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July 3, 4, 5 Join us for our Independence Day

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<contents> july 01-08, 2009 vol.14 no.45

news 14A 17A

14a Long Before Mexican Farm Workers, the Dutch Saved Addison County Dairying Burlington Honors Explorer Samuel de Champlain with a Risky Venture of Its Own

arts news

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18a Montpelier’s SculptCycle Shifts into High Gear Guess Who’s Not Represented in “New England” Exhibit Lake Matters And More

Like, oh my Quad! Quadricentennial, that is. After a long build-up, the massive celebration on account of Samuel de Champlain’s arrival here 400 years ago is finally upon us, and we can hardly contain the puns. This week we preview some events in the Burlington International Waterfront Festival — see Dan Bolles’ Q&A with Steve Earle. But while we look forward to the fun, this issue also looks back — at the rich human and natural history surrounding Lake Champlain. Lauren Ober visits four individuals whose livelihoods and passions have depended on the water. She also tours the embattled Fort Montgomery across the lake. Elisabeth Crean wades through the hefty bio of Champlain the peaceful explorer, and Alice Levitt forages at the Abenaki Traditional Garden in the Intervale. Marc Awodey offers the most sobering perspective with a poem about lives lost beneath the waves. Any way you look at it, Champlain is a lake with stories worth telling.

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A Rare Man of Peace Quad Book review: Champlain’s Dream By elisaBeth Crean

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ROMANCE. It’s a Renewable Resource.

July 01-08, 2009 vol.14 no.45

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Vermont & New Hampshire’s First & Only Green Jeweler.

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Fair Game

Open season on Vermont politics By Shay ToTTen

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Work

movies

Vermonters on the job: Joyce “Jay” Lockerby, drawbridge operator By Ken Picard

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News Quirks Odd, strange, curious but true news By roland SweeT

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By replacing the bulbs in our chandeliers with compact fluorescent lamps, we have reduced our energy consumption by more than 22,000 kilowatt hours per year.

Hackie A cabbie’s rear view

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Renewing the Romance in Your Relationship Can be as Easy as a Visit to Von Bargen’s.

And that’s just one example of our ongoing commitment to the environment.

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Gallery Profile Visiting Vermont’s art venues: River Arts By anne galloway

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“Circus!” an all-media group show at Studio Place Arts in Barre

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Movie reviews Away We Go; My Sister’s Keeper

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CD reviews The Grift, Doppelganger; Jakob Battick, Hiding in the Orchard

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< letters> DEAN’S DIFFERENT TUNE When Dr. Dean was Governor Dean, wasn’t the legislature prepared to pass a Vermont single-payer plan, and didn’t he threaten to veto it if they did [“Health Insurance Rx,” June 17]? Senator Cheryl Rivers then withdrew the bill, and retired into some other vaguely described health-care advocacy job. My take is that if Dean had seized the time, he would now be in his second term as President. Seizing the time has not exactly been his forte. Steve Norman BURLINGTON

SCHOOL DAZE Thank you for bringing to light the challenge facing the Hancock community [“School’s Out Forever — in Hancock and Granville,” June 17]. Having closed their school, does anyone believe that this will be the end to complaining about the cost of education in Hancock? No, the conversation will just change from complaining about the school budget, which they had some control over, to complaining about tuition they pay other towns, which they have no control over. So a 208-year-old school is closed for a marginal savings in year one and an unpredictable cost in the future. Sad, so sad. There are 23 schools in Vermont like the Hancock Community School, with 55 or fewer students, and they educate 816

students — less than 1 percent of the total statewide school enrollment. Shall we hold the schools educating 99 percent of the students harmless and accomplish a higher student-teacher ratio by closing the 23 smallest? If the small schools are supported by their communities and providing “equal (quality) educational opportunity,” shall we support their closure and keep open medium and large schools because they are medium and large? Where does quality count in the school-financing debate? Doug Dows

not a problem. One statement from an angry person to police or a family court magistrate and you’re in the courthouse, often without a criminal charge being filed. So much for due process, now let’s move on to witnesses and evidence. Ha. Wish in your left hand, raise your right hand, and tell the truth, you may be the only one who does… I displeased a woman who later admitted that she submitted a false affadavit to a Washington County

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Family Court magistrate. She was asked for no verification of her allegations, and was encouraged to entice me to violate the restraining order, now officially classified as Relief From Abuse. Well, there was no abuse of any sort, but her admission came too late for me to realize my goal of becoming a teacher. Hell, it came too late for me to shovel snow or mop floors in a school for the rest of my life, but maybe that’s a good thing.

After intense bouts of depression resulting from unemployment and adjustment, I’m alive and enjoying this beautiful planet. Mr. Hagan will rise above this misguided crap, and your attention to this matter is appreciated by all who have seen the hypocrisy and weakness of the hearts that often beat behind the uniforms and the black robes. Philip Wheeler BARRE

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IS KISONAK CRAZY? You need to do something about the man who wrote this review [Drag Me to Hell, June 3]. He’s out of control, and possibly delusional. Abigail van den Noort MONTPELIER

JUSTICE FOR “SEX OFFENDERS” I applaud Seven Days and reporter Sally West Johnson for the gritty exposé of Chris Hagan’s life as a registered sex offender [“Not in Our Backyard,” June 17]. A person can achieve the status of sex offender with incredible ease as a result of prolific advancements in law enforcement — of which one may be unaware until one finds oneself in the machine. Due process, witnesses and evidence? Silly encumbrance,

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HAPPYY JUL ! 4TH

» Vermont Yankee Debate in 140 CharaCters or less •

Last Wednesday, 150 people packed into the Big Picture Theater in Waitsfield for a panel discussion about Vermont Yankee, the state’s sole nuclear power plant. Panelists included nuke-industry critics Nancy Chickering and James Moore. Panelist Lawrence Mott, managing director of New Generation Partners, has spent nearly 25 years developing wind and solar projects. Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer and member of the Vermont Yankee Oversight Panel, was also there — he was recently hired by the legislature to make sure Entergy follows the Oversight Panel’s recommendations — along with Independent representative Adam Greshin, co-owner of Sugarbush Resort. Seven Days’ Shay Totten documented the conversation using Twitter,

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Gundersen notes #VT Yankee has poor procedures in place & not written down. Mostly in employees’ heads and most are close to retire Audience: Isn’t nuke cheaper?

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Mott says no. New nuke in TX is $8K per kWH vs $3K per kwh for wind Audience: Is there a statewide #VT plan for fostering renewable energy? (Me: Um, no) Panel: Moore sez #VT Gov Douglas is not really planning for energy future. Hope to renew VY and HydroQuebec. Not renewables. Audience: Who will pay for decommissioning of #VT Yankee? Greshin: Entergy Co. is responsible for #VT Yankee waste. Moore: Separate Entergy LLC is responsible. Gundersen: Taxpayers will pay Audience: How will you, Rep. Greshin, vote on #VT Yankee? He won’t answer. Audience boos. Shouts. (no compost is thrown tho)

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If you have an idea for a video, or would like to have your music featured in our videos, contact eva@sevendaysvt.com.

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Best Bites: Duke’s Creemees I eat out a lot, and I also happen to live with a man who wants to go out for ice cream every night. That combination leads to a certain amount of malaise. Chocolate and vanilla creemees just don’t cut it anymore. We need our soft-serve to be bigger, brighter, crazier. That’s why we make the trip to Milton, where we can get our frozen ya-yas out at Duke’s Creemees. You might not spot it with a perfunctory drive-by — there’s no sign. Look for Scales & Tails pet shop, then look at that tiny window with the picture of a creemee in front of it. Bingo. On my last visit, I went with the delightfully pink strawberry-almond creemee. It’s one of six strawberry varieties on the menu, from strawberry banana to strawberry colada. Of course, the selections aren’t all straight from the patch. There are 79 flavors, which come in only one very large size, and at one ridiculously low price — $1.90. My all-time favorite is the Mint Chocolate Chip, a bracing mixture filled with tiny chips. That’s right — a creemee with chunks. You can get a cone of Chocolate Butterfinger or Oreo Mint with

a smooth creemee texture. None of that Blizzard business for us. Read more online... Posted June 30 by Alice Levitt

Rainbow Redesign I stumbled across the radio program, “Studio 360” while driving yesterday. The show’s topic for the week: Forty years after Stonewall, where is gay culture today? Though I managed to miss most of the other segments dedicated to this particular topic, one really caught my eye. Er, ears. It asked what the rainbow flag, originally designed in 1978 as a symbol of gay pride, would be like if designed today. To help them with the challenge, “Studio 360” solicited the help of the design firm, Worldstudio. Whether or not you feel the gay flag should be redesigned is, of course, another important topic of discussion. But even if you think the flag is just fine the way it is, take a gander at what Worldstudio came up with. At the very least, it’s fascinating (or at least it is to us designer nerds) to watch the process of identity and branding evolve. This is no doubt a challenging but exciting project for any design firm! Read more online... Posted June 29 by Andrew Sawtell

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Locally owned, independent businesses are the foundation of Vermont’s economy. Local First Vermont encourages Vermonters to think locally first when they shop for food, goods or services.

When you choose to buy from locallyowned, independent businesses, as much as 50 percent of your purchase stays in the local economy, vitalizing Vermont communities. Indie Week celebrates the economic, human and natural vitality of Vermont communities by promoting the importance of purchasing goods and services locally.

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investment, save taxpayers money from cleaning up the plant, and for safety’s sake. “At some point in a foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs,” warned nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen. And who are fools in this equation, exactly? Even the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees the fund falls short of what is needed to decommission the aging reactor. They said so in a recent letter to Entergy and will follow up with — gasp! — a teleconference. That’ll show ’em! “Let’s just say that the governor that is out of state has more confidence in the NRC than the governor in-state does,” noted Shumlin. Sounds like Shumlin would like to be three for three when it comes to overriding vetoes.

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means House Speaker Shap Smith — the guy some Dems would like to see become governor someday — is poised to take over. Right? Not exactly. He’s out of town, too, on vacation with the family. So, just who the hell is in charge? It took some digging and consultation with both David Gibson, secretary of the Senate, and State Archivist Gregory Sanford (no relation to Mark) to sort out the succession plan. Turns out: If no member of the Holy Trinity is able to carry out the duties of governor, the task falls first to the Senate president pro tem, then to the secretary of state and, finally, to the treasurer. That means the man waiting in the wings to run our state government is none other than Sen. Peter Shumlin (D-Windham). Reached by phone in his secure Putney location, Shumlin says he has no major plans for a silent coup — though it’s no secret that he’d like to be more than just a gubernatorial understudy. Nothing like a test drive, eh? He does plan to hold a special session on the Fourth of July to reconsider the governor’s veto of the decommissioning bill. “As governor, I will urge the legislature to overturn my veto,” Shumlin joked. Lawmakers this year sought to compel Entergy, the parent company of Vermont Yankee, to have enough cash on hand to properly dismantle the plant when it’s retired. That could happen as early as 2012 if the legislature doesn’t vote to extend its operating license. Last week, roughly 125 people attended a Mad River Valley forum about VY’s future. They seemed to concur that it needs to be shut down in order to fuel renewable energy

There’s a historic precedent for constitutional underlings trying to exert their power as acting governor, Greg Sanford noted. Republican Gov. Percival Clement (1919-21) opposed women’s suffrage, putting him at odds with the state GOP and his lieutenant governor. Lite Gov. Mason Stone informed Clement that if he ever left the state, Stone would call a special session to ratify the 19th amendment. And you thought same-sex marriage was controversial. Clement did go to D.C. to consult on Warren Harding’s presidential campaign, but made it back in time before a special session was called. As a result, the Green Mountain State lost its chance to be the “decider” state on that crucial constitutional amendment. That honor went to Tennessee. Shumlin has no plans to leave Vermont this week. He’s even forgoing his annual post-fireworks boat ride down the Connecticut River with his family. Why? “As soon as I get out far enough into the river, I’d be in New Hampshire,” said Shumlin. That would make Secretary of State Deb Markowitz — Shumlin’s competition — the governor-in-waiting. She also hopes to be the Dem that takes on Douglas in 2010. Before Democrats start plotting, remember this is the Douglas administration we’re talking about. They always have a political contingency plan in place. You don’t get elected governor in a heavily Democratic state without one. “At the hint of a coup, I’ve been instructed to deploy my best Al Haig impersonation and delay just long enough to zip the governor back from his secure, undisclosed location,” joked Neale Lunderville,

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for mayor in 2006 and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in Vermont. No Progressive vs. Democratic animosity in any of those races, eh? McCarty said it’s too early to say if he is officially running. “You don’t announce until the session is over,” he said like an old hand. “For legislative races you don’t need that much time. Right now, I’m just talking to local leaders.” If he does run, McCarty doesn’t predict a bitter Dem vs. Prog battle like the ones we’re used to seeing up north. “I wouldn’t be putting party first,” said McCarty. “Party doesn’t come into play in Brattleboro as it does in Burlington.” Maybe Brattleboro really is more “hip” than Burlington. No Walk in the Park — Before the Burlington parks department got all riled up about disc golf, there was the odd case of Adam Cate: After being investigated for months, the city’s waterfront manager was fired last June.

Pearson twice noted in his write-up that Kiss’ decision not to reappoint Gross as director had raised questions about how the city is being governed. The public’s right to know trumps the protection to privacy afforded to Cate and the parks commission. “There is significant public interest of the citizens of the City in gaining further information about and insight into the administration of City business regarding supervisory policies and practices; the issue of adequate controls over City monies; and adequate controls over City personal property including cellphones and laptop computers issued to City employees,” Pearson wrote. Too bad it took a court order to make the disclosure happen. Movin’ on Up — Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders have moved across North Avenue to a place on Van Patten Parkway. The couple moved out of their longtime modest home on Killarney Drive and into new digs previously owned by

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Rep. Robert South’s St. J district residents got the same first two questions. Rather than pre-K funding, however, the pollsters asked South’s neighbors if they supported his vote against taking a 5 percent legislative pay cut. The GOP is using the same polling outfit that took the public’s pulse in a series of legislative surveys during the same-sex-marriage debate. In that case, the interrogators asked voters if they thought lawmakers should support, oppose or wait to take up the issue. “The goals are pretty straightforward,” Vermont GOP chair Rob Roper says of the current poll. “We want voters to know how their representatives are voting on key issues, and we want to know if the voters agree or disagree with the way their rep voted.” Someone has to keep these folks accountable, right? An interesting House race may be shaping up in Brattleboro, too — this one between Democrats and Progressives: Rep. Sarah Edwards — the first Progressive elected to the legislature outside of Burlington — may face a challenge from recent UVM grad Scott McCarty, a Brattleboro native. While at UVM, the poli sci major was very politically active, working on everything from Democratic City Councilor Ed Adrian’s campaign in Ward 1 to Republican Rich Tarrant’s quixotic U.S. Senate bid against then-Rep. Bernie Sanders. He also worked on Rep. Kesha Ram’s campaign last fall, Sen. Hinda Miller’s failed bid

Then he was rehired and put on probation in November. In April, he was fired again — this time, for good. The city put Cate on paid leave last summer and fall while officials looked into claims that he improperly read emails and ordered subordinates to hide city property from police. Next week Judge Dennis Pearson will release most of the documents related to the ongoing fracas involving Cate, the city’s Parks & Recreation Commission, Parks & Recreation Director Wayne Gross, Mayor Bob Kiss, Chief Administrative Officer Jonathan Leopold and his assistant Ben Pacy. William Rasch, a union steward in the parks department, took the city to court earlier this year after the city denied him access to some documents related to the Cate investigation. Leaked versions of the commission’s investigation found their way into the Burlington Free Press. They appeared to clear Cate and place the blame on the Kiss administration. The judge’s ruling should clear the air. “The bits and pieces that have already been ‘leaked’ to the press or public simply confuse the issues, lead to innuendo rather than knowledge, and detract from a fuller public understanding of the matters raised,” Pearson wrote in his ruling. The city is reviewing Judge Pearson’s decision and has not yet determined if it will appeal, said Joe Reinert, assistant to the mayor.

their son, David J.B. Driscoll. They’re keeping it all in the family. The move takes the couple out of Ward 4 and puts them smack in Ward 7. That means, aside from new neighbors, they now have different city and state reps. Republican Rep. Kurt Wright no longer speaks for the duo in the Statehouse; it’s Democratic Rep. Mark Larson. Hopefully, they’ll maintain their lawn better than Sanders keeps his hair. Just sayin’. Going Forth — I’ll be heading to Bristol’s grassy green this weekend to watch my favorite Fourth of July parade in Vermont — and, of course, the town’s annual Outhouse Race. My mother passed away on July 4 nearly four years ago. The day gets a bit easier to manage each year, but there are still reflective moments that sneak up on me when I least expect them. I’m actually looking forward to this year’s “moment.” Until then, here’s wishing a Happy Fourth to you and yours, and, in the words of my mom à la Mick Jagger: “You can’t always get what you want … but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.” Cheers. m Can’t wait till Wednesday for the new column? Tune in to WPTZ NewsChannel 5 on Tuesday nights during the 11 p.m. newscast for a preview. To reach Shay Totten, email shay@sevendaysvt.com.

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ermont’s Abenaki and French heritage is being celebrated during the Vermont Lake Champlain Quadricentennial, which will also highlight the recent influx of immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Balkans. But little attention is being paid to a still-distinctive community of Dutch-descended farmers that has influenced the culture and politics of Addison County for the past 60 years. The collective story of these 100 or so families is unfamiliar to state historians such as Michael Sherman and Kevin Graffagnino, the former president and director, respectively, of the Vermont Historical Society. It also doesn’t jibe with the state’s navy blue political complexion or with its increasingly secular character. Many of the Dutch settled in towns around Vergennes following World War II, with a wave of domestic transplants arriving in the 1960s. The earlier immigrants left their farms in a country that had been impoverished by the Nazi occupation. Those who followed 20 years later were also seeking opportunity in rural Vermont, but many of these newcomers were fleeing suburban development in parts of New York and New Jersey where they had been farming since emigrating from the Netherlands. Farm land was still cheap in Addison County 40 years ago, and even back then a lot of dairy operations were going bust. John DeVos, now 91, moved to Ferrisburgh in 1967 because he could no longer afford the property taxes on his farm in Monroe, N.Y. He had first come to the United States in 1948 in order to escape “the socialist system in Holland.” DeVos says there was “no way to get ahead” as a farmer in the old country. “The government controlled everything. You were allowed to have only so many cows, so many pigs.” Herman Boesman, who immigrated to the U.S. with his parents in the late ’40s, bought a 225-acre dairy farm and house in Addison for $29,000 in 1968. His father, Kornelius Boesman, had moved to the Ozarks from the Netherlands — not for economic reasons but to avoid Soviet communism. “He thought that what happened to the Jews during the war would happen to Christians when the Russians took over,” Herman Boesman relates. Even though dairying was an iffy proposition financially, Vermont bankers were willing to lend to Dutch farmers because of their reputation as tireless workers, says Tom Albaugh, pastor of the Christian Reformed Church in Vergennes. Indeed, herds that would otherwise have been dispersed were kept productive in Addison County through the sweat of Dutch families. Boesman, for example, dropped out of school at age 15 — later earning a GED, he points out — in order to help on the farm. DeVos embodied the same ethic. “It’s going to be hard to make it in this country,” he remembers thinking in the 1940s. “I knew I had to take off my jacket and go to work.” That willingness to labor long hours under punishing circum-

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Local voters of Dutch descent may account in part for why Addison County’s lone Republican state legislator represents the towns of Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham. stances has been passed on to a younger generation of Dutch farmers. Derrick Dykstra, 27, says he’s going to keep milking his 225 cows in New Haven despite the dairying crisis that recently bankrupted his brother’s nearby farm. “What can I do?” Dykstra asks rhetorically. “Just keep a smile on my face and work hard every day.” Farming is encoded in the Dutch families’ genes. “One of the first words kids learn after ‘yes’ and ‘no’ is ‘farm,’” Boesman says. But other aspects of the Dutch tradition are being abandoned by Dykstra’s generation. The culture “gets weaker and weaker over time,” Pastor Albaugh observes. “You get to the third generation and the commitment starts to break down.” The language is being lost, for one thing. DeVos and Boesman both speak Dutch — though only rarely these days — while Dykstra knows just a few words. He has also stopped attending the Reformed Church on a regular basis after being prohibited from taking part in some of its rituals. “I’m living in sin,” Dykstra says with a smile. His nonmarital cohabitation with a woman is seen as “offensive to the old-school ways of the Dutch,”

he explains. In the 1960s, when the Christian Reformed Church was established in Vergennes, “there wasn’t as much counseling as now in regard to divorce and single-parenting,” Albaugh notes. American culture has proved “enticing and tempting” to the children of the Dutch immigrants, adds Jeremy Velman, pastor of the New Haven United Reform Church, which broke away about 10 years ago from the congregation that Albaugh now heads. Dutch families in Addison County, while still generally living in accordance with Calvinist principles, are actually less isolated from today’s liberal Vermont than they were from what was a staunchly Republican state 50 years ago, Albaugh suggests. “A lot of them say, ‘We’re Americans now and have to be more open to who our neighbors are,’” he remarks. “I don’t feel Dutch,” Boesman, 67, declared at his farmhouse kitchen table last week. “We’re very grateful to be in America,” added his wife, Greta. To neighboring outsiders, however, the Dutch farmers still comprise a cohesive, distinctive com-

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The K-12 school’s roughly 70 students are mostly from Dutch families who attend either the Christian Reformed Church or the United Reformed Church. A significant and growing minority of pupils have parents who are members of other Christian denominations. The churches themselves are also no longer uniformly Dutch in their memberships. Greta Boesman figures about one-quarter of the New Haven church’s congregants are of other heritages. “We don’t want to be known as a Dutch church,” Pastor Velman declares. That may seem a somewhat paradoxical ambition, however, since his church adheres more strictly to Calvinist doctrine than does the older church in Vergennes. Velman’s United Reformed Church broke off from Albaugh’s Christian Reformed Church mainly over the issue of ordaining women to ministerial posts. The New Haven congregation had opposed that move, as well as the Christian Reformed Church’s distancing from a literal interpretation of the bit in the Book of Genesis where God is said to have created the Earth in six days. “The authority of the Bible wasn’t being upheld the way

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oyce “Jay” Lockerby doesn’t like heights or being on bridges, which makes her choice of occupation unusual. Then again, hers is an unusual job: operating the drawbridge on the Bastille Bridge, more commonly known among locals as the Grand Isle-North Hero bridge. It’s Vermont’s only drawbridge, and Lockerby is one of only two people in the state who operate it. Lockerby, a Vermont Agency of Transportation employee, has been working the drawbridge on Route 2 for about 11 years. After a friend of hers retired from the post in 1998, she applied for the job, seeking a change from her work as a home health aid. Lockerby was born in 1953, the same year the bridge was built. It’s not a difficult job, she admits. Between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. from May 15 until October 15, she watches for large boats — sailboats, cabin cruisers, fishing vessels and so on — that are too tall to pass under the Name: Joyce “Jay” Lockerby span. This is one of only three Occupation: Drawbridge operator passageways between the main Location: Grand Isle/North Hero body of Lake Champlain and the inland sea, and the only one large enough to admit boats that stand 17 feet above the waterline. When a boat needs the drawbridge raised, it either radios the bridge house, blows its horns or waits for Lockerby to notice. Then she walks out to the bridge tower, an octagonal, red-brick perch overlooking the water, and starts the process. First Lockerby waits for road traffic to subside; then she flips a switch that rings the warning bells and lowers the crossing gates. With the way clear, she depresses a foot pedal that retracts the retaining pins holding the two bridge spans in place and gets the gears turning. Jim Dubuque, the maintenance man who’s supervised the bridge’s upkeep since 2004, explains the mechanics. Basically, it’s a “counterbalance bridge” that operates on gravity using a series of interlocking gears that raise and lower the spans, or “leaves.” Except for the electronic controls and galvanized steel span that was replaced two years ago, it’s all original equipment. Dubuque should know — his father helped build the bridge. The south leaf rises slightly ahead of the north one. Once they’re both upright, Lockerby gives the boat the green light to sail through. Per U.S. Coast Guard regulations, she jots down the vessel’s name, direction of travel, weather conditions, wind speed and other relevant info. All that data goes in a log book back in the bridge house, which documents about 15 years of passing boats. Lockerby can only raise the bridge twice per hour. She tries to keep it raised for no more than 10 minutes, often no more than five. In part, it’s to minimize the delay for motorists. And, once the bridge is up, the operator is essentially stuck inside the tower, where it can get pretty hot — as much as 110 degrees — as this reporter discovered on a recent sweltering afternoon. As a boat passed through that day, Lockerby wrote down its name: the Coryphêne, a 40-foot sailboat out of Montréal. The clearance was about 16 feet today, according to a gauge at the waterline. “But that’s just a rough estimate,” Dubuque warned. “Don’t take our word for it.” When asked about her distaste for heights and bridges, Lockerby just shrugged and laughed. “Yeah, it’s kind of funny,” she said. “But the other girl they just hired is terrified of spiders. And this place is full of them.” SEVEN DAYS: Was there any special training required for your job? JAY LOCKERBY: Just learning how to operate the bridge.

SD: What’s the best part of your job? JL: Having all winter off. [Laughs] I only work five months a year.

SD: What do you do the rest of the year? JL: Enjoy my grandkids. SD: What’s the worst part of your job? JL: The people in the cars that aren’t too pleasant and get pissed off because they have to wait 10 minutes. They’ll go by and swear or flip me off or whatever. They’re just cranky people. I just smile and wave. SD: Do those cars typically have out-of-state plates? JL: No. Usually Vermont locals, unfortunately ... I mean, this [bridge] is a rarity. There’s not a lot of them operating in the United States anymore. I think it’s gorgeous. I just don’t get it. SD: How many boats do you get per day during peak season? JL: Oh, 20, 22, especially on weekends when it gets busy. But normally 10 to 15. When it’s really busy, it’s every half-hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Some days we put 100 boats through. And that’s not counting the ones that can go under. SD: How busy has it been lately? JL: Last year was busier than the year before. This year’s been pretty slow so far. Usually we’re busier than this at this time of year. But the economy stinks; the Canadian dollar dropped again, and gas is going up again. There are a lot of factors. Last year, with as high as the gas prices were, the Canadian economy was good, so there were a lot of Canadian boats out. Not so good this year. SD: Do boats hit the bridge often? JL: Very seldom. We had one last year. We have actual traffic lights down there. When I know they can clear it, I give them the green light. Well, he didn’t wait, and he tried to sneak through and pulled the light right off. We got the name of the boat, and the sheriff went out and took care of it. Occasionally we’ll have a person not paying attention and take out one of the gates [on Route 2].

SD: Ever get big vessels coming through here? JL: The [1862 schooner] Lois McClure came through the other day. Saturday, a lobster boat came through that had just been built in Maine. The owner drove it down from Maine. That was pretty cool. SD: Did you get any lobster from him? JL: I wish they had a basket, but no. SD: Does anything keep the bridge from operating, besides the lake freezing over? JL: If we have thunderstorms. I’ve seen lightning hit the tower. If there’s a storm, we don’t go out there. SD: How often does that happen? JL: Two or three times a year. SD: What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever seen? JL: You don’t want to know! SD: Yes, I do. JL: Well, I’ve seen naked women ... I’ve been saluted and waved at, and not by their hands. Believe me, I’ve seen it all! ... Three guys on a boat went through once on a gorgeous day. It was the only boat going through and ... they all whipped it out and shook it at me, all three of them! And I just pointed at them and laughed. I said, “You guys aren’t going to embarrass me. I’m too old for that!” And I did embarrass them, because they put ’em away and turned around. SD: Anything else? JL: That, and the two people going at it on the back of a cabin cruiser that went through, just nonchalant, like it was no big deal. m Got a comment on this story or a suggestion for another unusual Vermont job to profile? Contact Ken Picard: ken@ sevendaysvt.com.

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That’s achievable as long as the weather cooperates, predicts Burlington City Arts director Doreen Kraft. Tony Bennett’s Flynn show has already sold out, and at least other three acts — The Roots on July 5, Ween on July 11 and Grace Potter on July 12 — will likely play to full houses as well, Kraft adds. The July 9 Buddy Guy and Bettye Lavette show is also selling well, says Jen Crowell, the festival’s ticket manager. If all five of those shows sell the maximum number of tickets, it represents about $575,000 in revenues. Tougher sells are Dan Zanes, Steve Earle and Aimee Mann, and Aurelia’s Oratorio, Crowell reports. That’s reflected in the discounts being offered through the Vermont Arts Council, City Market and Front Porch Forum. Festival officials are counting on a large influx of tourists to support all the ticketed shows. “Lots of Canadians are coming, I’m positive,” Kraft says. The Lake Champlain Quadricentennial Commission, a state body, has advertised the Burlington festival in Québec media, notes Kraft, who is producing the city’s celebration along with filmmaker and arts presenter Jay Craven. Visitors from the northeastern states may not be so numerous, however. Vermont tourism promoters have been talking up the Quad in the Boston and New York metropolitan areas for the past six months, but the Globe and the Times have paid scant attention to the Burlington extravaganza. “With an event of this magnitude in this economy, we really don’t know what to expect,”

Half-a-million dollars’ worth of tickets must be sold in order for the Vermont International Waterfront Festival to break even. Investments in the Quad — from Washington, D.C., and Montpelier — were scaled back as the recession worsened. “When we were figuring how much to raise, it was the boom-boom days of 2007,” says Quad Commission board member Chris Roy, an attorney with Downs Rachlin Martin. “The environment became more challenging, and we ended up not doing a lot of fundraising.” The state is contributing $200,000 to the commemoration of Samuel de Champlain’s 1609 lake voyage, with a portion of that sum earmarked for last month’s Franco-American heritage event in St. Albans and the Festival of Nations scheduled for September in Chimney Point and Crown Point. As usual, Sen. Patrick Leahy was influential in prying money out of federal coffers for the Vermont event. But the $100,000 committed by the Obama administration is not as much as organizers had hoped to receive, although additional funding may become available later in the year, according to Kraft. Rumors of an actual presidential appearance have been greatly exaggerated.

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ames Irving-Westerman is a licensed electrician and certified welder. He can fi x most anything, but in his off hours, he finds another use for his skills. When Irving-Westerman, 24, removes his electrician’s tool belt for the night, he becomes a sculptor, fashioning abstract shapes from castoff metal. His specialty has been the manipulation of industrial-grade piping into poetic forms — a “Holey Trinity” of three elaborately cut standing cylinders and an “Aloe,” composed of thinly cut lengths of piping that resemble the leaves of that succulent. The self-taught Morrisville native’s latest sculptural trick, however, is additive, not subtractive. Irving-Westerman has been making a series of spheres in which he welds together bicycle gears and sprockets to form a kind of metal exoskeleton. His “Gears Sphere,” on view in this year’s outdoor SculptCycle exhibit in downtown Montpelier, sold for $800 within a few hours of being installed, and the artist has two additional orders in hand. Each orb is about 3 feet in diameter and looks logistically impossible to make. How do you fashion a perfect sphere from a bunch of junk? “The trick to putting them together is to have a form,” Irving-Westerman says, as he describes how each halfsphere is shaped against the bottom of a 250-gallon propane tank. “You build each half on the form and then put it together.” The hardest part is assembling the round sprockets and

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n announcing its first biennial exhibit, the Boston-area DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum says it will be “highlighting artists from across New England” with “an emphasis on quality.” A total of 17 artists have been selected for the show that opens next January: seven from Massachusetts, four from Maine, three from Connecticut, two from Rhode Island, one from New Hampshire ... and zero from Vermont. Does that mean, in the DeCordova’s view, that Vermont artists are producing inferior work? Or that the state isn’t home to real New Englanders? No dis was intended, insists Dina Deitsch, the show’s curator. “It’s not our goal to represent the full New England art scene,” she says. “We’re taking a snapshot and not trying to present the whole picture. I do know there are many good artists in Vermont.” Deitsch says she viewed work by Vermonters in several

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Why buy new materials when there is so much free refuse at hand? gears into a random pattern before he starts welding them together. A single sphere is made up of 200 individual pieces that vary in diameter from 2 to 6 inches; IrvingWesterman sorts them by size. “Once you start welding, it’s easy,” he says. Irving-Westerman likes to use other recycled materials, including glass, wood, stone and metal, which partially exhibitions as part of a selection process involving more than 150 artists. She also consulted with the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington and with Vermont collector Mark Waskow. In choosing pieces that “give a taste of what sort of issues artists are grappling with today,” Deitsch was advised by a three-member panel composed of mavens from Yale University, the Portland Museum of Art and the Boston CyberArts Festival. Located in Lincoln, Mass. — about 20 miles west of Boston — the DeCordova bills itself as New England’s

accounts for the variety of forms his sculptures take. He says he doesn’t have a set style, because each sculpture is derived from his reimagining of the materials at hand. In this regard, Irving-Westerman is a perfect fit for Sculptcycle 2009. All 19 of the artists whose works are exhibited in front of, and sometimes inside, buildings around town this year — Delia Robinson, Axel Stohlberg, Arnold Angelo and Patrick Purcell, to name a few — seem to have a similar guiding rationale: Why buy new materials when there is so much free refuse at hand? And why not remind people that bikes are a carbon-free alternative to cars? That pretty much sums up the mission of SculptCycle, which is as much about giving tourists and locals something fun to look at as it is about supporting local artists and encouraging people to think about their environmental footprint. Last year, this odd combination of goals seemed to get results. Not only did old bike bits get a new lease on life, but local businesses sponsored $500 stipends for artists to create the sculptures, and the buzz kept going through the summer. There’s a slightly different formula this year: The stipends are $250, and artists get 80 percent of the proceeds from sales while the Montpelier Downtown Community Association gets 20 percent. (Those percentages were reversed last year.) “We have the same goals and purposes,” says Rob Hitzig, founder of the SculptCycle project and co-owner of The Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier. “We want to increase awareness of public art in the community and make people aware of biking as a carbon-free mode of transportation.” If the response to Irving-Westerman’s sculpture is any indication, SculptCycle promises to turn more heads — even nongearheads — than it did last year. The works in SculptCycle 2009 are sited at various locations in downtown Montpelier through October. Maps are available at www.sculptcycle.org.

Hitzig, co-owner of The Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier. “It’s a shame they didn’t make the effort to highlight at least one.” Amanda Sanfilippo, assistant curator at the Firehouse, acknowledges that Vermont is associated much more with traditional landscape paintings than with avant-garde experimentation. “The number of Vermont artists participating in the contemporary art world is fairly small, and there aren’t a lot of collectors of contemporary work here,” she adds.

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largest museum of modern and contemporary American art. Before switching to an every-other-year schedule, the museum organized 20 annual exhibits showcasing regional artists. None of those shows included work from all six New England states, Deitsch says. Denizens of the Vermont art scene aren’t assuaged. “There are tons of great artists in Vermont,” says Rob

Since last fall, visitors to the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain have had the opportunity to step inside a kiosk and record their personal reflections on the lake in a short video clip. The results, uploaded to ECHO’s YouTube channel, run the gamut. One respondent in his mid-forties talks earnestly about the growing global issue of water resources. Another, considerably younger, raps about how fish get their colors. While it may look like just another interactive gadget, the ECHO kiosk is actually part of an ambitious long-term project, Voices for the Lake, first conceived in 2005. Project manager Bridget Butler writes on her blog that it all started with the question, “Can social media be used to raise awareness around a conservation issue?” The goal, Butler says, is to gather enough personal stories from communities touched by Lake Champlain to create a “Google mash-up map of the watershed” where “you can touch your town, and up will pop a set of videos.” To foster stewardship of the lake, the map will offer links to community action groups, too.

But Sanfilippo still finds it “disturbing — incredible, really” that the DeCordova’s inaugural biennial omits work from Vermont. “The scene may not be large here,” she says, “but it’s intensely vibrant.” The DeCordova Biennial opens in January 2010. Info, www.decordova.org.

A second motive behind the project, Butler says, is to “attract an older audience demographic” to ECHO, which draws plenty of youngsters with its programs focused on aquatic life. “How do you engage the adults who are here with those kids?” she asks. Besides being accessible online, the map/video database will form the centerpiece of “a new adult-focused section of ECHO,” says Butler. Visitors will be able to browse it via a large table-top computer touchscreen, then view and upload their own videos from individual stations. While “hundreds” of stories have already come in through the kiosk, Butler is heading out to other parts of the watershed to gather more. She’s already toted her equipment to libraries in Enosburg and Highgate; Swanton is next on the list. There Butler offers community members webcam-equipped notebook computers and conducts one-on-one interviews with her Flip camera; she’s currently building video editing skills so she can pare down the results. “People don’t really know they have a story to tell,” says Butler, who expects to make about 70 site visits for the project, hitting both sides of the lake and every

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No matter how sweet home is, sometimes you just gotta leave it. That’s what the Vermont Stage Company is doing this month. In residence for a decade at Burlington’s cozy FlynnSpace, VSC is taking its 2007 hit Woody Guthrie’s American Song to Middlebury’s newly renovated Town Hall Theater for a July 22-26 run. While VSC Artistic Director Mark Nash will once again direct the show, Montpelier’s Patti Casey will return as both cast member and music director. Tix, www. townhalltheater.org. Oh, and don’t worry, B-town: VSC will be back at the Flynn this fall for a brandnew season. Stay tuned … Rabble-rouser alert: The PanAshé Steeldrum Band is looking for dancers to “raise the energy” this Friday, July 3, in the 18-piece sax/drum ensemble’s performance at the Montpelier Independence Celebration. The world-premiere show is called “Les Bluettes Sauvages” (“Wild Blueberries”) — and who wouldn’t want to be part of that? If you’ve got some red, white and blue enthusiasm to spare, call PSB head Emily Lanxner at 472-5913. Rehearsals begin at 1 p.m., the parade at 6 p.m. … If you like to watch films en plein air, the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier has got a deal for you: “Movies on the Hill.” That is, eight Friday-night films, PATTI CASEY July 10 through August 28, shown outdoors on the green beginning at dusk. Word has it the fare will be family-friendly. Best of all, it’s free. Come early and picnic. Info, www.vermontcollege.edu or 8288580 … Speaking of the Capital City, a new group called FindArts Montpelier has organized to, well, help everyone find the arts. Kind of a cultural chamber of commerce, it is mustering arty cognoscenti and the proprietors of bookstores, galleries, restaurants, etc. to collectively facilitate and market the town’s culinary, visual, performance, literary and film offerings. Already host to a monthly art walk, annual fashion show and summer-long outdoor SculptFest, Montpelier is embracing this thing called creative economy. More to come as this develops. Info, stacy.theberge@ vermontcollege.edu … Have you heard the Quad starts this week? If not, what rock have you been hiding under? The 12-day quadricentennial celebration of Samuel de Champlain’s giving our almost-great lake a French name takes shape in the Queen City as the more generically titled Burlington International Waterfront Festival. All of it has been getting mucho publicity in this paper and elsewhere. But one little-heralded component of the massive lineup is a series called “Forums on the Future” — that is, of Vermont — to be held at Burlington City Hall Auditorium daily, July 6-11, at noon. Notable speakers will wax eloquent on a variety of topics. We’ll just mention two arty ones here; you’re on your own for the rest. On Tuesday, July 7, in “Writers’ Visions of 2050,” kiddos from the Young Writers Project and a stellar smattering of grownups will read what they wrote from the imagined perspective of that arbitrary year down the road, followed by a Q&A. The adult readers are nothing if not diverse, ranging from professional actress/playwright/optimist Kathryn Blume to alarming author James Howard Kunstler (The Long Emergency). On Thursday, July 9, visual artists paint a picture — with words — of what it means to be a Vermonter and how “our collective cultural output reflects our sense of place and community.” Grappling with this one are painters Val Hird and Annemie Curlin, architect John Anderson, filmmaker Nora Jacobson and John Miller from Lyman Orton’s “Art of Action” project. Whew. KATHRYN BLUME

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ordered a teller at a bank in Winslow Township, N.J., to hand over the money, she locked her cash drawer and walked away. The Philadelphia Daily News reported that the frustrated thief yelled at her, but she ignored him and alerted a coworker, who activated the silent alarm. The would-be robber left empty-handed. • Police in Monroe, La., said Clifton C. Wright, 44, tried to buy 50 cellphones from a Minnesota distributor by using a forged cashier’s check but aroused suspicion by misspelling “cashier’s” as “cahier’s.” The Monroe News-Star reported the suspect also used the FBI office in Monroe as the delivery address, which is where police apprehended him

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Maryland Zoo opened its new $500,000 escape-proof prairie-dog habitat, half the rodents inside needed just 10 minutes to figure out how to bypass the aircraft wire, poured concrete and slick plastic walls. None escaped, zookeepers told the Baltimore Sun, but they managed to find every weakness in the enclosure and jump and climb over the walls, sending workers scrambling to plug escape routes by adjusting the wire fencing and installing more slippery plastic on the walls. “They find all the weak spots and exploit

By RolAnD SwEET them,” zoo Chief Executive Officer Karl Kranz said. • The day after officials opened the New Beginnings Youth Center in Laurel, Md., hailing the $45 million juvenile facility as an “antiprison,” devoid of customary razor-wire fencing, an inmate scaled a fence and escaped. He was quickly recaptured, the Washington Post reported, but Vincent N. Schiraldi, director of the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services, who at first said he would place prickly shrubbery near the fence to discourage further attempts, decided to add razor wire.

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Dear Cecil, I recently read a speech by Noam Chomsky in which he says that during the Vietnam War, “soldiers were fragging officers.” I, a man too young to have served in that conflict, have heard this before but thought it was just a rumor. Can you shed some light on this dark matter? Tom, Chicago I can, but frankly not much — and in my opinion, that’s a story all by itself. Fragging — assaulting a superior officer using a fragmentation grenade or other explosive — was surprisingly common during the Vietnam War. The most reliable figure is 730 suspected incidents from 1969 through 1971, much higher than in U.S. wars before or since. Oddly, there’s no official count of fragging deaths; one unofficial source says 86, another 45. Prior to Vietnam, assaults against U.S. military officers were rare. World War I saw one incident leading to court martial per 12,700 servicemen, a ratio said to have remained fairly steady during World War II and the Korean War. During the Vietnam conflict, the fragging rate rose from 1 incident per 3300 servicemen in 1969 to a peak of 1 per 572 servicemen in 1971. Few Vietnam fragging cases went to trial, so comparison with earlier wars is risky. Still, these are astonishing statistics, suggesting an army at the point of degenerating into a mutinous rabble. You’d think in the wake of Vietnam the U.S. military would have closely investigated fragging to avoid another brush with chaos. As far as I can tell, it didn’t. I had my assistant Una scour the databases and contact the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Combat Studies Institute. Even with the help of these sources she was able to turn up only a few short papers on fragging. Sure, maybe the Pentagon has some classified research it isn’t telling anybody about. But here’s pretty much all that’s publicly known: • Two articles on fragging, “Assaults with Explosive Devices on Superiors” by David Gillooly and Thomas Bond (Military Medicine, 1976) and Bond’s “The Why of Fragging” (American Journal of Psychiatry, 1976), were based on analysis of 28 convicted fraggers. These articles are the most detailed research on fragging we have. However, each is just three pages long. • The Center of Military History sent us an unsigned two-page report entitled “Murder of U.S. Army Company Grade Officers in Vietnam by Enlisted Men,” apparently written in response to claims that 40 percent of captains and lieutenants killed in Vietnam were murdered by their men. Not likely, says the report. About 3000 such officers died during the war; 40 percent of that number is about 1200; no way would slaughter on that scale have escaped official notice.

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nan is poised to open a new restaurant in burlington. talk about a leap of faith. “Hey, how’s the head chef hiring proceeding? Didja make an offer to that guy from New York City?” A couple of weeks ago, Nan had me transport a sous-chef from Le Cirque, arguably the most renowned restaurant in the Big Apple. Driving with me, the man expressed his excitement about the chance to step up and actually manage his own kitchen. “Nope; that guy was terrific, though. We’ve been taking the candidates to the farmers market and having them choose the ingredients and cook for us. Yeah, he was good. But ultimately we went with a cook from the Inn at Shelburne Farms.” Whatever the odds, I thought as we cruised up the Northern Connector, this woman is going to succeed. I first drove Nan about 10 years ago when she was a wild and crazy St. Michael’s student. After graduating, she coached field hockey for a couple of years; then came the culinary degree, and now this. Is it strange to say I feel a little bit like the proud papa? The thing is — now that I think about it — even at St. Mike’s, Nan was always a doer and an organizer. Her friends sometimes may have thrown caution to the winds, partying like there was no tomorrow. But even as Nan kept up with them, she never lost her head. This girl always had plans, and no college craziness was ever going to take precedence. It’s not surprising to see her now walking the path of an entrepreneur.

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A Lake Flows Through It From all sides, watershed residents look to Champlain

says Nicole Ballinger, communications and publications coordinator for the Lake Champlain Basin Program. Within that watershed are nine rivers and streams that feed the lake’s waters. The health of these bodies of water — the Lamoille, the Missisquoi, the Poultney/ Metawee and the Winooski rivers and Otter Creek in Vermont; and the Ausable, the Bouquet, the Chazy and the Saranac rivers in New York — determines the health of the lake and of the watershed’s 200,000 residents who get their drinking water there. But more than that, the watershed connects its inhabitants and makes them all part of the lake, whether they live in Castleton, Vt., or Keeseville, N.Y. For watershed residents living far from the lake, it’s easy to forget this connection. But slowly people are

coming around, Ballinger claims. “People are definitely tuning in more than they have,” she says. “But there’s still a lot of room for education.” Farmers are becoming more aware of the effects of phosphorus runoff in the inflows, and residents throughout the watershed are pitching in to restore riverbanks, create buffer zones and preserve wildlife habitat. This awareness of our connectedness is a fairly recent development, says Cynthia Scott, coordinator of the Missisquoi River Basin Association, and it helps define the evolving culture of the watershed. If the physical lake is defined by the sum of its water — in the case of Lake Champlain, 6.8 quadrillion gallons — then the cultural watershed can be defined as a sum of its people. Here are a few of their stories.

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Jim Sausville is a man of enviable patience. Maybe it has something to do with being a kayaker for much of his life. He’s had to wait for seasons to turn and rivers to flow before paddling the best water. Whatever the origin of his constancy, Sausville has been waiting a long time for his river, the graceful Saranac, to return to its optimal state, its state before humans dumped trash in its depths and built parking lots on its banks. Over the course of 15 years, Sausville’s steady stewardship and measured cheerleading have brought the river, his personal playground, back to its rightful place as centerpiece of the village. When Sausville, 58, moved to Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the early 1980s, the river wended through the village unnoticed by visitors and ignored by residents. Shop fronts faced away from it: “The village had basically turned its back on the river,” Sausville says. Industrial waste from the lumberyards and retail shops that backed up to the river was tossed indiscriminately. The water was a convenient dumping ground, and little thought was given to the effects the waste would have on the region, let alone on Lake Champlain, into which the Saranac empties 50 miles to the northeast. Sausville, a boatwright by trade, is a compact man with a neatly trimmed salt-and-pepper beard and rosy cheeks. When he’s not building or repairing boats, he’s cycling, hiking, backcountry skiing or paddling, depending on the season. When the Saranac Lake village government decided to tackle river restoration, Sausville volunteered his considerable knowledge of the water and his boundless energy. After the village agreed to dredge a channel in the river to make it more accessible to paddlers, Sausville was confident in the community’s commitment, he recalls. In 1995, Sausville shepherded the installation of a whitewater practice area on the Saranac, right in the center of town. Today he still uses that area to teach beginning paddlers eddy turns and peel-outs. Since then, the village has set about improving the river, albeit slowly, one small section at a time. “This work has brought access to the river and forced people to clean it up and not just use it as a dump,” Sausville says. Today visitors to Saranac Lake, once the vacation destination of early-20thcentury elites such as the Rockefellers, the Guggenheims and the Posts, will see the fruits of Sausville’s patience — a winding riverwalk dedicated just weeks ago. Volunteers, marshaled by Sausville and others on the River Corridor Commission, built a simple wooden and brick boardwalk along the riverbank, three quarters of a mile long. Engineers stabilized the banks with rusticated masonry, aesthetically appropriate to the rural environs. The village installed picnic tables and benches the length of the boardwalk. New interpretive signage highlighting the various fish, birds and insects that make their homes in or around the Saranac makes the river feel more integral to the village than it did before. This rehabilitation and rejuvenation of the river has been Sausville’s greatest accomplishment. And he only had to wait nearly two decades to see it realized. But watching older couples stroll on the riverwalk at night or youngsters fishing on the banks during the day makes the wait worth it. “It’s really amazing. I couldn’t envision it was going to be like that,” Sausville says, looking out over the surging river from the newly built boardwalk. “There’s a sense of accomplishment to stick with something that long and see it finished.”

Carol Treadwell may be the only Girl Scout, past or present, ever to have earned a badge in rock collecting. More than 30 years after receiving that scouting honor, Treadwell is still enamored of rocks, particularly those that make up her beloved Adirondack Mountains. She’s in her element discussing the geology of the Adirondacks and the rivers that run through them, particularly the Ausable. Treadwell, a fluvial geomorphologist, became hooked on rocks as a freshman in college. Three geology degrees later, she is making a living protecting them. “I’ve always loved to solve problems, and with geology, you’re solving problems with a limited bit of information,” Treadwell says. As the executive director of the Ausable River Association, Treadwell organizes projects that address erosion issues, water quality, invasive species and general stewardship of the river, which gets its name from the French phrase meaning “in the sand.” But what she really likes doing is talking about rocks. Treadwell, 46, is tall and lithe with sandy blond hair and energy to spare. Years of skiing, cycling and hiking all but three of the 46 High Peaks have kept the Lake Placid resident remarkably fit. She is keen to explain just what makes the Adirondacks so different from their neighboring peaks on the other side of Lake Champlain. Recalling the talks she’s given to so many elementary school classes, Treadwell outlines how the Adirondacks were pushed out of the Earth’s crust like a pimple, whereas the Green and White mountains to the east were created by a crumpling, or continental collision. Contrary to what many think, the Adirondacks are not part of the Appalachians, like the Greens and Whites; rather they are the southernmost part of the Canadian Shield, made from metamorphic rock as opposed to the sedimentary rock of Vermont’s peaks. The Adirondack Mountains are also younger than the Greens; the domal uplift that created them happened just 60 million years ago. The Taconic orogeny that brought the Green Mountains into existence occurred 400 million years before that. For her master’s thesis, Treadwell examined the tilt rate of fluvial terraces on the Ausable to determine whether the mountains are still rising. For the nonscientist, that means the river provided proof that the Adirondack dome is still rising by about one millimeter a year. During a visit to the East Branch of the Ausable, which cuts just beneath the village of Jay, Treadwell gushes about the rocks that compose the river’s bed. They are anorthosite, she says, an igneous rock that is found in very few places on Earth — as well as on the highlands of the moon. The rock contains large, opalescent crystals that shine when wet. To demonstrate, Treadwell takes a piece of anorthosite the size of a loaf of bread — one of her teaching tools — and licks it. The rock shimmers with pinks and blues. “I’m the only one allowed to lick this rock,” she jokes. Surface outcroppings of anorthosite are so rare that when the astronauts returned with the first moon-rock samples, they sought out Adirondack geologists to help them learn more, Treadwell says. She is proud that esteemed scientists would turn to colleagues in the Adirondacks for answers, though it doesn’t surprise her that the rocks she loves would hold the key to scientific discovery. She’s known that for years. “Geology is like a puzzle,” Treadwell says. “You have to put the pieces together.”

Lake and Basin Facts Lake length: 120 miles. Lake Champlain flows from Whitehall, N.Y., north toward the U.S./Canadian border and its outlet at the Richelieu River in Québec. From there, the water joins the St. Lawrence River, which eventually drains into the Atlantic Ocean at the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Greatest width: 12 miles Greatest depth: 400 ft. in the area between Charlotte, Vt., and Essex, N.Y. Average lake depth: 64 ft. Lake area: 435 sq. miles of surface water Area of wetlands in the basin: More than 300,000 acres Average volume of water: 6.8 quadrillion gallons Length of shoreline: 587 miles Number of islands: More than 70 Source: Lake Champlain Basin Program

On the Missisquoi: The Angler Mike Manahan remembers the first fish he ever caught. He was 8 years old, standing on the banks of a brook near his home in Enosburg. With a primitive stick-and-string set-up, Manahan hooked an 8-inch-long trout. That was all it took — one modest catch, taken home and fried up by his grandmother — to make a lifelong, ardent fisherman out of him. Manahan, now 68, lives less than a mile from the Missisquoi River, which teems with bass, trout and walleye, and he knows every good fishing spot from Highgate to Richford. His passion for fishing has made him into an uncompromising environmentalist. After a flood destroyed many trout habitats on the Missisquoi in 1996, Manahan became a volunteer for the Missisquoi River Basin Association. When he retired from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection service in 2003, he volunteered for the watershed organization full-time. “I worry about the water supporting the fish that are supposed to be in there,” Manahan says. “We don’t have to flush all the manure down the river.” Get Manahan going on the state of fishing along the Missisquoi and its tributaries, and he’s not likely to stop. When talking about the absence of trout in the Trout River, which flows into the Missisquoi, Manahan jumps out of his chair and gesticulates wildly. He produces a missive he recently wrote to the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, outlining his complaints. He’s serious about fishing, and by extension, about the effects of human irresponsibility on his hobby. Manahan is a slim man with wispy white hair and large gunmetal eyeglasses that often slip down his nose. His house, the same one he grew up in, is decorated with numerous fishing tchotchkes. One placard on the wall reads, “Fish stories told here.” Another says, “Give us this day our daily limit.” The best

proof of their status as a self-made, middle-class family. After the mill closed, Loiselle found work as a popcorn and peanut girl in a local store. Then she worked for the City of Winooski. She can’t remember a time when she wasn’t working, even when she was raising her six children. Only in the last couple of years has she stopped volunteering with her various church and senior groups. Ask Loiselle her thoughts on the changes Winooski has seen since the mills closed, and you’ll get an earful; she doesn’t like them at all. She can’t stand the new buildings and what’s become of the mills and feels no compunction about saying it. “This is awful,” Loiselle bellows. “All of those big buildings, it’s ridiculous. It makes me glad I can’t see so good anymore.”

sign in the house sums up Lauren Ober discusses this story on Manahan’s own view of the “Inside Seven Days,” Thursday at 8 p.m. on RETN, Channel 16. Watch it online at afterlife: “If there’s no fishin’ www.sevendaysvt.com or www.retn.org. in heaven, I ain’t going.” Manahan’s walls are also festooned with taxidermy fish, prizes from riverside exploits past. One is a 7-pound brown trout with reddish-orange speckles that he caught in the Trout River years ago. “When you catch these in the river it’s a beautiful thing,” Manahan says. “This is a good wild one, not one of those hatchery ones.” In his years volunteering with the basin organization, Manahan has planted thousands of trees along the riverbank to form buffers mudroom is full of rods and reels. Though he has about between the region’s many farms and the water. He’s worked nine rods, some of which he has never used, his favorite rod with farmers to educate them about the damaging effects of phosphorus runoff on the Missisquoi, and consequently, on his remains a basic set-up he bought in 1972 for $15. While Manahan occasionally fishes with his brother or precious trout. Currently, he’s helping out with water quality another friend, he’s mostly a solo angler, save for welcomsampling along the river. ing the accompaniment of his frisky black Lab, Maggie. He The trees Manahan has planted are helping stabilize doesn’t need any human company while casting his line the banks, which prevents the river from changing course because the fishing is entertainment enough. The river and rapidly. They also provide shade for fish and help keep the its denizens have worked their way into his bones. “The water cool. Warmer water doesn’t hold oxygen as well, and environment is beautiful, the air is good for you,” Manahan fish prefer to live in well-oxygenated water. says. “And I like the challenge of it. Once you get it in your Manahan’s environmentalism is always dual-purpose — he blood, you don’t lose it.” m still fishes at least once a week from May to October. His

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On the Saranac: The Paddler

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ake Champlain is many things — picturesque waterway, sportsmen’s playground, tourism jewel. It even claims the title “America’s most historic lake.” Though it no longer serves as a vital trade route and shipping corridor, it is impossible to overstate the lake’s role in shaping the region’s economics and ecology over the 400 years since Samuel de Champlain claimed its first European discovery. Still, the lake is much more than its 435 square miles of surface water. Its basin spans 8234 square miles, reaching west deep into the Adirondacks, east to the outer bounds of the Northeast Kingdom and south to a tiny, emerald-green lake in East Dorset. “The breadth and largesse of the lake is incredible to think of. You can travel two to three hours and still be in the watershed,”

Estelle Loiselle considers herself lucky. In the years she worked for the American Woolen Company stamping military blankets with a red-hot iron, she never once got burned. Women who worked in the Winooski mill alongside Loiselle were often scalded as an iron bearing a “U.S.” brand moved from one blanket to the next in rapid succession. “I managed and I did it until the end,” Loiselle says. “I was pleased I didn’t get burned.” The fact that she was careful didn’t make the millwork any easier. Loiselle still had to stand on her feet from 5:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., pushing blankets under the iron, and then return home to feed and care for her growing family. But, like most women of her generation, she is reserved about her travails. “When you’re young it doesn’t bother you,” she says. “When you’re young you can do anything.” The 92-year-old Winooski woman doesn’t make a big deal of the work or its attendant dangers. It’s just what people did during the war to get by. The mills along the Winooski River were the largest employer in the area, and, because they were manufacturing woolens for the military, the jobs paid relatively well. From 1901 to 1954, the American Woolen Company was the nation’s largest producer of woolen goods. The company took advantage of the churning river to power the looms that wove the wool. It employed hundreds of people like Loiselle and her late husband, Romeo, who worked there repairing machinery. Loiselle, a devout Catholic, is a sharp nonagenarian with a head of delicate white curls and twig-thin legs. She complains that her daughter’s cooking is making her fat and pats her round belly as proof. Her hearing is going and her eyesight is fuzzy, but she can tell stories about her life in Winooski for hours. Loiselle moved to the United States from Québec as a 28-year-old newlywed and settled in the Flats section

of Winooski, where her husband grew up. Since English wasn’t her first language, a job where she didn’t have to speak was ideal. After a couple of years stamping blankets, she was transferred to another part of the mill where she was tasked with fixing sewing mistakes — an infinitely better job than the stamping, she recalls, because it was quiet and safe. She was far away from the rattling machines powered by the rushing Winooski River below the mill. That job, one of the best paying at the mill, allowed Loiselle and her husband to move out of her mother-in-law’s house and into their own home. In 1955, a year after the mill closed, Loiselle bought a two-story, three-bedroom clapboard house in the hill section of the city. She and Romeo spent $5000 cash on the house — 10 years of savings. They had finally made it, and their address in the better part of town was

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History

Fortress of Solitude Built to defend, Fort Montgomery now needs saviors

C Story Lauren Ober Images Matthew Thorsen

alvin Hilliker isn’t a tour guide by trade. As the maintenance supervisor for Powertex, a company that makes liners for cargo containers in Rouses Point, N.Y., he’s happier messing with machines and making sure the property looks nice than he is talking to the public. But over the nearly 25 years he’s worked for Powertex, he’s had to grow into the role. The company’s owners, Victor and Stephen Podd, also own Fort Montgomery, a crumbling 19thcentury garrison a whisper away from the Canadian border. Hilliker has been tasked with showing around history buffs, visiting journalists and just about anyone who’s interested in the hulking brick and limestone structure.

Where menacing howitzers once sat, faded beer cans collect. Fireplaces are tagged in orange and red spray paint. Recently, he agrees to take me on a tour of the fort. Hilliker, a rugged northcountry man who is economical of speech and gruff in mannerism, doesn’t mind showing yet another reporter the property. At least he’s getting outside, he says. If the Podds have their way, Hilliker’s days as de facto tour guide may be coming to a close. Fort Montgomery is for sale on eBay, and Victor Podd is hoping that the attention focused on the lake during the Quadricentennial celebrations will lure wealthy collectors or entrepreneurial developers who can handle $5 million for the fort and its surrounding acreage. To understand how a grand, historic structure ended up a graffitied, overgrown shell, it helps to get a little background. Construction of Fort Montgomery, named for American Revolution hero General Richard Montgomery, began in 1844 on the site of another fortress known as “Fort Blunder,” built in 1816. Local historian Jim Millard writes in his book about Fort Montgomery that a fort in this location was deemed necessary because of the many “military incursions” that had taken place where Lake Champlain flows north into

the Richelieu River. Millard, who declined to be interviewed for this story, writes that construction on the fort occurred in spurts for 30 years, and no expense was spared because protection of the waterway was deemed paramount. Once the fort was completed in 1870, the Civil War was over and Fort Montgomery was outmoded. The structure served little military purpose beyond providing a visual deterrent. While soldiers were stationed there and armaments were positioned around the fort, it was never officially garrisoned. By the early 1900s, the guns had all been removed. The fort declined into serious disrepair. In 1926, the U.S. government sold it at public auction. By 1936, a demolition

Hilliker agrees to chauffeur me, since it’s unlikely my Pontiac Vibe would last long on the deeply rutted track leading to the citadel at Island Point. At the Powertex headquarters, I am required to sign a waiver absolving the company of responsibility should I get hit by a falling piece of limestone or trip over a stray beer can. We pile into a white, cobwebby Land Rover Defender and set off. Hilliker soon stops to unlock a metal gate blocking the entrance to the dirt track that leads to the fortress. “If I don’t shut the gate behind me, there will be a ton of people down here,” he says. Trespassers are apparently undeterred by the rugged road, which is often washed out by the lake. The gouged track cuts through

strophic collapse. That’s one of the reasons the Preservation League of New York designated it as a landmark to save, says Tania Werbizky, the organization’s regional director of technical services. After lengthy consideration, the League decided the fort met the criteria because it is “of landmark quality” and because the community cares about seeing the site preserved. With new visibility from the “Seven to Save” designation, the League and Victor Podd hope they can draft a plan for the fort. “We’re trying to give it that extra oomph,” Werbizky says. “We’re going to try to pull together the stakeholders to come up with a solution.” But finding a solution to the rapid deterioration will be a challenge, especially

company had taken down three of the five bastions and removed much of the remaining limestone for use in the first bridge from Alburgh to Rouses Point. By then, locals had already scavenged the fort and carted off huge quantities of masonry to use in building homes. Stephen Podd’s own house is built from scrap limestone and brick salvaged from Fort Montgomery. Over the past 75 years the fort, which once featured a moat and drawbridge, has been all but forgotten as a historical landmark. Hilliker says there’s not a person in Rouses Point who hasn’t been to a party there. He should know, having spent much of his youth tossing back cans of cheap beer with friends under its casemate arches. Evidence of these parties and the vandalism they wrought is everywhere at the fort. Where menacing howitzers once sat, faded beer cans collect. Fireplaces are tagged in orange and red spray paint. A long-abandoned box spring lies in one ramshackle room. Bits of plastic and glass detritus cover the floor. Before the Podds bought the property 23 years ago, cows wandered the parade grounds. By then, the structure had already changed hands a number of times; the Podds purchased it from Québec Lithium for $200,000. Seeking land on which to build a larger headquarters for Powertex, they constructed an industrial park on part of the 366-acre property and left the rest alone.

swampland and skirts the lake. Halfway down the rudimentary road the lake laps over it, and Hilliker gingerly muscles the Land Rover through the water. We drive so slowly that he is able to avoid crushing a turtle in the middle of the road. Hilliker parks the truck, hops out of the driver’s seat and moves the critter to safety before continuing on. Overgrown trees close in, and it’s hard to see where the path leads. Then, without warning, the trees peel back and reveal the skeletal remains of Fort Montgomery. Hilliker drives the Land Rover over the former moat and stops in the middle of the old parade grounds. Only two sides of the pentagonal fort remain, and from the parade grounds we can see the nautical border with Canada. When Hilliker and I walk through the ruins, I understand why the waiver is necessary. Wearing a hard hat would not have been a bad idea. Slabs of ceiling and sections of brick from the fort’s many archways litter the ground. Hilliker says many of the rock piles are new since he last came, indicating that the structure continues to crumble. It’s not the safest place I have explored. Mary Racicot, a member of the Rouses Point-Champlain Historical Society, thinks preserving the fort is imperative, if for no other reason than safety. Although the property is posted and trespassing is illegal, people still make their way to the ruins. “People are interested in the fort. They’re always trying to get into it,” Racicot says. “If it could be refurbished, people could enjoy it without the risk of hurting themselves.” The fort is in serious danger of cata-

in the current economy. The range of options for the fort all require substantial investment and the cooperation of owners and community members, Werbizky says. One course would be creation of a friends group, to which sole ownership of the fort could be transferred. Preservation organizations such as Werbizky’s could then help the friends group find funding for stabilization and future projects. Of the League’s seven designees, Fort Montgomery is the only one up for sale. But the most recent eBay auction has yielded no bidders. Two years ago, when the Podds first posted the fort on the website, the minimum purchase price was $3 million. They received an offer of just over $5 million, but the deal fell through. Victor Podd, who lives in Florida, says developers have shown some interest in the property, but nothing concrete has materialized. He acknowledges that the fort has fallen into ruin over the years mainly because the family was too busy building their business to worry about it. In Podd’s ideal scenario, a developer would use the surrounding property, which includes 6700 feet of lake frontage, for a golf course, a marina or lakefront housing, and then invest in stabilizing the fort proper. He’s willing to wait for a good offer — one that would include a plan to stop the structure’s slow return to the marshy ground. For now, the fortification that never actively defended anything belongs to vandals, wildlife and the curious. Preservation, Podd says, “is just not our forte.” m

It’s not easy to reach the fort at the end of the Rouses Point Bridge. Lawful visitors and trespassers alike have to make a substantial effort to get to the ruins.

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Man About Townes Steve Earle talks love, marriage, divorce and Townes Van Zandt

Story Dan Bolles Steve Earle and Aimee Mann perform Wednesday, July 8, at Burlington’s Waterfront Park, 7 p.m. $30/35. Tickets, 8635966 or flynntix. org. Celebrate champlain.org.

SEVEN DAYS: You’ve called Townes a “real bad role model,” but he obviously influenced you in ways beyond being just a, well, bad influence. STEVE EARLE: The first thing was that it became obvious to me, almost immediately, that I was witnessing someone making art at a really high level, without consideration for whether they were gonna be compensated for it materially. And that was pretty stunning when you were 17 years old. When I first heard of him, I saw his records — people in coffee houses that I played at in San Antonio had ’em — and I was 14 … His face was on a record, so I figured he was rich. Then I met him and found out he wasn’t, but he kept doing this anyway. And he did it at this really, really high level and set the bar for all of us that were lucky enough to run into him the first few years we were writing. SD: While there are specific groups of fans and, especially, songwriters who appreciate him, Townes Van Zandt has really never gotten wider acclaim. Why do you think that is? SE: It’s his fault. He shot himself in the foot every chance he got. I mean, Bob Dylan’s always known who Townes was. And more people know who he is now than you’d think. I used to have to tell everybody who he was every time his name came up… But songwriters … and people in the music business have known who he was for a long time… SD: How did he “shoot himself in the foot”? SE: He didn’t involve himself in the making of his records. It took him a long time to make a record that he was really completely and totally comfortable with. And that record [Seven Come Eleven] … wasn’t released, and it was really great.

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s the legend goes, Steve Earle first met Townes Van Zandt when the late songwriter heckled a 17-year-old Earle during a performance at a Houston coffee shop in 1972. That encounter marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship between Earle and the man who would serve as his greatest influence. Over nearly four decades, Earle forged his own path to music stardom. But like that of his mentor — who passed away on New Year’s Day 1997 after a lifetime of substance abuse — his road was strewn with perils. The heralded songwriter and passionate political activist has battled numerous personal demons; he’s weathered drug addiction, alcoholism and seven marriages. But he’s also seen his share of triumphs, including two Grammy awards, numerous film and television appearances, and, finally, a stable marriage, to songwriter Allison Moorer. Now sober for more than a decade, Earle has released a brilliant tribute to his fallen and underappreciated idol. The lovingly conceived and intimately understated album is entitled simply Townes. Seven Days recently spoke with Earle by phone in advance of his performance with Aimee Mann at Burlington’s Waterfront Park.

The whole point of that song was that the revolution starts with you, when you wake the fuck up. And I think the country did wake up. Steve Earle

The songs ended up on another [album] later, called Flyin’ Shoes. But his skills were somewhat diminished by that time. And he had sort of given up by the time he made that record. SD: How did you decide which songs to record for this album? SE: It was hard. I mean, I had 28 songs on the list the night before I started recording. And after that, I started recording, got to 15 I thought would make a good record, and stopped. But it was stuff that was important to me, stuff that I hadn’t already recorded. Stuff that I felt like I’d be a pussy if I didn’t record it … It was mind blowing going through it all and realizing how much great material there really was. SD: You wanted to reproduce them as you remembered them from when Townes was playing, right? SE: Yeah, the performances themselves. But I didn’t make any rules about what I could do to them after that … I was willing to overdub almost any of them. I put strings on a few of them. But I recorded all of the sessions, just guitar and vocal versions, and then I … went to Shreveport to shoot a movie. And I was riding around playing it for the director … and he goes, “You’re not going to do anything to that, are you?” … That comment, plus Steve Christiansen, who actually recorded most of this stuff, said that he would take it home at night … He had a connection to Townes and he’s a really good engineer. [Steve] and his girlfriend said they felt like they were eavesdropping on someone when listening to the songs. I took that to heart … So the criteria was to never put anything on the album that took it out of the little room … There’s this really intimate sound to it.

SD: It’s been about five years since you released The Revolution Starts Now, which was essentially a response to the Bush presidency. Now that we are six months into the Obama presidency, do you feel we’re finally seeing some changes for the better? SE: I feel like I’m being listened to. And … I’m much more comfortable with Pat Leahy being the head of the judiciary committee when we’re choosing a Supreme Court justice. “The Revolution Starts Now” — what that song was about and what the idea was with that record is that the revolution goes on one way or the other. I really am a Socialist. I’m something way to the left of a Democrat. And the revolution goes on with you or without you. The whole point of that song was that the revolution starts with you, when you wake the fuck up. And I think the country did wake up. I voted for Barack Obama for one reason: because he promised he would bring these troops home from Iraq. And he hasn’t done that yet. Now, I’m patient. But I’d hate to have to write the letters … for any of these kids that are killed between now and the time he finally gets them out of there. I believe that’s what his intention is. I believe he was handed a lot of shit to deal with. And you know what? He’s a lot more progressive than I thought he was, all things considered. SD: You’re something of an authority on the ins and outs of marriage. You probably know that, in a few months, gay couples will be able to get married in Vermont… SE: Oh, I didn’t realize that had actually happened. That’s great!

One of the reasons I moved to New York was that … walking out my front door and being able to see a mixed-race, same-sex couple holding hands, it makes me feel better. It makes me feel like I’m OK. I’m safe. And I couldn’t say that living in Tennessee. It became such a fear-mongering issue. The initiative against same-sex marriage in California is powered by exactly the same thing as what powered attacking Iraq. It’s completely and totally something born of fear … I live in Greenwich Village now. I feel safer there than I did in Nashville in the last 30 years, as heterosexual to a fault as I am. SD: Do you have any words of advice for our legions of soonto-be newlyweds? SE: It’s hard for anybody to be married. It’s hard enough for people to live together and try to occupy the same space. It’s obviously something human beings want to do, and it’s sort of how we were designed to live. But it’s tough. I’m clueless! I got married … well, I can tell you more about divorces than I can about marriages. And that’s that they suck. So just the pain that you have to go through … Gay people can get married. But now they have to get divorces… During my third divorce, I was high enough to hunt ducks with a rake with my lawyer. Her lawyer called. And they postured — for my benefit, I guess — and threatened each other and puffed up their chests on the phone for a minute. And then they made a date to play golf. SD: Are you serious? SE: I’m dead serious. It’s important to remember that: Watch out for lawyers, no matter what. m

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A Rare Man of Peace Book review: Champlain’s Dream

V Story Elisabeth Crean Champlain’s Dream by David Hackett Fischer. Simon & Schuster, 834 pages. $40.

ermonters have christened everything from convenience stores to chocolate companies after Samuel de Champlain (ca. 1570-1635). The French explorer charted vast stretches of North America and created hundreds of place names for geographical features in his remarkably accurate, elaborately illustrated maps. But he named only one after himself: the lake that he, two French companions and a small party of Indian allies reached on July 14, 1609. Vermont’s own, almost-Great Lake Champlain. In Champlain’s Dream, historian David Hackett Fischer recounts the Frenchman’s dramatic arrival, exploration and lakeside battle at Ticonderoga in lavish and loving detail, as he does every aspect of Champlain’s life. The monumental biography is sweeping in scope and scholarship. (Care for a refresher course on France’s

life. In fact, he may have deliberately shrouded his personal background. Fischer examines one possible reason: Champlain may have been one of King Henri IV’s many illegitimate sons. So Fischer must pursue the man through his historical context, and this he does brilliantly. A full chapter on Henri and the Wars of Religion, for example, illuminates how Champlain and the king (his future royal patron) “both become men of humanity in a world of cruelty and violence.” Having come of age on the battlefield, in the terrible crucible of civil war, they both committed themselves to ideals of peace and religious tolerance. Champlain’s dream was a New France never torn by the conflicts that nearly destroyed Old France. Fischer thoroughly documents and analyzes what Champlain achieved

Excerpt from champlain’s dream, Chapter 7: Tadoussac — The Great Tabagie, 1603 In May 1603, Champlain first arrived in the St. Lawrence River Valley, the heart of what became New France, and later, the province of Québec. He landed at Tadoussac, where the Saguenay River empties into the St. Lawrence. A “huge assembly” of Montagnais and Algonquin Indians (Champlain estimated at least 1000) gathered for a tabagie, a “great tobacco feast ... to celebrate a victory over their common enemy, the Iroquois.” Accompanying the explorer and his expedition commander, Pont-Gravé, were two young Montagnais interpreters. — E.C.

16th-century Wars of Religion?) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author doesn’t quite have David McCullough’s ear for spinning academic history into delightful yarns. But he keeps the 531 pages of narrative flowing by confining some of the more arcane points to 110 pages of endnotes and 66 pages of appendices. Fischer engages readers with refreshing insights and colorful particulars as the story unfolds. What happened on Lake Champlain 400 years ago is a riveting example. A full moon meant the French and Indian allies had to proceed slowly southward to remain concealed from their enemies. This gave the explorer time to appreciate the lake’s abundant natural resources. In battle, he and his companions quickly defeated the much larger Mohawk forces. The Frenchmen’s arquebuses, Champlain recalled, “astonished them so much that, seeing their chiefs dead, they lost courage, took to their heels, and abandoned the field and their fort, fleeing into the depth of the forest.” This clash was one of the rare times Champlain used firepower against the Indians. Fischer sharply contrasts Champlain’s philosophy and practice with how the English, the Dutch and especially the Spanish treated

The two French leaders came ashore with their young Montagnais companions and walked boldly into camp. They showed not the slightest sign of fear or hostility — a demeanor that was very different from that of many Europeans... One of the two Montagnais who had been to France ... talked at length of his good treatment by the people of France. Champlain remembered that the young Indian was heard “with the greatest possible silence.” When he finished, the grand sagamore smoked a long pipe, passed it to the other sagamores and to Pont-Gravé, and began to speak “with great gravity.” He said that “in truth they ought to be very glad to have His Majesty for their great friend.” [...] After more dances and celebrations the Indians retired to their lodges. Champlain delighted in their company. He was fascinated by their character and culture, and quick to perceive its complexity ... “They speak very deliberately,” Champlain wrote, “as though they would make themselves well understood, and stopping suddenly, reflect for a good while, and then begin to speak again.” [...] Here was a moment of high importance in the history of North America. Nobody had planned these events, but both French and Indian leaders were quick to see an opportunity. The Great Tabagie marked the beginning of an alliance between the founders of New France and three Indian nations. The Indians gained a potential ally against their mortal enemies, the Iroquois. The French won support for settlement, exploration, and trade... The leaders who had met at Pointe aux Alouettes also did something else. They gave tone to the alliance ... They treated each other with dignity, forbearance, and respect. They began to build an atmosphere of trust that was fundamental to relations between Europeans and Indians. They also kept it growing. When trust grew strong, many things were possible. When trust was lost, it was rarely regained. This meeting was important for that spirit, as well as for its substance. It marked the beginning of a relationship that was unique in the long history of European colonization in America. Something of its spirit has endured in Canada between Europeans and Indians even to our own time—an extraordinary achievement.

America’s native inhabitants. Other European powers saw the Indians as racially inferior and sought to remove or exploit them, through violence if necessary. Champlain spent several months covertly observing colonial rule in the Caribbean, where the Spanish enslaved Indians while forcibly converting them to Christianity. He noted that these practices were both cruel and ineffective, so outraging the Indians “that they made war

against the Spaniards, and killed and ate them.” The historian delves deeply into the milieu of 16th-century France to explain other factors that shaped Champlain’s more enlightened approach. Extant biographical info is surprisingly sparse for such an important figure. Even the year of his birth remains uncertain. Champlain wrote and published copiously about his voyages but little about his own

illustrations by samuel de champlain: self-portrait (above), two montagnais indians (above left)

pursuing this vision. The gifted explorer and cartographer traveled through territory that now encompasses six Canadian provinces and five American states. The skilled mariner made 27 Atlantic crossings without losing a ship. The wily politician mastered dealing with Parisian court intrigue, negotiating peace with a dozen Indian tribes and leading struggling settlers through the remote colony’s early days. Although the facts themselves make Champlain’s life extraordinary, Fischer’s tone communicates a certain boosterism about his protagonist. He shows occasional flashes of defensiveness about academia’s late-20th-century bias against Dead White Males, especially those who had any contact with Native Americans. He carefully deconstructs anything Champlain wrote about the Indians that appears condescending. Native Americans had been living on Lake Champlain for a long time when the Frenchman showed up. But if it feels culturally sensitive (or politically correct) to be dismissive of the 400th anniversary, ponder this: Who considered Champlain a hero and preserved his memory most faithfully? Stories about the “great and brave” white man who came in peace persisted in the oral traditions of Indian tribes for centuries. And that truly fulfilled Champlain’s dream. m

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Women walk alone on brick beaches, bricks from a wreck that foundered in your storm. Ice fishermen pull steaming trout from your body and grand children stand on ripples of sand while your whispers wrap ankles in sunlightyet we do not know your name. Granite hills and crumbling fortresses embrace the new leviathan, puffing poets praise themselves, and the rich their charitable contributions to you. Your waters are the blood of glaciers your gar the serrated spawn of monsters we serve at your pleasure, you are not of us

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Twenty thousand is an estimate of how many people may have perished on the lake through warfare, storms, accidents, etc., since humans first entered the Champlain Valley — around 9000 BC. Marc Awodey is Seven Days’ art critic. His poems are published in Telegrams from the Psych Ward. Minimal Press, 1999, 102 pages.

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‘An AlternAtive view of the french Discovery of lAke chAmplAin’: Frederick M. Wiseman, PhD, uses video and artifacts to shed light on how Champlain’s expedition can be seen as originating in the foreign policy of a Native American alliance. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 475-2022. ‘council on the future of vermont’ results forum: Residents glean the fruits of the council’s two-year dialogue with Vermonters about their values and visions for the upcoming years. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-6098.

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burlington city arts Clay: Wheel-Throwing I: Jul. 13 - Aug. 10, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $158/$141 BCA members (clay sold seperately at $20/25 lb. bag, glazes and firings included). Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main Street, Burlington. This introductory class will focus on the potter’s wheel with students learning basic throwing and forming techniques. Projects may include vases, mugs and bowls. Students will also be guided through the various finishing techniques using slips and glazes. No experience necessary! Over 20 hrs/ week of open studio time to practice! Limit: 12. Clay: Wheel-Throwing II: Jul. 16 - Aug. 13, 6:30-9 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $158/141 BCA members (clay sold separately at

$20/25 lb. bag). Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. In this mixed-level class for advanced beginners and intermediate potters, students will learn individualized tips and challenges for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover advanced throwing, trimming and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing cylinders. Prerequisite: Basic wheel experience. Limit: 12. Drawing: Plein Air Drawing: Jul. 15 - Aug. 5, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $110/$99 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center and outdoor locations TBD, Burlington. Come draw in the great outdoors! Students will draw and sketch on Church Street, the Waterfront and other fun locations. Students will be encouraged to explore some new drawing perspectives while working with a variety of drawing materials including colored pencils, pastels and more! Limit: 10. Jewelry: Precious Metal Clay: Jul. 14 - Aug. 25, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $160/$144 BCA members. Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main Street, Burlington. Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is a composite of silver, water and organic binder. It can be shaped like clay and when fired, leaves behind solid silver. A variety of techniques will be demonstrated showing the versatility of the material and students will be able to create several pieces. Material fees additional. Limit: 10. Painting: Plein Air Painting: Jul. 6 - Aug. 10, 4-7 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $185/$166.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center & outdoor locations TBD, Burlington. Come draw in the great outdoors! Students will draw and sketch on Church Street, the Waterfront and other fun locations. Students will be encouraged to explore some new drawing perspectives while working with a variety of drawing materials including colored pencils, pastels and more! Limit: 10. Photo: From Camera to Print: Digital Workflow: Jul. 14 - Aug. 4, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $250/$225 BCA members. Location: Burlington Technical Center, Burlington High School, Burlington. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive workshop using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW files, organization, finetuning tone and contrast, color adjustments and printing will all be covered. Includes archival ink and paper. Bring a portable hard drive or flash drive with images to class. Prerequisite: Intro to the 35MM Film or Digital SLR or equivalent experience. Limit: 10. Photo: Intro to Film or Digital Camera: Jul. 15 - Aug. 19, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $145/130.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Community Darkroom, Burlington. Explore the basic workings of the manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera to learn how to take the photographs you envision. Demystify f-stops, shutter

speeds and exposure and learn the basics of composition, lens choices and film types/sensitivity. Bring a 35mm film or digital SLR camera and manual to class. No experience necessary. Limit: 15. Photo: Lith Printing: Jul. 30 - Aug. 13, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $125/$112.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Community Darkroom, Burlington. In this mixedlevel class for advanced beginners and intermediate potters, students will learn individualized tips and challenges for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover advanced throwing, trimming and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing cylinders. Prerequisite: Basic wheel experience. Limit: 12. Print: Beginning Silkscreening: Jul. 27 - Aug. 24, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $145/130.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn to design and print posters, T-shirts, fine art prints and more! Get exposed to a variety of techniques for transferring and printing images using hard-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Learn photo emulsion, silkscreen exposure, and to mix and print images with water-based inks. Some materials included. Limit: 8. Print: Silkscreen Design: Jul. 16 - Aug. 13, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $175/157.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn the materials and processes of silkscreen design - a fast-paced printing technique that uses screens, squeegees and inks. Work with a professional silkscreen artist and learn how to use multiple screens and colors to make multilayered prints. Print designs on clothing, T-shirts and more! Some materials included. Limit: 8. Summer Camp: Clay, Past thru Present: Jul. 6-10, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Cost: $165/$148.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, Burlington. Create and fire clay projects as they would have been in early Vermont history, including coil building and pit firings with a focus on functional ware and decorative pieces. Through the week we will move toward the modern ceramic techniques of today, such as wheel throwing and contemporary slip designs. Ages 6-8. Summer Camp: Illustrate it!: Jul. 20-24, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Cost: $165/148.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Become an illustrator and be inspired by a variety of colorful, illustrated books including Owl Moon, Leonardo The Terrible Monster, Rainbow Fish and more. Using pencil, oil pastels, markers and more, explore the ins and outs of illustration and draw what you observe as well as what you imagine. Ages 6-8. Limit: 12. Summer Camp: Itsy Bitsy Sculpture: Jul. 20-24, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $165/148.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Session 2: Using a variety of materials such as recycled objects, fibers, foil, air-dry clay,

and paint, campers will create a variety of dynamic 3-D sculptures. Learn about famous sculptors and be encouraged to incorporate your favorite subject matter: monsters, itsy bitsy creepy crawly things, creatures and more! Ages 6-8. Summer Camp: Puppets, Parades & Pageantry: Jul. 6-10, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Cost: $350/BCA/ Flynn partner rate (see special perks below)! Scholarships avail. Location: Burlington City Arts, Flynn Center. Info: 802-652-4548. Spend the morning at BCA exploring the art of pageantry, then travel to the Flynn Center to animate your creations and yourselves through puppetry and theater. Then become part of the largest parade in Vermont history on July 11 in Burlington! Campers will receive a FAMILY PASS for 4 to the Waterfront Festival. Musician Dan Zanes will make a special appearance during camp! Register with the Flynn by calling 802-652-4548. Silkscreen T-Shirt Design: Jul. 13-17, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $165/$148.50 BCA members. Location: Print Studio, Burlington. Design your own unique T-shirts using fabric inks and silkscreens! Campers will be introduced to BCA’s professional print studio and will learn some basic printing techniques. By the end of the week, campers will have reproduced a variety of imges ready to be worn or given as gifts. Ages 9-11. Summer Camp: Silkscreen Design: Jul. 20-24, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $165/148.50 BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, Burlington. Create your own unique designs using silk screens. Teens will be introduced to BCA’s professional print studio, will learn some basic silkscreening techniques, and will create posters, banners and more. By the end of the week, participants will have reproduced a variety of images while learning the silkscreening process.

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NatureHaven Day Camp: June-August. Cost: $125/week. $100/2nd child in one family. Location: NatureHaven, Milton. Info: Laurie, 802-893-1845. Natural history day camp based at “NatureHaven,” a former dairy farm in Milton, Vt., featuring edible and medicinal plant studies, eco-friendly arts & crafts, organic gardening, languages, rainy-day educational games, and catch-andrelease insect and small-animal identification. Students between 8-13 yrs.

Yestermorrow Design/Build Sch.: Cost: $300/2-day class; 15% discount for Vermont residents!. Location: Yestermorrow Design/Build School, 189 VT Rte. 100, Warren. Info: Yestermorrow Design/Build School, 802-4965545, shannon@yestermorrow. org, www.yestermorrow.org. Mosaics, June 27-28. $300. Green Home Design, June 27-28. $300. Regenerative Design, June 28-July 3. $750. Cabinets & Built-ins, June 28-July 3. $750.

dance Ballroom Dance Classes: Location: The Champlain Club, Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 802-598-6757, www.FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance! Dance Studio Salsalina: Cost: $13/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style. Oneon-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! Elements of Ballet: Join beginning level adult/teen ballet classes Tuesday mornings at 8:45 a.m., and Wednesday evenings at 6:35 p.m. Saturday mornings, beginning/intermediate ballet students join our 90-minute Combination Studio at 10:15 a.m. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Rte. 127, 5 minutes from the Burlington waterfront), Colchester. Info: 802-863-3369, Lucille @NaturalBodiesPilates. com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Develop your rhythmic abilities, memory, mind-body connection and creative spirit. Experience how dancers achieve that lengthened look, and find out how good whole body stretches really feel. Enjoy strength, posture and body sculpting. Combination Studio students: Practice Pilates Mat and Reformer, Jump Board, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and a full ballet barre.

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herbs Wisdom of the Herbs School: Wild Edible Intensive 2009: Enhancing Local Food Security. Taught by Annie McCleary and George Lisi. Sundays from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Summer Term: August 9, September 20 and October 4, 2009. Tuition $300. $50 nonrefundable deposit each term. VSAC nondegree grants available. Primitive Skills: Shelter Water Fire Food (new program!) Taught by Nicholas Neddo of Roots School. Sept. 5-6 and 19-20, 2009. Tuition $400. Nonrefundable deposit $50. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: Annie McCleary, Director, 802-456-8122, annie@ w isdomof theherbsschool.com, www.WisdomOf TheHerbsSchool. com. Unique experiential programs embracing the wild plants, holistic health, and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Learn through herb walks and nature adventures, communion with Nature, hands-on wild harvesting and preparation of wild edibles and herbal home remedies, with intention and gratitude.

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holistic health BodyTalk Modules 1 & 2: Oct. 9-12. Cost: $1100/32 hours of hands-on instruction. Location: Shouldice & Associates, 26 State St., Montpelier. Info: Sari Wolf, 802-223-4715, www.bodytalksystem.com. BodyTalk is a simple and effective holistic therapy that allows the body’s energy systems to be resynchronized so they can operate as nature intended. BodyTalk is noninvasive, objective in application and works effectively on humans and animals alike. BodyTalk can be used alone, or integrated with other health care systems.

kitesurfing/ windsurfing KITEBOARDING LESSONS: Windy days throughout the summer & fall. Location: Kite Beach, Burlington. Info: 802-922-8841, kiteboardisland.com. Learn to kiteboard in waist-deep water with an IKO certified instructor using 2009 Cabrinha Kites (cabrinhakites. com). Sign up early, and be flying across and over Lake Champlain soon! Limited openings avail. Must be over 18. Kitesurf & Windsurfing Classes: Location: Lake Champlain: Charlie’s Boathouse, North end of North Ave., Burlington. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@ stormboarding.com. Learn one of two great water sports. Get windsurfing in 1 hour (thanks to modern equipment). Kitesurfing begins with a ground school lesson (2 hours) followed by your first water lesson (3 hours). See detailed info on www.stormboarding.com. Beginning and advanced, individual and group lessons available 7 days/ week. $60-$150.

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

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tuesday, July 7, at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, aikidovt.org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 5th Dan - Vermont’s only fully certified (shidoin) Aikido teacher. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Road, Williston. Info: 802-6604072, www.bjjusa.com. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a complete martial-arts system; it enhances balance, flexibility, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness and builds personal courage and self-confidence. Vermont

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense classes, Boxing, Muay-Thai Kickboxing and MMA for all levels. Head instructor is five-time Brazilian Champion Rio de Janeiro, certified 6th Degree Black Belt under Carlson Gracie. Classes for men, women and children. First class is free. Vermont Aikido: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-8629785, vermontaikido.org. Practice the graceful martial art of Aikido in a safe, supportive environment. Aikido training teaches body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself. Visitors are always welcome in the dojo! Class hours are at our homepage. Vermont Ninjutsu: Tuesday 6:30-8:30 p.m., Thursday 6:308:30 p.m., Sunday 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cost: $15/class (see per month options on website). Location: Elements of Healing, Essex Shoppes & Cinema, 21 Essex Way Suite 109, Essex Junction. Info: Vermont Ninjutus, Vermont Ninjutsu, 802399-8875, vtninjutsu@gmail. com, www.vtninjutsu.com. Ninjutsu emphasizes use of natural movements to diffuse physical/mental conflicts bringing harmony to the mind and body. It encompasses but is not limited to locking of the joints, throws, striking, ukemi (rolls, break falls), weapons training (bo, sword, shuriken), mental readiness and awareness (meditation, conflict avoidance).

meditation Got Stress?: Jul. 8 - Aug. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $165/call about payment plans. Location: King Street Holistic Center, 35 King St., Burlington. Info: Barry at Green Mountain Retreat Center, 802343-7265. Meditation is the most effective stress eliminator in the world. Learn/practice proven tools to release unwanted thoughts/feelings, calm your noisy mind, resolve conflicts, overcome addictions/ obsessions/worries, become a happier, healthier person. No dogma religion, or mysticism; just clear, logical, practical techniques for powerful change. Introduction to Zen: Sat., July 25, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cost: $55/all-day workshop, lunch incl. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 802-985-9746, vermontzen.org/workshops.html. 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. - 12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-658-6795, www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

Mindfulness Workshops: July 11. Cost: $75/all-day workshop. Location: Exquisite Mind Studio, 127 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Exquisite Mind, Arnie Kozak, 802660-8043, www.exquisitemind. com. Mindfulness meditation workshops based on Dr. Kozak’s book, “Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness” (Wisdom Publications). Four different workshops offered every other Saturday starting May 30: Metaphors for Mind, Self, “Ordinary Craziness,” and Acceptance. Visit 108metaphors.com for more information. Change your life through learning and practicing mindfulness.

pilates ABSOLUTE PILATES: Affordable, invigorating group mat classes and 1-on-1 sessions that rock your body, not your wallet. New class added on Tuesdays at 4:15 starting March 31. Location: Exercise America, 12 Gregory Drive, Suite 1, South Burlington. Info: 802-310-2614, www.absolutepilatesvt.com. Tone, stretch and strengthen with certified classical Pilates & Polestar Pilates instructor Lynne Martens. Sculpt a great new body in fun group mat classes or private lessons on reformer, Wunda chair and tower unit in an attractive, welcoming locale. Visit our website for pricing, class times and specials. ALL Wellness, LLC: Many package/pricing options to suit your budget. Please call for pricing details. Location: 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park), Burlington. Info: 802-863-9900, www.pilatesspace.net. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, Physical Therapy, Yoga and Health Counseling services. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. First mat class is free! Also, please join us for a free introduction to the reformer, the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 - just call to sign up. Core Studio Pilates: Get motivated in one of our Mat, Bed or unique Spinning Hybrid classes, offered seven days a week. Special classes include a Pre/Postnatal Pilates class, Pilates for Runners and Pilates Boot Camp. We also offer Happy Hour Pilates for ALL! $5 Mat and $15 Bed classes to make Pilates affordable for everyone! Private sessions and personal training also available. Please visit our website to sign up for classes, view a complete schedule and to check out our current specials and flexible pricing options, including student rates for Pilates mat classes. Location: Core Studio Pilates and Personal Training, 431 Pine St. Suite 101 (Maltex Building), Burlington. Info: Core Studio, 802-862-8686, kathy @ corestudioburlington. com, www.corestudioburlington. com. Stretch, strengthen and build stamina in your deepest core muscles. Classes are led by lively, experienced instructors and will benefit athletes of all levels in a fun and instructive setting. Your first mat class is always free! Reference this ad and receive your 2nd class free, with the purchase of any package! Natural Bodies Pilates: Join classes and schedule private appointments for Pilates and specialized movement programs with Lucille Dyer CMA. Free group introductions, and special rates on private introductions by appointment.. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Rte. 127, 5 minutes from Burlington’s waterfront), Colchester. Info: 802-863-3369, lucille@

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qi gong 6 Stars Qi Gong w/ Master Lew: Sep. 26-27, 10 a.m. Cost: $200/Saturday and Sunday Workshop. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way Suite 109, Essex Junction. Info: elements of healing, Scott Moylan, 802-288-8160, www.elementsofhealing.net. The Six Stars is a set of Qi Gong from the Tao Ahn Pai system. It consists of six standing exercises that build up the physical foundation of the body beginning with the bone marrow. These exercises help to strengthen from the inside out, by keeping the bone marrow soft and supple.

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iar with the complete clay process from wheel to kiln. Three options, seven weeks: Tuesdays, July 7 Aug. 18, 6-8:30 p.m., Wednesdays, July 8 - Aug. 19, 6:00-8:30 p.m., or Thursdays, July 9 - Aug. 20, 9:30 a.m. - noon. Members $165, nonmembers $190, materials (includes clay) $60. Comprehensive Stained Glass: Jul. 8 - Aug. 26, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesdays. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Create a beautiful stained-glass window, panel or lampshade. Learn the Tiffany copperfoil technique and the traditional lead came method through demonstrations and hands-on practical experience, including pattern selection, design, glass selection, glass cutting, project assembly and finishing. For beginning and intermediate crafters. Members $240, nonmembers $265, materials $35. Acrylics, Oils or Watercolor: Weekly. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Lisa Torchiano, 802-9853648, www.shelburneartcenter. org. Plein Air Landscape with Oils, Mondays, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., six weeks, July 6 - Aug. 10; Intermediate Watercolor Painting, Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. - noon, six weeks, July 7 - Aug. 11; Adventures in Beginning Watercolor, Tuesdays, 6:00-8:30 p.m., four weeks, July 21 - Aug. 11; Acrylic and Mixed Media Painting, Wednesdays 6:30-9:00 p.m., six weeks, July 8 - Aug. 12.

Community Sailing Center: June - October. Location: Communtiy Sailing Center, 1 Lake St., Burlington. Info: Community Sailing Center, 802-864-2499, Info@communitysailingcenter. org, www.communitysailingcenter.org. Learn to sail! Classes for adults, youth and families, beginning and intermediate courses and full-day camps. Sailboat, kayak and canoe rentals. Other sailing opportunities include Friday night 420 race series, adaptive water sports program, high school sailing team Untitled-30 1 and overnight sailing expeditions. 6/12/09 Community 1x1c-csclogo061709.pdf Sailing Center’s mission is to provide public access to educational and recreational opportunities through sailing, paddling and other lake-oriented programs.

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tai chi Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 802-8647902, www.iptaichi.org. The Yang Snake Style is a dynamic tai chi method that mobilizes the spine while stretching and strengthening the core body muscles. Practicing this ancient martial art increases strength, flexibility, vitality, peace of mind and martial skill.

yoga COPPER CRANE YOGA: Yoga in the summer. Cost: $14/drop in, $60/5-class card, $110/10-class card, $200/20-class card. Location: Copper Crane Yoga, 179 Main St., Vergennes. Info: 802877-3663, coppercraneyoga.com. Individual, group and custom yoga classes. Copper Crane provides wise and compassionate teaching to strengthen the body, uplift the heart and calm the mind. Be yourself here. Copper Crane is directed by Carolyn Conner, RYT, Advanced Certified Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner. Thai Yoga Bodywork and Zero Balancing sessions by appointment.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels, conveniently located in Burlington. Cost: $14/10-class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates. Mon., Wed., Fri. 4:30 p.m. classes are sliding scale $5-$10. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802-864-9642, www.evolutionvt.com. Our staff of all certified teachers are skilled with beginners as well as students wanting to refine their practice. Vinyasa, Anusara-Inspired, Kripalu, 2:26:39 PM Iyengar and babies/kids classes available. Prepare for birth and strengthen post-partum with pre/ post-natal yoga. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog.

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shelburne art center Fine Woodworking - Beginning: Jul. 6 - Aug. 24, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Weekly on Mondays. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, w w w.shel bur near tcent er.org. Learn the basics of furniture making while creating a coffee table. This class will prepare you for more advanced efforts while providing a sound footing in wood properties, furniture design and proper use of machine/hand tools. Members $240, nonmembers $270, materials $80. See complete listing of woodworking classes/workshops online, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Wheel Throwing & Handbuilding: Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, 802-985-3648, www. shelburneartcenter.org. Learn the basics of throwing clay on the potter’s wheel while becoming famil-

Stand-Up Paddleboarding: Mon & Wed: 7-8 a.m.; Tues. & Thurs: noon-1; Tues.: 5-6 p.m. and Wed. 6-7 p.m. Cost: $18/person per outing. Location: Lake Champlain, Burlington based, but will visit other waterways. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@ stormboarding.com, www.stormboarding.com. Fitness at its most beautiful. Stand-up paddling is an incredible full-body workout. Outings focus on core strength, balance, flexibility and aerobic fitness plus having fun and enjoying the Lake. Weekends feature a race/ event series. Custom outings available - great for families or visiting friends. Burlington based but will move around Vermont.

The Studio at The Field House: Daily yoga & Pilates classes for all levels. Drop-ins welcome; no membership required. Cost: $15/ drop-in, $60/month (6 classes). Unlimited yoga, $70 (incl. club membership). Location: 166 Athletic Drive, Shelburne. Info: 802985-4406, www.shelburneathleticclub.com. Vinyasa, Iyengar, Anusara, Yin, Ashtanga & Kripalu classes as well as reformer, mat & senior Pilates.

stress reduction Got Stress?: Jul. 8 - Aug. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $165/call about payment plans. Location: King Street Holistic Center, 35 King St., Burlington. Info: Barry at Green Mountain Retreat Center, 802343-7265. Meditation is the most effective stress eliminator in the world. Learn/practice proven tools to release unwanted thoughts/feelings, calm your noisy mind, resolve conflicts, overcome addictions/ obsessions/worries, become a happier, healthier person. No dogma, religion or mysticism; just clear, logical, practical techniques for powerful change.

Cars/Trucks 1995 low-mileage Saab 9000 CS w/ only 86,233 miles! Black w/ tan leather interior, auto., all the power options. Super clean. $4495. Give us a call! Info: 800730-5547, jon.barrette@barretteford.com, www.barretteford. com. 1998 Hone Civic 5-spd. manual, 144K, maintained, excellent condition. Winter studded & summer tire sets. Thule roof rack. $2750/ OBO. Info: 802-522-3844.

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Beautifully upgraded two bedroom, two and half bath condo in a small nine unit cluster. Large open eat-in kitchen, upgraded appliances, hardwood floors, central vacuum and central air. Complete with two decks and three floors of living space. $234,500.

Three bedroom, two bath cape style home is only 25 minutes to Burlington. Built in 2005 on ten acres with cathedral ceiling, wood burning fireplace, open living space and finished basement with built-ins!

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A terrific 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath with updated kitchen, spacious living room, screened porch for the quiet summer evenings, deck and walk out basement! Located on a cul-de sac in Winooski with easy access to I89, UVM and FAHC. A great value, don’t miss seeing this house! $225,000. Making It Happen for You!

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« on the road 2002 Subaru Legacy L A/T, A/C, CC, power W/L, $6450. Info: Greensboro Garage, 802-533-2221, www.greensborogarage.com. 2004 BMW 325CI Convertible Great condition, steel blue w/ black soft top, extra set of alloy rims w/ snow tires, runs great, well maintained. The car is a joy to drive. Here’s your chance to own the convertible of your dreams for an affordable price. $21,000/OBO. Info: Tom, 802999-4596. 2006 Certified Fusion SE 4-cyl. auto. 30+ mpg! Classy dune pearl clearcoat ext., sueded tan cloth int. Like new! Only 16K & 6-yr./100K powertrain warranty! $16,495. Info: EJ Barrette and Sons, Inc., 802-868-3327, www. barretteford.com.

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3-BR Huntington House Country setting, garage, fireplace, DW, DSL, hookups, full basement, gardening space, lg. yard, deck, NS/ pets, $1100/mo. + utils. 802-4344147. 4 BR downtown near UVM bus Downtown, lake views, quiet, nice, new paint, BA, carpet, energy upgrades. Near UVM free bus & Church St. Nice HDWD. Free W/D, parking. NS/pets. Timothy, 802598-9370. Info: Susan Hurd.

2003 Yamaha YZF 600 Very low miles. Excellent condition. 1 female owner. Lightly ridden. A few scratches. Yamaha blue/purple color. Info: 802-425-2304. REWARD Yellow/Pink Scooter Stolen from Champlain School Apartments, 6/21-22 at night. Custom, Japanese lights, PodAir filter. 802-777-1441. I love my scooter & want it back. Info: 802-777-1441, omploader.org/ vMXY4Ng.

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For Rent 1-3-BR Affordable Apts. 1-BR apts., $817/mo. 2-BR, $966/mo. 3-BR, $1179/mo. Incl. heat & HW! Weekly yoga classes, fitness center, movie room & monthly community events! To qualify: 1 person makes less than $31,740/ yr., 2 people <$36,300 combined, 3 people <$40,800 combined, 4 people <$45,360 combined. Info: Keen’s Crossing, 802-655-1810, www.keenscrossing.com.

BURLINGTON 1-BR Apt. $700/ mo. Close to colleges, bright, fully furnished, sliding glass doors lead to lg. deck, quiet New North End neighborhood near bike path & lake. Utils. incl. electric, cable TV, high-speed internet. No pets. Avail. Aug. 1. 1-yr. lease. Info: Paula Beaudin, 802-864-0838, thomasbusinessagenc y @ comcast.net.

Bristol 1-BR apt. in downtown. High ceilings, sunny rooms. Incl. water, sewer, off-street reserved parking, storage unit. Tenant pays heat, electric. NS/pets. 2 1-BA units avail. 6/1. Rent $625/ mo. each. Special bonus - 1 mo. free! Info: 802-453-4065.

Burlington Avail. June 1. Bright & spacious upscale 5-BR apt. in Hill Section. Natural woodwork, 2.5-BA, high-end kitchen, quiet safe location, parking, heat, W/D. Please NS/pets. Refs. req. $3500/ mo. Info: 802-658-8056, studio404@comcast.net.

Bristol Village Duplex $1100/mo. incl. heat. Avail. Aug. 1. Spacious, fenced yard, W/D, clean, homey, pets allowed on case-by-case basis. 1-yr. lease. Refs., 1st, deposit required. Info: 802-338-1660.

Burlington Quiet 1-BR apt. in convenient location. No dogs. Avail. Jul. 1. $725/mo. + utils. Info: 802-355-2219.

Burlington 2-BR, fantastic location, min. from colleges, hospital, downtown, waterfront. Spacious rooms. Plenty of off-street parking, snow removal, garbage, water incl. Avail. now. $1250/mo. + utils. Info: 802-316-1912. Burlington On lake & park w/ great views. Lg. traditional 1-BR apt. Mostly HDWD, LR, DR, office/ guest area. Off-street parking. Yearly lease. NS/pets. $1075/mo. Avail. 7/20. Info: 802-476-4071.

Burlington So. End 3-BR apt. Spacious, quiet, off-street parking, W/D. 1-yr. lease. No pets. Avail. June 1. Info: 802-9228518. Burlington Avail. now. 515 S. Union St., 4-BR lg. house, HDWD floors, fireplace, DR, 2-car garage, basement, full BA, 2 porches, W/D. $2200/mo. Avail. 7/1, 527 So. Union St. medium 2-BR, full BA, quiet, sunny, W/D, heat & HW incl. $1100/mo. No dogs. 802862-7467. Info: 802-862-7467.

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2nd floor, w/ large porch. $750/mo. + dep., heat & HW incl. No parking/ pets. Info: 802-363-8115. Burlington Duplex 2+ BR Lg. Catherine St. duplex, 2 BR, 1 BA, gas heat, $1250/mo. incl. trash, water, winter parking, backyard. Deposit, refs., lease, no pets. Call 660-8957. Burlington Duplex 3+ BR Lg., in remodeled Catherine St. duplex, 1-BA, new gas furnace, $1550/mo. incl. water, trash, winter parking, backyard. Deposit, refs., lease, no pets. Call 660-8957. Burlington Vermont House Avail. Jul. 1. Downtown on Main St., 2-BR, 1.5-BA, W/D onsite, parking, heat & A/C incl., lake views. Small dog considered. $1600/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley, 802-864-5200 ext. 229.

Burlington, Buell St. 1-BR NS/pets. Avail. July 1. $870/mo. incl. heat & HW. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1021. www.nevilleco.com. Burlington, South Meadow 3-BR w/ attached garage, full BA, on-site W/D, gas heat utils. not incl. NS/pets. Avail. Aug. 1. $1200/mo. + dep. Info: 802-8649966. Burlington, South Meadow 3-BR, full BA, on-site W/D, gas heat utils. not incl. NS/pets. Avail. now, income restrictions apply. Info: 802-864-9966. Burlington/Winooski Roommates wanted to share lg. furnished house. All utils. incl.! 2.5-BA, W/D, parking, on bus line. No pets. Rent individually or w/ friends. Year lease or summer sublets avail. $650/mo. per person + dep. Info: 802-863-9612. Cambridge Village Nice 1- & 2-BR apts. at $595/$695/mo. + utils. Great Village location, close to shopping & skiing. Gas heat, W/D. No pets! Info: 802-8638200.

rooms. Prices vary, but all incl. heat, HW, sewer/trash. Call for details & pricing! EHO ADA. Info: Keen’s Crossing, 802-655-1810, www.keenscrossing.com. Mallets Bay/Colchester Sunny 1-BR w/ lake views, min. to downtown Burlington, parking, W/D, gas fireplace, storage. A must see. Avail. Jul. 1. Info: 802373-4707. Milton: 3-BR Colonial Field Ridge Dr: 2.5 BA, 3100 sq.ft., cathedral ceilings, granite countertops, finished basement w/ office. Beautiful yard, in-ground pool. Heated 2-car garage. Aug. 1; 1 year. $1900/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rental s @ hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com. Montpelier Avail. Jul. 5. Msgr. Crosby Ave. 1-BR, HDWD floors, central gas, freestanding gas fireplace, gas range, off-street parking, W/D. 2 blocks to Main St. $750/mo. + utils. Info: 802310-4205. S. BURLINGTON: 2500 Sq.Ft. Beacon St.: Mayfair Park singlefamily-style duplex. 4 BR, 1.5 BA, all new paint, flooring, appliances. Great condition, 2-car garage, yard. Aug. 1; 1 yr. $1800/ mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Cambridge Village 3 BR Big PM 6/29/09 6/29/09 11:09:38 1:22:03 AM & clean. Bay windows in the LR S. Burlington Sugartree Con& 1 BR. Deck off 1 BR. Spacious dos, avail. Aug. 1. 2-BR townkitchen w/ solid cherry cabinets. house, 1.5-BA, W/D, carport, Bathtub, fenced yard, propane. locked storage. No pets. $1175/ $925/mo. + utils. & sec. dep. mo. + utils. Call Coburn & Feeley, Info: Enginuity LLC, 802-373- 802-864-5200 ext. 229. 0893, enginuityvt@comcast.net. S. Burlington Treetop condoChurch St. Marketplace Stu- minium, 2-BR, natural gas, cardio, clean, HDWD floors, heat port, W/D hookups, tennis, pool. incl. Avail. immed. Info: 802-922- NS/pets. $1100/mo. + utils. Refs. req. Avail. now. Info: 802-9858518. 8564. Colchester On Water Unsurpassed 3-BR+office, 3-BA custom S. Burlington Unfurnished home, cathedral ceilings, profes- 1-BR, refs., dep. NS/pets. $450/ sionally designed kitchen, aston- mo. + utils. Info: 802-862-9884. ishing views. Furnished or not. S. Burlington Apt. Quiet, Now; 1-yr. lease. NS/pets. $2500/ newly renovated 2 BR w/ office, mo. incl. heat! Info: Coldwell excellent location near hospital/ Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kait- schools, lg. yard, community garlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rent- den, off-street parking. NS/dogs. al s @ hickokandboardman.com, W/D hookup, trash, lawn. $1175/ www.HickokandBoardman.com. mo., 1-yr. lease. Info: 802-862Downtown: Monroe St. Cozy 1 8664, pgadams@sover.net. BR, 1 BA in owner-occupied du- Shelbune apt. for rent 2 BR, plex. To come: new siding & win- 1.5 BA, W/D hookup, heat, trash dows. Kitchen w/ W/D. Pet nego- pickup & snow plowing incl. No tiable. 1 parking; Aug. 1; 1 year. pets. Lease, deposit, refs. & $900/mo. incl. heat. Info: Cold- background check. Info: 802-985well Banker Hickok & Boardman, 8539, wplvt@msn.com. Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, Sunny 1 BR in Underhill rent al s @ hickokandboardman. Adorable refinished apt. w/ HDWD com, www.HickokandBoardman. floors. Trails. Gardens. $685/mo. com. + utils. NS/pets. Info: Chris BarHUNTINGTON 1 BR BROOKSIDE Spacious, 4 season, unfurnished w/ woodstove, wood-fired sauna, loft, swimming holes, DSL. Near hike/ski/Catamount trails on Camel’s Hump Rd. Burlington not far. Pet possible. Mo.-to-mo. possible. Refs. req. Avail. now. $950/ mo. + utils. Info: 518-817-7164.

Hinesburg 3-BR Apt. Close to town, 1-BA, W/D hookups, 3-season porch, lg. yard. Avail. July 16. $1100./mo. + heat & electric. Rent incl. water, sewer, trash. Refs., sec. dep., income verification. Info: 802-482-4659. Luxury Apartments Keen’s Crossing! Are you looking for the space & convenience of a home in an apt. setting? 17 floor plans, incl., variously: lg. closets, bay windows, private exterior entrance, W/D hookups, central A/C! Our community offers many amenities, such as fitness & movie

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Upper Maple St. 2 apts. Clean, quiet, bright, parking, private yard, heat, W/D. 2nd-floor efficiency w/ common BA. $650/mo. $675/mo. w/ deck. NS/pets. Refs. Info: 802-658-8056, Studio404@ comcast.net. Vergennes 287 Main St. Medium 2-BR, parking, lg. enclosed porch. Quiet. Heat & HW incl. No dogs. $850/mo. Call only between 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Avail. now. Info: 802-349-4017. WEST SHORE RD., S. HERO 1-BR, 2nd-floor duplex, lake/country living near Grand Isle ferry, 30 min. to Burlington. Upscale neighborhood. New carpet/paint. Incl. heat, plowing, storage. Lease/sec./refs. NS/pets. Info: 802-372-5241.

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Walk to UVM/Hospital $1000 Burlington, lg., 2-BR apt. W/D hookup, full BA & kitchen, parking, private entrance/porch area. 1-yr. lease. NS, pets negotiable. On bus line. Clean, just renovated. Info: Brisson Properties, LLC, 802-897-5625, kbrb@shoreham. net. Winooski 1-BR Heat/HW incl. DW, parking, W/D in building, full BA w/ tub/shower. Clean. NS/ pets. $845/mo. Info: Bill Wheater, 802-233-1150. WINOOSKI NICE NEIGHBORHOOD 3-BR apt. Avail. Aug. 1. Hedged yard w/ gardens. Bus line. Lg. kitchen, front porch, off-street parking for 2 cars. $1225/mo. + utils. Basement storage & W/D. Dep., year lease. No dogs. Refs. 802-655-4349. Winooski Spacious Apt. Mansion St. Quiet upstairs, lg., 2-level, 2-BR. Off-street parking, W/D, heat incl., snow & trash removal. Avail. Aug. 1. $1200/mo. Info: 802-324-4989. Winooski: 2 BR, Audet St. Top floor, owner-occupied duplex. 1 BA, den. Hookups (stackable W/D), living w/ 20’ 3-season porch. Aug. 1 or Sept. 1; 1 year+. No dogs. $1150/mo. incl. heat. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Room in apt. avail. Clean, mature, dependable person needed to share 3-BR apt. in farmhouse. W/D, lg. kitchen, quiet convenient location. $467/mo. incl. utils. Internet/cable $42/mo. Sean, 802864-9614. SHARE QUIET COUNTRY HOME Beautiful home. Shared BA. Must enjoy animals. Close to Burlington, Middlebury. Lesbian couple. Hobby farmers w/ professional jobs. Neat, friendly, respectful. NS/drugs/alcohol (sober preferred). $480/mo. incl. all. Info: Laura Smith, 802-846-7571, stark. hollow.googlepages.com/home.

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Travel Associates Needed! Take control of your future w/ a career in travel. Bonus/discounts/ commissions. Part or full time. Be part of our growing Vermont team. Training provided. Info: Flatlander Travel and Shop, 802922-7554, www.ytbtravel.com/ flatlandertravelandshop.

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Conserved Farm for Sale 143.5 acres in S. Burlington/Shelburne, 96 acres tillable, 18 acres prime soil & allowance for house site, $225,000. The Vermont Land Trust seeks buyers who will establish commercial farm operation. Info: Vermont Land Trust, Siobhan Smith, 802-262-1217, www. vlt.org/Leduc.

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Housemates BIG COUNTRY HOME TO SHARE On 30 acres in S. Starksboro. Avail. now for long-term housemates or weekly/monthly, single or couple, unfurnished rooms too. NS/pets. Info: 802-453-5409, lescoe@madriver.com. Burlington Responsible individual to share 3-BR house w/ 2 sober individuals. W/D avail. Quiet neighborhood, NS/drugs/drinking. $475/mo. + 1/3 utils. & dep. Avail. Jul. 1. Info: 802-355-0147. Burlington/Winooski Roommates wanted to share lg. furnished house. All utils. incl.! 2.5-BA, W/D, parking, on busline. No pets. Rent individually or w/ friends. Year lease or summer sublets avail. $650/mo. per person + dep. Info: 802-863-9612. E. MONTPELIER COUNTRY HOME 3 BRs across from Morse Farm Ski Area. Trout pond, lg. yard,scenic views. NS, professionals preferred. Pets considered. Shared common areas & heat. Info: Peter Shattuck, 802-793-2422, shacker12@yahoo.com.

Office/ Commercial Main Street Landing On Burlington’s waterfront has affordable office & retail space. Dynamic environment with progressive and forward-thinking businesses. Mainstreetlanding.com, click on space available. S. Burlington office space 750 sq.ft. office on Swift Street near Shelburne Road, lg. room w/ small office. Rent incl. parking & utils. $725/mo. Info: Patrick Waters, 802-425-3258.

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Only five beautiful and quiet wooded hillside lots remain for sale on this paved cul-de-sac town road. One acre and larger starting at $139,900. Driveway cuts, underground utilities and wastewater/septic in place. Only minutes to I-89. Bring your own builder or use one of our recommended professionals. For more information contact the Owner-Realtor at 802-434-4733 ext 1.

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6/29/09 Lovely home on quiet, dead end 2:35:38 PM street near UVM, FAHC, downtown. 1752 sq.ft., 3-BR, 2-BA, 3rd floor suite, private yard w/ patio, deck, gardens. $339,900. Contact Lorrie: 802-864-8378.

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Garage Sale HUGE YARD SALE IN ESSEX: Xmas in July! Furniture/antiques, appliances, jewelry, Xmas decorations/apparel, art (Fred Swan), glassware, dishes, utensils, much more. 26 S. Summit St. Sat., 7/11, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Rain date Sun., 7/12. 702-275-4950.

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PSYCHIC COUNSELING & channeling w/ Bernice Kelman of Underhill. 30+ yrs. experience. Also energy healing, chakra balancing, Reiki, rebirthing, other lives, classes & more. Info: Bernice Kelman, 802-899-3542, kelman.b@ juno.com. RESEARCH STUDY Are you the parent of a 9-14 y.o. overweight child? A study is being conducted to discover how you help your child stay healthy. Please contact Jennifer @ 802-238-7675 or parent_study_DU@yahoo.com for an interview. $20 for your time.

6/19/09 2:03:17 PM Beautiful old Adirondack lakefront cottage on Willsboro Pt. 5-BR, great room, stone fireplace, sleeping porch, deck, dock, nice beach, mooring, half acre with gardens and outbuilding. 1 hr. from Burlington. Unique place & setting. $440,000. Info: 518-963-4568 or tcwick56@comcast.net.

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Pet NATE’S PET SITTING Experienced, insured dog walking & pet sitting services for pets of all types in & around Burlington. Dozens upon dozens of great local references. Info: Nate’s Pet Sitting, LLC, Nate Church, 802-999-2267, nate@ natespetsitting.com, www.natespetsitting.com. PET SITTING/DOG WALKING Affordable, reliable, experienced, insured & loving pet sitting in the comfort of your own safe & cozy home. When you can’t be there to care for your pets, call us to help! Also avail.: morning, midday & afternoon dog-walking service. 864-2PET. Info: Green Mountain Pet Professionals, 802-864-2738, www.greenmountainpetprofessionals.com.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On June 8, 2009, the Vermont Agency of Transportation and New Horizons Enterprises, Inc., filed application #4C0204-1 for a project generally described as:

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On June 15, 2009, James Bahrenburg and Pizzagalli Properties, filed application #4C0677-5B for a project generally described as: the rezoning of Lot #9 of Shelburne Meadows Business Park to residential use and subdivision into three lots with no implied or authorized construction. The project is located on Northside Drive in the Town of Shelburne, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Shelburne 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 15, 2009, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be 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 15, 2009. 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 16th day of June 2009. By/s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state.vt.us

reconstruction of the intersection of Route 2/7 and Route 127. The project is located on Route 127 in the Town of Colchester, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Colchester 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 14, 2009, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be 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 14, 2009. 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 10th day of June 2009. By/s/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 BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Public Hearing Notice – July 21, 2009 The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, City Hall to consider the following applications: 1. 09-775AP; 15-17 Weston Street (RL, Ward 1) Philip Irwin Aaron Trustee – Keith s. Aaron Weston Street Trust Appeal of Notice of Violation with regards to parking.

2. 07-752PD; 1230 North Avenue (RL, Ward 7) Irene Investment Properties/D. Cheeseman Combined preliminary and final plat review of a planned residential development to convert an existing storage barn into a duplex and associated site modifications, in addition to the existing onsite duplex. 3. 09-867CA; 40 Glen Road (RL, Ward 6) K Geduldig & N Patrick Appeal of Administrative Decision to replace wood clapboard siding with vinyl. 4. 09-858CA; 50 Barrett Street (NMU, Ward 1) LNP, Inc Renovation of existing commercial building and conversion into 8 residential units as a minor Planned Unit Development. Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning office, (City Hall, First Floor, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. David White, AICP, Director of Planning and Zoning Individuals who require special arrangements to participate are encouraged to contact the Department at least 72 hours in advance. For information call 865-7188 (8657142 TTY). OPENINGS BURLINGTON CITY COMMISSIONS/BOARDS On Monday, August 10, 2009, the Burlington City Council will fill vacancies on the following City Commissions/Boards: Design Advisory Board Term Expires 6/30/10 One Opening Development Review Board (Alternate) Term Expires 6/30/11 One Opening Fence Viewer Term Expires 6/30/10 Three Openings Board of Tax Appeals Term Expires 6/30/10 One Opening Telecommunications Advisory Committee Term Expires 6/30/11 One Opening Applications are available at the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, Second Floor, City Hall, and must be received in the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office by 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Applicants must be nominated by a member of the City Council to be considered for a position; a list of Council members is also available at the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office. Please call the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office at 8657136 for further information. PUBLIC HEARING SOUTH BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD The South Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing in the South Burlington City Hall Conference Room, 575 Dorset Street, South Burlington, Vermont on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 7:30 P.M. to consider the following: 1. Preliminary plat application #SD-09-29 of Gary and Diane Provost for a planned unit development on a 1.16 acre parcel developed with a single family dwelling. The project consists of: 1) converting the single family dwelling to a two-family dwelling and 2) constructing an additional two family dwelling, 26 Weeping Willow Lane.

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Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Theodore W. Reckell by Warranty Deed of Matthew L. Gazo and Elizabeth Gazo dated October 11, 2005 and recorded in Volume 541 at page 54 of the town of Colchester Land Records.

« legals 2. Conditional use application #CU-09-05 of Omnipoint Communications, Inc. to install nine (9) panel antennas not to exceed 43 feet in height, 1285 Williston Road. John Dinklage, Chairman South Burlington Development Review Board Copies of the applications are available for public inspection at the South Burlington City Hall. July 1, 2009 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1042-08 CnC HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Home Equity Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2005-4, Plaintiff v. Theodore W. Reckell, et al. And Occupants residing at 16 River Road, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., to Theodore W. Reckell dated October 11, 2005 and recorded in Volume 541, Page 56 of the Land Records of the Town of Colchester, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:45 A.M. on July 15, 2009, at 16 River Road, Colchester, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit:

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Colchester. 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. 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 CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1066-08 CnC GMAC Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff v. James Guertin, Michelle Guertin And Occupants residing at 91 Sunnyview Drive, Jericho, Vermont, Defendants

Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to James Guertin and Michelle Guertin by Warranty Deed of Joshua Francis and Patricia Francis dated March 30, 2007 and recorded in Volume 260, Page 114 of the Land Records of the Town of Jericho. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Jericho. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000. GMAC Mortgage, LLC By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1111-08 CnC U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-FRE2, Plaintiff v. Alvair Dasilva, Aisla Dasilva, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Fremont Investment & Loan And Occupants residing at 12 Floral Street, South Burlington, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Homecomings Financial, LLC to James Guertin dated March 30, 2007 and recorded in Volume 260, Page 116 of the Land Records of the Town of Jericho, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2:30 P.M. on July 15, 2009, at 91 Sunnyview Drive, Jericho, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for SG Mortgage Securities Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006FRE2 to Alvair Dasilva dated April 28, 2006 and recorded in Volume 748, Page 24 of the Land Records of the Town of South Burlington, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:30 A.M. on July 15, 2009, at 12 Floral Street, South Burlington, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage:

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NOTICE OF SALE

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Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to James Gears and Sue Gears by Warranty Deed of MBL associates dated 4/21/98 of record in Volume 426, Page 484 of the City of South Burlington and by Corrective Quit Claim Deed of MBL Associates, LLC dated 5/14/98 of record in Volume 429, Page 126 of said land records. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of South Burlington. 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. U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. IN RE: A.G.-H. Vermont Family Court Chittenden County Docket No. 406-10-07 NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Lee Hill, putative father of A.G.-H. The State of Vermont has filed a petition to terminate your residual parental rights to A.G.-H. You are hereby notified that a hearing to consider the termination of all residual parental rights to A.G.-H. will be held on August 10, 2009 at 8:30 o’clock A.M., at the Family Court of Vermont, Chittenden County, 32 Cherry Street, Burlington, Vermont. You are notified to appear in connection with this case. Failure to appear at this hearing will result in the termination of any rights you may have to A.G.-H. The State is represented by the Attorney General’s Office, 32 Cherry Street, Suite 219, Burlington, Vermont 05401. Other parties include A.G.-H. and Rosemary Johnson. s/James Crucitti Family Court Judge June 10, 2009 Date

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1396-07 CnC TIMOTHY POTVIN D/B/A TIM POTVIN HEATING Plaintiff, v. CRAIG S COWLES, GRAPPONE INDUSTRIAL, INC. FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY, TRENCH BOXES ETC., INC ET AL. Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the statutory Power of Sale pursuant to a certain Judgment Lien issued in favor of Timothy Potvin d/b/a Tim Potvin Heating, against Craig S. Cowles, by the Chittenden Superior Court, Docket No S0354-06 CnC, dated September 18, 2006, and recorded in Lien Book 2, Page 529 of the Town of Richmond Land Records, and for the purposes of foreclosing the same pursuant to a Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure and Order for Public Sale, issued on September 10, 2008, by the Chittenden Superior Court, there will be sold at Public Auction at 11:00 A.M. on July 9, 2009 at 1877 East Main Street, Richmond, Vermont, all and singular the premises described in said Order: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Craig S. Cowles by Warranty Deed from Howard F. Whitcomb and June M. Whitcomb dated March 2, 1994 and recorded in Volume 89, Page 175 of the Richmond Land Records on March 4, 1994. The property is further described as 1877 East Main Street, Richmond Vermont, Tax identification number EM1877. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Richmond, and to all prior liens and encumbrances. The Debtor/defendant is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to sale by paying the full amount due under the judgment lien, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Clarke Demas & Baker, 346 Shelburne Road, 2nd Floor, 652-1400. DATED at Burlington, Vermont this 15th day of June, 2009. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

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Elizabeth M. Demas, Esq. Clarke Demas & Baker 346 Shelburne Road P.O. Box 4484 Burlington, VT 05406 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S 947-07 CnC Wells Fargo Bank, NA, as Trustee, Plaintiff, v Orton A. Bunbury and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Fremont Investment and Loan, and Any Other Occupants of 60 Meadow Lane, Shelburne, Vermont, Defendants. NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage Deed dated January 30, 2006 from Orton A. Bunbury to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Fremont Investment & Loan. Said Mortgage Deed was recorded on February 2, 2006 in Volume 332, Pages 415-434 of the Town of Shelburne Land Records. The subject Promissory Note and Mortgage were assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), as Nominee for Fremont Investment & Loan, to Wells Fargo Bank, NA, as Trustee under Pooling and Servicing Agreement Dated as of July 1, 2006 Securitized Asset Backed Receivables, LLC, Trust 2006-FR3 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FR3, by an Assignment dated August 10, 2007 and recorded on August 17, 2007 in Volume 346, Page 614 of the Town of Shelburne Land Records. The undersigned represents the present holder for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same which will be sold at Public Auction at 9:00 o’clock AM, on the 9th day of July, A.D. 2009, at the subject premises of 60 Meadow Lane, Shelburne, Vermont, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage will be sold as a whole. To wit: Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Orton A. Bunbury by Warranty Deed of Maja Smith and Edward Johnson Hamilton dated _January 30, 2006 of record in Volume 332, at Page 413 of the Shelburne Land Records. “A lot of land with all buildings thereon situated on the southerly side of a proposed road that runs easterly from US Route No. 7 in the Town of Shelburne and having a frontage on said proposed road of 100 feet, a west line of 120.6 feet, a south line of 100 feet and an east line of 120.6 feet that faces another proposed road that runs parallel with US Route No. 7. Being Lot No. 4 A as shown on a Plan entitled “Plan of LotsSection A Marsett and Ockert Property” dated December 2, 1958 and recorded in Volume A (Plans), Page 130 of the Town of Shelburne Land Records. Included herein is a right of way to the herein conveyed premises from US Route No. 7 until such time as said right of way is accepted by the Town of Shelburne as a public street.” Terms of Sale:

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DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (tollfree) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP Meets the 1st Wednesday of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., S. Burlington, VT. There is no fee. This is open to anyone who has lost someone to suicide. For more info, call 802-479-9450, or ljlivendale@yahoo.com. THE ADDISON COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS (TCF), a nonprofit selfhelp bereavement support group for families that have experienced the death of a child will hold its regular meeting this Monday, July 6, at 7 p.m. at the Hospice Volunteer Services Office located at the Marble Works (first building on the left as you enter across from the Addison Independent) in Middlebury. For more information, contact chapter leaders, Nancy Merolle at 388-6837, or Claire Groleau at 388-9603. BURDENS WEIGHTING YOU DOWN? Unemployed, homeless, in need of direction? We are people just like you and have found the answer to all of the above problems. We meet every Wednesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the Imani Center 293 N Winooski Ave. Please call 802-3432027.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Meetings in Barre occur every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 6-7 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St. Info: 863-2655. Meetings in Johnson occur every Sunday 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Johnson Municipal Building, Route 15 (just west of the bridge). Info: Debbie Y., 888-5958. Meeting in Montpelier occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Info: Carol, 223-5793. Meetings in Morrisville occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 85 Upper Main St. Contacts: Anne, 888-2356 or Debbie Y., 888-5958. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS) Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) of Addison County and the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will collaborate to sponsor a monthly ongoing support group for people who have lost someone by suicide. The group will meet the 1st Wed. of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. These free peer support groups will be held at Hospice Volunteer Services at the Marbleworks in Middlebury, and co-facilitated by professional representatives from HVS and AFSP, both suicide survivors. For more information and to register call HVS at 388-4111. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS (CODA) Announcing a new 12step (non-AA, non-NA) meeting. Do you have trouble with relationship issues? Avoidance of feelings? People pleasing? Needing to be needed? Join us Thursday at 5 pm. at the Turning Point Center, corner of Main & S. Champlain St. in Burlington. 802-861-3150. For more information about codependence, see www.coda.org and click on “Am I Codependent?” A NEW PERSPECTIVE A peer support group for people working through the combination of mental health and substance abuse issues. Wednesdays at the Turning Point Center, 5-6 p.m. The group will be facilitated and will be built around a weekly video followed by a group discussions. Some of the topics will include: Addictions and mental illness, recovery stories, dealing with stress, understanding personality problems, emotions. Corner of Main & S. Champlain St. in Burlington. 802-861-3150. BEREAVED PARENTS & SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, UVM. Info, 660-8797. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause. NEED A HUG? New support group starting. Would you like to explore personal intimacy in a safe environment? This is accomplished by using touch for expressing and receiving tenderness. This is platonic and personal boundaries are respected. Day, time and location TBA. Jeff 310-4903 email iiyog@ aol.com. COED SINGLES GROUP Ages 5065, forming for friendship and fun. Chittenden County area. Activities to include weeknight/weekend dinner, bowling, hikes, snow shoeing, movies, etc. If interested email Myra at csbnc27609@aol.com. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step group. Women only. Do you have problems with your relationships? Are you unable to leave an unhealthy romantic relationship? We can help. Call Valerie, 802-825-4643. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA’S SUPPORT GROUP Held monthly at The Arbors at Shelburne. For info. or to register, contact Nicole at 802-9858600.

MENOPAUSE SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN Meets Sundays, 4-6 p.m. & Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m. Location: Pathways to Well Being, 168 Battery St., Burlington. Share knowledge, experience, stories & get support. This is a FREE support group that meets every other Sunday and Thursday. Call 862-8806 x5 for more info. CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP: 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday at the Burlington Police Station on Battery St. in the new Community Room. Please call or visit website for location information, www.vtcfids.org or call 1-800-296-1445 or 802-660-4817 (Helaine “Lainey” Rappaport). WOMEN’S RAPE CRISES CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10-week support group for adult female survivors of sexual violence. Please call 864-555 ext. 19 for information. LIVING SINGLE SUPPORT GROUP This course is a follow-up to the Divorce Recovery course that is offered at Essex Alliance Church. If you’ve been through the Divorce Care Class, you have an opportunity to continue to grow, heal, rebuild, and start again. Call Sue Farris for more information at 802734-0695. SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Location: Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main Street, Wallingford, 802-446-3577. 6:30-8:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month. GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided. The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register. MS SUPPORT GROUP A support group for people with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers. Sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Join others who have MS to discuss concerns, ask questions, share information and get support. Meets the first and third Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30 p.m. in Williston. For more information contact Michele at 862-4085 and leave a message. POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Champlain Valley (NAMI: CV) is offering a free PTSD Support Group for Women on Thursdays from 12:30-2 p.m. The group focuses on both support and education about PTSD. Meetings are held at the NAMI office at 14 Healey Avenue, Suite D, Plattsburgh. For more information or to register, call NAMI: CV at 561-2685. ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 6559136 or email kgcromey@aol.com. SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening, as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@pshift.com. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Tues., Thurs. & Sun., 6-7 p.m. in Barre. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre, VT (parking in back of church/please use back entrance). Meetings are FREE and anonymous. For more info please call 802-8632655.

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RIGHTS FOR CAREGIVERS support group – If you are a part-time caregiver for elders for an agency in Chittenden County, we need you to help everyone obtain better wages and more respect for the work we do. Contact Zoe at 802-861-6000 or zoe1944@yahoo.com. AL-ANON Family group 12-step. Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802-472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick. “WOMEN CHANGING” An educational support group on changing unhealthy patterns for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. Tuesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. Ongoing. Join us any time! Childcare reimbursable. Ask about Survivors of Incest Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick. CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children. Meetings weekly in Winooski. For more info. call Tana at 802-8934878 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-2295724 or 1-800-children. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the ground floor boardroom from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772. FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/management of addictions, compulsions and their resulting imbalances on our lives. Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food? Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@gmail.com. LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators. Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations. Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830. CHITTENDEN COUNTY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP will meet every second Tues, 6-7:30 p.m. at Fanny Allen Hospital, lower level in the Board Room. ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Mondays, 7-8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie at 825-4643. LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713.

HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094. SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions. Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@ cs.com STARTING A WOMEN’S GROUP: Ages 45+, to meet weekly for lunch and other activities such as walking, book discussions, museum visits, matinees, etc. Email Katherine at MKR27609@aol.com. MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER: Support group meets 5 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month in the board room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. 1-800ACS-2345. MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE/DYSAUTONOMIA: Group forming for information sharing purposes. Please call 863-3153. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier. Wednesdays, 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345. BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749. EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554. OCD SUPPORT GROUP/THERAPY GROUP: Come share your experience, get support from those who have been there, learn about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how to reduce its symptoms. Therapist facilitated. Weekly meetings, 802-343-8114. AUTISM: Free support group for parents and caregivers of children with ASD. Montpelier, 2nd Sunday of the month, 3-5 p.m. at the Family Center. Call Jessica, 249-7961, for childcare inquires. More info, www.aaware.org. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington. Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384. FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP: If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women, 658-1996. DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION: If you suffer from either of these trance states, please call Todd, 864-4285. DIABETES EDUCATION and Support Group of Chittenden County meets the third Thursday of every month at the Williston Federated Church, 6:30-8 p.m. We often have guest speakers. Info, 847-2278.

WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing, or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present. WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women and children in this community. Info, 658-1996. VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM: Info, contact MaryKay Hill, www. VTPFAC.com or call 802-373-0351. MIXED GENDER COMING OUT SUPPORT GROUP: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Co-facilitated by supportive peers and mentalhealth professionals and open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning adults age 23 and up. Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?. TRANS SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUP: First Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Looking for peer support among other transgendered folks? Need a safe space to relax and be yourself? Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?. TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7-8 p.m. meeting. Info, call Fred or Bennye, 6553317, or Patricia, 658-6904. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 8624516, or visit www.cvana.org. Held in Burlington. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. Sunday meetings, 7-8:30 p.m. Call Sandy, 863-5708. SMOKING CESSATION GROUP: Willing to kick the habit? This free, five-week program helps quitters to follow through. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6309. DOES YOUR PARTNER/SPOUSE HAVE AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)? Support group meets in Burlington to share experiences, challenges, laughs, resources. Want more information? Write addpartner@yahoo.com. WEDNESDAYS CIRCLE: A Transpersonal support group, every Wed., 6 p.m., Innerharmony Community Wellness Center, Rt. 100N, Rochester, VT. 767-6092. A sharing circle focusing on personal growth, transformation, spirituality and healing, led by Jim Dodds. DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP: Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each simplify. 453-3612. PARENTS TOGETHER: Support group will be meeting in Rutland on Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call 1-800-CHILDREN for more information. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Battered Women’s Services and Shelter of Washington County. Please call 1-877-543-9498 for more info. AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Join our support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport and its healthgiving, life-affirming qualities. Any age. No athletic experience needed. Call Linda at 802-434-4423 or email: dragonheartvermont@ gmavt.net or go to: www.dragonheartvermont.org. NAKED IN VERMONT: The premier Nudist/Skinnydipper organization in Vermont offering information library, message board, chat room, Yahoo group, and more. (ALL FREE.) Visit www.nakedinvermont.com.

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Thankful 1: Am I Kate? Tall, gorgeous, witty, kind of middle-aged, love your product. Does that sound like me? If so, you are welcome & I appreciate the lovely thank you note, albeit completely undeserved! See you soon. When: Friday, June 19, 2009. Where: College St. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905993 Dandelion prince working hard Saw you sweating away at Langdon St. Cafe and thought how the gods & goddesses were smiling when I met you. Tell me that I haven’t started too late or arrived too early to see you smile again. I still believe in everything serendipitous that I’ve experienced w/ you. Will you still wear your dandelion crown for me, my love? When: Sunday, June 21, 2009. Where: Langdon Street Cafe. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905991 Wolfman It was February 1991. 300,000 military personnel were invading Iraq - what else is new, right? You were beside me in the navy blue armchair w/ the fleur-de-lis pattern. Never had seen such a ginormous beard, but your glasses were about as large & thick & silly looking as my step-father’s. I was captivated, & inspired. Now get outta here. When: Sunday, June 21, 2009. Where: Happy Father’s Day. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905989

Handsome masseuse working at Stoweflake You: handsome, nice masseuse who I have seen working at Stoweflake. You have blondish/ brown straight hair, medium build & I think blueish eyes? I have seen you working out in the gym. I am a voluptuous yet fit woman in my 30s w/ long, wavy, dark brown hair & an unusual name. Are you available? Would love to get together for dinner/drink. When: Saturday, May 30, 2009. Where: Stoweflake. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905987 Sprint guy, Eric J. Thanks for the musiq suggestion. I would have given you a five even if you hadn’t asked. Maybe we could trade stickers sometime? When: Saturday, June 20, 2009. Where: Sprint store, Williston. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905986 Blonde Soccer Mom in Colchester So close, yet so far...we live nearby. Blonde beauty who catches my eye - either at the gas station, or supermarket, you pulling out of your street onto Colchester Point Road. So taboo, but I wish I could know you. Let me know what you have for bumper stickers on your silver minivan and make & model so I’ll know it’s you! When: Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Where: Colchester. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905985 plunger guy Yes, I had 2 of them, they weren’t for what you thought. Yes, you do know me, you just haven’t seen me for a while. You are looking quite well, I must say. Seemed like you wanted to say something, but you were on the phone. Is that so? When: Friday, June 19, 2009. Where: Essex. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905984 williston pt You make rehab fun, improve the scenery & the je ne sais quoi. I’m the one who looks too long. Sorry I’m not that interested in what I’m doing. We’re supposed to be getting better right? I’ve dealt with a lot of things including what you’re facing, be glad to share my thoughts, maybe on some other things too... When: Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Where: Williston. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905983 85th birthday party 6/12/09 Beautiful lady in black, blonde hair, dancing the night away. Didn’t get the slow dance I wanted to have. You requested Madonna song at the end of the night. Can’t get you off my mind & would love to have dinner w/ you, walk in the park, breakfast ... your choice. Me: nervous, for the Very First Time. Talked briefly. Another chance? When: Friday, June 12, 2009. Where: 85th birthday party. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905982

Dear Mistress Maeve, I am a 23-year-old graduate student with what I consider to be an interesting personality, a bright future, and above-average looks. I got out of a three-year relationship about a year ago and have been trying to get back into the game, but things are slow going. The problem is, whenever I try to get intimate with a girl, she immediately loses interest when she discovers that I’m uncircumcised. This has happened with three consecutive girls now. I practice very good hygiene, and it’s not like I’m Ron Jeremy or anything, but I’ve looked around the locker room, and I’m not small by any means. Am I just on a streak of bad luck, or am I really destined to forever struggle with women due to my “birth defect”? Signed, Uncut and Unhappy Dear Uncut, Either you are dating the most shallow, narrow-minded women on Earth — or you’re making it all up in your head (so to speak). Do these women actually tell you they’re anti-foreskin, or are you assuming your uncircumcised penis turns them off? Because I don’t know any women who have run screaming from a bed just because of an extra piece of penis skin. In fact, I know quite a few who prefer an au naturel member. Functionally, there is no difference between cut and uncut penises, except that men with a foreskin have to be sure to clean well underneath it — no big deal. And, let’s be honest — women have way more nooks and crannies to keep clean than men with uncircumcised shlongs do. Don’t blame these dating disasters on your foreskin. Sex is all about chemistry — something that was clearly lacking with the last three women you dated. When you find the right person, you’ll quickly see that your worries about being uncircumcised are unfounded and unimportant.

Red light guy I was in a blue Prius, you were in the car next to me (cannot remember what kind). Red light on Dorset St., near Barnes & Noble. You: a striking man w/ dark hair. You smiled & waved, and a bit flustered, I turned away. I was in work-out clothes. Meet for tea sometime? When: Monday, June 15, 2009. Where: Dorset St. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905981

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that sexy waitress from drink I saw you at Drink. You came over to our table & made a comment about a certain newspaper before you took our glasses. I hope you get a kick out of this & I will see you soon. When: Saturday, June 20, 2009. Where: Drink, downtown Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905977 hottie on camel’s hump Hey, girl w/ a beautiful smile! Saw you on the Hump this week - you complimented my little dog. I think he would like to get to know you, as would I. You seem like the kind of girl who everyone would fall in love with! Maybe it was those candy tits of yours... When: Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Where: Camel’s Hump. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905976

Happy Birthday, Cupcake Princess! I saw you, Cupcake Princess, outside the deli (KKD). I think you could be the sprinkles on my frosting. I’d like to put my cupcake inside yours. We would be so sweet together. You are truly a 29 on a scale of 1-10. When: Monday, June 22, 2009. Where: in my cupcake heaven. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905975 Handsome man new to Vermont I saw you late at night; you said you had just ended a 3.5-year relationship & that was the only thing that brought you to this state. You were tall, dark & handsome - just my type. I gave you my number - I’m not sure if you thought I was joking. I would love to get to know you better. When: Thursday, June 18, 2009. Where: Shell station on Main St., Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905972

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Would you like to make a difference in women’s lives while working with a dynamic team? We’re seeking a Data Manager for Ladies First, Vermont’s breast & cervical cancer and heart disease screening program. The Data Manager needs to have strong computer and database management skills and have the ability to link different databases. This person would work with a variety of database software such as Microsoft ACCESS, SPSS, Business Objects, Link Plus and Excel. By taking advantage of the emerging technology in information exchanges, this person would help develop a new information system for the Ladies First program. Candidates must have a master’s degree or a bachelor’s degree plus one year’s experience in the field.

Developmental Services Looking for reliable person to support a male in his Burlington apartment with meal prep and companionship for 15 hrs. per week. Candidate must be comfortable setting firm limits and capable of following a behavior support plan. Job Coach Seeking dependable, energetic, professional individual to provide 1:1 employment supports to numerous individuals at their job sites. Position requires good communication and judgment skills as well as flexibility. Experience with this population helpful. Must have reliable transportation. 30 hours/week. Seeking two candidates for emergency responder positions with the Safety Connection program. Candidates must possess a working knowledge of supporting individuals with a developmental disability who live independently in the community, have a valid driver’s license, own a car, and live in the Burlington or Winooski area. Temporary contracted positions with monthly stipend for on-call coverage for 7-15 days a month and hourly compensation for hours worked between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m.

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Mental Health and Substance Abuse Cook Lakeview Community Care Home Looking for a full-time cook to work in a community care home with adults who have major mental illness. Must have patience, compassion and a desire to work in this setting. 38 hours/wk. Excellent benefits. Send resume and cover letter with your application.

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Are you ready for fresh, wide-open thinking? Located in Colchester Vermont, just north of Burlington, MyWebGrocer is the perfect place for your new career. We are the #1 provider of online grocery services and innovative grocery technologies. Join our fast-growing, successful and creative team.

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With this position you will work on building and supporting a range of technologies including mobile applications, web services, hightraffic web and eCommerce applications, and more. You will have the ability to be a part of our growing business and contribute to our online efforts for retail grocers and food manufacturing companies.

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Software Development of next generation eGrocery solutions. Analyze technologies and evaluate technical alternatives and feasibility. Facilitate development (software development lifecycle) as tech lead with global sourcing partners. Consult with designers, retailers and CPGs to evaluate and develop product specifications. Write technical specifications Participate as a technical resource during iterative development cycles, reviewing the team’s work product for quality control. Work as a team member with product management, support, training and sales departments providing product knowledge. Developing/testing/reviewing code & applications.

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School of Graduate Studies is seeking support staff to monitor and enhance our students’ online classroom experience, serve as the primary non-instructional point of contact between students and the university, and manage student records and administrative issues. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree and some related experience. Completion of a master’s degree in one of the programs is required; tuition is included in the compensation.

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PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING

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Ready for a positive change in your lifestyle? Become a Public Health Nurse! The Health Department has positions available for registered nurses to participate in the development, refinement and implementation of department programs and public health initiatives. We offer a Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. work schedule and excellent benefits, including continuing education and tuition reimbursement. You could be eligible for the Federal Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program. Salary may be negotiable.

Public Health Nursing Supervisor St. Johnsbury, full-time. Ref # 25761. Open until 7/16/09.

The St. Johnsbury District Office has a position available for a registered nurse who is interested in collaborating with other professionals, community partners and consumers on strategies to improve health in a variety of program areas, including chronic disease, school wellness and maternal child health. The role includes clinical direction, performance management and evaluation of other nursing and non-nursing department staff and providing consultation and support to the District Director on nursing issues/practices. Contact: Ann Creaven, 802-334-6707 or acreave@vdh.state.vt.us

Public Health Nurse, Immunization Burlington, full-time. Ref # 25735. Open until 7/10/09.

The central office of the immunization program has a position available for a registered nurse who will engage in a variety of activities designed to promote immunizations across the lifespan. The role includes working with professionals and the public to identify and reduce barriers, enhance access and promote vaccination. The nurse will create effective presentations, participate in reviewing polices and procedures, teach others about immunizations, and work well both independently and as part of a team. Some instate travel is required. Contact: Sue Barry, 802-652-4185 or sbarry@vdh.state.vt.us

The State of Vermont offers an excellent total compensation package. Interested candidates must apply online at www.vtstatejobs.info. You may contact the Department of Human Resources, Employment Services at (800) 640-1657 (voice) or 800-253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service) for questions regarding your online application. The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Community Action agency in Newport seeks a mature, high-energy Social Enterprise Manager (SEM) to lead one of the area’s first social enterprise endeavors. The SEM will strengthen NEKCA’s existing thrift shops and develop additional retail projects and a bakery to provide training opportunities, a commitment to green and local products and excellent customer service.

Successful candidates will be self-motivated with experience in diverse workforce development, local, green, food and/or retail industries plus a demonstrated interest in social justice and poverty alleviation. Skills in supervision, budget development, data collection and reporting necessary. Bachelor’s required, Master’s preferred. Visit www.nekca-pccnorth.org for full description & how to apply or email cover letter, resume and 3 references to jevans@nekcavt.org. EOE.

ISC has the following openings in our Montpelier, Vermont, office: 6/26/09

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Senior Program officer Temporary full-time Senior Program Officer to support ISC’s Balkans portfolio from August 2009 to January 2010. Helps coordinate home office and in-country work to ensure that projects in the region are successful and well managed; serves as the primary liaison between ISC’s home office and one or more overseas offices in the region; and works closely with the Balkans Regional Director to oversee program implementation, support and oversight, communications, and financial management. Candidates must have community-based action, NGO and democracy development and financial management experience. Monitoring and evaluation experience is a plus.

civil Society Program officer Full-time Program Officer to serve as the primary liaison between ISC’s home office and the ISC Serbia office in Belgrade and to support the rapid expansion of the USAID-funded Serbia Civil Society Advocacy Initiative. Responsible for program implementation support and oversight, monitoring results, communications, coordinating home office and consultant assistance, and budgeting and financial management. Candidate must have experience with community-based action, NGO and democracy development, and financial management. Monitoring and evaluation experience and proposal development experience is a plus. To view full job descriptions and to apply, visit our website at:

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Monday thru Friday only. Located in a medical center building. Assist pharmacist in preparing medications for humans and animals. Send resumes to: scott@customrxshop.com or mail to: Scott Brown, 42 Timberlane, South Burlington, VT 05403.

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Coordinator of Academic Services, Science In the Burlington/Winooski CCV office, oversee instructors, schedule courses, advise students (including those in Allied Health programs), participate in registration and other academic and administrative activities.

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Deliver the new FairPoint® Telephone Directories Men & women 18 years and older with insured vehicles are needed to deliver in Burlington, South Burlington, Essex Junction and surrounding areas. We are also looking for office clerks & loaders. Delivery starts about July 7th. Work a minimum of 4 daylight hours per day and get paid within 48 hours upon successful completion of route. Call 1-800-979-7978 between the hours of 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Monday - Friday. Refer to job #3619-D.

Competitive salary and paid leave benefits. Please visit www.ccv.edu for requirements and application instructions. CCV strongly encourages applications from members of ethnic minority groups and other under-represented backgrounds. CCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer, in compliance with ADA requirements.

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To apply submit cover letter and resume to

gayle.lee@ahs.sTaTe.VT.us by July 7, 2009.

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FULL TIME TELLER SHELBURNE ROAD OFFICE Northfield Savings Bank (NSB), a community bank committed to helping the people and businesses of Chittenden County prosper, is seeking a qualified applicant for its Shelburne Road office. NSB is looking for a customer-focused individual who enjoys assisting customers with their financial needs. A positive attitude, computer and communication skills and attention to detail a must. A complete training program is provided, so banking skills are not necessary.

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Wednesday, July 15, and Thursday, July 16, 3-5 p.m. Full- and part-time positions available: Cooks, Snack Bar Cashier, Custodial, Utility, Waitstaff, Competitive Wages Benefit Package Apply in person at Wise Campus Center Norwich University or send resume to: Sodexo Campus Services 158 Harmon Drive Northfield, VT 05663 802-485-2297 EOE/AA Employer

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   Northfield Savings Bank  Human Resources Department PO Box   347 Northfield, VT 05663 NSB@nsbvt.com 

Interested individuals may forward a resume to:

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COMMUNITY RELATIONS COORDINATOR

A GREAT PLACE TO WORK!

Northfield Savings Bank’s fast paced and professional work environment is supported by a competitive salary and profit sharing, along with a generous benefits package including health insurance, 401(k) plan, paid time-off and educational assistance. Interested individuals may forward a resume to: Northfield Savings Bank Human Resources Department PO Box 347 Northfield, VT 05663 NSB@nsbvt.com Member FDIC

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

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

Member FDIC

Help us coordinate our outstanding community relations activities, including events management and donation requests. Able to produce basic flyers/ads, post website updates and some administrative support. Full-time, based in Northfield with some travel to Chittenden County and occasional evenings/weekends. Two+ year degree, two years experience.

E.O.E.

Sodexo Campus Services Norwich University Dining Services JOB FAIR

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Northfield Savings Bank’s fast paced and professional work environment is supported by an outstanding reward system. NSB offers a competitive salary, sales incentive pay and profit sharing, along with a generous benefits package including: group insurance programs, 401(k) plan, paid time-off and educational assistance.

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Earn Extra Money

Qualifications: Master’s degree required, preferably in the sciences. Must be able to provide support and training to science instructors and supervise corresponding curriculum and instruction, including lab sciences (onsite, online, and hybrid courses). Familiarity with OSHA laboratory safety standards is useful. Technical experience, excellent communications skills, and the ability to organize and coordinate work in a collaborative team environment are essential. Flexible hours and occasional travel.

802-885-6474.

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Hospice Nurse: Our Vermont Respite House has a benefited, 24-hour-per-week opening for weekend overnights. Licensed Nursing Assistants: Occupational Therapist Pottoil hearg vevio id as Full-time, per shifts areiatch, dubbopart-time liste ceweta and opi ing dfildiem coe. Thitt waqpt thi eduso ullum, wan gfnag ginnipi como lotyiu bulggoi available. Openings include our Vermont Respite grabizze wawule innst duob gommag callupe. Thitt waqpt House,iatch, Pediatric and home visiting! thi edusoHigh ullum,Tech wannag ginnipi.

To learn more about PCC and how to apply, visit our website at

Feel right at home.

www.pcc.com/careers The deadline for submitting your application is July 10. No phone calls, please.

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Please call Cathy at 860-4450 for more information, or visit www.vnacares.org.

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Program manager: Licensed HeaLtH care ProfessionaL Grounds for Health, a Vermont-based, international women’s health organization, seeks women’s health-care professional for position of Program Manager for cervical cancer programs in Africa and Latin America. Must have international experience, management skills and Spanish language skills. Some administrative work included. Join us and our partners in the specialty coffee industry in this exciting, leading-edge project. Salary DOE. 25% travel.

Supervisor needed for permanent part-time early morning positions for an upscale retail store. Must have a clean police report.

Executive Management Services 1-866-718-7118, ext. 74.

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Send letter and resume to: info@groundsforhealth.org.

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Commercial Property Maintenance Position available immediately. Must be mechanically inclined, have own tools, a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. Must be bondable. Benefits. Please apply to: ICV Construction 30 Main St., Ste. 401, Burlington, VT 05401

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Looking to earn some extra money? Help End Violence in Your Community — Become an Americorps Outreach Educator

Earn 55 per mile as a community driver. Special Services Transportation Agency (SSTA), a local not-for-profit agency located in Colchester is looking for volunteers with a valid driver’s license and a good driving record.

Please contact SSTA at (802) 878-1527 for more information and to apply.

The Americorps Outreach Educator will develop and expand our educational outreach programs and work extensively with schools, allied professionals and community partners in Lamoille County to end sexual and domestic violence in our community. Americorps benefits include a stipend of $11,400 divided over the course of the term and an education award of $4,725 upon successful completion of the term. You will receive health insurance, mileage reimbursement, loan forbearance on qualified loans, interest accrual reimbursement and childcare reimbursement if you qualify. Send a resume, cover letter and a completed Americorps application found at www.americorps.gov to Megan Hartigan at mhartigan@clarina.org. CHNC will be accepting applications until August 15.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON

Director of Parks and Recreation

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The City of Burlington is seeking an experienced professional to provide leadership for its Parks and Recreation Department. The position is responsible for all activities relating to the City’s parks, recreation, cemetery and arboriculture programs. These include approximately 32 parks and facilities composed of over 550 acres of land for this very dynamic lakeside community, which is considered one of America’s most livable cities.

Addison Central Supervisory Union

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Parks and Recreation Administration and a minimum of six years administrative experience in the field of parks and recreation, with at least three years of executive experience. Annual starting salary range is $64,528 - $72,054, commensurate with experience.

Chittenden Central Supervisory Union

Information about the Parks and Recreation Department and the position as well as a City of Burlington application form can be obtained at www. ci.burlington.vt.us. Burlington is about to hold a Quadricentennial Celebration July 2 -July 14th. To review this event, visit www.celebratechamplain.org and click on the Burlington link. Qualified persons are invited to submit a resume, cover letter, City of Burlington application and three professional references to Human Resources Department, 131 Church St., Burlington, VT 05401 to be received no later than July 20, 2009. The City of Burlington does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, or disability in employment or the provision of services. Available in alternative formats for persons with disabilities. For disability access information, or to request an application, contact Human Resources at (802) 865-7145 or (802) 865-7142 (TTY). Visit our website at www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us. WOMEN, MINORITIES AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. EOE.

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

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Burlington School District

Chittenden East Supervisory Union Chittenden South Supervisory Union Colchester School District Franklin Central Supervisory Union Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union Springfield School District VT Statewide Teacher Diversity Initiative: (www.vtdsp.org/schoolspring)

Apply Online Today at www.schoolspring.com/SVD

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

Call Phyllis 802-343-0331.

Ophthalmic Assistant

Small retinal practice looking for an ophthalmic assistant for very busy practice. Retinal experience preferred, but not necessary. Casual atmosphere and great benefits package. If you are interested please email your resume to:

aandrews@ retinacentervermont.com.

See: careeradvisory.biz

OFFICE MANAGER/ RECEPTIONIST

Sterling College, a small experiential liberal arts college in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, invites applications for an adjunct position in introductory science and mathematics for the 2009-2010 academic year. For detailed description, go to www.sterlingcollege.edu/jobs. Submit electronic applications only to pcenkl@sterlingcollege.edu.

Contact Krista at

Send resume to: Dr. Kero 1128 Williston Rd. So. Burlington, VT 05403

or kristalacroix@yahoo.com.

Applicants can also send resume and cover letter to abby@vtaffordablehousing.org.

Hip-hop/jazz

Champlain Valley Cleaning Service in search of dependable, fast-paced people for residential cleaning, experience a must. Pay based on experience. Must have own transportation.

Dance Teacher

Seeking an experienced Hip- Hop Dance Teacher for a well-established dance studio. 4-5 hours /week for beginners through advanced dancers. Please email resume to stowedance@ aol.com or call 802-253-5151.

Call 802-893-3400

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Cook/Line Cook Part-time ••••••• Apply in person:

18 severance Green Colchester Between 2 and 4 p.m.

Shelter Operations, including supervising staff and clients, case management and keeping the HMIS data system up to date. If you have a bachelor’s degree and/or a minimum of 4 years management and supervisory experience in a nonprofit organization, please contact:

linda ryan, Samaritan house 20 Kingman St., St. albans, Vt. 05478 (802) 373-6505) lindaryan3@comcast.net.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Sterling College, a small experiential liberal arts college in Craftsbury Common, Vt., invites applications for the full-time position of Assistant Director of Admissions to represent the college to prospective students, their families and other outside constituents, on campus, regionally and nationally.

looking for a good Barista with a love for wine. Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne has a part-time position open for someone with the right work ethic and abilities to make exceptional coffee drinks and some knowledge and enthusiasm for selling wines. Please call Kevin for more information

802-985-8922.

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Part-time position in Middlebury. Assists out-of-school youth with a personal graduation plan, addressing the student’s needs and requirements of the school, leading to a diploma.

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Position offers excellent benefits, including generous, flexible paidtime-off. Vermont Adult Learning is a non-profit provider of adult education and literacy services. Visit www.vtadultlearning.org for more information. Equal Opportunity Employer

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Director of Finance & Administration The Director has primary oversight of and responsibility for the fiscal, administrative, human resource, and information systems of Vermont Adult Learning, and fiscal contract oversight for Learning Works, Vermont’s statewide Adult Education & Literacy system.

Resume Deadline: July 13, 2009

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Position offers excellent benefits, including generous, flexible paidtime-off. Vermont Adult Learning is a non-profit provider of adult education and literacy services.

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Resume Deadline: July 10, 2009

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for dental ofﬁce. Responsible for scheduling, billing, phones. Experience preferred.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

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Personal Care Service Provider

Armistead is looking for experienced caregivers. We provide non medical in-home care to seniors. Our services include personal care, light housekeeping, cooking, transportation, errands, companionship and more. Flexible schedules are available. Clients choose shifts between 1 and 24 hours in length. We currently have shifts open in Chittenden, Lamoille and Addison counties. Visit us online at www.armisteadinc.com to fill out an online application. Please do not call about this position unless you do not have Internet access.

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