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Reconnecting with the Islands More than 200 cyclists took part in last Saturday’s second annual Heart of the Islands Bike Tour.

Tour. The event, organized by Vermont Farm Tours, invited participants to visit local farms and to view artwork on display as part of an open studio weekend. Seven Days multimedia producer Eva Sollberger captured the gorgeous summer day on camera for this week’s episode of “Stuck in Vermont.”

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Vermont inmates jailed in Massachusetts started a riot allegedly because it got too hot in the slammer. It’s only slightly cooler up here, fellas.

Riders paid $40 each to tour South Hero, North Hero and Grand Isle. Ten percent of the proceeds were earmarked for Local Motion, Motion, a Burlington-based nonprofit that promotes cycling and other forms of outdoor recreation.

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Thank you, Seven Days, for your coverage of classical music in Vermont, “Striking the Right Note” [June 29]. One correction, however: The Music Festival of the Americas at Stowe is not “Mexico based.” The festival was born in Vermont, is a Vermont nonprofit and our performing venue is the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center — also in Vermont. All in the good old U.S. of A. Jo Sabel Courtney

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[Re: Poli Psy: “Star-Spangled Ban,” July 6]: I agree with Judith Levine that First Amendment rights ought to trump the American flag (which, in this post-Texas v. Johnson America, they do). I also agree that Vermont’s archaic flag-desecration statute should be repealed. Her skepticism of Vermont’s First Amendment track record and the tone of her plea for the statute’s repeal, however, are over the top.

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We’ve been referring to it as a “circulator” — not an official, technical term but a way for us to keep the distinction between it and roundabouts, which also differ from what you may know as traffic rotaries and circles. There are a few roundabouts in the Montpelier-Barre area, and a roundabout is currently in design to replace the existing pseudorotary on Shelburne Road in Burlington.

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From Goats to Greenbelt Gardens: A New Task Force Defines “Farming” in Burlington

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26 The Man Who Runs to Work 28 Crash-Test Medicine Science: UVM’s new Clinical Simulation Lab employs mannequins that sweat, bleed and breathe

Bruce Ryan took aim at Montpelier Gun Club pollution — and 16 years later found his target

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Piano Students Soar at the Adamant Music School From Ashes, Downtown Enosburg Falls Witnesses an Arts Revival

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Twice Upon a Time With 20 years and 50 productions down, the Fairfax Community Theatre Company takes a moment to look back — with an epic remix. REPRISE! 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA includes a swingin’ number from every FCTC musical ever produced, some performed by the original cast members.

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Head to the Haskell Free Library and Opera House — which straddles Stanstead, Québec, and Derby Line, Vt. — for a rousing set of bluegrass on the border.

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Eat It Up No other prerequisite for survival stirs up such love/hate emotions as food. Charlotte artist Alice Murdoch explores women’s complicated relationships to eating — a ripe topic, that one — in new oil paintings at the Flynn Center’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery.

“PRIVATE PLEASURES” is on view through September 24.

Man’s Best Friend Forget frolf; playing Frisbee is way better with a pooch in tow. See Spot run at KILLINGTON DOG DAYS, a weekend of disc-dog competitions and other activities for four-legged friends. It promises to be more fun than you can shake a tail at — though that won’t stop pups from trying.

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Vermont’s hospitals have boosted net patient revenues by roughly $314 million during the past three years, with annual increases of about 6.3 percent. Those are the actual dollars captured by hospitals for services rendered, after any deductions or discounts given to insurance providers. The money comes from all of us, through higher insurance premiums, On Cool heftier out-of-pocket charges, taxes or Summer all three combined.

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Kimbell has the authority to deny hospitals some of the exemptions mentioned earlier. Whether he will remains to be seen. He points out that lawmakers introduced the exemptions to entice hospitals to spend money in areas that might help reform the system.

“The current process that I have supervision of is a total failure if the [criterion] is cost containment,” Kimbell told “Fair Game.” “I’m not doing what has been done in the past. My focus is on how do we get where we want to get, which is a sustainable budgeting process.” Investments in IT and electronic medical records should help control future costs, Kimbell noted.

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How much money are we talking about? Several of the state’s hospitals provided numbers to “Fair Game.”

• Fletcher Allen Health Care is seeking a net patient revenue increase of $35.8 million over last year’s figure, to almost $1 billion. In addition, FAHC is seeking $23 million in exclusions. Add the two and it’s an increase of nearly 5 percent, well above the cap.

• Rutland Regional Medical Center is asking for $10 million in new net patient revenues and $5 million in exemptions, for a combined increase of 5.5 percent.

• Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington is seeking $5.8 million in new net patient revenue and $11.2 million in exclusions, for a combined increase of 5.5 percent.

• Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans is seeking $6.8 million in new net patient revenues and $5 million in exclusions, for a combined increase of 6.3 percent.

• Central Vermont Medical Center is Berlin is seeking a $7.5 million increase

in net patient revenues and $4 million in exclusions, for a combined increase of 6 percent.

• Copley Hospital in Morrisville is seeking a $4 million increase in net patient revenues and $2 million in exclusions, for a combined increase of 6 percent.

• Porter Medical Center in Middlebury is seeking $3 million in new net patient revenues and $2 million in exclusions, for a combined increase of 8 percent.

• Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury wants a $400,000 increase in net patient revenues and $746,000 in exclusions, for a combined increase of 7.1 percent.

These eight hospitals account for more than $60 million in exclusions.

Will you and I wind up paying the difference? Probably, but we’ll feel good about it, because the hospitals, the Shumlin administration and lawmakers kept costs under control.

The so-called government takeover of health care is starting to look more like a handover.

Vermonters can weigh in on these budget requests at a whopping threeand-a-half-hour meeting (1:30 to 5 p.m.) on August 4 at Montpelier’s Department of Labor, or via Vermont Interactive Television.

The fix is in, according to longtime Burlington-based health care policy analyst JEANNE KELLER. “The way the process is going to work this year is very good for the Shumlin administration and hospitals. It’s a winwin for them. The hospitals get to build all of these increases into their budgets and at the same time everyone gets to take credit for cost containment,” said Keller. “If they are serious about containing costs, they’ve got to show some backbone.”

Absent backbone, consumers will continue to face higher insurance premiums and they’ll know just who to blame, predicts Keller.

The hospitals? Nope.

“Insurance companies will be sent to the gallows first,” said Keller. “I predict they will be treated harshly for bringing the bad news, when, in fact, it should be the hospitals, the Shumlin administration and the legislature for negotiating these exclusions.”

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Burlington Telecom wants permission from the Vermont Public Service Board to finish wiring its network throughout the Queen City. The pace of work would be determined by how much cash it has on hand — not how much it can borrow.

An August 2009 audit found that BT’s services reached all but 3297 — or 20 percent — of the city’s addresses. Of those, about 1355 addresses are located on private rights-of-way. BT is asking the PSB for a green light to reach the remaining 1942 addresses.

BT plans to spend more than $500,000 on capital investments this year — up more than $200,000 from last year — to hook up new customers.

BT is also seeking PSB approval to exempt BT from having to reimburse the city several hundred thousand dollars it spent on financial advisers Dorman & Fawcett to renegotiate the city’s $33.5 million lease-purchase deal with CitiCapital.

In two separate regulatory filings submitted June 30, BT officials claim they have two “letters of intent” — one from a financial investor, one from an out-of-state, independent telephone company — to help address BT’s woes.

An in-state telecom firm remains interested but has not made a formal offer.

The city has not heard from CitiCapital since February.

BT’s filings came just two days after State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan announced he would not seek criminal charges against city or BT officials for running afoul of PSB rules by failing to repay $16.9 million borrowed from taxpayers to prop up the muni telecom. Add to that the $33.5 million owed to CitiCapital and BT remains more than $50 million in debt.

Attorney William Ellis noted in the filing that BT’s cash flow — before debt service — improved from a negative $819,000 in FY 2010 to a positive $651,000 at the end of FY 2011.

That’s nearly a $1.5 million turnaround in one year. Not bad. Just $48.9 million to go.

City and BT officials escaped “neglect of duty” and “false claims” charges when two state’s attorneys opted against pursuing misdemeanor charges.

Last week Attorney General Bill sorrEll said he couldn’t find enough evidence to prove that Entergy Vermont Yankee officials had willfully committed perjury before the Public Service Board. He said his office spent roughly $100,000 on its 18-month investigation.

Sorrell’s shop tried to determine if Vermont Yankee officials knew what they were doing when they misled state regulators about the existence of buried pipes that carried radionuclides. You know, the pipes that were later discovered after they leaked millions of gallons of water containing tritium, strontium and cesium into the groundwater.

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Two Vermont corporate miscreants received “Get Out of Jail Free” cards from top prosecutors in the past few weeks.

What gives?

Both Burlington Telecom and now Entergy have been scolded rather than indicted. The takeaway from these decisions: Misleading state regulators pays.

Former lieutenant governor Brian DuBiE remained coy about his future political plans during a Friday night interview on WCAX-TV’s 5:30 p.m. newscast, “The :30.”

“I haven’t ruled out any possibility about elected office in the future,” Dubie said. “Right now it’s time to eat some fried dough and go to some fairs and enjoy our families.”

Dubie said he’d let his political plans be known in the fall.

“Labor Day is a good time of year to be thinking about politics or elective office,” Dubie said. Which one? Odds are it’s either another bid for governor or taking on U.S. Sen. BErniE sanDErs (I-VT).

For political junkies who can’t wait till Labor Day for their next fix, Friday marks the first filing deadline of the 2012 election cycle. Candidates and parties have to report how much campaign dough they’ve raised between January 1 and July 13. Reports are due to the secretary of state’s office by 5 p.m. m

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or more than a month, a handpainted sign sat in front of Joseph Lariviere’s raised vegetable beds in downtown Burlington that read: “This is a garden for the community, made by the community, with the love and permission of the community.”

“Love?” Maybe. “Permission?” Nope.

In June, Burlington police cited Lariviere, 27, with unlawful mischief for refusing to remove his wooden garden boxes from a city-owned greenbelt near the corner of Pearl Street and North Winooski Avenue, across from Radio Bean.

Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan declined to prosecute Lariviere, who could have been hit with a $500 fine. Instead, restitution for his horticultural transgression will be determined by Burlington’s Community Justice Center, according to the Associated Press.

Lariviere didn’t respond to numerous phone messages seeking comment.

Obviously, growing carrots, kale and cherry tomatoes illegally doesn’t elicit the same prosecutorial wrath as, say, growing marijuana. Nevertheless, the outlawed veggie garden rekindled an old Burlington debate about who can grow what, where, on city-owned land.

In June 2005, the Burlington City Council debated a “greenbelt vegetation ordinance” that would have laid out explicit standards for how homeowners and tenants must maintain the grassy land between their sidewalk and the street.

Complaints about neglected greenbelts prompted the measure. Instead of maintaining them, as the current ordinance requires, some residents had let them become weed-choked and overgrown.

But city officials also started targeting beautified greenbelts in neighborhoods where residents had planted shrubs, flowers, herbs and vegetables. A city land

AGRICULTURE manager noted that even well-intended gardens can damage tree roots, pose fire hazards, encroach upon sidewalks or block the view of traffic for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Opposition grew against the proposed ordinance that would have prevented residents from planting anything but grass within the “drip line” of a city-owned tree — that is, the area beneath its canopy. Also, residents would have been prohibited from installing planting boxes, like the ones Lariviere erected, without a permit from the city arborist.

The ordinance withered on the vine.

Since then, greenbelt gardens have proliferated, especially in the Old North End, where tillable land is in short supply. There are now more than 100 makeshift gardens throughout the city. In some cases, they complement the 11 city-owned community gardens — which amount to about six acres of tillable land — where more than 1000 residents grow food, according to city land steward Dan Cahill.

Burlingtonians are now raising animals, too. In the spring of 2010, a code enforcement officer cited Old North End resident

Will Bennington for keeping too many chickens at his Decatur Street home.

Bennington had 10 hens; the city limit is four. Apparently, the four-animal limit was established years ago to differentiate between people who own multiple dogs and kennel operators.

Bennington’s case motivated a coalition of community groups to begin a larger dialogue about cultivating food — animal and vegetable — within city limits. Part of the problem, Cahill admits, is that for years, complaints related to makeshift gardens and animal husbandry in Burlington have slipped through the regulatory cracks because no one city department is charged with overseeing them.

In March, city councilor Bram Kranichfeld (D-Ward 2) sponsored a resolution to create a Burlington Urban Agriculture Task Force. The measure passed, 13 to one. Only Councilor Paul Decelles (R-Ward 7) voted against it.

“It seems like there’s enough interest in town, and people doing a broad range of activities that could come under the heading of ‘urban agriculture,’ and there isn’t really anything in city policy that

addresses it,” observes Will Robb, who chairs the new six-member task force.

Robb notes that the city’s Board of Health and Department of Planning and Zoning could have drafted a sensible policy that simply addresses chicken ownership.

“But what do you do when somebody shows up with a goat or wants to raise bees?” he says.

At a June 6 public meeting at Burlington’s City Market, Robb and Alison Nihart, a graduate student in the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, laid out the task force’s overarching mission: to come up with a cohesive urban agriculture policy and “best practices” guidelines for raising food, keeping livestock, producing compost and promoting agriculture in Burlington, from small greenbelt plots to large commercial farms in the Burlington Intervale.

Lariviere’s veggie garden probably still wouldn’t fly based on health and safety concerns. As Cahill points out, it’s inadvisable to raise herbs or vegetables in soil that’s potentially contaminated with lead paint or animal waste. Plus, Lariviere’s greenbelt garden was in front of a commercial property, not his own residence.

But Robb insists the goal of the task force isn’t to create a whole new regulatory framework, just some common-sense rules and recommendations for city residents interested in their own food production and neighborhood beautification.

“We also want to articulate that growing food is an important thing to do,” he adds, “and if people want to be provisioning their households out of what little land is available to them in the city, that we actually want to encourage that.”

Burlingtonians will get a first look at the task force’s preliminary policy recommendations in neighborhood planning association meetings this fall.

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Green Mountain Power’s Canadian Owners Win Bidding War for CVPS In the end it was the mega-Canadian utility with Vermont roots that bested the mega-Canadian utility with no Green Mountain Mary Powell ties in the bidding war for the state’s largest utility.

On July 12, Central Vermont Public Service announced it had accepted a purchase offer from Gaz Métro, a large utility based in Québec, valued at roughly $710 million.

The deal means that CVPS will merge with Vermont’s second-largest utility, Green Mountain Power, and become one giant utility, pending approval by state regulators.

Combined, the new mega-utility will control about two-thirds of Vermont’s regulated power market and own a substantial stake in VELCO, the utility-owned electric transmission system.

Gaz Métro also owns Vermont Gas Systems, giving this province-based utility unprecedented power — literally and figuratively — in Vermont’s utility market.

What could go wrong, eh?

GMP’s president and CEO Mary Powell will lead the newly formed company, according to Gaz Métro president and CEO Sophie Brochu. Brochu has been Powell’s boss since Gaz Métro bought GMP. Powell was the Vermont face of Gaz Métro’s bid for CVPS, which came after Newfoundland-based utility giant Fortis had made its own offer for CVPS. Brochu, Powell and others claim that Vermont customers will save $144 million in the next 10 years, by consolidating the two workforces — and that savings will be passed on to ratepayers. Maybe the Canadian firms are offering us single-payer health care?

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WAYNE BESEN: It is an odd experience to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender in America today because there is an incoherent patchwork of laws that govern your life. Your legal status and that of your family is capricious, arbitrary and subject to the whims of the majority. It is a perverse and precarious situation when your status as a family or even as an equal citizen can evaporate whenever you cross state lines or leave a friendly locale.

This reality has created a bizarre political reality where there are brutal, highstakes fights for equality at the local, state and national level — some of which are won and others lost. The best you can do is savor the victories and learn from the defeats and move on. However invigorating or painful the outcome of each fight may be, the general trend weighs heavily in the favor of LGBT equality.

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overnment corruption might be rare in Vermont, but conflicts of interest seem to be popping up all over. Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan had to pass his criminal investigation of Burlington Telecom to other state prosecutors because his uncle’s law firm represents the municipal utility. The Shumlin administration recently appointed new members to the state’s Clean Energy Development Fund after the board came under fire for awarding funds to one of the governor’s largest campaign donors. Cemetery commissioners in the town of Braintree have awarded themselves contracts to mow graveyard lawns, the Burlington Free Press reports, and even signed their own paychecks.

Has South Burlington joined the conflict-of-interest club? The chair of the city council, Sandy Dooley, is under fire for pushing new zoning rules that could halt a development behind her house that Dooley

and her husband, Vermont Supreme Court Justice John Dooley, have fought against for over three decades. Since 1978, the Dooleys have tried to stop a multiphase development that would impede the view of the majestic Green Mountains from their home on East Terrace in South Burlington.

Their lawsuit against the Quarry Hill developers went all the way to the Vermont Supreme Court. To avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest, Judge Dooley and all of his colleagues stepped aside to let a panel of retired judges hear the case.

The verdict? The court protected the couple’s view corridor, but only the width of their lot. The Dooleys were unable to stop the Quarry Hill development from breaking ground on three apartment buildings alongside I-89 south and proceeding with plans for structures that would forever change what they see from their living room window.

Five years later, the developers are ready to start the next phase of the project. But it might not happen if the South Burlington Quarry Hill development in progress City Council decides to adopt “interim zoning” rules that some say would all but freeze new development in the city for two years. Under the pretense of and has demanded that the city councilor having more oversight, the rule change disqualify herself from the process. In would make the city council, rather than a June 16 letter to City Manager Sandy the Development Review Board, the final Miller, attorney Liam Murphy wrote that Dooley’s actions “may appear to be decider on such development proposals.

The lawyer representing Ralph an effort to use the legislative process DesLauriers, who is developing the to benefit personally and stop the same Quarry Hill property as Cupola Golf development behind her home which she Course, Inc., says the proposal presents and her husband have opposed in court a glaring conflict of interest for Dooley for decades without success.”

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offenders working on its behalf, said Mari Steinbach, the city’s director of parks and recreation. The state and city have been haggling since December, when the city signaled it was ready to pay $60,000 for offender work crews — roughly the same as in years past, according to Dave Bellini, a work crew supervisor who has negotiated those contracts for decades.

The city then reduced its commitment to $45,000, and finally to $22,500.

Even without a contract, DOC staff provided Burlington with several work crews this spring to help clean up lakefront debris caused by record spring flooding. But Burlington balked when it got an $8000 bill for the work. So the state pulled the crews from the Queen City, said Bellini, and resubmitted the invoices last week.

The city does plan to pay the bills, said Steinbach, who assures a contract could be in place — and signed — this week. She said she wanted the final document to better detail the scope of work corrections

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n Burlington, former prisoners make up for their misdeeds by mowing and landscaping city cemeteries and parks, cleaning up after events at Memorial and City Hall auditoriums — even setting up voting booths on Election Day. A chain gang it isn’t, but on any given day in Burlington, as many as 100 offenders on parole or probation may be toiling for no pay under the supervision of the Department of Corrections.

That 30-year partnership soured this year as a result of budget cuts and new contract language that ensures Burlington isn’t liable for any problems caused by

crews would provide, as well as include a guaranteed minimum number of workers each day.

DOC officials argue that no matter how you add it up, $60,000 a year for six to 12 guys a day is a good deal. The offenders do not receive any compensation for their work. Missing a work crew assignment — a possible violation of probation or parole — can send an offender back to prison.

“Parks and rec misses them, as we have relied on them extensively in past years,” said Steinbach. “They are a positive presence. The citizens gain from it, as it is a great resource to save taxpayers money, and the work crews benefit from the program, too.” Steinbach said the city is also reviewing whether the contract is subject to the city’s “livable wage” ordinance, which requires contractors pay at least $16.82 an hour to its workers. Because the work crews are doing community service, Steinbach noted, they are likely exempt.

Now that the dust has settled on the budget year that began July 1, Steinbach said the city has determined it has $45,000 to spend on offender work crews. For Bellini, that may be too little, too late.

“We have other communities and state agencies who are asking us for work, but we held out signing deals with those folks

Labor because we expected that Burlington could come through,” said Bellini, who also contracts with the Agency of Transportation, the Fish & Wildlife Department, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington.

The DOC’s Community Restitution Program currently has 187 contracts that as of May 31, had brought in $420,675 for the DOC. In FY 2010 work-crew contracts generated $479,408, down from $508,483 in FY 2009.

Bellini warns, “We’d like to continue working with Burlington, but taking more than six months to renew a contract is giving me second thoughts about how many crews I’ll set aside for them next year.”

For now, the parks department is using two full-time workers to keep up with basic lawn care and landscaping needs.

“We’ve done the best we could with the resources we have at our disposal,” said Bill Rasch, a parks employee and vice president of the local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union that represents some city workers. “We’ve been playing catchup the best we can, which is hard even on a good day. It was a tough spring, and not having the work crews isn’t helping, that’s for sure.”m

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“I don’t know how you can be objec- open space.” While she admits it’s likely tive when you’re voting on a development to slow the pace of construction in town, which is right next door to you,” Murphy Dooley insists that’s not the singular aim. says in an interview. “At the very minimum “We made some pretty dramatic there is an appearance of conflict.” changes in land development regulations Dooley maintains that her involvement in the last decade,” Dooley says. “From my does not constitute a conflict of interest — perspective, those deviated from the comand South Burlington’s city attorney is back- prehensive plan in ways that aren’t in the ing her up on that. In response to Murphy’s best interest of the city.” letter, city attorney Steven Stitzel recently Recently released 2010 census figures issued an opinion declaring there is “insuf- show that South Burlington’s population ficient basis” to conclude that Dooley has a grew by 13 percent in the past decade, and disqualifying conflict of interest. some, such as City Councilor Rosanne Stitzel reasoned that case law is very Greco, see the resulting apartment and specific about what qualifies as a conflict condo complexes as evidence that it’s time for local legislators and that this circum- to put the brakes on development. stance doesn’t meet that threshold. He But Murphy questions that assumpalso wrote that the zoning rules under tion, too. He points out that the city’s consideration are “of general applicabil- comprehensive plan, first adopted in ity throughout the city,” meaning any city 2001, predicted annual population councilor could find themselves living growth of around 1.5 percent — or 15 pernext to a proposed development site. cent over a decade. What’s more, he says, “Everybody on historic census the city council data show South has to live in the Burlington’s city,” says Dooley. population has “If this is the basis grown fairly for conflict of insteadily at terest, then no city around 2 percouncilor could cent a year for vote or participate several decades. in discussions on In a June 9 interim zoning.” article, South The South Burlington’s Burlington City Other Paper Council doesn’t reported that LIAm m u rPhY, At torN E Y currently have an Dooley “exofficial conflict-ofpressed concern interest policy. over the city’s DesLauriers’ growth rate” at development — with a price tag in excess a city council meeting. But she denies that of $30 million — has so far given rise to is her motivation in supporting the zoning a gated emergency-access road adjacent changes. to the Dooleys’ home and two multistory Dooley also downplays the years-long apartment buildings behind Staples Plaza. legal battle that found its way to her husA third is under construction. DesLauriers’ band’s august workplace: the Vermont lawyer says he’s getting ready to propose Supreme Court. “There have been two site plans for the remainder of the 20-acre lawsuits, and one was a whole group of property — including the parcel nearest neighbors,” she says. the Dooleys’ house — which will include Regarding the latest phase of the single-family homes and housing for the DesLauriers development, Dooley says, elderly. DesLauriers has already sunk “We have not opposed their specific pro$3 million into roads, sewers and storm- posals to develop the property.” water systems in anticipation of the new At what point do her personal stakes as a construction. resident conflict with her responsibilities as Asked how a time-out would affect his an official elected to represent the public inclient’s project, Murphy says he’s not sure. terest? Murphy says that if South Burlington “We’re trying to sort that out,” he says. “It’s adopted an official conflict-of-interest a pretty badly drafted ordinance.” policy, Dooley’s frequent discussion with South Burlington has used interim planning and zoning staff — “ex parte oral zoning to slow down the pace of devel- communications” — would likely violate it. opment before, in 1989 and 2005. This If specific Quarry Hill proposals come time, builders and the press are calling it before the city council, would Dooley disa “development freeze,” but Dooley says qualify herself? that’s not accurate. Instead, she says the Initially, Dooley says no; she says she’d proposal, which comes before the city have to consult with the city’s lawyers. council on July 18, adds an “extra layer of A minute later, though, she changes review” to planning and zoning applica- her mind. “That would be different,” she tions with the goal of “protecting existing says. “My thought is that, in that situation, neighborhoods” and the “preservation of I probably would be recusing myself.” m

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Syracuse, N.Y., brought to the piano seat a linebacker’s build and a curly mop of hair. Simchy-Gross loomed over the keyboard and attacked it with gusto as he conquered a bombastic, frenzied piano piece by Liszt.

For most listeners, however, this stellar evening belonged to Anita Pari of Ottawa, Ontario, a slender wisp just 13 years old. Wrapped in a tight, satiny performance gown, she played challenging

pieces by Beethoven and Liszt flawlessly, with a preternatural ease that was simply stunning.

After the concert, when performers typically mingle with the audience and gather for refreshments, I asked Pari whether she’s secretly channeling some famous maestro from the 1800s. The teenager just giggled and shrugged her shoulders.

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THAN DEZOTELLE sat at the windowside bar of the FLYING DISC music and coffee shop in Enosburg Falls last week. Over smoothies, he reminisced about the fire that ravaged downtown in 2005 and said the blaze sparked a microburst in the town’s arts scene.

“There’s a whole lot going on,” said Dezotelle, 36, a threeyear Enosburg Falls trustee. “It’s sort of an unofficial arts district here.”

Look no further than the ENOSBURG OPERA HOUSE. The Victorian-style, woodframe venue in northeastern Franklin County has become a destination for area arts enthusiasts.

For the first time in its 119-year

history, the opera house will present two large-scale summer musicals: Oliver! beginning Thursday, July 14, and Guys and Dolls the last week of the month.

“I think it is rather unique,” said opera-house managing director SUZANNE HULL-PARENT, seated in her office last Wednesday, the first night of crunch-time rehearsals.

“In our feelings and minds, this is at the heart of what the opera house originally did.”

More than 100 people are involved in both shows, including up to 35 individuals who have time on stage in each production — a record in Hull-Parent’s three-year tenure at the opera house.

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to appreciate surprises — they never know which pieces will be played on the nine-foot Steinway concert grand on any given night. They also know that the experience is usually magical.

“I think Adamant is one of the great undiscovered secrets,” says PETER HARRIS of Montpelier, echoing a sentiment often heard among those who frequent the concerts.

This is the case “because we really don’t do much advertising,” admits Adamant Music School president FRANK SUCHOMEL with a slight sigh, acknowledging it’s both a fault and a point of pride.

On this eve, we were treated to six students playing Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms and Liszt, among them some fiendishly difficult works (some nights a dozen or more students perform). Adamant allows listeners something rare: a tapas-like menu of varied piano pieces in an intimate, 80-seat room where you can observe very different styles. In Qiao Yi Miao Mu, a native of China, we witnessed a deceptively small sprite dressed in a light summer dress who masterfully commanded the large Steinway in two relentless Chopin études. In contrast, Rhimmon Simchy-Gross, a college junior from

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ne year shy of its 70th birthday, the ADAMANT MUSIC SCHOOL somehow remains one of Vermont’s best-kept summer secrets, as well as one of its best bargains and concert settings. Where else can you find a 200-acre waterside venue with a sculpture garden, cascading stone spillways, verdant hills and rampant flowers in a tiny, 19th-century white-clapboard village filled with remarkable pianists?

The school offers a live-in, noncompetitive piano-study experience with renowned professionals to advanced students. Several nights a week over the course of nearly two months, these accomplished students present concerts to the public for a mere $10 ($6 for students and seniors). This summer session opened on July 5 with a concert featuring the master-class students of Montréal pianist André Laplante. The tall and lanky sixtysomething virtuoso has performed around the world. And, though a self-professed “city mouse,” he has happily taught at this bucolic respite for the past five years.

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Suchomel, at 81, has spent more than 60 summers at the nonprofit school, starting as a student. His title doesn’t do justice to his many roles here: gentle impresario, enabler and financial backer, head schmoozer, biggest fan, even groundskeeper. Before the concert, he was outside with a pooper scooper picking up what a flock of geese had left behind.

“I just think it’s a beautiful place,” Suchomel said, noting that otters, young fawns, fox, moose and geese roam his yard — even if they do leave droppings.

The school was started by New Yorkers Edwine Behre, Alice Mary Kimball and Harry Godfrey, who bought the rundown Adamant parsonage in 1942 and turned it into a refuge for Behre’s New York City piano students.

Once a rough-and-tumble quarry town, the diminutive unincorporated village just eight miles from Montpelier is today a quiet, verdant gem with two ponds and a small but lively co-op where concertgoers can partake of fine Friday-night outdoor dinners.

The school is a long labor of love for Suchomel, who has remade the grounds and created a piano oasis where the hills really are alive with music.

“I often go around at night and listen to the people practicing,” Suchomel

said. An amazing 46 pianos, many of them Steinway or Baldwin grands, are tucked into cabins in the woods or along the shoreline. Suchomel’s partner, Michael Suchomel, directs free plays and musicals with Quarry Works in the PhilliPs ExPErimEntal thEatEr built beside a former granite quarry that reflects Adamant’s history.

Like a Vermont summer itself, the music-school sessions are brief and intense, beginning on July 2 and ending August 18 with a master class with renowned pianist Menahem Pressler. Some 10 to 30 students reside at Adamant, depending on the session.

Without fail, their concerts showcase remarkable talent.

It’s not surprising that students thrive in this setting. Walter Aparicio, a native of Bolivia who lives and teaches in New York City and is working on concert pieces he will perform in La Paz next month, put it succinctly: “Adamant lets you get a vacation from your life.” m

She said the current level of activity recalls the facility’s heyday.

The Dr. B.J. Kendall Co., a patentmedicine manufacturer, donated the building to the town in 1892. Known for its fine acoustics, the venue played host to enthusiastic audiences and famous performers, including march king John Philip Sousa.

Events at the opera house declined in the late 1940s, after a new high school gymnasium presented a competing performance space, and the building sat mostly unused — and unheated — until a citizens’ committee assumed oversight and operations in the 1970s. The opera house underwent major renovations in the mid-1990s, and Friends of the Opera House continues to fundraise for ongoing facility needs.

After an 11-year hiatus, community musical theater returned to the Enosburg Opera House with a 2008 production of The Music Man, followed

by Hello, Dolly! in 2009. The shows sold out. Audiences had a reason to return to Enosburg Falls, and performers of all ages had another avenue in northwestern Vermont.

“I think there’s been a revival here,” Hull-Parent said. “I think people love to go to musicals they know. It’s a traditional form of entertainment.”

Outside of musicals, opera-house programming includes other plays, musical groups and soloists, a November craft show, a community Christmas concert and the annual “Highbrow to Hoedown” local variety show, which benefits various Franklin County nonprofits.

Hull-Parent said opera-house audiences comprise a mix of locals, Canadians and campers from the Lake Carmi State Park in Franklin, just a short drive away. Now, those visitors linger in downtown Enosburg Falls after the show.

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Dezotelle noted that the Enosburg Business Association has discussed ways to capitalize on the new interest in arts and the flurry of activity at the opera house.

“Enosburg is more of a package deal now,” he said. “My hope is that Enosburg Falls becomes a place where people go to spend a few hours. And this has definitely built the community.

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The renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe, that is.

This is the first time the cabaret will go abroad, says troupe member Jessie Owens. But cofounder lOis trOmbley “has been dreaming of bringing Spielpalast to the Fringe Festival probably since the Spielpalast started.”

Trombley’s cousin, suzanne maCkay, who’s a Fringe veteran with her own theater company, FireFly prOduCtiOns, “did the legwork” to secure Spielpalast a slot.

A reduced crew of seven dancers, five players and “a couple of band members” will perform every night but one from August 5 to 18 at Edinburgh’s Hill Street Theatre. The show will be a compressed version of the one local audiences saw in the spring, which featured dramatic chair and fan dances, pointed satirical sketches about mechanized sexuality and a Dadaesque piece involving a pair of white gloves. “We had to cut a couple of pieces to whittle it down to an hour-and-a-half-long show,” Owens says.

Fringe takes a toll on performers, says Owens, because shows at each venue are scheduled back to back. That means Spielpalast will have only 15 minutes to set up each night. In terms of sets, bringing “the big stuff” to Scotland is out of the question, so the troupers will need to get creative in finding props.

They’ll also need to find novel ways to publicize their act. “The Fringe Festival is really crazy,” says Owens, who has attended as a spectator. “There are so many things to see; you have to really push your show.” The troupe will do “a lot of grassroots advertising,” such as touting the cabaret on T-shirts and hawking upcoming performances on central thoroughfare High Street.

In Vermont, the troupers have been busy fundraising to cover expenses.

Owens admits that “right now, we’re nowhere near being able to pay for the entire trip.” But “we’re gonna make it happen,” she says. “We’ll be piling into two flats, spending as little money as possible.”

Some troupe members have started personal fund drives on Kickstarter. com. One is cabaret cofounder Terry McCants, who currently lives in Santa Cruz. She’s obtained about $1300 in pledges toward her goal of rejoining Spielpalast in Edinburgh as one of the troupe’s “cigar girls,” who dispense both absinthe lollipops and attitude to the audience.

Local fans — and curious Spielpalast virgins — can contribute by attending one of three fundraising shows this weekend in Vergennes, Waitsfield and Barre. The cabaret will perform the same lean and mean version that’s going to Edinburgh. A July 23 fundraiser at Burlington’s the bakery will showcase some “naughty bits” of the Spielpalast repertoire, says Owens.

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Thom Riley ll I can say is, be prepared for a shock.

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Perhaps the bestknown prediction of the paperless office came in a 1975 Business Week article entitled “The Office of the Future.” Reading it today, you’re struck by the mix of freakily accurate prediction and laughable naïveté. At a time when personal computers and the Internet were still embryonic, experts foresaw PCs on every desktop that could talk to each other by network. At the same time, they lamented that a major obstacle to paperlessness would be the boss’ attachment to dictating letters to a stenographer. As it happened, the steno pool was an early casualty of the digital age.

Predictions of a massive shift from paper documents to electronic ones were likewise wildly off, at least in the early going.

Global consumption of paper doubled between 1980 and 2000.

Partly that was because of general economic expansion, but strictly on a per-worker basis, U.S. consumption of paper increased 50 percent between 1990 and 2000, inspiring books such as 2001’s

The Myth of the Paperless Office.

Theorists struggled to explain why this was so. In 2006 sociologist Richard York suggested two possibilities. The first was the Jevons paradox, initially proposed by 19th-century British economist William Jevons: As use of a resource becomes more efficient, in effect it becomes cheaper, which leads to greater use. Better fuel economy doesn’t reduce gasoline consumption;

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As York recognized, however, the Jevons paradox didn’t fully explain why the paperless office had failed to materialize.

Digital technology didn’t make paper cheaper; rather, it offered a cheaper alternative, namely electronic data storage. So, why didn’t one drive out the other?

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Other theories abounded. One frequent target of techie scorn was retrograde executives and their lingering fondness for a medium they could fold up and make airplanes out of.

A more persuasive explanation, however, is that computers suck.

Paper is cheap and adaptable and, equally important, almost always works.

If you’re an office drone scrambling to get a last-minute report out, one disaster you’re not living in fear of is the Blue Sheet of Death. Computers, in contrast, make politicians look reliable.

And let’s not forget premature high-tech obsolescence.

God help the poor sap who committed critical information to magnetic tape, a floppy disk or a Bernoulli drive.

But here’s the surprise.

Despite all the above, people eventually did begin using less paper. A lot less. The year 2000 was the peak for both office paper and newsprint consumption in the U.S. Since then the use of office paper has dropped 40 percent, newsprint 60 percent.

Similar reductions are being seen in Europe. Some call it a paradigm shift.

Let’s not get giddy about this.

The fact that today you can file your tax return electronically

and read the New York Times on your iPad doesn’t mean we’ve saved the rainforest. People use wood for lots of things besides paper. Worldwide demand for wood products is still increasing, in large part due to the growing economies of Asia.

Still, it’s reasonably clear we’re not up against some implacable law of nature that will drive us to chop down trees till the whole planet looks like Easter Island. Fact is, as far as the forests are concerned, we’ve been here before. Wood use in the United States hit what would be a long-standing peak in 1906.

After that it plunged by a sixth as coal replaced firewood. Overall U.S. wood consumption didn’t surpass its former high until the 1980s, by which time American forests, once thought doomed, had largely recovered.

Could the same thing happen on a global scale? It might, due to the same forces that are starting to make the population crisis seem manageable. In the industrialized world, people are reducing their paper use for the same reason they have smaller families: Life is easier that way.

Meanwhile, rising prosperity around the world means there’ll be less pressure to clear the forests for firewood or subsistence agriculture.

Sure, we’re still running out of oil, electric generating capacity, helium, copper, rice, fresh water, technetium, ocean-caught fish, chocolate, topsoil, bananas, tequila and phosphorus, among other things. But look on the bright side. Assuming acid rain, insects, shifts in land use, climate change and disease don’t get them, we might, eventually, be OK on trees. m

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“Is your dad still at it?”

“No, he died in a plane crash a few years ago, when he was 70. The last 25 years of his life he worked as a tour guide and would take customers on his plane up into Canada. I mean, the far north, like, to the Arctic Circle sometimes. He loved fishing and hunting and being out in nature, and there was more money

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Maybe I’ll get out there tomorrow.”

That struck me as overly optimistic, but who’s to say? Maybe he would.

With Mick’s directions, we made it to the Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and picked up his wallet. From there, he directed me to his home. When we pulled into the driveway, Ralph was working in the yard and came right over to help out.

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in it than farming. Anyway, the thing is, he died doing what he loves, and that’s something. I love it, too. I’m still able to fish, thank God.” As we cleared Cabot, halfway to Danville, we hit the traffic. Route 2, the main thoroughfare in this part of the state, was down to one lane. I asked Mickey, “You know what’s going on here, man?”

“Yeah, I guess they’re expanding the lanes. They’ve been talking about doing this for a few years.”

Danville itself was the worst: The downtown area was being entirely resurfaced. As we finally made it through, I counted the number of vehicles backed up waiting to continue west. “I got 93 cars, Mickey,” I reported.

He replied, “Holy shit,” and I agreed.

“So, Mick, when did you move to St. Johnsbury?”

“I came here in 2005, I guess. My brother had moved here years ago, and he thought it might be a nice place for me to locate. He was right. I love it up here in Vermont.”

“And you share a house with somebody?”

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I was questioning Mickey, the man sitting next to me in the shotgun seat. He was short and slender with a thick but neatly trimmed moustache. His shorts were a deep shade of green — teal, I believe, or is that a type of duck? (I still remember mixing up “mallet” and “mallard” on my high school SATs, so ducks continue to vex me linguistically.) The shorts were splattered with faded white paint from a longago job. On his sockless feet he wore new black sneakers — not the highest-end kind, but not the cheapest, either.

“Oh, yeah,” Mick replied. “We’re going to my place. My housemate should be home. Hey, if it’s OK, though, could we first swing by the town hospital? They have my wallet from when they transferred me by ambulance to the Fletcher Allen.”

“Sure, if you can direct me there, too, that’ll be no problem. I’ve been to St. Johnsbury a few times, but I’ll definitely need your help.”

I really should bite the bullet and install a GPS, but that’s not going to happen. Chalk it up to misplaced pride.

Whenever someone asks me about this, I point to my head and say, “There’s my GPS.” With Montpelier in the rearview mirror, we continued east on Route 2. I asked my customer, “So, did your stay at Fletcher Allen do any good? Are you feeling any better?” Mick had told me this was his third visit to the medical center since last fall. I didn’t know the nature of his illness, but he was obviously weak.

“It helped some. I’m well enough to go home, which is great. HIV, man — I’ve had it for years, but the last few it’s really been a bitch. I just can’t work anymore, and I’ve worked my whole life.”

How’d he get it? flashed through my brain. And then I thought, What a stupid, petty question. In my bid to become a more compassionate person, I seem to be regularly confounded by the callousness lurking in the recesses of my mind.

And on certain days, it’s not merely the recesses.

“What kinda work do you do when you’re working?” I asked.

“Oh, I do it all. Jack-of-all-trades kind of deal. Carpentry, painting — you name it. I used to do a lot of body work.

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t 83, Angelo Cedrone could be When Cedrone isn’t on the road for forgiven for choosing to spend FEMA, he calls East Brunswick, N.J., his retirement playing bocce home. Short, stocky and built like a fire and bragging to friends about hydrant, he has a hearty handshake and his grandchildren. Instead he devotes 12 baritone voice that quickly reveals his hours a day, seven days a week, to help- upbringing in a traditional Italian neighing victims of hurricanes, tornadoes, borhood of New York City. wildfires and floods get Cedrone’s first taste back on their feet. of utter devastation Name Cedrone manages came during World War Angelo Cedrone the Disaster Recovery II. In 1945, his army Center in Malletts Bay, unit was en route to the Town one of three DRCs Philippines when the Colchester that FEMA opened in U.S. dropped the atomic Vermont last month bombs. Cedrone was (temporarily) to assist flood victims. immediately diverted to Technically, Cedrone Japan, where he spent 31 Job isn’t a full-time FEMA months with the occupyManager, FEMA worker but one of 8000 ing forces.

Disaster Recovery disaster-assistance emWith FEMA, Center, Malletts Bay Cedrone has worked ployees nationwide who get deployed as needed. many different disasters, This year, that’s been including 11 months in often. FEMA currently has workers on New Orleans helping Katrina victims. the ground in eight states.

But Mother Nature wasn’t behind the Cedrone’s temporary setup, in the worst destruction he ever saw. After Colchester fire station, has eight em- 9/11, Cedrone spent two years at Ground ployees who’ve seen 137 Vermonters in Zero. two weeks. That’s small by FEMA stanCedrone, who will be in Vermont dards. In 2004, Cedrone worked five until October, doesn’t get out much. His Florida hurricanes in one year in a DRC schedule kept him away from Fourth of with more than 100 employees.

July fireworks and parades. “That’s the

AC: People generally are really nice.

They look to you for help. Then, after the [disaster] period is over, all is forgotten.

For example, like in New York, 9/11, you walk down the street wearing a FEMA jacket, and they ran over and hugged you. You walk into a restaurant, and they would accept no money. There was lots of freebies. We rode the subways for free, all kinds of things like that. Six months later, if you had a FEMA jacket, somebody is gonna throw a rock at you!

But it’s been a good experience. It’s a nice feeling to be able to help people.

job,” he says, “to be here for the people when they need us.”

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ANGELO CEDRONE: Today, an elderly gentleman comes in. In his home there’s no electricity, his appliances are all gone, there’s mold all over the house and he says, “I don’t want to leave.” So, we’re ... going to get him moved out and give him two months’ rent. We said, “Wherever you are, whether a hotel or whatever, keep the receipts and use that money strictly for paying rent. Come back in two months, we’ll give you two more.” That’ll keep going for a 19-month period until we get these people squared away somewhere that’s safe, secure and sanitary.

SD: Anything unique about Vermonters?

AC: My gal, when she finished talking with this guy today, she had tears in her eyes. She said, “I can’t believe people are reluctant to come in.” It must be a thing with New Englanders. They want to do things on their own. They’re not looking for help.

SD: How do people treat you as a FEMA employee?

SD: Ever seen people try to bilk the system?

AC: In 9/11, we had a woman come into the building screaming, “My mother was working in the towers; she just got the job. I don’t know where she is! She’s probably dead and I don’t know what to do!” Our investigation? Her mother died eight years ago... Again, greedy people.

One man actually lost his wife on one of the airplanes. So, we helped him as much as we could. Then he says, “Yeah, but when she left, she took all her jewelry with her.” So I says, “And?” FEMA don’t pay for jewelry.

SD: Seen anything like that in Vermont?

AC: No, we don’t see any of that here.

People here seem to be honorable, a little reluctant to come in ... Very proud people.

SD: What’s the best part of your job?

AC: The best part? Going home [laughs].

I’ve been married 60 years this August.

Same woman ... It’s always nice to come home to a home-cooked meal. Because you people don’t know how to cook Italian! m “Work” is a monthly interview feature showcasing a Vermonter with an interesting occupation. Suggest a job you would like to know more about: news@ sevendaysvt.com.

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ilan Kubala is a lucky man. He gets to “Running is such a great way to warm up in the call Vermont home. He’s got a loving morning,” he says. “It really energizes me for the wife, Heidi — who makes a killer day ahead.” berry pie — a 7-month-old daughter, Since moving to Vermont in 2004 to direct the Katherine, and a 6-year-old dog, Miles. And he’s able tennis programs at Topnotch, Kubala has fully to indulge in one of his favorite pastimes: running embraced the outdoors year round. Running to to his job at the Topnotch Resort and Spa in Stowe work is another way for him to maximize his with Miles at his side. enjoyment of the Green “Every day I run, Mountains, and it the mountains look so means consuming different … the river and driving less and looks different,” says interacting with his Kubala, 37, a former community more. professional tennis “It’s incredible player from what is now how many people I the Czech Republic. have come to know, or “I discover things and simply get to see on a smell flowers that I regular basis, by getting don’t even catch on my out there every day,” M il an K u b a l a bike — never mind in says Kubala. the car.”

In the winter, when With summer now in full swing, and with running and biking to work are less practical, he his work only five miles from his home in Stowe drives just a couple of miles past Topnotch to the village, Kubala runs there three times each week. base of Stowe Mountain, climbs it, and then enjoys His commute follows the Stowe Recreation Path an early-morning ski run before heading to work. and takes about 45 minutes each way. He alternates On his days off, Kubala goes backcountry skiing — between running and biking to keep his body a pursuit that lured him to Iceland for a ski trip a feeling balanced and strong, he says. It’s as much an opportunity to get some fresh air and exercise as it Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson can be contacted is a practical means of getting to work. For super-fit through emberphoto.com.

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couple of years ago. When the ground is not covered with snow and ice, he rides his bike or runs to work, to pick up his weekly farm share or to grab a few items from the store — sometimes vodka for his homemade wild-berry liqueurs—which he tucks into a small, runner-friendly backpack.

Kubala finds his run home a great way to decompress after a busy day. “It’s amazing how I’ll be stuck on something at work and then figure it out along my run home,” he says. “And then there are the berries … and mushrooms.”

Kubala likes to forage along his route throughout the summer.

He grew up harvesting wild foods in the countryside of his Czech homeland and has a sharp eye for wild porcinis, chanterelles and the many fruits and berries that color the forests and fields of Stowe. Apples hang right over the path, and he’s got his fair share of berry patches mapped out, too.

“As the summer progresses, I either have to run faster or leave more time to get to work … The berries are too good to pass up,” says Kubala, who adds that the first black raspberries are just a week or so away. “And if I bring enough home, Heidi will make a pie.” m

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t’s early afternoon on a stormy Wednesday, and a team of emergency medical technicians is working to resuscitate an infant whose heart has stopped. One EMT hooks the tiny child up to a heart monitor. Another places a mask over the baby’s mouth and rhythmically squeezes the bag to which it’s attached.

Still another team member presses the infant’s chest with his thumbs, counting out each compression — seven, eight, nine — until he gets to 15. Then he repeats.

Meanwhile, another EMT prepares a needle for an intraosseous line and inserts it into the child’s shin to give medicine.

It’s hard to tell if the infant is responding to the pediatric advanced life support being ably administered by the ambulance crew. His pallor doesn’t change, and he never opens his eyes or starts crying. Then again, he was never alive to begin with.

The infant is one of a number of mannequins used by health care professionals in the region to advance their training in areas such as life support, catheterization and delivering babies. He lives at the new Clinical Simulation Laboratory on the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine campus. The $4 million lab, which opened in March funded by private donations and federal grants, is on the cutting edge of medical training.

Over the years, simulation technology has been responsible for improving health care quality, patient outcomes and general safety. By using highly specialized and eerily lifelike mannequins that can bleed, sweat, talk and give birth, among other things, medical professionals are able to perfect procedures before employing them on actual humans.

Most hospitals and medical schools around the country have some type of simulation program, explains Cate Nicholas, the lab’s director of operations.

Indeed, UVM and Fletcher Allen Health Care have used simulation with their students for years. But the opening of the 9000-square-foot lab marks a new collaboration between the two entities and offers a dedicated environment in which students can run through every possible scenario where simulation is feasible, from lumbar puncturing to chest tube insertion.

The impressive simulation facility was built to replicate a hospital setting. There are six in-patient hospital rooms, complete with beeping monitors, fluorescent lights, gurneys and video cameras to record students. Faculty can use the video the way coaches use tapes of football games to assess their players.

In another part of the lab, a multipurpose room can be set up to mimic an operating room, an emergency room or an

Resuscitating a high-fidelity mannequin

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intensive care unit. A training lab featuring body-part models — detached heads, arms, organs and so on — allows students to learn how to draw blood (gone is the old grapefruit method), care for wounds and insert a central line, or catheter into the jugular vein. A virtual-reality lab teaches surgical techniques.

All these bells and whistles aren’t just for kicks. Along with standardized patients — community members who play the role of patients — simulation serves an essential purpose in contemporary medical education. In med schools today, instruction time is limited, leaving fewer opportunities for patient interaction.

Simulation provides a bridge between classroom tuition and real-world experience, says Dr. Michael Ricci, director of clinical simulation.

Plus, notes Nicholas, people learn best in physical environments that look, sound and even smell like the environment where they will be applying their knowledge. If the lab can simulate what a bluish-tinged ER patient suffering from shortness of breath

might look like, the chances are higher that students will retain that information. And, of course, simulation beats the ubiquitous PowerPoint presentation any day.

The most exciting part of the lab is the mannequins. These humanoid shells filled with tiny computers and lung-like bellows can be divided into two main categories — low fidelity and high fidelity. The lab’s eight low-fidelity mannequins, like the infant the EMTs are trying to revive, can’t bleed or breathe. Since they cannot show symptoms, an instructor reads scenarios, and the students treat the patient accordingly.

The high-fidelity simulacra are straight out of a horror film in which machines

DOCTORING FOR DUMMIES Want to draw blood, insert a central line or deliver a baby without having any medical training? If you’re over 18 and know how to use Facebook, you can. The Clinical Simulation Lab at FAHC is sponsoring a “Doc for a Day” contest in which average people can test their medical skills on mannequins that sweat, breathe and bleed. Just go to Fletcher Allen Health Care’s Facebook page and “like” it for a chance to win. Five winners will be chosen at random for the hands-on experience on Friday, August 12. Visit facebook.com/ fletcherallenhealthcare for more details.

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And the patient will never complain about getting stuck for the 20th time with a needle. “It’s a safe environment in which to learn or make a mistake,” Ricci says.

Simulation isn’t just a more comfortable way for students to learn medicine; it also reduces risks to the patients who will eventually receive their care. In the time FAHC and the medical school have been using mannequins for central-line training, the infection rate in real patients has gone down by 81 percent. Ricci says there’s a “pretty direct correlation” between learning through simulation and lowered infection rates. Since a positive outcome is the holy grail of medicine, most instructors are on board with the method.

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built to resemble humans blink, talk and push babies out of their wombs. They run about $75,000 each; the lab owns eight.

These high-tech mannequins (don’t call them dummies) sit seat-belted into chairs lining one of the lab’s corridors. They wear johnny gowns and pained expressions on their faces. With mouths agape and eyes wide open, the mannequins all give the impression of having succumbed to the same painful, shocking death.

In one of the simulated hospital rooms, two gurneys each hold a high-fidelity mannequin. One is a child with theatrically long eyelashes wearing a pair of oversized shorts and a T-shirt. Around its neck is a cervical collar, as if it suffered from whiplash. For now, the child is a girl, though the sex organs are interchangeable. On the other bed sits a pregnant woman clad only in a flimsy gown.

Eric Zelman, a senior simulation specialist at the lab, lifts off the top of the mother’s rubbery belly to expose a full-term fetus. Then he presses a button, which results in the baby being pushed through the flesh-like vaginal canal head first. The baby comes out slippery, just like a real newborn.

But the mannequin is goopy with silicone spray, not amniotic fluid.

Depending on the lesson students are learning, the pregnant mother can have any number of complications with her delivery, including a breech birth or a postpartum hemorrhage. The technicians can even rig it so the baby gets her shoulders stuck on the mother’s pelvic wall.

At the back of the room, near a twoway mirror, sit two disembodied arms — one black, one white — connected to a fake-blood-pumping machine made by a company called Limbs & Things. It’s important, Nicholas says, for students to learn how to draw blood from and insert IVs in arms of all colors and shapes. They even have an arm with “elderly skin.”

It takes some time to get used to these lifelike plastic people, says Dr. Rich Salerno, the attending physician in the pediatric ICU who instructs the EMTs on pediatric advanced life support. Salerno was an early adopter of simulation because of its obvious benefits to patient care. But first he had to adjust to the mannequins.

“The first couple times, it’s like, Gee whiz, it breathes, it wheezes, it talks,” he says. But soon students come to view the mannequins as real patients.

Zelman says the students practice until they get past the awareness that the mannequins are machines. Once they do, they begin to take the procedures seriously.

“You’d be surprised, when this guy stops breathing,” Zelman says, placing his hand on a full-size mannequin whose chest

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ruce Ryan was trout fishing on the Winooski River in 1995 when he noticed something sparkling on the banks.

Looking closely, he observed a thick layer of spent shotgun pellets — all made of lead — and presumed they came from the adjacent Montpelier Gun Club, where sport shooters have been blasting clay pigeons out of the sky since 1895.

Back at his home in Highgate Center, Ryan sat down and wrote a letter to the club’s directors, describing what he had found near their property. His letter warned of the health hazards lead poses to humans and waterfowl and suggested the club was in violation of the federal Clean Water Act by allowing lead shot to enter the river.

A few days later, Ryan wrote another letter about the shooting range’s lead problem — this one to his congressman, Bernie Sanders. Then he wrote to then-governor Howard Dean, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Humane Society, the amateur Trapshooting Association, and even Nancy Pelosi.

Over the next 16 years, Ryan waged a one-man campaign against the Montpelier Gun Club. He mailed literally hundreds of old-fashioned letters — many accompanied by studies on lead toxicity, newspaper clippings and pages of relevant case law — imploring officials to put a stop to the club’s polluting ways.

He collected water and soil samples near the club and had them tested at a

private lab. He placed poster-sized photographs of the lead-covered riverbanks on his front lawn for all passersby to see.

Reply letters, when they came, were often polite brush-offs or referrals to other government agencies. Even after Vermont environmental regulators inspected the club and observed the leadcovered riverbanks for themselves, the toxic pellets continued to rain down.

Then, in April of this year, Ryan got the letter he had awaited for more than a decade. It was from the EPA, informing him the agency had issued a notice of violation and order for compliance to the Montpelier Gun Club — a rare event.

The order requires the club to construct a physical barrier to prevent lead shot from entering the Winooski River and its tributaries. By the end of 2011, the club must submit to the EPA and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation a plan, schedule and cost estimate for removal of all lead shot from the banks of the Winooski.

The enforcement has delayed the club’s seasonal opening. Last week, the range remained closed as contractors installed huge posts that will hold a 400-foot-long shot-containment curtain meant to block lead pellets from sailing into the river.

For Ryan, this is a moment of pure vindication.

“Persistent little shit, ain’t I?” says Ryan, a spry 69-year-old dressed for a recent interview in threadbare blue jeans and a Buckmasters baseball hat.

“I don’t give up. I know one person can make a difference.”

At a time when high-priced lobbyists and politically connected interest groups can seem like the only parties capable

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s his deer-hunting cap suggests, Ryan isn’t some antigun peacenik or granola-munching tree hugger. He’s a lifelong gun owner and an accomplished trap shooter with a wall of trophies to prove it. For decades, he was a member, officer and part owner of the Singletary Rod & Gun Club in Oxford, Mass., a sportsman’s association with a trapshooting range and trout pond.

His son, Bruce A. Ryan II, became the Massachusetts state trapshooting champion at the age of 14 under his father’s tutelage.

But that all changed one morning in 1988, when Ryan and a pal were duck

hunting in wetlands behind their club’s shooting range. When they cut open one of the birds they’d bagged, they found the duck’s gizzard full of lead shotgun pellets it had ingested. Ryan suddenly saw the ramifications of sport shooting in a whole new light.

Shortly thereafter, in 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would enact a nationwide ban on lead shot in waterfowl hunting after studies showed that lead poisoning was a serious problem for these birds. Ducks, for instance, grub for food on the bottom of lakes, streams and wetlands and ingest gravel to help grind it for digestion. When they ingest lead shot pellets instead, the results can be fatal.

According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife, one study estimated that 2 to 3 percent of the North American waterfowl population was killed annually by lead poisoning

ranch, where he lives with his wife, is devoted to the cause. On the walls are poster-sized photos he’s taken of the club while standing knee-deep in the Winooski River. When he goes near the club, he wears a white hard hat with the words Lead Research on it, in case stray pellets rain on him. His email address is

Attached to the seven-page document was a yellow Post-It note on which he had scribbled: “Here are the final results of my hard work.”

Ryan’s persistence is impressive in itself, but it raises a question. Why did it take the government so long to stop activity that the EPA now calls a clear

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violation of the Clean Water Act? The answer depends on whom you ask.

Ryan believes that Vermont environmental officials simply lacked the will to crack down on a serial polluter and preferred to seek voluntary compliance, even if it was excruciatingly slow (in his view) in coming. State officials counter that soil samples and water from the river and neighboring wells had been tested and found to be safe. For their part, gun-club leaders say they were unaware lead shot was reaching the river until Ryan told them, and have since moved as quickly as they could to remedy the situation given the snarl of zoning and other regulations involved.

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leadrsch@aol.com, and his bookshelves are stacked with fat binders that contain every email, letter and document from his 23-year campaign.

The back of Ryan’s autobiography bears an author’s quote that sums up his motivation: “If, through my own efforts of lead research, I can save but one human being from the perils of lead poisoning, or the ravages of cancer, or save but one duck, also from the perils of lead poisoning, then I, also a human being, have served my purpose on earth.”

What’s clear is this: Officials from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources first visited the club in the late 1990s in response to Ryan’s complaints. While they did find lead shotgun pellets in the river, the agency decided against conducting an extensive — and expensive — water-quality assessment because no lead was detected in neighborhood wells and because the quantity of pellets was deemed “unlikely” to affect water quality negatively. Plus, the gun club agreed to close the shooting lane closest to the river and plant a row of spruce trees to “screen out” lead shot.

In a 2001 letter to Ryan from the DEC’s Waste Management Division, Peter W. Marshall wrote that the situation “does not present an imminent threat to the environment.” Then he cited what may have been a more pressing reason for lack of enforcement: “We do not have sufficient resources to address this type of facility at the time.”

It’s the same story today. Tami Wuestenberg, who works in the DEC’s Waste Management Division, explains that the agency’s approach is more carrot than stick. That means offering free seminars and government grants to gun clubs that voluntarily adopt “best management practices” outlined by the EPA or the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council, such as not shooting into water and maintaining constant pH in soil to ensure lead shot doesn’t corrode or migrate. Enforcement is expensive and time consuming and requires consistent follow-through, Wuestenberg says.

“Vermont state government doesn’t have the resources to do that,” Wuestenberg says. “The sportsmen, they’re trying to do the right thing.

They’re good stewards of the land, and they just need to be educated on what is the best thing for them to do.”

Complicating the situation are federal rules that exempt lead ammunition from regulation when it’s being used for its “intended purpose,” i.e., for shooting clay pigeons. The moment a firing range shuts down or is abandoned, however, the property would almost instantly become a hazardous waste site under strict supervision from the state. It’s a rule that Wuestenberg calls “a crazy loophole.”

Voluntary compliance wasn’t good enough for Ryan. In 2002, he brought a citizen lawsuit against the club under the federal Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Using back-of-the-napkin math, Ryan estimated that during a single three-day event, the Vermont State

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between 1938 and 1954. By 2000, that number had dropped considerably, and researchers declared that the lead-shot ban had spared “millions” of waterfowl from premature death by lead poisoning.

Of course, lead is also a threat to humans. The EPA considers it a “toxic pollutant” that can cause death, disease or genetic mutations following exposure or ingestion. When left in soil of neutral pH, lead generally does not corrode or migrate. But in water, it can pose a hazard to both wild birds and our supply of drinking water.

Until he shot the lead-stuffed duck, Ryan had been skeptical of the warnings about waterfowl eating shotgun pellets.

He hadn’t been concerned about lead’s impact on human health, either. But that changed after numerous trapshooting friends, and his own son, were diagnosed with cancer; his son died from it at age 35. Ryan became increasingly convinced that lead was to blame.

So, in 1988, he wrote a letter to the Singletary Rod & Gun Club’s directors asking them to ban lead from the firing range and to post a sign at the trout pond that read, “Warning: do not eat the fish caught from this pond. They may contain toxic substances hazardous to your health.”

Not surprisingly, that touched off a bitter feud between Ryan and club leadership. Accusations flew back and forth in letters and paid newspaper advertisements. State and federal agencies were carpet-bombed with letters from Ryan pleading for their intervention.

Ultimately, the club revoked Ryan’s membership, which he had held since receiving it from his father at age 15.

But eight years after that setback, Ryan — who moved to Vermont in the interim — claimed victory. The town of Oxford, using information he had supplied, issued the club a cease-and-desist order. Later, at the state’s insistence, the club agreed to install an impervious cap over the lead-contaminated area, restore damaged wetlands and drill wells where environmental officials could test for water contamination.

Every scrap of paper from that saga is documented in a homemade “autobiography” that Ryan bound together and titled The Unseen and Ignored Hidden Danger: Lead Shot & Target Club Contamination at Trap & Skeet Shooting Ranges.

To call Ryan’s antilead efforts a crusade might be an understatement. Since retiring from his job as a regional maintenance supervisor at F.W. Woolworth Co., Ryan has devoted himself wholly to getting the lead out of shooting ranges.

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Shoot, sport shooters had dropped 6539 pounds of lead shot and 20,343 pounds of target debris “up to, into and across” the river. The club disputed Ryan’s figures as pure speculation.

Ryan also commissioned independent lab tests of soil samples he collected from the river banks, some of which showed levels of arsenic, a byproduct of lead shot, beyond what he says the EPA considers safe, though the courts could not corroborate that. He fought the case “pro se,” meaning without the

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shot back that the state’s sampling of neighboring water wells at a half dozen nearby houses had turned up no lead and that “knowledgeable” state personnel had investigated the matter and determined the club was “unlikely to have undue adverse impact on water quality.”

Amazingly, Ryan scored a partial victory in the case when a federal judge ordered the club to halt shooting activities until it obtained a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit — a demand the state had tried, and failed, to enforce, according to Wuestenberg.

By 2004, however, Ryan was running out of funds, and he had to abandon the case before the permit could be exacted.

That wasn’t the end. A few years later, a group of unnamed “concerned citizens” brought the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation information that led the agency to conduct another assessment of the club in 2006 and 2007. The investigation aimed to determine whether lead and arsenic levels were elevated as a result of the shooting range and, if so, whether those levels posed an “unacceptable risk” to the Winooski River.

DEC scientists sampled water, sediment and macroinvertebrates from three locations near the club.

Lead and arsenic were present in the samples, but well within the state’s acceptable levels. Walking the river banks, however, the scientists found spent lead shot, leading them to write that the club should adopt “appropriate management practices” to prevent lead from going into the river.

By 2010, the club had qualified for a $45,000 federal grant to help it fulfill the terms of a voluntary lead-management plan that involved reclaiming spent shot from its firing range and building a containment curtain to catch the pellets. The club had earlier pledged to begin reclamation in 2008 and have the curtain installed

by October 2009, but club leaders say the project was delayed pending local zoning approvals and federal permits.

When those deadlines came and went with neither job done, state officials warned the club it risked violating state law, but they initiated no enforcement action. Meanwhile, the shooting went on unabated.

Finally, the EPA issued its enforcement order after two inspectors visited the club last May and found insufficient progress, says Denny Dart, manager of the Drinking Water Enforcement Program’s Technical Unit for EPA’s New MATTHEW THORSEN

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assistance of a lawyer.

“I prefer to work alone,” he comments. “Why do I need to pay a lawyer $160 an hour to say the same damn words that I’m gonna say?”

Citing the 2001 letter from the DEC’s Marshall, the gun club’s lawyers

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Miller, who has lived adjacent to the club with her husband and two children since 1980, recalls that Ryan came and asked them to have their well water tested. Her response was to tell him to “stay the hell off our property.”

“Mr. Ryan has tried several times, going around trying to get people to get their knickers all in a twist about it,” Miller says. “We had our well water tested years ago. We’re fine. My kids are 30 and 26, and they’re in good health.”

In fact, the club gets its water from the Millers’ well, she says.

Miller says members of the club have “never been anything but thoughtful, considerate and kind. They hired our kids to work for them. They take incredibly good care of their property.

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Obviously, I don’t have picnics on the nights that they have shoots, but they don’t shoot all that often.”

That kind of opposition has hardly deterred Ryan or made him question the rightness of his quest. Today, Bruce Ryan’s face breaks into a wide grin when he talks about the first letter he wrote back in 1995. It took a hell of a long time to bear fruit, he says, but the wait was well worth it. Then his face turns serious as he delivers a stern warning.

“If I go down there and find one new pellet in the river, they’re done,” Ryan says. “This is gonna start all over again.”m

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PA crackdowns on shooting ranges may be uncommon, but conflicts over Vermont gun clubs are not.

In gun-loving Vermont, firing ranges serve a crucial need for sportsmen, hunters and law-enforcement professionals who need a safe and legal place to practice target shooting. But the sheer volume of lead shot going into the ground — or, in some cases, the water — poses potentially serious environmental problems. Several ranges have found themselves caught in the crossfire between gun owners and neighbors or environmentalists.

In Williston, the North Country Sportsman’s Club came under fire from neighbors in 2009 after water samples collected downstream from the range showed lead levels that were almost twice the safe limit for livestock and just shy of what health experts deem “the upper limit for toxic substances in water.” The firing range has since received a federal grant, funded through an excise tax on firearms and ammunition, to realign shooting alleys and plan for reclaiming spent lead from the grounds.

In Shaftsbury, in southern Vermont, neighbors have waged a largely losing battle to get the Hale Mountain Fish & Game Club to secure zoning and Act 250 approvals for a series of unpermitted

expansions and improvements the three-day Vermont State Shoot at the club made over several years. Owen end of July, which attracts up to 200 Beauchesne, a farmer who lives near the shooters. club, followed the course of Ryan’s lawEven with the federal grant money, suit against the Montpelier Gun Club and Lawson says the added costs are “sigsaid it provides a valuable legal resource nificant” for the club, necessitating a for his own range-related struggle. hefty loan from People’s United Bank.

“Bruce is an advocate for all those But he hardly sounds angry at Ryan. In silent people,” says Beauchesne, who fact, Lawson sounds almost appreciahas never met Ryan in person but praises tive. “You’ve got to hand it to Bruce if he him for “all the work he’s done to get discovered a problem, regardless of his these people to pay attention.” reasons,” says Lawson. “We’re taking The 50-member Montpelier Gun care of it.”

Club occupies a spit of land between the The Montpelier Gun Club’s lawyers Winooski and Stevens Branch rivers off weren’t always so friendly. Three times, Goodnow Road in Berlin. Milan Lawson, club lawyers sent Ryan a “Notice Against the club’s vice president, reiterates that Trespass” warning that he would be prosmembers were unaware shot was ending ecuted for setting foot on club property. up in the river until Ryan brought it to The penalty for criminal trespass, one their attention with his early letters. After he did, Lawson says the club sought to address the problem.

“When the complaint first surfaced, we didn’t have a good management practice in mind,” Lawson says.

“It was trial and error to try to figure out how to reconfigure our fields. It wasn’t really until late in the game, 10 years after the first complaint was filed, that a best management practice surfaced.”

Lawson also attributes the delays to red tape; building the shot curtain and excavating lead require sign-offs from local and federal agencies that took time Montpelier Gun Club to secure. Because the club occupies land that historians believed may have been a prehistoric campground, Lawson says, its leaders letter noted, was up to three months in even had to contract an archaeologist to jail and $500 in fines. Ryan, who read the perform a dig, which turned up nothing first notice and ripped up the next two but old nails. without opening the envelopes, insists Along with building the shot cur- he never trespassed on the property but tain, the club recently hired a contrac- simply observed the club from the river. tor to dig up and remove all the lead “I know the public trust doctrine,” he shot from the grounds — 290,000 says. “I had a right to walk that river up pounds’ worth, which will be sold to to the high-water mark.” smelters.

Some neighbors of the club also view All that clean-up work had already Ryan as an interloper. Marilyn Miller, delayed the club’s opening for the season whose backyard overlooks the shootwhen flash floods ripped through the ing range, refers to him as “little Mr. area on May 26, depositing four inches Busybody, who doesn’t seem to have of mud on the facility. Now, Lawson anything else to do than drive around says, he just hopes to open in time for causing trouble for other people who are the club’s biggest event of the year, the minding their own damn business.”

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England office in Boston. Such an action is a relative rarity; Dart says the EPA initiates fewer than 20 such enforcements each year in the six New England states.

The reason the agency got involved in this one? “We were tracking it, and it seemed like the club was taking its time,” Dart says diplomatically. “And we just decided to go.”

As part of its enforcement action, the EPA is required to estimate the level of pollution at the site, in this case the amount of lead discharged on club grounds. If accurate, the estimate is eye popping: 180,000 pounds, or 90 tons, per year.

Why didn’t the EPA step in sooner?

“We tend to defer to the state when a state is taking action,” Dart says. “But when a state’s action isn’t getting the kind of a results the state hoped for, we can always get involved.”

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n a recent sunny day, the view of Lake Champlain from the top of Bostwick Farm Road, next to the Shelburne Museum, is typically spectacular. But not everyone knows that an even better prospect lies a short way down the road — named for Dunbar Bostwick, who married Electra Webb, daughter of museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb — after a right turn onto a narrow gravel road lined with stately trees.

An easy-to-miss sign indicates that the turn leads to All Souls Interfaith Gathering, which, despite its vaguely religious name, is not a church. The road continues through rolling fields bordered by woods, in the course of which busy Chittenden County seems to drop away. Around another turn you can see the pleasing, unpretentious façade of the 1970s house Bostwick built for his

primary purpose of the nonprofit in possession of the property: to convene people of all faiths, as the “interfaith” in its name indicates.

Founder Reverend Mary Abele, an interfaith minister who trained at Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts, seems not so much distracted by her creation’s beautiful setting as absorbed by it. Strolling the curved paths of the labyrinth — a circular clearing designed for meditation in the woods near the house — the “over 60” Abele unhurriedly explains the term “interfaith” while pausing to pick up fallen sticks and apologize for the occasional weed.

“It’s a step beyond Unitarian Universalism,” Abele (pronounced A-buh-lee) says, in its emphasis on “spirituality over dogma.” Children’s programs introduce kids to Jesus, the

this is All Souls and not, for example, a Nature Conservancy-owned wood, the moment seems laden with significance.

Could the Vermont landscape be a manifestation of “the Divine”?

Such reflections aren’t unusual here.

Many begin coming to All Souls, according to events planner Lisa Desmond, as converts to the spot’s beauty. “They come to walk the labyrinth, or for a wedding in the sanctuary” — that’s the circular addition, completed in 2008, whose bank of windows frames the stunning lake view. “Some people walk into the sanctuary and just burst into tears,” she adds.

Newcomers can sign up for the Gathering’s online newsletter, which currently reaches more than 500 people, to keep abreast of classes being developed for the community and other educational opportunities, such as a

— who gives homilies with titles such as “Trees and the Soul” — or invited representatives from other faiths. During the summer, members can attend Sunday morning meditation services. The grounds are open to the public (except during weddings, which usually occur every summer weekend).

Despite the beauty of its setting and its multiple uses, All Souls is still under the radar of many locals, says Desmond.

She often finds that newcomers are neighbors who just never ventured in before: “They’ll say, ‘I’m embarrassed to say it, but I live over on [nearby] Greenbush Road.’”

That disconnect can be partly attributed to the history of the land that All Souls occupies. Its seven acres belong to a 1000-acre, largely undeveloped private lot that has passed through significantly wealthy hands over the years. photos courtesy of all souls interfaith gathering

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The back of All Souls Interfaith Gathering.

second wife, with an eye-catching circular addition off to the side. The front door is open. When visitors step inside, the first thing they see is the view out the far windows: Gently rolling fields lead the eye down to the lake and the blue, blocky Adirondacks beyond.

As befits its beautiful location, All Souls hosts weddings, concerts, yoga classes, masseuses’ offices, a Waldorf School and a growing roster of community events. These rentals fund the

Buddha, Sikhs and more, she explains, so they learn “early that there’s a wide variety of opinions.” This all-inclusive approach to the world’s belief systems “encourages people to make their own connection with the Divine.”

A commotion at the edge of the labyrinth interrupts the tranquil lesson. A surprisingly tall, lanky fox has just startled a squawking turkey into flight and is bounding playfully away, unperturbed by the presence of humans. Because

coming-of-age program intended to bolster teens’ self-esteem. It also notifies subscribers of special events, including the upcoming second annual September 11 Day of Transformation; and lectures, such as a series on the environment that Vermont Public Television host Fran Stoddard moderated last year.

Abele says that between 20 and 60 people attend Sunday evening Evensong Services, which occur during the school year and are officiated by either Abele

Part of the lot, which roughly abuts the southern end of Shelburne Farms and still contains some working farms, was gifted to Electra and Dunbar Bostwick

by Electra’s parents. (Her father, Watson, was the eldest son of Shelburne Farms founders Lila and William Seward Webb.) Bostwick acquired the rest of the land over the course of his life, according to Chris Davis, the parcel’s manager since the mid-1980s.

Bostwick eventually moved into the

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Wake Robin life care retirement community across the road named for him.

In 1997, his children sold the land to the Meach Cove Trust, formed by Abele’s husband, John, cofounder of the medical device company Boston Scientific. (The Abeles had moved to Vermont in 1993, where Mary later completed internships at the United Church of Westford and the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burlington.) The trust then donated seven of those acres, which included the house, to Abele’s burgeoning project. A small sign for the trust’s offices accompanies the All Souls marker on Bostwick Farm Road; the road to the gathering place is actually a right-of-way on the private land held by the trust.

Abele began offering meditation services at the house 12 years ago. All Souls’ board chair, Sue Dixon, an early attendee, says she and a number of

then-newly built ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, where the couple sat on the board — to design the centerpiece of the new building, the sanctuary.

“It was a very interesting project,” recalls principal architect Marty Sienkiewycz, in part because it was “such a personal project” for Abele, in contrast with the hands-off style of the institutional and academic clients SAS usually serves. During a design process that went on for nearly six months, he says, “We did 13 different schemes before we settled on one.”

The final plans incorporated sustainability measures, influenced by ECHO and Shelburne Farms, that included LED lighting, bamboo floors, heating by a boiler that takes wood or corn pellets and air conditioning by artesian well.

The well recently failed for little-understood reasons, Sienkiewycz mentions,

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sharp, physical movements swift. Raina worships Sergius, and Menard shows how long it takes for her to warm up to the Swiss stranger.

Donna Charron Cristen is a hoot as Mama Petkoff, especially when mustering her Mona Lisa smile to cover up the umpteen lies and schemes she’s trying to conceal from the unsuspecting men. Her eyes widen and gleam, and communicate concern to the other women, but the dunderheaded dudes remain in the dark. As Papa Petkoff, Karl Klein exudes ruddy confidence and harmless bluster. The top officer in the Bulgarian army looks like he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

The two soldiers contrast sharply. Chris Riddell captures Captain Bluntschli’s subdued Swiss nature. Riddell and Menard create a charming rapport between their characters. Bluntschli’s deadpan responses confound Raina, much to the audience’s amusement.

Director Carr plays a delightfully overthe-top Sergius, a character who half realizes that he is a caricature of the “gentleman” he professes to be. Carr embraces Sergius’ inner buffoon and blackguard, dramatically arching a single eyebrow and, yes, twirling his mustache.

The lesson of Arms and the Man — that both love and war are not as pretty as the poems make ’em seem — never feels ponderous or pretentious in the Valley Players production. This is as Shaw intended. Heavyhanded messaging in his previous play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1893), got it banned from the stage for decades. Appealing characters and a lighthearted story — now that’s the way to make a point. m

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In the late 19th century, as the British Empire stretched across the globe, Victorian society celebrated the heroic nature of war. Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), however, did not. The title of Arms and the Man (1894) comes from the opening line of the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic about the founding of Rome. While Virgil’s poem lauds martial life, Shaw’s play mocks it. Along the way, Shaw also makes tasty mincemeat of Victorian ideals about love, chivalry and class.

The setting for Arms and the Man is the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. The anything-but-epic Karl Klein, Amanda Menard and Donna Charron Cristen as the Petkoffs conflict lasted all of two weeks.

Satirizing bumbling bumpkins in In the spring, Papa and Sergius troops skillfully in Arms. In community the Balkans actually gives Shaw much return. (Peace negotiations take much theater, actors bring various levels of wider latitude to dissect cherished longer than the war.) Raina and her vic- experience and training to a production.

English values. In Waitsfield, the Valley torious hero greet each other with effu- Carr seems to have helped all the perPlayers’ current production features sive speeches about their “higher love.” formers develop their characters fully so spirited performances, a lively pace and But she also spies Sergius getting handsy that the ensemble meshes effectively. lovely visual elements. Shaw’s cheeky with the hot housekeeper. And then the Given Shaw’s chatty script, where humor shines in this evening of well- mystery soldier reappears: He’s Captain the banter is the action, a director must executed community theater.

Bluntschli, a Swiss officer whom Papa give the actors things to do while they All three acts of the play take place and Sergius are talking. at the home of the Petkoffs, Bulgaria’s befriended Carr “richest and best known” family. Their at the moves house has windows, stairs and — gasp! treaty talks. the play— the country’s only library. The story Awkward! ers deftly opens with the menfolk away at war: It seems around the Papa Petkoff and daughter Raina’s that Raina elegantly fiancé, Sergius, are both high-ranking has never quite gotten the “chocolate appointed stage. He, producer Susan army officers. Mother Catherine and cream soldier” out of her head. Now that Klein and stage manager Lisa Parro colRaina wax rhapsodic about the valorous she suspects her “perfect” boyfriend laborate on the sets, which feature an feats of their warriors in battle. may actually be a mustache-twirling impressive array of period furniture and Later that night, a bedraggled enemy cad, just whom will she deem the ideal props. Papa Petkoff’s library has almost soldier bursts into Raina’s bedroom, conqueror of her heart? as many taxidermy specimens mounted needing a place to hide. He cares far The Valley Players Theater is a de- on the walls as books on the shelves: a more about getting a little grub and lightful venue. Built as a church in the giant smiling boar’s head and a deer shut-eye than garnering military glory. 1830s, the performance space offers the whose neck is turned so that it looks at His straightforward manner doesn’t unusual combination of a large stage and the audience. square with the “heroic ideals” that fairly small audience capacity. There Especially impressive in this show are Raina has absorbed from reading Byron is not a bad seat in the house. Original all three members of the Petkoff family. and Pushkin. But her umbrage eventu- woodwork creates warm acoustics and Raina’s overwrought ideas, drawn from ally softens, and she feeds him a few provides architectural details, such as literature and opera, mean she takes chocolates from her nightstand stash. arches and wainscoting, that incorpo- herself too seriously. Amanda Menard She enlists her mom to help the stranger rate beautifully into set design. plays Raina with appropriate melosafely escape.

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louds billow overhead as you thum-thum your bike over an arched bridge and meandering river. Outdoor sculpture glistens from either side of the path, and the sound of cars is blissfully absent.

Awaiting you are miles of fields, woods and smooth pavement interspersed with pit stops at which to be fed and watered.

Pedaling along the Stowe Recreation Path can make for an idyllic few hours, and the 5.3-mile-long course — used by thousands of bikers, skaters, skiers and walkers each year — is also a byway to some of the eateries that dot this tourist-friendly village. Biking may be about getting fit, not fat, but there’s still something appealing about twowheeling it from pancakes and coffee to burgers and beer.

The roots of the Stowe rec path stretch back to mid-1960s, when the accumulation of traffic on the Mountain Road inspired townspeople to contemplate a quieter alternative.

In 1964, the Stowe Better Business Association voted to create a walking path, but it wasn’t until the early 1980s that landowners began donating easements for its construction. The first 2.7-mile-long section debuted in 1984; the remainder opened in 1989. For about $680,000 — plus ample neighborliness, generosity and vision — the town created a phenomenal social resource.

The greenway has multiple entry points along its length and is the perfect conduit for a low-key food tour.

A good starting point is the path’s terminus in Stowe Village, behind the Stowe Community Church at 137 Main Street. Before you strap on your helmet, however, cross Main Street to Black Cap Coffee, the bustling café facing the church. Here you can load up on carbs — scones, lemon bars, gluten-free

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pumpkin muffins, chocolate croissants, cookies and macaroons — or caffeinate with bracing, house-roasted coffee or espresso. Chef Heinz Remmel’s sweet or savory crêpes are special treats, albeit ones that might weigh you down for the ride. A crêpe Marcel comes with Vermont cheddar cheese, spinach, mushrooms and scrambled eggs; a Shrimp Tasso is a silky mélange of Cajun ham, shredded shrimp and cream. The picnic-minded can pick up a quiche or wrap. But the oozing panino — such as one with marinated asparagus, coppa salami and Gruyère cheese on ciabatta — is a bit too messy to pack.

Once you’re on the rec path, the best way to monitor your whereabouts is by keeping track of the 10 arching bridges that cross the West Branch River, the first of which appears immediately.

You will pedal beneath artist Ria Blaas’ giant yellow spoons and alongside Tom Holmes’ giant red starbursts, both part of this summer’s “Exposed!” outdoor art show presented by the Helen Day Art Center.

Soon enough, tiny wooden signs beckon riders away from the path and into various eateries. After you cross Weeks Hill Road and bridge No. 4, a sign indicates the Grey Fox Inn and its Dutch Pancake Café. You’ve only gone about a mile, but if you’ve skipped the goodies at Black Cap, this place may tempt you to tackle breakfast in earnest. The kitchen turns out foot-wide, lightly charred, buttery pancakes with various fruits, meats or veggies folded into the batter. A Rembrandt combines pineapple, raisins and apples with shredded potatoes, ham and cheddar, the whole amped up with piquant curry powder. For the less adventurous, an apple-and-bacon pancake smothered in Vermont maple

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Baby lettuce salad and white truffle popcorn at the Rusty Nail Bar & Grille on the Stowe Recreation Path.

syrup is a satisfying mashup of salt, fat and sweetness.

For epic eaters who can chase an enormous breakfast with an equally hearty lunch, the Rusty Nail Bar & Grille beckons about a half-mile farther along the bike path. Its stone terrace, cheerful perennials and multiple bike racks are visually inviting, and the new menu put together by chef Michael Werneke ups the ante on traditional pub grub.

Werneke covers popcorn in white truffle butter and shaved Parmesan, stews plump oysters with bacon and cream, fries potatoes in duck fat, and tops hot dogs with kimchi. The fare is creative but not fussy, and most of it works: The popcorn is tender, salty and sumptuous; the bacon-wrapped kimchi hot dog is a crunchy, saline, subtly

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Werneke doesn’t ignore the vegetarians or the light-of-appetite, either; his baby lettuce salad comes delicately dressed in a tangy Dijon vinaigrette with a hunk of Bayley Hazen Blue cheese, sliced pears and earthy walnut dust. He also serves up a platter of mushroom rillettes, zucchini terrine, hummus and tapenade with crunchy pita chips.

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partner, mIChaEl nIEDErEr, contacted Hinsdale to inquire about renting the space to open a diner. “It’s something we’ve been thinking about for a long time,” says Scanlon of the expansion.

“People in the neighborhood seem pretty excited.” She will call the business Pearl Street Diner and expects it to open this fall.

The diner will offer Radio Deli’s hot specials — such as meat loaf, mac ’n’ cheese, burgers and hot sandwiches — on a daily basis for lunch and dinner. As for décor, Scanlon and crew plan a light renovation. “We’re going to make it a little different and a little brighter. We’re not going to rip everything apart,” she says. The partners are unsure of how they’ll use the bakery, but the expanded kitchen space will enable them to take on more and larger catering jobs.

The diner will be an affordable neighborhood eatery with decent food, adds Scanlon, and she’d especially like it to be accessible and appealing to the area’s seniors. “My mom’s 82, and so I know this market really well,” she says.

As for Boutin, he says he and his wife, who worked with him until four years ago, are both ready for a change of pace. “She’s had her fill of it,” he says. The business is for sale, though if Boutin doesn’t find a buyer, some of

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All good things come to an end. So it is with DoughBoy’s BakEry & CoffEE shop, which has resided on Pearl Street since 1978 and will close its doors on July 18.

The handwritten sign in the window that has greeted patrons since last week — “Doughboy’s Is Retiring,” took some by surprise, and news of the closure inspired regulars to call Doughboy’s a “magic diner” full of “good eats and warm hearts” on the Seven Days staff blog, Blurt.

Owner roD BoutIn says his landlord, Hinsdale Properties, would not renew his lease, and he’s not interested in moving. “I’m ready to call it quits,” says Boutin, 76. “I’ve worked seven nights a week since 1969.”

That was the year he started Doughboy’s in the Kmart Plaza on Shelburne Road; nine years later, he moved it to 85 Pearl Street.

Boutin expresses some regret that he never purchased his building, saying, “I’ve probably paid enough rent to buy this corner.”

Rebecca Lemire, the property manager for Hinsdale Properties, says her company expected Doughboy’s would eventually leave on its own.

She says in a written statement, “We felt it was time to end their lease. They’ve been there since 1979 and pretty much under the same lease. We have kept their rent so low for so long to help them stay afloat. Obviously, costs have increased since then and we could not afford to continue to carry that.

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About another half-mile along the path — between bridges 5 and 6 — is the Blue Donkey, a low-key joint that has served up 30,000 burgers since opening two years ago. You place your order at the counter and top your beef, turkey or veggie burger or sliders with avocado, horseradish, mushrooms or chopped bacon.

Tucking into one, you realize why these burgers have earned a solid local rep: The juice drips slowly down your hands as you savor a robust, almost nutty flavor, with pickles adding puckery crunch. The freshtasting fries come hand cut or curly, and bottles of soda and Long Trail Ale are on hand, too.

On Sunday afternoons, the Stowe Farmers Market gets into full swing on the lawn adjacent to the Blue Donkey, offering up cubes of local queso fresco and goat cheeses, samples of Boyden Valley wines, fresh wood-fired pizza and tall glasses of fresh-brewed hibiscus iced tea.

A few steps along, hopheads may want to pull their bikes into the back paddock of the Shed Restaurant & Brewery, which brews its own beer and serves it alongside heaping portions of gastropub fare such as nutbrown, crispy fish and chips, or a chicken marsala generously laced with sherry.

The bar usually rotates at least five brews on tap; one is always an inky, filling porter or stout, making the pub a warming stop during a rainy or chilly ride.

Past the Shed come two and a half restaurantfree miles of path. There’s a smattering of picnic tables, though, for those Stowe Recreation Path who pick up lunch to go. To put together a Euro-style picnic, cyclists can raid the wares at Mountain Cheese & Wine, inside the Red Barn Shops. Here you can grab a bottle of vino, a fresh baguette, prosciutto, smoked salmon or any of dozens of cheeses, many of them local — including the ale-rubbed, soft and vaguely stinky Oma made at the von Trapp Farmstead in Waitsfield. Fresh phOtO Jeb Wallace-brODeur

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Revelers looking for somewhere to crash after tying one on are in luck — the former inn still has 110 beds upstairs. Weekend hostel packages start in the winter, offering a perfect way to fill up without worries about the drive home.

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street once again to treat yourself to tacos and tequila at Frida’s Taqueria & Grill.

Here, miniature house-made tortillas serve as bases for such eclectic toppings as beef tongue, cactus and oysters — the last generously battered and fried, then drizzled with a creamy orange-chipotle sauce. The bartenders at Frida’s mix a full line of margaritas and pour wines from a thoughtfully composed list.

Hugely refreshing on a hot afternoon, though, is the Paloma — a tall glass of El Jimador tequila and grapefruit and lime juices topped with soda.

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Back on the rec path, you soon cross Luce Hill Road and ride along beside the shimmering Little River. The air may smell of manure from surrounding farms, while stunning views open up to the west and north. The only food here is the kind that grows in the earth — corn, mostly, or anything you can forage in the woods. So, take advantage of those picnic areas and streamside rocks for a picnic, a dip in the water, or both. At the end of the path — the Topnotch Resort and Spa parking lot — you can linger at the Brookdale covered bridge for a breather before doubling back into town.

If you want to hang with some locals on your return, turn right when you hit Luce Hill Road and pedal into the parking lot of Burt’s Irish Pub. It’s a friendly, loud, classic bar with cold pints

Harrington, to entice the diverse population in the rural area around Bethel.

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the “captain” warned, “We don’t want any of our guests thinking we see Champ every cruise.” He also set the record straight about the monster’s fear factor: “I don’t know why we call him a monster; I don’t know of many monstrous things he or she has ever done.”

Clearly our tour guide had not read any of the Weekly World News’ reports of Champ’s caddish behavior toward his baby-mama, Nessie.

Shortly after we heard about the wholesome wonders of North Beach, a cook emerged to carve the pork loin, and lunch was served. Diners lined up under the disco ball to assemble a salad from all the basics, including homemade dressings. I selected the tangy balsamic vinaigrette.

Given our nautical setting, it came as a surprise that the only seafood offered was a pink salmon salad. I chose a few chunks of chicken salad instead. Not usually a fan of mayonnaise-y preparations, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the morsels of chicken flavored with orange zest and whole cranberries.

The macaroni and cheese was even better. The noodles were cooked al dente — uncharacteristic for a restaurant dish — and the mouth-coating sauce was comforting. Sharp cheddar and two kinds of imported Parmesan made for an ultracreamy coating, but according to Dekeersgieter, it was heavy cream boiled with hot peppers and onions, then strained, that accounted for the welcome hint of heat.

The only disappointment was the pork loin, topped with pineapple and maraschino cherries. The fruit wasn’t sufficient to flavor the juicy, undersalted meat. Dipping it in my salad’s balsamic vinaigrette easily repaired this.

Dessert was laid out with lunch, so it was up to the diners to decide when to partake of carrot or lemon cake, the only elements of the meal not made on the boat that day. (They were prepared to seAn metcAlF

hoy, mateys, and welcome aboard the Spirit of Ethan Allen III,” boomed a recorded voice over the loudspeaker.

The “captain” proceeded 16t-lakeviewHouse071311.indd 1 7/11/11 2:11 PM to outline “life-saving measures,” of which diners should take note during lunch. As the kitchen crew began to prepare the buffet tables for service, I made a note of where flotation devices were stowed on the Admiral Deck.

My job doesn’t often bring me to restaurants where sinking during lunch is a concern — or ones that feature daytime dinner theater. But this little slice of tourist culture pops up weekly just blocks from the Seven Days offices, and I couldn’t resist a taste. So I embarked last Wednesday at noon on the “Sweethearts of the Silver Screen” luncheon cruise. The $41.99 package included a buffet lunch, a narrated voyage and a one-woman variety show by Glens Falls, N.Y.-based entertainer Laura Roth, who started performing on the Spirit III this summer. The “Ok, I admit I was a little skeptical. ship’s regular dinner cruises include Another email newsletter trying to get me interactive murder mysteries, a variety to do stuff. But I LOVE Seven Days NOw. show and a Cuban-themed feast with It’s easy to read, it links me to some of the salsa-dancer accompaniment. coolest stuff, and it tempts me to address The three-and-a-half-hour tour my cabin fever and actually DO something clearly wasn’t designed for food writthis weekend. It’s well designed, and ers; most of my fellow voyagers were tempting. Thanks for putting it together. tourists on bus trips and seniors, with I’m going to forward it to my sweetie and plenty of overlap. As the vessel left the dock, a brass band playing “Anchors find some fun.”

Aweigh” boomed over the loudspeakers, — Susanna Weller, Starksboro and I knew I could expect more kitschy touches to come.

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The dining room did not disappoint, NoteS on the Weekend, though it also had a quirky charm. I took our email newsletter, for an update that directs you to great shows, a seat at my small assigned table, covered restaurants, staff picks and with a plastic tablecloth printed with an discounts for the weekend. antique map labeled in Latin. Its hint of We’ll also keep you posted on cosmopolitanism was somewhat at odds SeveN DayS events and contests. with the rest of the décor, which included a faux grapevine snaking across Sign up on our homepage: sevendaysvt.com latticework behind the dessert table, and an off-duty, lazily shimmering disco ball.

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than with the northern reaches of Lake Champlain. The majority, including servers, the bartender and some of the kitchen staff, are on a work/travel program from Macedonia.

Too bad there was no kebapi or burek on the menu. Instead, chef Robert Dekeersgieter, the boat’s executive chef for the past nine years, concocted a meal that he described to me as “comfort food.” Though the Belgian native prepares upscale dishes for the more sophisticated dinner cruises — such as filet mignon and shrimp wrapped in puff pastry with curry sauce — Dekeersgieter says the lunch crowd is “looking for something more mellow.”

That doesn’t mean packaged foods or lazy preparation. There is no freezer in the ship’s galley. Dekeersgieter said he and his team don’t decide on a menu until they get product in from Burlington Foods on the morning of service or the evening before.

Before the buffet opened, servers delivered cups of soup to each table. The smell of fresh cream wafted from my bowl, though the chef later told me the rich, velvety soup was primarily composed of finely puréed butternut squash.

Perhaps not the most seasonal choice, but delicious.

As I ate, I listened to Tim Kavanagh’s recorded narration — much of which was fascinating, even for a local. When we approached Appletree Bay, site of the largest mass Champ sighting on record,

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ACT 250 NOTICE APPLICATION AND HEARING #4C1074-1 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On June 3, 2011, F & M Development Company, LLC; EF Farrell, LLC and DB Morrissey, LLC filed application #4C1074-1 for a project described as the demolition of an existing building, construction of two new 4-story buildings consisting of 111 housing units with new infrastructure in a PUD with two existing buildings. The Project is located on Eastwood Drive in the City of South Burlington. This project will be evaluated by the District 4 Environmental Commission in accordance with the 10 environmental criteria of 10 V.S.A. § 6086(a).

A public hearing is scheduled for July 26, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. at the

Essex Junction District Office of the Agency of Natural Resources, 111 West Street, Essex Junction, Vermont. A site visit will be held before the hearing at 8:00 a.m at the site.

Directions to the site: Route 7 north from the Interstate 189 exit, turn right on Farrell Street, left on Eastwood Drive, pull into the Olympiad lot The following people or organizations may participate in the hearing for this project: 1. Statutory parties: The municipality, the municipal planning commission, the regional planning commission, any adjacent municipality, municipal planning commission or regional planning commission if the project lands are located on a town boundary, and affected state agencies are entitled to party status.

2. Adjoining property owners and others: May participate as parties to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the ten criteria.

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Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 16th day of June, 2011.

If you wish further information regarding participation in this hearing, please contact the District Coordinator at the address below before the date of the first hearing or prehearing. If you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify this office at least seven days prior to the above hearing date.

District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452

Copies of the application and plans for this project are available for inspection by members of the public during regular working hours at the Burlington Offices, the Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission Office, and the District #4 Environmental Office.

The application can also be viewed at the Natural Resources Board web site: www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup by clicking on “District Commission Cases” and entering the case number above.

By: /s/Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board

T/ 802.879.5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On June 15, 2011, Milton Development Corp.

LLC, filed application #4C0069-7A / #4C06807B for a Project generally described as: modifications of the approved expansion of the existing Milton Square shopping center including layout, traffic circulation and building usage. This amendment removes the Minor parcel from the previously approved Project. The Project is located on Route 7 in the Town of Milton, Vermont.

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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 Milton Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www. nrb.state.vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above.

No hearing will be held unless, on or before July 26, 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.

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 July 26, 2011.

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Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 22nd day of June 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 June 17, 2011, The Town of Shelburne, filed application #4C0767-7, 4C1109-2, 4C0984-1, 4C0446-5, 4C0977-1 for a Project generally described as: the construction of a bicycle/pedestrian path along Webster Road in the Town of Shelburne, Vermont.

The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies

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No hearing will be held unless, on or before July 26, 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

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 24th day of June 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 NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST A RELEASE OF FUNDS DATE OF NOTICE JULY 13, 2011 NAME OF RESPONSIBLE ENTITY (RE): VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY ADDRESS: PO BOX 408, 164 Saint Paul Street, Burlington, VT 05402-0408 TELEPHONE # - 802-864-5743 On or about July 22, 2011, the VHFA will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter HUD) for the release of FHA Risk–Sharing funds (issue a Firm Approval Letter) under Section 542(c) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, as amended, to undertake a project known as Northgate/ Greenfield Apartments, for the purpose of the acquisition and rehabilitation of 336 housing units located at 275 Northgate Drive, Burlington, Vermont.

The estimated total cost of the project is $25,800,000.

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The activities proposed are categorically excluded under HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58 from National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements.

An Environmental Review Record (ERR) that documents the environmental determinations for this project is on file at VHFA, and is available for public examination and copying at their offices at 164 Saint Paul Street, Burlington, VT, between 8:00AM and 4:30 PM upon request.

Public Comments Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the ERR to VHFA. All comments received

by July 20, 2011 will be considered by VHFA prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.

Release of Funds VHFA certifies to HUD that Sarah Carpenter, in her official capacity as Executive Director, consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied.

HUD’s approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities and allows VHFA to use FHA mortgage insurance through the Risk Sharing Program.

Objections to Release of Funds HUD will accept objections to its release of funds (issuance of a Firm Approval Letter) and VHFA’ s certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of VHFA; (b) VHFA has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 58; (c) the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality.

Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (CFR Part 58 Section 58.76) and be addressed to HUD-Manchester Field Office, 275 Chestnut Street, 4th floor, Manchester, NH 03101. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Sarah Carpenter, Executive Director Vermont Housing Finance Agency PO Box 408 Burlington, VT 05402-0408 PUBLIC NOTICE Vermont Agency of Transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Overall Annual Goal on FTA-Funded Projects For Fiscal Years October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2013 Pursuant to US Department of Transportation regulations contained

in 49 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 26, all state transportation agencies receiving Department of Transportation financial assistance must establish overall percentage goals for the dollar value of work to be awarded disadvantaged businesses. This action has been deemed necessary in order to provide these businesses with a level playing field to participate in the performance of contracts and subcontracts financed in whole or in part with federal funds.

The Vermont Agency of Transportation is a recipient of US Department of Transportation financial assistance, and hereby establishes the following goal in accordance with these regulations: In FY 2012 – FY 2014, the Vermont Agency of Transportation intends to expend 4.08% of the federal financial assistance received from the Federal Transit Administration with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (DBEs). It is the intent of the VT Agency of Transportation that this expenditure be obtained through a race and gender neutral program.

Individuals who are interested in becoming a certified disadvantaged business enterprise in Vermont should contact: Vermont Agency of Transportation Office of Civil Rights & Labor Compliance One National Life Drive Montpelier, VT 05633-5001 Telephone: (802) 828-2717 A description of the methodology used in establishing this goal can be viewed for 30 days following the date of this notice during normal business hours at the above address.

It is also available for viewing on our website: http://www.aot.state. vt.us/CivilRights/ DBEGoals.htm Comments pertaining to this overall goal will be accepted at the above referenced address for a period of forty-five days beginning on the date of publication of this notice. Comments will also be accepted by the Federal Transit Administration, Transportation Systems Center, Kendall Square, 55 Broadway, Suite

920, Cambridge, MA 02142-1093, Attention: FTA Regional Civil Rights Officer.

Additional information about our DBE Program, including our current DBE Registry, certification application, resource guides and links to other small business resources can be obtained by visiting the DBE page of our website at: http://www.aot.state. vt.us/CivilRights/Dbe. htm All firms, both DBE and non-DBE, are invited to contact the Vermont Agency of Transportation for information regarding bidding opportunities on federally funded projects.

Dated July 1, 2011 at Montpelier, Vermont STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit

CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S1371-06 Cnc HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Home Equity Loan Trust, Series Ace 2005—HE7, Plaintiff v.

Timothy Pelkey, Debra Pelkey, Citifinancial, Inc. and Occupants residing at 1 Streeter Brook Road, Milton, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given

by Timothy Pelkey to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for GE Money Bank dated July 15, 2005 and recorded in Volume 318, Page 57, and assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for GE Money Bank to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Home Equity Loan Trust, Series Ace 2005—HE7 by an instrument dated November 6, 2006 and recorded on November 14, 2006 in Volume 338, Page 388 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:30 A.M. on August 2, 2011, at 1 Streeter Brook Road, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in

said mortgage: To Wit: All that parcel of land in Township of Milton, Chittenden County, State of Vermont, as more fully described in Deed Book 200, Page 512 ID# 2-14-018-000000, being known and designated as metes and bounds property.

By fee simple deed from James S. Carbonneau and Karen Carbonneau to Timothy Pelkey and Debra Pelkey as set forth in Book 200 Page 512 dated April 30, 1999 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, Chittenden County and State of Vermont.

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 Milton.

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 30th day of June, 2011.

HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee 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. S1045-08 Cnc JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff v.

Dale Garvey, Chase Bank USA, N.A., State of Vermont Department of Taxes and Occupants residing at 961 Lake Road, Milton, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Dale

sevendaysvt.com/classifieds Garvey to Chase Bank USA, N.A. dated June 7, 2007 and recorded in Volume 346, Page 315 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:00 A.M. on August 2, 2011, at 961 Lake Road, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises to Dale Paul Garvey by Deed of David Goodrich Construction, Inc. of approximate even date herewith and to be recorded in the Town of Milton Land Records.

Said lands and premises being more particularly described as follows: Being all and the same land and premise conveyed to David Goodrich Construction, Inc. by Warranty Deed of Matthew E. McGinn and Jennifer R. McGinn dated February 9, 2006 and recorded in Book 327 at Page 767 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton.

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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. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale . The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Option One Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-1 AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2006-1, Plaintiff v.

Sulaiman Jadallah, United States of America Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Foodservice, Inc. and Occupants residing at 59 Overlake Drive, Milton, Vermont, Defendants

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 Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000.

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given

by Sulaiman Jadallah to Option One Mortgage Corporation dated October 15, 2005 and recorded in Volume 322, Page 620, and assigned from Option One Mortgage Corporation to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Option One Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-1 AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2006-1 by an instrument dated July 27, 2007 and recorded on August 1, 2007 in Volume 348, Page 839 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, of which mortgage

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 23rd day of June, 2011.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association 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

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dated May 31, 2007 and recorded in Volume 1001, Page 328, and assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Quicken DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this Loans, Inc. to OneWest Bank, FSB by an 22nd day of June, 2011. instrument dated July 8, 2009 and recorded Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., on July 23, 2009 in as Trustee Volume 1077, Page 245 of the Land Records of By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. the City of Burlington, Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 of which mortgage the undersigned is South Burlington, VT the present holder, for 05403 breach of the conditions of said mortgage and STATE OF VERMONT for the purposes of SUPERIOR COURT foreclosing the same will Chittenden Unit be sold at Public Auction

at 8:45 A.M. on July 26, CIVIL DIVISION 2011, at 18 Ward Street, Docket No. S 0961-09 Burlington, Vermont Cnc all and singular the premises described in OneWest Bank, FSB, said mortgage: Plaintiff v.

To Wit: Thomas M. Kirkpatrick Tax ID Number: and Occupants residing 043-3-078-000 at 18 Ward Street, Land situated in the Burlington, Vermont, City of Burlington in the Defendants County of Chittenden in the State of VT NOTICE OF SALE A lot of land with all buildings thereon By virtue and in situated on the northerly execution of the Power side of Ward Street, the of Sale contained in a store and apartment on certain mortgage given

by Thomas M. Kirkpatrick said land being known and designated as No. to Mortgage Electronic 18 Ward Street, said Registration Systems, land having frontage on Inc. as nominee for said street of 50 feet, Quicken Loans, Inc.

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 July 21, 2011, at 59 Overlake Drive, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Sulaiman Jadallah by Warranty Deed of Relocation Advantage, LLC dated July 16, 2002 and of record in Book 245, Page 567 of the Town of Milton 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 Milton.

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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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 Williston.

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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By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Robert Zilnicki and Laura Zilnicki by Administrator’s Deed of Henry P. Tarrier and Phillip P. Tarrier, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Richard E. Tarrier dated October 29, 2004 and of record at Volume 385, Page 16 of the Land Records of the Town of Williston.

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Inc. as nominee for IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. to IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. by an instrument dated December 17, 2009 and recorded on December 30, 2009 in Volume 451, Page 428 of the Land Records of the Town of Williston. Mortgage was further assigned from IndyMac Bank, F.S.B. to OneWest, FSB. by an instrument dated November 18, 2009 and recorded on December 30, 2009 in Volume 451, Page 429 of the Land Records of the Town of Williston, 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 July 26, 2011, at 199 Chapman Lane, Williston, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

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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. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale . The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the City of Burlington.

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Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the 07/28/11 of the month of July, 2011 to satisfy the debt of Bernard Miller. 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 auction

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MAN TO MAN PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP MEETING Wednesday, July 20, 6-7:45 p.m.

Central Vermont Medical Center, Conference Room #2. Program: “Understanding Your Blood Counts” presented

by David Ospina, MD, an oncologist and hematologist from Central Vermont Medical Center. Info: Fred Cook, 223-2933 or Sophia Morton, 1-866-466-0626 (press 3 at greeting) or 802-872-6308.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HELPS PATIENTS LOOK GOOD... FEEL BETTER Wednesday, July 20, 3-4:30 p.m. American Cancer Society, 55 Day Lane, Williston. Info: Peg Allen, 802-655-2000 or the American Cancer Society at 1-800-2272345. Wednesday, July 13, 3-4:30 p.m.

American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Lois McClure — Bee Tabakin Building, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Info: Hope Lodge, 802-658-0649.

Monday, July 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin. Info: Joanie, 496-2582. Thursday, July 28, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Lois McClure — Bee Tabakin Building, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Info: Hope Lodge, 802-658-0649.

Look Good... Feel Better is a free program that teaches female cancer patients beauty techniques to help restore their appearance and help them feel good about the way they look during chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Volunteer cosmetologists teach women about make-up

techniques, skincare and options related to hair loss.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY MAN TO MAN PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Tuesday, August 9, 6-8 p.m. Hope Lodge, Louis McClure-Bee Tabakin Building, 237 East Ave., Burlington. Info: Mary Guyette, 802-274-4990, vmary@aol.com or Sophia, 802-872-6308, sophia.morton@cancer. org.

CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP This group offers support to those caring for loved ones with memory loss due to dementia. The group meets the second and fourth Thursday of the month from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at The Converse Home, 272 Church St, Burlington. For more info call: 802-862-0401.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step.

Women only. Are you addicted to your relationship and/or yearn for a healthy one? Sunday, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Call for location.

802-825-5481.

NAMI CONNECTION (National Alliance on Mental Illness) NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group for individuals living with mental illnesses.

BENNINGTON: Every Tuesday, 1-2:30 p.m., United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St., CTR Center (Community Rehabilitation and Treatment).

BURLINGTON: Every Thursday, 4-5:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2 Cherry Street (enter from parking lot). Every Sunday, 4:45-6:15 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, 152 Pearl St. (basement classroom). HARTFORD: 2nd and 4th Friday 4-5:30 p.m., Hartford Library. Call Barbara Austin, 802-457-1512.

MONTPELIER: 1st and 3rd Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m., Kellogg-Hubbard Library, East Montpelier Room (basement).

NEWPORT: Call Phil if interested, 802-7542649. RUTLAND: Every Monday, 7-8:30 p.m., Wellness Center, Rutland Mental Health, 78 South Main St. SPRINGFIELD: 2nd & 4th Mondays, 12:30-2 p.m., Health Care and Rehabilitation Servies, 390 River St. ST. JOHNSBURY: Every Thrusday, 6:30-8 p.m., Universalist Unitarian Church, 47 Cherry St. If you would like a group in your area, would like to be trained as a facilitator, be a Champion for a group in your area or have questions about our groups please contact Tammy at 1-800-639-6480 or

email us at connectionvt@myfairpoint.net DIGESTIVE SUPPORT GROUP Join this open support group, hosted by Carrie Shamel, and gain information regarding digestive disorders. If you suffer from any kind of digestive disorder or discomfort this is the place for you! Open to all. Meets the first Monday of every month at 6 p.m. in the Healthy Living Learning Center.

For more information contact Carrie Shamel at carrie.shamel@gmail. com. www.llleus.org/ state/vermont/html.

LGBTQ GRIEF AND LOSS GROUP This RU12? social-support group is open to all who have lost a loved one, through death or separation.

Whether your loss is recent or from the past, please join us to share thoughts, feelings, strengths, and coping skills in a safe and supportive environment.

This group will meet two more times this summer: July 11, August 2 at RU12? from 6-7:30 p.m. Info: 802-860-7812.

EATING DISORDERS SUPPORT GROUP This is a therapist-facilitated, drop-in support group for women with eating disorders. Women over 18 only please. This group will be held every other Wednesday from 5:30-7 p.m. Free.

Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, So. Burlington. 802-6589440. Upcoming dates: 7/13,7/27, 8/10.

CELIAC AND GLUTENFREE GROUP Every 2nd Wednesay, 4:30-6 p.m. at Central VT Medical Center Conference Room #3. Free and open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 802598-9206 or lisamase@ gmail.com.

LIVE WITH CHRONIC PAIN? Want more support? Join us to focus on the tools necessary for day to day living through open dialogue, knowledge, and personal experience.

Lets find a healthy balance along with an improved quality of life.

Mondays, 1-2:15 p.m., Burlington Community Health Center. Martha, 415-250-5181 or Esther, 802-399-0075.

QUIT SMOKING GROUPS Are you ready to live a smoke-free lifestyle?

Free 4-week Quit Smoking Groups are being offered through the VT Quit Network Fletcher Allen Quit in Person program.

Currently, there is a group on Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Burlington and Thursdays from 4-5 p.m.

in South Burlington. Free Nicotine Replacement products are available for program participants.

Info: 847-6541, wellness@vtmednet.org. For ongoing statewide class schedules visit www. vtquitnetwork.org.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP STARTING IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of every month, 1-2:30 p.m. at the Vermont Department of Health, 107 Eastern Ave., Suite 9. The support group will offer valuable resources and information about brain injury.

It will be a place to share experiences in a safe, secure and confidential environment. Info: Tom Younkman, tyounkman@ vcil.org, 1-800-639-1522.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt?

Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Saturdays 10-11:30 a.m. & Wednesdays 5:30-6:30, 45 Clark St., Burlington.

Contact Brenda at 338-1170.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Montpelier evening support group meets the first Monday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St. Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Colchester

evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772.

OUTRIGHT VERMONT FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP For family members of youth who are navigating the process of coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning are invited to attend. Group meets twice a month with one Wednesday morning meeting and one Sunday evening meeting. Info: hillary@outrightvt.org, 802-865-9677 ext. 3, www.outrightvt.org.

AL-ANON For families and friends of alcoholics. For meeting information: www. vermontalanonalateen. org or call 1-866-97-AlAnon (1-866-972-5266) FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP Outright Vermont now offers support group meetings to family members of youth navigating the process of coming out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning. Meetings are open to parents, guardians and other close care-givers and are held one Sunday evening and one Wednesday morning each month at Outright Vermont. For more information, email Hillary@outrightvt.org or call 865-9677 ext. 3#.

DIVORCE CARE CLASSES Divorce is a tough road.

Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger and self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share with you a safe place and a process that can help make the journey easier.

The 13-week Divorce Care Class (for men and women) will be offered on Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:30 pm, March 9 June 1, 2011, at the Essex Alliance Community Center 37 Old Stage Road, Essex Jct., VT. For more information and to register call Sandy 802-425-7053.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships?

We can help. Ralph, 802-881-8400. Visit www.slaafws.org or www.saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

INFERTILITY PEER GROUP Feeling lonely & isolated as you confront infertility? Share feelings, stories & coping strategies at informal, peer-led meetings w/ people facing similar challenges. $5. First Monday of the month, 7-9 PM, Christ Church Presbyterian, Burlington.

Presented by RESOLVE of New England. Info: admin@resolveofthebaystate.org.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS Burlington Chapter TCF which meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Road, Williston - for more information call Dee

Ressler, 802 660-8797.

Rutland Chapter TCF which meets on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Grace Congregational Church, West St., Rutland, VT - for more information call Susan Mackey, 802 446-2278. Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) also serves bereaved parents with monthly peer support groups, with short-term educational consultations and referrals to local grief and loss counselors.

HVS is located in the Marble Works district in Middlebury. Please call 802-388-4111 for more information about how to connect with appropriate support services.

GLAM CORE GROUP MEETING Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m., RU12?

Community Center, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski. We’re looking for young gay and bi guys who are interested in putting together great events, meeting new people, and reaching out to other guys! Core Group runs our program, and we want your input!

If you’re a young gay or bisexual man who would like to get involved, email us at glam@ru12. org or check us out on Facebook (http://www. facebook.com/glamvt).

TRANS GUY’S GROUP Every fourth Monday, RU12? Community Center, 20 Winooski TRANS SUPPORT Falls Way, Champlain GROUP Every first and Mill, 1st Floor, Winooski, third Wednesday, RU12?

6-7:30pm. This peer-led, Community Center, 20 informal group is open Winooski Falls Way, to trans men at any Champlain Mill 1st Floor, state of transition and Winooski, 6:30-8 p.m. to any discussion topics This peer-led, informal raised. It is a respectful group is open to all and confidential space trans people and to any for socializing, support, discussion topics raised. and discussion. Contact It is a respectful and Sudoku thecenter@ru12.org for confidential space for Complete the following puzzle by using the more information. socializing, support, numbers 1-9 only once in each row, column and discussion. Contact and 3 x 3 box.

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PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Come together to talk, connect, and find support around a number of issues including coming out, socializing, challenges around employment, safe-sex, self advocacy, choosing partners, discovering who you are, and anything else that you would like to talk about. Tuesdays at 4:30pm at the RU12?

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Vermont’s biggest event needs you to help in our Admissions Department at the 2011 Champlain Valley Fair! The Fair runs from Aug. 27th – Sept. 5th and we need happy, fun team members to work in all areas of Admissions including: • Fair Ticket Sellers • Parking Ticket Sellers • Ticket Takers You must be at least 18 years old, customer service oriented, organized, friendly, and enjoy working outdoors with all kinds of people.

- Prior experience in retail a plus!

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STAFF ACCOUNTANT Vermont Information Processing, located in Colchester, VT, is seeking an experienced Staff Accountant to perform sales tax processing and HR and payroll tasks.

Sales-tax functions include, but are not limited to: Reconcile monthly sales and use taxes due. Communicate with agencies to approve tax returns in accordance with jurisdiction requirements. Ensure compliance and accuracy of returns and notices, including researching state inquiries. Reconcile data between systems to ensure integrity and accuracy.

HR and payroll functions include, but are not limited to: Participate in the timely and accurate preparation of biweekly payroll. Prepare and file voluntary/involuntary deductions and payroll tax reports. Prepare reports for management and inclusion in financial statements. Prepare and review journal entries and supporting documentation for various internal and external financial reports including reporting for miscellaneous third-party billing and coordination, i.e., Form 5500 filing. Assist in end-of-year audits for payroll, ESOP, PSP and financials. Research state inquiries for payroll filings. New applicant processing and maintaining electronic personnel files and security of payroll records in a multi-state environment. Monthly cash reconciliation for checking acct., FSA acct., HRA acct. and sweep account.

Job Requirements: We are looking for a person with a strong work ethic, a proven track record of problem solving and the following knowledge: Fluency in accounting and Microsoft tools 2+ years experience in an Accounting/Payroll position Experience with third-party payroll companies Understanding of State Nexus for sales-tax obligations Willingness to take on or shift various tasks as requested Education Requirements: 2–4 year accounting degree Benefits: We offer a full benefits package including health insurance, vacation/sick time, 401(k)/ESOP, profit sharing, disability/life insurance, onsite childcare and competitive wages.

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DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Yestermorrow seeks a person with a passion for development, fundraising, and communications. The Development & Communications Director will represent the organization articulately and effectively to students, faculty, alumni, donors and the community at large.Visit http://yestermorrow.org/job-opportunities/ for details.

Rolling application review starts August 1.

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PROJECT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST The Project Information Management Specialist provides support to our proposal and technical teams by entering and updating contract information into our firm’s database. This position reports directly to the IKMS Manager, but will work on a daily basis with a variety of technical staff. This person prepares past performance information for proposals, assesses the needs, value, and usefulness of information, and serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the firm’s database. Qualifications: AA/BA degree, 1-3 years’ experience in an office environment required, along with high-level proficiency in MS Office applications and data entry and data management. Must possess effective time-management skills and the ability to multitask. Very strong organizational skills and high attention to detail required, and must be an energetic and enthusiastic collaborative team player. Apply online at https://careers.ardinc.com/ARDCareers/App/USPostingDetail. aspx?PostingId=216.

COST PROPOSAL SPECIALIST The Cost Proposal Specialist works under the general supervision of the Business Manager, with oversight from the Vice President of Administration. The Cost Proposal Specialist will work closely with the technical staff in developing the cost proposals and detailed budgets for government projects primarily USAID. This position also will manage the budget realignments throughout the life of the project. Qualifications include BA in business, finance, accounting or a related field. Very high-level proficiency in MS Excel, including the development of budgets and formula utilization. Speaking and reading proficiency in a foreign language highly desired. Must have very strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills and high attention to detail. Must be comfortable working in a fast paced and sometimes intense work environment. Apply online at https://careers.ardinc.com/ARDCareers/App/USPostingDetail. aspx?PostingId=144.

We invite you to apply to join a hospital in a picturesque setting with a low staff vacancy rate and a collegial staff that prides itself in delivering outstanding care to the patients we serve.

If you are interested in joining our team, please contact David Fuller, Human Resources Manager, 802-388-8887, or by email, dfuller@portermedical.org.

For more information on Porter Hospital, please visit our website at www.portermedical.org.

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Looking for some extra cash?

Have some time at the end of August? Come to our job fair and check out the variety of jobs available during the fair! We’re looking for help in nearly every department, so we’re looking for workers with a wide range of abilities and interests!

Tues, July 19th 4-7 pm

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Lead Paint Inspector The Code Enforcement Office is seeking to fill a seasonal, parttime Lead Paint Inspector and Community Outreach position responsible for patrolling the city of Burlington, especially target areas, to ensure painting and paint-related activities are in compliance with Burlington’s Lead Safety Ordinance. The Lead Paint Inspector will work closely with Code Enforcement staff, Inspectors and Administrators, and the Burlington Lead Program and the Department of Public Works, as well as collaborate with State of Vermont Department of Health.

Ideal candidates would possess a high school diploma or equivalent and knowledge of the city ordinances, including the minimum housing standards. Ability to facilitate cooperation and timely compliance on the part of property owners and tenants and knowledge of basic plumbing, wiring, and building systems and codes desired.

For a complete description or City of Burlington application, visit our website at www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us.

If interested, send resume, cover letter and City of Burlington application by July 25, 2011 to: HR Dept, 179 South Winooski Ave, Suite 100., Burlington, VT 05401.

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Porter Medical Center, a 25-bed community hospital located in Middlebury, Vt., seeks a part-time or per diem Ultrasonographer to join our team of radiology professionals. Experience with OBGYN Ultrasound and RDMS is preferred. Weekday schedule and no call required.

Make a difference in someone’s life, enjoy your community to its fullest, and make your own schedule while supporting individuals with developmental disabilities in a one-on-one setting!

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Tetra Tech ARD (www.ardinc.com), an International Consulting Services firm, has multiple professional openings at our corporate headquarters located in downtown Burlington. We are seeking quality candidates to consider for the following full-time positions.

Both include a comprehensive benefits package.

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MIDDLESEX, VT We’re hiring for two great positions that offer great pay, benefits, and the best time you can have while at work.

FULL-TIME BAKER: We’re looking for someone who values good bread and enjoys work that exercises your body and your mind.

DISHWASHING/ CLEANING/PREP We have a 35+hr/week position, Weds. – Sat., available for a person who enjoys working independently but works (and plays) well with others.

Contact Randy at Red Hen Baking Company. (802) 223-5200 or randy@redhenbaking.com, or come fill out an application at our Middlesex café.

WE ARE OFFERING A $1000 SIGN-ON BONUS FOR THESE POSITIONS! HOSPICE RN/FULL TIME: A full-time position is available in our hospice/palliative care program. This is a clinically challenging job, where all your skills are needed. It is a tremendously rewarding career opportunity. Hospice/palliative care experience is preferred.

COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE: A full-time nursing position, which is a rewarding job! It awaits the right candidate allowing for your keen patient assessment, the desire to focus on your patient and the independence your experience has prepared you for. Two years’ medical-surgical experience strongly desired and current VT RN license.

PHYSICAL THERAPIST/24 HOURS PER WEEK: Are you ready to give your patient your undivided attention? Prior PT experience in adult OP/ IP rehabilitation.

WEEKEND COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE: To work scheduled and oncall hours, generous hourly differential: Shift begins Friday at 4:30 p.m. and ends Monday at 8:30 a.m.

For your immediate consideration, please send resume to: cpaquette@achhh.org, or directly to ACHHH, P.O. BOX 754, MIDDLEBURY, VT 05753 (802) 388-7259 V I S I T US AT: www.achhh.org

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Enterprise Data Management This is a hands-on technical position that leads the data management department ensuring the data warehouse meets the needs and objectives of the company. Performs resource and project management, provides technical solutions, resource leadership and technical development oversight.

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• Key contributor to the structuring of new bond deals and overall responsibility for the maintenance of the existing bond portfolio and debt service • Oversight of the arbitrage compliance programs; • Key contributor to the development of quarterly and annual financial statements and year-end audit • Development, implementation and maintenance of VHFA’s investment policy • Directing and processing investment of funds • Critical liaison with investment bankers, financial advisor, rating agencies, bond insurer and other financial institutions.

Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in finance, accounting or economics, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience required. Five years experience in bond debt financing, investment bank relationships and investment portfolio management including working knowledge of U.S. government securities required. Three years of supervising financial staff in a small group setting is desirable. Proficiency with automated investment and accounting systems and spreadsheet applications is required. CPA, MBA or certified financial planning certification is desirable.

Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communications skills are required. Must be highly organized, with strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy. Strong problem-solving abilities are required.

Must be able to handle multiple tasks and priorities, meet deadlines and work with a wide range of individuals, internal and external to the Agency. Must work well independently and as a team member.

VHFA offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. Please send cover letter, resume and references by July 29th to Martha Fidalgo, mfidalgo@vhfa.org.

VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY PO Box 408 Burlington, VT 05402-0408 An Equal Opportunity Employer

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Vermont Housing Finance Agency, located in Burlington, VT, has an immediate opening for a Director of Bond Financing and Investments. This position is the principal debt and investment support to the Chief Financial Officer. Primary responsibilities include:

Visit us online to learn more about this and other opportunities at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont.

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Colby Roberts, Publisher, Kids VT PO Box 1184, Burlington, VT 05402 or email to colby@kidsvt.com.

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Alpine Shop is seeking experienced full-time bike/ski mechanics as well as hard goods retail associates (ski and snowboard bootfitting experience preferred). Please apply for either position in person at 1184 Williston Road, South Burlington, Vermont.

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Kids VT is seeking an experienced, full-time Account Executive to fill a rare vacancy on our successful display and web sales team. If you're smart, personable and organized — and eager to work tive, entrepreneur ial staff — innova with an we'll want to talk to you. You should have excellent communication skills, direct sales experience, incredible customer service skills (both in person and on the phone), the ability to be self-motivated but also a team player, and a positive attitude. Send your cover letter and resume to:

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Join the team at Gardener’s Supply Company!

We work hard AND offer a fun place to work with summer bocce games, BBQs, ping-pong tournaments, employee garden plots and much more! We keep our employees in-the-know with monthly staff meetings and newsletters. We also offer strong cultural values, competitive wages and an awesome discount on plants & product!

Outbound Telemarketer We’re searching for an enthusiastic Outbound Telemarketer who will be responsible for calling past buyers and active leads to solicit sales for Flower Power, our fundraising company. This is a temporary, 4-month position, with a possibility of an extension. This person will drive program enrollments and provide a pro-active consultative service aimed at increasing overall sales results.

Our ideal candidate will have prior telephone sales experience, demonstrated knowledge with contact management software, sound sales writing skills and an unrelenting willingness to make large volumes of calls. This is a 4-month position.

We are an employee-owned company and America’s leading catalog & web-based gardening company!

Interested? Please send your cover letter & resumé to Gardener’s Supply Company, 128 Intervale Rd., Burlington, VT 05401 or to jobs@gardeners.com.

AmeriCorps Member Homesharing & Outreach Assistant 2x2-homeshare011205 1/11/06 2:08 PM Page Prevent Child Abuse vermont is seeking a candidate for the half-time position of

Food Coordinator for our Family Support Programs. The successful candidate will recruit and oversee volunteers to help with food preparation and delivery and coordinate food donations from community partners.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required.

Background in nutrition and food services very helpful.

Reliable transportation is necessary. Must be able to lift 50 lbs.

Would you like to help elders and persons with disabilities?

HomeShare Vermont is looking for a Homesharing & Outreach Assistant starting September 19 and completing 1700 hours of service by August 17, 2012. This position will help with outreach, developing written materials and providing direct services toIntellectual clients. It requires BA orseeks comparable STARKSBORO: seniora man life and work experience, andprovide strong computer writing full-time live-in helper to cooking,and light Independent elderly woman in Burlington seeks skills.

Reliable vehicle, driver’s license, proof of insurance housekeeping and transportation. Beautiful location, and good driving recordto required.

Compensation includes responsible person share her home in salary and private room provided. Great for a a $13,702 living allowance with and basic health insurance. exchange for assisting occasional errands lover ofthe the outdoors.

Interview, refs, criminal Once service is completed, the member also earns a and companionship. background check required.

Must to have valid $5,350 AmeriCorps Education Award coverHomeShare student or future tuition driver’s licenseloans and Vermont own vehicle.

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We are looking for motivated, responsible individuals.

Must be able to work independently, possess a positive attitude, be capable of lifting up to 50 lbs. and have a clean driving record. We offer a competitive wage along with excellent benefits. Apply in person or online at: Farrell Vending Services, Inc. 405 Pine Street, Burlington, VT 05401 www.farrellvending.com

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Interested in working for a successful organization conserving Vermont's productive landscape? VLT has the following fulltime vacancies in Montpelier.

Director of Donor Relations. Build relationships and raise funds to support and advance VLT's mission and work.

Development Operations Manager. Plan, implement and evaluate development operations with focus on annual giving.

Staff Attorney. Provide legal services and oversight for land conservation transactions.

Paralegal. Coordinate and carry out legal and technical support for land conservation projects.

Details at www.vlt.org Deadline for all vacancies is July 29, 2011 VLT is an Equal Opportunity Employer

7/11/11 3:24:44 PM WCAX-TV is searching for an 4t-FarrellVendingDrive071311.indd 1 LINK Program Case Manager experienced, creative individual with leadership and team skills.

The Lamoille Family Center’s Lamoille Responsibilities include Directing, Interagency Network for Kids (LINK) program has an opening for a Youth Switching, Graphics Creation and and Family Case Manager, serving other related duties to produce primarily a male adolescent caseload. top-quality, live-broadcast news The position will provide strength-based services aimed at stabilizing families in crisis in order to prevent youth from running away from programs. Previous experience home, or help those who already have. is required. Additional skills with Duties include: intake, assessment, treatment planning, and ongoing Photoshop, character generators, case management and crisis intervention in home and school settings. editing and other production Qualifications: Prior experience with a male caseload. Bachelor’s degree in social work, counseling or human services. Strong organization and equipment are a plus.

Send resumes and reels to: jobs@wcax.com or Production, WCAX-TV, P.O. Box 4508, Burlington, VT 05406.

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Please send cover letter and resume by July 19th to: Leah Wilhjelm, Lamoille Family Center 480 Cadys Falls Road Morrisville, VT 05661 or info@lamoillefamilycenter.org.

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Behavior Interventionist Provide intensive one-to-one supports to students with autism/emotional behavioral disorders at area public schools and summer programs. Use Applied Behavior Analysis techniques to help kids improve communication, social skills and academics. Training, supervision, and ongoing support provided. Must be patient, consistent, data-minded and an excellent communicator. Bachelor's degree required. Experience in education or human services field is helpful. Yearround position, full benefits package.

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This position provides the highest level of customer service possible within our wellness (health and beauty) section, as well as keeping product fully stocked and keeping the department cleaned and organized.

Applicants must have retail experience; knowledge of supplements and natural cosmetics is a plus.

Hot Bar Cook (full-time) This position prepares all Hot Bar and Grab & Go foods during service periods, cooking items based around preplanned menus, stocking the Hot Bar and Grab & Go case, and catering orders as required. Qualified applicants must have 2+ years of cooking experience, the ability to work well in a team-based atmosphere, and great customer service and communication skills.

Final Assemblers Test Technicians Water Jet Operator Mechanical Sub Assemblers Sheet Metal Fabricators Production Supervisors Electrical Test Engineer

Cashier (part-time) This position delivers outstanding levels of service to our customers checking out and requires knowledge of our products, as well as a great attitude. Applicants must have previous cashiering experience and a proven dedication to providing excellent customer service.

The above positions are for 1st and 2nd shift. Please see our website for complete job descriptions, www.dynapower.com. Click on “Employment” at the bottom of the page.

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ConferenCe SaleS Manager

If you are a dynamic sales professional who enjoys meeting and event planning, has experience in managing a conference/banquet staff, and believes that customer service should be exceeded, not just met, then this is the job for you! As a member of our sales team you will be required to actively sell the Windjammer Conference Center’s 4 meeting and banquet rooms. This is a hands-on position that requires great attention to detail. We are looking for an individual who enjoys selling, planning and staffing special events.

Best Western Windjammer Inn & Conference Center, Attn: Human Resources 1076 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT 05403, selena@windjammergroup.com

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Hip Hop Dance Teacher needed!!

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Food production and general cleaning duties in our kitchen. Experience preferred but will train the right individual. Good work environment and competitive wages. Sunday through Wednesday work week. Apply online or in person at:

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Office Manager/ Bookkeeper CERF+ (Craft Emergency Relief Fund + Artists’ Emergency Resources), a national artists’ service organization located in Montpelier, Vt., seeks a dynamic Office Manager/Bookkeeper to oversee an active office of six. This organized professional will manage the office, provide administrative support to other staff, and do bookkeeping.

Qualified applicants should possess strong organizational, planning and administrative skills. The applicant should be self-motivated and detail oriented. Strong oral and written communication skills are required, as is knowledge of and interest in bookkeeping. Interest in craft and art a plus. Knowledge of Access data bases, MS Office Suite and QuickBooks is a must. Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits package. Detailed job description available by request to info@craftemergency.org or 802-229-2306.

The position will be open until filled.

Please send resume; letter of interest; and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references to:

Farrell Vending Services, Inc 405 Pine Street, Burlington, VT 05401 DennyJ@Farrellvending.com www.FarrellVending.com

Director of Administration CERF+ PO Box 838, Montpelier, VT 05601 www.craftemergency.org EOE

DIRECTOR Montpelier Senior Activity Center

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The Montpelier Senior Citizens Activity Center is searching for a full-time director. We are looking for a person who is: pleasant and patient and able to work in team environment; pays attention to detail; computer experienced, (web experience a plus,) knows EXCEL; experienced in budgeting and organizational and government finances; capable of overseeing employees, volunteers, and instructors; able to oversee existing programs including physical and social activities, meal programs, and trips, as well as introduce new programs and do a monthly newsletter.

Grant-writing experience a plus.

Bachelor's degree or associate's degree preferred, but relevant work experience may be substituted. Salary commensurate with experience.

Applications for position will be accepted until Friday, July 29, 2011, at City Manager’s Office, 39 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05602.

The City of Montpelier is an equal opportunity employer.

Huntington Zoning Administrator Part-time Position The Town of Huntington, Vermont, is accepting applications for the position of Zoning Administrator. This position works closely with the Planning Commission, Selectboard, Town Clerk, and Town Officers and provides professional guidance and management of the Town’s planning, zoning, code enforcement, and economic development efforts, to coordinate a unified approach to development.

Applicants should have a background in public administration/town government, planning, zoning, or some combination of these, and must possess excellent communication and public relations skills.

Vermont Housing Finance Agency, located in Burlington, VT, has an immediate opening for a Controller.

This position is the principal accounting support to the Chief Financial Officer. The Controller has overall responsibility for accounting related to the Agency’s General Operating Fund. Primary responsibilities include:

• Production of the Agency’s consolidated financial statements • Annual budget management and variance reporting • Agency liaison for the annual financial statement and A-133 audits • Primary liaison with banks for operating cash management and controls • Quarterly general fund and multi-family financial statements and analysis • Accounting and billings related to construction and bridge financings • Accounting for the escrow accounts, multi-family programs • Oversight of Section 8 reporting and compliance.

Bachelor’s degree in business administration with accounting or finance major, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience required. Five years experience in accounting, auditing, finance, or financial administration is required. Experience in the preparation of financial statements, preferably in a nonprofit or quasi-governmental environment, is required. CPA is desirable. Highly developed computer skills are required, including proficiency in Microsoft Office products.

Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communications skills are required. Must be highly organized, with strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy. Must be able to handle multiple tasks, set priorities, meet deadlines and work with a wide range of individuals, internal and external to the Agency.

Must work well independently and as a team member.

VHFA offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. Please send cover letter, resume and references by July 29 to Martha Fidalgo, mfidalgo@vhfa.org.

VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY PO Box 408 Burlington, VT 05402-0408 An Equal Opportunity Employer

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substitute teachers

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Burlington School District

Would you like to decide where and when you work? Would you like the opportunity to make a difference in education while earning competitive pay? If you have a minimum of a high school diploma, then you may already be qualified to be a substitute teacher!

15 hours/week.

Seeking an LNA with experience to care for a special 19-year-old young lady in Milton and So. Hero.

Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. $15/hour.

802-893-6368 or nealtb@aol.com.

Kelly educational staffing (Kes) is excited to partner with Burlington school district to supply and manage a qualified substitute teacher workforce. Right now, Kes is hiring substitute teachers and substitute paraeducators to work in the Burlington school district. since 1997, Kelly services has been providing qualified, trained and background-screened substitute teachers to K-12 schools in the United states and the United Kingdom through its Kes service line. We have filled nearly 3 million classrooms in 45 states, with 18,000 substitutes in more than 2900 schools.

Here are just a few of the terrific advantages of working with Kes: Weekly pay — stability of regular, frequent paychecks • direct deposit — a time-saving convenience • 401(k) plan — saving for your future • Flexible work schedule — work when you want • preference of schools — work where you want • schedule your assignments — online or over the phone • Vacation/holiday bonus pay — the bonus increases the more you work • myKelly.com — online access to information and applications specifically for you • substitute teacher training and handbook — at no cost to you minimum requirements include high school diploma • Fingerprinting and Criminal Background screen, including the national sex Offender Registry.

If you are interested in this opportunity, email 6014@kellyservices.com.

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PHYSICAL THERAPIST/ATC WANTED Williston Chiropractic and Sportsmedicine Busy Chiropractic office looking for PT or ATC to work as the Doctor’s Assistant. Job is M, T, TH, and F (34-36 hrs) and includes a combination of hands-on patient care (modalities, exercise plans, rehab), coordination of referrals, and clerical duties. Must be able to multitask. Punctuality, reliability, organizational skill and great people skills are all a must. Some benefits and 401(k).

Send resume, cover letter (describing yourself, your future goals, why you think you would be good for this job) and salary requirements to:

Williston Chiropractic and Sportsmedicine, PO Box 669, Williston, VT 05495, or fax 802-658-0823, or email wcsmvt@bisaccia.net.

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Providing Vermont youth ages 16 to 24 free opportunities for education and training for life-changing careers

Kelly services Inc. is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in troy, mich., providing employment to more than 700,000 employees annually, with skills including office services, accounting, engineering, information technology, law, science, marketing, light industrial, education and health care. Kelly services is an equal Opportunity employer supporting diversity in the workplace. never an applicant fee.

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NFI Vermont’s Allenbrook Group Home is looking for a full-time

Residential CounseloR to join its clinical team. This is a benefited position with the possibility for the exceptional candidate to live on site and receive additional benefits such as free room and board.

Responsibilities include implementing a Teaching Family Model for up to 8 co-ed youths, working with community agencies and the local school system, completing administrative tasks and providing case management for each youth. Cooking skills, household maintenance and strong communication skills are a must. Qualified candidates will possess a bachelor’s degree and valid driver’s license and have experience parenting or working with adolescents in a residential setting. Candidates must pass a criminal background check.

Please submit cover letter and resume to: Jennifer Snay 102 Allen Road South Burlington, VT 05403 jennifersnay@nafi.com No phone calls, please.

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Northlands has been building successful partnerships with local businesses for more than 30 years. Contact us to learn how you can save on hiring and training!

•High School Diploma or GED •Driver's License (including CDL) •Industry Recognized Trade Certifications •Meals •Room and Board •Stipend Pay •Clothing Allotment •$1,200 + Upon Graduation •Job Placement Live on or off campus. We can even provide free transportation to and from your home.

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Advanced Ticket Sales Top Producers Deserve Top Pay! $11/hour plus weekly bonus program

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Full-time Counter Position $9/hour, 6 a.m.-2 p.m., 3 days/week.

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administration and network support. Oversees transition to new client relations management system. Develops project plans, objectives, strategies, sets priorities. Reviews systems, ving a message, only enthusiastic people recommends changes to reduce costs/improve efficiencies, will called back. andbe writes and evaluates RFPs. Develops annual IT budget and performs cost and productivity analysis. Communicates with EOE and trains/educates staff on use of systems and equipment.

Maintains current knowledge of relevant state-of-the-art technology, equipment and systems.

About us: CCC has been the winner of the Vermont 5x5x5 Award in 2009, 2010 and 2011 – awarded to the five fastest-growing Vermont companies over the past five years in five business sectors. Competitive pay and generous benefits package provided including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, paid time off and paid holidays.

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Minimum qualifications: Four-year college degree in IT related field. Minimum five years of experience successfully directing and implementing IT initiatives. Experience in health care/insurance field preferred. Proven ability to manage major IT projects and conversions under strict timeline pressures. Outstanding analytical, problem-solving and project-management skills. Ability to solve urgent and complicated technological challenges. Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain complex concepts and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical individuals. Strong business acumen with orientation to profitability; ability to align work with strategic goals. Ability to adapt to changing priorities and to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.

The Boys & Girls Club of Burlington seeks an experienced Grant Writer and Administrator to work closely with the Executive Director, the Board of Directors and the Director of Development to ensure adequate funding is secured to support the mission of the Club. The Grant Writer and Administrator is supervised by the Director of Development.

The successful candidate will conduct the full range of activities required to research, prepare, submit and manage grant proposals to foundations, corporations and government agencies. Additional responsibilities include expense and report tracking and stewardship of existing grant funders.

Requirements include a bachelor’s degree and a proven track record involving grant research, writing and administration, the ability to provide timely advice and information regarding funding opportunities, requirements and procedures, and the ability to resolve issues with numerous funding agencies and manage the associated required reporting.

The Boys & Girls Club of Burlington is able to provide a competitive salary and benefits for this full-time position.

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oking for highly motivated, Responsibilities: Directs IT infrastructure including Exchange/ Office, licensed proprietary er-oriented peopleandwith goodsoftware systems, client interfaces, intranet, website and phone system, as well as unication skills.

For interview, hardware and desktop applications. Responsible for systems

Grants Writer and Administrator

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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

Expanded Function Dental Assistant (EFDA) to join our team. Current EFDA license required.

Competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please submit resumes to carolyn.efd70@gmail.com.

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Candidates should email cover letters and resumes in strict confidence to mmckenzie@bandgclub.org or mail to 62 Oak St., Burlington, VT 05401.

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Community Support Staff Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) AmeriCorps Position

Wonderful service opportunity available as Community Support Staff at COTS Daystation. Focus on building trusting relationships to empower homeless individuals transitioning from homelessness to housing. Engage homeless adults through one-on-one and group interactions to increase self-esteem, coordinate educational and social events, and provide for basic needs.

Successful candidates will be organized, creative and selfdirected with excellent communication and advocacy skills, as well as an ability to work with a diverse client base. Basic word processing and internet skills are also necessary.

Full-time benefits include $13,702 living allowance, $5,350 education award, health insurance and trainings for an 11+ month commitment. Submit resume, cover letter, and two written references to: jobs@cotsonline.org, or visit www.vhcb.org/acorps/ for more information. EOE.

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Rodeway Inn in Shelburne is hiring.

Competitive pay. Experience required.

Superior Technical Ceramics (STC) is a privately held manufacturer of custom industrial ceramic components located in St. Albans, VT. With over 120 employees, we are now seeking to fill an experienced CNC Machinist Programmer in our Production Department.

Please apply in person at Rodeway Inn, 1016 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, and bring references.

The NFI Hospital Diversion Program is looking for a part-time (30 hours) master’slevel mental health professional to join our clinical team working with adolescents and families experiencing a psychiatric crisis. Teens from all over the state are admitted for 7 to 10 days for crisis stabilization, clinical consultation, and treatment planning. Clinical staff provide initial clinical assessments, conduct family and treatment team meetings, supervise residential counselors, consult with 1-rodewayinn070611.indd outpatient team members, and make appropriate referrals.

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Responsibilities will include: •Analyzes job orders, drawings, blueprints and other data, and then performs necessary CNC calculations.

•Effectively writes and edits CNC computer programs that contain program codes “M” and “G.” •Facilitates the set-up of manual work and parts.

•Monitors the operation of the machines and programs in meeting production specifications.

•Diagnoses machine malfunctions and makes appropriate mechanical adjustments.

The preferred candidate will have the following background and experience: •2 years of experience operating CNC machines.

•Full understanding of machine language and control

STC offers a great working environment, competitive compensation and an experienced a stellar benefit package, which includes employer-paid trainer with excellent oral medical benefits for employees. and written communication Interested applicants should submit cover letter and resume skills; ability to work well to ehubbard@ceramics.net or mail to: with middle and high school students, parents, health and Superior Technical Ceramics Corp. - Attn: HR human service providers and St. Albans Industrial Park educators. Must be able to 600 Industrial Park Road work a flexible schedule which St. Albans, VT 05478 may include day, evening and weekend presentations.

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Make a difference Founded in 1787, Castleton is a college community that values personal interaction with students and among colleagues. Your work will be appreciated here. You can help us make a difference in the lives of our students, and for the benefit of Vermont.

Program Advisor Castleton State College is seeking applications for the position of Program Advisor to serve as an advisor to student-run organizations on campus. Provide guidance and assistance to the development of student leadership skills and opportunities.

Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field, plus two years of relevant administrative experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired.

This is a part-time, 29 hour/week position and will consist of 20 weeks per semester. This position is exempt from the Bargaining Units and there are no fringe benefits. The salary for this VSC Grade 10 position is $18.93 per hour.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Applicants should forward a letter of application, résumé, three references and a completed CSC application — available on www.castleton.edu, to: Office of Human Resources Castleton State College, Castleton, VT 05735 Castleton State College is an Equal Opportunity Employer

SEARCH PO Box 829, Montpelier, Vermont 05601 No calls, please.

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Small co-ed boarding school (grades 9-12) serving students who are bright, creative and quirky, who have struggled in other school settings, and who are now looking for success in school and life.

Small co-ed boarding school (grades 9-12) serving bright, creative students who have struggled in other school settings and who are now looking for MATH TEACHER / MAC COMPUTER SUPPORT PERSON: Fullsuccessmath in teacher school(including and life. time job that is three-quarters a range of duties) and one-quarter Mac computer network tech support. We are looking for a person who has experience teaching math, energy, patience, a sense of humor, and the desire to teach to a broad range of skill levels, from those who struggle with math to highly accomplished students. Benefits include livable wage, full benefits (including retirement), great combination of independence and support, and great colleagues. Please visit our website to learn about Rock Point School.

DORMITORY COUNSELOR Responsibilities include: supervision of sports, meals, student activities, weekend outings, small-group meetings, and student Please send résumé and letter to John Rouleau, Headmaster Point School chores. We are looking for a1Rock person who has energy, patience, a sense Rock Point Road Burlington, VT 05401 of humor, and the desire to www.rockpoint.org help guide young people through the challenges of transforming adolescence into adulthood. Bachelor’s For information about the school, please visit our website: degree required. Male live-inwww.rockpoint.org position available.

Please send résumé and letter to Emily Skoler

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VERMONT ADULT LEARNING www.vtadultlearning.org

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St Albans: Part Time—30 hours per week Full Time - Burlington Vermont Adult Learning, a non-profit statewide provider of adult educaWorking collaboratively with state agencies and local tionemployers, and literacythe services, seeks an organized and outgoing to Employment Specialist assists Reachindividual Up clients provide administrative assistance at the Learning Center located in St in attaining job skills and employment. 40 hours per week.

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Position offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, This part-time position offers excellent benefits, including medical, denflexible paid time off. tal, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible Vermont Adult Learning is a nonprofit provider of adult paid-time-off. education and literacy services. Visit www.vtadultlearning.org Visit webinformation. site: www.vtadultlearning.org to review the job descripforour more tion and for instructions to apply for the position.

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Draker supplies turnkey technology solutions to commercial and utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power providers that improve the efficiency and profitability of their systems.

Our leading-edge hardware, software and professional services have earned us a reputation as the premier solarmonitoring provider in North America.

As a result of our rapid growth, we have immediate openings for talented individuals with a passion for renewable energy and innovative technology to help us develop and market the next generation of solar PV monitoring solutions.

Draker’s headquarters offer a comfortable work environment in a beautifully renovated, historic building with easy access to the lake, bike trails, restaurants, shops and other local attractions that have earned Burlington, Vt., the reputation of being the healthiest and most livable city in the U.S. We understand the need to balance work with personal time and offer a well-rounded benefit and compensation package.

Please visit us at www.drakerlabs.com/ company/jobs.

publishing business manager & sales manager Join the rapidly growing field of nonprofit, online journalism with VTDigger.org, Vermont’s online statewide news source. We are seeking two positions: a part-time, publishing business manager and a sales manager to elicit sponsorships. Earn and learn with a nationally recognized leader in online news.

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PROJECT MANAGER PROJECT MANAGER

Development Associate

Vermont InformationTechnology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is a non-profit

Vermont InformationTechnology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) is a non-profit organization based in Montpelier that helps Vermont’s health care organization based in Montpelier that helps Vermont’s health providers implement and use health information technology.

VITL care providers implement use health technology. is seeking a projectand manager to assistinformation with two major statewide VITL initiatives: Connecting hospitalstoand clinicswith to the is seeking a project manager assist twoVermont majorHealth statewide Information Exchange (VHIE), and implementing Vermont initiatives: Connecting hospitals and clinics to the the Vermont Health Blueprint for Health, a statewide to improve health Information Exchange (VHIE), partnership and implementing the and Vermont the health care system for Vermonters with chronic conditions.The Blueprint for Health, a statewide partnership to improve health and project manager is an expert in project management and will be the health system and for Vermonters with The chronic assignedcare to high-risk complex projects. projectconditions.The manager project manager is an expert in project management and will be will work with VITL’s customers who are hospitals and physician practices, requiring the manager to haveThe knowledge the assigned to high-risk andproject complex projects. projectofmanager order to successfully with health care will health work care withsystem VITL’sincustomers who areinteract hospitals and physician providers and administrators. minimum to certification as a projectof the practices, requiring the projectAmanager have knowledge management professional or 7-10 years of relevant work experience health care system in order to successfully interact with health care are required.This is a full-time position offering a competitive salary providers and administrators.

A minimum certification as afor project and benefits.

Email resume, cover letter and contact information management professional or 7-10 years of relevant work experience at least three references to hr@vitl.net. No phone calls, please. are required.This is a full-time position offering a competitive salary and benefits. Email resume, cover letter and contact information for at least three references to hr@vitl.net. No phone calls, please.

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, located at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain on Burlington’s Waterfront, seeks an individual to assume the position of Development Associate. The Development Associate supports the Director of Development and Community Relations and the Executive Director in the development and conduct of fundraising initiatives. Duties include database management (Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge software), coordination of annual giving appeals, sponsorship support and the implementation of 5v-VITL-071311.indd fundraising events.

A bachelor’s degree and experience working with database management and reporting in a nonprofit fundraising setting is preferred.

To apply, email a cover letter and resume to jobs@echovermont.org with Development Associate in the subject field. You also can apply via “snail” mail to ECHO – Development Associate Job Search, One College St., Burlington, VT 05401.

For a detailed job description, visit our website at www.echovermont.org.

The deadline for applications is August 1, 2011.

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The Lamoille Family Center seeks an energetic, organized and flexible individual to provide home visits with families of children (0-3 years) with developmental delays. This fulltime position works as part of the Early Intervention team within the Children’s Integrated Services program.

Qualifications: bachelor’s degree in early/special education, physical/ occupational/speech therapy, social work, nursing, psychology or related field; comprehensive understanding of child development; strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with many community partners.

Please send cover letter and resume by July 19th to: Leah Wilhjelm, Lamoille Family Center 480 Cadys Falls Road Morrisville, VT 05661 or info@lamoillefamilycenter.org.

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Machinist/Designer Ascension Technology located in Milton, Vt., seeks a full/part-time person experienced in designing/building assembly fixtures and tools. Access to machine tools helpful but not required. CAD design skills useful. Email letter of interest and resume to: gwalz@ascension-tech.com.

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Please send your cover letter and resume before July 29, 2011 to Vt. Restitution Unit, RU Manager, PO Box 10, Waterbury, VT, 05676.

If you said yes, we would love for you to be part of our team.

is a nonprofit organization located in Berlin, Vt., providing substance abuse services to central Vermont residents. The range of services provided includes outpatient, intensive outpatient intervention, education, prevention, intervention, and treatment services.

We have the following positions available:

Substance Abuse Treatment Clinicians Full- and part-time, master's level clinical positions (LADC preferred) providing outpatient counseling to adults, adolescents and families dealing with substance abuse related issues. Treatment modalities may be provided using group, individual and / or couples counseling and may include some work in our Intensive Out-Patient Treatment program.

Individuals who are interested in being part of a dynamic team are encouraged to apply. Flexibility, dependability, strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to be a team player are essential. We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefit package. If interested, please send resume and letter of interest to: Melissa Turner, HR Coordinator, or to: mturner@claramartin.org

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Hiring immediately. Must have 2+ years line experience and be able to stay calm under pressure.

If you would like to make great food, with fresh ingredients send your resume and references to: mischka.rizzo@gmail.com.

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HowardCenter’s Shared Living Provider program matches people with developmental disabilities with individuals, couples or families to provide a home, day-to-day assistance and individualized support needs.

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Clara Martin Center P.O. Box G Randolph, VT 05060

30-35 hours, $10/hour to start.

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Are you dependable with a good work ethic?

We are a very busy office, and we need your accurate data-entry skills, help with filing and phone calls, and assistance with various projects. You will also be providing general administrative support for the Unit Manager. You must have excellent keyboard skills and a sharp eye for 2v-jodiescleaning071311.indd 3:09:39 PMdetail and accuracy. You should also have experience with various computer applications, including spreadsheets.

Interesting work and energetic team. Position is open immediately and is located in Waterbury, Vt.

A world leader in the employment services industry has several open positions.

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Seeking a creative and patient Single woman or couple to share their home with a 16-year-old young woman on the autism spectrum. She enjoys Japanese Anime, being a good friend, school, dogs and horses. Ideal home provider(s) has experience with challenging behaviors and can set clear boundaries and expectations. Generous annual tax-free stipend, comprehensive support team, and respite budget provided. Margot Smithson, 488-6326. active 23-year-old woman who is a dedicated equestrian requires a couple or single person, without children living at home, who are looking for a professional stayat-home career. Ideal home is located in rural Chittenden County (Jericho, Charlotte, Westford, Bolton, Underhill, etc.) and will welcome her yellow lab-mix therapy dog and her own horse. Knowledge of PDD and co-ocurring mental illness desired. Annual tax- free stipend of $35,000 combined with room/board and respite budget make this an exciting professional opportunity. Anne Vernon, 488-6309.

25-year-old man is looking for individual or couple to share a wheelchairaccessible home or apartment in surrounding area of S. Burlington. Gregarious fan of Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter, chess and classical organ music. Willing to train right person(s) in required medical/personal care and augmentative communication. Supportive experienced team and conversion van provided.

Annual tax-free stipend of over $26,000 coupled with a generous respite budget make this an exciting home-based career opportunity. Marisa Hamilton, 488-6571 kind-hearted young man interested in motorized vehicles; thrives on routine and clear boundaries. Client has year-round school schedule, competitive stipend + monthly room-and-board payment. Comprehensive trainings given; must be comfortable with personal care and nonverbal communication. Marisa Hamilton , 488-6571 individual or couple sought to provide a loving home for an 11-year-old girl with developmental and behavioral disabilities, Fridays through Sundays. Providers must enjoy outdoor activities and everything princess! She does best with clear and consistent boundaries. Very generous tax-free stipend provided. Marisa Hamilton, 488-6571.

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

Child, Youth and FamilY ServiCeS InterventIonIst — InclusIon (two posItIons) We are seeking a skilled and motivated individual to join our team of professionals. Interventionists will develop therapeutic, mentoring relationships with students struggling to find success in public school due to academic, social-emotional and behavioral challenges. This position requires individuals to be comfortable with the management of aggressive behavior. Full benefits. Bachelor’s degree required. Driving required.

We are seeking a skilled and motivated individual to work with a developmentally delayed adolescent within a public middle-school setting. Interventionist will implement school-based services integrating ABA techniques, skill acquisition and behavior-reduction procedures, utilizing augmentative communication and recording data, as well as managing aggressive behaviors and providing toileting assistance. The successful candidate should have good communication skills, mental health experience and preferably some crisis experience. Full benefits. Bachelor’s degree required. Driving required.

developmental ServiCeS Developmental Services provides innovative support to people with Developmental Disabilities and or Autism Spectrum Disorders. Please contact our Staff Recruiter, Sue Smithson at 488-6533 to learn more about this and other exciting professional opportunities. traInIng specIalIst 30-year-old woman is looking for 10 evening hours of support in downtown Burlington. Focus of work will be on maintaining her apartment & independent-living skills. Ideal candidate is an open-minded and encouraging positive role model. Two to three evenings a week starting at 6 p.m.

IntensIve communIty support worker 23-year-old dedicated equestrian needs 37 hours of support in northern Chittenden County. Ideal candidate must have experience supporting individuals with PDD & MH co-occurring issues. Young-at-heart role model needed to be integral part of a multidisciplinary team providing innovative self-care and independent living skills. Candidate must be comfortable around horses and dogs. Comprehensive benefits package offered. specIalIzed communIty support worker — Fsa 18-year-old HS student needs 20 hours of after-school support. Ideal candidate has knowledge of Autism Spectrum disorders who will offer clear and consistent guidance and support. Focus of this after-school position is on developing independent-living skills. Schedule is 2:15 – 6:15 p.m., Monday through Friday in the Milton area. Benefits eligible.

mental health and SubStanCe abuSe admInIstratIve assIstant I This is a 20-hour position. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the management of the front desk, phones, visitors, clients, maintaining supplies, mail, office equipment, cash responsibilities, processing the deposit and other administrative support. Requirements: one year administrative or customer service experience, or a combination of education and experience from which a comparable knowledge could be acquired; basic computer skills; ability to communicate with varying populations using various techniques; organizational skills. clInIcIan — communIty support — outreach This position is responsible for ensuring that adequate case-management services are provided administratively and clinically to an assigned caseload of persons who are homeless and have major mental illnesses, as well as those with dual diagnoses (co-occurring disorders), and to assist in serving other clients as covered by the team or program as needed. One to two years’ experience in a human services field or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been acquired. Must be able to speak in groups and communicate in writing. Part-time position. clInIcIan— communIty support Seeking clinician to ensure that adequate case management services are provided administratively and clinically to an assigned caseload of persons with a major mental illness as well as those with dual diagnoses (co-occurring disorders) and to assist in serving other clients as covered by the team and or program as needed. One to two years in a human services field or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been acquired. Must be able to speak in groups. Must be able to communicate in writing, learn computer word processing and use computer software as required for documentation and data entry. Full-time position. supervIsory clInIcIan substance abuse — chIttenden clInIc Provide supervision to several clinicians at the Chittenden Clinic, and provide services to clients with a substance-abuse diagnosis and possible co-occurring disorder. Candidate must be adept in the following areas: assessment and counseling; awareness of community resources; supervisory skills; organization and time management; and communication. Afternoon and evening hours will be required. LADC required with at least two years of experience. This position will require some clinical and administrative oversight of our new evening program. clInIcIan — substance abuse — chIttenden clInIc Full- and part-time positions available. Day shift: The Substance Abuse Clinician provides individual and group counseling to patients who are dependent on opioids in the context of an outpatient methadone treatment program. In addition, the counselor will implement and maintain clinical records addressing treatment plans and progress in treatment. Counselors will assist in developing and carrying out clinic policy and procedure.

Candidate must have a master’s in counseling or social work and have or be working towards licensure in substance-abuse treatment. clInIcal coordInator — chIttenden clInIc Full- and part-time positions available. Evening Shift: The Clinical Coordinator will perform counseling responsibilities as noted in the Substance Abuse Clinician job description. In addition, provide supervision to clinicians, provide back-up to the Associate Director and assist in quality assurance and clinical consultation. A minimum of five years’ experience providing substance-abuse counseling and providing services to people with co-occurring disorders is required. Key responsibilities include assessment and counseling, awareness of community resources, supervision experience, experience working with community providers, organization and time management, listening, completion of work in a timely manner, and computer literacy. LADC required.

Please visit our website at www.howardcentercareers.org for more details or to apply online. Applicants must apply for positions electronically.

Paper applications are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily.

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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Seasonal Customer Service Representatives Customer Service Representatives handle telephone and email communications with consumers and dealers for all Burton brands. Reps will answer general rider inquiries, process catalog requests, answer emails, assist social media functions, provide order information, and provide technical product information.

Qualified candidates will have customer service experience, preferably in the action sport industry, as well as an in-depth knowledge of snowboarding and the ability to convey a positive image to the public. A customer orientation, strong communication skills, as well as keyboarding and computer skills are required. Ability to work well with others in a fast paced work environment necessary. Candidates with the ability to speak basic French are especially encouraged to apply. Flexible work scheduled required. Includes weekends during the winter months..

Please apply at www.burton.com No phone calls, please.

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As Roth changed outfits again, waves started rocking the boat, their rhythm going from sciatic massage to red alert. When the singer returned, attired as a late-’90s Barbra Streisand, lightning began to strike the lake with alarming and dramatic regularity.

During her first song as Streisand, Roth, who we learned suffers from seasickness, stayed immaculately in character.

Vertigo forced her to sing kneeling, but she played it off with a broad Brooklyn accent and Funny Girl-style jokes.

“Oh shit, they’re runnin’!” she exclaimed with a measure of seemingly genuine fear, as the kitchen crew dashed upstairs to save chairs that were flying off the top deck. “Is that me?” she asked, nervously smelling her armpits.

The sky began to lighten just as Roth sang “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

Afterward, she turned into Streisand’s duet partner for that song — onstage. Roth bore more than a passing natural resemblance to Judy Garland, but it was her glazed eyes and shaking that signaled we weren’t in Kansas anymore. This Garland was from the coked-out Palace Theatre era. Roth’s voice quavered as she sang a heartbreaking “The Man That Got Away.”

She came off as the best drag Judy of all time, with all of the attention to detail and none of the camp.

The show ended in Roth’s own voice, with her version of Shirley Horn’s “Here’s to Life.” I couldn’t have said it better. What I’d embarked on that day as a goofy lark certainly had its ironic pleasures, but that’s not why I’ll return.

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I waited until we’d passed Rock Dunder, near Shelburne Point. According to the recorded narrator, this jagged projection is the earthly remains of the Abenaki god Odzihozo, who turned himself to stone in the lake he’d created.

Once I’d paid my respects to the dead deity, I grabbed a slice of lemon-curdfilled white cake. Others took several pieces. That was the beauty of the buffet, I was discovering — big-bellied tourbus denizens could satisfy themselves with multiple trips, while older folks with smaller appetites picked at manageable portions.

We sped back to the dock at College Street, where I learned that most of my companions had only bought lunch and the tour.

They filed out once we docked, leaving only seven of us on board.

The dinner theater, apparently, didn’t attract many people that day.

It was then that Laura Roth showed up with her crew, including her accompanist, Marilyn Bueller, her husband and her aged father-in-law. Bueller’s keyboard blocked the rolled hosing and fire extinguishers located at the back of the tiny stage — which was so small that, until that point, the pair of elderly couples from New Jersey who dined behind me couldn’t seem to locate it. Once they had, they moved to a table in front. The couple from New Hampshire remained at the back, and we set sail once again.

Roth began her show with an intro to Brenda Lee, the first “sweetheart” she would embody. When she entered, it was clear that this mother of adult children was not the teenager who sang “I’m Sorry” in 1960. Once Roth opened her mouth, the gap wasn’t as obvious.

The nasal belting that poured from her was Brenda Lee. The big voice sounded almost disembodied, like Shari Lewis emerging from Lamb Chop.

Roth broke character to tell a few old Irish drinking jokes and make small talk with the audience before disappearing to switch divas. Her husband entertained us by reading parodies of 1950s cigarette ads and trivia about real ones.

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Boardman Hill Farm, West Rutland, 6-8 p.m. $10.

Info, 417-1528.

art Origami Class: Crafters of all ages make precise folds while continuing an ancient tradition.

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Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail. com.

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Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: New England’s top equestrian competition, running for six weeks, draws spectators to its five allweather rings. Harold Beebe Farm, East Dorset, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. $3-7. Info, info@vt-summerfestival. com.

food & drink Barre Farmers Market: Crafters, bakers and farmers share their goods in the center of the town. Main Street, Barre, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, barrefarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: Fans of cocoacovered confectionery experience the tempering and dipping process. Laughing Moon Chocolates, Stowe, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9591.

South Hero Farmers Market: Foodies take advantage of fresh-from-the-farm fare and other local goodies. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291.

Sun to Cheese Tours: Visitors take a behindthe-scenes look at dairy farming and cheese making as they observe raw milk turning into farmhouse cheddar. Preregister. Shelburne Farms, 2-4 p.m. $15 includes a block of cheese.

Info, 985-8686.

Woodstock Farmers Market: Flowers, meats, mushrooms, quail eggs, vegetables and more are readily available thanks to 30 vendors.

Woodstock Village Green, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3555.

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Community Bike Shop: Cycle fanatics fix up their rides with help from neighbors and BRV staff. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 5-8 p.m.

Donations accepted. Info, 264-9687.

Historic Tours: Wander the turrets and balconies of this 19th-century castle boasting brick and marble façades, three floors, and 32 rooms.

Wilson Castle, Proctor, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $10. Info, 7733284, wilsoncastle@aol.com.

fairs & festivals Middlebury Festival on the Green: A sevenday tented affair in its 32nd year includes musical performances, family-friendly programs, a street dance and much more. Town Green, Middlebury, noon-1 p.m. & 7 p.m. Free; donations accepted.

Info, 462-3555.

Aalamba Yoga: Bring a blanket to this gentle exercise devoted to thanking joints and limbs.

Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6-7 p.m.

Donations accepted. Info, 288-9265.

Knee-Health Education Class: Joint pain?

Physicians from the UVM Medical Group cover treatment options and educate about osteoarthritis. Fletcher Allen Orthopedic Specialty Center, South Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 847-7578.

Medicinal Uses of Common Kitchen Herbs & Spices: Gardener and herbalist Rosemary Gladstar shares historic and modern uses of these culinary ingredients and how we can apply them to improve our own vitality. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

Morning Meditation: Get your “daily drop of Dharma” in a sitting session with Amy Miller.

Milarepa Center, Barnet, 7-8 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136.

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Lush Melodies

Pink Martini Thursday, July 14, 8 p.m.,

at Spaulding Auditorium, “At one moment, you feel like you’re in the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth middle of a samba parade in Rio de Janeiro, and College, in Hanover, N.H. in the next moment, you’re in a French music $10-50. Info, 603-646-2422. hall of the 1930s or a palazzo in Napoli,” Thomas hop.dartmouth.edu Lauderdale, the founder of Pink Martini, has said. The 12-piece orchestra’s genre-crossing habit is oddly intoxicating, like throwing back a few cocktails a little too quickly. Since 1994, the band has proven its penchant for shaking — not stirring — things up with retro-global sounds encompassing Latin jazz, classical, Afro-Cuban and old-fashioned pop. Wet your whistle as bombshell vocalist Storm Large stands in for China Forbes at the ensemble’s first Hop performance since 2007.

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Gone to the Dogs

The dog days of summer arrive just in time for an appropriately furry festival: Killington Dog Days. Fido and friends hightail it to a weekend of puppy paradise tied into two national discdog competitions.

Frisbee rivalry kicks into high gear at Saturday’s UFO Major — the qualifiers for this fall’s UFO World Cup Final — and Sunday’s Skyhoundz DiscDogathon Championship Qualifiers. Top-level tail waggers from around the country compete in distance, accuracy and time trials, but “amateur” pups and their owners can watch the high-flying antics — or get in on the action in doggy demos and diversions, such as the 50-Paw Dash. Wag on.

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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 events, sharing resources, networking and more. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.

Knit Night: Crafty needleworkers (crocheters, too) share their talents and company as they give yarn a makeover. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 872-7111.

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Killington Dog Days Saturday, July 16, and Sunday, July 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., at Sherburne Library Fields in Killington. Free; donations accepted for Rutland County Humane Society. Info, 4222185. discoverkillington.com

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French Connection You need only deconstruct our state name — derived from les Verts Monts, thanks to Samuel de Champlain — to understand the lasting impact of our region’s French heritage. And while you can trace your family roots with the French-Canadian Genealogical Society at a two-day celebration this weekend, you don’t have to be French to attend — just Francophile. Va-et-Vient, Pete and Karen Sutherland, and Brian Perkins deliver tunes at Friday’s veillée, a soirée of traditional French Canadian food and step dancing. On Saturday, continue the culture hop at the Bastille Day Waiter’s Race, fencing and craft demonstrations, a narrated English and French walking tour, and more. Mon dieu!

French Heritage Day Veillée

French Heritage Day

Friday, July 15, 6-9 p.m., at Vergennes Opera House. $20 per person; $35 per couple. Info, 388-7951, ext. 1. frenchheritageday.com

Saturday, July 16, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at various locations in Vergennes. Free. Info, 388-7951, ext. 1. frenchheritageday.com

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et during the Vietnam War and chronicling the doomed love affair between an American G.I. and a young bar girl, Miss Saigon doesn’t scream “church production.” But a music initiative run through Rutland’s Grace Church is, to say the least, “wider in scope than most church programs,” notes director Rip Jackson. A highly trained cast of singers presents this sizzling, pop-opera adaptation of Madame Butterfly — sleazy nightclubs and all — to a score delivered by a full, professional orchestra. Oh, and there’s a helicopter onstage, too.

It’s easy to see why “The Heat Is on in Saigon.”

Friday, July 15, 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, July 16, 2 and 7:30 p.m., at Paramount Theatre in Rutland. $15-20. Info, 7750903. paramountlive.org CALENDAR 45

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Stay Fit While You Sit: Ergonomics for a Healthier You: Bye-bye, back pain. Wellness consultant and chiropractic physician Stephen Brandon offers workspace tips for battling officerelated health issues. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

kids Babytime: Crawling tots and their parents convene for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 658-3659.

Craftsbury Chamber Players Mini Concerts: Little ones take in classical compositions with their adult companions. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-639-3443.

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.

Art Center, Isle La Motte, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 928-3364, linda@ilmpt.org.

Starline Rhythm Boys: The Vermont band sounds out swingin’ honky-tonk and rockabilly.

Bayside Pavilion, St. Albans, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 524-0909.

Valley Night: Va-et-Vient celebrate the eve of Bastille Day with French music from Québec, France and Louisiana. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.

outdoors Family Fun Night: A short nature hike at dusk yields encounters with nocturnal animals.

Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 7-9 p.m. $6-8; preregister. Info, 359-5000, ext.

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Sunset/Moonrise Aquadventure: Paddlers of all abilities relish the serenity of the Waterbury Reservoir. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7 p.m. Meet at A-Side Swim Beach by 6:30 p.m. $2-3 includes boat rentals; registration required by 6 p.m.; call to confirm. Info, 279-8448.

Groove Around the Globe: Young ones jam out to world-beat tunes.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

Tales to Tails: Children practice their read-aloud skills in front of pooches.

Rutland Free Library, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 773-1860.

language Italian Conversation Group: Parla Italiano?

A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 899-3869.

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music Capital City Band: Community band members toot their own horns in marches and old-time, patriotic and popular songs at an outdoor concert next to the Pavilion Office Building. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7069.

Craftsbury Chamber Players: World-class musicians explore classical compositions by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Roussel and Brahms. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8-22; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival Concert: Select emerging artists from the annual summer conservatory offer a program of chamber works. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 923-6108.

Hinesburg Concerts in the Park: Prana deliver funk-driven jams and “rock ’n’ soul” interpretations on the green. Rain date: Thursday.

Hinesburg Community School, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2894.

International Festival of Percussions of Longueuil: Nearly 700 artists crowd the street with world tunes. Various locations, Montréal, Canada, 6:30 p.m. Various prices. Info, 866-675-2457.

Music on the Porch: Brian LaMonda and Sergio Torres lend eclectic stylings to a picnic on the porch. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain Coffee Visitor Center & Café, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; nonperishable-food-item donations accepted for the Waterbury Food Shelf. Info, 882-2700.

Nadamayi Shanti: Pianist André-Sébastien Savoie accompanies the singer in a program of classical works. Horse & Carriage Barn, Fisk Farm

Wagon Ride Wednesday: Riders lounge in sweet-smelling hay on scenic, horsedrawn routes. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12. Info, 457-2355.

Walk Williston: Winooski Valley Park District’s environmental educator Lisa Dunne leads a 1.3mile nature hike. Five Tree Hill, Williston, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5744, yumi@wvpd.org.

talks Burlington Downtown & Waterfront Plan: Speaker Series: Todd Litman, founder and executive director of Canada’s Victoria Transport Policy Institute, shares his expertise developing innovative and practical solutions to transportation problems. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7193.

Green Mountain College Morning Speaker Series: In “Green Science,” GMC professor of chemistry Sue Sutheimer speaks about the design of chemical products that reduce or eliminate the use of hazardous substances. The Station, Poultney, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.

Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth Summer Lecture Series: Experts from a variety of fields come together to explore “Corruption: Pervasive, Persistent and Virulent” in government, sports, Wall Street and religion. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 9 a.m.-noon. $20. Info, 603-646-0154, ilead@dartmouth.edu.

Karen Lipinczyk & Brenda Egbert: In “Labyrinths: What They Are and How to Build One,” the speakers consider the nonbranching path’s ancient symbolism, metaphorical meaning and construction. Bradford Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@ gmail.com.

Summer Speaker Series: Writers and notable speakers share stories about the Vermontborn prez at a weekly lecture. President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, Plymouth, 4 p.m. $8.

Info, 672-3773, coolidge@historicvermont.org.

Yestermorrow Summer Lecture Series: Philadelphia architect and artist D.S. Nicholas explores “Future Components: A Primer on the Impact of Digital Technology on Design/Build.”

Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

theater ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’: Weston Playhouse rewinds to the golden age of the Cotton Club in this Tony Award-winning musical featuring swingin’ tunes

by Fats Waller. Weston Playhouse, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $21-48. Info, 824-5288.

‘I’ll Be Back Before Midnight’: A college professor and his wife soon discover there’s something spooky about the abandoned farmhouse they’ve rented in this comic murder mystery presented by St. Michael’s Playhouse. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $29.50-38.50. Info, 654-2281.

‘Lettice and Lovage’: When a tour guide of a historic home is fired by a Preservation Trust inspector for her theatrical — and untrue — storytelling, an unlikely friendship develops between the two in this Waterbury Festival Playhouse production. Waterbury Festival Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. $25-27. Info, 498-3755.

The Met: Summer Encore Series: Catamount Arts Center: Natalie Dessay stars in Donizetti’s comic opera La Fille du Regiment.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 748-2600.

The Met: Summer Encore Series: Loew Auditorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

The Met: Summer Encore Series: Palace 9: See above listing, Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. $12.50-15. Info, 660-9300.

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Agape Hill Farm Llama Show: Camelids compete to community cheers. Agape Hill Farm, Hardwick, 4 p.m. $10 for participants; free for spectators. Info, 472-3711.

Basic Bike Maintenance: A cycle-shop pro introduces free wheelers to the basics of bicycle anatomy, flat fixes and roadside survival skills.

Skirack, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313.

Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Summervale: Folks show farms and farmers a little love at a weekly educational gathering filled with food, Zero Gravity brews and music. Intervale Center, Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. Free admission; cost of food and drink. Info, 660-0440.

Sunsets at Shelburne Museum: Select museum buildings and exhibits stay open late for this weekly summer series. Wizard enthusiasts celebrate the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in “Magic at the Museum: A Harry Potter Evening.” Shelburne Museum, 5-7:30 p.m. Regular admission, $5-20; preregister. Info, 985-3346.

fairs & festivals Middlebury Festival on the Green: See WED.13, noon-1 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: See WED.13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Readings at the Athenaeum: Authors Katie Hays and Baron Wormser share excerpts of their work in this summer reading series in its 18th year. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 748-8291, ext. 301.

‘An Uncommon Curiosity: At Home and In Nature With Bernd Heinrich’: Jan Cannon’s documentary follows the naturalist and author over the course of a year as he reflects on ideas about nature, science, art, beauty and writing. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 748-2372.

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Climate Change Film Series: Dirt! The Movie sheds light on Earth’s most underappreciated and valuable source of fertility. Richmond Free Library, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 434-4415.

‘Do Nothing’ Campaign Kick-off: Gov. Shumlin and a host of special guests gather to address hunger in Vermont. Hannaford Supermarket and Pharmacy, South Burlington, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 477-4121, stcook@vtfoodbank.org.

‘Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time’: Historical film clips, photographs, letters and other archival documents explore the life, philosophy and legacy of the American conservationist. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 359-5000.

activism

agriculture Water Chestnut Pull: Canoers hand pull the invasive plants while learning about lake health and the wetlands. Snacks and equipment provided. The Nature Conservancy, West Haven Office, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 265-8645, ext. 30.

bazaars Book Sale: See WED.13, noon -7 p.m.

business ‘Marketing in the New-Media World: The Best of the Old With the New’: Connect with a panel of experts investigating and simplifying the changing media landscape. Ethan Allen Club, Burlington, networking, 7:30 a.m.; program, 8-10 a.m. $10-20. Info, 863-1175.

Vermont Consultants Network Monthly Meeting: Kate Paine, executive director for the Women Business Owners Network of Vermont and New Hampshire, delivers advice in “When Doing It All Is Doing You In.” Network Performance, South Burlington, 8 a.m. $15

‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1’: In anticipation of the final film, Potterheads review the screen saga of good versus evil in its original order. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.13, 2 p.m.

Fletcher Allen Farmers Market: Locally sourced meats, vegetables, bakery items, breads and maple syrup give hospital employees and visitors the option to eat healthfully. Held outside, Fletcher Allen Hospital, Burlington, 2:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 847-0797, tanya.mcdonald@ vtmednet.org.

Greensboro Farmers Market: On the shores of Caspian Lake, shoppers find a bounty of seasonal fruits and veggies, meats, breads, and baked goods. Town Hall Green, Greensboro, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 533-7455.

Hinesburg Farmers Market: Growers sell bunched greens, goat meat and root veggies among vendors of pies, handmade soap and

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knitwear. United Church of Hinesburg, 3:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, info@hinesburglionsfarmersmarket.org.

Jericho Farmers market: Passersby graze through locally grown veggies, pasture-raised meats, area wines and handmade crafts. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 3439778, millsriversidemarket@gmail.com.

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.

Native americaN drummiNg: Steady thumping re-creates the feel of a traditional powwow. For ages 5 and up. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

New North eNd Farmers market: Eaters stroll through an array of offerings, from sweet treats to farm-grown goods. Elks Lodge, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-8072, newnorthendmarket@hotmail.com.

teeN club: Youth who just — yawn! — can’t find anything cool to do find mental stimulation in group games, book talks, movies and snacks.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4:305:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Peacham Farmers market: Seasonal berries and produce mingle with homemade crafts and baked goods from the village. Academy Green, Peacham, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 592-3061.

‘the hobbit’: Reluctant Hobbit hero Bilbo Baggins goes “There and Back Again” in this kids’ production of the J.R.R. Tolkien classic. Vermont Children’s Theater, Lyndonville, 7 p.m. $5-10. Info, 626-5358.

raw dairy ProcessiNg class: Got milk? Rural Vermont hosts a chèvre-making class. Foxwell Farm, Newbury, 1-3 p.m. $20-40 sliding-scale fee; preregister. Info, 223-7222, shelby@ruralvermont. org. south royaltoN Farmers market: Various vendors peddle locally grown agricultural goods and unique crafts. Town Green, South Royalton, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 763-8087. waterbury Farmers market: Cultivators and their customers swap veggie tales and edible inspirations at a weekly outdoor emporium. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 279-4371, info@waterburyfarmersmarket. com. willoughby lake Farmers & artisaN market: Performances by local musicians join produce, eggs, gemstone jewelry, wind chimes and more to lure buyers throughout the warm months. 1975 Route 5A, Westmore, 3-7 p.m. Free.

Info, 525-8842.

games 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.

health & fitness

morNiNg meditatioN: See WED.13, 7-8 a.m.

kids alburgh PlaygrouP: Tots form friendships over stories, songs and crafts. Alburgh Family Center, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

cardboard-box Parade: Favorite stories inspire decorative floats for a midday promenade about town. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 1 p.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

georgia PlaygrouP: Provided snacks offer an intermission to free play. Rain location: Georgia Youth Center. Town Beach, Georgia, 10 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 527-5426.

moNtgomery PlaygrouP: Little ones up to age 2 exercise their bodies and their minds in the company of adult caregivers. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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music battery Park Free coNcert series: This popular summer series — now in its 30th year — brings Barika to the stage with polyrhythmic grooves. Battery Park, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166. browN bag summer coNcert series: Patti Casey plays for the lunch crowd. Christ Church Pocket Park, Montpelier, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-9604. colchester summer coNcert series: A cappella band Ball in the House build R&B, pop, hip-hop and gospel harmonies. Bayside Park, Colchester, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 264-5640. craFtsbury chamber Players: See WED.13, Hardwick Town House, Hardwick, 8 p.m. $8-22; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443. greeN mouNtaiN chamber music Festival coNcert: See WED.13, Block Gallery & Coffeehouse, Winooski. grooviN’ oN the greeN coNcert series: British Mania sound out classic Beatles songs on the grass. Maple Tree Place, Williston, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 879-9100. iNterNatioNal Festival oF PercussioNs oF loNgueuil: See WED.13, 6:30 p.m.

JumPiN’ iN July coNcert series: The Pulse Prophets serve up reggae and funk in the sun.

Rain site: Strand Theatre. North Country Cultural Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-561-1604. marshField summer coNcert series: Plainfield band Cold Country Bluegrass produce haunting rural harmonies in the gazebo. Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail. com.

Night For the oPera: Opera North supporters delight in arias and ensembles from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Thetford Baptist Church, 6 p.m. $20; $85 for off-site dinner (see operanorth. org for details). Info, 603-448-4141. oriaNa siNgers: Soloists and an orchestra perform sweeping works by Haydn, including Lord Nelson Mass and Te Deum. St. Paul’s Cathedral, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $25. Info, 863-5966.

PiNk martiNi: With a breadth of styles covering Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban rumba and old-school Hollywood, this band is something of a cult favorite in concert halls around the world. See calendar spotlight. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins

owl Prowl & Night ghost hike: Flashlight holders spy denizens of the dark on a journey to 120-year-old settlement ruins, where Vermont ghost tales await. Meet at History Hike parking lot, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 7-9 p.m. $2-12v-ArtisTree071311.indd 1 3; call to confirm; flashlight required. Info, 244-7103.

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water striders: Don your water shoes for an hour-long exploration of water power and the creatures who reside along the newly rearranged Stevenson Brook.

Meet at the Nature Trail. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 2 p.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103. ‘we walk the woods!’: Stroll along woodland trails next to 19th-century settlement ruins, which are home to a variety of songbirds and mammals. Meet at the Nature Center, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

sport weekly social FuN ruN: Pound the pavement with others on a four- to five-mile, reasonably paced outing. Skirack, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free.

Info, 658-3313.

theater ‘a midsummer Night’s dream’: The Bard’s fairy-dosed romantic comedy comes to the stage, courtesy of Lost Nation Theater. Montpelier City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. $10-30. Info, 229-0492. ‘aiN’t misbehaviN’’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

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‘arms aNd the maN’: The Valley Players present George Bernard Shaw’s satire on love and war, set during the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. See review, this issue. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 583-1674. ‘i’ll be back beFore midNight’: See WED.13, 8 p.m. ‘lettice aNd lovage’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m. ‘oliver!’: eNosburg Falls: Brent Garrow directs a community theater in this tale of an orphan who falls in with a gang of pickpocketers.

Enosburg Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 933-6171. .oPera Night: Theatergoers screen a broadcast of Gluck’s masterpiece, Orfeo ed Euridice, which updates the ancient Greek myth to the timeless present. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 496-8994. ‘riFFiN’ aNd taPPiN’’: Depot Theatre chronicles the history of tap dance and the growth of jazz in America in a high-energy production.

Depot Theatre, Westport, N.Y., 8 p.m. $25. Info, 518-962-4449.

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masks arouNd the world: Handcrafted façades come with a side of cross-cultural education. Bradford Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

warebrook coNtemPorary music Festival: Burlington’s Social Band celebrate modern music in “Earthly Ground: The Vermont Poetry and Song Project.” Town Hall, Irasburg, 7:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, 754-6335, wcmf@sover.net.

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craFtsbury chamber Players miNi coNcerts: See WED.13, Hardwick Town House, 2 p.m.

sNow Farm viNeyard coNcert series: The High Rollers serve up tunes by the grape vines.

Snow Farm Vineyard, South Hero, picnicking, 5 p.m.; music, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 372-9463.

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bats iN the barN: Parents and kids learn about the benefits of these nocturnal hunters with “Barry the Bat Guy.” Shelburne Farms, 7-9 p.m. $10-12 per parent-child pair; $5-7 per additional child. Info, 985-8686.

rotary coNcerts iN the Park: Green Mountain Swing produce lilting rhythms in the open air. Rain location: Thatcher Brook Primary School. Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 882-2700.

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armchair aerobics: Seniors boost their circulation, stamina and muscle strength without leaving their chairs. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 658-3585.

Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-50. Info, 603-646-2422.

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Spielpalast Cabaret: Get dolled up for an evening of vaudeville and vintage burlesque with dancing ladies, a troupe of satirists and a saucy house orchestra. See “State of the Arts,” this issue. Come an hour early for cocktails. Vergennes Opera House, 8 p.m. $23-25; for mature audiences only. Info, 877-6737.

‘The Mikado’: Though set in Japan, Gilbert & Sullivan’s popular comic opera satirizes British politics. Unadilla Theatre, Marshfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-20. Info, 456-8968, unadilla@pshift.com.

‘Urinetown: The Musical’: FlynnArts Summer Theater presents this social satire about corporate greed, in which citizens are forced to pay for, er, one of humanity’s most basic needs.

FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $13-16. Info, 863-5966.

words Book Talk: Bookstore staffers open up about their favorite summer reads for all ages. Flying Pig Bookstore, Shelburne, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 985-3999.

‘Learning From the Heart’ Book Study Group: Daniel Gottlieb, the author of this self-help book, offers lessons on living. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6:30-8 p.m.

Donations accepted; preregister. Info, 876-7696, lane2love@yahoo.com.

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Lubberland National Dance Company: Exuberant movers perform “12 Reasonable and Unreasonable Crying Dances.” Paper Mâché Cathedral, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 7:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 525-3031.

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Ghost Hunts: Dark Knights Paranormal lead a thrillingly creepy investigation of this medieval castle believed to be haunted. Wilson Castle, Proctor, 7-10:30 p.m. $30; ages 16 and up only; preregister. Info, 773-3284.

Guru Purnima Celebration: A candle-lighting ceremony, chanting and a light supper honor Indian saint Bhagavan. Awaken Yoga Studio, Warren, 6-9 p.m. Free. Info, 496-9642.

Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Name That Movie!: Cinemaddicts try to correctly title films by screening a barrage of short clips at happy hour. The CineClub, Savoy Theater, Montpelier, 5-6 p.m. $2.50. Info, 229-0598.

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Meetinghouse Readings: A grassroots literary series offers readings by voices in fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Featured writers are Creston Lea and Neil Goodwin. Canaan Town Library, N.H., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 603-523-9650.

French Heritage Day Veillée: After a traditional French Canadian supper with entertainment by Va-et-Vient, Québec caller Pierre Chartrand leads an evening of lively dancing to music by Pete and Karen Sutherland with Brian Perkins. See calendar spotlight. Vergennes Opera House, 6-9 p.m. $20 per person; $35 per couple.

Info, 388-7951, ext. 1, marguerite@addisoncounty. com.

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Market Fair: A fresh-food farmers market meets an art-in-the-park-style fair with live music and entertainment. Home Depot Plaza, Rutland, 3-8 p.m. Free. Info, 558-6155.

Book Sale: See WED.13, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Middlebury Festival on the Green: See WED.13, noon -1 p.m. & 7 p.m.

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Friends of the Island Line Trail. Old Lantern, Charlotte, 6 p.m. $20; advance ticket purchase includes free $5 raffle ticket; cash bar. Info, 425-3739.

Yard Sale: The North Country Lumber Jills, Plattsburgh’s flat-track rollerderby team, raise funds through the sale of donated furniture, kitchen accessories, clothing, books and more. 43 S. Peru St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 518-232-5440.

crafts Craft Hour: Seniors sew and knit crafty creations for the home.

Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free.

Info, 658-3585.

dance 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.

Ballroom Lesson & Dance Social: Singles and couples of all levels of experience take a twirl. Jazzercize Studio, Williston, lesson, 7-8 p.m.; open dancing, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.

Flamenco Workshop: Bailaores and bailaoras practice the expressive dance characterized by hand clapping and percussive footwork in a series of classes with Spain’s Antonio Arrebola.

North End Studio, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m., 6-7 p.m., 7-8:30 p.m. $40-200 depending on class.

Info, 858-9082.

Full Moon Dance Party: Celestial light shines down upon Bob Wagner and friends, the Joshua Panda Band, and John Creech as they set the tone for dance-floor grooves. Proceeds benefit

SolarFest: New England’s renewable-energy celebration features workshops, activism, and live music by Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Justin Black & Big Heart, the StereoFidelics and more — all powered by the sun. Forget Me Not Farm, Tinmouth, noon-10:45 p.m. $15-30 per day; $35-65 per weekend pass. Info, 235-1513.

Stowe Street Arts Festival: Live music and physical comedy enliven an outdoor artsand-crafts exhibition. Stowe Street, Waterbury, 7-8:30 p.m. $5 for five acts on Friday (free for kids 5 and under); $6-9 chicken barbecue; free admission on Saturday. Info, 496-6466, megsevents@ gmavt.net.

Summer Pride at Chandler: An inaugural, two-weekend festival highlights stories of parenting, marriage, faith and love through a staged reading of The Boys in the Band, presentations of prize-winning selections from Pride Films and Plays’ 2011 Great Gay Play Contest, and an open mic night. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. Various prices. Info, 728-6464.

Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: See WED.13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

food & drink A Midsummer’s Eve Wine-Tasting Benefit: Raise a glass to support the Rhythm of the Rein Therapeutic Riding Program. Fruit, cheese and music are provided. Lakeview Inn, Greensboro, 5-8 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 426-3781, rhythmoftherein@aol.com.

Chelsea Farmers Market: A long-standing town-green tradition supplies shoppers with meat, cheese, vegetables and fine crafts. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6859987, chelseacommunitymarket@gmail.com.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.13, 2 p.m.

Fair Haven Farmers Market: Community entertainment adds flair to farm produce, pickles, relishes and more. Fair Haven Park, 3-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 518-282-9781, sherry12887@yahoo.com.

Five Corners Farmers Market: From natural meats to breads and wines, farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-6701, 5cornersfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Foodways Fridays: Historic recipes get a revival as folks learn how heirloom garden veggies become seasonal dishes in the farmhouse kitchen. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12. Info, 457-2355.

Friday Night Cookout: Grill meisters serve up sausages, kosher franks, marinated portabellos, salmon cakes and “more ambiance than you can shake a kielbasa at.” Local cooks provide salads and desserts. Adamant Co-op, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $8.

Info, 223-5760.

Hardwick Farmers Market: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with fresh produce and handcrafted goods. Granite Street, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2337, hardwickfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Hartland Farmers Market: Everything from freshly grown produce to specialty food abounds at outdoor stands highlighting the local plenitude. Hartland Public Library, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2500, hartlandfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Ludlow Farmers Market: Merchants divide a wealth of locally farmed products, artisanal eats and unique crafts. Front lawn, Okemo Mountain School, Ludlow, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 734-3829, lfmkt@tds.net.

Lyndonville Farmers Market: A seasonal rotation of fresh fruit, veggies, meats, cheeses and more makes its way into shoppers’ hands, courtesy of more than 20 vendors. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 533-7455, lyndonfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Pittsfield Farmers Market: Villagers stock up on organic lamb, beef and goat meat, as well as Plymouth Artisan Cheese, fruits and preserves. Village Green, Pittsfield, 3-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 746-8082.

Plainfield Farmers Market: Bakers, growers and specialtyfood producers provide an edible banquet featuring fresh veggies, meat, eggs, cannoli and kombucha. Mill Street Park, Plainfield, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-1856.

Vermont Brewers Festival: Bottoms up!

Live music, suds-centered workshops and scores of regionally crafted beers make for a smoothtasting celebration. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 6-10 p.m. $30 includes souvenir glass and 15 beer tickets per four-hour session; designated drivers $5; for ages 21 and up only. Info, info@vtbrewfest. com.

Westford Farmers Market: Purveyors of produce and other edibles take a stand at outdoor stalls. Westford Common, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 524-7317, info@westfordfarmersmarketvt. org.

health & fitness Armchair Aerobics: See THU.14, 11:30 a.m. noon.

Exercise for Balance: Participants focus on balance and flexibility through gentle cardiovascular movement to music, strength training and stretching. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477, sheskies@gmail.com.

Morning Meditation: See WED.13, 7-8 a.m.

kids Ellie’s Preschool Party: Tots ages 1 to 5 sing along to guitar melodies, blow bubbles and tinker with instruments. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Fairfield Playgroup: Youngsters entertain themselves with creative activities and snack time. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 9:45-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

High School Book Group: Bookworms crack open all manner of tomes, from plays to graphic novels to short stories. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4:30-5:15 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Montgomery Tumble Time: Physical-fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Recreation Center, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Swanton Playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

‘The Hobbit’: See THU.14, 7 p.m.

language 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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Richmond Farmers Market: Live music entertains fresh-food browsers at a melody-centered market connecting farmers and cooks. Singersongwriter Derek Burkins strums the guitar from 5 to 6 p.m.

Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6 p.m.

Free. Info, 434-5273, cmader@surfglobal.net.

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Africa Jamono: The culture of West Africa comes alive through the drumming rhythms and sounds of Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Mauritania at this weekly rehearsal.

North End Studio, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-6713, info@vpal-us.org.

Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys: The New England bluegrass boys strum out string sounds. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 7:30 p.m. $16. Info, 334-2216.

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Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival Concert: The artist faculty of an annual summer conservatory offer a classical journey through works by Rothkopf, Messiaen, Norman and Brahms in “The Art of Conversation.” UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6-20. Info, 923-6108.

International Festival of Percussions of Longueuil: See WED.13, 6:30 p.m.

Killington Music Festival: Compositions

by Mark O’Connor, Piazzolla, Brahms and Mendelssohn flow through the air at “Friday Night Live.” Downtown Rutland, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4003.

Rochester Chamber Music Society: Students of the Green Mountain Suzuki Institute put together a chamber-music recital.

Auditorium, Rochester School, 1:15 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 767-9234.

Summer Carillon Series: Massive bronze bells ring out in the 26th season of these warmweather concerts. Mead Chapel, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

‘Arms and the Man’: See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

‘I’ll Be Back Before Midnight’: See WED.13, 8 p.m.

‘Kilroy Was Here’: A seven-piece orchestra supplies big-band sounds for this lively World War II musical by Brandon Town Players. Brandon Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 247-5420.

‘Lettice and Lovage’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

‘Love Letters’: Lorenzo Lamas and Charlene Tilton play a man and a woman revisiting their 50-year correspondence in A.R. Gurney’s play.

Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 8 p.m. $45. Info, 760-4634.

‘Miss Saigon’: A large cast and professional orchestra bring this Broadway sensation — based on Puccini’s Madame Butterfly — to life. See calendar spotlight, Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 775-4301.

‘Oliver!’: North Country Community Theater transports audience members to the underbelly of Victorian London though song and dance.

Lebanon Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 603-448-0400.

Summer Concert Series: Bring a lawn chair or blanket to catch open-air tunes by Nobby Reed.

Samuel de Champlain Center Stage, Rouses Point Civic Center, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-2972954, gerifavreau@yahoo.com.

‘Oliver!’: Enosburg Falls: See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

Summer Performance Series: Brandon’s Jubilee Jazz Band perform at the church’s 32nd season of weekly concerts. Salisbury Congregational Church, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 3524609 or 352-6671.

‘Shelby’s Vacation’: As part of a summer pride festival, actors stage a reading of Nancy Beverly’s prize-winning play. Discussion follows. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $11-16. Info, 728-6464.

Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival: Accomplished New England musicians celebrate modern music. United Church of Newport, 7:30 p.m. $7-10. Info, 754-6335, wcmf@sover.net.

Spielpalast Cabaret: See THU.14, Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield. $25-30.

outdoors Bird Banding: Science in Action: From mist nets to data sheets, visitors learn about bird conservation. Rain date: July 22. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 7-9 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 434-3068.

Full Moon Paddle: Weather permitting, rowers take a tour of the Clyde River by celestial light.

Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 723-6551, events@northwoodscenter.org.

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theater ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: See THU.14, 8 p.m.

Brown Bag Book Club: Readers gab about Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks at lunch time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Harry Potter Read-a-Thon: Daylong dramatic readings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows transport Potterheads to the wizarding world. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Flamenco Workshop: See FRI.15, 4:30-6 p.m., 6-7 p.m., 7-8:30 p.m.

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Stars & Stripes Festival & Parade: A patriotic promenade, complete with floats, leads to a barbecue in Bandstand Park. Various locations, Lyndonville, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 626-9696.

Building New Farms: Volunteer woodworkers and the public learn about heritage framing techniques in preparation for the construction of New Farms for New Americans’ timber-framed rinse station at Ethan Allen Homestead. ReBUILD Building Material Retail Store, Burlington, 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 578-2286.

Summer Fest: Jeanne & the Hi-Tops headline a family-friendly affair with high-energy fusion music. Sleight of hand by children’s magician Tom Joyce, face painting, drumming circles and other creative activities round out the day. ArtisTree Community Arts Center & Gallery, Woodstock, 3-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 457-3500.

Camera Walks at Shelburne Museum: Shutterbugs bring their own cameras while wandering the grounds with professional photographers as their guides. Shelburne Museum, 9-10:30 a.m. $10-15; preregister. Info, 985-3346.

Centennial Gala: A special evening commemorates the 100th anniversary of the second Hotel Champlain (the first burned down in 1910), and coincides with the kick-off of the Clearly Clinton Capital Campaign. Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6 p.m. $250 per couple; preregister. Info, 518-562-4195.

Historic Tour of UVM: Folks register online, then meet at Ira Allen’s statue to tour the campus’ modest early clapboards and grand Victorians, led by professor emeritus William Averyt. University Green, UVM, Burlington, 9-11 a.m. Free. Info, 656-3131.

Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

agriculture Green Mountain Crop Mob: Hale and hearty volunteers join a guerrilla act of agriculture, weeding and clearing trails. Light lunch provided. Conservation Nursery, Intervale Center, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 656-5458, jessica.longobardo@uvm.edu.

Historical Walking Tour: Architecture buffs ogle the capital city’s historic structures and learn about ongoing historic-preservation efforts. Meet at the kiosk on State and Elm streets. Montpelier, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Donations accepted. Info, adamkrakowski@uvm.edu.

Open Farm Work Day: Citizen farmers get some hands-on experience in sheet mulching before a light meal. Peace of Earth Farm, Albany, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 755-6336.

Outdoor Party: Bands, bouncy castles, food and prizes attract folks to the village green. Main Street Park, Rutland, 1-4 p.m. Free; donations requested for refreshments. Info, 881-0281.

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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.

Wood-Carving Demo: Visitors avid about avians see trees being whittled into models of various bird species. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-2 p.m. Free with regular admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167.

bazaars BCA Summer Artist Market: Local artisans display contemporary craft and fine-art objects as weather permits. Burlington City Hall Park, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7166, kmacon@ ci.burlington.vt.us.

Book Sale: See WED.13, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

SolarFest: See FRI.15, 8:30 a.m.-11:59 p.m.

Annual House & Garden Tour: Seven of the town’s grandest homes and flower patches welcome visitors. Norwich Historical Society and Community Center, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $15-20; $10 boxed lunch available; raffle tickets available.

Info, 649-0124.

Historical & Architectural Tour of Downtown Burlington: Preservation Burlington guides illuminate interesting nooks and crannies of the Queen City. Meet at the southwest corner of Church and College streets.

Burlington, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 522-8259.

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Middlebury Festival on the Green: See WED.13, 7 p.m.

fairs & festivals BigTown BigTent: This multiday arts bash hosts a variety of acts, including music by the Lew Soloff Jazz Ensemble, poetry readings by Ellen Bryant Voigt and a performance by Bridgman/ Packer Dance. BigTown Gallery, Rochester, 8:30 p.m. Various prices; $150 festival pass; visit bigtowngallery.com for details. Info, 767-9670, info@ bigtowngallery.com.

Stowe Street Arts Festival: See FRI.15, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Summer Pride at Chandler: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m.

Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: See WED.13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Washington County History Fair: The festival features exhibits, entertainment, presentations, demonstrations and food. Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 454-7328.

film Ben & Jerry’s Outdoor Movie Festival: Moviegoers get a cone fix while watching a flick under the stars at dusk. Ben & Jerry’s Factory, Waterbury, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 882-1240.

‘Prohibition: Episode 1’: Audiences sneak a preview of Ken Burns’ latest three-part series.

A Q&A with the filmaker follows. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink African Dinner: Local chefs from Tastes of Africa dish out world cuisine. Main Street Museum, White River Junction, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $10; BYOB; preregister. Info, 356-2776.

Baked-Ham Supper: Homemade pies cap a home-style supper with all the fixings. Odd Fellows Hall, Belmont, 5 p.m. $5-10. Info, 259-2205.

Bristol Farmers Market: Weekly music and kids’ activities add to the edible wares of local food and craft vendors. Town Green, Bristol, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 453-6796, bristolfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

Burlington Farmers Market: Dozens of vendors sell everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to ethnic cuisine to pottery to artisan cheese. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Caledonia Farmers Market: Growers, crafters and entertainers gather weekly at outdoor stands centered on local eats. 50 Railroad St., St. Johnsbury, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

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Michael Tellinger: The author, scientist and explorer shares breakthrough discoveries regarding the lost civilization of Southern Africa, advanced technology of the ancients and more.

Shelburne Town Hall, 7-10 p.m. $30.

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‘Introduction to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Western Mystery Traditions’: Local author, healer and teacher Kirk White looks at the history, beliefs and practices of past and current Golden Dawn temples. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 660-8060.

‘Urinetown: The Musical’: See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Yard Sale: See FRI.15, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Killington Dog Days: Pup (and pet-owner) paradise includes national disc-dog competitions, games, vendors and more. See calendar spotlight.

Sherburne Library Fields, Killington, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free; donations accepted for Rutland County Humane Society. Info, 422-2185.

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Special Olympics Vermont Board of Directors Golf Tournament: Folks tee off in a four-person-scramble format. Links at Lang Farm, Essex Junction, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. $100; $400 per team; price includes continental breakfast, barbecue lunch, silent auction and more. Info, 863-5222, ext. 102.

‘The Mikado’: See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

VYOA Benefit Sale: Household goods, antiques and musical instruments motivate buyers to help fund Vermont Youth Orchestra Association programs and scholarships. Rain date: July 17.

1720 Spear Street, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-6732.

French Heritage Day: Celebrate our region’s cultural history with Franco-American music, clogging and step dancing, historical reenactments, traditional craft demonstrations, the Bastille Day Waiter’s Race, horse-and-carriage rides, and more. See calendar spotlight. Various locations, Vergennes, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-7951, ext. 1.

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Birds By Ear: Why does the uncaged bird sing?

Find out on an excursion full of songs and sightings. Meet at History Hike, Little River State Park, Waterbury, 10 a.m. $2-3; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

‘Riffin’ and Tappin’’: See THU.14, 8 p.m.

Summer Bazaar: Vendors of pies and other goods tempt browsers. All Saints Episcopal Church, South Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9750.

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Capital City Farmers Market: Fresh produce, perennials, seedlings, home-baked foods and handmade crafts lure local buyers throughout the growing season. 60 State St., Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.13, 2 p.m.

Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: A morethan-20-year-old bazaar offers herbs, jellies, vegetables and just-baked goodies in the heart of the village. Lincoln Park, Enosburg Falls, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 933-4503.

Grand Isle Farmers Market: Shoppers browse through a wide selection of local fruits, veggies and handmade crafts. St. Joseph Church Hall, Grand Isle, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291.

Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0178, middleburyfm@yahoo. com.

Milton Farmers Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Milton Grange, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-7734.

Morrisville Farmers Market: Foodies stock up on local provender. On the green. Hannaford Supermarket & Pharmacy, Morrisville, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 888-7053, hbirdfarm@yahoo.com.

Mount Tom Farmers Market: Purveyors of garden-fresh crops, prepared foods and crafts set up shop for the morning. Mount Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 763-2070, foxxfarm@aol.com.

Northwest Farmers Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821.

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Norwich Farmers Market: Neighbors discover fruits, veggies and other riches of the land, not to mention baked goods, handmade crafts and local entertainment. Next to Fogg’s Hardware & Building Supply and the Bike Hub. Route 5 South, Norwich, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447, manager@norwichfarmersmarket.org.

Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods, and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free.

Info, 773-4813.

Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses, and local novelties grace outdoor tables at a presentation of the season’s best. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472, info@sbpavt.org.

Vermont Brewers Festival: See FRI.15, noon -4 p.m. & 6-10 p.m.

Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local bands enliven an outdoor outlet for homegrown herbs, flowers and fruits, and handmade breads, cheeses and syrups. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734.

Williston Farmers Market: Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at a weekly open-air affair. Town Green, Williston, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 735-3860, christinamead@ willistonfarmersmarket.com.

kids Fairfax Playgroup: The community playground encourages child’s play. Canceled in the event of rain. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Flower Power: Blossoming plants provide landscape eye candy as children explore the formal gardens at the Inn. Shelburne Farms,

9:30-11:30 a.m. $10-12 per parent-child pair; $5-7 per additional child. Info, 985-8686.

Moonlit Campfire: Families share stories around a bonfire and tune in for a live owl presentation. Shelburne Farms, 7-9 p.m. $10-12 per adult/child pair; $5-7 for each additional child.

Info, 985-8686.

‘The Hobbit’: See THU.14, 7 p.m.

music Carillon Concert Series: A guest carillonneur plays the largest musical instrument in the world, often called “the singing tower.” Norwich University, Northfield, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2318.

Dave Keller: The bluesman performs solo.

Spruce Peak at Stowe, noon -4 p.m. Free. Info, 253-3000.

Edwin McCain: With the musician’s roster of hit songs including “I’ll Be” and “I Could Not Ask for More,” the New York Times dubbed him the “great American romantic.” Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $20-24. Info, 518-523-2512.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival Concert: See WED.13, Block Gallery & Coffeehouse, Winooski, 6 p.m.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival: Master Class: Jeffrey Sharkey, director of the Peabody Institute, conducts a music lesson for select festival students. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 10:30 a.m. $10. Info, 923-6108.

International Festival of Percussions of Longueuil: See WED.13, 6:30 p.m.

Killington Music Festival: Musicians offer “Souvenirs From Abroad” in a program of “pure indulgences,” including Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F Minor. Ramshead Lodge, Killington Resort, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 773-4003.

Marlboro Music: A festival in its 60th year features chamber music for diverse instrumental and vocal combinations from all musical periods. Marlboro College, 8:30 p.m. $15-35. Info, 254-2394.

One Drum Festival: Professional artists keep the beat as they lead all-day drumming and vocal workshops with musicians of all levels of interest and ability. Path of Life Garden, Windsor, 11 a.m.10 p.m. Various prices; see onedrumfestival.com.

Info, 345-5616 or 380-6360.

Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival: See FRI.15, Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line.

Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival Concert: Warebrook Institute for the Advancement of Modern Music participants perform. Haskell Free Library & Opera House, Derby Line, 10:30 a.m. $7-10. Info, 754-6335, wcmf@ sover.net.

outdoors Franklin County Garden Tours & Tea Party: Leaves and blossoms draw greenskeepers and gawkers alike to notable area gardens. A tea party and presentation by naturalist Laurie DiCesare follows. Ascension Parish Hall, Georgia, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $25-30. Info, 393-0716.

Making Tracks & Seeing Skins: Explorers look for signs of furry friends by using plaster of Paris track casts. Little River State Park, Waterbury, 4 p.m. $2-3; free for kids 3 and under; call to confirm. Info, 244-7103.

Sunset/Moonrise Aquadventure: See WED.13, 7 p.m.

Water Striders: See THU.14, 2 p.m.

‘We Walk the Woods!’: See THU.14, 10 a.m.

seminars 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.

sport Introductory Bicycle Ride: Folks new to road cycling set a leisurely pace while learning the rules of the road and how to ride in a group. Helmets required; riders under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Dorset Park, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 399-2352.

Moosalamoo Goshen Gallop XXXII: Runners pound the ground over dirt, gravel and soil on a rugged 5- or 10K trail. Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen, 4 p.m. $35; $10-15 barbecue ticket for nonrunners. Info, 247-6735, info@blueberryhillinn.com.

Paddle the Kingdom: Rowers skirt the shoreline and watch for moose on an exploration of Norton Pond. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 10 a.m. $25 includes canoe rental. Info, 723-6551, events@northwoodscenter. org.

Vermont 100 Endurance Race: Runners and equestrian riders compete separately in this ultramarathon. Proceeds benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports. Silver Hill Meadow, West Windsor, 4 a.m. Registration is full; free to watch.

Info, 683-9245.

Vermont Lake Monsters: The Green Mountain State’s minor-league baseball team bats against the Aberdeen Ironbirds. Centennial Field, Burlington, 6:05 p.m. Individual game tickets, $5-8. Info, 655-4200.

talks Intro to Buddhism: Know what nam-myohorenge-kyo means? Find out at this primer on the Eastern religion.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 370-1738.

Mark Greenberg: The producer of The Unbroken Circle and CD anthology Kitchen Tunks and Parlor Songs talks about collecting Vermont oral histories.

Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 454-7328.

theater ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: See THU.14, 8 p.m.

‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’: See WED.13, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Arms and the Man’: See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

‘I’ll Be Back Before Midnight’: See WED.13, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

‘Kilroy Was Here’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m.

‘Lettice and Lovage’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

‘Love Letters’: See FRI.15, 8 p.m.

‘Miss Saigon’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Oliver!’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Oliver!’: Enosburg Falls: See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Riffin’ and Tappin’’: See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

‘Shelby’s Vacation’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m.

Spielpalast Cabaret: See THU.14, Barre Opera House. Info, 476-8188.

‘The Mikado’: See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

‘Urinetown: The Musical’: See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

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Preregister for a garden tour at noon. Perennial Pleasures Nursery, East Hardwick, 10:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 472-5104, annex@perennialpleasures.net.

business Business Expo & Market: Locally made art, crafts, food and produce accompany displays by area businesses and service providers. Rain location: Shoreham Elementary School gymnasium.

Town Gazebo, Shoreham, 2-5 p.m. Free. Info, 8975430 or 897-2657.

dance Flamenco Workshop: See FRI.15, noon -2 p.m.

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2011 New England ‘Living’ Show House: Interior designers and landscape architects have artfully redesigned this 20th-century B&B. Tour it to help raise money for seven charities.

Juniper Hill Inn, Windsor, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $25. Info, 674-5273.

Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mick Foley Autograph Signing: The wrestling champ shows off his brawn while meeting fans. University Mall, South Burlington, 1-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

Sunday Afternoons at Fisk Farm: An outdoor garden party includes refreshments and tea on the lawn, art and craft exhibits, and musical performances. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 928-3364.

fairs & festivals Killington Dog Days: See SAT.16, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

SolarFest: See FRI.15, 8:30 a.m.6:45 p.m.

Summer Pride at Chandler: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m.

Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: See WED.13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.13, 2 p.m.

Ice-Cream Social: Neighbors meet and mingle over cold, creamy treats. Held outside, weather permitting. Congregational Church, Shoreham, 2-5 p.m. Cost of food and drink. Info, 897-5430 or 897-2657.

National Ice Cream Day: Visitors work for their sweets by hand cranking the “great American dessert.” Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

South Burlington Farmers Market: Growers and producers parcel out the fruits of the soil. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2569.

Stowe Farmers Market: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food.

Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmersmarket.com.

Wags, Whiskers & Wine: Animal lovers support the Addison County Humane Society by tasting five different wines and a variety of hors d’oeuvres. Bar Antidote, Vergennes, 2-5 p.m. $35.

Info, 388-1443.

Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer “more than just wild leeks.” On the green. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Free. Info, winooskimarket@gmail.com.

Garden-Skills Workshop & Tours: Greenskeepers bring their queries on seed saving, plant propagation, weed identification and more.

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kids Sundays for Fledglings: Youngsters go avian crazy in hiking, acting, writing or exploring activities. Preregister. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-2:45 p.m. Free with museum admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167.

‘The Hobbit’: See THU.14, 2 p.m.

language French Conversation Group: Intermediate and advanced speakers of français use their words. Café. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 347-569-4336, kevin@electrochemistry.be.

music Burlington Concert Band: A local ensemble takes over the band shell with pop, jazz, show tunes and classical music. Battery Park, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 598-1830.

Concerts on the Green: Local bands bring tunes to a grassy setting. Rain location: Danville United Methodist Church. Town Green, Danville, 7-9 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 626-8511.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival Concert: See WED.13, Small Dog Electronics, South Burlington, noon.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival: Master Class: Peabody Trio’s Violaine Meançon conducts a music lesson for select festival students. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $10.

Info, 923-6108.

House Concert: A potluck reception at 5:30 p.m. precedes the U.S. release party for Québec singer-songwriter Bruce Murdoch’s new album.

354 North St., Burlington, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 863-6713.

International Festival of Percussions of Longueuil: See WED.13, 6:30 p.m.

Marlboro Music: See SAT.16, 2:30 p.m.

New York Chamber Soloists: Distinguished musical virtuosi present masterworks by Beethoven, Villa-Lobos, Mozart, Telemann and Bach. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, grounds open for picnicking, 6-8 p.m.; concert starts at 8 p.m. $27.50. Info, 863-5966.

The Olympic Symphonium: The Canadian chamber-folk outfit performs in honor of the church building’s 150th anniversary. St. Luke’s Church, St. Albans, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 524-3149.

outdoors ‘Birds By Ear’: See FRI.15, 10 a.m.

theater ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: See THU.14, 2 p.m.

Bread and Puppet Circus & Pageant: Museum tours and street-style shows accompany the Man=Carrot Circus and the Uprisers’ Pageant. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 1 p.m.

Donations accepted. Info, 525-3031.

‘Oliver!’: See FRI.15, 4:30 p.m.

‘Riffin’ and Tappin’’: See THU.14, 5 p.m.

‘Urinetown: The Musical’: See THU.14, 2 p.m.

words Summer Pride Festival Finale: Actors and community members share their favorite material related to gay and lesbian issues at an open mic night. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7:30 p.m. $5.50-8.50; call ahead to reserve a performance slot. Info, 728-6464.

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Expressive Painting: Taught in the style of Michele Cassou, this creative workshop celebrates the journey, not the destination. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 876-7696, lane2love@yahoo.com.

bazaars Book Sale: See WED.13, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

dance Swing Dance Class: Fine tune those lindy hop swing outs in a lesson from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. Open practice and dancing follows from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. Upper dance floor, Warren Public Library, $10 suggested donation. Info, 496-7014.

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2011 New England ‘Living’ Show House: See SUN.17, noon -3 p.m.

Community Forum: Thinking of foster care?

Folks meet a youth in need of a family and learn about the fostering process through a talk and slide show. Food is provided. Comfort Suites, South Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free; RSVP. Info, 8647467 or 324-0939, heathers@lundfamilycenter. org.

Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

food & drink Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.13, 2 p.m.

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Stowe 8 Miler: For the 30th year, runners take a loop through the rolling countryside and into the heart of Stowe. Afterparty at Ye Olde England Inne. Stowe Events Field, 8:30 a.m. $25-35. Info, 603-659-2824.

Armchair Aerobics: See THU.14, 11:30 a.m.-noon.

Vermont Lake Monsters: See SAT.16, 1:05 p.m.

Exercise for Balance: See FRI.15, 10-11 a.m.

Herbal Clinic: Folks learn to improve their health with herbal medicines at a personalized, confidential consultation with faculty and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. Preregister. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

Marshfield Play Time: Games, projects and art from around the world amuse kids up to age 6. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@ hotmail.com.

Marshfield Story Time: Read-aloud tales with a cross-cultural theme catch the ear of youngsters ages 6 and under. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com.

Music With Raphael: See THU.14, 10:45 a.m.

One World, Many Stories: Multicultural stories, songs and rhymes interest kiddos ages 3 to 6. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 865-7216.

music Caspian Monday Music: Pianist Artem Belogurov reconstructs a hypothetical Liszt recital with a program comprising of the Hungarian composer’s most popular pieces, as well as works by his colleagues and mentors. Lakeview Inn, Greensboro, 8 p.m. $10-18. Info, 598-6287.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival Concert: See WED.13, Shelburne Vineyard, 4 p.m.

Recorder-Playing Group: Musicians produce early folk and baroque melodies. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net.

Vergennes City Band: A brass band welcomes musicians of all ages at an outdoor concert of gazebo faves. Vergennes City Park, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 877-2005.

Vermont Fiddle Orchestra Rehearsals: New and established members of the nonprofit community orchestra fiddle around at practice time. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 877-343-3531, info@vtfiddleorchestra.org.

sport Catamount Golf Classic: The University of Vermont athletic department hosts an annual club-and-ball competition. A barbecue and awards follow at 5 p.m. Vermont National Country Club, South Burlington, noon -6:30 p.m. $100750. Info, 656-3072.

Group Road Bike Ride: Cyclists pedal in and around Burlington on a 20- to 25-mile excursion.

Helmets required. Skirack, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m.

Free. Info, 658-3313.

Vermont Lake Monsters: See SAT.16, 7:05 p.m.

theater Adirondack Lakes Summer Theater Festival: A slave helps his master win the hand of a beautiful courtesan in exchange for his freedom in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $12 -16. Info, 518-523-2512.

words 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.

Pie & Poetry: Double-crusted desserts and readings by Jody Gladding, Lars Nielsen and Jane Shore make for a sweet evening. Old Town Hall, Brookfield, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 276-9906.

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agriculture Garden Work Party: Green thumbs water and maintain the radishes, tomatoes, melons and more in this neighborhood plot. Community Farm, St. Johnsbury, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 748-9498, info@stjfoodcoop.com.

Water Chestnut Pull: See THU.14, 9 a.m.2 p.m.

art Try-It Demo: Walnut Ink by Tom Norton Designs: Artistic types try out this concentrated ink, a staff favorite, in the store. Artists’ Mediums, Williston, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-1236.

bazaars Book Sale: See WED.13, noon -7 p.m.

business ‘Boarding 101: Introduction to Nonprofit Board Service’: A half-day program introduces participants to board roles and responsibilities for nonprofits. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6-9 p.m. $10-25; $70 for up to four people from the same organization; preregister.

Info, 451-7510.

dance Contact Improv Jam: Physical touch spurs this postmodern-dance form. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:15-9:15 p.m. $2-4 suggested donation. Info, 864-7306, lefkoweiss@yahoo.com.

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2011 New England ‘Living’ Show House: See SUN.17, noon -3 p.m.

Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Time Travel Tuesday: Visitors cook on a woodstove, churn butter and lend a hand with other late-19th-century farmhouse chores and pastimes. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12. Info, 457-2355.

film ‘A Shot in the Dark’: The Catamount Community Film Series brings old Hollywood favorites back to the big screen. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600.

Ben & Jerry’s Outdoor Movie Festival: Moviegoers get a cone fix while watching How to Train Your Dragon under the stars at dusk. Ben & Jerry’s, Burlington, 9 p.m. Free. Info, 882-1240.

food & drink Canning Dilly Beans: Folks learn to preserve the summer legumes with a classic recipe.

Sustainability Academy at Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 861-9701.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.13, 2 p.m.

Johnson Farmers Market: A street emporium bursts with local agricultural products, ranging from produce to herbs to freshly baked bread. United Church, Johnson, 3-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 635-1682.

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Women’s Adult Drop-In Sunday Soccer: Ladies — and sometimes gents — break a sweat while passing around the spherical polyhedron at this coed-friendly gathering. Beginners are welcome. Rain location: Miller Community Recreation

Thetford Farmers Market: Quilts and crafts supplement edible offerings of fruits and vegetables, honey, pastries, maple syrup, and more.

Thetford Hill Green, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4404.

Isle La Motte Playgroup: Children ages 6 and under take over the playground. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Shape & Share Life Stories: Prompts trigger true tales, which are crafted into compelling narratives and read aloud. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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Sunset Beer & Food Pairings: A weekly tapas menu matches three Otter Creek or Wolaver’s beers with three appetizers. 156 Bistro, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $25. Info, 881-0556.

Draw Comics!: Teens sketch and share illustrated narratives. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Essex Garden Tour: From water features to creative vegetable beds to many-colored perennial borders, six town gardens showcase the possibilities of soil. Gardens are located at 76 Beech St., 15 East St., 9 Circle Dr., 17 Hayden St., 25 Cascade Ct. and 68 Brigham Hill Rd.; visit in any order, rain or shine. Various locations, Essex, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 578-7507 or 878-7504.

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Sundays on the Hill Concert Series: For the 15th year, leading professional artists highlight a sequence of six classical programs. Church on the Hill, Weston, 4 p.m. $5. Info, info@vtchurchonthehill.org.

Center. Starr Farm Dog Park, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3. Info, 862-5091.

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acids in the body, the importance of protein in a vegan or vegetarian diet, and more. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

Old North End Farmers Market: Local farmers sell the fruits of their fields, and their labor. Integrated Arts Academy, H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 324-3073.

Rutland County Farmers Market: See SAT.16, 3-6 p.m.

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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.

Toddler Story Time: Tots 3 and under discover the wonder of words. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

‘X-Theater Presents’: The Burlington Parks and Recreation Open Stage Performance Camp unveils a wacky, original play. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Game Day: Preschoolers from the Burlington Children’s Space get together with seniors for puzzles, and board and card games. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

Pause Café: French speakers of all levels converse en français. Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

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Armchair Aerobics: See THU.14, 11:30 a.m.-noon.

Kids in the Kitchen: From blueberry crisp to fresh blueberry lemonade, young fruit lovers may turn into Violet Beauregardes. Healthy Living, South Burlington, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $20 per child; free for an accompanying adult; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1.

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 wellbeing. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.

Morning Meditation: See WED.13, 7-8 a.m.

Yoga Class: Gentle stretches improve core strength and flexibility. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 9 a.m. $5 donation. Info, 658-3585.

kids Around-the-World Birthday Party: Summer readers celebrate multicultural birthday traditions. Rutland Free Library, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860.

Creative Tuesdays: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

Preschool Story Hour: Good listeners are rewarded with folklore and fairy tales from around the world. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420, fairfaxlibrarian@gmail. com.

Green Mountain Chorus: Men who like to sing learn four-part harmonies at an open meeting of this all-guy barbershop group. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 505-9595.

Night for the Opera: Opera North supporters soak in melodies from Rossini’s Cinderella.

Unitarian Church, Woodstock, 6 p.m. $20; $85 for off-site dinner (see operanorth.org for details).

Info, 603-448-4141.

Songs at Mirror Lake: The Infamous Stringdusters offer high country at a weekly musical gathering. Mid’s Park, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-523-8925.

Summer Music From Greensboro: Flutist Karen Kevra, a pianist and a string quartet go “South of the Border/East of the Atlantic” with works by Luigi Boccherini, Nino Rota and others.

United Church of Christ, Greensboro, 8 p.m. $1018; free for children. Info, 525-3291.

Tuesday Night Live: The Eames Brothers offer music in the open air. Rain site: Johnson Elementary School. Legion Field, Johnson, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-7826, cal_05656@yahoo.com.

seminars ‘Spend Smart’: Vermonters learn savvy skills for stretching bucks and managing money.

Preregister. 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 10 a.m. noon. Free. Info, 860-1414, ext. 104.

talks Amy Miller: In “Cultivating True Happiness Through Establishing a Practice,” the director of the Milarepa Center offers a fun and relaxed approach to spiritual practice through meditation and discussion. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:308:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136.

Green Mountain College Morning Speaker Series: In “Homestead Farming,” Philip Ackerman-Leist, director of Green Mountain College’s Farm and Food Project, explains his contemporary take on the back-to-the-land movement. The Station, Poultney, 9-10 a.m. Free.

Info, 287-8926.

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Book Sale: See WED.13, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

business ‘Boarding 101: Introduction to Nonprofit Board Service’: See TUE.19. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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Community Bike Shop: See WED.13, 5-8 p.m.

Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Public Viewing Night: Stargazers head to the College Observatory to take in star clusters and Saturn. Call for a status report in case of inclement weather. McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury, 9-10:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-2266.

fairs & festivals Vermont Summer Festival Horse Shows: See WED.13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

food & drink Barre Farmers Market: See WED.13, 3-6:30 p.m.

Chocolate-Dipping Demo: See WED.13, 2 p.m.

South Hero Farmers Market: See WED.13, 4-7 p.m.

Woodstock Farmers Market: See WED.13, 3-6 p.m.

health & fitness Aalamba Yoga: See WED.13, 6-7 p.m.

Capoeira Workshop: Fua Nascimento leads an interactive demonstration of the Brazilian martial-art and dance form. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail. com.

Knee-Health Education Class: See WED.13, 6-7 p.m.

Morning Meditation: See WED.13, 7-8 a.m.

kids Babytime: See WED.13, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Craftsbury Chamber Players Mini Concerts: See WED.13, 4:30 p.m.

Enosburg Playgroup: See WED.13, 9-11 a.m.

Groove Around the Globe: See WED.13, 1111:30 a.m.

Capital City Band: See WED.13, 7 p.m.

Craftsbury Chamber Players: World-class musicians explore classical compositions by Kreutzer, Beethoven and Janáček. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 8 p.m. $8-22; free for ages 12 and under. Info, 800-639-3443.

Hinesburg Concerts in the Park: Rick and Bec draw on traditional American music on the green. Rain date: Thursday. Hinesburg Community School, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2894.

Music on the Porch: Café Noir lend cabaret stylings to a picnic on the porch. Waterbury Station, Green Mountain Coffee Visitor Center & Café, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; nonperishable-food-item donations accepted for the Waterbury Food Shelf.

Info, 882-2700.

Starline Rhythm Boys: See WED.13, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

outdoors Sunset/Moonrise Aquadventure: See WED.13, 7 p.m.

Wagon Ride Wednesday: See WED.13, 11 a.m.2 p.m.

talks Green Mountain College Morning Speaker Series: In “Grow Local, Eat Local,” GMC assistant professor of anthropology and sustainable agriculture Eleanor Tison sheds light on the Stone Valley Co-op and its potential to build a strong local-food movement. The Station, Poultney, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 287-8926.

Institute for Lifelong Education at Dartmouth Summer Lecture Series: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-noon.

Summer Speaker Series: See WED.13, 4 p.m.

Yestermorrow Summer Lecture Series: In “The Shape of Mobility,” visual artist Mary Mattingly discusses her photographs and sculptures depicting futuristic and obscure landscapes and ecological installations. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Waitsfield, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-5545.

theater ‘Boeing-Boeing’: A Don Draper-esque lothario skillfully juggles three flight-attendant fiancées at once until their plane schedules change in this jet-speed comedy by St. Michael’s Playhouse.

McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $29.50-38.50. Info, 654-2281.

Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour: See TUE.19, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

‘Reprise! 20th Anniversary Gala’: The Fairfax Community Theatre Company looks back on the troupe’s history by revisiting songs from every musical it has produced. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 7:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 849-6638.

The Met: Summer Encore Series: Catamount Arts Center: Karita Mattila stars in Puccini’s opera Tosca.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6:30 p.m. $10-15. Info, 748-2600.

The Met: Summer Encore Series: Loew Auditorium: See above listing, Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 603-646-2422.

The Met: Summer Encore Series: Palace 9: See above listing, Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. $12.50-15. Info, 660-9300. m

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South Hero Playgroup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grown-up companions. South Hero Congregational Church.

Free. Info, 527-5426.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival: Master Class: Orion Quartet’s Timothy Eddy conducts a music lesson for select festival students. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 1 p.m. $10.

Info, 923-6108.

The Met: Summer Encore Series: Lake Placid Center for the Arts: See WED.13, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7 p.m. $12 -15.

Info, 518-523-2512.

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‘Pippi Longstocking’: Remember the girl with the flyaway braids? Very Merry Theatre revisits her mischievous adventures in an hourlong musical based on Astrid Lindgren’s classic books.

Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, noon. Free.

Info, 863-6607.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival Concert: See WED.13, South Burlington Community Library, 2 p.m.

Flynn Season Sneak Preview: Video and audio clips give fans of the performing arts an early peek at the theater’s roster of events scheduled for 2011-12. FlynnSpace, Burlington, noon & 5:30 p.m. Free; RSVP required. Info, 863-5966, proberts@flynncenter.org.

‘Pippi Longstocking’: See TUE.19, Battery Park, Burlington.

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Bread Making: Three- to 6-year-olds grind organic flours, pulverize salt crystals and bake wholesome buns in an outdoor, wood-fired oven with teacher JoAnne Dennee. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 9-11 a.m. Free; space is limited; preregister. Info, 985-2827, ext. 12, pgraham@lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org.

Fairfax Summer Concert Series: Tune in to Conscious Roots on the campus green. Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 8492420, fairfaxlibrarian@gmail.com.

Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour: Acrobatics, tumbling feats, high-wire high jinks and general clowning around come together in “Frontpage Follies: Big Top Big News!” Vermont Agricultural Business Education Center, Brattleboro, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m. $16-22; free for kids under 2. Info, 533-7443.

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‘Ask a Bird’ Poetry Workshop: Six- to 12year-olds compose odes to flying friends on a nature adventure with Vermont children’s poet Ted Scheu. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free with regular admission, $3-6; preregister. Info, 434-2167, museum@birdsofvermont.org.

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BCA offers dozens of weeklong summer art camps for ages 3-14 in downtown Burlington from June to August – the largest selection of art camps in the region! Choose full- or halfday camps – scholarships are available. See all the camps and details at burlingtoncityarts.com.

collage and more. No experience necessary!

PRINT: WEEKEND SILKSCREENING: Jul. 24-Aug. 14, 1-4 p.m., Weekly on Sun. Cost: $145/nonmembers, $130.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington.

Learn to design and print posters, T-shirts, fine art and more.

Students will learn the process of screen printing with an emphasis on textiles. Learn how to apply photo emulsion and use a silkscreen exposure unit.

Cost includes over 20 hours per week of open studio hours for classwork. No experience necessary!

craft PAPER MARBLING FOR KIDS AND ADULTS: Aug. 12, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $45/3-hr. class.

Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe.

Info: 253-8358, helenday. com. Learn the Italian art of paper decoration. The marbling process is as fun as it is easy for anyone to do. It involves floating paint on top of water and swirling designs that are then transferred onto specially treated paper.

Students will create a number of decorated papers to use for stationary, collage, wrapping paper, scrap booking and more. All materials included.

Instructor: Natasha Bogar.

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BURLINGTON DANCES: Location: Burlington Dances, 1 Mill St., 372, Burlington.

Info: Burlington Dances, Lucille Dyer, 863-3369, Info@BurlingtonDances.

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Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4week class. Location: The Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington, St. Albans, Colchester. Info: First Step Dance, 598-6757, 652-4548 kevin@firststepdance.com, flynnarts@flynncenter.org FirstStepDance.com. Come 1x1-FlynnPerfArts093009.indd 1 9/28/09 3:32:51 PM alone, or come with friends, JAZZ MUSIC SUMMER but come out and learn to INTENSIVES, JUL. 25-29: dance! Beginning classes Beginning Improvisation for repeat each month, but inages 10-12, 10 a.m.-noon., $135 termediate classes vary from (incl. ticket to an evening month to month. As with all concert). Latin Jazz Music of our programs, everyone is or Hand Percussion (choose encouraged to attend, and no your track) for ages 13-adult, partner is necessary. Three 12:30-5 p.m., $285 (incl. locations to choose from! ticket to an evening concert.

Also avail. for credit through UVM). Location: Flynn Center, Burlington. All students work CREATING ART W/ ADOBE with skilled artist/educators PHOTOSHOP: 3 evenings: in clinics and combos, take a Aug. 2, 4, 9. 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: hand percussion workshop $135/course. Location: Helen with Steve Ferraris, and experiDay Art Center, 5 School St., ence amazing guest sessions Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenwith world-renowned artist/ day.com. Adobe Photoshop educator Arturo O’Farrill. The is an incredibly powerful week culminates in a concert and versatile digital imagat the Flynn on Friday. See ing program. Participants website for more detail on in this workshop will first specific tracks. learn Photoshop basics, then explore Photoshop’s potential MODERN TECHNIQUE & as a tool for creative expresCOMPOSITION: Teens and sion. Previous Photoshop adults, Mon-Fri, Aug. 1-5, experience is not required.

5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $120/5-day Recommended text: Digital intensive class. Location: Art Revolution: Creating Fine Flynn Center, Burlington. This Art with Photoshop by Scott weeklong intensive celebrates Ligon. Limit: 6 students. the explosive and affirmaInstructor: Matt Neckers. tive power of movement and emphasizes full-body engagement with precision and heartfull expression. A dynamic AUTOMATIC DRAWING: blend of contact, rhythm and Aug. 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: release techniques informed $120/7-hr. class. Location:

by Limon, Bartenieff, Laban, Helen Day Art Center, 5 School Authentic Movement, Body/ St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, Mind Centering, Irene Dowd’s helenday.com. Automatic Neurological-Muscular Drawing is a creative process Studies, Action Theater, free of conscious control and Contact Improv, and yogic focuses on the importance of principles, class accumulates the unconscious as a source of individual and group phrase inspiration. First practiced by material that culminates in an Surrealist artists, automatic informal and optional sharing drawing allows the hand to of work at 6 p.m. on Friday. move randomly across the paper. Students will have the choice of using basic and inexpensive materials including colored pencils, pastels and watercolors. Instructor: Alex Angio.

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GIRLS MOVE MOUNTAINS: Jul. 24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $95/class. Location: Stowe Mountain Resort, Stowe. Info: info@girlsmovemountains. org. Girls Move Mountains in partnership with Stowe Mountain Resort and Onion River Sports is pleased to offer a one-day Dirt Divas mountain-bike clinic for women ages 16 and up who are interested in learning the exciting lifelong sport of mountain biking.

com, BurlingtonDances. com. Drop-in for $5 Monday Modern classes with summer intern Megan Davis. Also this summer we’re having Wednesday Ballet Barre and Adagio classes and Saturday Laban, Pilates, Bartenieff and Ballet combination class with Lucille. Schedule private and small group sessions for choreographic fun, dance notation and conditioning for dancers, too!

BURLINGTON’S BEST SALSA: DAVID LARSON & SOUTH END STUDIO: Summer dance class series will begin again Aug. 25 due to David’s dance competition schedule. Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., near Lake Champlain Chocolates, just behind New World Tortilla, Burlington.

Info: Sabrina, 540-0044, southendstudiovt.com. Join us this Thursday, July 14, for our “Havana Nights” summer salsa dance party, 7-9 p.m. at Splash, Burlington’s Waterfront Boathouse. DJ Raul spins all the hot music.

Cash bar. Free “Funky Cha Cha” lesson at 7 p.m. The best place to dance on the waterfront!

FYI, get ready for Burlington’s first salsa dance competition! All are welcome. Prizes, guest performers and the best of the best salsa dancers in Burlington.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, 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: lindyvermont.com, 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;

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CLAY: TILE, PLATE & PLATTER PAINTING: Jul. 20-Aug. 24, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $175/nonmembers, $157.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. The traditional Italian style of tile painting, known as Majolica, has long been admired for its exquisite and unique designs. Learn how to create your own decorated pottery with Natasha, who studied at

Studio Giambo in Florence, Italy. Includes over 20 hours per week of open studio time.

No experience necessary!

PHOTO: LG. FORMAT & ALBUMEN PRINTING: Aug. 6-7, 12-6 p.m., Daily. Cost: $250/nonmembers, $225/ BCA members. Location: BCA Center, Burlington. This twoday workshop will introduce you to using large format cameras and albumen printing.

Shoot with 4x5 and 8x10 view and field cameras, learning their specialized capabilities.

Mix chemistry, coat paper and making albumen prints with a contact easel and sunshine.

Several large format cameras available for use. All materials provided. No experience necessary.

PRINT: PAPER MARBLEIZING: Jul. 21-Aug. 25, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $165/nonmembers, $148.50/ BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. The Italian art of paper marbling, a decorative printing process, is fun and easy. It involves floating colors on top of thick liquid and swirling designs that are the printed onto specially treated paper. Students will take home stacks of artfully decorated papers to use for stationery,

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gardening CHILDREN’S GARDENING ADVENTURE: Jul. 17, 1-4 p.m.

Location: Marijke’s Perennial Gardens Plus, 1299 Robert Young Rd., Starksboro. Info: Marijke’s Perennial Gardens Plus, Marijke Niles, 453-7590, marijken@gmavt.net, perennialgardensplus.com. 1-3 p.m.: Explore the gardens, scratch and sniff, bugs and birds, pot a plant to take home and more.

3-4 p.m.: Zumba experience with Lindsey Hescock. No experience needed. Just be ready for lots of fun. All ages welcome.

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herbs WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wild Edible Intensive spring/summer term will be held Jul. 10, & summer/fall term will be held Aug. 21, Sep. 18 & Oct. 16. Join either or both terms of Wild Edibles.

VSAC nondegree grants may be avail. Monthly Wild Edible & Medicinal Plant Walks w/ Annie, & Naturalist Walks w/ George, $10, dates announced on our Facebook page, join our email list, or call us. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, 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.

kids CRYSTALS & CHAKRAS FOR KIDS!: Jul. 16, 10:30 a.m.noon. Cost: $20/child. No charge for adult bringing them! Location: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Milton. Info: Michelle Nappi, 893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo. com. Join Spiritual Healer Maureen Short for a fun and dynamic time exploring the healing and metaphysical gifts of crystals, gemstones and minerals with children! We will explore the chakras and how the mineral kingdom is ready,

willing and able to assist us to be happy and healthy! A minimum of five kids is required for this class to occur.

language SPANISH FOR ACTIVISM: Aug. 8-12, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $500/grants & scholarships avail. Location: The Flashbulb Institute, 200 Main St., #14, Burlington. Info: The Flashbulb Institute, Sara Mehalick, 881-0419, sara@theflashbulb.org, theflashbulb. org. Learn Spanish language as it is used by communities fighting for social and ecological justice, and gain a skill that can be used to do solidarity work abroad or with migrant populations in the global north. This class is specially designed for conversationallevel Spanish speakers.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult classes meet 7 days/wk. Join now & receive a 3-mo. membership (unlimited classes) for $175. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal and Light), Burlington. Info: 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.; Sun., 10-11:30 a.m. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility with flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself.

Beginners Intro: Thursday evenings through May 19, 6-7:30 pm. $65 fee includes practice uniform. New fiveweek class for kids starts June 11! Saturday mornings from 9:30-10:30 a.m.

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: 660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, 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 Jiu-Jitsu 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.

tension patterns as well as underdeveloped muscle tone are presented and practiced.

Through the use of these techniques, self-correcting reflexes are stimulated and habitual holding patterns can be released. Participants will learn how to use these techniques to promote change from rigid physical patterns to greater mobility.

MASSAGE PRATITIONER TRAINING: Sep. 13-Jun. 3, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 658-7715, touchvt@gmail. com, touchstonehealingarts. com. The science and art of massage therapy, practice and theory, ethics, professionalism, business practices, somatic psychology, group dynamics, and movement are all thoroughly explored and experienced in this ninemonth, 690-hour immersion course now entering our 14th year. Give yourself the gift of healing and pass it on!

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ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5,000/500-hour program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Info: Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon.net, 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. VSAC nondegree grants are available.

NCBTMB-assigned school.

ISOMETRICS: 14 CEUS: Aug. 20-21, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/2 days; $225 when deposit of $50 is received

by Aug. 7; ask about the Introductory Risk-Free Fee. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com.

In this class, isometric and isotonic techniques for working with inefficient muscular

INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: Sat., Jul. 23, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $30/half-day workshop, limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 9859746, ecross@crosscontext. net, vzc.org. The workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism.

Preregistration required.

Call for more info, or register online.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.noon., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. 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: 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and

following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

painting ACTION PAINTING: Jul. 16, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $115/course. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe. Info: 253-8358, helenday.com. Intimidated by a large, blank canvas or piece of paper? Afraid to make a big statement? This workshop will help you to leap over that hurdle with big, expressive gestures that can open the door to a freer and more satisfying painting experience. Big is not necessarily better, but it is useful to push your limitations and to get comfortable working in a large format. We will spend the day drawing and painting with an emphasis on experimentation, freedom and fun. Instructor: Galen Cheney.

photography TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY: Fri., Jul. 22, 6-9 p.m., & Sat., Jul.

23, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $165/2 days. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 5 School St., Stowe.

Info: 253-8358, helenday. com. Hone your photo skills with professional photographer and Stowe native Paul Rogers. Review digital camera basics, see equipment demonstrations, and share tips on travel and photography in different cultures. We’ll visit several spots in the area on Saturday. Students should be familiar with basic digital camera functions and bring their own camera. Instructor: Paul Rogers.

pilates ALL WELLNESS: Location: 128 Lakeside Ave., Ste. 103, Burlington. Info: 863-9900, allwellnessvt.com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, physical therapy, yoga and nutrition.

Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. Join us for a free introduction to the reformer, every Saturday at 10:30 a.m. and the first Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m.: Just call and reserve your spot!

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NATURAL BODIES PILATES: Good health, happy body, great price! Daily classes & private sessions. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 1 Mill St., suite 372, Burlington.

Info: 863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com.

Summer is the best time for Pilates! Join morning or evening classes, and schedule private appointments at your convenience. You get professional instruction in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. Classical Pilates Reformer and Mat, plus a complete private studio.

Good health, happy body and great prices. What could be better?

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RESTORATIVE YOGA AND REIKI: COOLING AND RECHARGING IN THE HEAT OF SUMMER WITH ANNEKE HOHL AND MARY BETH CACCIOLA: Jul. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Location: Vermont Center for Yoga & Therapy, 364 Dorset St., Suite 204, South Burlington. In the height of summer, this practice will focus on cooling, quieting and drawing the outwardly directed energy of summer back into the body. Leave this workshop feeling relaxed, nourished, recharged and balanced. Everyone is welcome.

No prior experience necessary.

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stand-up pladdleboarding vermont center for yoga & STAND-UP PADDLEBOARDING: Weekdays by appt.; Saturdays therapy & Sundays. Cost: $30/hourlong privates & semiprivates; $20 ea. for groups. Location: Oakledge Park & Beach, End of Flynn Ave., a mile south of downtown along the bike path, Burlington. Info: Paddlesurf Champlain, Jason Starr, 881-4905, jason@paddlesurfchamplain.com, paddlesurfchamplain.com. Learn to stand-up paddleboard with Paddlesurf Champlain! Get on board for a very fun and simple new way to explore the lake and work your body head to toe. Instruction on paddle handling and balance skills to get you moving your first time out. Learn why people love this Hawaiian-rooted sport the first time they try it.

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women FURTHER EXPLORATIONS OF WHITE BUFFALO WOMAN: Jul. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $35/ person. Location: Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Milton. Info: 893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo.com. We will continue our explorations with the purity, beauty and love of White Buffalo Woman through shamanic journeys, drumming, songs, chants and sharing.

This is for newcomers, as well as those who came in May. We will leave feeling refreshed on every level—spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically—as White Buffalo Woman pours her rainbow light and love to support us as we shine our light into our sweet Earth!

wood INTRO. TO FURNITURE MAKING: Choose either Jun. 23-26; Jul. 21-24; or Aug. 1821. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $369/4day workshop. Location: Vermont Woodworking School

out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt. com/evoblog.

LAUGHING RIVER YOGA: $13/ class, $110/10 classes, $130/ monthly unlimited, Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. classes by donation.

Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. Info: 343-8119, emily@laughingriveryoga. com, laughingriveryoga.com.

Experienced and compassionate teachers offer Kripalu, Jivamukti, Vajra, Flow, Yin, Restorative, Kundalini, Iyengar, PranaVayu and DJ Groove yoga. Educate yourself with monthly workshops and class series. YogaSurf retreats in Maine and Costa Rica. Yoga Teacher Training begins January 2012. Deepen your understanding of who you are.

All levels welcome!

YOGA AT SOUTH END STUDIO: Classes ongoing, check website for schedule. Cost: $13/class; class passes avail.

Location: South End Studio, 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 540-0044, southendstudiovt.com. We have a variety of great yoga classes for all levels. New this summer: Rise and Shine Vinyasa Flow, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 6:30-7:40 a.m. Need to get to work? Bring your towel, we have a shower! Other classes: Yoga Church, Basic Hatha, Vigorous Vinyasa, Mindful and Kripalu. Summer special: unlimited pass for July and August only $225.

YOGA/BIKING PROGRESSION SERIES: Sun., Jul. 10, Jul. 31 & Aug. 14. Cost: $85/session; $225/all 3. Location: Catamount Outdoor Family Center, 592 Gov. Chittenden Rd., Williston. Info: Singletrack Mindfulness-Yoga and Biking Retreats, Jennie Date, 578-3735, jenniedate@ singletrackmindfulness.com, singletrackmindfulness.com.

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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: 864-7902, 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: Beginner’s class, Wed., 5:30.

All-levels class on Sat., 8:30 a.m. No class on the following Saturdays: July 9, July 30.

Cost: $16/class. Location: Vermont Tai Chi Academy & Healing Center, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Turn right into driveway immediately after the railroad tracks.

Located in the old Magic Hat Brewery building. Info: 3186238. Tai Chi is a slow-moving martial art that combines deep breathing and graceful movements to produce the valuable effects of relaxation, improved concentration, improved balance, a decrease

200-HOUR YOGA ALLIANCE TEACHER TRAINING WITH SHIVASHAKTI SCHOOL OF YOGA: Sep. 22-Feb. 5. Cost: $2,400/course, to start.

Location: Dreaming Mountain Retreat, E. Johnson. Info: 207431-8079, shivashaktiyogaschool.com. Ready to transform

your life and become a certified yoga teacher? Join experienced faculty for a comprehensive yoga teacher training at Dreaming Mountain Retreat. This program will guide you deep into the heart of yoga through extensive study in postures, breathing, anatomy and physiology, yogic philosophy, meditation and much more.

EVOLUTION YOGA: $14/ class, $130/class card. $5-10 community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington.

Info: 864-9642, yoga@evolutionvt.com, evolutionvt.com.

Evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner to advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, Anusara-inspired, Kripalu and Iyengar yoga.

Babies/kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre-/postnatal yoga, and check

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PACHAKUTI MESA TRADITIONS: Fri. 7-10 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $255/3-day class. Location: Pachakuti Mesa Traditions, 166 Elmore Rd., Worcester. Info: Heart of the Healer Foundation, Thomas Mock, 828-817-5034, thomasmock@windstream. net, heartofthehealer.org. A rare opportunity to apprentice in this Shamanic tradition from Peru. The Pachakuti Mesa was brought to the U.S.

by Oscar Miro-Quesada. Oscar sanctioned Thomas to share these shamanic teachings worldwide. To learn about the Pachakuti Mesa go to mesaworks.com; to learn more

barn, 148 Main St., Fairfax.

Info: Vermont Woodworking School, Carina Driscoll, 849-2013, info@vermontwoodworkingschool.com, vermontwoodworkingschool. com. Learn the fundamentals of woodworking in our historic barn in Fairfax. Start with rough lumber and make a Shaker Hall table in four days.

In addition to course registration fee, there is a materials fee of $85 for a maple table, and $120 for a cherry table.

Open to beginners.

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Janet Makaris, instructor.

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CERAMIC LECTURE & DEMONSTRATION: Aug. 6, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $60/lecture & demo. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: 2538358, helenday.com. Robert Crystal is a master ceramicist creating high-fired, functional pottery, decorative ceramic pieces and large slab murals.

He will be demonstrating wheel-thrown functional pottery, pulled handles and other methods of embellishment.

Pieces will include larger pots, some built in sections.

Discussion will include techniques of glazing, methods of firing, running a business and other things pertaining to a lifetime in clay.

about the apprenticeship, go to heartofthehealer.org.

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’ve never had a desire to become famous,” says Jay Blanchard, owner and founder of Burlington’s experimental music “microlabel” Mars Pyramid. He’s sipping on a TLA India Pale Ale in the bustling dining room of American Flatbread and holding forth on why the music he releases will never be popular. Over the next hour of conversation, Blanchard transitions easily from abstract-expressionist painters to food culture to celebrity meltdowns — all while calmly munching gourmet pizza.

“I think the avant-garde is appreciated a lot more in visual art than it is in other mediums,” says Blanchard, 32, who focused on experimental film and video-art installation at Penn State.

“There are tens of thousands of people who can enter a museum and rush toward the Jackson Pollock or towards the [Jean-Michel] Basquiat or [Robert] Rauschenberg, but at the same time, you don’t see that kind of embrace of something that’s completely over the top in music,” he laments.

And yet, Blanchard is encouraged by Americans’ love of the Food Network.

The self-professed foodie points toward the pizza in front of him as an example of the way Americans are embracing adventurous food. Among the ingredients in front of him are grilled peaches, blue

cheese and balsamic glaze.

“This isn’t something that would be normally mainstream, but people are willing to try it,” he points out. “And it’s the same way I feel about a lot of experimental art, and music in particular, is the fact that it’s exciting to try something that — you might hate it, but you might love it at the same time. Whereas, listening to a pop album, you know what you’re in for,” Blanchard continues. “It might be a little bit exciting, but it’s not going to blow your mind.”

Blanchard might be onto something.

Whatever experimental music is, it’s having a moment in the national zeitgeist right now, and some Burlington musicians and label owners are helping to make that happen. NNA Tapes, run by Toby Aronson and Matt Mayer, was recently named one of the six best cassette labels in the country by none other than mainstream curator SPIN magazine.

And Autumn Records label head Greg Davis was quoted in a recent article in the Los Angeles Times on the resurgence of New Age music. (New Age is his jam, FYI.) Blanchard doesn’t mind that he’s not getting calls from the mainstream press.

Not yet, anyway.

“I’m at a point in my life where I’m confident enough with where I am that I don’t need to be the hippest guy in

town,” he says with typical modesty. “I never have been, I never will be.”

Blanchard’s roots in underground art run deep. Though he can reference famous visual artists to make a point, his real affinity is with underground filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage, who were early influences when Blanchard was an undergrad. But early in his college years, he realized he wasn’t going to make a living as a filmmaker. While his friends were drawn to Quentin Tarantino, Blanchard loved Fellini.

“I was drawn to the dark, European stuff,” he says. “I was driven more by the aesthetic than the dialogue.”

Blanchard’s college roommate turned him on to experimental music. Brian Eno’s early ambient albums, Radiohead’s Kid A, and his first, live harsh-noise shows were touchstones in his evolution from listening to Bob Dylan to running a label that specializes in drone and ambient music that’s way under the radar.

But it wasn’t until that same friend was fatally shot in a tragic accident that Blanchard started making his own music.

He had played some guitar and a little keyboard for years, but didn’t take it seriously until his friend and collaborator died.

“He was such an influence on me, personally and creatively, that I kinda felt the need to take that on,” Blanchard

music says. “I probably never would have gotten into music had that not happened.”

Around the time of his friend’s death, Blanchard was resettling in his native Burlington after his years in State College, Penn., attending Penn State. He was working a corporate job and writing a music blog, called Spitting Out Teeth, when he started to follow other local bloggers such as Tanner McCuin (Highgate) and JB Ledoux (the le duo).

They all became fast friends, and eventually contributed to McCuin and Josh LaClair’s online forum and record label Aether Everywhere. That’s when Blanchard realized that a label could be the perfect outlet for his creative interests. He launched Mars Pyramid in 2009.

Though the label has released mostly arty avant-garde and experimental work, Blanchard emphasizes that Mars Pyramid isn’t solely an outlet for ambient, noise, drone or any other subgenre.

He points to Burlington singer-songwriter Lady Lioness’ easily accessible 2010 CD-R The Glimmer and the Gleam as an example.

In the batch of four CD-Rs Mars Pyramid released last month, albums

by Anton Caligula Maiof, Even the Dew Is Porous and Comoros all feature long, dense, ambient compositions, but Wirefall’s eponymous debut is an outlier: It’s full of short, playful, prog-rock instrumentals.

“You don’t have to be over-the-top experimental crazy [to be on Mars Pyramid],” says Blanchard. He explains that even the name Mars Pyramid is meant to be a tongue-in-cheek parody of what he calls the “New Age conspiracy-theoryladen scene” that was becoming popular in experimental music when he started the label.

“It’s the label for people who love experimental sounds but don’t have the ability/desire to try to fit in to the pseudo-bohemian, paranoid twentysomething scene,” he says. “It’s not meant to be negative, though. We’re just offering an alternative.”

Mars Pyramid’s CD release party is at the Monkey House in Winooski on Wednesday, July 28. marspyramid.com

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the little hipster haunt that could, the evening also marks reverse neutrAl drive’s debut at the Bean — that is, the first time the Burlington band has played there in its twoyear-plus existence, which I find almost impossible to believe. I mean, I was pretty sure playing Radio Bean was written into the bylaws as a mandatory rite of passage before one could be admitted into the Benevolent Order of Burlington Rockers. Well, that and throwing up in the alley behind Nectar’s. But I digress.

Band Name of the Week:

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve sung the praises of mildred mOOdy’s Full Moon Masquerade at Parima in these pages. Although, since they’ve been doing it monthly since January and we’re now in July, I’m gonna go ahead and guess six. Let’s make it seven, shall we? With another full moon shortly upon us, it is once again, as Mildred Moody’s scOtt mAngAn would say, that time of the month. Cute, no? Anyway, this month the full moon lands on Friday, July 15. In celebration of the impending lunar lunacy, spiffy new baby-makin’ music makers crAig mitchell & mOtOr city take the stage to lead the undulating masses through a night of debauched hedonism. Or maybe just some sweaty, raunchy R&B. Either way, I’m there. Unless …

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It’s a jam-packed week, filled with all manner of rocking and/or rolling, from hip-hop royalty to folk freakin’ to straight floatin’ on a boat.

And who knows, there might even be a benefit show or two. OK, there is definitely a benefit show or two.

Frankly, there is so much to cover and so little space.

So with that in mind, let’s rip through a classic all-bites edition of Soundbites, shall we? Buckle up.

4WOrd PrOductiOns, and dJs A-dOg and tJ. But the guest

of honor is none other than rapper APAthy. The MC was a founding member of demigOdz and get Busy cOmmittee, which certainly lends him serious cred. But get this. He is also, according to his press releases, “the King of Connecticut.” No, not the King of Conn. Rap, or the King of Conn. Hip-Hop. Just the King of Connecticut.

Period. Now that’s some ballsy PR, no?

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Rupa & the apRil Fishes SaT, 7/16 | $10 aDv / $12 DOS | DOORS 8, SHOW 8:30PM NIGHTMaRE vERMONT PRESENTS

halloween in July Red Molly heavy Metal Kings Feat. ill Bill & vinnie paz oF Jedi SUN, 7/17 | $13 aDv / $15 DOS | DOORS 7:30, SHOW 8PM | SEaTED

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Mind tRicKs, slaine, Q-uniQue WED, 7/20 | $20 aDv / $23 DOS | DOORS 8, SHOW 8:30PM 104.7 THE POINT WELCOMES aN EvENING WITH

couRt yaRd hounds Feat. MaRtie MaguiRe & eMily RoBison (oF dixie chicKs)

FRI, 7/22 | $16 aDv / $20 DOS / $40 PaSSPORT | DOORS 7:30, SHOW 8PM CUMBaNCHa, PUTUMayO, THE MUSIC vOyaGER, 104.7 THE POINT PRESENT SUMMER GLOBaL MUSIC vOyaGE

BoMBino veRMont dRag idol caMp: the pRide night Ball undeRoath stRay FRoM the path, SaT, 7/23 | $12 aDv / $12 DOS | DOORS 6:30, SHOW 7PM | 18+

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Leading off, we’ve got backto-back hip-hop hurrahs at Club Metronome this week.

Wednesday, July 13, dJ Oh-J Freshhh amps up his weekly Homegrown Wednesday residency with some live local acts: the AlgOrhythms, eAregulArs (FAce One and BrutAlly hOnest), memArAndA and WOmBAticus rex. The following night, Thursday, July 14, ASAP Entertainment hosts the “Hip-hop Summer Kickoff Extravaganza” … several weeks after summer technically started. But I fear we are splitting hairs. The lineup features some topnotch local talent, including cOlBy stiltz, hABit And the

mAdmen, the Earegulars,

confess, when I first saw this on the Radio Bean schedule, I was sincerely afraid local drummer FrAnK zAmiellO had started some bizarre experimental rock side project. Naked.

Anyway, I’m happy — and relieved — to report that this Virginia-based pop outfit has nothing to do with Franky, or anyone’s anatomy, for that matter. Instead, they write sugary, and at times cinematically expansive, little art-pop confections that I’m guessing fans of bands such as mArgOt And the nucleAr sO And sO’s, Blind PilOt or our old pals gOOd Old WAr will eat up with a spork. Dig in at the Bean this Friday, July 15.

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Though you may be more likely to find jesters than royalty — unless you count keyboardist AdAm King, of course — few things say “summer in Vermont” like “gettin’ drunk listening to music on a boat.” So I’m guessing this Friday’s seafaring expedition with the deAd sessiOns, titled “Dead in the Water,” should fit the bill, especially among the Deadhead set. But be forewarned, chronically late hippie sailors. The boat leaves the King Street Ferry Dock at 8 p.m. sharp.

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it’s unlikely “Hank done it this way,” even Hillbilly Shakespeare might kick up his heels at a LOCASH COWBOYS show. Well, maybe

not. OK, definitely not. Still, countless thousands of fans do, making the Nashville-based duo one of the hottest pop-country acts working today. This Sunday, July 17, the chart-topping Cowboys sidle in to the Higher Ground Ballroom with boot-scootin’ troubadour GLEN TEMPLETON.

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THE BLACK DOOR: Comedy Open Mic with B.O.B. (standup), 8 p.m., Free.

1/2 LOUNGE: Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m.

CHARLIE O'S: The Woedoggies (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Jive Attic (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

MULLIGAN'S IRISH PUB: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: DJ OH-J Freshhh presents Homegrown Wednesdays: Algorhythms, Earegulars, Memaranda, Wombaticus Rex (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3.

PURPLE MOON PUB: Phineas Gage (bluegrass), 7 p.m., Free.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

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HIGHER GROUND SHOWCASE LOUNGE: Summer Global Music Voyage with Rupa & the April Fishes (world music), 8 p.m., $16/20/40. AA.

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LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: James Harvey & Rob Morse (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LIFT: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

MANHATTAN PIZZA & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Dirty Bird, 5 p.m., Free. Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1.

Sam Wheeler, Remy de Laroque, Daydreamilla (acoustic), 9 p.m., $5.

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NECTAR'S: Steppin' Cerca, the Van Burens (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Pine Street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free.

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RADIO BEAN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE: Joshua Panda Band (soul, Americana), 7 p.m., Free. DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Sunset Session: Gold Town Duo (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation. Sunset Session: Gold Town Duo (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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CITY LIMITS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Bluegrass Session, 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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BEE'S KNEES: Cal Stanton & Carrie Cook (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

MOOG'S: The Ramblers (bluegrass), 8:30 p.m., Free.

THE SHED RESTAURANT & BREWERY: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 8 p.m., Free.

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MONOPOLE: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

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1/2 LOUNGE: Andrew Parker-Renga (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Harder They Come with DJs Darcie and Chris Pattison (dubstep), 10 p.m., Free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Funkwagon (funk), 6 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: ASAP Ent. Presents the Hip Hop Summer Kickoff: Apathy, Colby Stiltz, Habit and the Madmen, Earegulars, 4Word Productions (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $7/10.

FARMHOUSE TAP & GRILL: Ryan Ober (electric country-blues), 7 p.m., Free.

FRANNY O'S: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: The Move It Move It (Afro-pop), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

THE GREEN ROOM: DJ OH-J Freshhh (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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

HALVORSON'S UPSTREET CAFÉ: Friends of Joe (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

central

LEUNIG'S BISTRO & CAFÉ: Ellen Powell & Peter Krag (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LIFT: Get LiFTed with DJs Nastee & Dakota (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free.

MONKEY HOUSE: Colin Clary, Brad Hinton and Jack Beyers, James Kochalka, Missy Bly (indie rock), 9 p.m., Free ($5. 18+).

NECTAR'S: Trivia Mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

The Defibulators, Wiley Dobbs (Americana), 10 p.m., $7/10.

O'BRIEN'S IRISH PUB: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Burgundy Thursdays with Joe Adler, Antara, WeMustBe, Jessica Smucker, Shannon Hawley (singer-songwriters), 8:30 p.m., $3.

RADIO BEAN: Jazz Sessions, 6 p.m., Free. Shane Hardiman Trio (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. The Unbearable Light Cabaret (eclectic), 10 p.m., $3. Kat Wright & the Indomitable Soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3.

RASPUTIN'S: 101 Thursdays with Pres & DJ Dan (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free/$5.

18+.

RED SQUARE: DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free. A-Dog Presents (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Cre8 (house), 9 p.m., Free.

RÍ RÁ IRISH PUB: Longford Row (Irish), 8 p.m., Free.

CHARLIE O'S: First Crush, Wildcat (indie), 10 p.m., Free.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: Thirsty Thursday Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

NUTTY STEPH'S: Bacon Thursdays with Noble Savage (electro), 10 p.m., Free.

SLIDE BROOK LODGE & TAVERN: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free. DJ Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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51 MAIN: Moors & McCumber (folk), 8 p.m., Free.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: Open Mic, 7:30 p.m., Free.

TWO BROTHERS TAVERN: Salsa Night with DJ Hector Cobeo, 10 p.m., Free.

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BEE'S KNEES: Zack duPont (singersongwriter), 4:30 p.m., Donations.

THE HUB PIZZERIA & PUB: Guitar Jazz with Fabian, 6 p.m., Free.

MOOG'S: Sam Averbuck (rock), 8:30 p.m., Free.

RIMROCKS MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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MONOPOLE: Peacock Tunes & Trivia, 5 p.m., Free.

MONOPOLE DOWNSTAIRS: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free.

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… I’m in my childhood stomping grounds in Charlotte this Friday, which I may just be. I’ve been feeling very nostalgic of late and could really go for a creemee from Uncle Sam’s, or maybe an ill-gotten bottle of Boone’s Farm or Haffenreffer after dark on Mount Philo. And I digress again. The real reason I’d go back to the ’Lot is to catch BOB WAGNER & FRIENDS with the JOSHUA PANDA BAND and songwriter JOHN CREECH at the Old Lantern.

The show is a benefit for Friends of the Island Line Trail, a cooperative venture of Burlington Parks & Rec., Colchester Parks & Rec., VT Fish and Wildlife and Local Motion aiming to repair the trail. If you recall, it was pretty badly roughed up during the historic Great Flood of ’11. Tickets for the show are available at Muddy Waters and Advance Music in Burlington — or directly through BTV Parks & Rec. — at Home Ecology

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in Shelburne, and at the Old Brick Store, Little Garden Market and Spear’s Corner Store in Charlotte.

Is it me, or is Friday shaping up to a really busy night?

Back on the benefit bandwagon, lakeside locales were not the only areas affected by this spring’s epic flooding. Downtown Montpelier was also seriously waterlogged, particularly by a May 26 flood that damaged numerous buildings and businesses — and cost Langdon Street Café one of its final shows. Among the businesses damaged was Kismet, the State Street joint that has amped up its entertainment schedule of late and helped soften the blow left by LSC’s departure.

On Wednesday, July 20, the restaurant hosts Kismet Flood Relief, a stand-up comedy showcase to benefit, um, Kismet. Among the

performers are KATHLEEN KANZ, COLIN RYAN, TRACIE SPENCER, JOEL CHAVES and MARTHA TORMEY. Wednesday, July 13, the fine folks from the Champlain Valley Folk Festival will hold a press conference at Union Station in Burlington to announce this year’s lineup — the 28th annual, no less. Since I won’t be able to attend, the folks at CVFF were nice enough to pass along the lineup ahead of time. And it’s a good one.

Some highlights from the fest, which runs from Friday, July 29, through Sunday, July 31, include famed labor-song singer SI KAHN, balladeer JEFF DAVIS, BRIAN PETERS — who is apparently one of “England’s top squeezebox players” — RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM, and Québecois dance band RAZ DE MAREE, among many, many others. For more info on tickets, the lineup or any of the wealth of cultural exhibitions and seminars that happen in concert with the fest, visit cvfest.org.

Last but not least, this just in from the Dept. of Corrections. Last week’s column contained an embarrassing and regrettable goof. In the lead segment, “Girl Power,” about local riotgrrl trio DOLL FIGHT!’s ongoing search for a female bass guitar instructor for their upcoming rock camp, Girls Rock Vermont, I attributed the line, “It’s different for girls,” to ELVIS COSTELLO. But as alert reader MATT NUNAN correctly pointed out, the line belongs to JOE JACKSON. 12v-Nectars071311.indd 1 7/12/11 3:52 PM In my defense, Jackson was always something of a poor man’s Costello — CLYDE DREXLER to Costello’s MICHAEL JORDAN, if you will. Although, I’d argue Jackson’s output from 1979 to 1982 stands up pretty well against Costello’s from the same period, especially Look Sharp!, Beat Crazy and the record from whence the aforementioned line comes, I’m the Man. Those are some 1190 Mountain Road, Stowe great albums. In any event, 253-6245 • rustynailbar.com my apologies for the error.

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lighter is just bad luck, on par with crossing paths with a black cat or strolling under a ladder. It’s telling, then, that JOE FLETCHER & THE WRONG REASONS would dub their debut record White Lighter. As any good alt-country record should, Fletcher and company deliver dusty tales of love gone wrong, bad decisions and the boozing that generally precedes/follows it. Or, precisely the kind of thing that happens when you carry a white lighter. Press your luck when the band stops by the Skinny Pancake in Burlington this Saturday, July 16, and again at the Skinny Pancake in Montpelier on Sunday, July 17.

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NECTAR'S: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

Love in Stockholm, Chappo (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

ON TAP BAR & GRILL: Paydirt (rock), 5 p.m., Free. Smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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

BANANA WINDS CAFÉ & PUB: Hoochie Koo (rock), 7:30 p.m., Free.

BREAKWATER CAFÉ: Phil Abair Band (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

CLUB METRONOME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

HALVORSON'S UPSTREET CAFÉ: Cam Cross and the Funkleberries (funk), 8 p.m., $5.

PARK PLACE TAVERN: Prana (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

RADIO BEAN: Reverse Neutral Drive, the 327s (rock), 10 p.m., Free. The Anatomy of Frank (rock), midnight, Free.

RASPUTIN'S: DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $3.

RED SQUARE: DJ Chad Mira (hip-hop), 2 p.m., Free. Kelly Ravin (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Groundfood (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

BIG PICTURE THEATER & CAFÉ: Spielpalast Cabaret (variety), 8 p.m., $25/30.

THE BLACK DOOR: The Kris Gruen Band, Chop Chop (indie folk, electro-pop), 9:30 p.m., Free.

CHARLIE O'S: Live Music, 10 p.m., Free.

GREEN MOUNTAIN TAVERN: DJ Jonny P (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2.

POSITIVE PIE 2: DJ Ben Arsenal (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., $3.

THE RESERVOIR RESTAURANT & TAP ROOM: DJ Slim Pknz All Request Dance Party (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

TUPELO MUSIC HALL: Sandra Bernhard (standup), 8 p.m., $50. AA.

champlain valley

51 MAIN: Bob Gagnon Trio (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free. Remy de Laroque & Ted Looby (singersongwriters), 10 p.m., Free.

CITY LIMITS: Top Hat Entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

RED SQUARE BLUE ROOM: DJ Stavros (house), 10 p.m., $5.

ON THE RISE BAKERY: The Relics (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

HIGHER GROUND BALLROOM: AWOLNation, Bear hands, Redlight King (hip-hop), 8 p.m., $0.99. AA.

RUBEN JAMES: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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

JP'S PUB: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

THE SKINNY PANCAKE: Andrea Nardello, Eric Cannizzaro & Matthias Sirch (folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

LIFT: Salsa Friday with DJ Hector Cobeo (salsa), 9 p.m., Free.

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MONKEY HOUSE: Darlingside, Zack duPont, Caitlin Canty (indie folk), 9 p.m., $5.

PARIMA MAIN STAGE: Mike Colbourn, the John Tower Project (Americana), 7 p.m., $3. Mildred Moody's Full Moon Masquerade with Craig Mitchell & Motor City (r&b), 10 p.m., $5.

THE GREEN ROOM: DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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Old Man Winter already seems a distant daydream, and yet every Vermonter worth his or her maple knows colder months are just around the corner. That doesn’t seem to worry Al Davis. With Sun Off Snow, the six-string journeyman breaks from his regular gig as a Midnite Plowboy to carve solo tracks on a debut as fresh as the white season itself.

Long a disciple of first-generation bluegrass, Davis draws licks from Bill Monroe and the iconic Foggy Bottom Boys, but isn’t afraid to pepper the mix with hillbilly boogie. His baker’s dozen of Dazzlers boasts some of the state’s pickin’ and fiddlin’ phenoms, among them Will and Banjo Dan Lindner, David Gusakov, Nate Amos and Gordon Stone.

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The local folkie community has buzzed for years about a rarely heard but magically marvelous singer in central Vermont who is equally comfortable singing in English or French, and who used to tour with European folk-rock royalty. That would be Nikki Matheson.

Invisible Angel,, her new CD of diverse and beautiful music, showcases the many talents of the Moretown musician.

The title could be an apt description of the artist herself — at least the invisible part. Some of the music recorded on this disc has been waiting for decades to be heard. Matheson herself has been quietly waiting, along with friends and fans. Because, as John Lennon so succinctly put it, “Life happens while you’re busy making other plans.”

The 13 tracks on Invisible Angel present a kaleidoscope of musical colors. They include French chanson, the Matheson-penned waltz-time title track, a luscious duet with Richard Shindell on the Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter love song “To Lay Me Down,” a jazzy version of Maria Muldaur’s “Do I Care” that recalls a smoky New York City bar circa 1947, a wild and breezy interpretation of Ola Belle Reed’s oldtimey classic “High on a Mountain,” and so much more.

In addition to having a drop-dead lovely voice, Matheson supplies sinuous piano and clarinet lines throughout the recording. She also employs all sorts of talented local musicians, including mandolin king Will Patton and piper Tim Cummings, as well as some of her former French musical partners on tracks resurrected from the “vaults.”

reciprocate Davis’ years of service by guesting throughout Snow. The eclectic, 12-track release is a prism of Yankee ethos; self-satisfied, cheeky and rooted in tradition. “We’re the husk of the old, we’re the seed of the new” sings Davis on the organ-laden opener, “Stand by Me.” Rife with folksy rhythm and rhyme, this is uncomplicated Americana.

“Real Estate” is a tuneful, authentic twist whose plucky mandolin and endearing narrative exude a rare timelessness. Stone’s pedal steel slides under Gusakov’s fiddle, while Davis dryly laments, “My son he lives in Tampa, and I don’t know what he does.”

Imagine a wry Johnny Cash sweetened by barber-shop harmonies.

Flatlanders might balk at the anachronism, but Davis’ rural sound is as legit as an Appalachian coal mine.

His beloved Green Mountains have produced a quirky character rich with northern humor.

Davis himself classifies Sun Off Snow as a confluence of “the tributaries of Cajun, gospel, Dixieland, cool jazz and country — which flow into the great American river of music.” Can’t argue with that. The workaday chorus of “Goin’ North” evokes Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, while corny anthems (“Snow Plowin’”) and country yarns (“The Right Fielder Waits”) show an earnestness that’s sorely absent from today’s ironic landscape. Even crackerbarrel melodies such as “Brave Boat” stick to your ribs, by dint of their catchy choruses and easy cadence.

Buried amid the kitsch, however, are meditations that hint at a darker Davis. The brisk “Death Come Down to Danville” is a foot-thumper that marries campfire charisma with Lindner’s breakneck banjo. And don’t miss “Business Cycle,” an uptempo indictment of Wall Street, whose urgent shuffle belies the deep malaise Davis shares with most Americans: “They shed their tailored clothing and they wrap up in the flag, they’re looking for somebody to smile and hold the bag.”

Casting a playful yet suspicious eye on the world outside, Davis proves he’s ready for just about anything.

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The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Conscious Roots (reggae), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Matterhorn: Eames Brothers (blues-rock), 9 p.m., $5.

Roadside Tavern: Nomad (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

regional

Naked Turtle: Ross Mafia (rock), 10 p.m., NA.

Higher Ground Ballroom: Court Yard Hounds with Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson of the Dixie Chicks (country), 8:30 p.m., $20/23. AA.

Olive Ridley's: Benjamin Bright (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Paul Asbell & Clyde Stats (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Monopole: Open Source (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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1/2 Lounge: Jenni Johnson (blues), 7 p.m., Free. SinOrgy DJs: T-Watt, R2 & QDO (house), 10 p.m., Free.

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impossibly catchy. On Friday, July 15, Chop Chop land at the Black Door in Montpelier with Kris Gruen. (country), 10 p.m., $3.

Breakwater Café: The Horse Traders (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

central

The Green Room: Bonjour-Hi! presents DJ Craig Mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Halloween in July (house), 8:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. JP's Pub: Dave Harrison's Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

Marriott Harbor Lounge: Cassarino Trio (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Bill Buyer (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. Dr. Green (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Radio Flyer (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Oscar's Bistro and Bar: Marty Power Jazz Ensemble, 8:45 p.m., Free.

Parima Main Stage: Micah Plante (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., $3. Miriam Bernardo Band, Swale (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5.

Radio Bean: Less Digital, More Manual: Record Club, 3 p.m., Free. Tin Cup Gypsy (folk), 8 p.m., Free. Pooloop (experimental), 10 p.m., Free. Railbird and the Rex Complex (rock), 11 p.m., Free.

Rasputin's: Nastee (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Red Square: DJ Raul (salsa), 5 p.m., Free. Perry Nunn (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. Events Are Objects (rock), 9 p.m., $5. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $5.

The Skinny Pancake: Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons (alt-country), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Venue: Phil 'n' the Blanks

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Vermont Pub & Brewery: Clean Slate (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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Backstage Pub: Buddah (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

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1/2 Lounge: Rewind with DJ Craig Mitchell, 10 p.m. Clancy Harris (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: DJ OH-J Freshhh presents Homegrown Wednesdays (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free. Cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 9 p.m., Free.

Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: Friday Night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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Breakwater Café: Raptor (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

Moog's: The Hamiltones (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

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The Black Door: Bruce Sklar Quartet (funk), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Charlie O's: Paydirt (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Tupelo Music Hall: Jow Bowie and Sol Food (funk), 8 p.m., $15. AA.

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burlington area

1/2 Lounge: Funhouse with DJs Rob Douglas, Moonflower & Friends (house), 10 p.m., Free.

Breakwater Café: King Me (acoustic), 2 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: Black to the Future (urban jamz), 10 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

Higher Ground Ballroom: LoCash Cowboys, Glen Templeton (country), 7:30 p.m., $14/16. AA.

City Limits: The Hitmen (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Red Molly (bluegrass), 8 p.m., $13/15. AA.

51 Main: Honeywell (folk), 8 p.m., Free.

Two Brothers Tavern: Grant/ Black (rock), 10 a.m., $3.

northern

Bee's Knees: Z-Jaz (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

Moog's: Sweet and Lowdown (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Parker Pie Co.: Wombaticus Rex, Algorhythms (hip-hop), 8 p.m., Free.

Rimrocks Mountain Tavern: DJ Two Rivers (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

Roadside Tavern: Live DJ (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

regional

Monopole: Live Music (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Naked Turtle: Party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., NA. Tabu Café & Nightclub: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

Monkey House: Comedy Night hosted by Kathleen Kanz (standup), 7 p.m., $5. 18+. John Smyth, Tim Berry (singersongwriters), 9 p.m., Free (18+).

Monty's Old Brick Tavern: George Voland JAZZ: Fred Haas, Sabina Brown-Haas, Dan Skea, 4:30 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.

Parima Main Stage: Dr. Ruckus, Ben Ripani Music Co. (funk), 7 p.m., $5.

Radio Bean: Old Time Sessions (old-time), 1 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (gypsy jazz), 5 p.m., Free.

Butcher the Waldos, Pamola (rock), 7 p.m., Free. 117 & Darren Deicide (rock), 10:15 p.m., Free.

Red Square: Soul Patrol (r&b), 8 p.m., Free. DJ ZJ (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

central

The Skinny Pancake: Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons (alt-country), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Tupelo Music Hall: Edwin McCain, Seth Glier (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., $30. AA.

northern

Sweet Crunch Bake Shop: Spider Roulette with Keith Williams (bluegrass), 10:30 a.m., Free.

Ye Olde England Inne: Corey Beard, Dan Liptak and Dan Haley (jazz), 11:30 a.m., Free.

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1/2 Lounge: Burning Down Mondays with Selector Dubee (reggae), 10 p.m., Free.

Monkey House: Jimmy Ruin, Claudia Pawlikowski (singersongwriters), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

Nectar's: Metal Mondays with Nefarious Frenzy, Wrathchild, Filty Minutes of Fame (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Open Mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free.

Red Square: ZDP Band presents Massive Mondates (rock), 8 p.m., Free. Hype ’Em (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (electronica), 9 p.m., Free.

Higher Ground Showcase Lounge: Heavy Metal Kings with Ill Bill & Vinnie Paz of Jedi Mind Tricks (hip-hop), 8:30 p.m., $13/15. AA.

Parima Main Stage: The Chroma Concept (funk), 9 p.m., $3.

Monty's Old Brick Tavern: Open Mic, 6 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Nox Periculum, Travel North (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

Radio Bean: Gua Gua (psychotropical), 6 p.m., Free. Neon Campfire (Americana), 8:30 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.

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1/2 Lounge: Live Music, 7 p.m., Free. Turntable Tuesday with DJ Kanga (turntablism), 10 p.m., Free.

Club Metronome: Bass

Nectar's: Amnesia: A Tribute to Ibiza Music with DJ Crook$, the Real Bobby Digital, Robot (house), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Monkey House: Neon Campfire, Don and Jenn (acoustic), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

Ruben James: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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Monkey House: Dirty Bird, 5 p.m., Free. Beat Vision with DJ Disco Phantom (eclectic DJ), 9 p.m., $1. Waylon Speed, Cannon Fodder (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

On Tap Bar & Grill: Leno & Young (acoustic rock), 7 p.m., Free.

Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern: Tattoo Tuesdays with Andrea (jam), 5 p.m., Free.

Moog's: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8:30 p.m., Free.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

Leunig's Bistro & Café: Cody Sargent Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Rozzi's Lakeshore Tavern: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.

northern

Lift: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

Red Square: DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. Proud Women in Music (rock), 5 p.m., Free.

The Skinny Pancake: Sunset Session: Gold Town Duo (bluegrass), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

central

Charlie O's: John Craigie (blues), 8 p.m., Free.

Gusto's: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

Kismet: Kismet Flood Relief: Kathleen Kanz, Colin Ryan, Tracie Spencer, Joel Chaves, Martha Tormey (standup), 8:30 p.m., $10. 18+.

champlain valley

51 Main: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., Free.

51 Main: Quizz Night (trivia), 7 p.m., Free.

City Limits: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

Two Brothers Tavern: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

On the Rise Bakery: Matt Schrag and Friends (bluegrass), 8 p.m., Free.

northern

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Bee's Knees: Eric Himan (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub: Seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

Moog's: Open Mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

Bee's Knees: Flightless Buttress (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

Moog's: The Ramblers (bluegrass), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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venueS.411 thE ScuffEr StEAk & ALE mANhAttAN PizzA & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 864-6776. houSE, 148 Church St., Burlington, 864-9451. mArriott hArbor LouNgE, 1/2 LouNgE, 136 1/2 Church St., 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 854ShELburNE StEAkhouSE & Burlington, 865-0012.

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SALooN, 2545 Shelburne Rd., 242 mAiN St., Burlington, miguEL’S oN mAiN, 30 Main St., Shelburne, 985-5009.

862-2244.

Burlington, 658-9000. thE SkiNNY PANcAkE, 60 Lake AmEricAN fLAtbrEAD, 115 St. moNkEY houSE, 30 Main St., St., Burlington, 540-0188.

Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999.

Winooski, 655-4563.

VENuE, 127 Porters Point Rd., AuguSt firSt, 149 S. Champlain moNtY’S oLD brick tAVErN, Colchester, 310-4067.

St., Burlington, 540-0060.

7921 Williston Rd., Williston, thE VErmoNt Pub & bAckStAgE Pub, 60 Pearl St., 316-4262.

Essex Jct., 878-5494. brEWErY, 144 College St., muDDY WAtErS, 184 Main St., Burlington, 865-0500. bANANA WiNDS cAfé & Pub, 1 Burlington, 658-0466.

Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752.

NEctAr’S, 188 Main St., thE bLock gALLErY, 1 E. Allen Burlington, 658-4771.

St., Winooski, 373-5150.

NEW mooN cAfé, 150 Cherry St., ArVAD’S griLL & Pub, 3 S. Main bLuEbirD tAVErN, 317 Riverside Burlington, 383-1505.

St., Waterbury, 244-8973.

Ave., Burlington, 428-4696. o’briEN’S iriSh Pub, 348 Main big PicturE thEAtEr & cAfé, brEAkWAtEr cAfé, 1 King St., St., Winooski, 338-4678.

48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496Burlington, 658-6276. oDD fELLoWS hALL, 1416 North 8994. brENNAN’S Pub & biStro, UVM Ave., Burlington, 862-3209. thE bLAck Door, 44 Main St., Davis Center, 590 Main St., oN tAP bAr & griLL, 4 Park St., Montpelier, 223-7070.

Burlington, 656-1204.

Essex Jct., 878-3309. brEAkiNg grouNDS, 245 Main citY SPortS griLLE, 215 Lower oScAr’S biStro & bAr, 190 St., Bethel, 392-4222.

Mountain View Dr., Colchester, Boxwood Dr., Williston, 655-2720. thE cENtEr bAkErY & cAfE, 878-7082.

2007 Guptil Rd., Waterbury cLub mEtroNomE, 188 Main St., PArimA, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, Center, 244-7500.

Burlington, 865-4563.

864-7917. chArLiE o’S, 70 Main St., frANNY o’S, 733 Queen City Park PArk PLAcE tAVErN, 38 Park St., Montpelier, 223-6820.

Rd., Burlington, 863-2909.

Essex Jct. 878-3015. cJ’S At thAN WhEELErS, 6 S. thE grEEN room, 86 St. Paul St., rADio bEAN, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Main St., White River Jct., Burlington, 651-9669.

Burlington, 660-9346.

280-1810. hALVorSoN’S uPStrEEt cAfé, rASPutiN’S, 163 Church St., grEEN mouNtAiN tAVErN, 10 16 Church St., Burlington, Burlington, 864-9324.

Keith Ave., Barre, 522-2935.

658-0278. rED SquArE, 136 Church St., guSto’S, 28 Prospect St., Barre, highEr grouND, 1214 Williston Burlington, 859-8909.

476-7919.

Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777. rEguLAr VEtErANS hEN of thE WooD At thE JP’S Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, ASSociAtioN, 84 Weaver St., 658-6389. griStmiLL, 92 Stowe St., Winooski, 655-9899.

Waterbury, 244-7300.

LEuNig’S biStro & cAfé, 115 rÍ rá iriSh Pub, 123 Church St., Church St., Burlington, hoStEL tEVErE, 203 Burlington, 860-9401.

863-3759.

Powderhound Rd., Warren, rozzi’S LAkEShorE tAVErN, 496-9222.

Lift, 165 Church St., Burlington, 1022 W. Lakeshore Dr., 660-2088. kiSmEt, 52 State St. 223-8646.

Colchester, 863-2342. thE LiViNg room, 794 W. L.A.c.E., 159 N. Main St., Barre, rubEN JAmES, 159 Main St., Lakeshore Dr., Colchester.

476-4276.

Burlington, 864-0744.

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LocAL foLk SmokEhouSE, 9 Rt. 7, Waitsfield, 496-5623. mAiN StrEEt griLL & bAr, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. muLLigAN'S iriSh Pub, 9 Maple Ave., Barre, 479-5545.

NuttY StEPh’S, 961C Rt. 2, Middlesex, 229-2090.

PickLE bArrEL NightcLub, Killington Rd., Killington, 4223035.

PoSitiVE PiE 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453.

PurPLE mooN Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422. thE rESErVoir rEStAurANt & tAP room, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827.

SLiDE brook LoDgE & tAVErN, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202.

South StAtioN rEStAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1736. tuPELo muSic hALL, 188 S. Main St., White River Jct., 698-8341.

WhitE rock PizzA & Pub, 848 Rt. 14, Woodbury, 225-5915.

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51 mAiN, 51 Main St., Middlebury, 388-8209. bAr ANtiDotE, 35C Green St., Vergennes, 877-2555. brick box, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570. 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. thE fArmErS DiNEr, 99 Maple St., Middlebury, 458-0455. gooD timES cAfé, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. oN thE riSE bAkErY, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787.

South StAtioN rESAurANt, 170 S. Main St., Rutland, 775-1730.

StArrY Night cAfé, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316. tWo brothErS tAVErN, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

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bEE’S kNEES, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. thE bLuE AcorN, 84 N. Main St., St. Albans, 527-0699. thE brEWSki, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. choW! bELLA, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. cLAirE’S rEStAurANt & bAr, 41 Main St., Hardwick, 4727053. 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. moog’S, Portland St., Morrisville, 851-8225. 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. roADSiDE tAVErN, 216 Rt. 7, Milton, 660-8274. 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.

SNoW ShoE LoDgE & Pub, 13 Main St., Montgomery Center, 326-4456.

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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harlotte painter Alice Murdoch has long been known for her witty, brightly colored figurative works, but her latest collection suggests her paintings are getting conceptually darker even if the colors remain vibrant. Murdoch’s solo exhibition of primarily new work at the Flynn Center’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery delves into harsh subjects with hues that seem almost cheerful — an effective juxtaposition.

The 17 canvases in “Private Pleasures” make the suggested struggles and peccadillos of their subjects very public indeed.

the truth of some subjects stark.”

A dominant theme is the relation of food to our lives, and Murdoch’s women in particular struggle with body image. Their “private pleasures” are embroiled with the tortures of bulimia and anorexia on one side and morbid obesity on the other.

In “Secret Rendezvous,” a fairly normal-looking young woman in a blue dress has just devoured most of a pepperoni pizza. The rendezvous has taken place in the bathroom, and the woman sits, glassy eyed, on the toilet. It’s the troubled portrait of a woman suffering from bulimia.

Murdoch also fills the scene with Matissian patterning in the tile floor and repeated curvy lines in the red wallpaper that echo the woman’s queasiness.

“Gorgeous” depicts a rickety, skeletal girl posed against an empty, gray background. Murdoch has placed her subject on a vertical axis pushed a little left of center. The girl’s skin is a sickly yellow and hangs unnaturally on her protruding bones; her expression is haggard. She seems on the verge of death.

Obesity appears less debilitating than emaciation but still cruel in Murdoch’s paintings. In the 24-by-30-inch “Lunch,” a very fat woman in a strange string bikini is peeking at a doorway, her eager demeanor implying that food is nearby. Murdoch’s composition is simplified, emphasizing the figure leaning toward the door at the end of the shallow hallway. Her pink Caucasian color contrasts with a bright-green floor and aqua-colored walls.

“Coconut Cake” is focused on another

“Secret Rendezvous”

MURDOCH’S SOLO EXHIBITION OF PRIMARILY NEW WORK DELVES INTO

HARSH SUBJECTS WITH HUES THAT SEEM ALMOST CHEERFUL — AN EFFECTIVE JUXTAPOSITION.

“At the Ritz” — also titled “Rehab at the Ritz” on one of Murdoch’s websites — is the oldest piece in the exhibit, and its inclusion illustrates how her work has evolved. The satirical 30-by40-inch canvas dated 2005 skewers the affluent, as much of her previous work did.

It’s a poolside scene focused on a stylish woman in a lounge chair who is reading a magazine called Less — a jab at the glossy journal MORE, whose haughty motto is “for women of style & substance.” A dapper waiter seems to rush along the purple edges of the pool, while the background wall contrasts in pale orange and salmon.

Incongruous tropical birds perch around the scene, and a distant potted plant is trimmed like the tail of a poodle.

Murdoch’s most recent works usually forgo such slyness. In an email about the current show, she writes, “I’ve always coated my issues with humor in my paintings, but can’t do that anymore when I find

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‘20/20’: Work by 20 artists celebrating the gallery’s 20th birthday. Through August 16 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848.

‘A REVERENCE FOR TREES’: Work by artists from Vermont’s Episcopal communities. Through August 31 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington. Info, 864-0471.

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ADAM DEVARNEY: “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” paintings of weary and weathered ghosts of aviation. Through July 30 at Backspace Gallery in Burlington.

ALICE MURDOCH: “Private Pleasures,” oil paintings that focus on the complicated role of food in women’s lives. Through September 24 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington. Info, 652-4500.

ANNEMIE CURLIN: Aerial oil paintings, Gates 1 & 2; KATHLEEN CARAHER: Mixed-media work, Skyway; STEPHEN BEATTIE: Color photography, Escalator.

Through July 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

BETHANY BOND: “Transcend,” photographic assemblages that explore themes of intuition and interconnectedness. Through July 31 at Block Gallery in Winooski. Info, 373-5150.

‘BEYOND LEGOS’: A miniature city handmade from paper and cardboard by Alfred Holden and his brothers and cousins 40 years ago at his family’s home on North Avenue, in Main Reading Room; STEVE BEATTIE: “Waterfalls,” photographs

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corpulent figure. The subject is a woman reclining on a bed beside a white cake, her rotund shape repeated in undulating forms on the quilt and headboard of the bed. A male figure in the background seems of less interest to the woman than her cake.

The painting has an intriguing gold background, like an icon of excess.

Food and body image are not the only issues in this show. The 36-by-36-inch “Vicki” is the poignant portrait of a crossdresser. Murdoch placed her awkward figure against a stark gray background, similar to that of “Gorgeous,” and collaged jewelry onto the painting. The man’s big hands are in white gloves, his body clad in

a red dress. Ultimately, he is quite alone.

Much of Murdoch’s older work is fairly flat, but these more recent figures have greater dimensionality, just as she is addressing more difficult subjects. To do so, she seems to be moving in the direction that painter Arshile Gorky once advised when he said, “Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.”

of Vermont landscapes and national parks, in Pickering Room. Through July 30 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

DOK WRIGHT: “Aria,” photographs that call attention to the smallest intricacies and exemplify the play of light and dark. Through July 31 at 156 The Loft in Burlington. Info, 497-4401.

CATHERINE HALL: “Figures and Faces,” plaster and wax faces cast from distorted latex molds, and encaustic paintings of dolls’ and children’s faces.

Through July 30 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington.

CECILIA MARSHALL: “Shadowboxes,” exquisitely detailed boxes by the New England artist, in Fletcher Room. July 17 through August 14 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

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M A R C AWO D EY Alice Murdoch, “Private Pleasures,” Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington.

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ELLEN (BAMBI) LAPOINTE-FONTAINE: “The Essence of Farming,” watercolors, prints and plaster works depicting Vermont animals and landscapes.

Through August 15 at Healthy Living in South Burlington. Info, 878-6561.

EMILY BISSELL LAIRD: “From This World and Beyond,” oil paintings by the Charlotte artist.

Through August 31 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222.

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Erin inglis: paintings and prints by the vermont artist. Through July 31 at August First in Burlington. Info, 540-0060.

Erin Paul: photographs of agricultural scenes in spring and summer, in the Greenhouse; lyna lou nordstrom: prints, in the Dining Room; adam dEVarnEy: paintings, in the Bar. Through July 31 at The Daily planet in Burlington. Info, 862-9647. ‘gloW: liVing lights’: explore the ecology of bioluminescence with activities and live specimens, from the familiar firefly and glowworm to the alien-looking angler fish and siphonophore, the longest living creature on earth. Through september 5 at echo lake Aquarium and science center/leahy center for lake champlain in Burlington. Info, 877-324-6386. ‘grEEn objEcts/objEts VErts/grünE objEktE’: Jewelry made from found objects.

Through July 31 at Alchemy Jewelry Arts collective in Burlington. Info, tangogrannis@ hotmail.com. jamEs thomPson & kyliE dally: handpainted kites by Thompson; paintings by Dally.

Through August 31 at speaking volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107. jEan cannon: paintings by the Burlington artist.

Through July 31 at vintage Jewelers in Burlington.

Info, 862-2233. jEan luc dushimE: “Un voyage,” photographs of the American landscape by the African former refugee. A portion of the proceeds from print sales go to Diversity Rocks, the vermont Refugee Resettlement program’s youth group. Through August 31 at new Moon café in Burlington. Info, 310-4555. jEssica nissEn: “lucid entanglements,” paintings of mutant and disturbed stuffed animals, and “candy landscapes,” biomorphic abstractions.

Through July 30 at The Firefly collective in Burlington. Info, 660-0754. jim Friday: “Member show II,” photographs by the featured artist, plus work in a variety of media by more than 25 members. Through August 3 at Adirondack Art Association Gallery in essex. Info, 518-963-8309.

july shoW: photographs by peter weyrauch, shayne lynn and stephen Beattie; paintings by Katie Brines, Amanda vella, Tom cullins and lynn Rupe; sculpture by Bill wolff; and fiber art by Karen henderson. Through July 31 at Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

kimbErly garland: layers of paint, recycled materials and trash on canvas by the Burlington visual and performance artist. curated by seABA. Through August 31 at pine street Deli in Burlington.

Info, 862-9614. kimbErly hannaman taylor: “Flowers and Rust,” photographs by the Burlington artist.

Through July 31 at computers for change in Burlington. Info, 279-1623.

work by 25 contemporary origami, cut-paper and book artists; ‘bEhind thE lEns, undEr thE big toP’: Black-and-white circus photography from the late-1960s by elliot Fenander; ‘in Fashion: high stylE, 1690-2011’: costumes from the museum’s permanent collection, plus borrowed works from today’s top designers, including Karl lagerfeld, oscar de la Renta, carolina herrera, Balenciaga, among others. Through october 30 at shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. michaEl smith: “Mixed Bag,” colorful acrylic paintings. Through August 31 at Brickels Gallery in Burlington. Info, 324-0272. nicholas hEilig: “live Art,” black ink drawings created as performance set to live music. Through August 31 at seABA center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222. orah moorE: “Making Art,” photographs by the Morrisville artist, and “laundry line Art,” an interactive installation. curated by seABA. Through August 31 at vcAM studio in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

Patty lEbon hErb: Acrylic paintings. Through July 31 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington city hall.

Info, 865-7166.

PEtEr small: “ceramic vessels,” work by the williston artist. Through July 31 at Dorothy Alling Memorial library in williston. Info, 878-9123. sandy milEns: “searching,” work by the vermont photographer. curated by seABA. Through August 31 at speeder & earl’s (pine street) in Burlington.

Info, 658-6016. summEr Paintings: new works by Gisela Alpert, Rae harrell, Jeanne carbonetti and sage Tucker Ketchum. Through July 31 at Burlington Furniture company in Burlington. Info, 860-4972. ‘thE art oF nEtWorking’: works by vermont artists looking to meet others in their field.

Through July 16 at the soda plant in Burlington.

Info, 859-9222. ‘thought bombErs’: JDK artists collaborate to create one-of-a-kind kites meant to evoke imagery that exists above and beyond our earthly lives (through August 20); community kitEs: children’s kites created in workshops at Burlington’s Integrated Arts and sustainability Academies, in the Fourth Floor Gallery (through August 13); lEWis rubEnstEin:”legacy,” three distinct bodies of work: abstract sumi-e watercolor paintings, figurative paintings documenting the lives of the working class during the Depression and vermont landscapes, in the second Floor Gallery (through August 13). At BcA center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. tony shull: paintings by the vermont artist.

Through July 31 at Red square in Burlington. Info, 859-8909.

ValEntyna bardakoVa & jordan douglas: “Mysterious histories,” reinterpreted vintage

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photographs. Through July 16 at Mccarthy Arts center Gallery, st. Michael’s college in colchester.

Info, 343-2599.

‘WahtEr man’: street art-style work intended to draw attention to the importance of water. Through July 31 at williston police station. Info, 764-1152.

‘WE art WomEn: a collEctiVE shoW’: work by samantha Bellinger, vanessa santos eugenio, Marni McKitrick, vanessa compton, Ida ludlow and Katherine Taylor McBroom. Through July 31 at patra café in Burlington. Info, 318-4888.

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‘Winooski PoP-uP gallEry district’: vermont artists and Kasini house transformed five vacant retail spaces into temporary art galleries. Through July 31 at various locations in winooski. Info, 264-4839.

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‘a cElEbration oF gracE’: paintings and drawings by more than 20 self-taught artists.

Through July 17 at T.w. wood Gallery in Montpelier.

Info, 828-8743. bill brauEr: “etchings etc./Torsos and More so,” etchings and oil paintings of the female form.

Through July 27 at vermont Festival of the Arts Gallery in waitsfield. Info, 496-6682.

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carol macdonald & Erik rEhman: “Transcendence: Mooring the storm,” artwork inspired by interviews with survivors of sexual violence. Through July 30 at vermont statehouse, card Room in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. donna staFFord: “stretching the canvas,” paintings on slashed and twisted canvas. Through July 17 at The Gallery at lost nation in Montpelier.

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Elinor randall: “spirit Journey,” new work in ink.

Through July 31 at Two Rivers printmaking studio in white River Junction. Info, 295-5901.

‘From thE gardEn to thE ForEst’: paintings of the natural world by Anne Unangst, cindy Griffith and Marcia hill. Through July 31 at capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, 229-4326. ‘haPPy 250th birthday, Windsor, Vt!’: A juried show. Through August 21 at nuance Gallery in windsor. Info, 674-9616. janEt WormsEr: Abstracts and portraits by the vermont painter. Through July 31 at The Drawing Board in Montpelier. Info, 223-2902. katE muEllEr: “The Rhythm of color,” portraits and expressionist landscapes in pastel and oil.

Through July 17 at Korongo Gallery in Randolph.

Info, 728-6288. krista chEnEy: “Moments with nature,” still-life photographs. Through July 31 at The shoe horn at onion River in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@ yahoo.com. cenTRAl vT ART shows

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‘lock, stock and barrEl: thE tErry tylEr collEction oF VErmont FirEarms’: The 106 firearms on display represent a lifetime of collecting and document the history of gunmaking in vermont from 1790 to 1900; ‘PaPErWork in 3d’:

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Varujan boghosian & Erick huFschmid: “new collages and constructions 2009-2011,” work by the master collagist Boghosian; “‘A Muse’ — A visit to the studio of varujan Boghosian,” photographs by hufschmid.

Through August 22 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester.

Reception: saturday, July 16, 5-7 p.m. Info, 767-9670.

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katra kindar: watercolors by the vermont artist. Through July 30 at village wine & coffee in shelburne. Info, 985-8922.

‘PhonE-o-graPhic art’: A juried show of photographs made on cellphones by artists around the country. Through July 15 at vermont photo space Darkroom Gallery in essex Junction. Reception: Friday, July 15, 5-7 p.m. Info, 777-3686.

kEn lEsliE: Drawings, paintings and limited edition prints of the vermont artist’s “Arctic cycle” works, which move through time as they complete 360º panoramas of the landscape in Arctic regions. Through september 4 at claire’s Restaurant & Bar in hardwick. Reception: Monday, July 18, 4-6 p.m. Info, 828-0749.

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karEn daWson: “A look Back,” paintings and drawings that explore cubism and abstraction as processes to find fundamental unifying structure, in the First Floor Gallery; isaac Wasuck: “The Quilt project,” mixed-media paintings inspired by a 1960s book of traditional American needlework patterns, in the second Floor Gallery. Through July 28 at community college of vermont in winooski. Info, 654-0513.

barry Van dusEn: watercolor paintings of the natural world created from sketches done in the field.

Through July 16 at vermont Institute of natural science in Quechee. Reception: Friday, July 15, 5-7 p.m. Info, 359-5000.

by some of new england’s best-known landscape artists, charles Movalli, T.M. nicholas, Donald Allen Mosher, Tom hughes and eric Tobin. July 16 through september 29 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in stowe. Reception: saturday, July 16, 6-8 p.m. Info, 253-1818.

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john brickEls & sarah o. grEEn: “The Domestic Robot,” clay “automatrons” by Brickels; vintage-inspired aprons, skirts and other functional fabric art by Green. Through July 31 at Frog hollow in Burlington. Info, 863-6458.

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lEs aldridgE: oil paintings and pencil drawings by the local artist. Through August 31 at st. Johnsbury Athenaeum.

Reception: Friday, July 15, 6-8 p.m. Info, 563-2465.

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n wall text for the photography show “Visions of Place,” currently at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, the curator suggests that viewers ponder which aspects of Vermont’s culture ought to be preserved as essential to its identity.

The photos themselves, however, document the passing of a way of life and of a kind of Vermonter who for decades defined the state’s sense of itself. “Visions of Place,” which includes some 50 beautiful portraits and still-lifes by three veteran lensmen, could just as well have been titled “Vanished Vermont.” It’s a haunting show with a ghostly aura.

Most of its subjects — hill farmers photographed over the past 40 years — are dead now. And the means of their sustenance, family dairying, is dying as well. The show’s opening last month at the VFC coincided with the news that the number of dairy farms in the state has dipped below 1000. There were 11,000 such operations in Vermont during the lifetimes of those who look out at visitors to the show.

Peter Miller, whose Vermont People and Vermont Farm Women photo compilations grace many a coffee table, states unequivocally in an introductory panel that the world of his subjects is irretrievably lost.

Miller quotes a friend’s observation about the people whose lives are etched in these expressive portraits: “They are an endangered species, and Vermont is all used up.”

Miller doesn’t simply respond with resignation to the transformations he’s witnessed. Banks won’t lend to the “woodchucks” with whom he identifies, he complains in that opening text. Creditors instead “cozy up” to such new-Vermont corporate icons as IBM and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters because, Miller asserts, “banks prefer the people to whom they extend credit to be pasteurized.”

His black-and-white close-ups speak for themselves in much the same terms.

Here’s Willis Hicks, smiling as he wrestles a Holstein into baring her teeth, a packet of White Owl cigars peeping from the pocket of his flannel shirt. Miller’s caption accompanying this 1968 composition explains that Hicks sold 150 head in the last cow auction on the Mountain Road in Stowe. “Now the farmhouse where skiers stayed for $2 a night is a restaurant, and a strawberry daiquiri costs $4.25.” (A price estimate that further dates Miller, who was born in 1934.)

Nearby hangs a portrait of Joe Tuttle, father of famous Fred, shot at the Tunbridge dairy farm that’s been in the family since 1798. “New people come in, and I can’t understand them,” Joe Tuttle says in Miller’s handwritten annotation. “They buy a place in good condition and tear out every parti-

tion, and they start over and build it again.

God, but I guess they need to spend money.”

The show’s elegiac mood is accentuated

by Richard Brown’s photo essay on Theron Boyd, a Quechee farmer. In one of the interviews with the three photographers, which visitors can listen to on hand-held audio players, Brown explains that Boyd “seemed like he’d come out of the 19th century.” With crevassed face and raggedy overalls, Boyd is shown scything his pasture and preparing dinner atop a woodstove in a home without electricity and with water drawn by hand from a well.

Boyd is a relic, a museum specimen, who, as Brown says, lived “in his own world, and it wasn’t this one.”

“Visions of Place” also contains John Miller’s photographic testimonial to a Northeast Kingdom Richard Brown farming couple. Miller (no relation to Peter) began taking pictures of Richard and Doris Cubit in 1972.

He continued record-

John Miller

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The photos document the

passing of a way of life and of a kind of Vermonter who for decades defined the state’s sense of itself.

ing the interior and exterior of their Albany farmhouse following their deaths.

This section of the show is dominated by a large color portrait of Doris Cubit (1917-2004) standing in the snow holding a milking bucket and wearing a red jacket with thread ties. Alongside is a shot of the Cubits’ now-empty homestead. The door of a cast-iron cookstove gapes open in a room with green wainscoting and a bare wooden floor.

John Miller says of these photos in one of the taped interviews that his aim is to “let the object speak for itself [and not] impose my artist schtick.” A picture might thus “get more at what this person’s life is about.” The large portrait, for example, “is about Doris rather than about my own life.”

Peter Miller also tries to keep himself out of his photos, he says in an interview recorded with VFC folklorist Greg Sharrow.

His portrait subjects display a remarkable degree of openness, Miller explains, because “I visit with them. I sit down and talk to the people. You keep your own mouth shut.” Their comfort level elevated, farmers like Hicks and Tuttle keep on talking as Miller uses a cable release to subtly click his tripod-mounted camera.

It’s a technique resonant with respect for the person whose image is being preserved. It also opens a window through which the new Vermont can view the old one as it recedes rapidly into history. m “Visions of Place” remains on view at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury through September 3. vermontfolklifecenter.org

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caLL to artists PaPirMasse Postcard issue Artists & Writers: Papirmasse is seeking content for a postcard issue about summer vacations. Postmark deadline: July 31. Info, papirmasse.com/art/?p=1428.

Persona: Beyond the traditional portrait. We’re looking for uncanny parody, distortions, subtle suggestions and in-your-face implications.

Deadline: August 16. Juror: Chris Buck. Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex19. strut: fLaunt your ‘Wears’: “Strut,” the annual fashion show held during Burlington’s South End Art Hop, is looking for designers to participate. Please submit five to eight images of your work to strut@sevendaysvt.com by Friday, July 13. Submissions will be curated. This year’s “Strut” will present two shows on Saturday, September 10, under a tent in the Maltex Building parking lot. Designers must provide their own models. south end art hoP registration: It’s time, once again, to sign up for the Art Hop! The 2011 South End Art Hop will take place on Friday and Saturday, September 9 and 10. You can get the ball rolling by registering on our website.

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the stoWe street arts festiVaL: Artists, musicians, dancers and appreciators of good eats and fine art take over the street, which is closed to traffic. The annual event kicks off with live music Friday night. Friday, July 15, 7-8:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 16, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Stowe Street, Waterbury. Info, 496-6466. the sheLBurne artists MarKet: Local artists and artisans sell their work, on the green. Saturday, July 16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Shelburne Town Offices. Info, 985-3648.

Bca suMMer artist MarKet: Juried artists sell their handmade, original fine art and crafts. Saturday, July 16, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Burlington City Hall Park. Info, 865-7166. iPhone artistry With dan BurKhoLder: An intensive class, in two three-hour sessions, on using what Burkholder calls “one of the most inspiring, capable and fun imaging systems in all of photography.” Saturday, July 16, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Vermont Photo Space Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

Barry Van dusen: Watercolor paintings of the natural world created from sketches done in the field.

Through July 16 at Vermont Institute of natural Science in Quechee. Talk: VInS leads a nature-drawing workshop.

Saturday, July 16, 1-4:30 p.m.

Info, 359-5000. ‘art in BLooM’: A benefit for the Fairfax fire and rescue departments includes work

by Vermont artists, live music and food. Saturday, July 16,

‘exPosed’: Helen Day Art Center’s 20th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition features local and international artwork, video screenings and performances. Through October 8 at various locations in Stowe. Artist video screening: Thursday, July 14, 6 p.m.

Info, 253-8358.

charLes KaMya: The Ugandan artist in residence discusses his stone work.

Wednesday, July 13, 7 p.m.; Wednesday, July 20, 7 p.m., The Carving Studio, West Rutland. Info, 438-2097. ed Koren: “The Capricious Line,” work from the New Yorker cartoonist’s five-decade career, including drawings never exhibited before.

Through September 2 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Talk: Cartoonists Ed Koren, Lee Lorenz and Harry Bliss participate in a panel discussion about the writing, staging, and drawing of a single panel comic. James Sturm moderates. Thursday, July 14, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 656-2090. ‘art as eVidence of science: the henry gorsKi retrosPectiVe’: Paintings by the late figurative expressionist juxtaposed with the scientific insight of Albert Levis, a social psychiatrist, creativity scholar and Gorski collector. Through August 31 at Union Station in Burlington.

A guided tour and discussion of Gorski’s work as it relates to Levis’ conflict-resolution theory: Thursday, July 14, 5:30-8 p.m. Info, 379-6350.

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MaLcoLM Wright & Bruce PecK: Clay work by Wright and landscape prints by Peck, as part of the gallery’s “Living Vermont Treasures” guest artist series. Through September 30 at Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. Info, 457-1298.

PhyLLis chase: Colorful landscapes and interiors by the Vermont artist, in the portico between Cornell Library and Debevoise Hall. Through August 5 at Vermont Law School Environmental Law Center in South Royalton. Info, 831-1106. susan osMond: “Selected Moments,” paintings of imagined landscapes, romantic architectural forms and mysterious figures. Open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; closed July 29 and August 26. Through August 31 at Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. suzanne oPton: Work from the photographer’s “Soldier” and “Many Wars” series, featuring portraits of veterans from World War II, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Open by chance or appointment during July. Through July 30 at PHOTOSTOP in White River Junction. Info, 698-0320.

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MichaeL Kay-Louis: “In the Moment: Portraits of Adolescence,” black-and-white photographs of Vermont youth. Through July 15 at Haybarn Theater, Goddard College in Plainfield. Info, 322-1621.

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‘Lost in traffic’: A group show exploring moments of navigational confusion, uncertainty and chaos, in the Main Floor Gallery; ‘Postcards & MeMories’: collages and other works, in the Second Floor Gallery; saM Kerson: “Ode to Demeter: Persephone Entre Deux Mondes,” linoleum block prints depicting the Greek harvest goddess’ quest to rescue her daughter from the underworld, in the Third Floor Gallery. Through July 30 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

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‘exPo todo cuBano’: DJ Tony Basanta curates a multimedia exhibit including photographer David Garten’s “Cuban Musicians: Portraits From a Musical Island.” Through August 28 at Flynndog in Burlington. A screening of “Paquito D’Rivera & Chano Dominguez in Concert”: Friday, July 15, 7 p.m.

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VerMont uPcycLed art shoW: The Block Gallery and Coffeehouse in Winooski is hosting a group show in September of local artists who incorporate upcycling/recycling/repurposing of materials.

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sPeciaL PLaces: Do you have a special place you like to go? Capture the magic of the place in a photo and you might win a prize in the 4th Annual Photography Contest and Exhibit at the Chaffee Art Center. Entry forms and details can be found at chaffeeartcenter.org. Deadline: July 27.

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‘The hisTory of Goddard ColleGe: an era of GrowTh, expansion and TransiTions, 1960-1969’: An exhibit of photographs, historical records, college papers, interviews and video recordings that focus on the college’s response to the rapid growth of the 1960s, in the Eliot D. Pratt Library. Through December 20 at Goddard College in Plainfield. Info, 454-8311.

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‘arT Makes Brandon TiCk’: This year’s townwide art project features artist-created, functional clocks, which will be auctioned off in October to benefit the BAG. Through October 8 at Brandon Artists’ Guild. Info, 247-4956.

Carol norTon: “Waterworks,” atmospheric water images in oil. Through July 31 at Starry Night Café in Ferrisburgh. Info, 658-2943. david kinG: “Emerging,” photography, paintings, drawings and sculpture by the Vergennes Union High School student. Through July 18 at Studio V in Vergennes. Info, 349-2214.

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‘fairfield porTer: raw — The CreaTive proCess of an aMeriCan MasTer’: Finished and unfinished works by the artist and critic, a realist during an era when abstraction dominated American art. Through August 7 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-6433.

Jeri Canfield & niCk rosaTo: “Home Is Where The Art Is,” quilted textiles by Canfield; hardwood kitchen and garden accessories by Rosato.

Through August 15 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032.

JudiTh reilly: “e-i-e-i-o: Judith Reilly Out Behind the Barn,” fabric and stitchery inspired by rural life.

Through August 30 at Brandon Artists’ Guild. Info, 247-8421. l.J. sprinG: “Spring Flowers and Street Scenes,” photographs of Vermont and Montréal. Through July 31 at The Storm Café in Middlebury. Info, 388-1063. ‘loCoMoTion: refleCTions froM The aMeriCan road Trip’: Work by Sara Katz, Jeff Bye, Charlie Hunter, Sean Thomas and Eric Tobin (through August 14). anna diBBle: Paintings of animals behaving like humans (through July 31). At Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098. lyna lou nordsTroM: Prints full of soft color and subtle texture by the Vermont artist. Through July 14 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. sCoTT funk: “Vermont Through the Seasons,” photographs by the Vermont artist. Through August 31 at Gallery 160 in Richmond. Info, 434-6434. suki frederiCks: “Spanish Light,” photographs.

Through July 31 at Kumon Math and Reading Center in Middlebury. Info, vtartcare@gmail.com. suMMer MeMBers exhiBiT: Work by juried artists including Joshua Primmer, Patrick Kennedy and Marian Willmott. Through July 30 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. susan younG & paM Brown: “The Body Speaks,” Young’s ceramic forms are low fired to retain a flesh-like imprint; Brown’s mixed-media pieces explore the relationship between organic and

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Anna Dibble A childhood fascination with the duck-billed platypus sparked Anna Dibble’s interest in hybrid animals. Since then, the Vermont artist has

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made a career of amalgamating human and animal traits in the animation studios of Disney, Marvel, Hanna-Barbera, Murakami Wolf and Don Bluth. In her most recent series of paintings, “Animal Jabberwocky,” Dibble adds text to her depictions of dogs, owls and other beasts sipping port and enduring small talk at dinner parties. In one, two dogs on a date sit across from each other at a small table, looking blankly at one another. “Ezra had been under the impression that love at first sight was mutual,” the text above them reads, “but on this occasion it occurred to him that Lila was simply not

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industrial. July 15 through August 21 at Gallery 259 in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

‘The LippiTT Morgan’: A photographic exhibit of early Vermont breeders and the old-fashioned Morgans so dear to them. Through July 31 at The National Museum of the Morgan Horse in Middlebury. Info, 388-1639.

‘The power of pLace: Landscapes and Mindscapes froM VerMonT’: Work by Linda Durkee, Judith Reilly, Phoebe Stone and Dick Weis.

Through September 1 at Gallery in-the-Field in Brandon. Info, 247-0145.

ToM Merwin: “Drawing Water,” central Vermont’s waterfalls and gorges depicted in sumi ink, watercolor and oil on canvas. Through November 30 at Merwin Gallery in Castleton. Info, 468-2592.

‘VerMonT Landscapes LosT and found’: Historic landscape photographs from the museum’s collection contrasted with present-day snaps of the same locations. Through October 22 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

‘Visions of pLace: The phoTography of John MiLLer, peTer MiLLer and richard Brown’: Work by the veteran Vermont photographers who have each returned repeatedly to particular farmsteads, families and individuals over the last 40 years to create a nuanced record of the region.

Through September 3 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

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adeLaide TyroL & reBecca KinKead: “Vivre/To Live,” paintings by Kinkead, who evokes the brightness of summer, and Tyrol, who conjures another world. Through August 7 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

JacoB waLKer arT gaLLery show: Paintings by members of the gallery, which recently lost its venue in Morristown Corners. Through July 31 at Arthur’s Department Store in Morrisville. Info, 224-6648.

Liz KauffMan: “Quiet Beauty,” brightly colored paintings by the Vermont Studio Center resident staff artist. Through July 31 at Townsend Gallery at Black Cap Coffee in Stowe. Info, 279-4239.

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.

Marion sTegner & pauL gruhLer: “Bold & Beautiful,” jewelry by Stegner; paintings by Gruhler.

Through August 1 at Miller’s Thumb Gallery in Greensboro. Info, 533-2045.

saM ThursTon: “Cityscapes and Landscapes, Here and Away,” drawings and paintings of Lowell, Mass., Newport, R.I., New York City and Morrisville, Vt., in the Common Space. Through August 15 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 744-6859. shawna cross: “Tell Me Your Secrets,” paintings by the Vermont artist. Through August 14 at Cosmic Bakery & Café in St. Albans. Info, shawna@ shawnacross.com.

‘Barns of grand isLe counTy’: Work depicting barns in a variety of media by members of the women’s art group Artists Way. Through July 31 at Island Arts South Hero Gallery. Info, 378-5138.

The four sisTers exhiBiT: Paintings by siblings Jackie Mueller Jones, Carol Mueller, Mary Ellen Mueller Legault and Debbie Mueller Peate.

Through July 17 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 288-8086.

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eLizaBeTh neLson: “Six Seasons,” landscape paintings. Through August 28 at White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. Info, 563-2037.

‘The arT of war: Ticonderoga as experienced Through The eyes of aMerica’s greaT arTisTs’: The museum’s 50 most important artworks, exhibited together for the first time. Through October 20 at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. Info, 518-585-6370.

‘The fashion worLd of Jean pauL gauLTier: froM The sidewaLK To The caTwaLK’: Ensembles by the French couturier — dubbed fashion’s enfant teribble by the press from the time of his first runway shows in the 1970s — presented on animated mannequins. Through October 2 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal. Info, 514-285-2000. m

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suMMer MeMBers exhiBiTion: Sculptures, paintings, drawings, photography, glasswork, beadwork and more by area artists. Through July 15 at North Country Cultural Center for the Arts in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, 518-563-1604.

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corneLia foss & Thaddeus radeLL: Paintings of a life amid New York City art luminaries by Foss; paintings of male and female forms by Radell.

Through July 31 at Green + Blue Gallery in Stowe.

Info, 730-5331.

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‘hoofing iT’: Depictions of hoofed animals, from antelopes to zebras, in paint, wood, clay, felt, woodblock prints, photographs and rugs. Through August 8 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0581.

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cLaire Van VLieT: “Stone on Stone,” lithographs by the master printmaker. Through August 15 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

‘haBiTaT for arTisTs’: Drop by three 6-by-6-by8-foot temporary studios, in downtown Stowe, Morrisville and Waitsfield, to meet the artists working there and see what they create. Hosted by Helen Day Art Center, Vermont Festival of the Arts and River Arts. July 15 through September 25 at Various locations. Info, 253-8358.

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‘eMBracing eLegance, 1885-1920: aMerican arT froM The huBer faMiLy coLLecTion’: Paintings and drawings featuring intimate, informal subjects captured in a personally expressive manner by artists including Cecilia Beaux, Joseph DeCamp and John Singer Sargent (through September 4); ‘fLuxus and The essenTiaL QuesTions of Life’: Work by the international network of artists, composers and designers, led

by George Maciunas, who blurred the boundaries between art and life and became the 1960s cultural phenomenon known as Fluxus (through August 7).

At Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2808.

BradLey a. fox: “Painting a Life,” work by the Vermont artist who died last year. Through August 10 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469.

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‘QuinTessenTiaL pLein air VerMonT’: Bob Aiken, Meryl Lebowitz, Peter A. Miller and Lisa Angell paint on location in Stowe and in the gallery. Through July 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

‘TaKe a seaT in The isLands’: Maple and poplar benches decorated by 16 local artists. For a map, go to champlainislands.com. Through August 13 at Various locations in Champlain Islands. Info, 372-8400.

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JuLy exhiBiT: Work in a variety of media by Pamela Krout-Voss, JoAnne Wazny, Gillian Senior, Kim Senior and Patrick Murphy. Through July 31 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

ann e. Manning: Notecards and monoprints by the late artist are on sale to benefit the Jericho Conservation Commission’s habitat-mapping project. Through December 31 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

‘BesT of The norTheasT MasTer of fine arTs’: Work by seven of the strongest emerging artists participating in MFA programs in New England, New York and Québec. Through September 4 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe.

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t hasn’t been much of a summer for movies, but I suspect we may have just turned a corner. In addition to being, I think, the first picture of the season to deliver precisely what it promises, Horrible Bosses is also by far its funniest.

Bad Teacher aspired to the degenerate lunacy of the Billy Bob Thornton milestone Bad Santa and failed to make the grade. The creators of Larry Crowne attempted to mine the current economic climate for laughs and came up empty-headed. Seth Gordon (The King of Kong) is a filmmaker nowhere near as well known as the people involved with those projects, yet he pulls off both tricks with apparent ease.

Of course, he gets a little help from an able and appealing cast. Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day play pals who share a problem. The people they work for are making their lives miserable. What’s more, they’re doing so with impunity because they aren’t worried about anybody quitting while the unemployment rate slinks toward 10 percent.

Each protagonist is in a distinct hell.

Bateman slaves for a financial company overseen by Kevin Spacey in full Swimming With

Sharks mode. “I own you. You are my bitch,” the boss growls after withdrawing a big promotion he’d dangled. “Get used to it. You’re in for the long haul.”

Sudeikis is an account manager at a chemical company whose beloved founder (Donald Sutherland) has recently died, leaving his depraved, coke-fiend spawn in charge. One of the movie’s tastiest treats is Colin Farrell’s metamorphosis into a beadyeyed sleazebag with a comb-over. It’s a thing of bizarro beauty. Sudeikis’ character is no tree hugger, but he finds it difficult to stand by and watch Farrell fund his drug habit by dumping toxic waste in Bolivia.

Which leaves Day, whose workplace woes earn him minimal sympathy. His albatross takes the form of a wildly oversexed dentist played with gleeful abandon by Jennifer Aniston. He’s a hygienist who just wants to keep it clean at the office, but every day seems to find a more voracious and scantily clad employer waiting to pounce on him as soon as their patient has gone under. If you’ve ever seen an episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” you can appreciate the surreal quality of her fixation with the fellow. If this were a Hangover sequel — though, in a way,

LABOR PAIN Three put-upon pals decide to make their employers pay in this workplace comedy from Seth Gordon.

I suppose any movie like this is — he’d be played by Zach Galifianakis.

The film’s ads and trailers cover this ground, along with the fact that the three friends reach a snapping point and decide to do some terminating of their own. Movie-critic law prohibits my revealing much more, except to add that, not being naturalborn killers, they elect to outsource their dirty work. This sets in motion a series of misunderstandings, blunders and twists that escalates in unpredictable loopiness and raunch right to the closing credits — which themselves are funnier than most comedies released this summer.

It begins with a scene in a seedy LA bar.

Jamie Foxx is a hoot and a half as a mathchallenged ex-con who agrees to act as the

trio’s “murder consultant.” He’s almost as bad at murder as he is at numbers, but he does put forward one inspired idea: To avoid suspicion, each friend should off another’s boss, “like Strangers on a Train.” “Yeah, I know that movie,” concurs Day. “The one with Danny DeVito.”

Which is funny on at least a couple of levels. First, confusing a Hitchcock classic with Throw Momma From the Train is funny. Second, DeVito is Day’s TV costar. Did the film’s writers plan that? Was it a brilliant ad lib — like much of the movie’s dialogue? Either way, it’s funny stuff, and just one of many unhinged touches guaranteed to help Horrible Bosses make a well-earned killing.

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REVIEWS Beginners ★★★★

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n one memorable scene of writerdirector Mike Mills’ film Beginners, a mother (Mary Page Keller) gives her young son (Keegan Boos) a lesson in middle-class angst. When he feels bad, she instructs, he should go in his room and scream till his mood improves — “That’s catharsis.”

“I don’t feel like screaming,” the boy replies, after some thought.

His mother gives him a knowing look.

“You will,” she says.

She’s right. Nearly 30 years later, the quietly sad boy has become a quietly sadder man (Ewan McGregor) who can’t find lasting love and expresses himself in a series of cartoon panels called “The Sads,” chronicling the worldwide history of sadness. When he starts dating a beautiful actress (Mélanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds), she’s quietly sad, too, and as terrified of commitment as he is.

Beginners has been marketed as a quirky, life-affirming comedy in the Little Miss Sunshine vein, but Mills’ second feature is nothing of the kind. It’s both less fun and more thought provoking than its trailer suggests.

Ironically, most of the film’s life affirmation is embodied in the character of McGregor’s recently deceased father (Christopher Plummer), who appears in long flashbacks. Plummer gives a ferociously vital performance as a gay man who’s emerged from the closet for the first time in his 75 years and is determined to enjoy the time he has left. He should, because McGregor’s Oliver, the film’s narrator, has already told us his dad will succumb to cancer just four years after making his big announcement.

(His wife preceded him.)

While Dad frequents happening gay clubs, places a personal ad and finds himself a hot, younger boyfriend (Goran Visnjic of “ER,” bizarrely floppy haired and goofy), his son remains ... quietly sad. After his father’s death, Oliver confides his feelings to the Jack Russell terrier he’s inherited, who “answers” him in comic subtitles. Then our protagonist tries tentatively to do what his father did boldly: begin his life anew.

Beginners has its cutesy elements (McGregor meets Laurent at a costume party where he, dressed as Sigmund Freud, “analyzes” her), but it’s not a cutesy film. Maybe

A BOY AND HIS DOG McGregor practices his rudimentary relationship skills on his dad’s Jack Russell in Mills’ moody sort-of-comedy.

it shouldn’t have been a film at all. With its vivid vignettes, ironic narrative frame and frequent time jumps, it reminded me more of an autobiographical indie cartoon — specifically, Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home, also about an adult wrestling with the legacy of a closeted gay dad.

Mills, like his hero, is a graphic designer, and he shows talent for breaking a multigenerational story of family dysfunction into snippets that are sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, sometimes both. But, if Beginners really were a comic, it would devote way too many panels to McGregor and Laurent gazing wanly at each other. The actors

are solid, but their characters’ inertia nearly overwhelms the film.

One of Beginners’ surprises is that Oliver’s parents, who messed him up good by lying to the world and doing their screaming in private, are far more likable than their son.

The scenes with Plummer and Keller, whom we see interact with their offspring but never with each other, have a bite and verve the Gen X romance lacks. Like Away We Go or the films of Miranda July (yes, there’s a new one coming), this is a story of grown children trying to build viable adult lives from the ground up. They’ve still got a way to go.

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cAVE oF FoRGottEN DREAmSHH1/2 In his latest one-of-a-kind documentary, Werner Herzog explores the Chauvet cave of Southern France and trains his camera on amazingly well-preserved artwork of the Paleolithic period. (95 min, PG. Savoy; ends 7/14)

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WiNNiE tHE pooH: Disney makes a play for the nostalgic adult audience (and their kids, of course) with this old-school hand-drawn animation based on A.A. Milne’s stories of the honey-loving bear; his depressive companion, Eeyore; and their forest friends. With the voices of John Cleese, Jim Cummings, Bud Luckey and Craig Ferguson.

Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall directed. (69 min, G. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount)

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BAD tEAcHERH Cameron Diaz plays the title character, a foul-mouthed, incompetent educator angling for a rich husband so she can escape the classroom, in this comedy from director Jake (Walk Hard) Kasdan. With Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch and Jason Segel. (89 min, R, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Sunset) BEGiNNERSHHH1/2 Christopher Plummer plays a man who makes a surprising late-life change — he comes out of the closet — in this drama from director Mike (Thumbsucker) Mills. Ewan McGregor is his adult son. With Mélanie Laurent and Goran Visnjic. (104 min, R. Palace, Savoy)

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With Katie Cassidy, Leighton Meester and Cory Monteith. Thomas (The Family Stone) Bezucha directed. (109 min, PG. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount) mR. poppER’S pENGUiNSHH Jim Carrey plays a man afflicted with a plague of lovable penguins in this family comedy adapted from Richard Atwater’s book. With Carla Gugino and Angela Lansbury.

Mark (Mean Girls) Waters directed. (95 min, PG. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Sunset)

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Maybe the next sequel will tackle peak oil. With the voices of Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy and Michael Caine. John Lasseter and Brad Lewis directed. (113 min, G. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis, Palace, Paramount [3-D], Stowe, Sunset, Welden)

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Director Paul Feig and writer-star Kristen Wiig attempt to beat the odds with this Judd Apatowproduced tale of a single woman who agrees to be her best friend’s maid of honor. With Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne. (125 min, R. Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Welden)

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iNcENDiES: From Québec, this acclaimed drama tells the story of two Lebanese-Canadian siblings who confront a mystery after their mother dies leaving a very strange last testament. With Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin and Maxim Gaudette. Denis Villeneuve directed. (130 min, R. Roxy, Savoy) tHE tRip: Comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and director Michael Winterbottom, the team behind Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, reunite for this semi-improvised, semiautobiographical saga of two friends on a chatty road trip through the English countryside. (107 min, R. Savoy)

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wednesday 13 — thursday 14 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Thu: midnight. midnight in Paris 7 (Wed only), 9. transformers: Dark of the moon 5, 8 (Wed only). cars 2 5.

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friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the 100 Dorset Street, Suite 21 • 860-3336 Deathly Hallows: Part 2 www.rushfordchiropractic.com 2 (Sat & Sun only), 5, 8. midnight in Paris Fri: 8. Sat & Sun: 3, 8. transformers: 12v-rusford060210.indd 1 5/28/10 3:36:30 PMDark of the moon 5.

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BIJoU cINEPLEX 1-2-3-4 Rte. 100, Morrisville, 8883293, www.bijou4.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Zookeeper 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 8:45. Larry crowne 3:40, 8:30. monte carlo 1:10, 6:40. transformers: Dark of the moon 1:30, 7:30. cars 2 1, 3:30, 6:30, 8:15. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15.

Bad teacher 4, 8:30.

Zookeeper 1:20, 3:40, 6:50, 8:45. transformers: Dark of the moon 1:30, 7:30. cars 2 1:10, 6:30.

cAPItoL SHoWPLAcE

93 State St., Montpelier, 2290343, www.fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Horrible Bosses 1:30, 6:30, 9. Zookeeper 1:30, 6:30, 9.

Larry crowne 1:30, 6:30, 9. transformers: Dark of the moon (3-D) 1:30, 6:15, 9.

Bad teacher 1:30, 6:30, 9. friday 15 — thursday 21 Horrible Bosses 1:30, 6:30, 9. Zookeeper 1:30, 6:30, 9. Larry crowne 1:30, 6:30. transformers: Dark of the moon (3-D) 1:30, 6:15, 9. Bad teacher 9. cars 2 1:30, 6:30, 9.

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wednesday 13— thursday 14 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Thu: midnight showings: 12:05 a.m. (3-D), 12:10 a.m.

(3-D), 12:15 a.m., 3 a.m. (3-D).

Horrible Bosses 12:30, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:30. Zookeeper 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15. Larry crowne 1:15, 4, 6:30, 9. monte carlo 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10. transformers: Dark of the moon 12:15 (3-D), 1, 3:30 (3D), 4:15, 6:45 (3-D), 7:30, 10 (3-D). Bad teacher 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:25. cars 2 12:10 (3-D), 1:30, 2:35 (3-D), 4:25, 5 (3-D), 7:25 (3-D), 9:50 (3-D; Wed only). mr. Popper’s Penguins 12:45. Super 8 6:50, 9:15. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 12 (3-D), 12:30, 1 (3-D), 3 (3-D), 3:30, 4 (3-D), 6 (3-D), 6:30, 7 (3-D), 9 (3-D), 9:30, 10 (3-D). *Winnie the Pooh 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15. Horrible Bosses 12:30, 2:40, 5, 7:15, 9:30. Zookeeper 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15. Larry crowne 9:20. monte carlo 12:45. transformers: Dark of the moon 1 (3-D), 2:50, 4:15 (3-D), 7:30 (3-D), 8:30. Bad teacher 12:40, 6:20. cars 2 (3-D) 12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50.

mAJEStIc 10

190 Boxwood St. (Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners), Williston, 878-2010, www.majestic10.com

wednesday 13 Horrible Bosses 12:30, 2:40, 4:55, 7:25, 9:40.

Zookeeper 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35. monte carlo 11:55 a.m., 4:40, 7.

Larry crowne 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9:10. transformers: Dark of the moon (3-D) 1, 3:20, 4:20, 6:35, 8, 9:50.

Bad teacher 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45. cars 2 11:45 a.m. (3-D), 12:50, 2:10 (3-D), 4:35 (3-D), 7:05 (3-D), 9:30 (3-D). Green Lantern 2:15, 9:20. mr. Popper’s Penguins 1:10. Super 8 12:40, 6:30.

X-men: First class 3:30, 9.

Bridesmaids 3:40, 6:40, 9:25. thursday 14 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Midnight (3-D and 2-D).

Horrible Bosses 12:30, 2:40, 4:55, 7, 8, 9. Zookeeper 11:50 a.m., 2:20, 4:45, 7:10. monte carlo 11:55 a.m., 4:40. Larry crowne 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9. transformers: Dark of the moon 1 (3-D), 3:20, 4:20 (3D), 6:35, 8 (3-D). Bad teacher 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 6:50, 9. cars 2 11:45 a.m. (3-D), 12:50, 2:10 (3-D), 4:35 (3-D), 7:05 (3-D). Green Lantern 2:15. mr. Popper’s Penguins 1:10. Super 8 12:40, 6:30.

X-men: First class 3:30.

Bridesmaids 3:40, 6:40. friday 15 — sunday 17 *Harry Potter and the

movies Deathly Hallows: Part 2 10 a.m. (3-D), 10:50, 11:50 a.m.

(3-D), 12:20, 12:50 (3-D), 1:40, 2:45 (3-D), 3:15, 3:45 (3-D), 4:30, 6 (3-D), 6:40 (3-D), 7:20, 8:50 (3-D), 9:10, 9:35 (3-D), 10:10. *Winnie the Pooh 10:20 a.m., 12:40, 2:30, 4:30, 7. Horrible Bosses 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 8:40, 9:45. Zookeeper 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25. Larry crowne 6:25. transformers: Dark of the moon 12, 3:10 (3-D), 6:30 (3-D), 9:40. Bad teacher 1:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9. cars 2 11 a.m., 1:30 (3-D), 4 (3-D), 6:20 (3-D). Bridesmaids 8:55. monday 18 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 11:50 a.m. (3-D), 12:20, 12:50 (3-D), 1:40, 2:45 (3-D), 3:15, 3:45 (3D), 4:30, 6 (3-D), 6:40 (3-D), 7:20, 8:50 (3-D), 9:10, 9:35 (3D), 10:10. *Winnie the Pooh 12:40, 2:30, 4:20, 7. Horrible Bosses 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 8:40, 9:45. Zookeeper 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25. transformers: Dark of the moon 12, 3:10 (3-D), 6:30 (3-D), 9:40. Larry crowne 6:25. cars 2 11 a.m., 1:30 (3-D), 4 (3-D), 6:20 (3-D).

Bad teacher 1:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9. Bridesmaids 8:55.

mARQUIS tHEAtER Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841.

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Zookeeper 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. transformers: Dark of the moon (3-D) 2, 6, 9. cars 2 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (3-D) 12, 3, 6, 9. Bad teacher 1:30, 6:30. Zookeeper 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. transformers: Dark of the moon 3:30, 9.

mERRILL’S RoXY cINEmA

222 College St., Burlington, 8643456, www.merrilltheatres.net

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Thu: midnight showings: 12 a.m., 2:30 a.m. Horrible Bosses 1:15, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10, 9:30.

Larry crowne 1:20, 3:25, 6:50, 8:45. transformers: Dark of the moon 1:10, 6:20, 9:15. Bad teacher 1:05, 3:15, 7:20, 9:25. midnight in Paris 1, 3:05, 5:10, 6:15, 7:15, 9:20.

Super 8 1:25, 3:45, 8:15. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 1, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15. *Incendies 1:05, 6:50. Horrible Bosses 1:15, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10, 9:30. Larry crowne 3:35, 9:25. transformers: Dark of the moon 1:10, 6:20, 9:15. midnight in Paris 1, 3:05, 4:05, 5:10, 7:15, 8:15, 9:20. Super 8 1:20, 6.

PALAcE cINEmA 9

10 Fayette Dr., South Burlington, 864-5610, www.palace9.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 ***The met opera: Summer Encore: La Fille du Regiment Wed: 1, 6:30. *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Thu: midnight.

Beginners 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20.

Horrible Bosses 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35. Zookeeper 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 (Wed only). Larry crowne 12, 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10. monte carlo 1 & 6:25 (Thu only). transformers: Dark of the moon 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:25.

Bad teacher 12:25, 2:35, 4:45, 7, 9:15. cars 2 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 1:05, 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 (Wed only). The tree of Life 3:25, 6:30, 9:30. mr. Popper’s Penguins 12:50. Bridesmaids 3:35 & 8:45 (Thu only). friday 15 — thursday 21 ***The met opera: Summer Encore: tosca Wed: 1, 6:30. *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 10:30 a.m. (Fri-Sun only), 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 3:15, 4:10, 6:15, 7, 8:45, 9:15, 9:50. *Winnie the Pooh 10:30 a.m.

(Fri-Sun & Thu only), 12, 1:40, 3:25, 5:05, 7. Beginners 12:10, 6:40, 9:05. Horrible Bosses 12:30, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35.

Zookeeper 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20. Larry crowne 10:30 a.m. (Thu only), 8:50 (except Wed). transformers: Dark of the moon 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:25. cars 2 10:30 a.m. & 1 & 3:40 & 6:15 (except Wed). The tree of Life 12:35, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30. ***See website for details.

PARAmoUNt tWIN cINEmA 241 North Main St., Barre, 4799621, www.fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (3-D) Thu: midnight. monte carlo 1:30, 6:30, 9. cars 2 (3-D) 1:30, 6:30, 9. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (3D) 1:30, 6:15, 9. *Winnie the Pooh 1:30, 7. Bridesmaids 9.

St. ALBANS DRIVEIN tHEAtRE 429 Swanton Rd, Saint Albans, 524-7725, www. stalbansdrivein.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 transformers: Dark of the moon at dusk, followed by Super 8. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 at dusk, followed by Horrible Bosses.

tHE SAVoY tHEAtER 26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, www.savoytheater.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Upstairs: Beginners 1 & 3:30 (Wed only), 6:30, 8:45.

Downstairs: *Incendies Wed: 6, 8:30. cave of Forgotten Dreams Wed: 1:30. Thu: 6, 8. friday 15 — thursday 21 Upstairs: Beginners 1 & 3:30 (Sat-Mon & Wed only), 6:30, 8:45. Downstairs: *The trip 1:30 (Sat-Mon & Wed only), 6 (except Fri), 8:30.

StoWE cINEmA 3 PLEX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4678.

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Larry crowne 7, 9:10. transformers: Dark of the moon 6:30, 9:15. cars 2 6:45. Super 8 9:10. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2:30 (Fri-Sun only), 6:45, 9:10. transformers: Dark of the moon 2:30 (Fri-Sun only), 7:30. Larry crowne 7, 9:10. cars 2 Fri-Sun: 2:30, 4:30.

SUNSEt DRIVE-IN 155 Porters Point Road, just off Rte. 127, Colchester, 862-1800. www.sunsetdrivein.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Horrible Bosses at dusk, followed by The Hangover Part II. Zookeeper at dusk, followed by Bad teacher. cars 2 at dusk, followed by mr. Popper’s Penguins. transformers: Dark of the moon at dusk, followed by Super 8. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 at dusk, followed by Horrible Bosses. transformers: Dark of the moon at dusk, followed by Super 8. Zookeeper at dusk, followed by Bad teacher. cars 2 at dusk, followed by mr. Popper’s Penguins.

WELDEN tHEAtER 104 No. Main St., St. Albans, 5277888, www.weldentheatre.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Thu: midnight. Zookeeper 2, 7, 9. Bridesmaids 4, 9. cars 2 2, 4, 7, 9. transformers: Dark of the moon 2, 7, 9:30. friday 15 — thursday 21 *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2, 4:15, 7, 9:15. Zookeeper 2, 7. Bridesmaids 4, 9. cars 2 2, 7. transformers: Dark of the moon 4, 9.

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SUpER 8HHH1/2 Writer-director J.J. Abrams seems to be channeling vintage Steven Spielberg for this thriller, set in 1979, about a bunch of kids who stumble on something bad when their Super 8 film shoot is interrupted by a train crash. Let’s hope whatever it is is scarier than the monster in Cloverfield. With Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler and Noah Emmerich. (112 min, PG-13. Essex, Majestic, Roxy, St. Albans, Stowe, Sunset) tRANSFoRmERS: DARK oF tHE mooNHH The Autobots, Decepticons and Shia LaBeouf are back to do and survive more smashing in the third entry in the toy-based franchise from director Michael Bay. Megan Fox is not — the role of Hot Girl Implausibly Involved With Our Hero has been taken by model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. With Hugo Weaving, Ken Jeong and Patrick Dempsey.

(157 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol [3-D], Essex [3-D], Majestic [3-D], Marquis, Palace, Roxy, St. Albans, Stowe, Sunset, Welden) tHE tREE oF liFEHHHH1/2 The Palme d’Or at Cannes went to this autobiographical epic from Terrence (The Thin Red Line) Malick, in which the life story of one man (Sean Penn) merges with questions about human life itself. Brad Pitt plays his dad, Jessica Chastain his mom. (138 min, PG-13.

Palace) X-mEN: FiRSt clASSHHH1/2 The comic-bookbased franchise continues to plumb its characters’ origins. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are Professor Xavier and Magneto back in Cold War days, and Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones and Nicholas Hoult play other young mutant superheroes. Matthew (Kick-Ass) Vaughn directed.

(140 min, PG-13. Majestic; ends 7/14)

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ZooKEEpERH1/2 Another family comedy with talking animals. In this one, lovelorn zookeeper Kevin James gets romantic advice from his charges.

Does he dare take tips from a monkey voiced by Adam Sandler? Nick Nolte, Cher, Sylvester Stallone and Judd Apatow also contributed voice talent.

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(March 21-april 19): in the coming days you have permission from the universe to dwell less on what needs to be resisted, protested, flushed out and overcome. instead you have license to concentrate on what deserves to be fostered, encouraged, bolstered and invited in. sound like fun? it will be if you can do it, but it may not be as easy to accomplish as it sounds. There are many influences around you that are tempting you to draw your energy from knee-jerk oppositionalism and cynical naysaying. so in order to take full advantage of what life is offering you, you will have to figure out how to rebel in a spirit of joy and celebration.

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(april 20-May 20): “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions,” said the seer edgar Cayce. That’s your thought for the week, taurus. not just in dreams, but in your waking life as well, you will be experiencing insights, hearing stories and getting messages that provide useful information for the crucial questions you have not yet framed, let alone posed. i hope that by telling you this, i will expedite your work on formulating those pertinent questions.

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): “The most important thing in acting is honesty,” said Hollywood actor george burns. “if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” The same thing is true about life itself in the coming weeks, gemini. The more you dispense the raw truth — even if you have to push yourself to do it — the more successful you’ll be. being a fount of radical authenticity might feel like a performance at first, but it’ll eventually get easier, more natural.

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you “The original lion tamer”? i know it sounds a bit extravagant, maybe even pretentious, but it really fits you right now. More than any other sign of the zodiac, you have the power to control the wild, ferocious forces of the unconscious. you’re the fluid flow master in charge of making the beastly energy behave itself; you’re the crafty coordinator of the splashy, flashy kundalini; you’re the dazzling wizard of the dizzy whirling whooshes. Here’s a tip to help you soothe the savage rhythms with maximum aplomb: Mix a dash of harmonious trickery in with your charismatic bravado.

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Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22): you have maybe

10 more days left to locate the healthiest possible gamble for the second half of 2011. i’m referring to a smart risk that will bring out the best in you, expand the hell out of your mind, and inspire you to shed at least 10 percent of your narcissism and 15 percent of your pessimism. trust your gut as much as your brain, Virgo. it will be important to have them both fully engaged as you make your foray all the way out there to the edge of your understanding.

Cancer (June 21-July 22):

The great-grandson of a slave, Cancerian Thurgood Marshall (1908-93) was America’s first African American Supreme Court justice.

According to Thurgood, a play about his life that appeared on HBO, his unruly behavior as a schoolkid played a role in launching him toward his vocation. As punishment for his bad behavior, his teacher exiled him to a storage room where he was instructed to study the U.S. Constitution — a document he would later be called on to interpret during his service on the high court. I foresee a version of this scenario playing out in your immediate future, Cancerian.

Mischief could lead to opportunity.

Blessings might evolve out of shenanigans. Bending the rules may bring rewards.

liBra (sept. 23-oct. 22): “He got a big ego, such a huge ego,” sings beyonce in her song “ego.” “it’s too big, it’s too wide / it’s too strong, it won’t fit / it’s too much, it’s too tough / He talk like this ’cause he can back it up.” i would love to be able to address that same message to you in the coming days, libra. i’m serious. i’d love to admire and marvel at your big, strong ego. This is one of those rare times when the cosmic powers-that-be are giving you clearance to display your beautiful, glorious self in its full radiance. extra bragging is most definitely allowed, especially if it’s done with humor and wit. a bit of preening, mugging, and swaggering is permissible as well. scorPio (oct. 23-nov. 21): “Dear rob brezsny: Please, sir, if you could do me a cost-free favor and tell me something special about my upcoming future, i would be amazingly glad and would spread good will about you everywhere. My age is 34 and i am sharply eager to know in detail about my next five years at least — any big good or bad predictions. Kindly be very specific, no cloudy generalizations. — Fayyaz Umair aziz, First-Degree scorpio.” Dear Fayyaz: i’m happy to inform you that your future is not set in stone; you have the power to carve out the destiny you prefer. and it so happens that the next four weeks will be prime time for you scorpios to formulate a clear master plan (or reformulate your existing one) and take a vow to carry it out with impeccability.

meditating and studying sacred texts he had not yet had a spiritual experience. steiner asked him if he’d noticed the face of the conductor on the train on which they were riding.

The man said no. steiner replied, ‘Then you just missed a spiritual experience.’” This is a good tip for you to keep in mind in the coming weeks, sagittarius. it’ll be a time when you could dramatically expedite and intensify your education about spiritual matters by noticing the beauty and holiness in the most mundane things.

sagittarius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): one of my readers sent me an interesting tale. He said the teacher rudolf steiner “once had a devotee who complained that after years of

caPricorN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): i’ve got two bits of information for you late bloomers out there; two inspirational messages to quell your worry about how long everything seems

to be taking to unfold for you. First comes this fact: While some oak trees begin growing acorns after two decades, many don’t produce a single acorn until they’re 40 or even 50 years old. your second message is from poet robert bly: “i know a lot of men who are healthier at age 50 than they’ve ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.” Keep the faith, Capricorn — and continue your persistent efforts.

aQuarius

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): russia has more psychic healers than medical doctors. research done by the World Health organization says so. While licensed physicians number around 640,000, there are 800,000 witches and wizards who use occult means to perform their cures. Personally, i prefer a more balanced ratio. i feel most comfortable when there are equal amounts of officially sanctioned practitioners and supernaturally inspired mavericks. in fact, that’s my guiding principle in pretty much every situation. i want as many unorthodox rebels who mess with the proven formulas as serious professionals who are highly skilled at playing by the rules. That helps keep both sides honest and allows me to avoid being led astray by the excesses and distortions of each. May i recommend a similar approach for you in the coming week?

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(Feb. 19-March 20): “The most frequently leveled criticism of Jimmy Fallon is that he laughs too much.” so begins a New York magazine profile of the late-night talk show host. “He laughs before jokes, after jokes, during jokes.” He is “tV’s most inveterate cracker-upper.” Cynics point to this as proof that he’s suffering from a profound character defect. but there is another possibility, says New York: “Fallon laughs so much because he’s just having a really good time.” according to my reading of the astrological omens, Pisces, you’re primed to have a Fallon-like week — a period when the fun is so liberating and the play is so cathartic and the good times are so abundant that you’ll be in a chronic state of amusement. in response, people addicted to their gloom and doom might try to shame you. i say: Don’t you dare let them inhibit your rightful relief and release. m

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Authorities charged Carl Muggli, 49, with murdering his wife in Ray, Minn., despite his insistence that the 17-foottall totem pole the two were carving slipped out of its cradle and fell on her accidentally. Investigators became suspicious when they found Facebook entries, which the criminal complaint described as “very intimate in nature,” between Muggli and a Texas woman around the time of Linda Muggli’s death. The officers went to the Mugglis’ home to re-create the circumstances of her death. After failing five times to topple the totem pole the way Muggli described, sheriff’s deputies arrested him. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) James Edward Russell, 39, escaped from the Washington state penitentiary but was recaptured the next day when he knocked on the door of a cabin, still wearing his prison uniform, and asked to use the phone. Department of Corrections official Chad Lewis said the man who answered the door was an off-duty guard at the prison Russell had fled and recognized him. (Associated Press)

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Three players on a gay softball team in Washington state sued after they were disqualified from taking part in a statewide tournament because they weren’t gay enough. Organizers of the Gay Softball World Series declared the men to be bisexual, not gay, and said their team thus exceeded the limit of two nongay players. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said the suit could proceed to trial but ruled that the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has a First Amendment right to limit the number of heterosexual players on each team. (Associated Press) Umpires disappointed baseball fans in Alaska attending a traditional midnight game on the summer solstice by suspending play with the score tied, 1-1, after a visiting California team complained it was too dark. The Alaska Baseball League’s “Midnight Sun Baseball Game” had been played without lights on the longest day every year since 1906. Play resumed the following evening, and the California team eventually won, 2-1. (Reuters)

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part-time wife wanted I am a 63-year-old male. Looking for a wife that will accept me part time.

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When: Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Where: ISpy. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909231

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You “Scuffed” my heart To the handsomest bartender in Burlington: You are the captain of my spaceship. You are the starship to my enterprise. With a twinkle in your eye as you pour me a beer, and a look that invites me to go where no man has gone before. When: Sunday, July 3, 2011. Where: Church St. You: Man. Me: Man. #909239 Creepy Van Rides Again I think that perhaps I am that man, driving ‘round town that creepy white van, dancing with you at a H.G. plan, and waterfront BBQ as I lay and got tan. Totally awesome times since this summer began! When: Monday, July 4, 2011. Where: Burlington.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #909238 Fedex Ground Guy You were making a delivery outside of Ben & Jerry’s today, 7/8, around 11:30 a.m. Are you from the area? I really liked your package...ha! Write me so I can send you more info about me! When: Friday, July 8, 2011. Where: Cherry Street. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909237

Sunset Sweet Face The day our worlds collided in the park during that sunset is one I will always be thankful for. I am a very lucky guy. I love you in my life. Love, Your T-cat. When: Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Where: Here, there, everywhere.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #909232

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You Looked Into Me We’ve seen one another just two or three times, but I feel as though you have awakened a new, yet familiar, yearning inside me. Most recently, you were standing, covered in dirt, on a porch on N. Winooski Ave. You kept my gaze as I walked by, and I was swimming in your blue eyes. Your intensity is inspiring. When: Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Where: N. Winooski Ave. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909230 hunter_garcia Saw your profile today and I am intrigued by you, would like to know more. Here’s hoping you read I Spy and will message me. When: Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Where: Two2Tango.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #909229 You know me from somwhere I recognized you right away. Never expected to cross paths with you. You definitely know me from somewhere.

Small world we live in. Has cupid struck yet? He has for this Zombie Girl.

I hope you are enjoying Burlington.

Thanks for the I Spy, I’ve always wanted one. When: Thursday, June 23, 2011. Where: Church St., Burlington.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #909228 MyFavDayIsToday You “winked” at me. Sadly though, my subscription has expired.

When: Monday, July 4, 2011.

Where: Cyberspace. You: Woman.

Me: Man. u #909227

First Friday Evo Thief This “Sir” Isn’t Blind I left HTC Evo in the restroom at First I love how your eyes turn an even Friday at Higher Ground, 7/1. When I lovelier shade of green when the went back for it, it was gone. You didn’t afternoon sun hits them. I love the turn it in. It’s password protected and way you look when you laugh. I love won’t do you any good. Please return tracing the curves of your body in it! No harm, no foul. I just want the RE: Dreamy Guy at Palace 9 the morning light. I love the look memory card mostly. Irreplaceable Dude, YOU rock.

Pat yourself on the 6/14/10 2:39:13 PM on your face when you get ready to 1x3-cbhb-personals-alt.indd 1 photos :(. Please be kind, return my back ‘cause you made me smile.

Keep join me on the orange chair. You are phone. When: Friday, July 1, 2011. comin’ to me for your snacks, and your beautiful. When: Thursday, July 7, Where: First Friday ladies room. You: I Spy ad is forever taped to the cooler 2011. Where: Shower-curtain Store.

Woman. Me: Woman. #909226 in the concession stand at Palace 9.

You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909236

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Signed,

Dear Confused,

Confused

First, let’s address the most egregious issue in this dating disaster: Why were you watching “The Bachelorette” with a guy you’ve only known six weeks!? Viewing this far-from-reality dating show should only be shared with your sweatpants and a pint of Chubby Hubby — never with a guy you’re getting to know. Besides, only a small percentage of the show’s many couples have actually lasted, right? Perhaps your guy sensed a bit of foreshadowing and headed for the hills.

But I digress…

He said he needed space, so my advice is to give him exactly what he asked for. The longer you keep obliging him with time and attention, the longer it will take for him to realize he’s actually lost you. The next time he texts, calls or stops by, kindly explain that communicating with him is not helping you move on and that you need him to back off. If you haven’t already, let him know that you were developing real feelings for him, and you’re unwilling to continue to be hurt by his mixed messages.

In the meantime, don’t pine away for some guy who can’t figure out what he wants. It’s time for you to try some other bachelors on for size. You never know; your “final rose” could be awaiting you.

Reality star, mm

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ENGAGED UNDER FIREWORKS To the couple that got engaged on July 3rd at the end of the dock at the Burlington Boathouse. I congratulated you on your way out but failed to get your name. My picture pales in comparison but it is the least I can give you for an amazing and beautiful moment. When: Sunday, July 3, 2011. Where: Burlingon Boathouse. You: Woman. Me: Man. #909243

Relationships and dating continue to be a mystery to me — a never-ending train ride to Suckville. I had been seeing this guy for six weeks, and things were going in a good direction. We would see each other two or three times per week. We started having sleepovers the first week were together, and he kept talking about vacations we would take and things we would do months down the line. I thought we were falling in love, until the bottom fell out.

Seemingly out of blue, while watching “The Bachelorette” (oh, the irony), he turned to me and said, “I think this is all moving way too fast. I need some space.” I was like, “Uh, OK,” and he left.

Since then, he has been texting me just to ask about my day — and he even stopped by once, crying and saying he had probably made a mistake.

When I offered to give it another try, he said no — but of course he wanted to sleep with me! WTF!? I don’t get it.

Please help before I swear off love forever.

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Walking Down College Before Storm I was walking up College St. right as the storm was starting over the lake. I noticed people taking pictures of the lake so turned around to see, when I looked back up you were in front of me walking down. You smiled very sweetly. You probably don’t remember, but if so maybe tea sometime. When: Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Where: College St. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #909233

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That mystic R this a.m.

Just seeing you I can tell you’re taken, but thanks for the pulls this morning.

It really put a smile on my face to see someone else who was bored with the traffic :). When: Thursday, July 7, 2011. Where: Colchester.

You: Woman. Me: Man. #909234

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3rd of July traffic rudeness To the total babe of an officer at the corner of Main and University Heights on July 3rd, post fireworks, I want to apologize for my rudeness. You were just doin’ your job and I was way too irritated being the only person on the planet that wanted to go downtown.

Keep doin’ a great job and stay sexy!

When: Sunday, July 3, 2011. Where: Burlington/U Heights & Main. You: Man. Me: Woman. #909235

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