonmembers, $103.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Learn the skills of fashion drawing in just a weekend! Figure drawing, garment rendering, design concepts and drawing from a live model. Join a low-pressure and fun environment while learning sketching tools you’ll use again and again. Recommended for the home sewer, art student, aspiring or accomplished designer, and more! Limit: 10.
printing technique of drypoint, which is etching onto materials such as plexiglass and copper. This method is wonderful for artists who love to draw and want detailed prints with an almost painterly quality. No experience needed. Over 20 hours per week of open studio time! Limit: 10. PRINT: SILKSCREENING: Feb. 10Mar. 17, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $195/nonmembers, $175.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Design and print posters, T-shirts, fine art and more! Learn a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using handdrawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use a silkscreen exposure unit. Cost includes over 20 hours per week of open studio hours. Limit: 8. PHOTO: HDR TECHNIQUES: Mar. 15-Apr. 5, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $195/nonmembers, $175.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn how to capture brilliant color images with incredible detail in both shadow and highlight areas using High Dynamic Range photography. Landscape, architectural and night photography applications will be covered. Participants can print archival prints on our Epson 3880 printer. Intro Film/Digital SLR/equivalent experience, basic Photoshop or Lightroom experience. Limit: 6. WATERCOLOR: Feb. 16-Mar. 23, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $135/nonmembers, $121.50/BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper and gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade. Class may move outdoors to paint en plein air on nice days! Limit: 12.
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BANJO: Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-4827194, www.cvuhs.org. Intro to Clawhammer Banjo with Pete Sutherland, Mondays, 5:306:45 p.m., 12 weeks beginning February 7. Limit: 10. Fee: $125. Designed for guitar players or those with some string experience, Pete focuses on the elements of Americana music on the five-string banjo. Also presented: Advanced Beginner Clawhammer, Mondays, 7:158:30 p.m., 12 weeks, beginning February 7. Limit: 10. Fee: $125. Pete will take those with a beginner’s knowledge of banjo and introduce the next level of play to all. Two great offerings.
other single-page documents. Students will explore a variety of software techniques and will create projects suited to their own interests. This class is suited for beginners who are interested in furthering their design software skills. Limit: 6.
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how to effectively use stencils, carve your own linoleum blocks, and even print with potatoes to create unique, sophisticated or whimsical designs. You can print onto pillowcases, dish towels, placemats, curtains and anything else you can dream of! Register online at www.davisstudiovt. com. Adult class. Instructor: Erike White. FIGURE DRAWING FOR MODEST INDIVIDUALS: Jan. 5-Feb. 23, 6:30-8 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $15/cash or check due upon arrival. No preregistration necessary. Location: Davis Studio Gallery, 404 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 802-425-2700, info@davisstudiovt.com. This weekly drop-in gives you the opportunity to practice drawing the human figure. The model will be fully clothed. Bring your own sketchbook and drawing materials (pencils, charcoal, etc.) or use what we provide. Learn tips to help you draw the human figure. Beginners are welcome. Register online at www.davisstudiovt. com. Adult class. Facilitator: Clark Derbes.
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dreams INTRODUCTION TO DREAMWORK: Feb. 17-Mar. 10, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $60/class. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802244-7909. Learn how to work with your dreams, connect to your inner life and empower yourself in a safe, supportive setting. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.
empowerment EMPOWERMENT CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU: 200 Winter/Spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, www.cvuhs.org/access. Lose Weight, Feel Great, Genealogy, Beekeeping, Fly Fishing, Foreign Affairs, Write Better, Resumes, Garden Jumpstart, Container Gardening, Pruning Trees, Goats, Islam and the Western World, Donner Party Story, Solar Energy 101, Bio Fuels 101, Energy=R We?, Cinema Club, Map & Compass, Motorcycle Awareness, The Toddler Years, Fathers & Children Together Group, Bridge (2 levels), Mah Jongg, Knots, VT Architecture, Civil War Book of Days, Grief Etiquette, Suburban
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gardening BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO SEASONALLY BLOOMING PLANTS: Feb. 9, 12-12:45 p.m.. Location: Gardener’s Supply Williston Store, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 802-6582433. Lunch & Learn Educational Series. Instructed by Judith Keyes. Registration not required. Free. GROWING HERBS INDOORS: Feb. 23, 12-12:45 p.m.. Location: Gardener’s Supply Williston Store, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 802-658-2433. Lunch & Learn Educational Series. Instructed by Denyse Butler-Ayres. Registration not required. Free. MASTER GARDENER 2011 COURSE: Feb. 1-Apr. 26, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Tue. Cost: $365/ incl. Sustainable Gardening book. Late fee: $20 after Jan. 25. Noncredit course. Location: Various locations, Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Center, Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, Waterbury, White River Junction. Info: 802-656-9562, master. gardener@uvm.edu, www.uvm. edu/mastergardener. Learn how to create a healthy and sustainable home landscape. A wide variety of horticultural topics are covered: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany, soil fertility, plant pests, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plants, and more! UVM faculty experts focus on gardening in Vermont! SOIL BASICS: WHAT YOU MUST KNOW TO START A GARDEN: Feb. 16, 12-12:45 p.m.. Location: Gardener’s Supply Williston Store, 472 Marshall Ave., Williston. Info: 802-658-2433. Lunch & Learn Educational Series. Instructed by Mike Ather. Registration not required. Free.
healing MONTHLY READING/HEALING: First Thursday of every month at 6 p.m. Mark you calendar accordingly. Doors will be locked after attendees arrive so there will be no interruptions. Cost: $20/ donation required. Location: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Rt. 7, Milton. Info: 802-893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo. com. The healings will be given before the readings begin so that it would raise the energy vibration of the event. This would include the whole group, holding hands, sitting in a circle. The process includes the healing energy “knowing” that all are filled and surrounded with healing energy for their highest good. This energy can be “sent” also while this
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healing arts USUI REIKI: 1ST DEGREE: Feb. 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $175/6-hr. class (NCBTMB approved provider). Location: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Hinesburg. Info: Vermont Center for Energy Medicine, Cindy Carse, 802-9859580, cindy@energymedicinevt. com, www.energymedicinevt. com. Learn this ancient healing art that facilitates health on all levels (body, mind and spirit). Many find Reiki to be a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation. In this class you will be attuned to Reiki and trained to practice Reiki on your self, loved ones and animals.
herbs 150-HOUR CHINESE HERB PROGRAM: Sep. 24-Jun. 18, 2:15 p.m., Monthly on the 4th Mon. Cost: $1,750/150 hours. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160 scott@ elementsofhealing.net., element sofhealing@verizon.net, This program will teach the fundamentals of Chinese medicine theory as well as a detailed study of assessment skills. We will cover well over 100 commonly used herbs and formulas for health and illness. This class is appropriate for beginners as well as other health care practitioners. HONORING HERBAL TRADITION 2011: Cost: $850/9 a.m.-5 p.m. 1 Sat./mo. for 8 mos. Location: Horsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Info: Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 802-893-0521, htherbs@comcast.net, www. Horsetailherbs.org. Herbal Apprenticeship program held on a horse farm. Covers herbal therapies; nutritional support; diet; detox; body systems; medicine making; plant identification; tea tasting; plant spirit medicine and animal communication; wild foods; field trips; iridology; women’s, children’s, men’s and animal health! Textbook and United Plant Saver membership included. VSAC grants available. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wisdom of the Herbs Certification Program begins April 23-24, 2011, & runs 1 weekend a mo. through Nov. We are currently interviewing for this program. Wild Edibles Spring Term will be held May 8, Jun. 5 & Jul. 10. Plan ahead & apply now for VSAC nondegree grant for 2011 programs while funds are plentiful. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 802-456-8122, annie@ wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www.wisdomoftheherbsschool. com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local, wild, edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.
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JEWELRY: STACKING RINGS WORKSHOP: Mar. 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $75/nonmembers, $67.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Info: 802-865-7166. Make a set of silver rings that you can stack up together on one finger to wear individually in this daylong workshop. This is a great intro into the world of jewelry making, while creating a finished, stylish product. Some basic supplies and equipment will be provided. Limit: 12.
PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS?: Location: At your home or scheduled meeting place, Burlington, Mad River Valley, Stowe, Montpelier. Info: 802-496-7859, yvescompere@yahoo.com. Communication and vocabulary enrichment, some grammar review. Fun and useful. Taught by Yves Compere, French native.
language FRENCH CLASSES THIS SPRING!: Classes from March 7 to May 19. Cost: $225/per 10-week session. Location: Alliance-Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, #304 Dupont Building, 123 Ethan Allen Ave., Colchester. Info: Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region, Micheline Tremblay, 802-4970420, michelineatremblay@ gmail.com, http://www.aflcr.org/ classes.shtml. Study French at the Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region! Five 10-week classes: Beginning, Intermediate A, Intermediate B, Spoken French I, Spoken French II. More info/registration, 802-497-0420 or www. aflcr.org/classes.shtml. JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: Level 1: Tue., 7-8:30. Level 2: Thu., 7-8:30. Cost: $195/10 1.5-hr. classes. Location: St. Michael’s College, 1 Winooski Park, Colchester. Info: Japan-America Society of Vermont, Larry Solt, 802-865-3113, l.solt@burling tontelecom.net, www. jasv.org. The Japan-America Society of Vermont (JASV) is again offering Japanese language lessons. Beginning Japanese Language Classes, Levels 1 and 2, will be offered starting February 8 and 10. LANGUAGE CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU: 200 winter/ spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, www.cvuhs. org/access. Beginner French, Conversational Immersion French with Laure Angel, Spanish (3 levels plus Advanced Conversational Spanish), Italian for Travelers, Beginning Mandarin (2 levels), German for Beginners. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Full descriptions online. Senior discount 65+. LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 802-5851025, spanishparavos@gmail. com, www.spanishwater burycenter.com. Expand your opportunities and connect with a new world. We provide highquality, affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, teens and children. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. See our website for
martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory special: Join by February 1st and receive a three month membership and uniform for $175. Adult introductory classes meet on Tue. & Thu. at 6:45 p.m. Classes for adults, children (ages 5-12) & teenagers meet 7 days/week. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal and Light), Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. Aikido is a dynamic Japanese martial art that promotes physical and mental harmony through the use of breathing exercises, aerobic conditioning, circular movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. We also teach sword/ staff arts and knife defense. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 7-17. AIKIDO: Tue.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m.; Sat., 9-10 a.m.; & Sun., 1011:30 a.m. Visitors are always welcome. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 802-862-9785, www.vermontaikido.org. Aikido training teaches body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Adult Beginners Class: Intro to Aikido Practice, four consecutive Tuesday evening classes beginning February 2. Class time 6 to 7:30 p.m. Intro Class fee of $60 includes beginner’s uniform. COMBAT FITNESS MMA: Mon.Sat. Location: Combat Fitness MMA, 201 Main St., Winooski. Info: Combat Fitness MMA, Vince Guy, 802-655-1035, vteguy25@ gmail.com, combatfitnessmma. com. Certified and experienced instruction in Brazilian jujitsu, muay Thai kickboxing, boxing, MMA and fitness for adults and children; from beginners to the serious competitor. Pro shop. Home of Catamount BJJ. Trial classes and punchcards available. Student/military/law enforcement discount. Most reasonable prices in the area. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 802660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, www.vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill
courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian JiuJitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian JiuJitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5,000/500-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, www.elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. Program starting September 2011. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB assigned school.
meditation INTEGRATED AWARENESS MEDITATION: A MEDITATION WORKSHOP: Feb. 12, 2-6 p.m. Cost: $75/workshop. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802658-9440, www.vtcyt.com. We will practice meditation by focusing on optimal posture, breath and balance through the principles of the Alexander Technique. We will use creative visualizations and guided meditations to liberate the wisdom of our hearts. A wonderful introduction to meditation for beginners and an opportunity for experienced meditators to go deeper. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Café 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.burlingtonshambhal actr.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
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movement Burlington Dances Open Studio: Feb. 5th & 6th, all weekend long! Visit the website for early registration discounts for workshops. Free classes too! Location: Burlington Dances, Chace Mill, top floor, 1 Mill Street, suite 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, info@burlington dances.com, BurlingtonDances. com. From beginning students to those seeking mastery of movement at the highest level, this is a fantastic opportunity to feel how somatic awareness practices such as Delsarte, Pilates, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Feldenkrais can support your body, mind and spirit in creative movement, social dancing, and dance as a healing art.
as much hands-on, instinctual knowledge as possible. Sound architecture in composition, and an understanding of light, shadow and color will be covered. Both a live model and still life will be used to work from.
photography CAMERA CLASSES IN HINESBURG AT CVU: 200 winter/ spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, www. cvuhs.org/access. Photoshop Basics, Digital Camera: Buttons/ Menus, Share Photos, Aperture Info, Shutter Speed Skills, Digital Spectrum, Next Layers of Photoshop, Advanced Digital Photography: Blending/Filters. Full descriptions online. Senior discount 65+. Winter Classes-One-onOne Private Classes of your choice: Cost: $69/half day, $120/full day. Location: Linda Rock Photography, Essex Jct. Info: 802-238-9540, lrphotography@comcast.net. Beginner Digital Photography, Intermediate Digital Photography, Digital Workflow, Lighting Techniques, Set Up Your Photo Business, People Posing, Basic Photoshop and more. See what we offer at www.linda rockphotography.com for more details. Sign up today!
psychology Mythology: Feb. 16-Apr. 6, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $75/ class. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-2447909. Discover some of the myths you are living in this Jungoriented workshop. Led by Sue Mehrtens, author and teacher.
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Druidry Training in VT: 1 weekend/mo. for 9 mos. in the year. Cost: $1,700/9 weekend sessions throughout the year. Location: Dreamland, Worcester. Info: The Green Mountain Druid Order, Ivan McBeth, 802-5058010, ivanmcbeth@aol.com, www.greenmountaindruidorder. org. A three-year training of selftransformation in preparation to become a caretaker of the Earth: an empowered human being, capable of communicating with nature and other humans, radiating peace and healing. We provide the map and the method, you provide the enthusiasm and commitment. Come change the world with us! The New Dispensation: Feb. 11-Mar. 4, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Fri. Cost: $60/class. Location: 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909. Learn about the new form of religious expression that Carl Jung felt would be appropriate for the Age of Aquarius in this experiential course rooted in the Biblical teachings of Jesus.
Wood Turning: Location: CVU High School, 10 min. from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-4827194, www.cvuhs.org. Spindles and Knobs: Intro to the Lathe with Ralph Tursini, Thursday afternoon or evening for two weeks beginning February 10. Limit: 6 per time slot. Fee: $95. Also, Wooden Bowl Turning for Beginners, Thursday afternoon and evening beginning March 3. Limit 6. Fee: $135.
tai chi Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 802-8647902, www.iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill. Yang-Style Tai Chi: Beginning Jan. 12, Yang Style Tai Chi Part 1 Beginner’s class, Wed., 5:306:50 p.m. $150 for 10 classes. All levels on Sat., 8:15-9:45 a.m. $16/class; monthly: $60/1 class per week, $115/2 classes per week. 3 calendar mos.: $160/1 class, $275/2 classes per week. Beginning in Feb.: Yang Style Tai Chi Part 2. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., #5, Burlington. Info: 802-318-6238.
writing Writing Grants that Win: Feb. 18-25, 9:30 a.m. Cost: $149/ per workshop (one on 18th; one on 25th). Location: Vermont College of Fine Arts, 36 College St., Montpelier. Info: Mad River Educational Services, William Ritke-Jones, 802-279-3876, wjones@madriveredu.com, madriveredu.com. Do you need to learn how to write grant proposals or just improve your grant-writing skills? Register today for one or both of these grant-writing workshops: Writing Grants That Win, Parts I & II; or a 5-week grant-writing course. To register and for more information, go to http://madriveredu. com.
yoga Drop-in Yoga with Deb Sherrer: Every Fri. this winter, 12-1:30 p.m. Cost: $12/class. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, www.vtcyt.com. Move. Breathe. Strengthen. Relax. A Vajra-inspired class, with Deb Sherrer, CYT, MA, that focuses on alignment, breath-informed movement, mindfulness and indepth poses to enhance strength, flexibility and grounding. Leave class with a greater sense of wellbeing and relaxation. All levels welcome. EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels from $5-$14, conveniently located in Burlington. 10-class cards and unlimited memberships
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REIKI (USUI) LEVEL 1: Cost: $175/Sat., Feb. 12, 9:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. Location: Rising Sun Healing Center, 35 King St., Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, 802-881-1866, chris@risingsun healing.com, www.risingsun healing.com. Learn this powerful hands-on healing art for healing and personal growth and be able to give Reiki energy to yourself an others by the end of the class. Plenty of in-class practice. Learn the history of Reiki, and ethics of a Reiki practitioner. Individual sessions and classes available. Member VRA. Reiki II Class Okuden: Feb. 12-13, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: $175/10-hr. class. Location: HeartSong Reiki, Stockbridge. Info: HeartSong Reiki, Kelly McDermott-Burns, 802-7468834, kelly@heartsongreiki.com, www.heartsongreiki.com. This class will introduce the first three Reiki symbols. The student will experience the energy of each symbol through the three attunements, use of the precepts, jumon and mantras. Meditation techniques will be practiced. A manual and certificate included. Reiki I Shoden: February 19 and
Snowkiting Lessons: Daily lessons while ice is safe (generally Jan.-April). Cost: $120/3-hr. beginner class ($95 for 2-hr. advanced). Location: Lake Champlain, Sand Bar State Park, South Hero/Milton. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@storm boarding.com, www.stormboard ing.com. Snowkite in your first lesson! Use the same alpine, tele or snowboard as on the mountain. We provide experienced, professional, fun instruction and modern gear. Great for skiers/ riders ages 10 to no limit, cruise or go big. Makes an excellent gift. Gear discount after lesson. Lesson/gear gift certificates available.
available for discounted rates. Mon.-Fri. @ 4:30 p.m., class is only $5!. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt. com, www.evolutionvt.com. Evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner-advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, Anusarainspired, Kripalu, and Iyengar yoga. Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre/ postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/evoblog. Laughing River Yoga: Daily yoga classes & monthly yoga workshops. $13 drop in; $110 for 10 classes. By-donation classes (pay what you can) Mon.-Fri. at 9 a.m. & Mon.-Thu. at 7:30 p.m. Location: Laughing River Yoga, 1 Mill St., Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: Laughing River Yoga, 802-343-8119, emily@ laughingriveryoga.com, www. laughingriveryoga.com. Yoga studio now open downstairs in the Chace Mill. Experienced and compassionate teachers offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Flow, Yin, Restorative, Kundalini, Iyengar and Groove yoga. Educate yourself with monthly workshops and class series. Lots of light. River view. Parking. All levels welcome! Deepen your understanding of who you are. Reiki and Restorative Yoga for Clarity and Health: Feb. 20, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $30 Location: Vermont Center for Yoga and Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, S. Burlington. Info: 802-658-9440, www.vtcyt.com. Restorative Yoga & Reiki, bringing two ancient modalities together in a 2-hour workshop. Offer your body permission to relax and your mind spaciousness to follow suit. Feel the profound effects of these simple & rejuvenating practices, incorporating light and touch on the major chakras. No yoga experience necessary. Instructed by Anne Martin and Jane Jarecki Lanza. Yoga Vermont: Location: 113 Church St., 4th floor, Burlington. Info: 802-238-0594, www. yogavermont.com. Gift certificates are available. Daily drop-in classes. Ashtanga, Vinyasa, gentle and yoga teacher training. Experienced instructors-we would love to share our practices with you. www.yogavermont.com. Yoga with Joe Williams: Sat. Feb. 5, 8:15 AM OR Sun. Feb. 6, 10:00 AM. Cost: $15/1.5-hr. class. Location: Burlington Dances (Chace Mill, Upstairs), 1 Mill St., ste. 372, Burlington. Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, Lucille@NaturalBodiesPilates. com, BurlingtonDances.com. Welcoming the Wobble-Balance at Play for Yoga and Life. Our wobbles becomes our guides, leading us closer to our own center. For many people yoga balance poses can feel intimidating to anyone with balance challenges. This class playfully uses simple balance experiences for greater tranquility, ease and grace. m
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Letterpress Printing Workshop: 3 workshops offered: 2/5, noon-5 p.m.; 2/12, noon-5 p.m.; and 2/19, noon-5 p.m. Limit of 3 students per workshop. Cost: $200/4-5/ hr. class. Location: Zoe Ink Studio, 266 Pine St., Suite 103, Burlington. Info: Zoe Ink, Zoe, 802-863-1468, zoe@zoeink.com, zoeink.com. Learn to print on a 1930 Platen Press at the Zoe Ink Studio. You will learn the basics including the general mechanics of the press, as well as preparing the press for printing. We will work with photopolymer plates to create the finished product. Take home 35 cards you print.
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Color Theory w/ Natasha Bogar: Mar. 2-23, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $115 Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www. helenday.com. Color is the base for many art forms, however the topic of color is far from basic. Learning about color theory and a touch of physics can help bring your designs to another level of interest and intention. This course will include interactive slide shows, a progression of hands-on painting exercises and written material covering the course content. FAUX PAINTING AND TROMPE L’OEIL: Thu., Feb. 3-17, & Mar. 3-10, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Cost: $165/ class. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday. com. Explore faux and tromp l’oeil (deceive the eye) painting. Learn about decorative techniques such as faux wood grain, stone, brick, marbling, stucco and foliage motifs that can be used in a variety of applications. Work from sketches all the way to a final product. Basic drawing skills helpful, but not required. Instructor: Rick Loya. 10% discounts for members. Painting Alla Prima w/ Susie Amato: Feb. 25-27, 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m. Cost: $385 Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 802-253-8358, www.helenday.com. In this intensive workshop with a master teacher you will engage in a serious dialogue with your work. This class will help arm painters with
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depending on format. Location: Core Studio Pilates and Personal Training, 431 Pine Street, Suite 101, Burlington. Info: Core Studio Pilates and Personal Training, Kathy Brunette, 802-862-8686, kathy@corestudioburlington. com, corestudioburlington. com. Enjoy the amazing mind/ body benefits of Pilates, Yoga, Massage & the challenge of Personal Training with high quality, professionally led classes 7 days a week. Mat, reformer & boot camp classes (which include Spinning, TRX, strength, balance & EXO Chair options) are available in our warm & friendly studio.
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ince meeting at a small gathering for black old-time musicians in 2005, the Carolina Chocolate Drops have become one of the most successful young string bands in the country. The North Carolina-based trio, mentored by legendary fiddler Joe Thompson, draws on a rich yet largely underappreciated component of American old-time music: black string bands. Infusing an appreciation for tradition with modern sensibilities and techniques, the Carolina Chocolate Drops represent something deeper than mere revivalism. They represent a musical evolution. Seven Days caught up with Chocolate Drops banjo player Dom Flemons by phone in advance of the band’s upcoming gig at the Barre Opera House on Saturday, February 5.
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SEVEN DAYS: Was it surprising for you to learn that there was such a rich history of black string-band music? DOM FLEMONS: Oh, absolutely. We all had some sort of notion about it when we came to the Black Banjo Gathering in 2005. But, for the most part, it was just kind of a gradual thing that we all learned about. We didn’t really know about any of this music either, just like anybody else. And even as we’ve played, we’re still learning more about it, too. SD: Given that traditional music has been steadily growing in popularity, why is it only recently that people are developing an interest in black old-time? DF: The string-band music and country music that’s been popular, that’s the easy stuff to get. It’s, like, if you get into ’60s rock, the Beatles are the first thing you’re going to come up with. But then you can get into other bands like the Zombies or the Hollies. But that’s not going to be what happens first. SD: If you were to listen to black string-band music in a vacuum, what would be the stylistic and thematic differences from what most people associate with old-time? DF: It matters who you’re talking about. It’s very much a Southern thing, but also was a function of where the music was [made] in the Southern culture. And that’s true with both black and white string-band music. SD: So it’s geographically specific? DF: There’s more rural stuff and there’s stuff that’s more urban. Like, the Grand Ole Opry is an urbanized version of
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hillbilly music. So, what happened was that people were coming from the outer reaches of Nashville, from the country, into Nashville to play the music. Then, that was broadcast outside of Nashville. And even those guys, they knew a lot of black string bands growing up in the country parts of middle Tennessee. But the black string bands were very different because they evolved into blues bands and jug bands … so you find examples of those, too. Like, Jim and Andrew Baxter, for example. They have a very urban sound, and they were from a part of Georgia where there was a more urban and cleaner sound. Then there are folks who were recorded in the field, not on a commercial record. SD: And what were the stylistic differences there? DF: The more rural sound is often a more syncopated sound. The banjo tends to have a different roll. It’s almost like funk bass, where it’s really, really wild and syncopated, while the fiddle is holding down the tune. Other times the black string band sounds just like white string bands, which is one of the reasons it never really caught on — it wasn’t different enough. The public at the time wanted to hear the blacker music done by black people, not the white-derived music from black people. The same thing happened with religious music. People drifted away from the white-derived black spirituals, and gospel became the thing after that because it was a blacker form of expression.
SD: So, it’s sort of like the difference between Motown and Stax, where one was a more polished, groomed sound and the other a grittier, more natural type of soul music. DF: That’s right. And you can see the differences there, culturally. In Detroit and Memphis, you have two different sets of people and two different audiences and different music communities happening. Soul music is actually a very good comparison with how black string bands worked. SD: Traditional music seems to be experiencing something of a youth movement, both in terms of drawing younger fans, and younger bands starting to explore the genre and take it in new directions. Why is it resonating with youth culture more now? DF: I think the interest has always been there. But I think it’s different enough from the popular music that people are hearing that they’re drawn to it and want to try it out. I mean, it’s not rocket science to play old-time music. It’s very simple. Some people go at it with a punk aesthetic, where it’s simple and you can just wail away on it and play as hard as you can, which is good enough in itself. But there are more outlets now, too, especially festivals. And there are movies like O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Ghost World and a movie that inspired us, Louie Bluie. Even things like Johnny Cash’s American Recordings, Tom Waits doing old-time music on Mule Variations — those sorts of things have permeated
and started changing the pieces of the puzzle to make it something new. SD: So it’s evolution. DF: Right. The Carolina Chocolate Drops, we’re going to end up like the first rock-and-roll singers, where we’re kind of older to these younger kids wanting to play old-time music, too. Like, you see Chuck Berry and Bill Haley … they’re not young people. Those people were doing other types of music and hitting middle age when they were playing for younger people. Then the younger people take it somewhere else — Buddy Holly, or anybody on Sun Records. SD: You mentioned a “punk aesthetic.” Do you see parallels between folk music and genres like punk and hip-hop? DF: Absolutely. And you mentioned hiphop — people haven’t delved into that aspect too much, yet, which I’m really waiting on. I can’t wait to see somebody else do it. The idea in my head is to have a country-blues album and have hip-hop artists do it, but do it pretty straight. Cee Lo Green’s new song, [“F*** You”], that could work. Or even “Tightrope” by Janelle Monae, you could make that into a string-band number. There are parallels all over the place.
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Apropos of nothing: It might be way too early/ borderline cruel for most of us to start thinking about the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. But as yousAy PlAcAte keyboardist and all-around swell guy PArker shPer was rocking with his new Montréal-based
neo-soul outfit groundfood at Nectar’s this past Friday, I couldn’t prevent my thoughts from lazily drifting toward those hazy nights in June when all of Burlington is a stage. This is hardly going out on a limb since (1) BDJF honcho briAn MitAl was also in attendance that night; and (2) the band is signed to BDJF Swiss army knife lisA giordAno’s New Vogue label, but I’m venturing a guess that these cats might end up with a gig or three during our annual funky fortnight. And that would be a very good thing indeed — especially if they’re playing outside. Think spring…
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Oh, yeah, and some guys named PAge and Jon… Best of luck to Johnson and all the folks at Pete’s Greens. And thanks, once again, to all the fans, artists and organizations that have chipped in and reminded me just why the hell we live here. Especially this time of year, we could all use a little heartwarming, right?
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If there is anyone in the state who could really use a hug right about now, it’s probably Pete Johnson of Pete’s Greens farm in Craftsbury. On Wednesday, January 12, Johnson’s winter food storage and processing facilities were destroyed in a fire. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the blaze. Unfortunately, Johnson’s losses are devastating, and threaten the future of one of Vermont’s beloved veggie producers. One of the comforting things about living in a closeknit community, such as we have in these here Green Mountains, is that when one person is in dire straits, others tend to respond quickly. (Another nifty thing: You can use the phrase “beloved veggie producers” and actually mean it.) Vermonters have a long history of using music to help neighbors in need. When Burlington DJs A-dog and Mike device lost their apartments in a fire in 2008, the community responded with a series of benefit shows and helped the turntablists get back on their feet. When lovable bouncer Mikey vAn gulden was nearly killed after being struck by a cab riding his bike home from Higher
Ground that same summer, there you were again, rocking out while opening your hearts and wallets to lend him a hand. Same for dAryl rAbidoux following his near-fatal car accident, also in the summer of 2008. Wow, 2008 really sucked. Moving on… The cost of getting Pete’s Greens back in business will likely be staggering. But here you are again. And you’re bringing some phriends. Thursday, February 3, Love Tomorrow Today, Select Design, Healthy Living and Gardener’s Supply will join forces to present quite possibly the biggest benefit show we’ve seen in years: “Hug Your Farmer: A Night of Music to Benefit Pete’s Greens” at the Higher Ground Ballroom. What warrants the hyperbole? I’m glad you asked. The show, which sold out shortly before this issue went to press, will feature a slew of local musical talent lending their axes — and drums and horns, and keyboards, etc. — to the cause for a colossal jam session. As of this writing, the lineup includes russ lAwton and rAy PAczkowski of the trey AnAstAsio bAnd, bob wAgner, clint bierMAn and Peter dAy from the grift, rich Price from the sweet reMAins, JoshuA PAndA, Mike clifford
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Nectar’s. Levinson is coming off quite a year in 2010, presumably highlighted by gettin’ hitched to local neosoul siren MYRA FLYNN. She knows a thing or two about songwriter circles herself, having hosted them regularly at a number of local clubs over the years. Her husband must have been taking notes, as he’s lined up an impressive roster of talent. First up this week: ANDREW PARKERRENGA and MARYSE SMITH. Future sessions will include Lendway’s Mike Clifford, WAYLON SPEED’s KELLY RAVIN, ZACK DUPONT and STRENGTH IN NUMBERS’ EMMA FRANK, among others. Check it out every Saturday in February. Band Name of the Week:
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the name, not as psyched about the funky jams. But as far as I know, these guys are the best band ever to come out of Poultney, Vt. OK, they might be the only band from Poultney. But still. Everybody has to start somewhere, right? They’ll be at Radio Bean this Friday.
received reunion gigs in Montpelier late last year, reintroduce themselves to the city they called home at the early part of the century. Welcome back, gents. Most folks probably know DON SHELDON as the man behind the annual Valley Stage Festival in Huntington. Sheldon has helmed the small outdoor fest for the past five summers, scoring such notable acts as THE GREENCARDS, RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM, THE DUHKS, ANAÏS MITCHELL, and ROBBIE FULKS, among many others of local and national renown. Not content to only ply his trade during the three-and-a-half warm weeks we call summer, Sheldon is branching out under the banner of Valley Stage Productions, and partnering with area clubs to present shows similar in both sound and spirit to his main event. The first such gig is this Thursday at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge with Valley Stage vets the DEFIBULATORS and local whiskey-grass hot shots GOLD TOWN. By the way, if the former band sounds familiar, it may be because I mention the Brooklyn-based
punk-grass outfit almost every time they’re in the area, solely because they own my all-time favorite PR quip: “Like ‘Hee-Haw’ on mescaline.” Future VSP shows include THE WOES in March and the DOC MARSHALLS in May,
Metronome this Thursday with ILA MAWANA and local funky bunch BEARQUARIUM. And finally, I’ll leave you with a riddle: What is red and white — like, really, really white — has 16
both at Higher Ground. In other Valley Stage news, Sheldon just announced this summer’s festival headliner: DANNY BARNES. We’ll have more on that story once the mercury climbs above freezing. Welcome back, GANG OF THIEVES! The young rock outfit is back on native soil after seeking its fortune for a time on the left coast. They’ve returned home to work on a new record and make tour plans for the summer. They’ll be at Club
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Comin’, Boston’s THE MOLENES have been tearing up both the Freeform American Roots and Americana Music Association charts — two of the more reliable resources for twangy goodness. A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, the band trades in a boozy blend of cowpunk, alt-country and rockabilly that turns even the swankiest club into a sawdust-floored juke joint. This week the band plays a pair of VT dates: Friday, February 4, at Nectar’s with WAYLON SPEED, and Saturday, February 5, at Montpelier’s
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51 MAIN: Soule Monde (funk), 9 p.m., Free. CITY LIMITS: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.
02.02.11-02.09.11
ON THE RISE BAKERY: Stone Cold Roosters (country), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
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CLUB METRONOME: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5. FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. THE GREEN ROOM: Bonjour-Hi! presents Gucci Crew Saturdays (electro), 10 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: Barefoot Truth, Pulse Prophets (reggae, acoustic pop), 8:30 p.m., $12/15. AA. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Justin Townes Earle, Jessica Lea Mayfield (alt-country), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA. JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. MARRIOTT HARBOR LOUNGE: The Trio featuring Paul Cassarino, Tracie Cassarino & Jeff Wheel (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. MONKEY HOUSE: MiniBoone, Villanelles, Parmaga (indie), 9 p.m., $5.
RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
RADIO BEAN: Tracy Thorne (folk), 8 p.m., Free. Sarah Aument (folk), 9 p.m., Free. The Fizz CD Release (rock), 10 p.m., Free. RASPUTIN'S: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. RED SQUARE: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. Myra's Guest List (neo-soul), 6 p.m., Free. Conscious Roots (reggae), 9 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3.
CITY LIMITS: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Wiley Dobbs (bluegrass), 10 p.m., Free.
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BEE'S KNEES: Bill Burrell & the Gon Guiptoos (rock), 7:30 p.m., Donations. THE BREWSKI: Red Hot Juba Spam Carving Party (cosmic Americana), 9 p.m., $2. MATTERHORN: Blues for Breakfast (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., $5. RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. ROADSIDE TAVERN: Johnny Devil Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free. RUSTY NAIL: Bad Luck (rock), 9 p.m., $5-10.
MONOPOLE: Timbre Coup (rock), 10 p.m., Free. TABU CAFÉ & NIGHTCLUB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.
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1/2 LOUNGE: Funhouse with DJs Rob Douglas, Moonflower & Friends (house), 7 p.m., Free.
RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Stavros (house), 10 p.m., $5.
CLUB METRONOME: Black to the Future with DJ Dakota (r&b), 10 p.m., Free.
RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: The Blame (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
MONKEY HOUSE: Square Dance, 4 p.m., $5. Nathan K (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $5.
THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Split Tongue Crow (indie folk), 8 p.m., $5 donation.
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51 MAIN: Jonathan Lorentz Trio (jazz), 9 p.m., Free.
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
OLIVE RIDLEY'S: Benjamin Bright (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
A R T S
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PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Talking About Commas, Matt Wolfe (rock), 8 p.m., $3. Insurrection, Tyrant, Gabriel Night (dubstep), 10:30 p.m., $5.
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THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: One Way Out (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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ROADSIDE TAVERN: Area 51 (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
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PURPLE MOON PUB: Poor Howard Stith (blues), 8 p.m., Free.
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MONOPOLE: Tim Herron Corp. (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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BACKSTAGE PUB: Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
POSITIVE PIE 2: BossMan (electro-reggae), 10:30 p.m., $3.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: A House On Fire (rock), 9 p.m., Free.
MATTERHORN: 7 Lbs. of Pork (rock), 9 p.m., $5.
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1/2 LOUNGE: Erin McDermott (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Space Echo with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (house), 10 p.m., Free.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: The Jesters (rock), 10 p.m., $3.
THE BREWSKI: PMP with Joe Moore (reggae), 9 p.m., $2.
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LANGDON STREET CAFÉ: The Speckers (old-time), 7 p.m., Donations. The Molenes (Americana), 10 p.m., Donations.
NECTAR'S: Justin Levinson Singer-Songwriter Circle with Andrew Parker-Renga and Maryse Smith (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band (funk), 9 p.m., $5.
BEE'S KNEES: Broken String (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
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CHARLIE O'S: Lava Moss (rock), 10 p.m., Free.
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Reagan may be dead but, according to Curley and co., his evil legacy lives on. The ills that plagued us then — war, poverty, social injustice, yuppies — still do so now. Sadly, bands like the Wards will never run out of things to scream about. But, oh, how they scream. “I may be old, but I ain’t shot down yet,” declares Curley at the start of “Shot Down,” just as the band explodes in a maelstrom of slobbering punk fury. The song is representative of the Wards’ ethos as a whole. Guitarists Franco and Chris Alley unleash frayed lines with ragged enthusiasm over rudimentary bass and Rick Lincoln’s frantic drums. Meanwhile, Curley snarls submelodically with an unhinged intensity double that of most punks half his age. It’s a sloppy, bracing mess — in other words, exactly what punk is supposed to be. Take notes, whippersnappers. Reagan features a re-recording of the Wards signature anthem “Weapon Factory,” originally released in 1983. Though the titular General Electric
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plant is no longer in Burlington, time has hardly softened the song’s bruising impact. When Curley excoriates factory workers for taking coffee breaks in the midst of building weapons that “destroy the future,” it’s as poignant — that’s right, poignant — now as ever. In an age when punk rock has been reduced to the milquetoast wailings of adolescent wannabes decked in Ramones T-shirts from Urban Outfitters, the mere fact that a band like the Wards exists at all is remarkable. That they would still be compelling and relevant 30-plus years after forming in the Queen City is a testament to the enduring promise of the genre. Or, perhaps, a sad suggestion that we never quite learned the lessons punk rock was supposed to teach us. At least we still have the Wards.
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“We are the Wards, we play punk.” Such is the sneering opening salvo from Wards front man Tom Curley, introducing the latest album from the seminal Burlington punk band, Reagan Dead Wards Alive. Like the record itself, it is a straightforward declaration free of pesky contrivances such as subtext or irony. And, like each of the band’s sporadic releases since 1977, it is aggressively, defiantly lo-fi. The Wards have outlasted the Gipper, but it appears they still have some work left to do. Clocking in at exactly one hour, over 24 tracks, Reagan is a blistering “fuck you” to … well, the same shit that riled up the band three decades ago. Ronald
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In music criticism, we talk a great deal about influences. In most cases, it’s an attempt to describe music in universally relatable terms. For example, if I tell you so and so clearly listens to a lot of Bob Dylan, you immediately understand some basic characteristics of said artist’s music without ever hearing it. It’s an imperfect telepathy, but for our purposes it works, mostly. But what if we could boil down the various and disparate pieces that make an album and divine some elemental appreciation of its building blocks? Better yet, what if a band consciously did it for us? Saddled with the nebulous “Americana” tag, Thetford’s Pariah Beat have long traded in a genre-jumping mishmash of rowdy twang. Their debut full-length, Pariah Beat Radio, was a riotous and, at times, schizophrenic exploration of roots, country, rockabilly and any number of other trailweary “alt” idioms. However, their sophomore full-length, Bury Me Not, reveals a more purposeful approach. In discussions presumably involving copious amounts of whiskey and vinyl records, songwriters Nick Charyk, Billy Sharff and Emily Eastridge distilled the scope of their influences down to three albums: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams; Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., by Dwight Yoakam; and Guitar Town by Steve Earle. From the first notes of the raucous opening title track to the record’s solemn benediction, “Family Pet,” Pariah Beat have crafted a record that bows in reverence to their cowboyboot-clad trinity. But the band
transcends mere hero worship, applying members’ collective and individual strengths to illustrate what makes Pariah Beat unique. Sharff ’s “I Don’t Want to Go to Heaven” is a humble, clever romp Williams would likely be proud to have written. Charyk’s cheeky, hothousetinged “Elvis in Jerusalem,” while stylistically divergent, reflects Earle’s pointed wit. And Eastridge’s playful “Ms. Ella Strickland” is a boozy piano rag that, at moments, is evocative of each of the band’s trio of inspirations while sonically removed from all of them. Other cuts, such as “1000 Songs” and the cowpunk scorcher “Rosary Beads,” draw a more direct lineage, particularly to Earle. Still, while this band wears its influences on its flannel sleeves, Bury Me Not remains a unique and unpredictable record. The flaw in citing an artist’s influences to describe his or her work is that it fails to completely address the merits of the artist in question. Dylan may indeed have inspired our aforementioned friend. But that doesn’t mean that, just because you love Highway 61 Revisited, you’ll dig our fictional pal. (An ironic truth: Dylan has influenced a far greater number of bad songwriters than good ones.) Regardless of our chosen discipline, we are all products of our influences. What matters is how we wield those influences as a reflection of ourselves. With Bury Me Not, Pariah Beat have expertly done just that. Bury Me Not is available at PariahBeat.com.
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RADIO BEAN: The Stephen Callahan Quartet (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. RED SQUARE: Upsetta International with Super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free.
central
CHARLIE O'S: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. MAIN STREET GRILL & BAR: Jairo Sequiera (Spanish guitar), 7 p.m., Free. SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: Tattoo Tuesdays with Andrea (jam), 5 p.m., Free.
champlain valley
51 MAIN: Quizz Night (trivia), 7 p.m., Free. TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.
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BEE'S KNEES: Tiffany Pfeiffer & the Discarnate Band (neo-soul), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
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THE BREWSKI: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.
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1/2 LOUNGE: Sirenix Songwriters Series (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Kanga presents: The Lounge Lizard (turntablism), 10 p.m., Free.
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LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.
FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.
LIFT: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
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MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.
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MONKEY HOUSE: Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1. NECTAR'S: Timbre Coup (prog rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
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MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: George Voland JAZZ: with Audrey Bernstein and Dan Skea (jazz), 4:30 p.m., Free.
RADIO BEAN: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.
NECTAR'S: Bob Marley's B-Day Celebration: Mi Yard Reggae Night with DJs Big Dog & Demus (reggae), 9 p.m., Free.
ROZZI'S LAKESHORE TAVERN: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.
02.02.11-02.09.11
PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Mike Sullivan (acoustic blues), 6:30 p.m., Free. RADIO BEAN: Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., Free.
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BEE'S KNEES: Suzie Brown (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.
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THE BREWSKI: Dale and Darcy (acoustic), 6:30 p.m., Free. SWEET CRUNCH BAKE SHOP: Clancy Harris (folk), 10:30 a.m., Free.
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ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Comedy Open Mic, 5:30 p.m., Free. Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.
YE OLDE ENGLAND INNE: Corey Beard, Dan Liptak and Dan Haley (jazz), 11:30 a.m., Free.
RED SQUARE: Industry Night with Robbie J (hiphop), 8 p.m., Free. Hype 'Em (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.
RUBEN JAMES: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.
central
MULLIGAN'S IRISH PUB: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. PURPLE MOON PUB: 440hz: Fox, Hock and Jones (rock), 7 p.m., Free.
1/2 LOUNGE: Justin Levinson Songwriters Circle, 7 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.
ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Bluegrass Session, 7:30 p.m., Free.
burlington area
CLUB METRONOME: Bass Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (electronica), 9 p.m., Free. HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Middle Class Rut (rock), 7:30 p.m., $0.99. AA. LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Cole & Rachel (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.
1/2 LOUNGE: Brett & Kat (singer-songwriters), 7 p.m., Free. Heal-In Sessions with Reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.
NECTAR'S: Dear Havanah, Zack duPont (rock), 9 p.m., $5 donation.
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THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Joshua Panda's Vermont Winter Waltz Residency (soul), 8 p.m., $5 donation.
champlain valley
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NECTAR'S: Potbelly (funk-jazz), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.
SHELBURNE STEAKHOUSE & SALOON: Carol Ann Jones (country), 8 p.m., Free.
TUE.08
MONKEY HOUSE: Queer Night with DJ Gunner (house), 10 p.m., Free.
burlington area
RED SQUARE: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. Starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., Free.
MONTY'S OLD BRICK TAVERN: Open Mic Night, 6 p.m., Free.
ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.
CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.
TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., Free.
northern
BEE'S KNEES: Fred Brauer (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations. THE SHED RESTAURANT & BREWERY: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 7 p.m., Free.
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MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.
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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 8887889. bLuE PADDLE biStro, 316 US Rt. 2, South Hero, 372-4814. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 472-7053. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. thE hub PizzEriA & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626. thE LittLE cAbArEt, 34 Main St., Derby, 293-9000. mAttErhorN, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198. muSic box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533. oVErtimE SALooN, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357. PArkEr PiE co., 161 County Rd., West Glover, 525-3366. PhAt kAtS tAVErN, 101 Depot St., Lyndonville, 626-3064. PiEcASSo, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411. rimrockS mouNtAiN tAVErN, 394 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-9593. ruStY NAiL bAr & griLLE, 1190 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245. thE ShED rEStAurANt & brEWErY, 1859 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4765. ShootErS SALooN, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777. SWEEt cruNch bAkEShoP, 246 Main St., Hyde Park, 888-4887. tAmArAck griLL At burkE mouNtAiN, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., E. Burke, 626-7394. WAtErShED tAVErN, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100. YE oLDE ENgLAND iNNE, 443 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-5320.
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ArVAD’S griLL & Pub, 3 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-8973. big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury Center, 244-7500. chArLiE o’S, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. grEEN mouNtAiN tAVErN, 10 Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935. guSto’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. hEN of thE WooD At thE griSt miLL, 92 Stowe St., Waterbury, 244-7300. hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Powderhound Rd., Warren, 496-9222. L.A.c.E., 159 N. Main St., Barre, 476-4276. LANgDoN StrEEt cAfé, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667.
51 mAiN, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. bAr ANtiDotE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555 thE briStoL bAkErY, 16 Main St., Bristol, 453-3280. cAroL’S huNgrY miND cAfé, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101. citY LimitS, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. cLEm’S cAfé 101 Merchant’s Row, Rutland, 775-3337. DAN’S PLAcE, 31 Main St., Bristol, 453-2774. gooD timES cAfé, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. thE fArmErS DiNEr, 99 Maple St., Middlebury, 458-0455. oN thE riSE bAkErY, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787. StArrY Night cAfé, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. tWo brothErS tAVErN, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.
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trio of concurrent exhibits at the Fleming Museum illustrates how visual artists have responded to classic threering performers. “Under the Big Top: The Fine Art of the Circus in America,” “Georges Rouault: Cirque de L’Etoile Filante” and “Masked Spectacle: Commedia dell’Arte and Bread & Puppet Theater” create a colorful panoply of images relating to themes found in pageants and circuses. “Masked Spectacle” leads off the show in the museum’s Wilbur Room. Detailed prints by American/Hungarian artist Giuseppe Pecsenke (19421989) focus on masked characters that have appeared in avant-garde European theater and seem to be influenced by Baroque etchings. Pecsenke’s “Commedia dell’Arte IV-A, ‘Il Detore’” is a lively portrait of a masked performer in character dramatically exiting a scene. The exhibit also includes 16 papier-mâché masks from Vermont’s own Bread & Puppet Theater, among them horned devils, large zebras and human-sized “White Clown” masks. In the East Gallery, Rouault’s 1938 suite of 16 etchings with aquatint focuses on a darker aspect of clowns, in this case rendered in the French artist’s signature heavy black lines and rich colors. “Madame Louison” captures a female clown in a tutu, with a masklike face, looking absently off to the right. “Tristes Os” is a sad, muscular male figure with a haggard countenance. Rouault’s simplified colors and dark outlines give his prints an appearance of stained glass. These are melancholy, subdued portrayals; Rouault was more interested in the sad life of clowns than in their artificially jokey performances. The most diverse exhibit of the three is “Under the Big Top,” which includes early 20th- through 21st-century paintings, prints and drawings, and even a few 19th-century Vermont newspapers advertising the circus. The exhibit’s aim is to explore the artists’ psychological connection to various circus performers; after all, notes the Fleming’s commentary, artists, too, “lived by their skill and talent at the edges of society.” Burlington artist Lance Richbourg’s “Clowns” drawing from 1997 empha-
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Left: “Gilding the Acrobat” by Paul Cadmus (detail) Right: “The Flying Codonas” by John Steuart Curry (detail)
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CONNECTION TO VARIOUS CIRCUS PERFORMERS. sizes the grotesque and frightening; the face at right is a skull with a pointed hat, while a face crowded against it at left is smeared with makeup and has dull, heavy eyes. George Bellows’ 1912 painting “The Circus” conveys the skill of a female bareback rider standing on a fastmoving white stallion, while a troupe of aerialists defies gravity overhead. Best known for his paintings of boxing matches, the American Ashcan School painter masterfully captures the energy of an audience engrossed in a dramatic
event. Bellows’ theatrical light and symmetrical composition are sturdy and alive with movement. “Circus Tent,” by 20th-century painter and illustrator George Luks — also a member of the Ashcan group — is informed by his interest in working-class subjects and street scenes. It depicts the outside of a big-top tent in the evening as a crowd streams into the show. Luks’ style is simple, almost primitive, but his figures seem filled with anticipation as they stride from darkness into the bright world of the spectacle within. Before moving pictures came along, circus and vaudeville dominated popular culture — and traces of their influence are all around us. In November 2010, large-scale posters from the 1890 “Forepaugh and the Wild West” circus were discovered on the side of a building being demolished in Barre. Unfortunately, they were destroyed. A hap-
pier fate met five 1883 posters hidden by clapboard on a Colchester house in 1991. They were salvaged and donated to the Shelburne Museum, which owns a huge collection of circus art and artifacts. The Shelburne mounted “Circus Day in America,” a large, history-oriented exhibition last year, which included the conserved Colchester posters. The Fleming’s current exhibit demonstrates the ongoing interest in the circus, and the significance artists have found in its iconography and human elements. Big-top acts may be fleeting, but the artistry and drama they engender are timeless. M A R C AWO D EY
“Under the Big Top,” “George Rouault,” “Masked Spectacle.” Fleming Museum, Burlington. Reception Thursday, February 3, 5:30 p.m. Through May 22.
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the Art of creAtive Aging: Exhibit of current work of older (70+) visual artists in central Vermont. Digital submissions due March 1. Contact mharmon@cvcoa. org or 476-2681 for more info. cvcoa.org. vcm Poster contest: Artists are invited to submit a poster design for the 23rd annual KeyBank Vermont City Marathon & Relay. Prize. Deadline: March 10. Info at vermontcitymarathon.org/poster. flying high: SPA is seeking artwork for a multimedia exhibit called “Flying High,” which shows the dynamic qualities of flight. Works will be “flying” from the ceiling of the gallery and the walls. Deadline: February 4. Info, 479-7069 or studioplacearts.com. cAlling inDie crAfters: VT’s own indie craft show is now accepting applications for the Spring 2011 Queen City Craft Bazaar. Deadline: March 4. Apply online at queencitycraft.com. gAllery seeks new Artists: Art on Main in Bristol seeks new exhibitors in a variety of media; limited space for 2D. Jury February 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Application at artonmain.net under Artists Forms. true story: Photo eXhiBit: A picture tells a thousand words. For “A True Story,” we’re looking for the documented event, person or place. Submission deadline: March 14. Info, vermontphotospace. com/ex13.
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first friDAy Art wAlk: More than 30 galleries and other venues around downtown stay open late to welcome pedestrian art viewers. Friday, February 4, 5-8 p.m., Various downtown locations, Burlington. Info, 264-4839. 'An eXhiBit of their own: siX feAtureD women Artists': Paintings by Tiffany Torre, Cameron Schmitz, Claudette Enman, Josephine Habeski, Georgina Forbes and Carrie Bagalio. Through February 13 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Talk: Cameron Schmitz talks about her work, followed by a screening of Who Does She Think She Is?, a documentary on women artists by the producer of Born Into Brothels, Pamela Tanner Boll. Saturday, February 5, 2-5 p.m. Info, 775-0356. Angelo ArnolD & Peter frieD: Arnold's upholstery-covered sculptural forms are reminiscent of furniture; Fried's paintings are inspired by English and French 19th-century landscapes. Through February 27 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Talk: Fried and Arnold discuss their work. Wednesday, February 9, 6-7 p.m. Info, 253-6131. 'miXeD signAls: Artists consiDer mAsculinity in sPorts': Work by artists from the mid-1990s to the present who question the notion of the male athlete as the last bastion of uncomplicated, authentic identity in American culture during the preceding decades. Also in the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery. February 4 through April 17 at Middlebury College Museum of Art in Middlebury. Talk: "Breaking
ongoing AlisA Dworsky: "Drawing Strength," rope and bamboo installations suggestive of topographical maps, in the First Floor Gallery. Through March 5 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. BenjAmin BArnes: "Gasoline," paintings reflecting the artist's connection to Vermont history and rural culture, and offering commentary on our culture's obsession with automobiles. Through February 28 at Art's Alive Gallery in Burlington. Info, 310-3211.
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‘unDer the Big toP’: The museum celebrates its circus-themed special exhibitions with music, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Reception: Thursday, February 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 656-0750. megAn humPhrey: "Valentine Vestiges," paper artwork honoring the holiday of love by the owner of Sweet Basil Cards, in the Pickering Room. Through February 27 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 4, 4-5:30 p.m. Info, 863-3403. roger colemAn: Paintings. Through February 28 at Red Square in Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 4, 5-9 p.m. Info, 318-2438. 'PArtners': Work by Frog Hollow artisans and their exhibiting artist significant others, including Wendy James and John Brickels, Tom Dunn and Sarah Ashe, Nick Seidner and Diane Rosenmiller, Robin Kent and Jim Barner, Eliza Collins and David Weissberger, Elizabeth and Howard Smith and Lucy and Mick Petrie. February 4 through 28 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 863-6458.
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sAnDrA elkin: “Women Town Clerks of Vermont: Reflections on Democracy,” a multimedia exhibit combining photographic portraits and the recorded voices of 19 clerks from around the state. The women speak frankly of the obligations of citizenship, state government and their towns. Through March 31 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, February 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 388-4964. clAy stuDio stuDent show: The Bristol Recreation Department's third annual show features creations by school-age through adult students who have taken the studio class in recent months. Through February 28 at Art on Main in Bristol. Reception: Saturday, February 5, 4-6 p.m. Info, 453-4032.
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tions in collage, sculpture, pattern and fashion. Whittemore-Hill's work stems from studies of hands, both cartoon and real, representing possibility, power and need. Through February 6 at 215 College Gallery in Burlington. Info, 863-3662. 'georges rouAult: cirque De l'Étoile filAnte': The French artist's print portfolio, published from 1926-38, includes color etchings and wood engravings of clowns, in the East Gallery. Through May 22 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. BURLINGTON AREA ART SHOWS
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john DAviD o’shAughnessy: Acrylic paintings on canvas and mixed-media works on paper. February 4 through March 31 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 540-0107.
‘highlow Project’: Large-scale photographs by Ned Castle depicting re-creations of decisive moments in the lives of young, at-risk Vermonters. Accompanying each photograph is an audio narration by its subject. February 3 through 25 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Reception: Thursday, February 3, 5-7:30 p.m. Info, 828-0749.
DAve mAtthews: Work by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Brownell Library in Essex Junction. Info, 878-6955.
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feBruAry grouP show: Paintings by Jean Cannon and Helen Kyle, photographs by Warren Tarr and fiber art by Nancy Adriance. February 3 through 28 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Reception: Thursday, February 3, 5-8 p.m. Info, 933-6403.
'Burlington electric: energy-efficient Art': Drawings by Burlington public school fourth graders inspired by their discussions about renewable energy with BED employees. Through February 2 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.
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erikA white & cArin lilly: Mixed-media work by the Vermont artists and mothers of small children, who find inspiration among the sippy cups and toys strewn throughout their lives. Through February 28 at Davis Studio in Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 4, 5-8 p.m. Info, 425-2700.
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‘fAshioning PhotogrAPhy’: Where do art and fashion meet? Are you a part of the next wave? Juried photography exhibit. Juror:
hArry Bliss: The artist discusses his work. Friday, February 4, 6-7 p.m., Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington.
recreate fleeting moments to find beauty in the ordinary, unintended and mundane. Also, glass works by Terry Zigmund and Lawrence Ribbecke, in the window. February 3 through March 31 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Reception: Friday, February 4, 5-7 p.m. Info, 859-9222.
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‘Both siDes of the coin: the creAtive Process AnD mArketing the work’: Jess Graham talks about how to make a living as an artist, develop a distinctive style, find the right audience and establish a loyal fan base. Thursday, February 3, 7-9 p.m., River Arts Center, Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.
the Huddle," Christopher Bedford, curator of exhibitions at Ohio State University's Wexner Center for the Arts, discusses the possibility for a new democracy of sports and sports fandom through art. An opening reception follows. Wednesday, February 9, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Info, 443-6433.
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Harry Bliss: "Genius," a retrospective of the world-renowned cartoonist and children's book illustrator includes original New Yorker covers, cartoons, student work, book jackets and children's books; also, original work from artists in Bliss' personal collection. Through March 26 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington. Info, 652-4500. 'Human artifact': Work by various artists that explores the spaces and things that outfit our private lives, from backyard junk piles to attic hideaways. February 7 through March 4 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686. inty & yuari muenala Vega: "Mushuk Pacha | Nuevos Tiempos | New Times," paintings reflecting the culture of the Kichwa people of the Ecuadorean Andes. Through February 28 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 734-5546. Jessica nissen: "Rorschach Drawings," painted-over inkblots exploring perception, the subconscious and the extremes of spontaneous creativity, based on the controversial psychological test of the same name, in the Second Floor Gallery. Through March 26 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. KatHleen Berry Bergeron: Watercolor paintings of rural Vermont scenes by the Jericho artist. Through February 28 at The Essex Culinary Resort & Spa in Essex. Info, 899-4628. Kei egan: Traditional and magnetic collages with themes of spirituality, childhood, aviation, tranquility and time. Curated by the South End Arts and Business Association. Through February 28 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. 'maKe art, repeat': The group show that began at S.P.A.C.E. and Backspace galleries has moved and picked up a few more artists. Alecia Geno, Ashley Roark, Christy Mitchell, Greg Mamczak, Adam DeMasi, Clark Derbes and Carleen Zimbalati explore the theme of repetition in silk-screen prints, paintings, mixed media, and light-andshadow installations. Curated by the South End Arts and Business Association. Through February 26 at VCAM studio in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. marion c. Honors: "The Wild and the Sacred," mixed-media work by the New York-based nun, artist and organic gardener. Through February 28 at St. Paul's Cathedral in Burlington. Info, 864-0471.
'new Voices': Photographs from the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. Through April 1 at Community College of Vermont in Winooski. Info, 654-0513.
pippo lionni: Animations from the Paris-based artist's ongoing body of work, "Facts of Life," in the New Media Niche; a related large-scale print called "Urbanopolis," in the European and American Gallery. Through May 22 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.
'tHe arrangement': Traditional, whimsical and satirical still-life photography by local, national and international artists. Through February 4 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.
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'under tHe Big top: tHe fine art of tHe circus in america': Work by modern and contemporary American artists fascinated by the circus and its performers' bohemian lives outside the ring. Through May 22 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. 'Vermont landscapes in BlacK & wHite': Photography by Ashley Arcury, Jeff Clarke, Natalie Stultz and Katelyn Ziegler. Through February 28 at Shelburne Vineyard in Shelburne. Info, 985-8222. winter group sHow: Work in a variety of media by Steve Campbell, Isaac Wasuck, Greg Mamczak, Dave Davidson, Kevyn Cundiff, Diane Gabriel, Lorraine Manley, Perry Bartles and Gaal Shepherd. Through February 28 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.
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2010 Holiday sHow: An eclectic mix of art and craft by Mark Goodwin, Arlene Grossman, Cristina Salusti, Nancy H. Taplin, Annie Witte, Jose Benitez Sanchez, Pat Dipaula Klein and Bhakti Ziek. Through February 13 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.
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BHaKti ZieK & Holly walKer: "Continuum," weavings that explore how language imposes artificial divides between continuous processes by Ziek; and "Haptikos," hand-built earthenware pots by Walker. Through February 20 at Chandler Gallery in Randolph. Info, 431-0204.
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george lawrence & Jacquelyn Jimoi: "Two Views," landscape paintings and pastels by the husband-and-wife artists. Through February 12 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404.
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Jenna Kelly: "New and Used," abstract mixedmedia explorations of the human figure, Third Floor Gallery; "The Dark Side," work by Annemie Curlin, Dan Moran and Gerard W. Rinaldi, among others, Main Floor Gallery; "When No One is Looking," work exploring private moments by Robin La Hue, Ken Signorello and Janet Van Fleet, and others, Second Floor Gallery. Through February 26 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.
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Jess graHam: Illustrative, irreverent and textural work by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at The Cheshire Cat in Montpelier. Info, 223-1981.
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Joan curtis: "At One With Nature's Wiles: Recent Paintings and Sculptures," acrylics and mixedmedia constructions depicting human figures at ease amid upheavals of nature. Through February 11 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College in Poultney. Info, 287-8398.
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margot lasHer: "Shiro in Manhattan," photos of the Vermont artist's dog in the big city. Through February 28 at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com. marK cHaney: "Guiding Light," digital art, giclée prints and tritography, in which two or more digital photographs are blended to make a single image. Through March 31 at The Shoe Horn at Onion River in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com.
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tessa Holmes: Oil-on-canvas paintings based on the artist's photographic work. Through February 14 at Muddy Waters in Burlington. Info, 658-0466.
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'sHadows of tHe samurai': Armor, swords, prints, masks and other artifacts representing Japanese warrior traditions. Through May 11 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.
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sareet rosenstein: "Why Did You Just Take a Photo of That?" a personal perspective on what gets interpreted through the lens of her camera in everyday life. Curated by the South End Arts and Business Association. Through February 28 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.
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'masKed spectacle: commedia dell'arte and Bread & puppet tHeater': Prints by Hungarian-American artist Giuseppe Pecsenke featuring characters and scenes from the historical theater form, as well as masks and puppets from Vermont's radical theater troupe, in the Wilbur Room. Through May 8 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.
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Zoë Barracano: "Fidel, the End of an Era," intimate contemporary Cuban portraits and landscapes by the Vermont photographer. Through February 28 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676.
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Dane Verret: "Combining Communities: Dance and Photography," images of recent performances by Dance Company of Middlebury and the student artist's home community of New Orleans. Through February 10 at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-6433.
“It has been pretty fantastic. The staff was so wonderful. I would not change a thing!” And who would want to? Angela Selvaggio and Chris Welsh have a beautiful son. Their 6lb/8oz first born - William Pasquale Selvaggio Welsh - arrived on Sunday, January 23. We visited on Monday and his parents were nearly bursting with joy - marveling at his every perfect feature. Will was sleeping peacefully, completely unfazed by all the commotion and the fact that Mom and Dad wanted to play. We bet that will change once they are settled in at home in Fayston. Best wishes Will – and Mom and Dad!
Kate mueller: "Color and Curve," pastel and oil portraits that play with shapes from the landscape. Through February 18 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1119. Scott & Kelly FunK: "More Than Snow," winter photographs by the Richmond artists. Through February 28 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434.
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alex Bottinelli: Mixed-media and encaustic paintings with a luminous, ethereal quality. Through March 6 at Bee's Knees in Morrisville. Info, 586-8078.
cheryl Daye DicK: "Memories: North and South," portraits and landscapes exploring African American history. Through February 27 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.
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Beth netelKoS: "Studio Sessions 2011," paintings of inner spaces inspired by natural surroundings. Through February 28 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 279-4239.
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elinor oSBorn: Wildlife photography by the Vermont artist. Through March 1 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053. JameS luciana: Selections from "Light and Stone" and "Italy: Facades" by the photographer and Marist College art professor. Through March 5 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.
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artist’s sensual portrait of a naked woman on its side and you’ll find the unmistakable curves of a Vermont landscape. Her hips and breasts, as well as the chair’s gentle slope, become mountain ranges on the horizon. It’s no coincidence. Mueller, who has focused solely on the pastel nude since the mid-’90s, recently began playing with shapes from the outside world, incorporating them into her portraits. In her show “Color and Curve” at Castleton State College’s Christine Price Gallery, the human body becomes an extension of the rolling hills, with all the surprising colors of a sunset. Through February 18. Pictured: “Back Story” (detail). larry GolDen: "Winter in the Kingdom: Landscapes and Landmarks," mixed-media paintings of buildings, streetscapes, mountains, woods and fields by the former St. Johnsbury Academy teacher. Through March 2 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158. marc awoDey: Paintings by the Vermont artist, in the Wings Gallery. Through August 8 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. miKey welSh: "If Such a Thing Exists, Then Yes," abstract and representational paintings by the Burlington artist. Through April 17 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-6131. roBin maSSey: "Allusions of Nature," works that mix photographic methods with drawings to mimic how we view and remember the natural world. Through February 15 at Hazen's Notch in Montgomery Center. Info, 326-4799.
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'Frank Stella: irreGular polyGonS': An exhibit marking the museum's 25th anniversary presents one of each of the artist's 11 monumental compositions for his 1965-66 series, along with preparatory drawings and other works. Through March 13 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808.
January Group ShoW: Recent work, including oil-based ink on paper by Patty Castellini; oil paintings by Charlie Goodwin; reclaimed wood paintings by Duncan Johnson; and mixed-media collages by Gordon Meinhard. Through February 5 at AVA Gallery and Arts Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.
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nother Year falls into that rarest and most exclusive of categories — that of films which fall into no traditional category at all. The 10th feature from British writer-director Mike Leigh is a genre unto itself. Over the years, the creator of works such as Naked (1993), Secrets & Lies (1996), Career Girls (1997), Topsy-Turvy (1999) and HappyGo-Lucky (2008) has perfected a process of building movies from the ground up through in-depth collaboration with his cast. The latest example is a semi-improvisational character study that finds the filmmaker at the peak of his powers. Two of the characters we study are Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a North London couple who’ve been happily married for decades. He’s an engineering geologist. She’s a mental health counselor. They’re good humored, well traveled, intelligent, a tad bohemian and endlessly welcoming to a collection of friends who haven’t been as lucky in life. Lesley Manville has earned award-season raves for her remarkable performance as Mary, the couple’s most frequent and most troubled guest. A secretary at the clinic
where Gerri works, she’s a wine-gulping, motor-mouthed mass of delusions. In a wonderful early scene, she joins the pair for Saturday night dinner, stops chattering just long enough to take the next sip, winds up at bedtime too sozzled to leave and then, after hours of babbling about herself, informs Gerri, “If you ever need to share, I’m here for you. I’m a very good listener.” Enter Ken (Peter Wight), Tom’s old friend and schoolmate, who’s decided to pay a visit. A heart attack waiting to happen, he’s big bellied, chain smokes and always has a drink in his hand. It’s not so much that the years haven’t been kind to him. They’ve just blurred by too quickly. He gives the impression of having gone to bed 25 and woken up 60. What are the odds in the Age of the Dysfunctional Family that a film would feature not only a loving husband and wife, but also a loving son? Oliver Maltman brings just the right touch to the role of Joe, a thirtyish legal-aid lawyer and the object of Mary’s cracked romantic fantasies. It hits her hard when one day, out of the blue, he brings home Katie (Karina Fernandez), the woman he intends to marry. She fits in immediately. I
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abbit Hole is a hard sell. Whether you have young children or not, the loss of one isn’t something you want to contemplate. By itself, the film’s premise has about as much mass appeal as the support group that bereaved mother Becca (Nicole Kidman) ditches early in the film. She can’t bear the company of other grieving parents so desperate to find the upside that they tell themselves, “Heaven needed another angel.” But hold on, because the film isn’t just a wallow in vicarious misery. We may hope never to experience what Becca and her husband, Howie (Aaron Eckhart), are experiencing. But most of us know how it feels to have our lives derailed by a sudden loss or accident or misstep. (The movie’s title refers to the notion of tumbling down Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole — or a physicist’s wormhole — and finding oneself in an alternate reality.) Most of us have felt grief that makes us ask, as Becca asks her mother (Dianne Wiest), “Does it ever go away?” The film’s answer is, not surprisingly, “Nope.” But it offers lowkey affirmations that feel surprisingly solid. Rabbit Hole is easy on the eyes. John Cameron Mitchell, creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Shortbus, directs with more restraint than one might expect. He stresses everything that’s glossy, lush and verdant
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY Sheen listens patiently as Manville’s character prattles on in Mike Leigh’s moving rumination on human connection.
haven’t seen a family this jazzed to be in one another’s company since “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.” It’s against this backdrop of domestic jolliness that Leigh offers moving riffs and ruminations on friendship, family, class, aging, dreams, disappointment and death. The film is filled with small details that, on reflection, contain monumental significance, and they’re slipped into some of the most unforgettable performances you’ll see this
or any other year. It just may be Mike Leigh’s masterpiece. Another Year is better by far than many of the movies we’ll be hearing about on Oscar night. I can’t imagine why it wasn’t invited to the party. Unless, of course, the Academy couldn’t figure out what category to nominate it in. RICK KISONAK
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about the suburban world where the affluent protagonists live, and he doles out backstory in driblets — we know it’s been eight months since the death of the Corbetts’ 4-year-old son, but not the details. At first, the film tests our patience by asking us to empathize with people who look, well, perfect. Baking and gardening without a hair out of place, Kidman could be remaking The Stepford Wives (again). Given the cold rebuffs Becca offers everyone — including her husband — she even more strongly calls to mind Mary Tyler Moore’s awardwinning turn as the ice-queen mom in Ordinary People (1980). Like that character, Becca refuses to weep or talk about her son — and she tosses his clothes in a Goodwill bin. When she snips at her way-less-perfect younger sister (Tammy Blanchard), Becca sounds like what she is — an overarticulate character written for the stage. (David Lindsay-Abaire adapted his play of the same name.) When she erases the video clip of their son that Howie watches and rewatches on his cellphone, she just seems awful. But gradually Kidman’s princessy hauteur melts, her reedy little voice gets deeper and warmer, and we begin to understand her. We discover that Becca’s as mad as she is sad. (When her mom urges her to seek comfort in religion, she calls God a “sadistic prick.”)
The tenderness that she denies Howie comes out when she befriends a teenager (Miles Teller), who played a role in the tragedy. It’s a role that plays to Kidman’s established COLD SHOULDER star persona, be- Kidman’s misery doesn’t cause she tends to love company in Mitchell’s noncorny weeper. show the camera a china-doll façade. When it cracks, we see something real emerge, and those moments feel revelatory. Rabbit Hole has a few clunker lines and manipulative elements. When Howie develops a friendship with another grieving parent [Sandra Oh], we know exactly where it’s heading and what the writer is telling us. But where other movies — Ordinary People among them — deliver a big, teary, theatrical catharsis, this one pulls back and stays real. Mitchell allows the actors’ performances to deliver the emotional payoffs. Hugging a dog (who’s more receptive to affection than Becca), Eckhart tells us all we need to know
about Howie’s feelings. And Wiest has a monologue toward the end that is, in a word, luminous. Her answer to Becca’s question — does the pain ever stop? — seems to arrive on the spur of the moment and surprise even her. It illuminates the muted scene with a mood that shouldn’t be hopeful but is. “Closure,” the filmmakers suggest, is a myth. But, for someone whose plans and dreams have been voided in an instant, putting one foot in front of the other can be a triumph. M A R G O T HA R R I S O N
ANotHER YEARHHHHH Mike (Happy-Go-Lucky) Leigh directed this slice-of-life tale of a happily married London couple and the distressed souls they draw into their orbit. With Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville and Ruth Sheen. (129 min, PG-13. Roxy) tHE lEGEND oF pAlE mAlE: This documentary from director Frederic Lilien traces the saga of a red-tailed hawk who built a nest on a Fifth Avenue balcony and thrilled the wealthy residents — except those who wanted to remove him. (85 min, NR. Savoy) RABBit HolEHHHH Nicole Kidman is up for an Oscar for her role as a grieving mother in this drama from director John Cameron (Shortbus) Mitchell, based on the play by David LindsayAbaire. With Aaron Eckhart, Miles Teller and Sandra Oh. (92 min, PG-13. Roxy) tHE RoommAtE: A college freshman finds her roommate is getting a bit too obsessed with her in this thriller. Sounds like Single White Female, undergrad edition. With Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly and Cam Gigandet. Christian E. Christiansen directs. (93 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount) SANctUm: James Cameron showed us with The Abyss and Titanic that he knows his way around water — and claustrophobia. Now he brings us an action thriller about divers who find themselves trapped in a vast underwater cavern. Shot in 3D. Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd and Rhys Wakefield star. Alister Grierson directs. (103 min, R. Essex, Majestic [3-D]) SomEWHERE: You may never envy the life of a celebrity again after seeing the latest from director Sofia Coppola, in which a movie star (Stephen Dorff) drives his Ferrari and his life in circles. With Elle Fanning as his daughter, and brief appearances by Benicio del Toro and Michelle Monaghan. (97 min, R. Roxy)
now playing 127 HoURSHHHH1/2 James Franco stars in this dramatization of the story of Aron Ralston, a Utah hiker who found himself literally between a rock and a hard place in 2003. Danny (Slumdog Millionaire) Boyle directs. With Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara. (93 min, R. Palace)
BlUE VAlENtiNEHHH Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams play a married couple struggling to mend their relationship in this first feature from director Derek Cianfrance, which has generated awards buzz for both actors. (120 min, R. Marquis, Palace)
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tHE KiDS ARE All RiGHtHHHH Lisa (Laurel Canyon) Cholodenko directed this acclaimed study of modern family values in which a pair of teens with two moms (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) decide they want to get to know their sperm donor. With Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska and Josh Hutcherson. (104 min, R. Palace; ends 2/3) tHE KiNG’S SpEEcHHHHHHCritics have predicted Oscars for this period piece about how England’s George VI (Colin Firth) found a strong voice with the help of an oddball speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush). The rating is for naughty language, which figures in his therapy. With Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce and Derek Jacobi. Tom (The Damned United) Hooper directs. (118 min, R. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Roxy, Savoy, Stowe, Welden) littlE FocKERSH1/2 Ben Stiller strives once again to prove his manhood to father-in-law Robert DeNiro in the second sequel to comedy hit Meet the Parents, this time with his offspring getting in the way. With Blythe Danner, Owen Wilson, Jessica Alba and Barbra Streisand. Paul (About a Boy) Weitz directs. (98 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex, Paramount)
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mADE iN DAGENHAmHHH1/2 Women at a British Ford factory fight for equal pay for equal work in this drama based on events that really happened in 1968. Sally Hawkins, Miranda Richardson and Bob Hoskins star. Nigel (Calendar Girls) Cole directs. (113 min, R. Roxy; ends 2/3) tHE mEcHANicHH1/2 Simon (Con Air) West directs this meditative tale of a top-flight assassin (Jason Statham) on the war path to avenge his mentor (Donald Sutherland). OK, I was kidding about the meditative part. Expect ass kicking. With Ben Foster. (100 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) No StRiNGS AttAcHEDHH1/2 Natalie Portman’s next step after impersonating a ballerina and delivering a Golden Globe-winning performance? Starring in this rom com about a busy doctor who seeks, er, stress relief from her buddy Ashton Kutcher. The original title was Friends With Benefits. With Kevin Kline, Cary Elwes and Greta Gerwig. One-time comedy great Ivan Reitman directs. (110 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Welden)
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GUlliVER’S tRAVElSH1/2 Jonathan Swift gets only the third writing credit on this family comedy updating his classic, with Jack Black as the traveler who lands on a strange island and finds himself grappling with major culture shock. Rob (Monsters vs. Aliens) directs. With Emily Blunt, Jason Segel and Amanda Peet. (85 min, PG. Majestic [3-D]; ends 2/3)
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tHE GREEN HoRNEtHH Seth Rogen plays a superhero who’s a newspaper publisher by day and a crime fighter by night. Take that, decline of print media! Michel (Be Kind Rewind) Gondry directs this big-screen adaptation of the action franchise that began with 1930s radio serials. With Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz doing his bad-guy thing. (108 min, PG-13. Bijou, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis [3-D], Palace, Paramount, Roxy, Welden)
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tHE FiGHtERHHHH Mark Wahlberg fights to win a boxing championship with the help of his dissolute half-brother (Christian Bale) in this sports/family drama from David O. (Three Kings) Russell. With Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and lots of Massachusetts vowels. (114 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Stowe)
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aries (March 21-april 19): now and then, members of other astrological signs complain that i seem to favor you aries above them. if that’s true, i’m certainly not aware of it. as far as i know, i love all the signs equally. i will say this, however: Due to the idiosyncrasies of my own personal horoscope, i have been working for years to get more skilled at expressing qualities that your tribe tends to excel at: being direct, acting fearless, knowing exactly what you want, cultivating a willingness to change and leading by example. all these assets are especially needed by the people in your life right now. taUrUs (april 20-May 20): i’ve found that
even when people are successful in dealing with a long-term, intractable problem, they rarely zap it out of existence in one epic swoop. generally they chip away at it, dismantling it little by little; they gradually break its hold with incremental bursts of unspectacular heroism. Judging from the astrological omens, though, i’d say that you tauruses are ripe for a large surge of dismantling. an obstacle you’ve been hammering away at for months or even years may be primed to crumble dramatically.
gemini (May 21-June 20): My brother tom and i used to be on a softball team in santa Cruz. i played third base and he was the pitcher. For one game he showed up with a new glove that still had the price tag dangling. i asked him if he was going to snip it off. “nope,” he said. “it’ll subtly distract the batters and give me an advantage.” That day he pitched one of his best games ever. His pitches seemed to have extra mojo that kept the hitters off balance. Were they even aware they were being messed with? i don’t think so. in fact, my theory is that because tom’s trick was so innocuous, no one on the opposing team registered the fact that it was affecting their concentration. i suggest you try a similar strategy, gemini.
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(June 21-July 22): a famous atheist named edwin Kagin has incorporated performance art into his crusade against religious believers. Wielding a hairdryer, he “debaptizes” ex-churchgoers who want to reverse the effects of the baptism they experienced as children. The stream of hot air that Kagin blows against their foreheads is meant to exorcise the holy water daubed there way back when. Could you benefit from a similar ritual,
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Cancerian? if you have any inclinations to free yourself from early imprints, religious or otherwise, you’re in a favorable phase to do so.
leo (July 23-aug. 22): in an old “star trek”
episode, a woman visits the starship’s medical facility seeking chemicals she needs to start a hydroponic garden. The chief doctor, who has a high sense of self-worth and a gruff bedside manner, scowls at her. Why is she bothering him with such a trivial request? “now i know how Hippocrates felt,” he complains, “when the King needed him to trim a hangnail.” (ancient greek physician Hippocrates is referred to as the “Father of Medicine” because of his seminal influence on the healing professions.) i suspect that sometime soon, leo, you will be in a position similar to the ship’s doctor. Unlike him, however, you should carry out the assignment with consummate grace. it’ll pay off for you in the long run — probably in ways you can’t imagine right now.
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(aug. 23-sept. 22): in leonard Cohen’s song “anthem” he sings, “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” From what i can tell, Virgo, the week ahead will be one of the best times all year for welcoming the light that comes through the cracks. in fact, i urge you to consider widening the cracks a little — maybe even splitting open a few new cracks — so that the wildly healing light can pour down on you in profusion.
liBra (sept. 23-oct. 22): When was the last time you created a masterpiece, libra? i’m not necessarily talking about a work of art; it might have been an exquisite dinner you prepared for people you love ... or a temporary alliance you forged that allowed you to accomplish the impossible ... or a scary-fun adventure you risked that turned you into a riper human being with a more authoritative standing. Whether your last tour de force happened seven weeks ago or seven months ago, my sense is that you’re due for another one. The cosmic rhythms are conspiring to make you act like an artful genius. scorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): Why is every-
thing so eerily quiescent right now? should you be worried? Has the momentum been sucked out of your life? Have you lost your way? Personally, i think you’re doing better than you
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
The renegade spiritual sect known as the Church of the Subgenius values one treasure above all others: not salvation, not enlightenment, not holiness, but rather Slack. And what is Slack? It is a state of being in which everything flows smoothly — a frame of mind so unfettered and at ease that the entire universe just naturally cooperates with you. When you’ve got abundant reserves of Slack, you don’t strain and struggle to make desired events unfold, and you don’t crave things you don’t really need. You’re surrendered to the greater intelligence that guides your life and it provides you with a knack for attracting only what’s truly satisfying. Happy Slack Week, Aquarius! I suspect you will have loads of that good stuff, which means your freedom to be your authentic self will be at a peak. realize. The dormancy is a temporary illusion. to help give you the perspective you need, i offer you this haiku-like poem by imma von bodmershof, translated by Petra engelbert: “The great river is silent / only sometimes it sounds quietly / deep under the ice.”
poet laureate robert Hass read and discuss his poem “etymology.” He said that while many of the fluids of the human body are named with english words, at least one isn’t: the moisture of a woman who is sexually aroused. The anglo-saxons did have a word for it, he noted: silm, which also referred to the look of moonlight on the water. “Poor language,” Hass concluded, bemoaning a vocabulary that ignores such an important part of human experience. your assignment, sagittarius, is to correct for any problems caused by poor language in your own sphere. if you’ve been lazy about articulating your meaning or needs, then please activate your deeper intelligence. if there’s a situation in your life that’s suffering from a sloppy use of words, reframe its contours with crisper speech. you could even coin some new words or borrow good ones from foreign tongues.
caPricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): standup comedian arj barker says that when he writes each of his jokes, he’s thinking that all he needs to do is make it funny enough to get at least three people in the audience to laugh at it. More than three is gravy, and he hopes he does get more. but if he can just get those three, he believes, he will always get a lot of work in his chosen profession. in accordance with the astrological rhythms, Capricorn, i urge you to adopt a similar approach. to be successful in the coming days, you don’t need an approval rating of 80 percent. Pisces
(Feb. 19-March 20): “everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense,” said writer gertrude stein many decades ago. isn’t that about a thousand times truer in 2011? it takes rigorous concentration not to be inundated with data. but that’s exactly your assignment, Pisces. it’s absolutely crucial for you to be a beacon of common sense in the coming days. to meet your dates with destiny, you will have to be earthy, uncluttered, well grounded and in close touch with your body’s intuition. if that requires you to cut back dramatically on the volume of information you take in, so be it.
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When a woman reported that a man exposed himself to her and her children, police in Mesa, Ariz., knocked on the apartment door of upstairs neighbor Michael Polley, 55. He answered with his pants still around his ankles. Court records noted he became “immediately angry” at being interrupted and began cursing at the officers, who arrested him. (Phoenix’s Arizona Republic) Police said Jerome Taylor, 20, entered a restaurant in Hartford, Conn., wearing a mask, pulled what looked like a gun on the cooks and demanded money. The cooks refused and grabbed their knives. Taylor promptly apologized and insisted it was all just a joke, and anyway, the “gun” was only an iPhone. (Hartford’s WVIT-TV) Police alerted to the theft of a 50-inch television off a delivery truck in Auburn, Wash., arrested Johnathon Barnes, 22, whom they spotted right outside the police station pushing a shopping cart containing the stolen set. (Seattle PostIntelligencer)
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Police who arrested William Liston, 33, in suburban Cleveland on suspicion of driving drunk said he explained, “Ozzy Osbourne and his music made me do it.” (Cleveland’s WJW-TV)
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All Runways Lead to Russia Earth’s magnetic north pole is moving toward Russia at the rate of nearly 40 miles a year. Scientists attribute the shift to magnetic changes in the planet’s core. One consequence of the shift was the closing of Florida’s Tampa International Airport for one week to renumber its main north-south runway to reflect its new magnetic alignment. (The Tampa Tribune)
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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour freed sisters Gladys and Jamie Scott, who had served 16 years of their life sentences for armed robbery, on the condition that Gladys, 36, donate a kidney to Jamie, 38, who requires dialysis. Barbour explained he decided to order their release so the state wouldn’t have to pay for Jamie Scott’s treatment. (Reuters)
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Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, 68, the husband of celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor, glued an eye shut when he accidentally grabbed his wife’s nail glue instead of eye drops. “It was stupid,” Von Anhalt said after a doctor at an eye clinic in Beverly Hills, Calif., repaired the damage. Gabor, 93, suffered a similar eye injury years ago, according to her daughter, Francesca Hilton, when she mistakenly used “crazy glue” on her eyelashes. (CNN)
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A military jury at Fort Meade, Md., sentenced Lt. Col. Terrance Lakin to six months in military prison and dismissal from the Army after he disobeyed orders to deploy to Afghanistan because he doubts whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States and therefore questions his eligibility to be commander in chief. He said he would have gladly deployed if Obama’s original birth certificate were released and proved authentic. (Associated Press)
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When police accused Michael Elias, 28, of half a dozen home burglaries in San Antonio, Texas, he explained he had to keep committing the burglaries so he could afford to pay his attorney $150 a week to keep him out of jail. (San Antonio’s KSAT-TV)
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Defense attorney Tom Hudson helped his client beat DUI charges after the prosecution presented law enforcement video of Ronald Deveau at a DUI stop in Sarasota, Fla. Hudson hired a private investigator to videotape on-duty law enforcement officers making the same driving mistakes that officers cite as reasons for suspicion: wide turns, crossing double yellow lines and riding on lane markers. After comparing videos, Judge David Denkin declared that Deveau’s drifting was insufficient evidence of impaired driving and dismissed the charges. (Sarasota’s HeraldTribune)
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Japanese scientists started breeding mice that sing like birds. The researchers at the University of Osaka genetically engineered the mice as part of their “Evolved Mouse Project,” which accelerates mutations to see what develops. “We checked the newly born mice one by one,” lead researcher Arikuni Uchimura said. “One day we found a mouse that was singing like a bird.” He explained the “singing mouse” was a random mutation, but that the trait has been used to breed 100 of them so far and will be used to breed more like it. “I was surprised because I had been expecting mice that are different in physical shape,” Uchimura said, adding that the project had also produced “a mouse with short limbs and a tail like a dachshund.” (Agence France-Presse)
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Sensitive, cute, slender, attractive, intelligent! Never thought I would be doing this at my age! Not sure how to brag about myself. I am delightful, funny, honest, don’t hold grudges, forgive, & when I am w/ the right man will love w/ all of my heart. My passions include reading, horseback riding, playing & listening to music, being romanced & romancing back. freefilly, 55, l, #120076
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Silly, happy, intelligent, quirky I’m rad. I like talking, Playstation 1 games, thinking, ladies & dudes, cats, being silly, cuddling, arts & crafts, and laughing. I’m sarcastic & blunt. I find life really beautiful. I’m not looking to be tied down. Those w/ tribal tattoos need not apply. Quantummind, 20, #120136 Sporty yet Cuddly I’m a short, athletic chica w/ light brown hair & twinkly blue eyes. Let’s go for a romp in the snow, then cuddle by a woodstove. Skiing, snowball fights & snow monsters are all options. As long as your tongue is as quick as your hardball, our repartee can be as charming as our family of snow sphinxes. sportydancer42, 19, l, #120132
The real deal A very affectionate, compassionate, intelligent woman w/ a great sense of humor. Honesty, trust & communication are priorities to me in love & friendship. Looking for a friend, lover, maybe more w/ the right man. Nonsmoker, non-drug user preferred. Monogomous, intelligent, fun to be w/ & a sense of humor. fivestarangel, 53, l, #120083
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Cute Geek Grrl Seeks Same I’m a 31 y.o. first-year law school student looking for new friendships & the possibility of something more. I tend to look at life from a slightly off angle & my sense of humor shows it. I’m looking for someone who loves music & dancing. I’m looking for someone who could enjoy meshing our interests & exploring new ones. phoenixgrrl42, 31, l, #119958 meet new people, after that? I’m looking for that special girl; I know you’re out there. Must like same things, be honest, real, faithful. Llooking for that special girl who is ready to fall in love & enjoy life on life’s terms. tata, 39, #119891 Insert fantasic headline here :) This is fun :) What do we have to lose, no? I am in a phase of radical self-acceptance & enjoying life’s gifts. Nonprofit girl by day & poet by night. I’m looking to meet new people (hope that didn’t sound too cheesy, but it is true!) for whatever develops organically. Nothing forced, no expectations. No U-Hauls, LOL. bluefire5151, 33, l, #119788 I could be your sunshine I start college in the spring. I just moved to Vermont. I’m looking for a girl who I can make smile every day. sunshinesunday, 20, l, #119811 living in the balance Bigendered in fairly equal parts. Military. Can eat an entire angel food cake. Gets occassional fierce cravings for Wunderbar bologna sandwiches. Loves the train, spicy food, tattoos. Less cool than I say, but more cool than I feel. Believes that humor goes further than looks ever could. Would totally date the chick from the Progressive commercial. Waiting... VisualizeWhirledPeas, 33, l, #106107
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Civil War reenactor Active senior portraying officer at Civil War events seeks lady for role of captain’s wife. Musical skills & familiarity w/ Irish tunes a plus. Compatibility may lead to other activities. IrishTexan, 73, l, #120092 FROM HIS ONLINE PROFILE: I always yell at the TV when I accidently watch Fox News.
environmentalist & animal lover. I’m extremely outgoing & social. I can be a huge tease & a bit much to handle, but I can guarantee to make you smile, laugh, blush & ensure you enjoy yourself. Aeonscrythe, 35, l, #120106 Sunny & always noon I am handsome, intelligent & loyal. Into cooking, dining out, live music, skiing, swimming, travel, movies, entertaining. The list goes on. Come join me. Misterioso, 43, l, #120100 Excited to Start Again I’m a divorced dad seeking a new friend & partner. I have 3 beautiful children who live w/ me part time. I have a log home in the country (my childhood home) & a secure career. I’m interested in meeting a fun woman who has similar interests to mine (or at least will be willing to put up w/ my interests ;). flebourveau, 34, l, #120091 Enjoy the view from here! I like the outdoors. I go skiing & snowshoeing often. If you would like to just start w/ corresponding & work toward some skiing, snowshoeing & just having fun, I am good w/ that. Life is way too short not to have a good, close, warm, fun-loving friend in one’s life. Sailnaked, 59, l, #120070 seeking kinky sexy fun lady I am 5’9, tan, fairly muscular, nicely endowed, about 8” & kind of thick. I am most attracted to women of color: African American, Asian & Latin women. Please, no sexual lightweights. I am very oral. I love to try new things & if you give me half a chance, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. Let’s have fun. lonelyat44, 44, #120068
Looking for that special someone Hey, guys, I’m a 22 y.o white guy looking for a long-term relationship & will be faithful. I really enjoy reading, hiking & cuddling up w/ a man of my own. Those are the most important things to me. I’m willing to try almost anything once. So if this sounds like something that you’re interested in, message me. buddy12388, 23, #119677 Looking for Romance. Down to earth and laid back. I’m a homebody, let’s get out & do something, stay in w/ a movie, hit the theater, grab a bite out, cook a great meal & stay in, hang w/ friends, hang by ourselves, go for a walk, go for a drive, head west w/ friends, head east w/ family, go shopping...or anything. vtboi4m, 39, l, #102625 Loverboy, Loverboy... Hi, I’m me, it’s True! Just a kid in town you may know, or wish to. You may find me in a certain coffee shop, wearing some colorful scarves, maybe glitter. I hope to intimidate none & invite anyone w/ a little strength in their heart to know me better. Love dates! Be who you Are, Love what you Do! i_maginary, 22, l, #119604 Living the life. 26 y.o. guy that likes to just have fun in life. Looking for someone to get to know and see what happens. I have many interests, but particularly love music :) Kind, honest, funny & sexy guys take a seat up front. Jupiter_ Lightning_Flash, 26, u, l, #104620
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PASSIONATE WOMAN IS SEARCHING FOR How to describe what I want in just a few lines... I want happiness, health, positive energy,humor, someone to share an amazing time w/thru all of lifes crazy U turns. REANE69, 36, l, #116728
For Gawd’s Sakes! This state is beginning to feel like Alabama, Utah or S. Carolina. Ain’t that pathetic. Where in the world are the guys who love living life? Creative guys w/ some edge, beyond the mainstream. Where’s the Vermont spirit? Have we all been drinking the same Kool-Aid they are drinking in Alabama, Utah & S. Carolina? I’ve got some ideas ... LOL. Harryhaller, 58, l, #110373
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genuine gal seeking counterpart Well-seasoned, adventurous yet a homebody at heart, creative, all-thingsin-moderation type of gal interested in companionship leading to significant relationship. Humor, humility & open-ended reflection appreciated. Enjoy physical activity balanced w/ artistic pursuits. Am quality oriented but budget minded & yearn for the right guy to share life’s mysteries with. RubyTwoShoes, 54, l, #120080
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Must love dogs & music If I didn’t strive to be humble & useful in the world, my head could get quite big from all the love & praise bestowed upon me by my friends & family. Truly blessed to be told often that I’m one of the most loving, caring & patient people they know. I love animals, children & music. You, too? Interested? ladydj, 38, l, #120060
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Checking out the scene I moved to Burlington from a small town in VT. I’m ready to have some fun & see what this great town has to offer. I’m looking to meet someone who shares my values & can show me a good time! ashley1015, 25, l, #113725
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Just Want Something Real I am a hopeless romantic butch who is looking for the femme of her life. I love long chats, coffee w/ my partner, holding hands & cuddling. Looking for someone w/ goals for herself. If you’d like to know more, just ask; I have nothing to hide. Oh, & I don’t like drama. RJinVT, 49, l, #120098
determined I’m fun to be around, around town or around home. I’m looking for really anything, so just talk to me. silverwolf, 19, l, #120117
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each day a celebration Given the opportunity to converse, I would talk about my love for music, the outdoors, my family, my work, learning or the mysteries of life. I can be sweet & polite, loud & abrasive, confident & calm, but always forthcoming & true. hithere, 30, l, #119698
Witty Beisbol Enthusiast Seeks Same Moving from rural Arizona makes me feel like a fish out of water. Here’s what’s under my down coat: I’m an outgoing, quick-witted woman who loves music,lively dinner parties & a good laugh. I’d like to share life w/ a fellow romantic who has worked through his core beliefs & would welcome company on an adventure we create together. SolaE, 42, l, #120018
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How adventurous are you? One of my favorite things to do in the summer is to take my boat out to this little bay on the lake. It’s only a couple miles from shore, on the side of an uninhabited island, where it’s quiet & peaceful. In the winter, skiing in the woods. gj953, 52, l, #120134
Would you like to dance? I am many things & have lots of interests. I am a doer, action oriented. I teach swing dance. I would like to meet a woman who would enjoy being my dance partner & possbily more. That would be a nice start. DavidLindy, 44, l, #120050
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In Need, Can You Help Looking for like-minded women or couples who want to have great sex. I’m not shy & love to enjoy a woman. No need for drinks. We meet, we XXXX, we leave. I am married. Can play alone but really want him involved. I love to watch him w/ another & he loves to watch! Looking for a dominant, too. Hubby must watch. 3isbetter, 38, l, #104249
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Looking to Explore the woman Sexy woman here looking for a woman to play with, and to be w/ my boyfriend & I. Must be clean & attractive. winters4u, 40, #120089 Big Beautiful Oral Sexpot I am a very big beautiful woman w/ a heart of gold. I am looking for someone who will take care of me but not boss me around. I am a Christian woman with a high school diploma & a college certificate. I have long brown hair & blue eyes. Let’s hook up! TooHot4u, 48, l, #120020
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Shy & Discreet I am a shy individual who is looking into finding a lady to send naughty emails & possibly an encounter in the future. Politat2, 25, l, #119886 hungry In a committed relationship with a much less hungry man. He knows I am looking around but, out of respect, discretion is a must. I am looking for a man who wants discreet encounters to leave us breathless and wet. Laughter, playfulness, mutual respect a must. Into light bondage, oral play, etc.; mostly I want to get laid. penobscot, 41, u, #119855
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Bunny I like sex nothing wrong with that, I am currently in an open relationship. My goal here is to make a few friends to have some steamy sexual conversations with. I want to be strictly online with e-mail only. Don’t be afraid I am they bunny let me be your prey. Bunnyofsnow, 19, l, #119307 Always bi, never tried,,, I’m a 41 & have a wonderful man in my life who wants me to experience my “bi side”. He knows it’s a part of me I have kept hidden & wants me to experience it. We have a solid relationship; he’s willing to not be involved or be involved, whichever we decide. I’m FF & curvy. gardengirl, 41, l, #118313
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It’s free to place your Sweet ‘n Sassy own profile online. I’m a sweet petite, sensual lady, Don't worry, you'll be with soft skin and gentle1 curves 1x1c-mediaimpact030310.indd 3/1/10 1:15:57 PM in good company, longing to be caressed by your strong hands. You must be fit, healthy, respectful, with a sharp wit and sense of humor. Not into domination or heavy kink, but rich ‘n sweet vanilla is ohhh sooo good!!! Seeking sexy cougar??? SweetThing, 38, #119790 love sex Would like to find a good man; willing to give relationships a try. Unafraid to be honest. Have fun in life; no downers. Can be fun if you give it a chance to work out. In need of a relationship w/ one who cares. Will put in lots of feedback & lots of attention. CA2001, 43, #106992
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real woman for grown-up play Happily married woman in an openminded relationship seeking a similar F friend w/ benefits for one-on-one play. btvplayer, 41, l, #118193 Need more fun I usually don’t do this, but I need a little spice in my life. Tired of the same old stuff every day! I am willing to try new things, so give me a shout! lookn4fun, 22, #118014 looking to try new things I am 21 & have not experienced a lot sexually. I do have a boyfriend & we both agreed to let me try new things. I have always been into girls but have only briefly experienced another girl. I would like to widen my horizons. I do like dildos, bullets & lots of foreplay, so please come play w/ me. curious21, 22, l, #117951 naughty girl looking for someone to lend a hand,tongue, pussy or cock! maybe for a meet up or some dirty emails/ messages. looking for anyone to help me, man, woman or couple looking to spice things up! looking to be taken control of and looking to take control. can you help? dirtygirl, 21, l, #117664 SEXPOT! SEXPOT! SEXPOT!! I love a little rumble in the jungle from time to time, but a (big) bug in the rug is my FAVORITE! If you know what I mean ... if the trailer’s a rockin’, DO come a knockin’;]. dixie_lishus, 26, l, #117407 Time for a change Looking for something new to experiment. I’ve never been w/ a woman before & am definitely interested in meeting discreetly to try new things. I would also be interested in joining a couple; a threesome is very hot. I’m not posting pictures on here, but would be more than willing to share pictures w/ you if asked. NewAdventures, 22, l, #116428
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need more, more, more I am in a committed relationship w/ someone not so hungry for pleasure & have a brand new realistic dildo just looking to lose its virginity. Discreet encounters a must. Penobscot sounds like a hit! Would love to hook up w/ email. journeyman, 59, #120113 goofball, tattooed, metal Love general redneckery, having fun & the sort. Sexwise, I’m what most would put more to the innocent side, but looking to change that. kingof20v, 24, #120103 tigger pooh I bounce like Tigger all over the place. I am full of energy in every way. I am like Pooh who likes to lick the jar clean of all of the honey I can get, so if you’re not satisfied w/ what you have, come see me. I am home alone every day. tigger, 42, u, #120040
Odysseus seeking his hot Circe Where’s my hot little enchantress? Come & play w/ me for a little while! Get hot, sweaty & sore w/ me. Go w/ me to places where you’ve only gone in your mind before. Let’s go to the brink of imagination & lust. Are you ready? I’m well-educated, professional, strong & fit. Excellent imagination & willing to use it. Odysseus62, 48, u, l, #120026 Wanna? Hook up w/ me & let’s see where it might go. Message me if you like. vtgranolageek, 48, #106511 Dtown Btown Just looking for some like-minded women who want to have some NSA fun times, maybe see a show, or even just hang out & talk about “stuff.” 6’4, 210, brown/blue, into Goth/alt/industrial, playing pool, having sex & cooking good food. If this sounds like you, take a chance! KMFDMer, 38, l, #119995
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Real Experienced Swingers No Games We are a younger couple & we have been swinging for 7 years. This does not make us “rock star” swingers. Looking for: F, attached, married or not, Bi or wanting to try; couples w/ BiF or both Bi. Must keep body in good order, clean, groomed, smell nice, trimmed or shaved. Manners, respect & honesty are required. sexyvtcpl, 33, l, #119971 Innocent New to all of this! Just want to explore w/ my roomie & another woman. innocentgirl, 34, l, #119961 Big gaping holes 18/19 y.o. couple. Fierce & sassy ginger and a hot & horny homo looking for a third (or fourth) playmate to spice up the bedroom w/ whips & chains. Sibling groups are also VERY welcome. Not
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Pantyhose Fetish Hello, I am a cute 33 y.o., 5’8, 150 lb., shaved M. I really love pantyhose, stockings & body stockings. I wear them a lot & love to masturbate wearing them & have sex in them. I really love feet, too. I’m seeking an open-minded F who shares the same passion as I do. pantyhoselove, 31, u, l, #120081 FROM HIS ONLINE PROFILE: What’s underneath your bed? High heels. The Performer Hello, my name is Jimmy. Interested in a girl who will take chances & does not mind getting dirty. Wanna meet up & cum over. If you fancy an orgasm, “I knock them out for free.” Let me know. Funny girls, sweet, candy, sarcasm. HighLife85, 25, l, #119969 A firm hand Typical white-collar professional by day, dominant kinky M by night. I work out & I expect my partners to be in shape, as well. I’m attractive enough that girls come up to talk to me, but looks are only part of the picture. If you need a firm hand, then maybe I can teach you a thing or two. sursno1, 30, #119966 Church St. Romp Shop! I live in Burlington 4 months a year. I went to college in S. Carolina, and live between there, Arizona & Burlington. I am a person who loves going out & meeting new people. I am looking for someone who seeks new experiences. HurricaneSeason, 21, l, #119956 old man in a young body Looking for a good time; nothing out of control. JLR59, 52, l, #119945 Looking for Mr. Goodknots? Me: knot geek. You: fit to be tied. I’m looking for a play partner who likes rope! Other toys rock, too, but rope is a must. A decorative, artistic tie takes time, but prolonging the anticipation of what’s coming next is SO delicious, don’t you think? goodknots, 52, #119769 older, hungry, lonely I’m just looking for sensuality. Discreetness is a must. Short turn might turn into longer relationship. adayatthezoo, 68, u, #119925
afraid to get down & dirty in the mud ... or snow. kittycats_sm, 20, l, #119952 Shyly Ferocious Naughty Librarian Handsome BF (40, fit, sensual) & I seek a slender, attractive woman. I am bi, skinny, romantic. He has my heart & I have his; this is just for fun. Chittykitty, 30, l, #119934 Testing the waters Attractive, professional, mid-20s couple looking for first-time adventures. Looking for women or couple to spend time w/ hiking or in front of the fireplace playing pool, enjoying good food & spirits. Heavy petting OK; not looking for sex. Her: bicurious. Him: hetero. kitteh, 29, l, #119629 Just for fun Married, but not to each other... we’re looking tof add a woman for discreet daytime encounters. If you want to come play with us email. 2njoy3, 45, #119469 nice trans woman I’ve been a trans woman now for 2 years & live full time looking for someone nice 7 caring who knows how to treat a tgirl. and love to be with one i will make you vear happy. candy1982, 41, l, #118855
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cute blonde at i spy live I like your love of animals. Nice red clogs :) Thank you for the hug. Coffee sometime? When: Saturday, January 29, 2011. Where: Higher Ground. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908515 Higher ground Hottie Hey, number 192, this is number 313 here. You really struck a chord w/ me & I want to take you out & show you a good time & have some fun! We met at the I Spy Singles Night at Higher Ground & it took me a great deal of courage to finally come up & talk to you! When: Sunday, January 30, 2011. Where: Higher Ground I Spy Singles Night. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #908514 Retronome, Jan. 29-30 At ‘80s night, you in flannel shirt & beanie, wandering around. We made eye contact on the dance floor & again when I was on my way out the door. Really wanted to dance w/ you, but had to follow my ride out the door. Would love to get together for another chance to dance, or coffee/drinks & conversation sometime. When: Sunday, January 30, 2011. Where: Metronome. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908513
vtwaternsky I spied your T2T profile & am intrigued. Love your warm, welcoming smile. Contact me should you care to hike w/ the dogs or get together sometime. Thanks! - earthwindnfire When: Thursday, January 27, 2011. Where: Two2Tango. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908507
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Clove man in Montreal Spied you on the cold winter streets in Old Montreal. I’m glad I was there to keep you warm. You add the spice to my life. Happy Birthday. Love, Ginger When: Saturday, January 22, 2011. Where: Canada. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908500 Shelburne Road bus Saw you on the Shelburne bus & smiled because you’re so cute in your black fuzzy bomber hat. You caught me staring, smiled back & brightened my day. Single? I want to take you out for a drink & more. You: black bomber hat, glasses, grayish coat, black & gray messenger bag. Me: long brown hair, black coat, dress pants. When: Monday, January 24, 2011. Where: Shelburne Rd. Bus. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #908499 DCA Airport We sat in the front of the airport shuttle & had a nice conversation on the coldest day of the year. I would have enjoyed talking more. Care to? When: Monday, January 24, 2011. Where: Washington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908498 from one dorkeedork to another! I spy you at potlucks, on FB, on Two2Tango, finally by my side in a hurricane. Five months of sharing our lives, falling in love breath by breath, expansive heart learning, acknowledging the soul lessons are the only permanence. Gratitude for loving, learning, playing, nourishing each other’s growth. Thanks for standing vibrantly in the hurricane winds w/ me. When: Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Where: in the hurricane. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908497
In my dreams I see you at Kmart. Your name is a type of music. Me: tall & nervous w/ shaggy blonde hair. You have eyes like Pocahontas & I always want to ask you out, but I’m too shy. Id like to be your John Smith. When: Sunday, January 23, 2011. Where: Shelburne Rd. Kmart. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #908502
Too Shy to Say Hi You: short-sleeve green T-shirt w/ tattoo peeking out, blond hair, saw you on the dance floor & by the bar. Me: dark shoulder-length hair, purple shirt, black knee-high boots. Several furtive glances & an attempt to dance closer :) Couldn’t garner the courage to chat you up. When: Saturday, January 22, 2011. Where: Metronome. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908492
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Dear Wendy,
Wendy and the Lost Boy
After being together for the better part of five years, you’re not unreasonable in wanting to know if you’re on the same page about having kids. It sounds like your man has some debilitating fears of fatherhood that need to be addressed before he feels confident enough to be a parent. It’s time to revisit this issue and give it the weight it requires. Tell him that you’re not willing to compromise on having kids, and that he needs to quit being wishywashy. It’s unfair for him to say he doesn’t want children, then follow up with “Don’t listen to me; my feelings aren’t permanent.” Encourage him to take some time to think, see a therapist, whatever — but tell him that he has to give you a clearer picture of what he wants, and he needs to do it quickly, so that you can make difficult decisions if need be. Let him know that, despite his fears, you think he’d make a fantastic dad and that you’re willing to be a true partner in parenthood. Your Peter Pan references may be spot on — perhaps your Lost Boy simply needs to grow up a bit and gain more confidence before deciding to bring kids into Neverland. On the other hand, if he has no desire to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, you may need to be your own Tinker Bell and save yourself from this relationship.
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Feb. Fourth Forever Thank you for making me the luckiest man when you said yes. I cannot wait for us to spend our lives together. You’re every line, you’re every word, you’re my
Attractive woman at Klinger’s I saw you last Wednesday at Klinger’s Bakery in S. Burlington. You would be the one w/ the red hair & blue eyes. I believe you ordered soup. I asked if you were having a good day & the conversation was off. I enjoyed our talk & was hoping to continue it. Coffee? When: Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Where: Klinger’s Bakery. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #908493
My boyfriend and I (both in our mid-twenties) have been together off and on for the past five years, parting ways only during times of extreme geographical difference. We get along fantastically, recognize our differences and seem to balance each other really well. We just can’t compromise on one very vital thing: I want kids someday, and he’s not sure. He says he’s afraid he will forget to go to his kids’ band concerts, afraid he won’t provide enough rich cultural experiences, and he doesn’t want his kids to struggle with school like he did. We got into an uncomfortable conversation about whether we should continue to date if our views are so different on something about which we cannot compromise. He told me not to listen to him and that his feelings aren’t permanent. I’m afraid that we’ll date happily for a few more years, and then when my “crazy clock” starts ticking, I will be alone in wanting a family. Is it unreasonable to want to know now if we are on the same page about having kids in the future? Is his Peter Pandering likely to change, or should I listen to what he’s saying and make hard choices now?
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Lenscrafters hottie You helped my friend put a new screw in her glasses. You are tall & fine. Didn’t see a ring, so here’s hoping you’re single? Either way, your hotness had to be acknowledged. Can you help me pick out some sweet Wayfarers? When: Thursday, January 27, 2011. Where: LensCrafters. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908508
Too shy to ask yourself Your buddy told me you thought I was cute & wanted to ask for my number, but you were too shy to ask yourself. I’d love to serve you another G&T sometime. When: Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Where: Nectar’s. You: Man. Me: Woman. #908504
Dear Mistress Maeve,
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Hit-and-Run Witness On N. Champlain Thanks for calling it in, Noah. I needed the chance to chill out before talking to the police, who arrived shortly after you left. Everything’s cool, but you stopping & helping out was one of the best things that could have happened. Thanks, man. When: Friday, January 28, 2011. Where: N. Champlain St.. Burlington. You: Man. Me: Man. #908509
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Redheaded Barista You make me wanna fill out an I Spy ad. Or buy corporate coffee that’s out of my way. I could’ve just put the map down Can’t even give CDs away i will wait for you & approached you in the workplace. I I was flattered that you stayed after don’t even read I Spys. When: Saturday, You: hot, sexy sales clerk at C.J. Banks. 1x3-cbhb-personals-alt.indd 1 band play. 6/14/10 2:39:13 PM work just to see my I January 29, 2011. Where: noble barns. Every time I see you my heart skips tried bringing you a CD a few times You: Woman. Me: Man. #908512 a beat & I lose my breath. You are at work, but you are never around so beautiful all I want is a chance to when I do. Name a time & a place & Hit/Run Witness on Howard make you happy & let you know what it’s yours, L! When: Friday, December I didn’t get to really thank you for it’s like to be loved unconditionally. 10, 2010. Where: Red Square. You: taking the time out of your day. Thank Please give US a chance. You will not be Woman. Me: Man. #908506 you. It was comforting that you waited disappointed, I promise. When: Tuesday, w/ me & much appreciated! Good January 25, 2011. Where: U-Mall. You: Bagel Market Beauty luck to you upon graduation from Woman. Me: Woman. #908496 You are a beautiful brunette & you Champlain this May. When: Friday, drive a blue Mitsubishi? I have seen Green saying “hi” to Blue January 28, 2011. Where: Howard St. you a few times recently, including this You: Man. Me: Woman. #908511 Hey, you cute (straightened) curlymorning, & you are always wearing haired girl who lives on So. Prospect a sexy smile! We said hi & made eye BTV to SAN St. I’m thinking about you. Often. contact for a split second & it made Your piranha misses you. When: Sometimes naked. You’re hot. I can’t my day. Hope this makes yours! When: Saturday, January 29, 2011. wait to hold you again. When: Sunday, Thursday, January 27, 2011. Where: Where: too far away. You: Man. January 23, 2011. Where: Burlington. Essex. You: Woman. Me: Man. #908505 Me: Woman. #908510 You: Woman. Me: Man. #908495
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