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clearly show that climate change is real and, as a result of human behavior, the world is getting warmer. Carbon emissions are playing a large role in the warming of our planet.” You know who else shares this view? Roughly 98 percent of climate scientists, according to a new survey by the blog Climate Progress. Maybe it’s the company Dubie keeps? Read the conservative blog Vermont Tiger often enough, and you’d think 98 percent of climate scientists believe global warming is a hoax. The only Democrat to pounce on Dubie’s gaffe — the lite-gov’s ﬁrst of the campaign — was Senate President Pro Tem PETER SHUMLIN (D-Windham). “We need a governor who believes that climate change is real every year, not just in an election year. Governors should be right the ﬁrst time,” Shumlin said in a statement. “I worked hard to pass what Al Gore called the ‘toughest climatechange bill in the nation,’ only to have the

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Douglas-Dubie administration veto it.” Is Shumlin onto something? Perhaps. The VLCV questionnaire wasn’t the ﬁrst time Dubie ducked a question on climate change, “Fair Game” has learned. In the spring of 2008, the lite-gov did an interview with SPIRE, a newsletter published by the University of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. The interview, posted online, included this question: “Global warming is a hot topic. Can you share your thoughts on it?” Dubie replied: “In 2006 I was deployed to Iraq as an Air Force Reservist. One night, I stood on a rooftop with one of three commanding generals. He said to me, ‘America has to declare its freedom from oil that comes from dangerous parts of the world.’” Two more years of environmental degradation, including evidence of rapidly melting polar ice caps and swiftly changing weather patterns right here in Vermont, hasn’t changed Dubie’s tune. Couldn’t he come up with a better answer? Or at least a different one?

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Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie talks about the “Green Valley Initiative” so often that one political observer — editor MIKE TOWNSEND over at the Burlington Free Press — suggested Dubie should be dubbed the “Godfather of the Green Valley.” Catchy slogan, but it’s not accurate. PETER MURRAY of Geotech Environmental Equipment in Winooski coined the “Green Valley” term, according to the Vermont Environmental Consortium. Murray helped found VEC and served as its ﬁrst president. VEC was created in 2001, two years after Gov. HOWARD DEAN led a trade mission to Taiwan. The trip gave local business owners an idea: If they banded together, they might stand a better chance of bidding on large, overseas environmental projects. VEC’s website deﬁnes the term “Green Valley” as a way to describe an economy based on a “thriving environmental enterprise sector.” In fact, it says the term “has been widely used to summarize this vision by leaders of all three political parties in Vermont.”

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More than 18 months after the first Democrat announced his candidacy for governor, all five Dems submitted their petitions to the Secretary of State’s office. Other gubernatorial hopefuls got their names on the ballot, too, which means there will be a minimum of seven options come election day . To recap: The August 24 primary will winnow the quintet of Democrats — Sen. susan Bartlett (D-Lamoille), Google exec and former Sen. matt Dunne, Secretary of State DeB markowitz, Sen. Doug racine (D-Chittenden) and Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin — to a solo performer. Progressive gubernatorial candidate martha aBBott has said she will withdraw after the primary to allow the party a chance to support the Democratic nominee. Some party stalwarts want her to remain in the race regardless of which Dem wins. There are also two minor-party candidates in the governor’s race: Ben mitchell of the Liberty Union Party and Ben Johnson of the Working Families Party. Like Abbott, Johnson isn’t expected to stay on the ballot in the general election. The Working Families Party is interested in endorsing other candidates, not running their own people. This year’s changes to state election law require that parties run a statewide slate in the primary even if they withdraw those names for the general election and endorse other candidates. Along with Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie, there are four other known candidates on the November ballot: Independents Dennis steele, em Peyton, Dan Feliciano and cris ericson. Ericson is running under the “United States Marijuana” banner. Sounds like a party, right? It’s not. State election rules allow independents to have three words printed after their name on the ballot to clue voters in to their politics.

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Five of the six may be almost indistinguishable on policy issues. But the men and women competing to be the next governor of Vermont are vastly different people. And their individual stories may better indicate how they’d govern than any number of speeches, videos and slogans. To that end, Seven Days reporter Andy Bromage has been getting to know the gubernatorial candidates at their jobs, in their homes and on the campaign trail. In the second of six proﬁles, he shines a light on Peter Shumlin, the savvy Senate leader and millionaire businessman who wants to be Vermont’s CEO.

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Shumlin, the longtime Senate president pro tem, is from Putney, which is 18 miles from the Vermont Yankee plant. He made the historic vote happen, and that made him a target for business and labor leaders worried about lost jobs and rising energy prices. When Shumlin went on TV and ﬂubbed a fact about solar power, the union representing 160 endangered nuclear plant workers distributed literature calling him a liar. Some politicians might shrink from that kind of criticism, but Shumlin seems to thrive on it. Appearing at a candidates’ forum at the Vermont Business and Industry Expo last month — before a potentially hostile crowd — Shumlin defended the decision to pull the plug on the nuke plant, using the blunt language that’s made him a hero to some and a villain to others. “Let’s stop the myth,” Shumlin told business leaders, noting that the new power deal Yankee offered Vermonters was terrible. “Relicensing that plant is not going to get you cheap power. It’s going to get you tritium, cobalt and cesium in the groundwater of Windham County. It’s going to get you a company you can’t trust. And it’s going to get you a future your kids will not be proud of.”

Two weeks later, Shumlin went before the unionized electrical workers whose good-paying, Vermont Yankee jobs are on the line. Shumlin said he felt their pain but stood by the vote. Shumlin doesn’t apologize for his legislative record as Senate president, nor for the hardball tactics he sometimes employs to get things done. In fact, that’s how he differentiates himself from the four other pols seeking the Democratic nomination for governor: Sens. Doug Racine and Susan Bartlett, Secretary of State Deb Markowitz and Google executive (and former Vermont Senator) Matt Dunne. “I have this reputation for being a little bit of a politician, for kicking barn doors down,” says Shumlin, 54. “You want results, right? I can deliver.” Statehouse colleagues describe Shumlin as smart, ambitious and politically shrewd. Senator Claire Ayer (D-Addison) likens him to a “chess player” — someone who thinks five steps ahead, positions his pieces, and then strikes when the moment is right. Can Shumlin look forward to “checkmate” in November? He won’t speak ill of his Democratic rivals, but says he’s most capable of beating Republican candidate Brian Dubie, the popular lieutenant governor, because he is the Democrat who is “fiscally conservative and socially liberal.” In fact, Shumlin’s record defies easy categorization. He consistently earns an A+ rating from the National Rifle

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in English literature and government. Shumlin moved back home when he was 24 and served on the Putney select board before being appointed by thenGov. Madeleine Kunin to a vacant seat in the Vermont House of Representatives. After three years as a state rep, in 1992 he won election to the Senate and served 10 years — eight of them as the president pro tempore, the chamber’s chosen leader. Shumlin says he went to the Statehouse intending to please everyone. “I had a tendency to tell people what they wanted to hear,” he recalls. “I changed my style pretty quickly.” In 2002, Shumlin ran for lieutenant governor and lost to Dubie, who won 41 percent in a three-way race with Progressive Anthony Pollina. Shumlin returned to private life for four years, but was reelected to the Senate in 2006 and, once again, his colleagues made him their chief. He and his wife, Deborah Holway Shumlin, separated about a year ago. They have two daughters: Olivia, 19, and Rebecca, 18. On the stump, Shumlin is a soundbite machine. He speaks of wimpy politicians stricken with “spine flu.” He says the next governor needs to act like the head of a Thanksgiving table — someone who can “keep a food fight from breaking out.” But Shumlin backs his “bites” with

2013, and that doing so would lure new businesses here. Climate change is a big issue for Shumlin. He predicts a jobs boom in any state that embraces renewableenergy technology, and says Vermont “can get a piece of that action.” He wants the University of Vermont to create a degree program in climate change — merging science, meteorology, business and engineering — that would be the first in the nation. Even Vermont agriculture has a bright future in what Shumlin calls “the climate-change economy.” Wetter weather will keep Vermont a viable food-growing state as traditional foodbelt states such as California continue to suffer from prolonged droughts. “We will be growing food for America again,” Shumlin says. “That’s the kind of vision we haven’t had in government for a while.” Like his rivals, Shumlin isn’t sure how he would pay for all his initiatives, but says he wouldn’t raise taxes to balance the books.

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Senator Dick McCormack (D-Windsor), who is supporting Racine for governor, praises Shumlin’s liberal record on issues but calls his leadership style “autocratic.” McCormack says Shumlin “tends to appoint an ‘in crowd’ at his discretion,” from which dissenting senators can find themselves “exiled.” Asked whether Shumlin is good for his word, McCormack hedges. “Just make sure you’ve parsed every word,” he says. “The promise he makes may not be the promise you thought he made. There were times when I did not read the fine print. I won’t make that mistake again.” Senator Dick Mazza (D-Grand Isle), a veteran lawmaker who was first elected in 1984, felt burned by Shumlin this year when the Senate president pro tem and the House speaker decided lawmakers would take a 3 percent pay cut without first discussing it with the rank and file. “That caught a lot of people off guard,” says Mazza, who learned of the pay cut from a reporter. “He should have had a caucus first so we’re all prepared to answer the questions.” Others, however, suggest the unethical tag is unearned and unfair. Paul Burns, executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, says Shumlin is “more of a political animal than his peers,” and that his killer political instinct can be misconstrued as dishonesty. “He is much more similar to elected officials in bigger states where political elbows tend to be a lot sharper,” Burns says. “In the way that Tip O’Neill and [then-President] Ronald Reagan supposedly would get together after a very contentious debate in Congress and have a beer, Shumlin is a little bit more of that ilk. Some people think of that as being unprincipled or too political.” Shumlin says his campaign’s internal polling shows negative perceptions are “not an issue,” though he refuses to share the results. He also notes the job of Senate president, by its nature, makes you a magnet for criticism from disgruntled lawmakers, especially when you force them to vote on controversial issues such as same-sex marriage and nuclear power. “Do you know how many bills I’ve had to kill? How many bad ideas I’ve had to stomp on?” he asks. “If I’m sleazy and dishonest, why have my colleagues elected me five times to be their leader? I’m good at what I do and I don’t apologize for it.” m

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n a recent Thursday morning in the FlynnSpace, Burlington playwright JAMES LANTZ is talking about quail eggs. “So, for just a moment,” he says, “I want you to imagine that this is one of the characters in our movie — just for now, this is a young woman who’s an artist.” He places the first speckled egg — purchased in a carton from Healthy Living — gently in a bird’s nest. “And this is another character — a homeless boy who aspires to be an artist.” Lantz stows the second egg and produces a third. “And maybe, if you’re an artist or have the soul of an artist — this is you.” Hovering above Lantz in the mostly dark room is a Panasonic HD digital camera on a long jib. Director of photography PETER KENT, who’s holding it, says the take looks good. Sound man DAN

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room’s ambient sound. With a crew of five and cast members still to come, this looks like a small — that is, Vermont-sized — movie shoot. But Lantz is actually making a promo for a film that doesn’t yet exist: Hide Fox, a dramatic feature he’s scripted and hopes to direct later this year. The clip he and the crew are making today is designed to attract cash to the film project via Kickstarter.com. Kickstarter is an online “funding platform” where people can pledge their dollars to support creative projects; money leaves the sponsors’ accounts only if and when the project meets its pledge goal on schedule. The company has already had one big success story: Diaspora, a social-networking system invented by “Four Nerds Against Facebook” — as the New York Times put it — quickly drew more than $10,000 in pledges.

AS A WOMAN’S HAND APPEARS AND STARTS SAWING AT THE ROPE WITH A KNIFE, LANTZ SUGGESTS WE IMAGINE THAT “THIS IS AYN RAND.” Lantz plans to set a goal in that same ballpark, he says. But the Kickstarter dollars will be only a piece of the funding for Hide Fox, which he’s budgeted at about $200,000. The rest he hopes to get from investors. Mindful of the recent MAC PARKER affair, in which the state determined that millions of dollars lent to the Addison filmmaker were unregistered

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securities, Lantz has set up an LLC and filled out the required paperwork warning potential investors that independent filmmaking is a “very risky” proposition, he says. Of course, so is all art. The Hide Fox promo becomes a graphic allegory of those risks when the camera pulls back to reveal a sizeable rock dangling

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it, says the speakers will spend the first half of the day discussing why modernist buildings should be saved and the second half addressing how. “In the ’50s,” he notes, “the cost of energy was not a concern.” The problem is “how to make the building more efficient without destroying its historical integrity.” Not so long ago, perhaps, many Americans would have been happy to embrace ornate older styles and let stark modern buildings decay. But Colman says the tide is turning against the equation of “modern” with “ugly.” Does that have something to do with the success of “Mad Men”? Sort of, says Colman: “It’s really a generational shift.” Popular culture has embraced the mod design aesthetic, he points out: “In car commercials, nine out of 10 of them, the car is driving past a sleek, modernist house.” Still, modernist architecture in Vermont? When he mentions his field of expertise to locals, says Colman, “I get a blank look. Like, What, two buildings? But,” he says, “it’s all over the state; it

just hasn’t been identified and recognized yet.” One person who’s working on changing that is GLENN ANDRES, a Middlebury professor of the history of art and architecture who’ll speak at the symposium. He’s been working for the past 15 years on the Vermont volume of the Society of Architectural Historians’ Buildings of the United States series. One of the project’s challenges, Andres writes in an email, “was identifying significant buildings of the past 50 years (which do not appear in historic inventories because of their young age).” But, when he did begin to survey local modernist buildings, Andres became “painfully aware of [their] vulnerability.” So, where are Burlington’s modernist treasures? You’ll have to go on Saturday’s tour to learn their addresses, though Colman notes that “two were designed by [Vermont architect] MARCEL BEAUDIN” and another emulates the Frank Lloyd Wright style. While those are residences, Andres offers a list of some

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by a rope above the nest and its fragile occupants. Continuing with his script, Lantz proposes we see the rock as representing the young artist’s husband, an economics professor. Or maybe it’s the “hard and cold reality” of economics itself. As a woman’s hand appears and starts sawing at the rope with a knife, he suggests we imagine that “This is Ayn Rand.” That’s not a random allusion — the famous founder of Objectivism, who was known for championing the “hard and cold reality” of the marketplace, actually appears in Hide Fox. Played by local actress Ruth Wallman, long-dead Rand will pop up in the present-day story much as “theater takes historical figures ... and places them in current dramas,” says Lantz. He’s no fan of Rand’s ideas, he notes, but finds the Russian emigrée’s language and persona fascinating: “Every ounce of her being is severe.” Most locals know Lantz, 48, for his own theater work: His plays American Machine and The Bus both premiered at the FlynnSpace. But before he moved to

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Burlington to raise a family and teach at the Community College of VeRmont, Lantz worked in New York’s commercial film industry. “One dream I had never fulfilled was making a feature film,” he says. With his kids older, Lantz “felt the itch” to get back behind the camera. In the afternoon, VeRmont Symphony oRCheStRa cellist peteR Dunlop shows up at the FlynnSpace to record a solo for the promo; then cast members Wallman, CRaig maRaViCh and taRyn noelle join Lantz to make a collective plea for sponsorships. Most Kickstarter video pitches are nowhere near this elaborate, Lantz says, but he wanted to make “something polished and sharp.” Will the Rand rock smash the artistic eggs? Lantz isn’t sure when the promo will be ready to go live, but watch this space for news about the film — whose odd title, by the way, comes from a call once used to start games of hide-andseek. m

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Turning now to your wimpy civilian concerns, don’t sweat the Coriolis effect on your gas mileage. In Sacramento, the rotation of the Earth causes your car to drift about 16 feet to the right per mile. That may be an issue if you’re barreling down a narrow two-lane, but correcting for it costs you less than a hundredth of a mile per gallon.

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But let’s take it as a given that, one way or another, you can adjust for obvious environmental factors in the field — no doubt the best shooters do it instinctively. • Horizontal deflection caused by the Coriolis effect is more esoteric, but in theory is easy to adjust for, since it’s a function of your distance from the equator. When possible, any shooter, whether professional or amateur, makes a few test shots on arriving at a new location and tweaks his or her sights accordingly. Mostly this is to correct for maladjustments due to jostling in transit and such, but it also compensates for the Coriolis effect. • As we’ve seen, vertical deflection depends on,

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Took a while to get to the bottom of this. But, of course, we did. The article I’m guessing you saw, entitled “The Way of the Sniper,” appeared in Men’s Journal, November 30, 2009. Written by Rick Telander, it tells the story of Navy sniper Scott Tyler. Telander writes: “Each rifle a sniper uses has unique characteristics that are compounded by the ammunition and many, many exterior factors. There is wind. There is humidity. There is the spin of the Earth. There is even the fact that as a rifle is fired, its barrel heats up, the metal contracts, and the bullets are propelled faster.” Reading this, your columnist didn’t doubt the rotation of the Earth affects a bullet in flight. That’s because of the Coriolis effect, discussed here in the past: Any object moving horizontally on or near the Earth’s surface is deflected slightly off course due to the spinning of the planet beneath it. The Coriolis effect has a big effect on phenomena like hurricanes and other weather systems, a small effect on small

At 100 yards, typical of what a police sharpshooter might encounter, most environmental factors, including the Coriolis effect, are negligible. But military snipers generally are much farther away, typically 400 yards and up — the current world record for a confirmed kill in combat is 2430 meters, or roughly 1.5 miles. • At 1000 yards the Coriolis deflection is small but not necessarily trivial. Una computed that at the latitude of Sacramento, a bullet traveling 1000 yards would be deflected about three inches to the right. In addition, because gravity pulls the bullet down as it flies, you’d have to aim higher or lower depending on the degree to which you were facing east or west. If you were firing due east, you’d have to aim six inches lower, since the Earth is rotating toward you, meaning your target would be slightly closer by the time the bullet arrived. If you were firing due west, you’d have to aim six inches higher. • Amateur long-range shooters can improve their aim using laser rangefinders and scopes with bullet-drop compensators; they’ll also consult “cheat sheets” of bullet and rifle performance and their own log of prior results, called a DOPE (“data on personal equipment”) book. Military snipers may not always have access to such stuff in combat.

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Time to Pick the Daysies Again! Hard to believe this is our eighth annual best-of readers’ survey! Where does the time go? You’ll find a few new categories here along with most of the golden oldies. And, once again, we’ll be giving Daysie awards to winners inside and outside Chittenden County in those categories with enough votes to warrant it. We can’t change the fact that Chittenden is the most populous county — and thus has the most voters — but Seven Days’’ circulation area is still spreading, and we’d like to acknowledge “bests” all over the state. One big change since we did this last year: the size of the paper. Previously, we included blanks for your answers. This time, we’re really hoping you’ll use the online form, which you can access at www. sevendaysvt.com. This will save your pals at Seven Days from a laborious night of counting — though we did enjoy the pizza and beer part. If you don’t have access to a computer, feel free to write your numbered answers on a separate piece of paper, clip it to this ballot and send it to Seven Days, P.O. Box 1164, Burlington, VT 05402. Please write legibly and be explicit — if we can’t understand your answer, it won’t count. Have fun supporting your local besties, and look for the results in our special Daysies issue on August 4.

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are not representations but abstractions. They hardly look like destruction: Multicolored, voile-like, they are almost beautiful. If BP gleaned any lesson from the Exxon Valdez spill, it is that pictures of oil-drenched creatures and despoiled coastline move people to defend nature — and despise oil companies. That antipathy is here now. Eightythree percent of Americans disapprove of BP, according to another poll; the number dwarfs the hefty 52 percent who give President Obama failing grades. Almost half believe the company knowingly sidestepped the law before the blowup, for proﬁt’s sake. There is anger — and what else? Are volunteers streaming south? Are fundraising parties being organized? Or are we looking the other way? One friend, an active public citizen, says he is confused by his own relative numbness. He says he doesn’t travel south much; the spill feels far away. Another, a news junkie of the ﬁrst order, says she’s avoiding the story altogether. She wonders if she is secretly hoping the entire South will be swallowed in black goo. Until quite recently, the press has kept the story local. I think journalists are excited by the localness — the rough faces of the riggers and shrimpers whose mouths produce a weird gumbo of dialect; they relish the tang that is increasingly rare in a homogenized culture. Everyone jumped on BP’s Swedish-born chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, when he referred to the folks his company allegedly cares about using some inoffensive Swedish phrase that received an unfortunate translation: “the small people.” But, portraying the Gulf’s “vanishing lifestyle,” the media also give us its denizens as quaint, exotic — a small, faraway peasant culture, not of this century or even, maybe, of this nation. Those who speak for the Gulf’s residents aren’t doing much better to disabuse us of the impression of their littleness. Following Obama’s speech, a Louisiana parish president interviewed on National Public Radio stood up for the rights of the oil companies to make

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technology to solve all problems, including this one. “We are not well equipped to handle” accidents, Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson admitted in what might have been the most chilling moment of the congressional hearings. The only thing drillers can do, he averred, is try to prevent them. With all the hullabaloo about how much money BP can afford to shell out, we may find that no amount of riches will ever “make whole” the Gulf or the people, animals and plants that live there. I posed the Big Question to the oracle. “What if they can’t stop the spill?” I typed into Google. A few Yahoo. com threads came up. One respondent said, “The oil spill will most likely be cleaned,” but “worst case is it kills our oceans.” Another sage advised readers we’ll be OK if we stay on dry land. A more credible — and hence far more terrifying — scenario has been sketched in a post on the highly regarded oilpolicy website the Oil Drum. Although the writer, “dougr,” is not officially affiliated with the site — he’s a former Texas journalist — scientists and knowledgeable journalists have received his comments with cautious seriousness. The failures of BP’s efforts so far lead dougr to “one inescapable conclusion ... The well pipes below the seafloor are broken and leaking,” and the company and the government are covering it up. What dougr envisions is pressure being transferred from the ineffective “cap” to the “down hole” below the seafloor, “undermining the foundation of the seabed in and around the well area.” As the foundation erodes, the 450-ton “blowout preventer” will fall in, too, and this “will collapse the well.” After that, “it won’t be too long [before] the entire system fails,” leaving “a wide open gusher blowing out 150,000 barrels a day of raw oil or more.” And then? Dougr describes Armageddon this way: “the worst things you can think of.” Do we not feel enough because we cannot bear to think of the worst things? Because we cannot believe we have trusted technology too far — and it has finally let us down? Do we dare think that this is the way the world ends: not with a whimper but a whoosh? m

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a profit. What particularly irked her was the drilling moratorium. After all, she noted, it’s just one blowout among hundreds of rigs. She sounded like a battered wife defending her violent husband: “But, Your Honor, he only broke three ribs. He didn’t kill me. Please don’t lock him up!” Like the abused wife’s, the Gulf region’s loyalty is bred in long economic dependency, a habit of subservience epitomized last week by the spectacle of Texas Representative Joe Barton on his knees before BP CEO Tony Hayward. Later, other Republicans joined Barton in assailing the $20 billion escrow fund the president strong-armed the company into creating. Some characterized the basic principle of U.S. tort law — wrongdoer compensates victim — as a communist redistribution-ofwealth scheme. One can only hope the American people see who the party’s real pimps are. For his part, Barton turned out to be a cheap whore. Of nearly $1.5 million in oil and gas industry contributions he’s received in the last decade — making him the House’s biggest beneficiary of that industry’s largesse, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics — BP has chipped in an average of just $1350 a year. Polls last week showed more and more people believing the spill will affect their own lives. Bringing the crisis home may be the one accomplishment of Obama’s otherwise disappointing speech. But it’s unclear how people think it will affect them. The NPR interviewee reminded listeners they will be sorry if they can’t turn on their air conditioners. I scoffed. Then, the next evening, I suggested we drive from Hardwick to Montpelier to see a movie. My partner pointed out that America’s disengagement from the death of the Gulf is the expression of our 21st-century identities as consumers — drivers and air-conditioner users — not citizens of the U.S. or the planet. Could it be that to watch the oil pouring into the sea is to witness my own collusion in the catastrophe? Or maybe we — and by we I mean everyone from the Vietnamese immigrant tuna fisher to the New York Times editorial writers to the president of the United States — cannot fully feel the tragedy of the Gulf because we cannot countenance what we are witnessing. That is, the limited ability of

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run or roller-ski over asphalt and trails in between blasting bullets at a target. And now almost anyone can join the fray: A summer race series that has drawn about 25 participants for the past few years aims to introduce biathlon to beginners, too, with a novice clinic that runs for an hour before the actual competition. The race series is scheduled for Thursdays in July and August, but thanks to some twice-weekly training sessions in June, I’m here to try on the sport for size. The serene summer scene may look like part of a resort, but I later learn this place has serious cred: The Ethan Allen Firing Range, which has one of only three internationally licensed biathlon courses in the U.S., helped Vermont pioneer the sport in the ’70s. Membership in the Ethan Allen Biathlon Club, which includes access to rifles worth thousands of dollars, costs just $50 per year. The club uses the range as a guest of the National Guard. Joining me are fellow newbie biathletes Rayne Herzog of Shelburne Health & Fitness and personal trainer Charlene Adams, who reveals that she has some solid target-practice experience. Unlike Adams, I’ve held a gun about

three times in my life, but Madigan doesn’t seem concerned. He goes over the basics that he promises to any rifle rookie who shows up in July or August, demonstrating how to align the rifle’s sight with the targets — five 4.5-inch holes about 55 yards away. He also reminds us to point the gun either up in the air or down the range, not at each other or him, and to keep the bolt open when we’re not firing. Looking around at some of the male “masters” biathletes hitting target after target, I’m dubious about my marksmanship, but Madigan has some encouraging words for those of us wearing sports bras: “Women, if anything, are better than men,” he says, adding that 30 to 40 percent of the summer race entrants are female. “Overall, they have higher percentages of success.” After learning how to load the bullets into a clip and to squeeze the trigger (gently), I lie on my stomach on a black mat to try a practice round on the target station. In biathlon — summer and winter — athletes shoot either from this prone position (at even smaller targets, 1.8 inches in diameter) or from a standing position, at the 4.5-inch targets. Right now, I’m happy to be lying down;

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affeine, numerous studies have shown, enhances performance in endurance sports. And as a runner, I’ve come to depend on my morning cup (or three) before lacing up my sneaks. But on a Monday evening in Jericho, I’m grateful that even though I’m about to embark on a run, my last cup of java was hours ago. That’s because I’m holding a .22 caliber rifle. Loaded. With bullets that could definitely do some harm, according to John Madigan of the Ethan Allen Biathlon Club. “It’s lethal, but safe,” Madigan says, assuring me that his club hasn’t had any accidents in the dozen years he’s been there. “Well…” He pauses. “Maybe a little road rash from falling while racing.” Thanks to the Vancouver Olympics, and the recent Biathlon World Cup success of Lake Placid-area native Tim Burke, more Americans are getting fired up about biathlon — specifically, winter biathlon, wherein elite athletes alternate cross-country skiing and shooting. But here at the Ethan Allen Firing Range in Jericho, trigger-fingered fitness buffs train and compete all summer long. Instead of gliding over the snow, they

Biathlon trainees at the Ethan Allen Firing Range

the rifle feels surprisingly heavy, and the targets look distant and wobbly. But I steady myself and manage to shoot four of the five targets, hearing a satisfying thwap as a paddle flips up to cover each successfully shot target. After receiving a few high-fives from my fellow marksmen, I’m thinking, Not bad. That is, until I run. In the summer biathlon series, racers run a lap of about one mile, shoot, race another lap, shoot again and then race a final lap. If they miss a shot, they have to run a small penalty loop near the firing range. The whole thing is timed to produce a winner. My run through the woods is nearly as fun as the shooting, thanks to the bucolic setting at the 11,000-acre Camp Ethan Allen Training Site in the foothills of the Green Mountains. A gentle breeze rustles the trees, and the air holds the scent of pine, while the strains of “The Piña Colada Song” float from the biathlon club’s speaker. You’d never know we were on a U.S.-government-owned troop-training site. When I barrel into the target area, though, I’m a mess. The challenge of biathlon is calming yourself down enough to shoot straight while your pulse is racing wildly — the sport has been compared to threading a needle after sprinting up several flights of stairs. A heavy, lethal needle. Barely able to catch my breath, I lie down and position my rifle, but I can’t even find my targets, let alone shoot at them. “It’s not unusual in a race for somebody to shoot somebody else’s targets,” says Madigan. “But it’s not a good thing.” After finally sighting my targets, I shoot. And miss. And miss. And miss again, hitting only one of the five targets. Still, Madigan assures me this is very good for a beginner. My competitive spark becomes a flame when, after Adams mistakenly hits a flagpole, Herzog manages to shoot five out of five. We move on to the standing position, learning how to shoulder the rifle correctly and brace it with an elbow on a hip. Madigan explains that there’s a

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special technique to shooting well that is especially important in the evenmore-shaky standing position: Exhale about 60 to 70 percent, then bring the rifle down on the target and shoot while holding your breath for a fraction of a second. As Madigan points out, the biathlon is both a physical and mental exercise: “It’s a huge mental game to do this sport well,” he says. “You’re not allowed to react mentally to your hits or misses.” Having competed in dozens of road races, in which most miles are like the next, I’m ready for a sport that will train my brain as much my body. So I decide to run another loop before shooting from the standing position. Again, I appreciate the rigors of biathlon; though I’m in top shape, which should help me recover my breath quickly, I just can’t get the sight alignment right and not only miss five out of five but hear a disheartening “ping” as one of my bullets goes astray. “Don’t worry,” says Madigan with a laugh. “We can replace that light.” m

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usan Chinnock had no idea what was wrong with her daughter, Alice Levitt. Neither did the two dozen doctors who examined the Greenwich, Conn., youth over six years in the 1990s. Whatever it was, Chinnock knew it was serious, and awful. After she was diagnosed, it took another seven years and more than a million dollars of their own money before Levitt was “cured” of her ailment, chronic Lyme disease — a diagnosis many doctors say doesn’t exist and was all in her head. In a sense, they were right: Many of Levitt’s symptoms were neurological. They began at age 10, when she developed joint pains, headaches, dizziness, chronic fatigue and “brain fog,” which doctors initially diagnosed as fibromyalgia. By age 15, Levitt was so sick she was attending school less than two hours a day. Several physicians, including a well-respected Connecticut neurologist, recommended she see a psychiatrist. “I knew that that wasn’t what was wrong with Alice. She was loving school, not hating it,” Chinnock recalls. “She was having a wonderful life, until this got in the way.” At 16, Levitt remembers cooking herself dinner one night and working on a book report, then going to bed early. When she awoke the following morning, she couldn’t walk; her mother had to carry her into the doctor’s office. That was in April 1996. Over the next six months, four blood tests for Lyme all came back negative. Then Levitt went to see Dr. Bernard Raxlen, who looked at her and immediately said, “I’ll bet my medical license that that’s Lyme disease.” He knew that the tests for Lyme are notoriously unreliable. He’d originally become interested in tick-borne diseases while working as a psychiatrist; an unusually large number of patients came to him with chronic, and often severe, neurological ailments that couldn’t be diagnosed medically. And yet, few of the patients displayed psychiatric disorders. Raxlen ordered a Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) scan, a form of 3-D brain imaging, which revealed a severely reduced blood flow to Levitt’s brain.

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endured serious repercussions. “My doctor said it was the SPECT scan of a 92-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s,” recalls Levitt, who is now a food writer for Seven Days. Subsequent tests confirmed conclusively that she had indeed contracted Lyme. What followed were years of painful and often debilitating treatment, Levitt describes as “worse than chemo.” She and her mother moved to Vermont to get “above the Lyme line.” In 2003, Levitt’s doctor gave her a clean bill of health, though she still suffers from vague neurological problems when she’s stressed or run down. Levitt’s case is far from unusual. The disease was first identified in the 1970s among children around the southeastern Connecticut town of Lyme. Today, it’s the fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the U.S., and is more prevalent than West Nile virus, AIDS, and swine and avian flu combined. In Vermont, the number of confirmed cases rose from 26 in 1999 to 330 in 2008, according to the Vermont Department of Health. Though it occurs more frequently in the southern half of the state, health experts

warn that Lyme can be found in every Vermont county. Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans when they’re bitten by an infected deer tick. Acute symptoms, which can appear within three weeks of the bite, include fever, headaches, fatigue, and joint and muscle pains, as well as the classic “bull’s-eye” skin rash. If left untreated, Lyme can spread throughout the body, causing long-term or permanent damage to the heart, brain, joints and nervous system. The spirochete, or corkscrew-shaped bacterium, that causes Lyme is genetically similar to the one responsible for another infectious disease: syphilis. Like its sexually transmitted cousin, Lyme disease has been called “the great imitator,” because it’s often confused with other diseases, including Parkinson’s, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s and Alzheimer’s. Lyme-awareness advocates call it one of the most misunderstood and undiagnosed diseases of our time. It’s also one of the most controversial. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asserts that patients

who are treated with antibiotics in the early stages of infection “usually recover rapidly and completely,” though some “may have persistent or recurrent symptoms.” The CDC recommends a treatment of oral antibiotics lasting two to four weeks, as advised by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). However, neither the IDSA nor the CDC recognizes “chronic Lyme” as a legitimate medical diagnosis. As a result, many insurance companies won’t cover the cost of its treatment. And therein lies the rub. A powerful 2009 documentary, Under Our Skin, follows the lives of several long-term Lyme sufferers. Like Levitt, nearly all were told repeatedly by doctors that their debilitating conditions were psychosomatic. They were led to believe there was no long-term treatment for what ailed them. In fact, many of the doctors who’ve challenged the medical establishment’s stance on “chronic Lyme” — including Levitt’s physician, Raxlen, who’s featured in the film — have endured serious repercussions. Some were subjected to medical audits and lawsuits by insurance companies; others were called before their state medical boards and had their licenses suspended or revoked. This despite the fact that thousands of Lyme patients claim to have benefited greatly from long-term antibiotics. Under Our Skin also presents compelling evidence that the IDSA’s Lyme protocols were tainted due to the financial interests of the panel of doctors who wrote them. The film explores the chilling parallels among medicine, politics and money, beginning with the timing of Willy Burgdorfer’s discovery of the Lyme pathogen in 1982. That discovery occurred just two years after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case allowing companies to patent living organisms.

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well the challenges Lyme sufferers face when seeking care. “There are no other diseases I know of where the medical establishment says, ‘Oh, you can’t treat it that way. There’s only one way to do it,’” Elyse says. “There’s always more than one protocol.” Elyse’s first encounter with Lyme occurred in 2002 after she was bitten by a tick while picking berries in her yard. Her symptoms were typical: headaches, muscle twitches, vision problems and brain fog. She started on antibiotics within five weeks and got better. By the following January, however, her symptoms returned with a vengeance. By this point, doctors were calling it “postLyme syndrome” — often referred to today as MUS, or “medically unexplained symptoms.” Elyse was fortunate: She found a Lyme-literate doctor in New England who was willing to treat her aggressively with long-term antibiotics. Moreover, her insurance carrier, BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont, has never challenged her diagnosis or treatments. Nevertheless, Elyse doesn’t want to be identified for fear of professional repercussions. Dr. Erica Berl, an infectious-disease epidemiologist with the Vermont Department of Health, agrees with Lyme-awareness advocates that the disease is often misdiagnosed, a common occurrence when a disease is new to an area. Berl also acknowledges that blood tests for Lyme commonly generate false negatives and positives. Nevertheless, when it comes to treating chronic Lyme, she says, “We generally follow what the CDC says.” Berl recommends tick checks once a day for anyone who regularly recreates outdoors. It takes about 36 hours for an infection to develop, so if a tick is found, she recommends removing it promptly. Then, she says, watch for the telltale symptoms. Anyone who suspects they have Lyme should speak to a health care professional, who may prescribe antibiotics. For her part, Levitt has a message for anyone whose life has been dramatically altered by Lyme: With the right treatment, you can get better. Indeed, her dramatic recovery became a cause célèbre among chronic Lyme sufferers nationwide when it was reported in a 2004 article in Newsweek. That said, Levitt warns that recovery can be a very long haul. m

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As the film reveals, nine of the 14 panel members had direct conflicts of interest, and potentially stood to gain financially from research and patented vaccines for Lyme. In November 2006, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal launched an antitrust investigation of the IDSA’s protocols and found “serious flaws” in its Lyme disease guidelines. Blumenthal and the IDSA agreed to end that investigation in 2008 and conduct an independent review of those protocols. But the findings of that review, made public just two months ago, offered little comfort to Lyme-awareness advocates across the country. It determined that the IDSA’s 2006 Lyme guidelines were “medically and scientifically justified,” and kept them largely unchanged. “I’m appalled by that. It sickens me,” says Chinnock, who in recent years has lobbied the Vermont legislature to increase awareness of Lyme. By and large, the controversies that have swirled around the disease haven’t touched Vermont — yet. That said, none of the selfdescribed “Lyme-literate” medical professionals contacted for this story was willing to be identified in print. All expressed fear of enduring similar “witch hunts” from insurance companies and the Vermont Board of Medical Practice. Among them is “Cathy,” a Chittenden County physician. Cathy claims she sees about one new case of Lyme every other week, and about half of them present symptoms that have persisted for more than six months. Cathy is one of several doctors in the region willing to buck the CDC guidelines and use long-term antibiotic therapy — for years, if necessary — to combat the disease. Cathy says she can’t understand why treating chronic Lyme is so controversial. Doctors routinely prescribe longterm doses of the antibiotic doxycycline to 13-year-olds with acne and 80-yearolds with urinary-tract infections, and insurance companies “don’t bat an eye,” she notes. Yet, an identical course of antibiotics for Lyme can raise a red flag with insurance companies and state regulators. “Elyse” is a registered nurse in St. Albans. As both a health care provider and someone who contracted Lyme disease — twice — she understands all too

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y father knew it was coming. Alzheimer’s disease had been on his radar ever since his own father died of the mysterious malady. Witnessing the catastrophic deterioration of a man whose mind had been sharp enough to work for General MacArthur in prewar Manila, my frightened father, Beauregard Bercaw, decided to become a neurologist. Perhaps the practice, and pursuit, of medicine could stave off what he believed was a genetic inevitability. Beauregard’s fear reached epic proportions as he approached middle age, and he began to experiment on himself with supplements. By the time he was 60 — which was 12 years ago and before dietary supplements were so commonplace — my father was taking 78 tablets a day. He tracked down anything that offered even the slightest possibility of saving brain cells and killing free radicals: omega-3, omega-6 and omega-9

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fatty acids; vitamins E and C; ginkgo biloba, rosemary and sage; folic acid; flax seed; and many substances I had never heard of. He drank nothing but green tea, swore off sugar and even stopped using shampoos that contained sodium lauryl sulfate, which he called “toxic.” Beau spent hours a day doing math. Even when I was visiting the home he shared with my stepmother in Naples, Fla., he’d sit silently on his leather recliner with a calculator in his hand to verify the accuracy of the long math he factored by memory. What are you saving your mind for, Dad? I often wondered. I’m here now, waiting to talk with you. But my father wasn’t interested in idle chatter. His prime pursuit was the solitary game of problem solving. Medicine and math had solutions; they just had to be found. The answer to Alzheimer’s was somewhere in his head … or so he thought. On one of the occasions when I was visiting and he was doing equations, Beauregard looked up and stared at me.

“Promise me something, gal,” he said, using the same voice he would to address the Southern Clinical Neurological Society, an organization he founded and presided over for years. “Anything,” I answered my father, who had once mortgaged our house to buy the first MRI machine in our town. He later filed an antitrust lawsuit against the hospital where he worked when the administration decided radiologists had the right to interpret test results instead of neurologists. My father lost that battle but gained the respect of his colleagues — even the radiologists — for his scientific passion. “Swear on your grandmother’s Bible that you will put a gun to my head if I wind up like my father.” He was dead serious. How do you answer a man who watched his own father wipe feces on the walls of their Virginia farmhouse? A man who couldn’t tolerate seeing his loving mother bear the caregiving burden alone and sent his father to a respite home, where he died a short

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time later? A father who blamed himself for his own father’s death and was now asking me to kill him if the disease repeated itself despite his best mathematical and pharmaceutical efforts? “Swear to me,” he said again. My father taught me to shoot on the farm where he grew up. He collected guns and kept them under lock and key. Everything was in place to make his wish a reality. I put my hand on the aging, leatherbound King James Bible that had belonged to my great-grandmother Nannie Dunlap and my grandmother Nancy Scott. “I swear,” I said, promising only because I knew it would bring him comfort. “Good,” he answered, then set down the Bible and picked up a sudoku puzzle book. “Want some pomegranate juice?” A few years later, my father and his wife, Nora, came to Vermont for a visit. Beau lugged a wheeled suitcase full of

supplements into my house. He stayed up late the first night parceling out his pills for the week into Dixie cups: one heaping cup of supplements to be served with every meal. “Gal, you should be taking these, too,” he declared one morning. “Why?” I asked. “Because you are my genetic clone.” When I was very young, people would say, “You look just like your father.” To which I would always respond, “But I’m a little girl!” Our physical resemblance and similar character traits are uncanny. We are a pair of tall, big-lipped, blue-eyed, loosejointed, freckle-skinned, must-napin-the-afternoon, angst-ridden, globetrotting Bercaws. Except for XX and XY

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I fed him. I gave him the pills. I cleaned up his “accidents.” I let him eat Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches. COMPLETE (I temporarily lost him in the grocery SANDBOX store when he struck out on his own to SET-UP find them.) I watched FOX News with AVAILABLE: him. (That one hurt). I napped when he Delivered, napped. I took him on daily visits to see Set-up & Filled his wife at the hospital, and stopped him Also: Ask About with Play Sand from calling her every five minutes from Our Raised Cedar home. I got the newspapers before he Garden Beds! woke up so he wouldn’t wander outside Cedar Goods alone. I wondered what happened to the calculator that had always been by cedargoods.com his chair. Long math was long gone. The (802) 355-0323 remote control was his device du jour. While Beau watched a baseball game one afternoon, I walked into his den and 12v-cedargoods060910.indd 1 6/7/10 1:07:47 PM eyed the wall of supplements he used to Healthy volunteers take — bookcase after bookcase of pills needed for a with names like “Memoral” and “Sharp UVM Research Study Mind,” along with the standard vitamins and minerals. They were now on effects of commonly brutal reminders of how valused medications. iantly he had fought to stave off this disease. It seemed symbolic that they were all past their expiration dates. This study is being I rested my hand on the gun conducted to learn about cabinet on my way out. Not how individual differences gonna need any of you, either. in demographic and Several mornings during my biological factors may caretaking time with him, I eninﬂuence the effects of listed Beau to walk to the local commonly-used medications coffee shop. The only thing he’d say on these walks was on mood and medication “The hibisci are in full bloom.” preference. Every time he said it — there were dozens — I ruminated on Participation involves: whether the plural of hibiscus Brief (20-min) visits is, in fact, hibisci. I felt better 3-4 times/week thinking about innocuous for about 7 weeks things than the gravity of the situation. On my final day in Naples, we took one last walk together. Beau didn’t Taking capsules mention the hibisci, though they were at each visit still blooming. I noticed his gait was off, and for a second I thought he might be Completing questionnaires having a stroke. at and following each visit “Are you OK, Dad? You’re walking funny.” “I’m just trying not to step on the Compensation cracks,” he said, perfectly seriously. of up to $1,050 I giggled. Dear God, he thinks he’s a boy again! Call 656-8887 He seemed especially distant that morning. Maybe he was back on the farm, or walking the halls of the University of Virginia. Wherever he was, he seemed happy there. But as we passed a particularly flourishing hibiscus tree, my father looked at me. That look. The one that means something big is coming. coURTEsy nAncy sTEARns bERcAw

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few weeks ago, after spending six months in Singapore with my son and husband, I went to Naples to help Beau while Nora had surgery. For the entire first day I was there, my father hugged me every time he saw me come around a corner. “Gal, it’s so good to see you,” he’d say. These hugs were long, drawn-out embraces, quite unlike the sideways, onearmed versions he used to give.

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chromosomes, nearly everything about us was a perfect match. I wondered about the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene found on chromosome 19, which can indicate a predisposing genetic risk factor. Which one did I get from my father? Everyone inherits a copy of some form of APOE from each parent. APOE e2 is relatively rare and may even provide some protection against the disease. APOE e3 is the most common and appears to play a neutral role in Alzheimer’s disease. “Those who inherit one copy of APOE e4 have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s,” explains the Vermont Alzheimer’s Association website. “Those who inherit two copies have an even higher risk, but not a certainty. Scientists do not yet know how APOE e4 raises risk. In addition to raising risk, APOE e4 may tend to make symptoms appear at a younger age than usual.” I was only 34 when my father and Nora came to visit that summer. I didn’t want to be consumed by worry, as he had been all his adult life. What I wanted was to take them to the Shelburne Museum to show them a quilt exhibit and the famed Round Barn. I wanted us to stroll the grounds as if we didn’t have a care in the world. Couldn’t I think about Alzheimer’s later, maybe a decade or two down the road? Nope. We did enjoy a beautiful day at the museum. Beau was fascinated by the Round Barn. “I never saw one like this in Virginia,” I recall him saying. I later sent him a Warren Kimble print to remember it by. In exchange, my father sent me the very expensive APOE genetic test kit and instructed me to have the blood drawn at my physician’s office, but to have the results sent directly to him. Turns out that I carry the APOE e3 gene — the neutral one, which means I may or may not get Alzheimer’s. My father is an APOE e3 carrier, too. But now Beauregard has full-blown Alzheimer’s. A year ago, he had a CT scan that showed “brain atrophy consistent with the disease.” He looked at the film himself as he was wheeled out of the room — before the radiologists even had

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Barn itself is the perfect metaphor for a disease that makes the mind spiral. The Shelburne Museum has put its own imprint on the exhibit by partnering with Vermont Public Radio and the national StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative to share oral stories from local Vermonters who are living with the disease, and their caretakers. I listen to one, and it’s like I’m inside my father’s head. “I hope I can keep myself the way I am,” says 79-year-old Robert Ferm to his wife, Sonja Olsen. I hang up the phone at the listening station, and my hand is drenched with sweat. Fortunately, the museum has tissues placed throughout the exhibit. The tapestries seem to tell my story, too — a patchwork that brings people together as things fall apart. In “Fading Memories,” by Virginian quilter Linda Cooper, washed-out daylilies represent “the fading reality that Alzheimer’s brings.” On the borders, she’s quilted sections of “normal neurons with occasional damaged nerves with the beaded amyloid plaques, seen in the disease pathology.” The accompanying text explains how those sticky plaques clump together, build up between nerve cells and “block cell-tocell signaling at synapses.” “The Crooked Path” by Diane Petersmarck from Illinois depicts her father’s winding, narrowing road to another world. Despite his shrinking reality, she feels “a tiny glimmer of joy” on those rare occasions “when he comes back to us.” Like when she was sitting on her father’s bed telling him she loved him. “I love you, too, Diane,” he said out of the blue, hugging her. One quilt in particular rips my heart to pieces. “What If I Can’t Remember…” by Susan Gourley from Indiana features a mass of unclear, ﬂoating and fading images representing memories (as well as her mother and aunt). Around the edges, Gourley has written questions mothers might ask when faced with the possibility of forgetting their own children. The last lines are “What if I never again have the chance to remember who I was and who you were to me? What if I cannot remember that I loved you?” I head over to the “Wish Wall,” where visitors can leave a message for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease. I pick up a piece of colored paper. Hibisci pink. And I scribble a message to Beauregard Lee Bercaw. I will never forget you. 

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We drive a few minutes and turn left onto an unmarked gravel farm road. There, beside a lagoon of chicken manure, we park and proceed through a cornfield, then down a mowed path, these either muddy or teeming with ticks. Suddenly the dark, placid waters of the Connecticut River appear beneath us, and we scramble down to a niche carved from a small cove. There’s a 6-by-6-foot dock in the river and two boat racks holding three “shells,” which is the technical term for a sculling boat. “Welcome to our boathouse!” Paul says. The sport of sculling was invented at Eton College in the late 18th century. It took hold in the United States in the mid-1800s, first in Detroit and then along the East Coast at schools such as Yale and Harvard. The boats, which have sliding seats and oars that fit onto outrigged oarlocks, hold one to eight rowers. Initially made of wood, today they’re constructed from Kevlar and carbon fiber, which allow a 27-foot craft to weigh just 30 pounds. The competitive rowing season in the East begins in the spring with sprint-distance races, in which boats cover 1000 or 2000 meters in a single heat. The fall brings “head” races, such as the Green Mountain Head in Putney, which usually don’t exceed 5000 meters. During the winter, if it’s too cold to row outside, scullers log training hours on erg machines — one is the Concept2,

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and partly because he loved Vermont. The girl left him six months later, but Paul stayed in Vermont. He found work in Brattleboro and, in 1988, opened a law practice with his wife in St. Johnsbury. He’s now divorced and calls himself Caledonia County’s most eligible bachelor. In the late 1990s, Paul got the itch to row again. He started accessing the Connecticut River from a public boat launch and rowing on the seven-mile section between the Moore Reservoir and the Comerford Dam — part of TransCanada’s 15 Mile Falls hydroelectric generating facility. As he rowed along, Paul noticed a sheltered cove abutting a cornfield and thought it would be a good place to keep his boat. He approached the dairy farmer who owned the land, offering to draw up a lease and get insurance. But the farmer just said, “Well, I reckon it won’t harm nothing. Why don’t you just go ahead?” Paul recalls. Since then, he and two other rowers — fellow lawyers David Sleigh and Greg Clayton — have had their own boat launch on one of the best pieces of water imaginable. It’s straight, usually sheltered from the wind, and mostly devoid of traffic. In fact, Paul’s training ground is so good that he wanted to share it with other rowers. In May 2001, while attending a weeklong, black-fly-infested camp at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center, he got to know some fellows from Maine. “I said, ‘Look, guys, you’ve got to come and row where I row; it’s beautiful,’” he says. To get his new friends on the river, Paul announced that the first Black Fly Regatta would take place in mid-June. Seven people showed up on race day under less-than-ideal conditions: rain, wind and whitecaps. They all lined up, Paul nodded to the starter holding a shotgun, the blast went off, and the competitors rowed 6000 meters into a 20-mile-per-hour headwind. These days, the race — it takes place this Saturday, June 26 — has upward of 70 boats. There’s still a mass start, but the weather is usually better. Unlike most rowing competitions, the Black Fly has few buoys and fewer rules. The only one enforced is that a charge of unsportsmanlike conduct results in loss of port-o-potty privileges. When Paul and I reach the water’s

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Going the Distance Long-haul cyclists pedal out a new niche in Vermont B Y L AU RE N O BE R CHRISTOPHER MCCOWN

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very four years, thousands of amateur cyclists log countless miles to qualify for Paris-BrestParis, the highlight of the longdistance cycling calendar. The event is a 1200-kilometer ride, not a race, that takes participants from the French capital to the westernmost tip of the country and back. That’s nearly 750 miles. Riders have 90 hours to finish this circuit, and few sleep more than 20 minutes here and there. It’s like biking from Burlington to Kalamazoo, Mich., in three days. Talk about saddle sores. To qualify for PBP, riders have to complete what is known as a brevet series, consisting of 200-, 300-, 400- and 600-kilometer rides in ascending order. This year, for the first time, people who belong to this gritty, rare breed of cyclist — known as randonneurs — can complete part of their brevet series in Vermont. The Vermont Brevet Series, organized by Burlington cyclist Mike Beganyi, will pit riders against the state’s beautiful — but often unforgiving — hilly terrain in four rides of different distances. The first brevet (pronounced “breh-vay”) was a 100-kilometer “Café Cruise” on June 13 that attracted cyclists from all over the region, including a couple from New Hampshire on a tandem bike and

two riders from New York City. Some were on a quest to qualify for PBP, while others just came for the pleasure of finishing a long ride. In randonneuring, all are welcome, and ability is relative. The sport is not about speed or skill; it’s about the joy that comes from riding a bike. A brevet works like this: Riders follow a cue sheet with directions to various checkpoints. At each, they get a card stamped. The checkpoints are only open for speciﬁc intervals, which means riders can’t arrive too early or too late. This timed system ensures riders don’t cheat, and helps maintain the sport’s amateur bent. A brevet is supposed to be a friendly ride where riders are competing more against themselves than each other. The sport has roots in the particularly French style of riding in which cyclists go out on their bikes for hours, touring the countryside and challenging themselves with steep mountain passes and long ﬂat stretches. In the early 1900s, randonneuring took off as an alternative to racing for many cycling enthusiasts. These were people who wanted a mental challenge as well as a physical one. For most road cyclists, a 50-mile ride is plenty. You burn calories, sweat off pounds and get stronger with each

ride. But randonneurs strive to reach a goal that involves sitting in the saddle and turning the pedals for 24 hours at a stretch. Beganyi says he appreciates that the sport is about human determination and camaraderie. He’s one of a growing number of cyclists who wanted to ride long distances but wasn’t interested in road racing’s shiny Spandex and sharp elbows. So he turned his sights to randonneuring. “I’m hooked on rides longer than 50 miles,” he says. A timber framer by trade, Beganyi, 36, began cycling in his youth and was always in reasonably good shape, he says. But by the time he reached graduate school, he weighed 250 pounds and felt miserable. When he ﬁnally got back on the bike, he recalls, the pounds melted off. Gradually, he increased his distances until 70 miles was a breeze. When he moved to Vermont in 2005, Beganyi discovered the state’s longdistance bike scene still in its infancy, with no organized rides. So he participated in brevets organized by New England Randonneurs in Massachusetts, where the culture is much more developed. Beganyi’s ﬁrst “real challenge” was a 300-kilometer ride from Boston through Western Massachusetts and Connecticut to Rhode Island and back.

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accomplish to finish these epic rides are often the hardest part of the sport. Since Shank spends every bit of his free time on his bike, being fit enough isn’t what concerns him; it’s his head he has to worry about. “I still struggle with the mental side of it,” Shank says. “The longer distances are much more a mental challenge than a physical challenge.” When you’re sitting on a slender bike saddle for 10, 12, 14 hours, there’s not much to do but turn the pedals and think. The only thing preventing you from stopping is your will to press on. Beganyi uses the time in the saddle to solve work problems or mull over political positions in his mind. And he tries to get into a zone. “It’s sort of like a meditation for me,” he says. “The meditative aspects are similar to Zen.” The mental side of the sport was one of the hardest for Anthony Mennona to master. The 33-year-old Montpelier resident is a year-round bike commuter and had completed many century, or 100-mile, rides before he tried randonneuring. But adapting to days on the saddle was tough. “It’s mostly mental,” he says. Mennona, who works at the Biomass Energy Resource Center, rode his first brevet series in 2006 and qualified for Boston-Montréal-Boston. Since then, he’s ridden in brevets all over the Northeast. He says he’s looking forward to the Vermont brevets, not only because they’ll put him one step closer to his goal of qualifying for PBP but because they’re different. “I’m always up for new challenges,” he says. At the heart of randonneuring is a love of the bicycle. All three men rhapsodize about the adventure of cycling great distances, and marvel at the ground they can cover in a day on a bike. Brevet riding leads to an appreciation of the countryside, they reason, as well as the act of cycling itself. “It’s like traditional country biking,” Shank says. “It’s a real return to just having fun on your bike.” m

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tephen Goldberg’s new play, Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee, takes place in the wee, small hours of the morning in the living room of Sandra and Harry Kline. In the first scene, a booze-addled Sandra asks her husband, who’s attempting to read on the couch, about a strange sound coming from another room (offstage). He retorts that it’s probably the ice machine trying to keep up with her. The clever comeback helps set the tone for a play that’s propelled by a relentless stream of barbs and counterbarbs. Theatergoers familiar with Goldberg’s voice — honed in writing some 23 original plays to date — will readily connect the remark with the playwright’s persistent concern with humanity’s dark moods and machinations. And they won’t be the least bit surprised by the rough edges in his latest work, a 70-minute one-act running at Burlington’s new Off Center for the Dramatic Arts — the first full run of a play in the space. While credit for the play’s basic structure must go to Edward Albee and his 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (and its 1966 film adaptation), the crookedly comic heart of Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee is pure Goldberg. As such, the work is not meant as a parody of Albee’s modern classic. But there are clear parallels and references that keep the earlier play in mind. Familiarity with Albee’s original may enhance the experience of seeing Goldberg’s variation, but is not a prerequisite to being both amused and agitated by the latter. These two states of mind sum up the overall effect of the play as well as the characters’ effect on one another. From the opening beat, Sandra (Monica Callan) and Harry (Rob Donaldson)

banter with put-downs that, though toxic at times, somehow fail to get much of a rise out of either. The game, it seems, is to probe for the other’s weak spot. She’s a sophisticate, the daughter of moviemakers, and her best jabs strike at her husband’s humbler origins — in particular his father, a teacher in Chicago public schools. Harry’s current work, as a hack screenwriting professor with a PhD in literature, also leaves him open for more direct abuse. Harry’s best shots at Sandra hit her in the ego, ridiculing her strenuous efforts to appear sexually desirable well past her prime. Sandra and Harry’s general quarreling soon latches on to a more specific matter — the imminent visit by one of Harry’s screenwriting students, Daisy, and her husband, George. While the young couple has been attending a film screening of The Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film, Harry has been reading George’s screenplay and preparing feedback. As Harry complains to Sandra about what dreck the young man has written, she complains that Harry isn’t putting any thought into bedding down Daisy. What follows, upon Daisy and George’s arrival, is predictable enough: an effort on both Sandra’s and Harry’s parts to seduce George and Daisy, respectively. This plot might be compelling if there were something at stake for the characters. In this dysfunctional parlor drama, however, it’s only George, played by

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light — that is, humorous — moments. Goldberg’s cast members are at their best when he mines their respective characters’ flaws for laughs. Sandra would be tedious were it not for Callan’s keen sense of her character’s deepseated need for male sexual attention. She manages to play outrageous and pathetic in the same gesture. Her biggest laugh is a repetitive reminder to Daisy that Harry isn’t a real doctor. (A few flubbed lines on opening night drew unintended titters.) Donaldson, too, shines most brightly when going for comical over cool, such as in his explosive reaction to his guests’ ignorance of the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Of course, they’ve seen the movie. Comic situations are hit and miss here, though; some generate raunchy chuckles, while others tug the play jarringly into the absurd. Right up to the play’s final moment, Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee shows an unflinching disregard for the tight storylines and unified tone of much mainstream theater. If this is sometimes a strength for playwright Goldberg, it’s also this play’s chief weakness. There may be poetry here, but it’s less likely to be found in lines of dialogue (surely not in Sandra’s request to George, “Look at me with the eye of a sausage”) than in Goldberg’s prolific output and uniquely jaundiced vision. m

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David C. Symons, who struggles against the inevitable descent into depravity. Of the four characters, his seems to have been drawn with the most nuance, and Symons plays it square, naïve and malleable without going too broad. Genevra MacPhail’s Daisy, in contrast, arrives half in the bag from the postscreening reception, and continues to drink excessively. As a result, she is never able to evoke any depth, particularly in her efforts to not be taken advantage of, that might have elicited viewers’ sympathy. Not that the prospect of being seduced causes her much concern. For Sandra and Harry, all of this is just a twisted game. They display so little credible humanity that it’s hard to feel either loathing or sympathy — or anything else — for them. The plot of Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee is as loose as its characters, and that is what makes it agitating at times. It’s also a hallmark of Goldberg’s style. His fans — and they include some veteran local actors — praise his plays’ “improvisational” feel. When this works, the result is a provocative wallowing in untidy truths of the human condition, often embodied by hookers, murderers and other lowlifes. Maybe because the characters in Edward Albee are somewhat refined, all that heat on stage fails to produce much light — at least not in the sense of illumination. The play does, however, have its

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alking the aisles of Price Chopper, I felt as if I were being led to Old Sparky. The chain around my ankles? I’d pledged to go a week with no meat. I was the one who’d suggested the assignment in jest, but food editor Suzanne Podhaizer held me to it. Now people told me I was being a wimp. Suzanne said I was being “petulant.” I admit that was an understatement, but no one realized: I am made out of meat, and without it I will die. Think I’m being melodramatic? I’m the girl who, at age 5, asked her father to slaughter her favorite pet chicken, then asked to play with the head. I missed Billina from time to time, but the worst part was that my mom cooked her in the microwave. All that free-range bird went to waste! True, I didn’t grow up in a family that believed an animal must die every time someone was hungry. My mother has been a vegetarian for most of my life. I wasn’t allowed to eat meat on the bone or a steak below well done until I started cooking for myself. My brother eats a veggie burger (no bun), a head of broccoli, one tablespoon of tomato sauce and several of our grandma’s cookies every single day. He recently compared eating at a restaurant where meat has been prepared to sleeping in a hotel bed. That’s no idle comparison, since he shuns the latter for fear of infection. I kept my brother’s gustatory asceticism in mind when shopping for the week’s provisions. Having gone shopping with him before, I knew to avoid products that contained rennet or gelatin, which entail slaughter. I purchased tofu and tempeh, hoping I’d be able to do something with them. Then I cried a little. OK, a lot. I prepared my final meaty meal the way Mozart would have prepared his Requiem if he’d meant it as a requiem for himself. I spooned fiendishly tender beef short ribs, purchased from a Korean market in Montréal and braised in red wine, over herbed risotto with collard greens. I reasoned that I needed something rich to tide me over for the next seven days. Lunch on Monday was a no-brainer. I am addicted to Kitchens of India frozen meals. My workweek is not complete without the pindi chana, palak paneer and naan. I started this one by trying a variety I hadn’t seen before. Half the meal consisted of a chickpea curry; the other half

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was an adorable pile of potato cakes called aloo tikki that resembled chicken nuggets. Maybe this routine won’t be so bad, I thought. I changed my mind at dinner. I’d hoped to replicate the toothsome fattiness of meat with a dish I dubbed “eggplant saganaki.” Too cheap to spring for haloumi cheese, I sandwiched fresh mozzarella between fried slices of eggplant, then broiled liberal chunks of cheese on top, too. For a taste of the lemon that is used to extinguish the flaming cheese in the Greek dish, I prepared a lemon-mint sauce. It was tasty.

An hour after dinner, though, my boyfriend, James, who’d bravely decided to embark on the challenge with me, proposed we go to Friendly’s. We were hungry enough to require a five-scoop Reese’s sundae (for him) and a molten chocolate cake with mint-chocolate-chip ice cream (for me). For our Tuesday dinner, we decided to try what many vegetarians I know consider the greatest challenge: dining out. We chose Our House in Winooski for its several appealing meat-free choices, which we’d noticed on our visit the previous

week. We hopped in the car, judging ourselves too iron deficient to walk the four blocks from our home, and arrived at the restaurant. It oozed a meaty smell, even without the rotisserie running. We sat down, and the manager told us not to miss the filet mignon special that evening. A lump swelled in my throat. That reaction was premature. The butternut-squash ravioli was delightfully al dente, covered in a garlic cream sauce so rich and tangy I barely missed the meat. Until, of course, some bacon-cheddar bread pudding whizzed past me. Fries that came with James’ grilled cheese and herby tomato soup helped feed my fat jones. So did my second molten chocolate cake in as many days. On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of trying the tofu curry sandwich at August First. The chewy bean curd had just the right amount of spice mix and was sweetened with cranberries. My only quibble was the price tag. Paying $8.50, versus $6.50 for my standby Bistro Turkey sandwich, I felt like I was being penalized for going veggie. Pretending to be principled is expensive. The housemade veggie burger I tried that night at a popular Burlington restaurant and bar was not nearly so satisfying. It was made from essentially the same ingredients as falafel — chickpeas, onions and garlic — only raw. And oozing like a runny egg. On the way home, I had to work overtime not to throw up. As I tried to sleep that night, I felt as if I were growing caviar in my gut, millions of tiny bubbles lining my lower intestines. They stayed with me the rest of the week. James, too, said his digestive system felt somehow different, as if he were always hungry and slightly unsettled. I needed to take matters into my own hands. I love paneer so much, why not make my own? It turns out making cheese at home is shockingly simple (see sidebar). The Indian delicacy serves as a protein substitute for millions of vegetarian Hindus. I made muttar paneer, green peas in lightly tomatoey sauce with lots of garam masala and paneer. The only problem was that I loved my handiwork so much, I regretted eating it. The next night, I sampled the artificial antithesis of my wholesome paneer. Quorn is a substance synthesized in a European

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Goldstein’s wife, JaCkIE rosE, is secretary of the Addison County Humane Society. It’s no surprise, then, that the duo’s new Middlebury restaurant, overlooking Otter Creek in the space formerly occupied by Tully & Marie’s, has a dog theme. The Cornwall residents and neighbors went so far as to name JaCkson’s on thE rIvEr for Goldstein’s English springer spaniel. “We’re going for an upscale and whimsical, dogthemed vibe,” says English.

providing choices for vegetarians. “Options in Middlebury are few and far between,” he notes. With that in mind, the friends designed a menu with ample meat- and gluten-free options. Much of the food is local, too: Jackson’s is already a member of the vErMont FrEsh nEtwork. Even an avowed meat eater might be enticed by the black-bean-and-sweet-potato burrito, topped with tropical fruit chutney and mole rojo. Other options include vegetable fajitas, pad Thai with tofu and a duo of poblano peppers — one filled with a savory stuffing, the other with goat cheese and toasted pine nuts. Now, that’s something worth begging for. — A. L.

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olDE EnglanD InnE, just up the Mountain Road from Harrison’s. Somerset was part of the opening team at solstICE at stowE MountaIn loDgE, where he eventually served as sous-chef. According to Mr. Pickwick’s owner ChrIs FranCIs, Somerset has already made a strong imprint on the aesthetic of the restaurant. “His philosophy is to use as many Vermont products as we can and support sustainable agriculture,” says Francis. Somerset left bangers and mash, and four other British classics on the menu, but updated the rest to include more seasonal options — think roasted MIsty knoll FarMs chicken with pork-bellystudded cabbage, cranberry quinoa and honey jus; or duck breast and leg confit with brown-butter gnocchi and roasted beets. Somerset’s plan also includes a new emphasis on Vermont beef. The inn now offers steak frites, and filet mignon from vErMont hIghlanD CattlE CoMPany. Francis says he and Somerset

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There’s a pinch of whimsy on the menu, too. English describes the fare at Jackson’s as “today’s comfort food.” That means home-style American fare with global flair. “Meat lover’s” baked macaroni mixes chorizo and bacon into pasta slathered with four cheeses. Asian tuna salad features sesame-crusted ahi on a bed of bok choy, Napa cabbage, carrots and scallions. Jackson’s is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week, and for Sunday brunch. An a.m. “create-a-frittata” option allows diners to choose up to three add-ins or “the kitchen sink” — eggs crammed with as many of 11 meats, veggies and cheeses as they want. Can’t decide between sweet and savory? Try a cheese crêpe soufflé topped with strawberry sauce. Goldstein, formerly CIty MarkEt’s prepared-foods manager, serves as Jackson’s chef while English manages front-of-house duties. English says one major consideration in their menu planning was

As summer brings bikers and hikers to replace skiers and riders in Stowe, two restaurants have made some more permanent swaps of their own. After a brief stint at harrIson’s rEstaurant & Bar on Main Street, Curtis “Bear” Hillard has returned to his previous post at the Greenville Inn in Maine. The chef, who once assisted his mentor, Hartmut Handke, at the Bocuse d’Or World Cuisine Contest, helped take the menu at Harrison’s beyond basic steak and seafood. “Chef Bear” left Harrison’s on short notice, but co-owner anDrEw knEalE says he’s found a worthy replacement in CasEy ChrIstEnsEn. For the past six and a half years, the New Hampshire native, a Johnson & Wales University alum, cooked at top restaurants in Aspen, Colo. Christensen is fresh from heading the kitchen at Piñons Restaurant in that city. He plans on updating the menu that Hillard left behind, but after less than a month in Vermont, he admits, “I’m just sort of getting my feet wet.”

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Middlebury by College 4 bedrooms,6/22/10 moveFSBO-SueBrassard061610.indd in8:12:00 AM 1 condition! All wood, natural stone tile, and slate flooring! Price newly reduced. $219,000. 1604 Quarry Road, New Haven. Contact: Valerie or Al at 802-877-6505. sites. google.com/site/ homeforsaleinver mont1/

NICE BRISTOL COUNTRY HOME W/ lg. garage. Easy Burlington or Middlebury commute. Possible reduced rent to handy-person in exchange for remodeling. $1500/mo. w/ good refs. 482-3088. NICE APTS. FOR RENT 1- & 2-BRs avail. in Hardwick. Affordable rents start at $500/mo. incl. heat, HW, water/ sewer, trash removal. 802-899-3400 for more info & application. Equal Opportunity/Fair Housing. PRIVACY W/ TREES Small 2+1 convenient to campuses, yet set apart. 1-y.o. carpet, good condition, no one above or below, no stairs. Avail. July 1. BHA approved. 520-2478287. QUIET 1-BR APT. $980/mo. incl. utils. & cable. Off-street parking for winter, close to bus lines & laundromat. Avail. July 1. 802-655-5803.

W/D, great deck. Now; 1 SHELBURNE 1-BR APT. year. $1500/mo. dogs. 6/21/10 FSBO-williamhart062310.indd 2:21:21 PM 1 Country setting, 2nd 802-846-9568; www. floor, covered parking, HickokandBoardman. W/D hookups, no DW, com. new vinyl flooring. $1150/mo. incl. heat, electric, trash/recycle, private beach access. No dogs. 802-985-9218.

Private, sunny, 6/14/10FSBO-Twick061610.indd 1:21:57 PM 1 renovated, 3-BR, 1½-BA, 1,400sqft home edge of campus. Vaulted screened-in porch, sky lights, new windows,hardwood floors, mudroom, zoned heating, new insulation, garage, 1/4 acre. $289,000. 802-989-2048.

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Offering owner-carry financing with $10K down on beautiful newer colonial style home in Milton. 3-BR, 2.5-BA in great neighborhood. Lease/option also available. No credit needed! 802-310-8927.

Beautiful end-unit, 3/8/10FSBO-PaulJenne033110.indd 2:48:44 PM 1 2-BR/1.5-BA condo in desirable, quiet S. Burlington neighborhood. 1st floor eatin kitchen, dining room w/ lg. window, wood fireplace, 1/2 BA and high ceiling study/den w/ skylight. 2 lg. bedrooms upstairs + bonus room w/ skylight, BA w/ lg. jetted tub & a master dressoPen ing room. $222,500. Shiv, hoUse June 27, 802-864-7991, shivks72@ noon-4PM hotmail.com.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On June 4, 2010, Rathe Salvage, Inc., filed application #4C0839-2 for a Project generally described as: the creation of a five lot subdivision and construction of a 4,500 sf. office and storage building with no new employees on Lot #3. The Project is located on Rathe Road 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.

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No hearing will be held unless, on or before July 6, 2010, 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 6, 2010.

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 7th day of June, 2010. By /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On June 4, 2010, RG Octagon LLC and David Villeneuve, filed application #4C0427-5 for a Project generally described as: the creation of Lot #4, construction of a 23,400 sf. one-story building on lot for uses to include a RehabGym, tenant office space and fitness center and a boundary line adjustment with Lot #1. The Project is located on River Road in the Town of Jericho, 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 Jericho Municipal Office, Chittenden County

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PIANO-TUNING SERVICE Justin Rose, 802652-0730, www. justinrosepianotuning. com.

SUMMER DRUM LESSONS Burlington drummer Steve Hadeka is now accepting students of all ages for private instruction. Learn all styles of drum set, snare drum method & percussion from a real, working drummer. Enjoy the convenience of studying in your home, on your own instrument. I offer flexible scheduling, competitive rates & references from both students & parents. Whether you are a parent of a budding young percussionist or a seasoned player yourself, looking to expand your technique & brush up on your skills, I can help. steve@ stevehadeka.com, 802-318-0109.

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ESSEX JCT. YARD SALE! Furniture, household, kitchenware, china/ glassware, pool/garden, appliances, much more. 26 S. Summit St. Sat., June 26 , 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Nick, 802-999-9658, for info/directions.

Looking to Play Swing Jazz? Looking to contact area musicians who would like to get together to informally play swing jazz (instrument players) for fun. Contact info@prestomusic.net.

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Is Your House Haunted? Let us check it out for free. The Vermont Spirit Detective Agency: “The Private Eye For Those Who’ve Died.” Contact: vermontspirits@gmail. com. 802-881-1171.

JERICHO June 26 & 27. Sat., 9-4; Sun. 9-noon. 66 Starbird Rd., Unit F. Household goods, 20” bike, TV, furniture, glass, linens, clothes.

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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 6, 2010, 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 6, 2010. 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 7th day of June 2010.

City of Burlington, VT Dept of Parks and Recreation Request for Proposals: Natural Playground Design/Build Landscape Contractor The City of Burlington is seeking proposals for Design/Build services from landscape contractors. This is a project that will combine natural landforms, natural materials, indigenous vegetation, and play structures to create a fun and dynamic playspace for the community. The due date for the proposals will be July 6, 2010. Proposers are hereby notified that all federal, state, and local rules and regulations will be required, including but not limited to the Minority/ Women owned Business Enterprise Procurement Requirements and the Livable Wage Ordinance. RFP packets can be obtained by contacting Anna Thelemarck with the Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation at 802-865-7248 or e-mailing a letter of interest to athelemarck@ci.burlington. vt.us NOTICE OF TAX SALE The resident and non-resident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of land in the Town of Huntington, County of Chittenden, and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by such Town for the fiscal year 7/1/07-6/30/08 and 7/1/08-6/30/09 remain either in whole or in part unpaid on the real property and/or mobile homes hereinbelow described and situated in the Town of Huntington and so much of said real property and/or mobile homes will be sold at a public auction in front of the Town Offices located on Main Street in the Town of Huntington on the 8th day of July, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. in the forenoon, as shall be required to discharge said taxes with costs, unless previously paid: PROPERTY 1: Being a parcel of land containing 0.56 acres known and designated as 50 Trapp Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises

conveyed to Alan W. Borys by Quitclaim Deed of Julius T. Borys dated July 30, 1987, and of record in Book 36, Page 612 of the Huntington Land Records. (Parcel #026020) PROPERTY 2: Being a parcel of land containing 0.88 acres with all buildings thereon located at 5235 Main Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Alan W. Borys by Quitclaim Deed of Mabel Borys dated February 10, 1993, and of record in Book 57, Page 218 of the Huntington Land Records. (Parcel #080330) PROPERTY 3: Being a parcel of land, together with a dwelling, located at 339 Weaver Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Daniel E. Bushey and Barbara A. Bushey by Warranty Deed of Van E. Holmes and Loretta B. Holmes dated May 20, 1971, and of record in Book 26, Page 195 of the Huntington Land Records, together with all and the same land and premises conveyed to Daniel E. Bushey and Barbara A. Bushey by Warranty Deed of Loretta B. Holmes, widow, dated May 18, 1976, and of record in Book 27, Page 402 of the aforesaid land records. (Parcel #033210) PROPERTY 4: Being a 0.16 acre parcel of land with a mobile home situated thereon located at 1553 Camels Hump Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Gregory S. Harriman and Rolinda Goodrich by Quitclaim Deed of the Town of Huntington dated July 14, 1998, and of record in Book 59, Page 17 of the Huntington Land Records. (Parcel #022280) PROPERTY 5: Being an 88 acre parcel of land located on Poole Drive, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to LaBounty Enterprises, Inc., by Warranty Deed of Hugh B. White and Betty J. White dated July 23, 2003, and of record in Book 79, Page 609 of the Huntington Land Records. (Parcel #015072) PROPERTY 6: Being a 7.42 acre parcel with dwelling and garage located at 985 Texas Hill Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Stephen D. LaRocque and Veronica J. LaRocque by Quitclaim Deed of Ralph J. LaRocque dated October

28, 1999, and of record in Book 61, Page 340 of the Huntington Land Records. (Parcel #010173) PROPERTY 7: Being a 3.1 acre parcel with dwelling located at 92 Moody Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Norman Sheldrake by Warranty Deed of Herbert V. Sheldrake and Lois J. Sheldrake dated May 8, 1987, and of record in Book 36, Page 309 of the Huntington Land Records, and by Quitclaim Deed of the Town of Huntington dated September 30, 2002, and of record in Book 72, Page 347 of the Huntington Land Records. (Parcel #030010) PROPERTY 8: Being a 2.2 acre parcel of land with a 1997 27’ x 44’ 5-room mobile home located at 9283 Main Road, Huntington, Vermont. Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to Leon S. Stokes and Colleen A. Stokes by Warranty Deed of Archie W. Stokes and Maggie H. Stokes dated July 1, 1987, and of record in Book 36, Page 361 of the Huntington Land Records. (Parcel #070330) Information regarding the amount of taxes due may be obtained through Joseph D. Fallon, Esq., Attorney for the Collector of Delinquent Taxes, Brent Lamoureux, at 802-4822137. DATED at Huntington, Vermont, this 26 day of May, 2010. s/ Brent Lamoureux BRENT LAMOUREUX, Collector of Delinquent Taxes for the Town of Huntington STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0946-09 CnC Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee in Trust for the benefit of the Certificateholders for ABFC 2005-AQ1 Trust, AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2005-AQ1, Plaintiff v. Florence M. Timm, Douglas H. Timm, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Quicken Loans And Occupants residing at 1000 Main Road, Richmond, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by

Ameriquest Mortgage Corporation to Florence M. Timm dated February 11, 2005 and recorded in Volume 85, Page 438 of the Land Records of the Town of Richmond, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 3:30 P.M. on July 14, 2010, at 1000 Main Road, Richmond, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Douglas H. Timm and Florence Timm by Warranty Deed of Douglas M .Timm dated May 6, 1985 and recorded in Volume 33 at Page 250 of the Land Records of the Town of Huntington. 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. 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 6609000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 21st day of June, 2010. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF CHITTENDEN, SS. PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 33272 IN RE THE ESTATE OF Carl M. Blumberg LATE OF BURLINGTON, VERMONT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Carl M. Blumberg late of Burlington, Vermont: I have been appointed a personal representative of the above-named estate. All creditors

having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the date of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy filed with the register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described above within the four (4) month deadline. Dated 6/9/2010 Signed: Thomas A. Little Print name: Thomas A. Little Address: Little & Cicchetti, PC 117 St. Paul Street Burlington, VT 05401 Name Of Publication: Seven Days Telephone: 802-864-5684 First Publication Date: 6/16/2010 Second Publication Date: 6/23/2010 Address of Probate Court: Chittenden Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT LAMOILLE COUNTY, SS. LAMOILLE SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. 43-2-10 Lecv GMAC Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff v. Jessica C. Wilson, and Occupants residing at 351 Whitefield Drive, Cambridge, Vermont, Defendants SUMMONS & ORDER FOR PUBLICATION THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO: Jessica C. Wilson 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you. A copy of the Plaintiff’s Complaint against you is on file and may be obtained at the office of the clerk of this court, Lamoille Superior Court, P.O Box 490, Hyde Park, Vermont. Do not throw this paper away. It is an official paper that affects your rights. 2. PLAINTIFF’S CLAIM. Plaintiff’s claim is a Complaint in Foreclosure which alleges that you have breached the terms of a Promissory Note and Mortgage Deed dated October 27, 2006. Plaintiff’s action may effect your interest in the property described in the Land Records of the Town of Cambridge at Volume 314, Page 208. The Complaint also seeks relief on the Promissory Note executed by you. A copy of the Complaint is on file and

may be obtained at the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Lamoille, State of Vermont. 3. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 41 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You must give or mail the Plaintiff a written response called an Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first published, which is July 31, 2010. You must send a copy of your answer to the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff’s attorney, Joshua B. Lobe, located at 30 Kimball Avenue, Suite 306, South Burlington, VT 05403. You must also give or mail your Answer to the Court located at P.O Box 490, Hyde Park, Vermont. 4. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in your Answer. 5. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR WRITTEN ANSWER TO THE COURT. If you do not Answer within 41 days after the date on which this Summons was first published and file it with the Court, you will lose this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the complaint. 6. YOU MUST MAKE ANY CLAIMS AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF IN YOUR REPLY. Your Answer must state any related legal claims you have against the Plaintiff. Your claims against the Plaintiff are called Counterclaims. If you do not make your Counterclaims in writing in your answer you may not be able to bring them up at all. Even if you have insurance and the insurance company will defend you, you must still file any Counterclaims you may have. 7. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer. If you cannot afford a lawyer, you should ask the court clerk for information about places where you can get free legal help. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still give the court a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case.

ORDER The Affidavit duly filed in this action shows that service cannot be made with due diligence by any of the methods provided in Rules 4(d)-(f), (k), or (l) of the Vermont Rules of Civil Procedure. Accordingly, it is ORDERED that service of the Summons set forth above shall be made upon the defendant, Jessica C. Wilson, by publication as provided in Rule[s] [4(d)(l) and] 4(g) of those Rules. This order shall be published once a week for 2 weeks beginning on June 16, 2010 in the Morristown News & Citizen, and a newspaper of general circulation in Chittenden County, a newspaper of general circulation in Lamoille County, and a copy of this summons and order as published shall be mailed to the defendant, Jessica C. Wilson, if an address is known. Dated at Hyde Park, Vermont this 18th day of May, 2010. Hon. Dennis Pearson Presiding Judge Lamoille Superior Court The contents of storage unit(s) 01 -02430 located at 28 Adams Dr, Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the 1st of the month of July, 2010 to satisfy the debt of Paula Waite. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. Please note this in not a public auction. The contents of storage units(s) 01-04443 located at 28 Adams Dr, Williston, VT 05495, will be sold on the 1st of the month of July, 2010 to satisfy the debt of Tanya Martin. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur. Please not this is not a public auction.

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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 (toll free) or from outside of Vermont, 802-6524636, 24/7. HUGS CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Next meeting scheduled for Monday, June 28th at 5:00 p.m. at The Bagel. Whether you are a survivor, a caregiver or have something to offer those in need, join us. The group provides emotional and logistical support, information, guidance and help in navigating the treacherous waters of dealing with cancer. Refreshments will be served. Drop-ins welcome. Info: Terry Smith, 802-249-0812.

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP: Learn how to cope with grief, with the intention of receiving and offering support to each other. The group is informal and includes personal sharing of our grief experiences. Open

NAMI CONNECTION (National Alliance on Mental Illness): Free peer-based recovery support group for people living with or facing the challenges of mental illness. This is a group that focuses on allowing participants to share their experiences and learn from each other in a safe environment. 100% confidentiality. BENNINGTON: Every Tuesday, 6-7:30 p.m., St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 200 Pleasant Street. BURLINGTON: Every Thursday, 4-5:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2 Cherry Street. ESSEX JUNCTION: Starting June 2010. 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month, 2-3:30 p.m., Congregational Church, 39 Main Street. HARTFORD: 2nd and 4th Friday 4-5:30 p.m., Hartford Library. Call Barbara Austin, 802-457-1512. MONTPELIER: 1st and 3rd Thursdays, 6-7:30 p.m., Kellogg-Hubbard Library, East Montpelier Room (basement). NEWPORT: Starting June 2010. 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 6-7:30 p.m. Medical Arts Building (attached to North Country Hospital), 2nd floor conference room. RANDOLPH: Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 5-6:30 p.m., United Church, 18 N. Main

ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS, ACA is a 12-Step program for people that grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. We meet in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences. We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences us in the present. Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St., Burlington. For info contact Emily at 802-922-6609, emily@ intrapersonalcoaching. com. SEEKING ACTIVE RETIREES/50+: To form a social group. Snowshoeing, theater, biking, hiking, kayaking, etc. Please call 802864-0604. Lv. msg. if no answer. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS (NA): Drug Problem? We Can Help. If you think you have a problem with drugs, including alcohol, give yourself a break. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship for individuals who have a desire to recover from the disease of addiction. NA offers a practical and proven way to live and enjoy life without the use of drugs. To find an NA Meeting near you in Vermont or Northern New York, please go to www.cvana.org/ Meetinglist.pdf or call our 24-hour, toll free, confidential number, (866) 580-8718 or (802) 862-4516. For more information about NA, please go to http:// www.na.org/?ID=ipsindex and click on “>Is NA for Me? CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP AND FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP: 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday at The Bagel Cafe, Ethan Allen Shopping Center, N. Ave., Burlington. Please call or visit website for location information, www.vtcfids.org or call 1-800-296-1445 or 802-660-4817 (Helaine “Lainey” Rappaport).

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Saturdays 10-11:30 a.m. & Wednesdays 5:30-6:30, 45 Clark St., Burlington. Contact Brenda at 338-1170. IS FOOD A PROBLEM FOR YOU? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason? Is your weight affecting the way you live your life? Call Overeaters Anonymous, 863-2655. GIRL POWER: Learn about your inner power through meditation, sacred space, healing energy modalities. Connect and attune to empower & enlighten, expand your sense of awareness, network with others your age, find peer support within this ongoing monthly group. Please bring a notebook journal, writing utensil and a folding chair. Ages 12-18. First Sat of each month at 4 p.m. at Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Rt. 7, Milton. To reserve space call Michele, 802-893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@ yahoo.com. 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 Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-229-5724 or 1-800-children. ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) This support group functions as a community and educational group. We provide coffee, soda and snacks and are open to PALS, caregivers, family members and those who are interested in learning more about ALS. Our group meets the second Thursday of each month from 1-3 p.m. at “Jim’s House”, 1266 Old Creamery Rd., Williston, VT. Hosted by Pete and Alphonsine Crevier, facilitated by Liza Martel, LICSW, Patient Care Coordinator for the ALS Association here in Vermont. 223-7638 for more information.

Post & browse ads at your convenience. 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 802-4799450, or ljlivendale@ yahoo.com. 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 802-343-2027. 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, 191 Bank St., 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. 191 Bank St., Burlington. 802-8613150. BEREAVED PARENTS & SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Rd., Williston. 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 50-65, 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. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA’S SUPPORT GROUP Held monthly at The Arbors at Shelburne. For info. or to register, contact Nicole at 802-985-8600. WOMEN’S RAPE CRISIS CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10-week support group for adult female survivors of

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sexual violence. Please call 864-0555 ext. 20 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 802-734-0695. 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. 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 655-9136 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.

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QUIT SMOKING GROUPS Are you ready to live a smoke-free lifestyle? Free 4-week Quit Smoking Groups are being offered through the VT Quit Network Fletcher Allen Quit in Person program in your community. Free Nicotine Replacement products are available for program participants. For more information or to register, call 847-6541 or wellness@ vtmednet.org. For ongoing statewide class schedules, contact the VT Quit Network at www.vtquitnetwork. org.

AL-ALNON IN ST. JOHNSBURY: Tues. & Thurs., 7 p.m., Kingdom Recovery Center (Dr. Bob’s birthplace), 297 Summer St., St. Johnsbury. Sat., 10 a.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Cherry St., St. Johnsbury.

Street. RUTLAND: Every Monday, 7-8:30 p.m., Wellness Center (Rutland Mental Health), 78 South Main St. ST. JOHNSBURY: Every Thursday, 6:30-8 p.m., Universalist Unitarian Church, 47 Cherry Street. 1-800639-6480, connection@ namivt.org.

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TRANS GUYS OVER 35: Every second Wednesday of the month from 6-8 p.m., Trans Guys over 35 will meet to discuss issues, shared and individual, and get support from other guys. For more info contact Kara at kara@ru12.org.

MALE SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE: SafeSpace is offering a peer-led support group for male-identified survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. This group will meet in Burlington at the RU12? Community Center and will be facilitated by Damian. Support groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. Please contact SafeSpace if you are interested in joining this group, 802-863-0003.

DIGESTIVE SUPPORT GROUP: Join this open support group, hosted by Carrie Shamel, and gain information regarding digestive disorders. If you suffer from any kind of digestive disorder or discomfort this is the place for you! Open to all. Meets the first Monday of every month in the Healthy Living Learning Center. For more information contact Carrie Shamel at carrie.shamel@gmail. com. www.llleus.org/ state/vermont/html.

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PARTNERS OF TRANS GUYS: Partners and Spouses of Trans Guys. Every third Thursday, 6:30-8 p.m. This peer-led group is a space where the partners and spouses of trans guys can meet to talk, share thoughts and give each other support. Please let Kara know you’re coming at 860-7812.

LGBTQ VIOLENCE SURVIVORS: SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. Please call Ann or Brenda at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining one of these groups or for more information.

to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Meets every other week Mondays, 6-8 p.m. at the Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice, Barre. 802-223-1878, www. cvhhh.org.

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TRANS GUY’S GROUP: Every fourth Monday, RU12? Community Center, 34 Elmwood Ave, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. This is a social and support group specifically for trans men. This informal, peer-facilitated group welcomes maleidentified people at any stage of transition. As this is currently a closed group, please contact the center to sign up: thecenter@ru12.org or 860-RU12.

34 Elmwood Ave., Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to all trans people and to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful and confidential space for socializing, support and discussion. Contact thecenter@ru12.org for more information.

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Director of Marketing and Communications ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, located at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain on Vermont’s Burlington waterfront, will significantly grow its impact through a facility expansion and a broadening of its online education strategies over the next three years. ECHO seeks an experienced and creative marketing professional for the position of Director of Marketing and Communications to be a part of this exciting growth. The Director of Marketing and Communications reports directly to ECHO’s Executive Director. The position is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic marketing plans to promote ECHO and its mission. The ideal candidate will have consistently demonstrated the highest standards of practice — striving for excellence, fostering creativity, successful brand building and contributing to team efforts. To apply, email a cover letter and resume to jobs@echovermont.org with Director of Marketing & Communications in the subject field. You also can apply via “snail” mail to ECHO - Director of Marketing and Communications Job Search, One College St., Burlington, VT 05401. For a detailed job description, visit our website at www.echovermont.org. The deadline for applications is July 5, 2010. No calls, please. EOE.

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Addison County Home Health & Hospice, Inc. is looking for a full-time Hospice Nurse to join our growing team and participate in providing high quality end-of-life care in our newly expanded Hospice & Palliative Care Program. Must have a current VT RN license and two years of nursing experience. Hospice and/or palliative care experience is preferred.

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Do you believe that patients’ needs come first, and go that extra step to make sure their health care experience is superior? Do you want to help care for women in a compassionate and respectful environment? Do you want to work with high-quality and competent physicians? If so, then we want you! Please send resume by June 25, 2010 to: Practice Administrator Champlain Obstetrics & Gynecology 55 Main St., Suite 3 Essex Junction, VT 05452 office@champlainobgyn.com

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Limoge & Sons Garage Doors local organic natural

Education Resource Coordinator Health Careers Program Coordinator

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Limoge & Sons Garage Doors is looking for Installers. This long-established family company is offering a full-time position to the right candidate.

General Laborer position at green business. Compensation: minimum wage+, overtime available. Opportunities for advancement.

(Half Time With Benefits) The Champlain Valley Area Health Education Center (Champlain 802-352-8500 Stop in and fill out an application at Valley AHEC), a Valley non-profit seeks Center a creative self-starter The Champlain Areaorganization, Health Education (Champlain Visit www.sweetclovermarket.com for details. 81 Park Avenue, Williston - 802-878-4338 and team player to develop, coordinate, present health Valley AHEC), a nonprofit organization, seeks aand collaborative selfstarter to: develop, coordinate, and evaluate health care student career-related educational programs for middle and high school projects presentations; support clinicaland tools and continuing studentsand in Addison, Chittenden, Franklin, Grand Isle Counties. education for health care professionals; lead surveys and studies; 6/21/10 1:50:54 1-Limoge061610.indd PM 1 6/14/10 9:35:50 AM 1-GoodPoint-062310.indd 1 6/21/10 Responsibilities include offering career-oriented health care 1-sweetclover-062310.indd 1 and coordinate both cultural competency initiatives and a mental presentations to students, as well as organizing or participating in health referral website. A bachelor's degree in education or in a conferences andhealth job fairs in partnership with local schools,working colleges, founded in 1787, castleton is a college community that values personal interaction with students and health or allied profession is required. Experience universities, and community organizations. with culturallyhospitals, and economically diverse populations and Bachelor’s teams is among colleagues. Your work will be appreciated here. You can help us make a difference in the lives degreedesirable. in education and/or a health-related Strong highly Strong presentation, analyticfield and required. communication of our students, and for the benefit of Vermont. skills, programand management expertise, multitasking, presentation communications skills, program and management experience withattention assets or to strengths-based perspectives across and expertise, and detail are essential. Grant writing Castleton State College is seeking the following Wellness Center Positions: cultures are essential. Familiarity with Vermont's health anddesired. human coordination experience a plus. Familiarity with MS Office services environment is vital. Grant writing and coordination This is a full-time position with benefits.

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Men’s Tennis CoaCh (Part time) Johnson State College invites applications for the position of part-time Men’s Tennis Coach. The successful candidate will be in charge of all aspects of the program including recruitment of quality student athletes, retention, fundraising, pre- and postseason conditioning programs, organizing and planning of practices and game strategies, and monitoring academic performance of members of the team. Bachelor’s degree and knowledge of NCAA Division III rules and regulations required; collegiate playing/coaching experience preferred. Send a completed JSC job application (at www. jsc.edu/employment), resume and cover letter by email to jschumanresources@jsc.edu or mail to Human Resources Office, Johnson State College, 337 College Hill, Johnson, VT 05656. Final offer of employment is subject to a fingerprintsupported criminal background check. JSC IS AN EquAl OppOrTuNITy EMplOyEr AND A MEMBEr OF ThE VErMONT STATE COllEgES SySTEM.

Wellness Center Director Castleton State College is seeking an experienced individual to direct and coordinate a comprehensive college wellness program, including both health and counseling services and educational programs.This position will provide either direct health or counseling services. Develop and implement comprehensive campus wellness education and prevention programs related to student risk behaviors. Supervise the provider of the services (either counseling or health) that the director does not provide. Coordinate health and counseling services for individuals and maintain appropriate records. Minimum Qualifications: Qualifications for either the Health Services Coordinator or the College Counselor as stated below, plus supervisory experience; demonstrated understanding of young adult wellness issues; ability to interface with local health and counseling service providers; ability to interface with college community constituents. This is a full-time, permanent, 10-month position (August 15 to June 15),VSC Grade 13, UP SUP Bargaining Unit Position. Salary is within the VSC salary range for Grade 13 plus an excellent benefit package. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled. College Counselor* To direct and coordinate student counseling services, mental health edu-

cational programs, and mental health assessment and referral, and to provide direct developmental counseling services for individual students. Minimum Qualifications: Master’s degree in counseling or related field, with doctorate desirable, with appropriate license or certification, plus two to four years of relevant counseling and administrative experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired. This is a full-time, permanent, 10-month position (August 15 to June 15),VSC Grade 12, UP PAT Bargaining Unit Position. Salary is within the VSC salary range for Grade 12 plus an excellent benefit package. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled. *depending on the uniquely qualified and successful candidate, this position could assume the VSc Grade 13 UP SUP Bargaining Unit Position of Wellness center director.

Health Services Coordinator* To direct and coordinate the College Health Ser-

vices Office, providing comprehensive health care and education to students and medical administrative support, information and education for other college needs. Minimum Qualifications: RN licensed in Vermont; bachelor’s degree, plus two to four years of relevant clinical and administrative experience, preferably in higher education, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired. This is a full-time, permanent, 10-month position (August 15 to June 15),VSC Grade 12, UP PAT Bargaining Unit Position. Salary is within the VSC salary range for Grade 12 plus an excellent benefit package. Resumes will be accepted until the position is filled. *depending on the uniquely qualified and successful candidate, this position could assume the VSc Grade 13 UP SUP Bargaining Unit Position of Wellness center director. Applicants should forward an employment application form found on www.castleton.edu, resume, cover letter and three references to: Office of Human Resources, Castleton State College, Castleton,VT 05735. Candidates must be willing to submit to a criminal background check. Any offer of employment is contingent upon the satisfactory results of this check. castleton State college is an

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Town of Shelburne Parks and Recreation

WOMEN, MINORITIES AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY

Swim Lesson Instructor

Seeking certified Swim lesson Instructor to supervise and instruct group swim lessons for children ages 3-12 based on the American red Cross Curriculum. Classes are held at Shelburne Town beach on scenic lake Champlain. This is a temporary-two-week position starting July 19 and ending July 30. lessons are 3-5:30 pm M-f. Inquire or apply to: bcieplicki@shelburnevt.org or Shelburne Recreation, PO Box 88, Shelburne, VT 05482. Call 985-9551 for more info. full job description available online. eoe.

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Preschool teacher position

Library Assistant

available. Early childhood ed. or comparable degree required. Please call Crystal at The PlayCare Center of Richmond for more information, 802-434-3891. EOE.

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The Fletcher Free Library is looking for a Library Assistant. This is a 30-hour part-time position that is responsible for performing patron service and general clerical work at the Circulation and Acquisitions Departments of the Library. The ideal candidate 12:37:00 PM would possess a high school diploma and two years of experience in a public service setting in an office environment. For a complete description, or to apply, visit our website at www.hrjobs.ci.burlington.vt.us or contact Human Resources at 802-865-7145. If interested, send resume, cover letter and City of Burlington Application by June 30th to: HR Dept, 131 Church St., Burlington, VT 05401. EOE

Child, Youth and Family Services InterventIonIst - ComprehensIve Care - awake overnIght Seeking a dynamic individual to join our Comprehensive Care program. The Jarrett House serves 6-14-year-old children who are experiencing an acute mental health emergency or are in need of an out-of-home assessment. Duties include overseeing the residence and residents throughout overnight hours, resolving conflicts, documenting and reporting requirements, medication administration and assisting in the daily living of the children in care. BA required. Applicants must be comfortable working with a coed, multiage population with many and multiple diagnoses. This is a 40 hr./week position that may include weekends. Experience working with children required, preferably youth with behavioral challenges.

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Developmental Services safety ConneCtIon responder (2 posItIons) Exciting opportunity to provide emergency response support for the Safety Connection program. Candidates must have a working knowledge of supporting individuals with a developmental disability who live independently in the community, a valid drivers license, a car, and must live in the Burlington area. Responsibilities include the ability to respond quickly and appropriately to client emergencies, take direction, and work as a member of a support network team. This temporary, contracted position offers a monthly stipend for being on-call 15 evenings a month and generous hourly compensation for hours worked between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Please email resumes to Jim Hessler at jimhe@howardcenter.org.

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Third-party Administrator in Williston seeks a responsible, motivated, analytical individual for administration of f lexible benefit plans. Confidentiality and high level of accuracy a must. Must have strong computer skills. Bookkeeping background preferred. Experience in medical claims and customer service a plus. Email lena@futureplanningassoc.com

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Recent HS grad seeks 20 hours of support in the Burlington area. This 21-year-old guy loves social activities, rescue personnel and equipment, music, and computer games. The ideal candidate must appreciate humor and have a positive attitude. Candidates must use ASL for this benefits eligible position.

traInIng speCIalIst Easygoing 19-year-old man who is building independent living skills needs 22 hours of on-the-job and communitybased support in the Essex area. Ideal candidate is a near-peer-age male who has knowledge of local activites and 4t-FuturePlan-062310.indd resources and will offer appropriate support and encouragement. Benefits-eligible morning hours.

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Mental Health and Substance Abuse CommunIty support ClInICIans Seeking energetic, compassionate and organized clinicians to support persons with serious mental illness in recovery. Be part of a multidisciplinary team providing creative problem solving, advocacy, case management, counseling and crisis support. BA or masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in related field and experience with persons with serious mental illness preferred. Join our fun and dedicated team in making a difference. Full time, excellent benefits.

sub - resIdentIal Counselors - mental health and substanCe abuse servICes On-the-job training. If you are responsible and compassionate, we need you to work in our residential programs with adults who are considered to have mental illness and substance use disorders. Flexible shifts - day, evening, sleep and awake overnights. Visit www.howardcenter.org for more details and a complete list of employment opportunities. HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to qualified employees.

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Health Law Paralegal/ Counselor High Mowing Seeds, a 100% certified organic farm and mail order seed company located in Wolcott, Vermont, is looking for an Accounting Manager. This is a handson position that entails both bookkeeping and accounting functions.

Vermont Legal Aid seeks a full-time advocate in its Health Care Ombudsman Project located in Burlington. Responsibilities include: investigating and resolving complaints and questions from Vermonters regarding health insurance issues; representation of beneficiaries at administrative hearings; responsibility for case records and related clerical duties. Must be able to work as a team member doing extensive telephone work in a busy environment. Prior health care or advocacy experience, knowledge of computers desirable. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required. Starting salary $28,500, four weeks paid vacation and excellent fringe benefits. Send cover letter, resume, references and writing sample by Wednesday, June 30, 2010 to: Eric Avildsen, Executive Director, c/o Sandy Burns Vermont Legal Aid, P.O. Box 1367, Burlington, VT 05402 Equal Opportunity Employer – women, minorities and people with disabilities encouraged to apply.

We are looking for a candidate with a degree in accounting and 5 years of accounting experience who has the ability to manage financial details while maintaining an understanding of the big picture.

Restorative Justice Specialist

Part-time position to play a central role in the continuing growth and development of the Essex CJC. Experience in or working knowledge of the criminal justice and human service systems for youth and adults. Committed to restorative principles and practices as an approach to crime and conflict. Education in human services or criminal justice field as well as experience supporting volunteers preferred. If interested, please email resume to : deb@essexcjc.org by July 6.

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Statistical Team Leader

improve the quality and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their families through a coordinated program of research, education and quality improvement. We offer an excellent work environment and competitive benefits. Job Responsibilities:

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• Managing the statistical reporting functions of the organization. • Providing comprehensive annual reports of procedures and outcomes for each hospital member, including graphical and tabulated reports produced using Base SAS (proc tabulate, proc report), the SAS macro language, SAS/Graph and SAS/Stat. • Maintaining and improving the web-based reporting system for members to dynamically view comparative reports. • Applying validated statistical methods to quality improvement reports for members. • Managing the day-to-day work of two statistical team members. • Creating and supervising the implementation of analytic plans and protocols for Network clinical trials and observational studies. • Developing, validating and improving the statistical methods of the organization using standard and hierarchical models with risk adjustment. • Assisting in the preparation of grant requests and coordinating the conduct of analyses by members of the research team.

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COMPENSATION SPECIALIST

Provide oversight and management of compensation practices. Plan, develop, and implement new and revised compensation programs, policies, and procedures, in order to be responsive to the university’s goals and competitive practices. Ensure that compensation-related policies and pay practices are legally compliant.

MATHEMATICS

Open positions for lecturer and/or adjunct faculty. Possible teaching assignments: pre-calculus, calculus, liberal arts mathematics or elementary statistics. Requires a master’s degree in math or closely related field.

Job Qualifications

• Advanced SAS programming including the SAS macro language, SAS/ Graph and SAS/Stat. • Hierarchical modeling of categorical and continuous outcomes. • Research planning. • Excellent organizational, analytic, communication and writing skills. • MS, Statistics or Biostatistics Please mail or email your resume and cover letter to:

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Seeking dynamic individuals to join our recruiting team. Responsibilities include developing a territory and prospect 12:18:30 PM management plan; planning and executing an extensive travel plan in designated geographic areas; interviewing and counseling prospective students and families; managing and evaluating admissions applications; and representing the university at on- and off-campus events and programs.

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Seeking adjunct faculty to teach composition courses. Must have MA in English or MFA in writing. Please visit our website: www.norwich.edu/jobs for further details and information on how to apply for these and other great jobs. Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Research Analyst

Real estate investment advisors White + Burke Inc. are looking for a talented entry-level professional to join the team. This unique position provides the opportunity to learn about consulting and real estate development from highly skilled professionals.

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This position provides an interesting blend of research, writing, client interaction and administrative duties. The ideal candidate is a recent college graduate who is self-motivated, a clear and logical thinker, detail oriented, and possesses strong research and writing skills. Prior experience in real estate is not necessary. A strong drive and hunger for learning are essential. This position provides the right candidate with significant growth potential. To apply for this position, please send a cover letter, resume, salary history and LinkedIn profile to career@whiteandburke.com by July 1, 2010. We respond to qualified candidates.

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American Red Cross

Accounting Assistant (Part Time)

Part-time contractual position for up to 24 hours per week providing primarily computerbased accommodations for a blind professional.

Responsible for various accounting duties such as invoice and credit memo processing, accounts payable entry and cash receipts processing. Morning hours: 20-25 hours/week. accounting and Excel experience, strong data-entry skills, and attention to detail required. Seeking enthusiastic and positive team player who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

Work will be based from home or remote location with limited in-office support weekly. Must have own computer with highspeed Internet access. Must have strong skills in Microsoft Office applications, Internet use, email and data entry. Must have ability to meet deadlines, maintain strict Send resume to jean.kissner@isisforwomen.com. confidentiality and have some flexibility in schedule. Experience with individuals with disabilities and providing accommodations 4T-Isis-062310.indd 1 6/21/10 12:03:12 PM preferred. Assistant Director of Admissions To apply, send resume and cover letter to:

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Lyndon State College is seeking a creative, energetic individual to plan and coordinate on-campus admissions events and oversee and further develop the student ambassador and on-campus tour programs.

Candidate must be a self-starter and team player, with the ability to prioritize and see projects through to successful completion, and to interact effectively with various external and internal constituencies, including faculty, staff, current students, prospective students and their families. The Vermont and Upper NH Valley Region of the American Red Cross, Deadline to apply is July 7, 2010. Bachelor’s degree, with master’s degree in student personnel services or headquartered in Burlington, Vt., seeks a dynamic, collaborative other appropriate discipline desirable, plus three to five years of relevant and experienced executive to ensure consistent and responsive experience. Some evening and weekend work, limited travel. Must have a delivery of high-quality American Red Cross services based on 6/21/10 12:05:54 PMvalid driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record. locally assessed community and donor needs and objectives. The3v-VocRehabVt-062310.indd 1 Compensation package includes an anticipated starting salary of Regional CEO serves as the chief fundraiser for the chapter, ensuring $30,000 and a generous benefits package, including 20 paid vacation days, the effective delivery of national, regional and chapter goals, and personal and medical leave, 14 paid holidays, a comprehensive insurance is responsible for total chapter performance, including building package, and TIAA-CREF retirement plan equaling 12% of annual salary. financial resources adequate to meet chapter needs. As the Regional To apply, submit a mandatory Lyndon State College application for emChapter Executive, this individual also has responsibility for: building ployment (available on the Lyndon website: www.lyndonstate.edu/ capacity and presence within a group of three community chapters; employment), cover letter, résumé, and names and contact information establishing a strong environment of collaboration, consensus and for three references to: Office of Human Resources, attention Sandy service within the regional grouping; identifying opportunities for Franz, Lyndon State College, P.O. Box 919, Lyndonville, VT 05851. EOE. sharing of resources; ensuring that there are regional strategies that build service delivery, communications, partnerships and fundraising Vermont Energy Contracting capacity throughout the group; and ensuring overall compliance Best Education 4T-LyndonState-062310.indd 1 6/21/10 2:47:26 PM and Supply Corp. is currently with American Red Cross performance-standards guidelines. Jobs in VT and accepting applications for an experienced heating and Nationwide To be successful in this position, candidates must have a BS/BA in air-conditioning service business administration or related field, plus eight years related technician in a residential/ experience or an equivalent combination of education/related light commercial setting. work experience. Prior nonprofit leadership experience and strong Candidates will have a operational and problem-solving skills strongly preferred. Proven Burlington School District minimum of 5 years field team building and personnel management skills are a plus. Must experience and appropriate have significant experience and a proven track record in fundraising, licenses and certifications. including a successful record with major gift fundraising. Must have Chittenden Central Supervisory Union excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, and possess decisive, We offer competitive innovative, and proactive decision making with strong strategic wages, paid vacation and Chittenden East Supervisory Union vision and implementation skills. Applicants with strong ties and holidays, medical and dental relationships with Vermont and Vermonters preferred. insurance, tool and training Chittenden South Supervisory Union account, and a retirement In return we offer an opportunity to make a difference in your plan. community, as well as a competitive salary and a solid benefits package. Interested and qualified candidates should submit resume Franklin Northeast Supervisory Union Please email your resume to to Petersonch@usa.redcross.org. Resumes must be received by barbara@vtenergy.com. July 9, 2010.

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Home Provider Opportunities

Mid-Level Sales Positions with Dynamic Fashion Brand

CCS is seeking individuals or couples to provide residential supports to individuals with developmental disabilities. The following positions include a generous stipend, paid time off (respite) and ongoing support.

Her Look Enterprises, the company behind the commando lingerie brand sold in high-end boutiques and department stores worldwide, is seeking to add to its sales team. We’re looking for highly motivated, proactive individuals who thrive on building relationships with customers and generating new business.

A kind, humorous, non-verbal gentleman in his 40’s is seeking a home with an outgoing person who enjoys being involved in the community and in social settings. Due to severe allergies, the home cannot have pets. This active individual loves music, walking, and going to the library.

The positions require 2-3 years of successful business-to-business sales experience and the ability to travel to trade shows and key industry events as needed. A strong interest in the fashion industry is a must.

An independent young woman is seeking an active, energetic, female roommate who can assist her in accessing the community, learning to increase her independence and addressing her medical needs. She enjoys cooking, keeping in touch with online friends, socializing, fashion and is interested in continuing education.

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Marshfield, Vt.

Mix white- and blue-collar work at small, fun, growing salvage lumber company. Seeking outgoing, confident individual for sales position at innovative eco-lumber and architectural millwork company. Combine office work in funky barn with physical labor at lumberyard 20 minutes east of Montpelier. 20-40 hrs./week, flexible. Base pay $10-12/hr. plus sales commission (net +/$16/hr.). Will train right person.

Tasks • Sales: Management of entire sales cycle from cold call to quotes to closure. Ongoing communication and customer development with high-end architecture and interior design firms, mostly in NYC. • Manufacturing: Subcontractor coordination and hands-on order processing. Lumberyard tasks include sorting and stacking wood; wood sample creation; product delivery.

Skills Most importantly: strong social skills, go-getter, comfortable with problem resolution. Attention to detail a must. Familiarity with carpentry and basic architecture. Mechanical experience a plus. Capable of occasional spontaneous Friday lunch BBQ-ing. Please send cover letter, resume and three references to parker@butternutwood.com. For more info on company see www.vermontwildwoods.com.

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Cathedral Square Corporation, a nonprofit organization providing housing and services to seniors throughout Vermont, is seeking the following:

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Program Manager, Community Programs Contribute your talents by joining a team of dedicated, caring individuals in a friendly, professional work environment. The National MS Society, Greater New England Chapter has a full-time job opportunity in our Williston, Vt. office.

Line Cook Wanted. Culinary experience necessary. Must enjoy working with challenges and pressure.

Position Summary: This individual is responsible for the overall coordination and implementaPlease email resume to tion of community programs as assigned by the Program Director, Communiasinglepebblevt@yahoo.com. ty Programs. S/he also implements specific advocacy activities, as identified by the chapter’s Advocacy Manager, to improve public policies that affect individuals with MS. The Program Manager works closely with chapter staff and volunteers to coordinate the local chapter programs and services. These 1-ASinglePeb060910.indd 1 6/7/10 10:42:51 AM activities identify and engage community resources, and provide education and support to individuals and families coping with MS, and to health care professionals who care for them.

Seeking per diem Resident Assistants to work in our beautiful Assisted Living Residence. He/she will assist residents with activities of daily living and assist the Resident Service Coordinator with conducting resident activities. Day, evening and night shifts available.

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Community Justice Project Case Manager Hyde Park nonprofit seeks a 20-hour-per-week case manager to work in a family-centered, strength-based program for children and families impacted by incarceration. The successful candidate will demonstrate empathy, excellent communication skills, and the ability to build nonjudgmental relationships. Knowledge of child development, family dynamics, and community resources is essential. Work will take place in homes, schools and the community. The successful candidate will collaborate effectively, work well with teams, be flexible and creative, and possess a well-developed sense of humor. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree and five years of direct service work with families.

Youth Justice and Truancy Social Worker Position Do you see the glass as half full? We are seeking a self-directed professional to join our team-oriented nonprofit based in Hyde Park. This 30-hour-per-week position offers growth potential for someone possessing strong communication skills, and experience with school and family systems. Responsibilities include direct work with students, families and schools to improve school attendance, and individual case work with youthful offenders grounded in restorative justice principles. Work will occur in multiple settings including the office, homes, schools and the community. The successful candidate will be flexible and creative, and possess a well-developed sense of humor. Priority will be given to candidates with a master’s degree and experience in the field.

Individuals interested in either position should send their resume, with a cover letter, to the following email address: LCCDRJP@gmail.com. Applications will be accepted through July 5. LCCDRJP, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. More information about LCCDRJP is available at: www.lamoillecourtdiversion.org.

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Requirements/Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in social work or other related allied health profession preferred. Applicants with bachelor's degrees in other areas with applicable prior experience may be considered. •Two to three years previous work experience •Proficient in Microsoft Office and Internet •Effective oral and written communication skills •Strong organization and multitasking skills •Ability to work effectively with laymen and health professionals 12:14:39 PM •Availability to work weekends and evenings •Ability to lift a minimum of 40 pounds •Valid driver's license and dependable transportation

Environment $400-$600/week Work for a clean energy future Work with great people Work with VPIRG on our clean energy campaign. Career opportunities and benefits available.

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NMSS, Greater New England Chapter provides a complete benefits package, including medical and dental insurance, STD, LTD and Life Insurance, retirement programs, and vacation time. Please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to: jobsgne@nmss.org. Salary commensurate with experience. EOE M/F/D/V

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Economist

Economic & Policy Resources is seeking a motivated individual to join our team full time in the position of Economist. This position involves working in a team environment to conduct the company’s economic research for the public policy consulting practice. The company’s practice includes project work across the U.S. in economic development, impact analysis, housing and litigation economics. Duties include: interacting with clients to understand and interpret their needs, electronic research, building economic and financial models to meet client needs, undertaking statistical analyses and interpreting results, using spreadsheets and other statistical-impact assessment software, policy analysis, drafting of written technical memos/reports. This position requires attention to detail and ability to work with other team members toward common deadlines and goals on multiple projects. Applicants should have a graduate degree in economics or a closely related field. Prior working knowledge of macroand microeconomics, fundamentals of input-output analysis, sound research methods, statistical-financial analysis and knowledge of common economic data series is preferred. Reply by submitting a resume and reference list by mail P.O. Box 1660, Williston, VT 05495-1660, or email info@ epreconomics.com. Please insert “Economist” in the subject heading if responding by email.

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Kelly Services is hiring for numerous positions including temporary and temp-to-hire positions.

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Office work: administrative assistants, receptionist and clerks Machine operators People with experience with working with adhesives for a glue line Warehouse/material handlers Production workers in Ferrisburgh. Email your resume to 6011@kellyservices.com or mail to Kelly Services 56 W. Twin Oaks Terrace, Suite 3 S. Burlington, VT 05403 Questions? Call 802-658-3877, fax 802-862-6138.

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Leaps & Bounds is looking for motivated, flexible team players to join our growing childcare team at our Essex and Williston locations. Must have experience, education and a sense of humor! Pay based on education and experience. Contact Krista at 802-879-2021 or kristalacroix@yahoo.com.

Physical Therapy Job Openings

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Design and implement comprehensive rehabilitative programs for our patients. Help treat and oversee the rehabilitative portion of our unique approach to spinal decompression therapy. Meet weekly as part of a team of health care professionals to discuss patient care. Master’s or doctorate degree in physical therapy, and proper VT state licensure as a physical therapist required.

Physical Therapist Assistant

Assist PTs with treatments and procedures associated with spinal rehabilitation. Carry out treatment plans created by PTs and perform routine protocols for patients undergoing spinal decompression treatment. Must have physical therapist assistant degree and VT license. Background in a medical office is ideal, but not required. This clinic utilizes a team approach, sharing patient care amongst a caring circle of chiropractors, physical therapists and massage therapists.

Wake Robin provides independent residents with a fine dining experience and full table service in a dynamic retirement community. With a manageable schedule and superb kitchen facilities, we offer a work environment that is hard to find in the hospitality industry. Wake Robin provides highly competitive wages and a full range of benefits for you and your family, 25 days of vacation, and a retirement package. If you have high standards of service and a strong desire to learn, please email hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to: HR, (802) 264-5146. EOE.

Please email your resume to jobs@spinalcarevt.com or mail to:

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Work with successful local nonprofit to reduce energy costs and improve health, safety and comfort for low-income Vermonters.

Champlain Community CVOEO Weatherization Services is seeking dynamic is looking for reliable additions to our team: and dedicated individuals to support adults with 6/21/10 12:41:20 PM Analyze energy use; developmental disabilities in5v-spinalcare062310.indd 1 take building measurements; interview clients about energy a one on one setting to help Account Management use; conduct diagnostic tests on heating and other building them achieve their goals both systems; specify improvements; estimate costs; and work with socially and vocationally. and Support Specialist s o heating and other contractors. t c s y a g n r d e imp Enjoy each workday while en rov Knowledge of building systems and experience with spreadeh making a difference in your The Vermont Oxford Network is a nonprofit research orsheet and other computer software needed. Work will be community and in someone’s ganization with more than 850 member hospitals worldthroughout our service territory of Addison, Chittenden, Franklin life. We are currently hiring wide. The Network mission is to improve the quality and Grand Isle counties. To apply: send letter of interest and and safety of medical care for newborn infants and their for two part-time, fully resume by June 25, via email cvws@cvoeo.org; fax 802-482families through a coordinated program of research, benefited positions.

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Become a reliable addition to our installation crew to rehab homes to reduce energy use. Must have rough carpentry skills and basic electrical knowledge. Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and techniques necessary. Work from our Hinesburg office ranges through Addison and Chittenden counties. To apply call 800-5451084 to request employment application or download one from our website, www.cvoeo.org. Applications are due by June 25 to: CVOEO WX, Attn: Installer Search, PO Box 441, Hinesburg, VT 05461. Both positions require a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and the ability to become insured by our carrier to drive company vehicles when available. Competitive pay dependent upon experience; excellent benefits package. CVOEO is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from those considered nontraditional to construction trades.

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Tram Scramble At the New Jay Peak Clubhouse and Clubhouse Grille What. An informal, weekly golf scramble that is as much about beer as it is below-par. When. Each Thursday, beginning at 3:30pm. Who. Anyone. $25 for nine holes, cart and weekly prizes. Just $10 for Members. How. Call the pro-shop in advance at 802.988.GOLF to reserve your spot. What Else. Weekly Clubhouse Grille specials. $2.50 PBR’s and $3 premium draught specials. Live entertainment with Plain Jayne. Outdoor patio and fire pit.

Sunday Mountain Brunch

Share an appetizer and get two entrées for just $25. Special Chef’s Menu available only on Wednesday nights at Alice’s Table. Kid’s menu available.

10am–2pm. $15.95 Adults. $9.95 Kids 7–14. 6 and under eat free. Price includes Tram rides to the top of Jay Peak.

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SEVEN DAYS: When you joined cabot in 1988, it was in the dark ages from a marketing standpoint. ROBERTA MACDONALD: It had a VP of marketing, but the guy was a sales guy. That’s classically what companies do. They call them VPs of marketing and sales, but they’re really salespeople, so that means they’re peddling what the company makes. Marketing, fundamentally, is finding out

SD: Did your job change much when Agri-mark came in? RM: Agri-Mark saved us. They brought systems ... They brought stability. They brought more farmers. We were a dwindling number of 400 [farmers]. They brought in a family of more than a thousand. Shockingly, you would think a new CEO would bring in a new staff, but he kept absolutely every one of us.

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what people want. So they’re very different sides of the brain, in my opinion, and they [require] very different personalities.

SD: Is cabot sold nationwide? RM: Well, we think so. When I say “nationwide,” sometimes it’s just a specialty store in Wyoming.

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We had found our rhythm. I realized it wasn’t meat I missed so much as fat, perhaps proving the oft-made point that if you deep-fry cardboard, it will taste good. On the final night of the experiment, one of my favorite fast-food items — reproduced at home — served to embody that principle. Katsu kare is a home-style Japanese dish that usually consists of

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panko-breaded and fried pork served over rice and topped with thick, rouxbased curry gravy. The crowning glory of my week of vegetarian cooking featured tempeh in its place. It turned out the Indonesian version of tofu, made with whole soybeans, was not an acceptable replacement for juicy pork. The tempeh was slightly bitter and had the texture of freeze-dried vomit. Nonetheless, the meal satisfied me immensely, especially with salad covered with creamy Japanese ginger dressing. It was the first night we didn’t feel the need to go out for a big dessert. Then, as soon as the experiment took flight, it was over. On Monday night, I headed to Springfield Paneer to sample numerous cuts of wagyu beef. It was heavenly. The next day, I required a bacon cheeseburger from Handy’s Lunch while I worked. It was only two days after I had returned to the flesh and my burbly caviar feeling was gone, a reminder that my body really missed meat. Did the experience make me more understanding of those who eschew animal parts? Yes and no. I saw that

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As I alluded in last week’s column, the big news on the local-music front this week is the return of renowned hip-hop hybrids Manifest Nexto Me, who take the stage again this Thursday at the Langdon Street Café in Montpelier. While the news is sure to delight the quartet’s legions of fans — Manifest were among Burlington’s most popular and well-traveled bands from 2001 to 2006 or so — it’s mildly inaccurate to call the show a reunion. Because, as keyboardist/vocalist Chris Kiper points out, they never really broke up. “We elected for the ‘passive fizzle,’ which occurs when you just forget to keep being a band,” he writes in a recent email. Also, they started having kids. “I think we now have twice as many offspring,” he notes. Adds bassist Will Schebaum, “In a certain way, we’ve always been ‘here’ and always will be. We don’t believe in the concept of apartness.” Riiight … thanks for clearing that up, Will! But why come back now? Kiper relays, perhaps with tongue in cheek, that part of the reason is to “promote our new album, Intermittent Resurrections.” Schebaum, meanwhile, offers a more direct response: It is “just damn fun rocking out some serious tradge-hop,” he shares. Anyone who caught the band in its heyday would likely agree. Manifest Nexto Me, which also include drummer PJ Davidian and vocalist Mike Morelli, will play tunes primarily from their last album, 2005’s Forever From Now On. That, Schebaum writes, is “almost even more relevant now than when it was written.” They’ll also unveil a few remixes and some new “dark and rugged” material penned by Morelli. “End-of-the-world shit,” Schebaum confides. Manifest always had a flair for the cosmically dramatic. Neither Kiper nor Schebaum would say for certain if the show is a portent of gigs (or albums) to come. Though, Kiper notes, “We emerge when our music feels culturally appropriate … when the cosmic paradox beckons for attention.” So … Thursday?

audience. The band’s freshman record, the cheekily titled Their Self-Titled Debut, was soundly panned by then-7D music ed Ethan Covey. “In retrospect, I’m not thrilled with the product,” concedes Perry. Having not heard the album — at least that I can recall — I’ll not quibble with my predecessor’s take. But I will say this: Any rock band with song titles such as “She Slipped Me a Rufie” and “All My Exes Live in Essex” are probably pretty raucous live. And that, my friends, is something to which I can absolutely attest. I caught The Lestons on several occasions back in the day — usually performing with Rock n Roll Sherpa — and always had a great time. If my liver can stand it, I just may make my way down to one of their two reunion gigs this weekend: Saturday at The Monkey House and Sunday at Radio Bean.

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Manifest aren’t the only local early-aughts throwbacks reuniting this week. B-town rockers The Lestons are saddling up for one last ride into the sunset — although, unlike Manifest, they actually did break up, about five years ago. They reemerge, apparently, when the cosmic paradox is thirsty. Once upon a time, The Lestons, threequarters of whom went on to become Party Star, were just about the drinkingest, rowdiest and, um, drinkingest band in town. But, as guitarist Matt Perry recalls, that didn’t always go over well with the

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this Saturday should be a blast. The lineup features area regulars (and VCC cofounders) Nathan Hartswick, John Lyons and Chad Smith, as well as up-andcoming locals Jake Feldman and Ahamed Weinberg, and Higher Ground Comedy Battle champs Oliver Barkley and Roger Miller. Oh, MSR Presents, how I love thee. Let me count the ways! Reason number 146: You’re giving me indie upstarts du jour Bear in Heaven at The Monkey House this Friday, with provocative Brooklynbased experimental one-man-electronicexperimental-band Lobisomem. The everbusy DJ Disco Phantom spins betwixt sets. New Local Band Alert: Speaking of experimental electronic awesomeness, that show will also mark the debut of a new local outfit, Errands. The trio is led by My Dearest Darling’s Daniel Munzing, who describes the project as “essentially a continuation of MDD.” That is pretty much spot-on. The three-song EP, available for free download via the band’s Bandcamp page (errands.bandcamp.com), sounds like a collection of instrumental outtakes from MDD’s self-titled 2009 debut. Scale back that group’s indierock leanings, fade up their synthier electro moments, and — voila! — Errands. Needless to say, I dig it. As you might know, I also dig Jocie Adams, of perrenial column darlings The Low Anthem. So, I would be remiss not to mention that this Friday the silken-voiced songstress and multi-instrumentalist will play a solo set at the Langdon Street Café. Oh, and did I mention that following said solo set, Adams will sit in with renowned Boston folkies Session Americana? Staying in the shadow of the Golden Dome, this Monday the city’s music scene will unite for a benefit concert to aid students from Tibet’s Munsel School,

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mOnOPOLe: Greyspoke (jam), 10 p.m., Free. naked tuRtLe: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free. OLive RidLey’s: Benjamin Bright (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free.

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BaCkstage PuB: smokin’ Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free. BLueBiRd taveRn: Ragged Glory (Neil Young tribute), 9 p.m., Free. BReakwateR Café: Given (rock), 6 p.m., Free.

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Bee’s knees: Red Hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

CLuB metROnOme: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

central

BLaCk dOOR BaR & BistRO: Generous Thieves (rock), 9:30 p.m., $5. ChaRLie O’s: Bobbie Peru with slim Francis (post-punk), 10 p.m., Free. the LamB aBBey: montpelierpalooza metal Fest (metal), 5 p.m., $15. AA. LangdOn stReet Café: Johnson’s crossroads (country), 9 p.m., Donations. POsitive Pie 2: Japhy Ryder (prog rock), 10 p.m., $5. the ReseRvOiR RestauRant & taP ROOm: motel Brothers (Americana), 9 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

51 main: David Bain (solo piano), 9 p.m., Free.

fRanny O’s: ’80s Night with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9:30 p.m., Free.

BaR antidOte: coba stella (electro-acoustic), 9 p.m., Free.

gReen ROOm: Envy with Rekkon (house), 10 p.m., Free.

City Limits: Dance Party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

higheR gROund shOwCase LOunge: Vermont comedy club with Jake Feldman, Ahamed Weinberg, Nathan Hartswick, chad smith, John 6/14/10 3:32:36 PM Lyons, Oliver Barkley, Roger miller (standup), 9 p.m., $8/10. AA. JP’s PuB: Dave Harrison’s starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. the Living ROOm: mark Abair and company (rock), 7:30 p.m., $20. the mOnkey hOuse: Ryan Arthur with The Flood (country), 6 p.m., Free. The Lestons (rock), 9 p.m., $5. neCtaR’s: Justin Levinson (solo acoustic), 7 p.m., Free. myra Flynn, Lendway, The Luxury (neo-soul, indie), 9 p.m., $5.

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veRmOnt PuB & BReweRy: clean slate (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

nightCRawLeRs: Radio Flyer (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

twO BROtheRs taveRn: Happy Hour with Trinity (irish), 4 p.m., Free. DJ Hector cobeo (salsa), 10 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee’s knees: Open mic, 7:30 p.m., Free. the BRewski: sweet & Lowdown (rock), 9 p.m., Free. matteRhORn: The Gabe Jarrett Trio (jazz), 9 p.m., $5.

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mOnOPOLe: sinecure (rock), 10 p.m., Free. naked tuRtLe: Glass Onion (rock), 10 p.m., Free. taBu Café and nightCLuB: All Night Dance Party with DJ Toxic (Top 40), 5 p.m., Free.

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he’ll make two Vermont appearances: Thursday at 51 Main in Middlebury and Friday at Radio Bean in Burlington.

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1/2 LoUNge: Funhouse with DJs Rob Douglas, Moonflower & Friends (house), 7 p.m., Free. The BLock gaLLery: Open Mic, 1:30 p.m., Free. higher groUNd BaLLroom: Victor Wooten (jazz, funk), 9 p.m., $18/20. AA. The moNkey hoUSe: Nobunny, Persian Claws, Shepard’s Pie (punk, rock), 9 p.m., $7. moNTy’S oLd Brick TaverN: Sunday Jazz at Monty’s with Dan Skea, Taryn Noelle and Matt Wright (jazz), 4:30 p.m., Free. NecTar’S: Mi Yard Reggae Night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free. radio BeaN: Julia Beerworth (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. Abram Taber (experimental), 9 p.m., Free. The Lestons (rock), 10 p.m., Free. red SqUare: Side Pony with Myra Flynn & Gregory Douglass (’80s covers), 8 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee’S kNeeS: Open Irish Session, 3 p.m., Free. Linda Warnaar with Carter Stowell (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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1/2 LoUNge: Heal-In Sessions with Reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. BiSTro SaUce: Bob Wagner & D. Davis (acoustic), 6:30 p.m., Free. NecTar’S: Coba Stella (electro-acoustic), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. Parima maiN STage: Jazzed Up Mondays (jazz), 7 p.m., Free (18+). radio BeaN: Open Mic, 8 p.m., Free. red SqUare: Hype ‘Em (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free. rozzi’S LakeShore TaverN: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free. rUBeN JameS: Why Not Monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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242 maiN: Balance and Composure, Man Overboard (hardcore), 7 p.m., $7. AA. cLUB meTroNome: Bass Culture with DJs Jahson & Nickel B (electronica), 9 p.m., Free.

LeUNig’S BiSTro & café: Live Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. LifT: Karaoke … with a Twist, 9 p.m., Free. The moNkey hoUSe: Hip-Hop Open Mic with Dakota, 10 p.m., Free. moNTy’S oLd Brick TaverN: Open Mic Night, 6 p.m., Free.

radio BeaN: Honky-Tonk Sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. red SqUare: Upsetta International with Super K (reggae), 8 p.m., Free.

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maiN STreeT griLL & Bar: Blue Fox (blues), 7 p.m., Free. SLide Brook Lodge & TaverN: Tattoo Tuesdays with Andrea (jam), 5 p.m., Free.

champlain valley

51 maiN: Quizz Night (trivia), 7 p.m., Free. Two BroTherS TaverN: Monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

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Bee’S kNeeS: Chris Lyon with Fran (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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The BrewSki: Jason Jack (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. The hUB Pizzeria & PUB: Old Dirty String Band (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Free.

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burlington area

1/2 LoUNge: Sirenix: Queen City Songwriter Series with Dave Keller (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free. BreakwaTer café: WIZN Mid-Week Break: Jive Attic (rock), 6 p.m., Free. fraNNy o’S: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. higher groUNd ShowcaSe LoUNge: Northern Exposure with Close to Nowhere, L. Dora, The Last Two Sharks, Ryan Arthur (rock), 8:30 p.m., $5. AA. LeUNig’S BiSTro & café: Live Jazz, 7 p.m., Free.

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migUeL’S oN maiN: Dawna Hammers (bossa & blues), 7 p.m., Free. The moNkey hoUSe: Familiar Strangers (blues rock), 9 p.m., Free. NecTar’S: Up County, Jon Sandler (rock), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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oN TaP Bar & griLL: Pine Street Jazz, 7 p.m., Free. radio BeaN: Ensemble V (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free. Irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free.

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LaNgdoN STreeT café: The Paper Boat Music Tour with Denitia Odigie, Danny Malone, Aimee Bobruk and CJ Vinson (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., Donations.

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champlain valley

ciTy LimiTS: Karaoke with Let It Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. oN The riSe Bakery: Abby’s Agenda (rock), 8 p.m., Donations.

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maNhaTTaN Pizza & PUB: Open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

greeN moUNTaiN TaverN: Open Mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

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LifT: DJs P-Wyld & Jazzy Janet (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

red SqUare: General Lee (rock), 7 p.m., Free.DJ Cre8 (hip-hop), 11 p.m., Free.

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Two BroTherS TaverN: Open Mic Night, 9 p.m., Free.

northern

Bee’S kNeeS: Heather Maloney (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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NecTar’S: Cats Under the Stars (Jerry Garcia Band tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

LaNgdoN STreeT café: Travis Caudle (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Donations.

The BrewSki: Comedy Night with Andie Bryan (standup), 7:30 p.m., Free.

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LaNgdoN STreeT café: Open Mic, 7 p.m., Free. Earthquake Relief Benefit for the Munsel School in Tibet (folk, bluegrass), 8 p.m., Donations.

Our recycling bin flew the coop!

he 11- to 18-year-olds pulling off breathtaking tumbling, juggling and aerial feats around the state this week didn’t just run away to join the circus ... they are the circus. Circus Smirkus’ annual Big Top Tour stars talented youngsters hailing from as far as California and the United Kingdom, and as close as the Green Mountains. Gleaned through auditions beginning last fall, they will tote this year’s two-hour show — and a gargantuan, European-style tent — all over New England this summer. Apropos to the “Wilderness Wonders: Outdoor Adventures Under the Big Top” theme, wire walkers, contortionists, acrobats and other performers celebrate Mother Nature while simultaneously clowning around.

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Friday, June 25, 2 and 7 p.m., at Circus Smirkus Barn in Greensboro. $14-18. Monday, June 28, through Wednesday, June 30, noon and 6:30 p.m., at Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction. $15.75-18.75. Info, 533-7443. www.smirkus.org

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The Last Strawberry

The Beatles sang about strawberry fields forever, but the much-coveted red berries have a pretty brief Vermont season before they disappear altogether. An annual fruit bash at Sam Mazza’s Family Farm makes the best of their short stay. Surrounded by expansive growing fields, visitors sink their teeth into strawberry-graced shortcakes, fudge, milkshakes and more. Farm festivities augment the sweet, family-friendly affair. Joey the Clown twists up clever balloon creations, and the Green Mountain Draft Horse Association’s wagon rides provide a tour of the 350-acre grounds. Pony rides, a petting zoo and local specialty-foods vendors round out the day. Berry nice, indeed.

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ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL Saturday, June 26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at Sam Mazza’s Family Farm in Colchester. Free admission; some activities charge a small fee. Info, 6553440. www.sammazzafarms.com

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The Real Ideal The Importance of Being Earnest may be Oscar Wilde’s most widely recognized play, but the Valley Players delve into one of his seldom-performed works this week. An Ideal Husband, says first-time director Michael Carr, is “not merely a comedy of manners, like a lot of shows from that time period ... There’s a level of depth that this production has.” The story — taking place over the course of 24 hours in London in 1890 — surrounds the unearthing of a long-buried political scandal. Even with such a weighty plot, “There are definitely some laugh-outloud lines in Oscar Wilde’s dialogue,” says Carr. Elaborate period costumes and props — and action occurring on the floor rather than the stage — do justice to what producer Susan Klein calls a “really witty and colorful commentary of the late Victorian era.”

AN IDEAL HUSBAND’ Thursday, June 24, through Saturday, June 26, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, June 27, 2 p.m., at Valley Players Theater in Waitsfield. Visit website for further dates through July 3. $8-12. Info, 583-1674. www.valleyplayers.com

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ROTARY CLUB OF ESSEX: Rotarians help build goodwill as they organize service goals at weekly social meetings. Nonmembers are welcome to attend. The Essex, Essex, 12:10-1:30 p.m. $15 for members; free to drop in. Info, 233-3612. VERMONT CANARIES INAUGURAL MEETING: A new community of chemically sensitive people, advocates and medical professionals gather to learn more and create a supportive network. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

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WINOOSKI RIVERWALK FESTIVAL PLANNING MEETING: Neighbors pitch in to organize the Onion City’s fifth annual summer celebration. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 734-6175, events@winooskidowntown.com.

environment SUMMER LECTURE SERIES: From price to installation, a “Superinsulation Symposium” sparks a lively discussion about reduced energy consumption in Vermont. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Warren, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

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ISLAND RUNNER MIXER: A ferry disembarks for a cruise of the shorelines at this networking event hosted by the Lake Champlain Islands Chamber of Commerce. Ladd’s Landing Marina, Grand Isle, 6 p.m. $25; cash bar. Info, 372-8400. ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869. RUSSIAN-ENGLISH EXCHANGE: Practitioners of the most widely spoken Slavic language expand

TALK & BARBECUE: Naturalist Mark Powell offers an illuminating lecture on “The Elusive Wood Turtle” after dinner on the barbie made by Cider House Barbecue and Pub. Wesley United Methodist Church, Waterbury, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Preregister for dinner, $8-15. Info, 655-4878.

film ‘CHLOE’: A woman gets unexpected and dangerous results when she hires an escort to seduce her husband in Atom Egoyan’s erotic thriller. Cinema 2, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘CITY ISLAND’: Liar, liar, pants on fire? Raymond De Felitta’s comic film centers on a family full of secrets from the past. Cinema 1, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER ENCORE SERIES: CATAMOUNT ARTS CENTER: Opera stars Anna Netrebko and Roberto Alagna play Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 6:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 748-2600. METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER ENCORE SERIES: LOEW AUDITORIUM: See above listing. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 603-646-2422. METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER ENCORE SERIES: PALACE 9: See above listing. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 6:30 p.m. $12.50-15. Info, 660-9300. SUSTAINABILITY FILM SERIES: A weekly screen sequence presents Ingredients, a documentary about the local food movement. The Town That Food Saved author Ben Hewitt and Magnolia Bistro chef Shannon Reilly speak. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 benefits the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. Info, 861-9700.

food & drink COMMUNITY SUPPER: Hungry diners pile plates high with baked Italian chicken, pasta and homemade pies. Richmond Congregational Church, 5:30 p.m. $3.50-8; takeout available. Info, 434-2789. WED.23

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Friday, June 25, 4 p.m. through fireworks, at Winooski Riverwalk. Free; free garage parking. Info, 734-6175, events@winooskidowntown.com. www.winooskidowntown.com/riverwalk.htm

BURNHAM KNITTERS: Yarn unfurls into purls at a chat-and-craft session. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 879-7576.

SINGLES PARTY: Unattached folks make eyes across the room, mingle and sign up for speed dating. Miguel’s on Main, Burlington, 6:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 864-5684.

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The Fourth of July is just around the corner, but an Onion City fireworks tradition beats other towns to the punch. The fifth annual Winooski Riverwalk Festival draws attention to the other waterfront park, situated on a spiffy boardwalk alongside the falls of the Winooski waterway. As always, food and festivities build anticipation for the nighttime pyrotechnics display. Vendors offer traditional fair fare, from fried dough and funnel cakes to corndogs and cotton candy. Others peddle crafts, face painting and airbrush tattoos. Hop a ride on a “roaming railroad,” which carts passengers down to the natural area, or get an earful of local tunes by Root 7, Waylon Speed, the Winooski Community Choir and Tammy Fletcher. Colorful fire illuminations serve up a dazzling finale.

AMERICAN RED CROSS ANNUAL MEETING: Volunteers, instructors, donors and members convene for the yearly gathering of the Vermont and New Hampshire Valley chapters. Preregister. VSAC Building, Winooski, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-9130, ext. 111.

their vocabularies. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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ABRAHAM-HICKS STUDY GROUP: Believers in the law of attraction investigate, through discussion and group exercises, how your thoughts affect your life. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 383-8429.

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Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: A morethan-20-year-old summer bazaar offers herbs, jellies, vegetables and just-baked goodies in the heart of the village. Lincoln Park, Enosburg Falls, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 933-4503 or 933-6623. Lamoille Valley Year-Round Farmers Artisan Market: Farmers and food producers fill Vermonters’ totes with local and organic dining options, including eggs, cider, seeds and cow cheeses. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-1261. Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0178, middleburyfm@yahoo.com.

Naturopathic Community Clinic: Three doctors offer medical services and half-hour massages. Walk-ins or appointments are accepted. Vermont Integrative Medicine, Montpelier, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-2635. ‘Taming the Mind’: A weekly meditation series with Ven. Amy Miller imparts the fundamentals of the spiritual practice. An overview for newcomers begins at 6:30 p.m. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 78 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136.

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‘Crafternoon’: Little ones jam out to The Beatles while creating an “Octopus’ Garden” collage. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘Intro to Animation’ Film Camp: Would-be filmmakers ages 13 to 17 delve into rapid sequence displays in a hands-on workshop. Preregister. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. Lunchtime Stories: A librarian reads piratethemed stories to kids in grades K and up over midday eats. Dessert is provided. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Music & Movement Time: Preschoolers develop a sense of rhythm through a repertoire of children’s tunes. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 11:45 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. ‘Peter the Music Man’: Educator Peter Alsen lets preschoolers try out various instruments at a fun intro to music theory. Colchester Meeting House, 12:30-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. Summer Reading Kickoff: Devoted page turners are rewarded with tie-dye and water game activities. Oh yes, and snacks. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366.

music Capital City Band: Community band members toot their own horns in a public, outdoor concert next to the Pavilion Office Building. Vermont Statehouse lawn, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7069. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico Concert Choir: A visiting college group performs traditional choral pieces from its home country, many composed by director Ruben Colon-

‘Prophetic Odyssey’: What happened after Moses died? A study group peruses the prophetic writings to quench its thirst for knowledge. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5125.

the world of off-limits love. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576.

Stephen Kiernan: The journalist takes a hard look at the American Dream in a chat about his latest work, Authentic Patriotism: Restoring America’s Founding Ideals Through Selfless Action. Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222.

Hinesburg Farmers Market: Growers sell bunched greens, goat meat and root veggies among vendors of pies, handmade soap and knitwear. United Church of Hinesburg, 3:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3018, info@hinesburglionsfarmersmarket. org.

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Chair Yoga Class: Instructor Laura Brill leads a gentle, off-floor fitness class, focusing on breathing, stretching and relaxation. Bradford Public Library, 3:30-4:30 p.m. $5 donation. Info, 222-4536.

Winooski River Sojourn: Paddlers take to their canoes or kayaks on a multiday, water-guided tour of the river basin. Visit winooskiriver.org/sojourn to learn where to meet up. Winooski River, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. $350365 for all six days; $190-200 for three consecutive days; $35-70 per single day; $10-30 per half day on select days. Info, 655-4878.

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Urban Plant Walk: Plant lovers discover the medicinal powers of city sidewalks and gardens by learning about commonly found healing herbs and their uses. Preregister. Meet at the information kiosk beside Julio’s Cantina Mexican Cuisine & Margarita Bar. State Street, Montpelier, 67:30 p.m. $12. Info, 224-7100, info@ vtherbcenter.org.

Wine Tasting Benefit: Folks linger over glasses of grape varietals from Church Street Wine Cellars and hors d’oeuvres to support Puppets in Education. Preregister. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, Burlington, 5 p.m. $25. Info, 860-3349.

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South Hero Farmers Market: Foodies take advantage of fresh-from-the-farm fare and other local goodies. St. Rose of Lima Church, South Hero, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-5912.

Tarrats. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-2200.

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politics Governor Candidate Forum: Candidates express their views of issues related to substanceabuse prevention, treatment and recovery. Turning Point Center, Burlington, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 598-2287, director@turningpointcentervt.org.

sport Alao Kung Fu: Martial arts students focus on the form and technique of the hung gar style through vigorous conditioning workouts. Fair Haven Fitness, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $6. Info, 265-3470. Running Clinic: A professional coach trains athletes for a 5- or 10K traverse at this “Run for Empowerment” benefiting Women Helping Battered Women. Meet in front of ECHO. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $5. Info, 658-3131, ext. 1076.

talks Brown Bag Lunch Series: Miss Vermont helps parents with teens navigate wardrobe roadblocks in “OMG! Are You Really Wearing That?” Refreshments provided. Milton Community Youth Coalition, noon-1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1009. Leif Richardson: Catch the buzz: This Vermont ecologist talks about 20 native bumblebee species with regard to conservation issues. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

theater ‘Doubt: A Parable’: The Stowe Theatre Guild presents John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a nun facing concerns about a priest at a 1960s Catholic school. Town Hall Theatre, Stowe, 8 p.m. $20. Info, 253-3961, tickets@stowe theatre.com. ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’: Six precocious whiz kids battle it out letter by letter for the coveted title in this eccentric and heavily audience-participatory play. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $2935. Info, 654-2281. ‘Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee?’: Off Center for the Dramatic Arts founding member Stephen Goldberg presents his new play. See theater review, this week. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 540-0773.

words Odyssey Book Discussion Series: Bookworms vicariously experience a long journey through the Mediterranean via Scott Huler’s No-Man’s Land. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3403.

Pilobolus Dance Theater: The world-famous company unveils two Dartmouth College-commissioned works, Hapless Hooligan in “Still Moving” and Redline, as well as the vaudevilleinfluenced Walklyndon. Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $14-50. Info, 603-646-2422. Rochester Contra Dance: Pete Sutherland and Aaron Marcus provide a lively beat for this New England dance tradition. Musicians welcome to join the band. Pierce Hall Community Center, Rochester, 7-10 p.m. $5-8. Info, 617-721-6743.

etc. American Red Cross Blood Drive: Healthy humans part with life-sustaining pints. Library, Winooski High School, noon-5 p.m. Free. Info, 800-843-3500, ext. 3205. ‘Big Benefit Bash’: Vermonters raise money for Burlington’s American Cancer Society Hope Lodge at an evening of entertainment, boasting a concert by Patrick Fitzsimmons, and a live and silent auction. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 5:30 p.m. $75. Info, 872-6313. ‘Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School’: In a cabaret twist on life-drawing classes, participants practice their art over drinks, comedy and games. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7-10 p.m. $8. Info, 496-8994. ‘The Power of Kabbalah’: Participants gain a “manual” for daily life and spiritual wisdom, based on recent literature, in-class activities and the work of Kabbalah Centre International. Unity Church of Vermont, Essex Junction, 7-8:30 p.m. $10. Info, 223-1843.

film ‘Big Flicks at the Paramount’: A revived theater works its way through notable films from “the decade that changed the cinema,” 1965 to ‘75. This week’s feature is Hitchcock’s Psycho. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 6:30 p.m. & 9 p.m. $4-6. Info, 775-0903. ‘Chloe’: See WED.23, 7 p.m. ‘City Island’: See WED.23, 7 p.m. Movie Night: A surf-style eatery queues up a wind-and-water-themed flick weekly. The Spot, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 540-1778. ‘The Last Station’: Michael Hoffman’s 2009 Oscar nominee, based on Vermonter Jay Parini’s biographical novel, centers on the turbulent marriage of Leo Tolstoy and the Countess Sofya. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576. ‘The Piano’: Set in 1850s New Zealand, Jane Campion’s award-winning 1993 romance considers

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Jericho Farmers Market: Passersby graze through locally grown veggies, pasture-raised meats, area wines and handmade crafts. Mills Riverside Park, Jericho, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-5455. South Royalton Farmers Market: More than a dozen vendors peddle various locally grown agricultural goods and unique craft endeavors. Town Green, South Royalton, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 763-8087. Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer their soil-grown and homemade wealth for shoppers to bring home. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 734-6175, wfm@ winooskidowntown.com.

health & fitness Bone Builders Training: Potential volunteer trainers spend the day at a qualifying workshop for the osteoporosis exercise program. Preregister. Parks and Recreation Building, Rutland, 9 a.m.3 p.m. Free. Info, 775-8220. ‘Don’t Worry, Eat Happy’: How does food affect your mood? Folks delve into an in-depth diet discussion. Snap Fitness, Burlington, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-5733.

kids Backpack Theatre: Elementary school-aged students sit tight for staged theatrics. Fairfax Community Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. ‘Feathered Frenzy’: Tots ages 3 to 5 and their parents discover how birds spend their summer by building nests and finding feathers. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $10 for adult/child pair; $4 for additional child. Info, 434-3068. ‘Intro to Animation’ Film Camp: See WED.23, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. ‘Kids Rock Film Festival’: A brand-new screen bash broadcasts classic children’s flicks. Featured this week is The Wizard of Oz. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘Make a Splash’ Craft Series: Clever creators in grades 1 to 5 fashion paper fish and seahorses. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. Music With Peter: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Summer Story Time: Eager readers dive into tales of water, waves, boats and more. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. ‘The Jungle Book’: Local troupe Backpack Theatre presents the adventures of Rudyard Kipling’s “man-cub,” Mowgli. South Burlington Community Library, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080. Weather Forecasting: Follow the flow of the wind by building a weather vane with the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium’s Mark Breen. Bradford

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Book Discussion Series: ‘Genius of Mark Twain’: Classic lit lovers dish on the American author’s memoir, Life on the Mississippi. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Brown Bag Concert Series: Music lovers relax over snacks while listening to soulful blues performed by The Dave Keller Band. Rain location: Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. Woodstock Village Green, noon. Free. Info, 457-3981. Green Mountain Mahler Festival: Conductor Andrew Massey and chorus master Dawn Willis lead an area soloist and a large-scale orchestra and chorus in Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony. ElleyLong Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $12-15. Info, 864-0788. ‘Groovin’ on the Green’ Concert Series: Pine Street Jazz and Blue Gardenias sound out smooth standards on the village green. Maple Tree Place, Williston, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-9100.

Steve Hartmann: The Essex Junction-based folk-rock singer plays a solo show to support the Intervale Foundation. Shelburne Vineyard, 5-7 p.m. Free; cost of drink. Info, 985-8222.

Argentinean Tango: Shoulders back, chin up! With or without partners, dancers of all abilities strut to bandoneón riffs in a self-guided practice session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Info, 598-1077.

‘Sunsets at Shelburne Museum’: Local photographers help twilight travelers frame shots on a camera-themed outing. Shelburne Museum, 5-7:30 p.m. Regular museum admission, $5-20. Info, 985-3346. Winooski River Sojourn: See WED.23, 8 a.m.8 p.m.

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Rick Atkinson: This Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist shares thoughts on writing about war in “Bringing Back the Dead.” Dole Auditorium. Norwich University, Northfield, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2886.

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Bug Walk: Walkers grab nets and sleuth around for dragonflies, butterflies and other flying or hopping six-legged creatures. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. $3; $5 per family. Info, 229-6206.

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Chelsea Lowe: The coauthor of Living With Someone Who’s Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Practical Guide for Family, Friends, and Coworkers describes diagnosis, treatment options and daily issues in nontechnical language. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050.

Snow Farm Vineyard Concert Series: House on Fire provide tunes for outdoor listeners at a picnic-friendly vineyard. Snow Farm Winery, South Hero, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 372-9463.

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‘Two Clubs, One Lake’ Charity Golf Open: A nine-hole tournament hosted by Lake Champlain International challenges players to bring just two clubs. Apple Island Resort, South Hero, noon-8 p.m. $45 for golf and lobster dinner; $25 for golf only. Info, 879-3466. World Cup Soccer Matches: Sports fanatics watch the game, broadcast from South Africa. Kolvoord Room, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

talks Sansea Sparling: A longtime New Haven resident recounts her travels in the Sahara Desert with Tuareg nomads in “Behind the Camel of the Cook.” Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4147.

theater ‘An Ideal Husband’: The Valley Players contemplate the price of success, marital expectations and forgiveness in Victorian times through this Oscar Wilde classic. See calendar spotlight. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 7:30 p.m. $8-12. Info, 583-1674. ‘Doubt: A Parable’: See WED.23, 8 p.m.

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‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’: See WED.23, 8 p.m.

‘Love Letters Made Easy’: Lost Nation Theater illustrates love in the electronic age with Jeanne Beckwith’s comedy about modern obstacles. Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $15-25. Info, 229-0492.

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Pilobolus Dance Theater: See THU.24, 8 p.m. Swing Dance: A half-hour lesson in the East Coast or Lindy Hop style precedes open dancing. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 7:30-11 p.m. $8. Info, 229-4008.

etc. ‘A Course in miracles’: Folks explore different paths to enlightenment by delving into the collective works of Gary Renard. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 660-8060. Anniversary Party: Hors d’oeuvres, blues tunes by Deep Freyed and spirited dancing mark the 30th year of the Addison County Parent/Child Center. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $25; cash bar. Info, 382-9222. EcoSew Workshop: ‘Let’s Make Potholders!’: Crafters fashion posh oven mitts from secondhand supplies. The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $25 includes all materials. Info, 862-7417. Indoor Garage Sale: Bargain hunters scavenge through used goods for steals. Winooski United Methodist Church, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 355-3139. Open Museum: History buffs take in the original Wilson globe and other town keepsakes. Bradford Historical Society, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 222-4423. Tertulia Latina: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440. The SB Electronics Amateur Radio Club Field Day Weekend: The airwaves buzz as a local group takes part in an emergency radio exercise to connect with similar stations across the globe. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, noon -5:30 p.m. $5; free for children under 14. Info, 948-2000.

fairs & festivals Vermont Quilt Festival: This annual parade of patchwork features displays, appraisals, gallery talks and vendors offering colorful bed coverings and the means to make them. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $10-12; free for children under 14. Info, 872-0034.

Winooski Riverwalk Festival: The Onion City reveals its layers in a summer celebration featuring food, live music, crafts and family games, topped off with fireworks. See calendar spotlight. Winooski Riverwalk, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 734-6175, events@ winooskidowntown.com.

Willoughbys perform. Volunteers Green, Richmond, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 434-5273.

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‘Aliens’: James Cameron’s 1986 action film about a planet under attack earned Sigourney Weaver an Oscar nomination. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576.

Westford Farmers Market: Purveyors of produce and other edibles take a stand at outdoor stalls. Westford Common, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 370-4077, info@westfordfarmersmarketvt.org.

T’ai Chi: Seniors learn to improve balance and reduce stress with fluid movements. Champlain Senior Center, McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 10:30-11:30 a.m. $5 donation. Info, 658-3585.

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‘Casino Jack and the United States of Money’: Alex Gibney’s provocative 2010 documentary probes the corruption scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff, a former American super-lobbyist. Cinema 1. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

Children’s Story Hour: Read-aloud works give young ones an appreciation of the written word. Bradford Public Library, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@gmail.com.

‘Terribly Happy’: Henrik Ruben Genz’s 2008 drama centers on a Copenhagen cop who makes a slip that leads to a small-town reassignment. Cinema 2, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600.

food & drink Chelsea Farmers Market: A 35-year-old town-green tradition supplies shoppers with meat, cheese, vegetables, fine crafts and weekly entertainment. North Common, Chelsea, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 685-7726, chelseacommunitymarket@ gmail.com. Fair Haven Farmers Market: Community entertainment adds flair to farm produce. Fair Haven Park, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 518-282-9781. Five Corners Farmers Market: Farmers share the bounty of the growing season at an open-air exchange. Cooking Close to Home: A Year of Seasonal Recipes author Diane Imrie signs copies of the book. Lincoln Place, Essex Junction, 3:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-6701 or 355-3143, essexcommunity farmersmarket@yahoo.com. Hardwick Farmers Market: A burgeoning culinary community celebrates local ag with fresh produce and handcrafted goods. Route 15 West, Hardwick, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 533-2337, hardwick farmersmarket@gmail.com. Hartland Farmers Market: Everything from freshly grown produce to specialty food abounds at outdoor stands highlighting the local plenitude. Hartland Public Library, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2500, hartlandfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Ludlow Farmers Market: Merchants divide a wealth of locally farmed products, artisanal eats and unique crafts. Okemo Mountain School, Ludlow, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 734-3829. Lyndonville Farmers Market: Ripe fruits and veggies highlight an outdoor sale of locally grown eats. Bandstand Park, Lyndonville, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 533-7455, lyndonfarmersmarket@gmail.com. Prerace Pasta Dinner: Carbs in the form of bread and noodles give runners the strength for Saturday’s Run for Empowerment. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 6 p.m. $10; free for kids. Info, h658-3131, ext. 1076. Richmond Farmers Market: Live music entertains fresh-food browsers at a melody-centered market connecting farmers and cooks. Four-piece band The

‘Cinderella’: From talking mice to a pumpkin carriage, Very Merry Theatre captures the “bippity boppity boo” of this classic fairy tale. Staige Hill Farm, Charlotte, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6607 or 355-1461. ‘Intro to Animation’ Film Camp: See WED.23, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. ‘Peter Rabbit’: The cotton-tailed Beatrix Potter protagonist stars in this Very Merry Theatre production. Very Merry Theatre, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-6607 or 355-1461. ‘Songs & Stories with Matthew’: Musician Matthew Witten helps kids start the day with tunes and tales of adventure. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956, brownell_library@yahoo.com. Summer Preschool Story Time: Tots ages 3 to 5 bury their noses in books with read-aloud tales, rhymes, songs and crafts. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. ‘Summers 4 Youth’: Youngsters visit museums, beaches, parks and more through this warmweather series organized by Milton Community Youth Coalition. Call for specific activity information and times. Preregister. Milton Middle/High School, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. $5-25. Info, 893-1009.

music Bow Thayer, Kristina Stykos & Patrick Ross: California-based special guest Lisa Parade joins the parade of bluegrass and string-band sounds. Tunbridge Town Hall, 8-11 p.m. $10-15. Info, 223-8667. ‘Dead in the Water’: Local Grateful Dead-inspired band The Dead Sessions headline a musical cruise. Meet at King Street Ferry Dock. Lake Champlain Ferry, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15-20. Info, 864-9669. Montréal International Jazz Festival: Legendary music makers from Sonny Rollins to Boz Scaggs to Allen Toussaint perform jazz, blues and contemporary tunes with talented up-and-comers. Various locations, Montréal, 8 a.m.-midnight. Various prices. Info, 888-515-0515. TGIF Summer Concert Series: Folks welcome in the weekend with live tunes by The Real Deal at the gazebo. Rain location: St. Albans City Hall Gymnasium. Taylor Park, St. Albans, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 782-4389. The Johannes String Quartet: Soovin Kim, Jessica Lee, ChoongJin Chang and Peter Stumpf kick off the 16th season of the Rochester Chamber Music Society. Preconcert talk at 6:30 p.m. Federated

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Church, Rochester, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 767-9234.

Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 356-1838.

programs. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $5 per vehicle. Info, 878-6955.

Lodge, Derby, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 334-2580.

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Chittenden County Stream Team Kickoff: Individuals learn more about local efforts to restore stormwater-impaired streams. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-9278.

Wood-Carving Demo: Visitors avid about avians see trees being whittled into models of various bird species. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 1-2 p.m. Free with regular admission, $3-6. Info, 434-2167.

Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: See WED.23, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Winooski River Sojourn: See WED.23, 8 a.m.8 p.m.

sport Benefit Golf Tournament: Clubs send little white balls hurtling toward holes at a course dedicated to supporting Ronald McDonald House Charities. Registration, 8 a.m.; shotgun start, 9 a.m. Champlain Country Club, Swanton, 8 a.m. $100 per person; $400 per team. Info, 862-4943.

‘An Ideal Husband’: See THU.24, 7:30 p.m. Circus Smirkus: Acrobatics, tumbling feats, high-wire hijinks and general clowning around come together in “Wilderness Wonders: Outdoor Adventures Under the Big Top.” See calendar spotlight. Circus Smirkus Barn, Greensboro, 2 & 7 p.m. $14-18. Info, 533-7443. ‘Doubt: A Parable’: See WED.23, 8 p.m. ‘Love Letters Made Easy’: See THU.24, 8 p.m. ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’: See WED.23, 8 p.m. ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’: A twister sends a young girl and her house over the rainbow in Saint Michael’s Playhouse Junior’s colorful production, directed by Marc Tumminelli. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, noon. $9.50. Info, 654-2281. ‘Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee?’: See WED.23, 8 p.m.

SAT.26 ‘Hands Across the Sands’: In response to the Gulf oil spill, Vermonters join groups all over the world holding hands to draw a line in the sand against the threats of offshore drilling. Visit www. vermonthands.org or www.handsacrossthesand. org for more info. Oakledge Park, Burlington, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, yellow. ladyslipper@gmail.com.

Master Class With Pilobolus: Dancers sample the group’s acrobatic-like style with company member Annika Sheaff. Preregister. Straus Dance Studio, Berry Sports Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., noon. $10. Info, 603-646-2422. Pilobolus Dance Theater: See THU.24, 8 p.m.

2010 Homes Tour: A self-guided tour of the Queen City, organized by Preservation Burlington, puts the focal point on structures styled post-World War II. Meet for refreshments at recently renovated The Spot anytime during the excursion. Various locations, Burlington, noon-4 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966.

Bonsai Show: Members of the Green Mountain Bonsai Society show off tiny tree specimens and demo intricate pruning techniques. Firehouse

Downtown Walking Tour: Preservation Burlington takes history and architecture buffs on an hourlong tour of the Queen City’s significant nooks and crannies. Meet at the corner of Church and College streets. Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, 11 a.m. $5. Info, 522-8259, info@preser vationburlington.org. ‘EcoSew: T-Shirt Chop Shop’: Stitchers turn venerable knitwear into au courant fashions with basic cut-and-sew steps. The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 a.m. $25 includes all materials. Info, 862-7417. ‘Exit Laughing’: A music, song and dance celebration honors the Flynn Center’s executive director, Andrea Rogers, on her 30th year. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free; ticket required. Info, 863-5966. ‘Foal Days’: Farm visitors get to know the resident mares and foals. UVM Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Regular grounds fee, $2-5. Info, 388-2011. French Roundtable: Speakers at various skill levels order café during an open practice session. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. ‘Gifts From the Garden: Herbal Body Care’: From plant selection to growing to processing, plant expert Allison Lea shares techniques for whipping up home lip balms, infused oils and salves. Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, 9 a.m.-noon. $25 includes all materials. Info, 482-4060. ‘Gnar-b-que’: Snowboarding fans meet off the mountain at a warm-weather fest full of food on the grill, music, a raffle and games. Burton Flagship Store, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, 660-9006. Indoor Garage Sale: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oriental Carpet Bazaar: Fabric fans feast their eyes on handmade, 30- to 90-year-old rugs and kilims from Azerbaijan, Syria, Iran and Turkmenistan. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3863. The Addison County Amateur Radio Association Field Day Weekend: The airwaves buzz as a local group takes part in an emergency radio exercise to connect with similar stations across the globe. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Vergennes, 2-8 p.m. $3; free for children 14 and under. Info, 759-2412. The SB Electronics Amateur Radio Club Field Day Weekend: See FRI.25, 9:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. ‘Water Fun(draising) Car Wash’: Teen Activity Board members make rides gleam to support teen

Vermont Quilt Festival: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.6 p.m.

film ‘A Prophet’: Jacques Audiard’s 2009 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year follows the prison term of a meek 19-year-old. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576. ‘Casino Jack and the United States of Money’: See FRI.25, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. ‘Terribly Happy’: See FRI.25, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.

food & drink Annual Strawberry Festival: Strawberry fields set the stage for delicious baked goods, pony rides, a petting zoo, wagon rides, clown antics and more. See calendar spotlight. Sam Mazza’s Family Farm, Colchester, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission; some activities charge a small fee. Info, 655-3440. Bristol Farmers Market: Weekly music and kids’ activities add to the edible wares of local food and craft vendors. Town Green, Bristol, 10 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 453-7397, sallyb_sallyb@yahoo. com. Burlington Cohousing Potluck: Community members bring a dish to share as they meet, mingle and learn about collaborative living. Preregister. East Village Cohousing, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 863-5359. Burlington Farmers Market: Sixty-two vendors sell everything from fresh fruits and vegetables to ethnic cuisine to pottery to artisan cheese. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burl ingtonfarmersmarket.org. Burlington Wine & Food Festival: An eat-anddrink extravaganza features sipping sessions with a selection of more than 250 fine wines; seminars with noted vintners, chefs and sommeliers; and an array of area gourmet food. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. & 48 p.m. $40; for ages 21 and up only. Info, 863-5966. Capital City Farmers Market: Fresh produce, perennials, seedlings, home-baked foods and handmade crafts lure local buyers throughout the growing season. Sheefra offer live tunes on this designated “Strawberry Day.” 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, man ager@montpelierfarmersmarket.com. Derby Farmers Market: Chemical-free veggies and other seasonal eats are up for grabs. Elks

Middlebury Farmers Market: See WED.23, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Milton Farmers Market: Honey, jams and pies alike tempt seekers of produce, crafts and maple goodies. Milton Grange, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 893-7734. Mt. Tom Farmers Market: Twenty-five purveyors of garden-fresh crops, pasta, herbs and spices set up shop for the morning. Mt. Tom, Woodstock, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 763-8617. Northwest Farmers Market: Stock up on local, seasonal produce, garden plants, canned goods and handmade crafts. Local artists Karen Day-Vath, Paule Gingras, Meta Strick and Clair Dunn display original prints, paintings and mixed-media for “Art in the Park.” Taylor Park, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 373-5821. Randolph Farmers Market: Open-air stalls boast crops straight from the soil, prepared foods, farm products and tchotchkes. Central Street, Randolph, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 728-9123. Rutland County Farmers Market: Downtown strollers find high-quality fruits and veggies, mushrooms, fresh-cut flowers, sweet baked goods and artisan crafts within arms’ reach. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-4813. Shelburne Farmers Market: Harvested fruits and greens, artisan cheeses and local novelties grace outdoor tables at a presentation of the season’s best. Shelburne Parade Ground, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2472. Strawberry Shortcake Festival: Rosy red fruits grace the tops of the all-you-can-eat dessert, ensuring a “berry” good time in support of Lions Club deeds. United Church of Underhill, 5-8 p.m. $4-6; $25 per family. Info, 899-4767. Waitsfield Farmers Market: Local bands enliven an outdoor outlet for homegrown herbs, flowers and fruits, and handmade breads, cheeses and syrups. Mad River Green, Waitsfield, 9 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027. Williston Farmers Market: Shoppers seek prepared foods and unadorned produce at a weekly open-air affair. Town Green, Williston, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 735-3860, christinamead@willistonfarm ersmarket.com.

kids ‘Craft United, Live United’ Club: Kids of all ages join a group devoted to youth volunteer activity, decorate a T-shirt and sign on for a summer project. Proceeds benefit the United Way of Chittenden County. Creative Habitat at Ben Franklin, South Burlington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $10. Info, 864-7541, ext. 839. ‘It’s Milking Time!’: Families hang out at the dairy, helping farm staff bottle-feed calves and call the cows in from pasture. Shelburne Farms, 1:30Sat.26

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owe ll Digital Video Editing: Final Cut Pro users learn basic concepts of the editing software. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692.

Groton Growers Market: Rain or shine, Vermonters relish a potpourri of area edibles, running the gamut from goat cheese to pastries to fruits. Veterans Memorial Park, Groton, 9 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 584-3595 or 584-3310, grotongrowers@ gmail.com.

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Community Lawn Sale: A town cleans house and shares the surplus. Pick up a map on Main Street. Rain date: July 10. Various locations, Enosburgh, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Info, 933-2994.

‘Feast With the Beasts’: Bon Temps Gourmet serves up local food in creative cuisine at a celebration of two new exhibits. Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, 6-9 p.m. $50 includes buffet and wine or beer. Info, 748-2372, arubin@ fairbanksmuseum.org.

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4 p.m. $10-12 per parent-child pair; $5-6 per additional child. Info, 985-8686. Pet Parade: Little ones lead their pets or stuffed animal buddies on a cavalcade outside the library, and then settle in for live music. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. ‘read to a dog’: Stories form a bond between young readers and Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music Michael arnowitt: Scenes of farmers markets, the Statehouse lawn and sledding in Hubbard Park come alive in the local pianist’s newest jazz composition, “Scenes of Montpelier.” Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $8-15. Info, 229-0984. Montréal international Jazz Festival: See FRI.25, 8 a.m.-midnight. one Morning Fair: From traditional bluegrass to old-time ballads, Spencer Lewis and Carol Hausner lead an eclectic musical journey through all-acoustic songs. Universalist Unitarian Church, Washington, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 433-5595. Pro-series concert: Pianist André-Sébastien

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love songs and Chopin compositions. Grounds open at 6:30 p.m. for picnicking. Fisk Farm Art Center, Isle La Motte, 7:30 p.m. $14-22; free for children 15 and under accompanied by an adult. Info, 928-3364.

outdoors country garden tour: Green thumbs embark on a self-guided exploration of eight Jericho and Underhill plots, some featuring educational demonstrations. Proceeds benefit the Jericho Community Center. Various locations, Jericho, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. $12. Info, 899-3853. outdoor education: Insect admirers investigate dragonflies and butterflies on a bug-centric walk, while taking note of other plant and animal interactions. Schmanska Park, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 863-0420. winooski river soJourn: See WED.23, 8 a.m.8 p.m.

sport alao kung Fu: See WED.23, 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m. death race: Hardcore racers try to overcome a 10-mile obstacle course of barbed wire, wood chopping, deep water diving and more. Preregister. Pre-race meeting at 10 p.m. the previous night. Amee Farm, Pittsfield, 4 a.m. $400 entry fee. Info, 309-642-2230. Milton FreedoM 5k run/walk & kids’ Mile: Runners of all stripes join a road race before ice cream and prizes. Bombardier Recreation Park, Milton, 4:45 p.m. $12-15. Info, 893-3675. ‘run For eMPowerMent’: Legs make long strides at the third annual 10K run, 5K walk/run and 1K kids’ fun run supporting Women Helping Battered Women. Waterfront Park, Burlington, 9 a.m. $25-65. Info, 658-3131, ext. 1076.

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susan Morse: A nationally known animal tracker clicks through slides of critters and footprints found within the Winooski watershed. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 6-8:30 p.m. $6-12 for dinner and talk; $5 for talk only, or free for ages 14 and under. Info, 655-4878.

theater ‘an ideal husBand’: See THU.24, 7:30 p.m. ‘douBt: a ParaBle’: See WED.23, 8 p.m. ‘love letters Made easy’: See THU.24, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. PotoMac theatre ProJect: The New York-based company showcases work-inprogress projects throughout the day: Lovesong of the Electric Bear at 11 a.m., Plevna: Meditations on Hatred and Gary the Thief at 3 p.m., and A Question of Mercy at 6 p.m. Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 443-3169. sPielPalast caBaret: An evening of vaudeville and vintage burlesque showcases dancing ladies, a troupe of satirists and a saucy house orchestra. Preshow costume and cocktail party, 6 p.m.; show starts at 8 p.m. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $30-32; $55 for dinner show special. Info, 863-5966. ‘the 25th annual PutnaM county sPelling Bee’: See WED.23, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. ‘the wonderFul wizard oF oz’: See FRI.25, 10 a.m. ‘who’s aFraid oF edward alBee?’: See WED.23, 8 p.m.

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BP Protest rally: Vermonters express their feelings toward the oil company with signs and sayings. Burlington City Hall Park, 1-4 p.m. Free. Info, keeganmichelle@hotmail.com.

community lgBtQ FaMily Beach day: Bring a dish to share at this family-friendly lakeside barbecue. Grillables and drinks are provided. Pavilion, North Beach, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Free; cost of parking. Info, 655-6688, ext. 4715, mturbide@caseyfamilyser vices.org.

dance argentine tango: It takes two to tango, but no partner is necessary for this mixed-level class with Judith Schwartz. Capital City Grange, Montpelier, 7-10 p.m. $20. Info, 603-504-2512, judithanh@ gmail.com. ‘dances oF universal Peace’: Simple circle dances and worldly chants help lift the spirit. North End Studio, Burlington, 4-6 p.m. $5. Info, 658-2447. israeli dance: Movers bring clean, soft-soled shoes and learn traditional circle or line dances.

Partners not required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:15-9:30 p.m. $2; free to first-timers. Info, 888-5706.

etc. annual Book sale: See SAT.26, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Burlington area scraBBle cluB: Triple-lettersquare seekers spell out winning words. New players welcome. McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 12:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 862-7558. chess cluB: Tabletop warriors do battle at the behest of players of all ages and abilities. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. ‘show & shine’ and Poker ride: Riders rev engines on a group outing at 9 a.m., and a motorcycle show, bike wash and barbecue follow. Proceeds benefit the Vermont Special Olympics and the Essex Fire Department. Green Mountain HarleyDavidson, Essex Junction, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. $10-15 registration. Info, 878-4778. teddy Bear Picnic: A benefit for Haiti’s Hôpital Albert Schweitzer includes lawn games, kids’ activities, face painting, live music by Josh Brooks and a picnic-style buffet for all ages. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $35 for kids includes a teddy bear to keep; $10 for adults. Info, 1-800-6224000. the addison county aMateur radio association Field day weekend: See SAT.26, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. the sB electronics aMateur radio cluB Field day weekend: See FRI.25, 9:30 a.m.5:30 p.m.

fairs & festivals verMont history exPo: See SAT.26, 10 a.m.5 p.m. verMont Quilt Festival: See FRI.25, 9 a.m.3 p.m.

film ‘casino Jack and the united states oF Money’: See FRI.25, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. ‘exPand your Mind: FilMs oF the 1960s’: Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night, about the daily life of The Beatles band members, kicks off a period film series — at period prices, no less. Introductory talk at 6:30 p.m. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7 p.m. $2. Info, 382-9222. ‘revéil — waking uP French’: A documentary by Ben Levine provides a snapshot of the culture of New England’s French Canadian communities. Abby Paige, writer and performer of Piecework: When We Were French leads a postfilm discussion. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4 p.m. Donations accepted for Médecins Sans Frontières’ Haitian relief work. Info, 865-7211. ‘terriBly haPPy’: See FRI.25, 1:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. ‘the runaways’: This 2010 drama charts the rise of the girl band as the legendary teenage rock group shoots into 1970s stardom. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576.

food & drink colchester FarMers Market: Vendors present passersby with fresh local produce, specialty foods and crafts. Creek Farm Town Center, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-4908. ‘eating well on a Budget’: Foodies put a lid on spending by taking a tour of the bulk-foods section and learning related recipes. Preregister.

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‘telling your digitAl Story’: Tech savvy storytellers learn how to edit and enhance film recordings with Bridget Butler from the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center. Preregister. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. tweet ‘n’ StitCh: Crafters join a sewing circle with their current projects and Twitter their progress. The Bobbin Sew Bar & Craft Lounge, Burlington, 8-10 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 862-7417.

Stowe FArMerS MArket: Preserves, produce and other provender attract fans of local food. Red Barn Shops Field, Stowe, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8027 or 498-4734, info@stowevtfarmers market.com.

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StrAwBerry FeStivAl: Horse-drawn wagon rides, strawberry picking, kids’ crafts, live folk-rock and other festivities honor the arrival of the favored summer fruit. Cedar Circle Farm, East Thetford, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5 parking. Info, 785-4737.

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kids ‘reAd to A dog’: See SAT.26, 1-2 p.m. ‘SundAyS For FledglingS’: Youngsters go avian crazy in hiking, acting, writing or exploring activities. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 22:45 p.m. $2.50-6 for kids; free for adults. Info, 434-2167.

music MontréAl internAtionAl JAzz FeStivAl: See FRI.25, 8 a.m.-midnight.

outdoors Bird wAlk: Naturalist Matt Kolan and other binocular fans search from grassland to wetland for feathers in the air. Preregister. Shelburne Farms, 7-9 a.m. $6. Info, 985-8686, ext. 341. Morning Bird wAlk: An a.m. ramble through the woods rewards early risers with glimpses of feathered chirpers ... and coffee. Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 7-8:15 a.m. Donations accepted. Info, 434-2167.

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CentrAl verMont CyCling tour: Cyclists spin their wheels along 15, 30 or 60 miles of scenic dirt roads to support the Cross Vermont Trail Association’s projects. Morse Farm, Montpelier, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $25-100 registration includes post-ride buffet. Info, 489-0079.

theater ‘An ideAl huSBAnd’: See THU.24, 2 p.m. ‘love letterS MAde eASy’: See THU.24, 7 p.m.

Mon.28 JApAneSe ConverSAtion group: Folks swap sentences in a distant dialect at this language exchange. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 56 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

‘people’S pAntry’: Franklin County residents tight on cash stop by for a complimentary meal. Methodist Community Center, Highgate Center, 47 p.m. Free. Info, 782-0554. StrAwBerry FeStivAl: Fruit fans tuck into ruby-red berries residing in shortcake at a benefit for the Champlain Valley Christian School. Airs by the Vergennes City Band round out the affair. Vergennes City Park, 6-8 p.m. Free admission; $5 for food and drink. Info, 877-6758.

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‘kArAte in the pArk’: Sensei Karen Davoren teaches the martial art to students ages 8 to 16. Town Green, Fair Haven, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 468-0010. MuSiC with peter: See THU.24, 10:45 a.m. ‘reAd to A therApy dog’: Kids in grades K through 5 read to Levi, a Shih Tzu who loves to listen. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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music AFro-BrAziliAn perCuSSion ClASS: Community band Sambatucada teach the pulsating rhythms of samba, samba reggae and baião. Call for specific location. Various locations, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 343-7107.

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‘greenS & SproutS’: New England Culinary Institute student chefs toss together a tasty summer salad. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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Donations benefit Haitian youth. Lincoln Library, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 453-2665.

theater CirCus smirkus: See FRI.25, Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, noon & 6:30 p.m. $15.75-18.75. Info, 533-7443. ‘London AssurAnCe’: A simulcast screening presents the National Theatre of London’s acclaimed comedy about a city man transplanted to the English countryside. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 2 p.m. $10-22. Info, 748-2600. monoLogue night: Area actors network through an evening of short performances. Sign up in advance for a time slot onstage. Radio Bean, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 720-982-6073, todd.c.townsend@gmail.com.

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intergenerAtionAL Book disCussion: Committed page turners in grades 6 through adult dish on M.H. Herlong’s The Great Wide Sea. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 6:30 p.m. 6/7/10 12:20:50 PM Free. Info, 878-0313. mArjorie CAdy memoriAL Writers group: Budding wordsmiths improve their craft through “homework” assignments, creative exercises and sharing. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-2926, cpotter935@com cast.net.

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green drinks: Activists and professionals for a cleaner environment raise a glass over networking and discussion. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-7999.

etc. ‘CoLd-BLooded Critters: sLimy or sCALy?’: A wood turtle, snake and salamander drop by at a workshop differentiating reptiles and amphibians. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581, jaquithpubliclibrary@hotmail.com. Community CounCiL meeting: Those interested in Vermont Public Television gather to talk about the boob tube and its future. Gifford Medical Center, Randolph, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 655-8059. FrenCh ConversAtion group: Folks take their Romance language capabilities for a spin in a weekly repartee. Bien fait! Borders Books & Music, Burlington, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088. ‘trAveLing the pAth to enLightenment’: Students of all levels get a practical overview of Tibetan Buddhism. Milarepa Center, Barnet, 6:308:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 633-4136.

film ‘CAsino jACk And the united stAtes oF money’: See FRI.25, 7 p.m. ‘terriBLy hAppy’: See FRI.25, 7 p.m.

food & drink derBy FArmers mArket: See SAT.26, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11 a.m. Regular admission, $8.50-10.50. Info, 1-877-324-6386. ‘the jungLe Book’: See THU.24. Colchester Meeting House, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

johnson FArmers mArket: A street emporium bursts with local agricultural products, ranging from produce to herbs to fresh-baked bread. Main Street, Johnson, 3:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1682. oLd north end FArmers mArket summer FestivAL: Local farmers sell the fruits of their fields, and their labor. Special activities range from live music to a petting zoo to kids’ games. H.O. Wheeler Elementary School, Burlington, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 324-3073. ‘peopLe’s pAntry’: See MON.28, 4-7 p.m. rutLAnd County FArmers mArket: See SAT.26, 3-6 p.m. thetFord hiLL Community mArket: Vendors supply localvores with an array of baked treats, honey, maple syrup and veggies. Thetford Hill Green, 4-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 785-4404. ‘vegetAriAn sushi’: Foodies roll up seaweed-andrice creations with a variety of fillings and wasabi. City Market, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

health & fitness deekshA oneness experienCe: Stressed-out souls find peace of mind and rejuvenation in this spiritual transfer of energy. Christ Church Presbyterian, Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $3-5 donation. Info, 233-2638. LAughter yogA: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 355-5129.

kids Book disCussion: Bookworms in middle school and up consider classic children’s lit selections, such as this week’s Treasure Island, over lunch. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, noon. Free. Info, 388-4095. CreAtive tuesdAys: Artists of all ages engage in creative paper-craft activities. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. ‘kArAte in the pArk’: Sensei Karen Davoren teaches the martial art to students ages 4 to 7. Town Green, Fair Haven, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 468-0010. LAke monsters BAseBALL pLAyers: Members of the sports team meet their young fans. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. ‘Live ACtion roLe pLAy’: Kids in grades 6 and up play out imaginative scenarios as they create characters and improvise actions and words. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. ‘neW moon’: Love complications abound in this popular 2009 fantasy film, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 5-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366. story hour: Tales and picture books catch the attention of tykes of all ages. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. story time With A tWist: Young explorers discover the wonders of the natural world through books and imaginative play. ECHO Lake Aquarium

music Boz sCAggs: An American music scene force since the 1970s, this singer-songwriter focuses on chance on his latest album, 2008’s Speak Low. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $49.40-75. Info, 863-5966. CAstLeton ConCerts on the green: The Starline Rhythm Boys headline a familyfun night of upbeat rockabilly and honky-tonk tunes. Castleton Village Green, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 273-2911. LA-33: A summer music series switches into gear with salsa sounds by this 12-piece Colombian band. On the campus green, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 5 p.m. Free. Info, 603-646-2422. miLton Community BAnd reheArsAL: Director Mary Bauer oversees bandmates and new members in a varied repertoire. Milton Elementary School, 7-8:45 p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398. montréAL internAtionAL jAzz FestivAL: See FRI.25, 8 a.m.-midnight. ‘songs At mirror LAke’: Barefoot Truth offer acoustic rock at a weekly musical gathering. Mid’s Park, Lake Placid, N.Y., 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 518-524-4328.

sport BurLington/south BurLington proFessionAL FireFighters goLF tournAment: Players swing along a green course to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. West Bolton Country Club, Jericho, registration, 8 a.m.; shotgun start, 9 a.m. Team entry fee, $90 singles or $360 per foursomes. Info, 862-6424, ctal lon@mdausa.org. ‘get to knoW your Bike’: A cycle-shop pro introduces free wheelers to vehicle anatomy, flat fixes and roadside skills. Skirack, Burlington, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-3313. vermont LAke monsters: See MON.28, 7:05 p.m.

theater ‘Around the WorLd in 80 dAys’: An adventurer races the clock in a highly imaginative take on Jules Verne’s classic novel, presented by Saint Michael’s Playhouse. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 8 p.m. $29-35. Info, 654-2281. CirCus smirkus: See MON.28, noon & 6:30 p.m.

words hettie jones: The memoirist of How I Became Hettie Jones, and author and poet of various works for children and adults, reads selections aloud before a book signing. Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 322-1617.

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explains the concepts of Greensulate insulation and EcoCradle packaging materials. Yestermorrow Design/Build School, Warren, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 496-5545.

pirAte plAy: Shiver me timbers! Kids in grades K to 5 develop a script, costumes and props for a short production. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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slip ‘n’ slide: Bathing suited young ‘uns catch some rays and water on the library lawn. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

AbrAhAm-hicks study Group: See WED.23, 6-7:30 p.m. burnhAm knitters: See WED.23, 6-8 p.m. ‘come smile’: Intuitive hand analyses, numerology assessments, foot reflexology treatments and more benefit Sonrisa International. WhatsMomDoing.com, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $25 donation; $10 per raffle ticket, or $20 per three. Info, 881-6579. ribbon-cuttinG & dedicAtion ceremony: The community celebrates the Williston Fire Department’s new ambulance service with an official ceremony and refreshments. Williston Fire Station, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5622.

fairs & festivals howArdcenter diversity FAir: A multicultural medley of food, crafts and performances celebrates our mixed community. McClure Gymnasium, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 488-6912.

film ‘cAsino JAck And the united stAtes oF money’: See FRI.25, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. ‘FridA’: This biopic examines the outrageous personality of unibrowed painter Frida Kahlo as it follows her marriage to Mexican artist Diego Rivera and their journeys to America. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2576. sustAinAbility Film series: A weekly screen sequence presents Carbon Nation, a documentary about solutions to climate change. Director and producer Peter Byck speaks. Merrill’s Roxy Cinemas, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 benefits the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. Info, 861-9700. ‘terribly hAppy’: See FRI.25, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.

food & drink lAmoille vAlley yeAr-round FArmers ArtisAn mArket: See WED.23, 3-6:30 p.m. middlebury FArmers mArket: See WED.23, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. south hero FArmers mArket: See WED.23, 4-7 p.m.

chAir yoGA clAss: See WED.23, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

cApitAl city bAnd: See WED.23, 7-8 p.m. Green mountAin chAmber music FestivAl: The artist faculty of an annual summer conservatory offer compositions by Poulenc, Ravel, Honegger and Bonis in “French Delights.” UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6-18. Info, 735-8097.

Middlebury College behind the Center for the Arts Grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for picnicking Bring your blankets and chairs • Rain site: Kenyon Arena Adults $25 • Youth $10 • Children Under 12 Free • Group rates available. Tickets available at Henry Sheldon Museum, Flynn Box Ofﬁce, 802-863-5966, or henrysheldonmuseum.org For more information, call: 802.388.2117

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outdoors Field wAlk: Visitors stroll through the trial garden on a tour emphasizing lettuces, brassicas and herbs. High Mowing Organic Seeds, Wolcott, 46 p.m. Free. Info, 472-6174.

sport AlAo kunG Fu: See WED.23, 6:30-8:30 p.m. vermont lAke monsters: See MON.28, 7:05 p.m.

talks ‘the GrAil And the rosy cross’: A visual presentation focusing on “The Grail in Modern Times” discusses the Hermetic Gnostic philosophy as it relates to daily life. 6 Fairfield Hill Road, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@goldenrosy cross.org.

theater ‘Around the world in 80 dAys’: See TUE.29, 8 p.m. circus smirkus: See MON.28, noon & 6:30 p.m. ‘doubt: A pArAble’: See WED.23, 8 p.m.

words howArd FrAnk mosher: The author of Walking to Gatlinburg shares the creation of the novel and reads passages aloud. Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 475-2311.

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‘prophetic odyssey’: See WED.23, 11:30 a.m.12:30 p.m.

boAt workshop: Kids in grades 1 to 5 fashion a watercraft and test its seaworthiness in a miniregatta race. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 2-3 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2366.

‘yArns oF lAke chAmplAin’: Tales of camping, sailing and fishing on the local waves are captured on film or in writing for ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain’s “Voices of the Lake” project. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. m

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‘tAminG the mind’: See WED.23, 7-8 p.m.

chess For kids: Checkmate! Teen Advisory Board members coach clever thinkers in grades 3 to 8 on strategy. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

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lArry coFFin: The author of the newly published In Times Past: Essays From the Upper Valley covers topics of local history. Bradford Public Library, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 222-4536, bradfordpubliclibrary@ gmail.com.

‘eAtinG For enerGy’: Add some pep to that step by learning what vittles will give you a boost. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 999-5733.

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‘stAmpinG For summer’: Crafty types ages 10 and up fashion fishy foam stamps to be used at the summer reading table. Preregister. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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‘splAshtivities: mAd wAter science’: H20 experimenters fool around with bubbly potions, water pressure and other madcap activities. Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313.

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community story time: Books and songs amuse kids of all ages. Fire Department, Berlin, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘peter the music mAn’: See WED.23, 12:30-1 p.m.

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bodywork ORTHO-BIONOMY: THE SPINE: Aug. 7-8, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245/14 CEUs ($225 when paid in full by July 20) Call or email about introductory risk free fee. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, Burlington. Info: Dianne Swafford, 802-734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail. com. By accessing the innate, self-corrective reflexes, participants will focus on specific techniques for facilitating release in the neck, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and pelvis, to achieve pain relief and structural balance. Ortho-bionomy is a gentle yet deeply effective form of body therapy that is used to reduce tension, improve structural alignment and restore well-being. 14 CEUs.

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burlington city arts CLAY: MIXED-LEVEL WHEEL: Jul. 14-Aug. 11, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $180/$162 BCA members. Location: BCA 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 intermediate throwing, trimming and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. Over 20 hrs./ week of open studio time to practice. Prerequisite: Proficiency in centering and throwing basic cups and bowls. PHOTO: HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE TECHNIQUES: Jul. 22-Aug. 12, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $195/members, $175.50 BCA members. Location:

and printing images using hand-drawn, photographic or borrowed imagery. Learn how to apply photo emulsion, how to use a silkscreen exposure unit, and how to mix and print images with water-based inks. Material list will be provided, some materials included.

Call 802-865-7166 for info or register online at BurlingtonCityArts.com. Teacher bios are also available online. BCA offers dozens of weeklong summer art camps for ages 3-14 in downtown Burlington from June to August – the largest selection of art camps in the region! Choose full- or halfday camps – scholarships are available. See all the camps and details at www.burlingtoncit yarts.com.

coaching ONE NEXT STEP: A RETREAT FOR REFLECTION, DECISION & SUPPORT: Aug. 6. Location: Meadowhawk Homestead Retreat Center, Monkton. Info: Laura, 802-482-3191, bhy@beecherhillyoga.com, www.juliesoquet.com. A wonderful collaboration: Laura Wisniewski, director of Beecher Hill Yoga, will be teaming up with Julie Soquet of Windhorse Consulting to offer this wonderful late-summer, one-day retreat. Are you ready to take a step toward change in your life? This is the perfect opportunity to make some space and time for yourself, explore your needs, priorities and vision and create a plan.

BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES: Location: The Champlain Club, Burlington. Info: First Step Dance, 802-598-6757, kevin@firststepdance. com, www.FirstStepDance. com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance! DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Cost: $13/ class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclubstyle. One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! LEARN TO SWING DANCE: Cost: $60/6-week series ($50 for students/ seniors). Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Info: www.lindyvermont. com, 802-860-7501. Great fun, exercise and DANCE

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DIRT DIVA’S WOMEN’S MOUNTAIN BIKE CLINIC: Jun. 26, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $89. Location: Stowe Mountain Resort, Stowe. Info: Girls Move Mountains, 802-229-2976, info@girlsmovemountains.org. Girls Move Mountains in partnership with Stowe Mountain

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and Onion River Sports is pleased to offer a oneday mountain bike clinic for women, ages 16 and up, who are interested in learning the exciting lifelong sport of mountain biking. This clinic is geared toward beginner/intermediate riders and provides a structured, step-by-step progression toward building the skills necessary to have fun and find success on a mountain bike -- all in a positive and supportive environment. We will cover the basics of gearing, shifting, braking, body position, cornering, bike handling, riding obstacles, trail riding and bike repair/ maintenance.

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Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Students will be working primarily on the potter’s wheel learning basic throwing and forming techniques. Projects may include vases, mugs and bowls. Students will also be guided through the various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No experience necessary! Over 20 hours/week of open studio time to practice! PHOTO: INTRO FILM OR DIGITAL SLR CAMERA: Jun. 30-Aug. 4, 6:308:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $145/$130.50 BCA Members. Location: Firehouse Center, 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 an empty manual 35mm film or digital SLR camera and it’s owners manual to class. No experience necessary. PRINT: SILKSCREEN: Jun. 30-Aug. 11, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $210/$189 BCA members. Location: BCA Print Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Learn to design and print posters, T-shirts, fine-art prints and more! Students will be exposed to a variety of techniques for transferring

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18 in Cooperstown, N.Y., and August 7 and 8 in Hinesburg. Info at www. vermonttinyhouses.com.

Firehouce Center, Burlington. Learn how to capture brilliant color images with incredible detail in both shadow and highlight areas using High Dynamic Range photography. Landscape, architectural and night photography applications will be covered, as well as image processing techniques. Participants will also have the opportunity to print archival prints on our Epson 3880 printer. Bring digital SLR camera, tripod and Mac-compatible flash drive to class. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR/equivalent experience, basic Photoshop or Lightroom experience. PHOTOGRAPHING WATER: Tuesdays, July 13-27, 6-9 p.m., Field Session Sat., July 17. Cost: $195/ nonmembers, $175.50/ BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, Burlington. Learn to capture the beauty and movement of water in this four-session hands-on workshop. Time exposures and stop-motion techniques will be covered, as well as Photoshop imageprocessing techniques. Participants will print archival prints on our Epson 3880 printer. Bring digital SLR camera, tripod and Mac-compatible flash drive to class. Prerequisite: Intro Film, Digital SLR, or equivalent experience, basic Photoshop experience. CLAY: WHEEL-THROWING I: Jul. 12-Aug. 23, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $235/nonmembers, $211.50/BCA members. Location: BCA

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socializing, with fabulous music. Learn in a welcoming and lighthearted environment. Classes start every six weeks: Tuesdays for beginners; Wednesdays for upper levels. Instructors: Shirley McAdam and Chris Nickl. NEW SALSA DANCE CLASS SERIES: With Burlington’s best David Larson and South End Studios, Burlington’s newest (and nicest) dance studio. Basic Salsa, 7-8 p.m. Salsa Party, 8-8:30 p.m. 4-week session starts Thur., July 1. Location: 696 Pine St., Burlington. Info: 802-3558955. Make some new friends. We have some great music and lots of fun. No partner needed. Come check out the best place to dance in Burlington, right behind New World Tortilla.

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design/build 2010 VERMONT STONE WORKSHOP: Jul. 22-25, 1-2 p.m. Cost: $1,180/3.5day hands-on workshop. Location: Westminster, Vt. Info: JMMDS, Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio, 802-869-1470, info@ jmmds.com, jmmds.com. Join renowned master dry stone waller Dan Snow and award-winning landscape designer and host Julie Moir Messervy in an inspiring, hands-on, multiday workshop on the art of placing stone. Participants will practice in small groups with Julie and Dan on a variety of projects and skill-building exercises. More at http:// bit.ly/JMMDS_Stone_ Wkshp_2010.

drumming BURLINGTON TAIKO CLASSES: Location: Taiko Space (across from Outer

Space Deli), 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Taiko, 802-6580658, classes@burlingtontaiko.org, www.burlingtontaiko.com. Taiko is an art form that involves music and movement. Each session of the beginninglevel classes focuses on introducing the basic notes and movement of one taiko piece. Students should come to class in loose-fitting exercise wear: Sweatpants and a T-shirt work well. All equipment is provided. No previous experience is necessary! All are welcome! Gift certificates are available. For a full schedule of classes or more info, go online or email.

empowerment LIFE LEADERSHIP & HORSES W/ LUCINDA NEWMAN, CERTIFIED EQUINE GUIDED EDUCATOR & COACH: June 25, 3-6 p.m. & June 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost: $145/incl. beverages/snacks on Fri. & snacks/beverages/lunch on Sat. Location: Horses and Pathfinders Center for Equine Guided Education and Life Leadership Coaching, 6899 Route 100B, Moretown. Info: 802-223-1903, Lucinda@ Horsesandpathfinders. com, www.horsesandpathfinders.com. This innovative, equine-guided workshop, with proven success for over 20 years, masterfully blends sociobiology, leadership, empowerment and horsemanship into a powerful metaphor for developing professional mastery, leadership savvy and self-excellence. No riding or horse experience is required. In fact, we do not actually ride the horses in the program. The focus of Life Leadership & Horses is

on developing leadership and empowerment skills; it is not about learning horsemanship techniques.

herbs BE YOUR OWN HERBALIST: Cost: $90/6-week class. Location: Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, 135 Church St., Burlington. Info: Health Empowermint, Melissa Stiebert, 802503-1268, healthempowermint@gmail.com, melissastiebert.blogspot. com. Learn how to safely and effectively use herbs: It’s simpler than you think! Each week we’ll make herbal preparations (teas, tinctures, salves, liniments, compresses, etc.), identify wild plants, and learn a variety of home remedies and body-care recipes. Take home handouts, tinctures, salves and more. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Wild Edible and Medicinal Walk, Tues., June 29, 6-7:30 p.m., $10. Eat on the Wild Side, Wed., June 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m., $20. Wild Plant Walk, Tue., July 6, 6-7:30 p.m., $10, Rock Point, Burlington. Wild Edibles 2010: Enhancing Local Food Security summer/fall term, Sundays 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Aug. 8, Sept. 12, Oct. 3. Tuition $300. Apply for VSAC nondegree grant. Plan ahead and apply now for VSAC nondegree grant for 2011 programs while funds are plentiful. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. Info: 802-456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www. wisdomoftheherbsschool. com. Earth Skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills, and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

language AMIGOS, LEARN SPANISH WITH US: Beginning week of June 21 for 10 weeks. Cost: $160/10 1-hour classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center,

Waterbury Center. Info: Spanish in Waterbury Center, 802-659-4181, spanishparavos@gmail. com, www. spanishwaterburycenter.com. Summer Spanish class offerings. Learn from a native speaker in a small class environment. Also private instruction and tutoring. Increase your level for school next fall. Also specializing in lessons for young children; they love it! Convenient scheduling. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. www. spanishwaterburycenter. com.

martial arts AIKIDO: Special summer rates -- Join with a friend and recieve one free month of introductory Aikido classes. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal and Light), Burlington. Info: 802-9518900, aikidovt.org. Aikido is a dynamic Japanese martial art that promotes physical and mental harmony through the use of breathing exercises, aerobic conditioning, circular movements, and pinning and throwing techniques. We also teach sword/staff arts and knife defense. Adult classes seven days a week. The Samurai Youth Program provides scholarships for children and teenagers, ages 8-18. AIKIDO: Tues.-Fri., 6-7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 9-10 a.m.; & Sundays, 10-11:30 a.m. Visitors are always welcome. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Info: Vermont Aikido, 802-862-9785, www.vermontaikido.org. Aikido 101: Join us for a free class! “Introduction to Aikido” begins at 10 a.m., the 3rd Saturday of each month. Please bring or wear loose-fitting exercise clothing; plan to arrive 15 minutes early to register. This class is a gentle introduction to basic movement and training, open to everyone interested in learning more about Aikido.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. Info: 802-660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, www.bjjusa.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian JiuJitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian JiuJitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian JiuJitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

massage MASSAGE PRACTITIONER TRAINING: Cost: $7,800/ training, + textbooks & materials. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts School of Massage, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, touchvt@ gmail.com, touchstone healingarts.com. 650 inclass hours plus 40 hours externship. Western-style. Comprehensive training now in its 13th year. Graduate in nine months ready for your new career. Come to our free info session in July. More info on our website. The day has finally come to take the risk to fully blossom! touchstonehealingarts.com.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-658-6795, www. burlingtonshambhalactr. org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

pilates ALL WELLNESS: 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. allwellnessvt.com. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, physical therapy, yoga and 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 7:00just call to sign up. ABSOLUTE PILATES: New classes: 9:30 a.m. Wed. mat class & equipment combo classes. Check the website for details. Location: Absolute Pilates, 3060 Williston Rd., Suite 6, S. Burlington. Info: 802-310-2614, absolutepilatesvt.com Experience the ultimate workout with the Pilates method of body conditioning. Get toned, stronger and more flexible while increasing stamina and energy. Choose between (or combine) mat classes; combo tower/reformer classes; private and semiprivate equipment

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sessions using Reformer, Tower, Wunda chair and Spine corrector; plus lots of fun small props. Come join the fun! Natural Bodies Pilates: Book your sessions for certified instruction in classical Pilates, Laban/ Bartenieff Movement Analysis & yoga for all abilities: By appt. & small group classes. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (Rt. 127, just over the bridge from Burlington’s New North End), Colchester. Info: 802-863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates. com. Race-car drivers, equestrians, elite athletes, professional actors, dancers and golfers benefit from Movement Analysis and stay fit with Pilates exercise, and now you can too! Find your center and relieve stress with wholebody workouts that leave you feeling strong, relaxed and flexible. Call today for your free introduction.

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Powers, 802-985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter. org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Ed Demler. Create your own stained-glass piece of art. Open to beginners and anyone wishing to hone their skills. Instruction includes the Louis Comfort Tiffany copperfoil technique and the traditional lead came method through demonstrations and hands-on practical experience. Wheel Throwing & Handbuilding: Jun. 30Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $180/nonmembers; $160/members; materials $30. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Morgan Powers, 802-985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter. org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Barbara Murphy. This intermediate to advanced class invites students with competent throwing and hand-building skills to explore and refine their own aesthetic and develop a personal style. Students will enhance their throwing skills and hone their abilities to create a range of functional and decorative forms.

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yoga EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels from $5-$14, conveniently located in Burlington. 10-class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates. Mon.-Fri. @ 4:30 p.m., class is only $5!. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802-8649642, yoga@evolutionvt. com, www.evolutionvt. com. Evolution’s certified teachers are skilled with students ranging from beginner-advanced. We offer classes in Vinyasa, Anusara-inspired, Kripalu, and Iyengar yoga. Babies/ kids classes also available! Prepare for birth and strengthen postpartum with pre/postnatal yoga, and check out our thriving massage practice. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog. One Next Step: A retreat for reflection, decision & support: Aug. 6. Location: Meadowhawk Homestead Retreat Center, Monkton. Info: Laura, 802-482-3191, bhy@beecherhillyoga.com, www.juliesoquet.com. A wonderful collaboration: Laura Wisniewski, director of Beecher Hill Yoga, will be teaming up with Julie Soquet of Windhorse Consulting to offer this wonderful late-summer one-day retreat. Are you ready to take a step toward change in your life? This is the perfect opportunity to make some space and time for yourself, explore your needs, priorities and vision, and create a plan. m

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Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE, 100 Church St., Burlington. Info: 802864-7902, 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.

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slabs. Projects will include masks, small statues and pots. Fabric creations will allow campers to design, cut and sew a unique fabric creation, from tote bags to sock monkeys. Both of the projects will allow campers to work from planning stage of their unique design to the final product. Ages 8-10. Inter. Watercolor Painting: Jul. 6-Aug. 10, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $160/ members; $180/nonmembers. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Morgan Powers, 802-985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter. org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Retha Boles. Focuses on mastering basic painting skills and the application of watercolor media techniques. Emphasis will be on under-drawing, color mixing, portraiture techniques, composition and how to paint the most dynamic painting possible. Individual attention from the instructor will be given to help reach full potential. Serendipitous Landscape: Jul. 5-Aug. 9, 5:30-8 p.m. Cost: $180/ nonmembers; $160/members. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Morgan Powers, 802-985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter. org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Robert Huntoon. Plein Air Painting. Work with oils or water-soluble oils, infuse your landscapes with “novelty,” a principle understood by the impressionists that enlivens paintings with ever-surprising contrasts in shadows and lights. Opportunity to paint the evening light of Lake Champlain at various locations in the immediate area. Stained Glass: Jul. 7-Aug. 18, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $185/nonmembers; $165/ members; materials $30. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Morgan

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Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $265/nonmembers; $240/ members; materials $70. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Morgan Powers, 802-985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter. org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Michael Glod. Step-by-step instruction: Students will learn through an organized approach to woodworking. Students will learn to properly select wood at a lumberyard, and then return to the studio to learn machine-tool use, being introduced to new tools each week. End of session goal: coffee table. Bookmaking Camp: Jul. 19-23, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 802985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter.org, www. shelburneartcenter.org. Children will be given the opportunity to design their own personal storybook that depicts the people, places and experiences important to them. Papermaking and bookbinding skills will be taught and used to craft a visual masterpiece for each child. Ages 5-7. Creative Clay Camp: Jul. 26-30, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 802985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter.org, www. shelburneartcenter.org. This camp is a great way for campers to learn the ins and outs of working with clay. Clay projects will include making masks, animal figures and small pinch pots. This is a great opportunity for campers to have fun while strengthening their fine motor skills. Ages 5-7. Hand-building with Clay & Fabric Creations: Jul. 19-23, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: 802-985-3648, info@ shelburneartcenter.org, www.shelburneartcenter. org. Campers will learn the basics of building with clay through coils, pinching and

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Animal Reiki I Class: July 10 & 11, 9:30 a.m.3:00 p.m. Cost: $150/11hour class. Location: Hooved Animal Sanctuary, Weswind Rd., Chelsea. Info: HeartSong Reiki, Kelly McDermott-Burns, 802-746-8834, kelly@ heartsongreiki.com, www. heartsongreiki.com. This is the foundation for selfcare and using Reiki with animals. Reiki history, precepts, hand positions and code of ethics covered. Four attunements. Plenty of practice time with animals. Student will gain the basic knowledge for working on any animal. Manual and certificate included. Portion of fee donated to sanctuary.

Art Center, Morgan Powers, 802-985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter. org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Retha Boles. Learn how to create with a fun and fluid style. This four-week class will concentrate on the basics of watercolor painting and color mixing. Traditional and experimental techniques will be shown to get students more familiar with this sometimes tricky medium. Art and Craft or Watercolor: Jul. 9-Aug. 6, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Weekly on Friday. Cost: $180/nonmembers; $160/members. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Morgan Powers, 802-985-3648, info@ shelburneartcenter.org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Ayn Riehle. Provides beginning watercolorists with a process for painting and helps experienced painters to develop their individual processes for art making with watercolor. New methods and ways of looking and thinking about art will be explored. Emphasis on each individual’s artistic and creative vision. All experience levels welcome. Beginning Metal/ Jewelry Design: Jul. 6-Aug. 10, 5:30-8 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $185/nonmembers; $165/ members; materials $30. Location: Shelburne Art Center, 64 Harbor Rd., Shelburne. Info: Shelburne Art Center, Morgan Powers, 802-985-3648, info@shelburneartcenter. org, www.shelburneartcenter.org. Instructor: Sarah Sprague. This class will focus on designing jewelry, small sculpture or functional art. Each student will complete a series of practice pieces before designing and creating a wearable or finished piece of art. Each week there will be several demonstrations including sawing, drilling, piercing, annealing, forming and soldering. Beginning Woodworking: Jun. 29-Aug. 17, 6:30-9:30 p.m.,

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isitors to the new “Constructed Landscapes” exhibit may be surprised to learn that this is the Shelburne Museum’s debut photography show. Though renowned for its collection of folk objects, furniture, quilts, toys and impressionist paintings, the museum has in recent years treated visitors to a variety of modern media, from chandeliers to motorcycles. But not photos. Executive Director Stephan Jost, whose academic focus at the University of Texas at Austin was the history of photography, is delighted to provide yet another first — and a curatorial coup — for the Shelburne: an exhibit in the Webb Gallery of images by famed 20th-century American photographer Ansel Adams (1902-84) and contemporary Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky (1955-). The sharp contrasts between the two are evident: One captured stunning vistas of the American West in unspoiled condition; the other has photographed sites around the globe that reflect often devastating human impact on the natural world. Adams presented his iconic landscapes in black and white; Burtynsky’s are in vivid color. A difference that visitors would not anticipate before entering the Webb Gallery is that Adams printed relatively small — a typical size is just 8 by 10 inches. Many of Burtynsky’s images are measured in feet rather than inches. When Adams was shooting more than half a century ago, points out Jost, no one was working in the kind of scale that is commonplace now. Given that his pictures came to virtually define our collective consciousness of the mountainous West, it’s counterintuitive — in fact, almost jarring — to see this grand scenery in modest proportions. And yet: If Adams’ photos simply represent the custom, and perhaps the printer capacity, of the time, their size and the intimacy of the gallery actually encourage a viewer to closely observe their technical prowess and breathtaking beauty. Jost believes viewers will “come for the Adams and leave talking about Burtynsky.” But there is still plenty to say, and think, about Adams. Anyone who admires black-and-white photography

ONE CAPTURED STUNNING VISTAS OF THE AMERICAN WEST IN PRISTINE CONDITION; THE OTHER HAS PHOTOGRAPHED SITES AROUND THE GLOBE THAT REFLECT OFTEN

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ON THE NATURAL WORLD. will swoon anew over his bottomless blacks, the veritable rainbow of grays. Adams had a “zone system,” Jost notes, with a “huge tonal range: absolute black and white and every tonal gray in between.” Then there is the piercing clarity and, not least, the compositions. Adams was indisputably a master of his craft, both on site — he took hours to set up his shots — and in the darkroom. Four of the gallery’s rooms are devoted to Adams’ images, and they are arranged exactly as he wanted them — he created portfolios of 12 to 16 photos in groupings largely driven by aesthetic, rather than chronological, considerations, Jost explains. A viewer has the pleasant option of contemplating why Adams chose the prints, and the order, he did. Yet another surprise is the handful of human portraits and architectural studies. After

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“Nickel Tailings, No. 32” by Edward Burtynsky (top), “Monolith” by Ansel Adams

the spectacle of Yosemite, these are strikingly … human. The three rooms given to Burtynsky hold just four to six photographs each because of their dimensions. Their size enhances their impact, to be sure, but they are also compelling for their exacting quality and careful consideration of composition. “Formally,” declares Jost, “he’s extraordinary.” It is sometimes difficult to comprehend the scale — or even the subject matter — of what you’re viewing. In “Nickel Tailings, No. 32,” for instance, a bright orange, toxic-looking substance oozes over a flat plain like lava. The lo-

cale turns out to be Sudbury, Ontario, and the orange effluent is leeching from nickel processing in a nearby factory. Only a stand of weeds in the mid-ground provides perspective. In another print, a stack of “densified” — that is, squashed into cubes — oil drums fill the entire image area, and it is impossible to tell how large they are individually, or how many drums there may be. One guesses, a lot. But the image can be seen as a colorful abstraction as much as a symbol of consumption. It would appear that Burtynsky approaches his subjects with two minds: One, obviously, is to document the enormity of the global marketplace — the room with images of grounded ships being dismantled in Bangladesh is a revelation — as well as the enormity of the human population, its voracious appetites and the energy it takes to satisfy them. Consider the diptych of oil derricks outside of Los Angeles, the formidable pyramids of coal near a seaport in China, or even the scored walls of a granite quarry in Barre, Vt. That Burtynsky is successful at conveying this sensibility is apparent; a recent achievement is winning the UK’s And/or 2010 Book Award for Oil, his tome of images depicting humanity’s rapacious hunt for the fossil fuel. But Burtynsky’s other “mind” is that of an artist: There is no denying that his images are aesthetically potent — in some cases, downright beautiful, in the way that an iridescent oil slick is pretty if you ignore the implicit consequences. Burtynsky is both documentarian and composer, as was Adams. And that explains Jost’s multilayered title for this exhibit: The two photographers have “constructed” their images with extreme care. Much like 19th-century landscape painters before them, the intention of both is to create exceptional pictures and to impart a particular attitude toward the natural world. The pairing of Adams and Burtynsky makes for an exhibit that elicits both awe and sorrow. PA M EL A P O L S T O N

”Ansel Adams and Edward Burtynsky: Constructed Landscapes,” Shelburne Museum. Through October 24. Info, 985-3346. www.shelburnemuseum.org.

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‘A CentenniAl CelebrAtion: the Art of frAnCis Colburn And ronAld slAyton’: In honor of the 100th anniversary of their births, the museum honors two of Vermont’s finest painters and lifelong friends with an exhibit of more than 50 paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints, as well as audio recordings and poetry. Through August 29 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. ‘Alzheimer’s: forgetting PieCe by PieCe’: An exhibit of 52 contemporary quilted works that offer poignant tribute to victims of the disease, organized by the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative; and audio recordings of stories from elders, in conjunction with Vermont Public Radio and The StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative. Also, ‘CirCus dAy in AmeriCA’: A multimedia exhibit celebrating the art and experience of the American circus, circa 1870-1950; ‘JAy hAll ConnAwAy: A restless nAture’: A retrospective of the 20th-century New England landscape painter; ‘All fired uP: six CerAmiC Artists from Vermont’: Unique artist-designed installations by a half-dozen of the region’s finest ceramicists; ‘embellishments: the Art of the CrAzy Quilt’: Extraordinary examples from the permanent collection that have never been publicly exhibited; ‘uPon A PAinted oCeAn: AmeriCAn mArine PAintings’: Fine works from the permanent collection; ‘tAlly-ho! the Art And Culture of the fox hunt’: Artwork, film footage and artifacts from the heyday of the sport in America; ‘the Art of ogden Pleissner: A retrosPeCtiVe from the ColleCtion’: More than 30 rarely seen oils, watercolors and drypoints; ‘good fenCes: Vermont stone wAlls’: An outdoor exhibit exploring the medium’s history, variety and materials; and ‘wArren Kimble’s AmeriCA’: Favorite works from the country’s bestknown contemporary folk artist. Through October 24 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346. ‘Ansel AdAms And edwArd burtynsKy: ConstruCted lAndsCAPes’: The centerpiece exhibit of the season features more than 60 images by the renowned photographer of the American wilderness and the contemporary Canadian photographer who focuses on human impact in the natural world. Through October 24 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346.

bArbArA wAgner: “In the Year of the Buffalo,” recent mixed-media paintings by the Vermont artist. Through July 6 at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne. Info, 985-3848.

Che sChreiner: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 30 at Salaam in Burlington. Info, 658-8822.

dJ bArry: “Alien World,” the largest painting around town that depicts alien life wandering in an alien world. Through July 31 at Blue Cat Café & Wine Bar in Burlington. Info, 461-5814. deborAh holmes: Watercolor paintings by the Northeast Kingdom-based artist. Through June 30 at Frog Hollow in Burlington. Info, 863-6458.

CAll for entries: PHOTOSTOP Gallery announces a call for entries for its first juried show, “All Aboard! Riding the Rails.” Submission deadline: July 15. Info, www.photostopvt.com. ProPosAls for 2011: Studio Place Arts uses its second- and third-floor spaces for solo/small group shows. Deadline for 2011 shows extended: Proposals accepted through July 2. For info, 479-7069. www. studioplacearts.com momentA iV: A juried exhibition of prints created during 2009-2010 by artists working in New England. Momenta IV will focus on hand-pulled original prints (no giclées). Cynthia Reeves, contemporary art dealer, will be the juror. Deadline: June 25. Entry forms and prospectus can be downloaded from www. tworiversprintmaking.com under EVENTS.

‘AnArChy’: A group show in a variety of media that express the titular theme, Main Floor Gallery; ‘not Just Child’s PlAy:’ works by Barre students, Second Floor Gallery; and Angelo Arnold & JAson bAldwin: “Detours.” Through July 31 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Reception: Friday, June 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Info, 479-7069.

beth robinson: The Burlington artist is working on her “strange dolls” in mixed media for her eight-week residency in the fourth-floor gallery space, and welcomes visitors. Saturday, June 26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington. Info, 865-7166. PAul stoPforth gAllery tAlK: The Harvard art professor talks about making and showing art that addressed the repressive conditions of his native South Africa during apartheid. Saturday, June 26, 4-5 p.m., Firehouse Gallery, Burlington. Info, 865-7165. the mAin street Art rAmble: Pedestrian art viewers can stroll between the Vergennes Opera House, Studio V, Creative Space and the Bixby Library. Visitors who get a stamp from all four venues will be entered in a drawing for a piece of artwork as well as a child’s art set. Saturday, June 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Vergennes. Info, 877-6737. bCA Art mArKet: Local artists and crafters sell their wares at this Burlington City Arts-sponsored open-air bazaar every weekend, weather permitting. Saturday, June 26, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Burlington City Hall Park. Info, 865-7166.

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tAlKs & eVents CerAmystiC: This annual exhibit and sale of ceramic art, from functional pottery to garden sculptures, showcases the work of nearly

CAmeron sChmitz: Abstracted prints by the Vermont artist, who is donating 30 percent of sales to the Willowell Foundation and Bristol Friends of the Arts. Through August 22

rustiC AdirondACK ArtisAn gAthering: This first-ever event, cosponsored by the Adirondack Museum, offers guests the opportunity to mingle with the master craftspeople who create the art, accessories and furniture that the Lodge, and the region, are known for. Reservations required for the breakfasts and dinners with 12v-daysies-cmyk.indd 1 the artisans; daily showcase open to the public. June 26 through 29 at Lake Placid Lodge, N.Y. Cocktails and canapes with the artisans: Friday, June 25, 7-8 p.m. Info, OUR 518-523-2700.

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Annelein beuKenKAmP: “Flourish,” floral watercolors by the Burlington painter. June 26 through August 22 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Reception: Saturday, June 26, 5-7 p.m. Info, 253-1818. lois eby: The Vermont abstract painter shows her works in conjunction with the Montréal Jazz Festival. Through July 24 at Galerie Maison Kasini in Montréal. Reception: Saturday, June 26, 3-5 p.m. Info, 514-448-4723. ‘three generAtions’: This weekend showcase features watercolor works by Richard F. Bartlett (deceased), his son Richard C. Bartlett and grandson Mark Nielsen. Saturday, June 26, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. & Sunday, June 24, noon-3 p.m. at Towle Hill Studio in Corinth. Reception: Saturday, June 26, 4-6 p.m. Info, 439-3730.

diAne gAbriel & sAlly bowring: “Pleasure,” photographs and paintings, respectively. Through July 11 at 215 College Gallery in Burlington. Info, 863-3662.

JAmes Vogler: Twelve recent oil and wax abstractions on canvas by the Vermont painter. Through June 30 at Chittenden Bank Main Branch in Burlington. Info, 439-373o.

diCK brunelle: New contemporary abstract paintings in watercolor and acrylic. June 27 through July 30 at Barnes & Noble in South Burlington. Info, 864-0989.

JAniCe soleK tefft & Ken tefft: The members of the Essex Art League exhibit their artworks. Through June 30 at Essex Town Offices in Essex. Info, 862-3014.

essex Art leAgue: “Artist’s Choice,” a selection of works by members of the arts group. Through August 31 at Phoenix Books in Essex. Info, 862-3014.

Joe hArig: “Horizons,” abstract visualizations of circumstances the artist says he’d rather be in than creating artwork. Fifty percent of sales will be donated to Vermont CARES. Through July 5 at Muddy Waters in Burlington. Info, 734-3640.

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2010 south end Art hoP! Artists in all media are encouraged to register for the 18th annual Art Hop. Deadline to ensure inclusion in the program guide: July 23. Info, 859-9222. www.seaba.com

shelburne Artists’ mArKet: Local artists and artisans show and sell their wares, including paintings, photography, handmade clothing, prints, jewelry and more. Saturday, June 26, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Shelburne Art Center. Info, 985-3648.

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‘CirCles for PeACe: Images that focus on the construction and uses of the Burlington Earth Clock, a permanent art installation and celestial timekeeper at Blanchard Beach. Through July 8 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Info, 865-7166.

woodstoCK Arts festiVAl: Open call to artists for the September 11 & 12 Woodstock Arts Festival. Forty juried artists on the village green in downtown Woodstock. Go to www.woodstockVT.com and click on yellow highlighted call for entries.

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CAsey blAnChArd: Monoprints by the Shelburne artist, Gates 1 & 2, second floor. Through August 15 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 985-3037.

we Art women exhibit: Women artists needed for exhibit at The Men’s Room, July/August. Deadline: June 25. Contact weartwomen@ gmail.com for details.

30 area artists. Thursday, June 24, through Sunday, July 4, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Info, 450-248-3551.

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Art’s AliVe festiVAl: The 24th fine-arts fest features a juried exhibit in the gallery as well as art in storefront windows on Church Street. Through June 30 at Union Station in Burlington. Info, 864-1557.

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By Mo Oh. Mo graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies this summer. The Momo strips were part of her senior thesis project. Contact Mo at mooh.mail@gmail.com.

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John K. AlexAnder: “Venice,” paintings inspired by travels through Italy. Through July 10 at Chop Shop in Burlington. Info, 540-0267. Kristen l’esperAnce & BrittA Johnson: “Intersecting Perspective,” new works inspired by the geographical, topographicial and architectural history of Brooklyn; and by Vermont landscapes, respectively. Through June 26 at Shelburne Art Center. Info, 578-5763. leroy’s plAce: Works from the artist’s twodimensional circus and “Makeover” series, collages over found prints. Through June 27 at Uncommon Grounds in Burlington. Info, 503-548-8429. lisA lilliBridge: Acrylic and mixed-media painting on carved wood, Skyway; Susan Larkin: Oil landscapes, Gates 1 & 2; and Phil Herbison: “Wall Soup,” mixed media on wood panel, Escalator. Through June 30 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166. MAltex group show: Nine local artists exhibit paintings, photographs, mixed media and sculpture on all four floors of the historic building. Through June 30 at The Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. MArion nelson & Allen sherMAn: “La Belle Hélène,” photographs of the black Holy Family mural and other images from St. Lucia, in conjunction with an oral-history project on the evolution of the islanders from 1945 to the present. Through June 30 at Barnes & Noble in South Burlington. Info, 345-7156. MArnA ehrech: “Inner Worlds,” colorful, stylized abstractions. Through June 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. MAry e. Johnson & dAn higgins: “Community,” silver-gelatin, black-and-white photographs of the people in the artist’s life; and “The Changing Face of Winooski,” silver-gelatin and color prints of the people and places of the city since 1969. Through August 26 at Community College of Vermont in Winooski. Info, 654-0513. MegAn steArns: Paintings that celebrate “what is” beneath the cursory glance. Through July 1 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233.

Molly hodgdon: Nature-inspired watercolor and pen-and-ink works. Through August 31 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 793-8482. nAncy tAplin: New gestural works on paper and canvas by the Vermont artist. Through June 26 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center in Burlington. Info, 652-4500.

pAtricK Kennedy: New works in watercolor by the local artist. Through June 30 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

‘picture yourselF: the photoBooth in AMericA, 1926-2010’: A selection of American photobooth photographs and equipment collected by Burlington artist and photo historian Nakki Goranin. Through September 1 at Fleming Museum, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

‘the Art oF networKing’: A group show of works by Vermont artists adorn the hallways. Through July 17 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512.

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‘the cows coMe hoMe to Burlington’: More than 30 life-sized fiberglass bovines, hand-painted by Vermont artists and installed on platforms, appear to be grazing around downtown in this public art festival. At the end of the exhibition, the cows will be auctioned to benefit the Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger. Through September 30 in Burlington. Info, 863-3489.

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‘wAter’: A group show of works on 6-by-6-inch wood panels that interpret the theme in a variety of media, curated by Laura Green and Karyn Vogel. Through June 30 at Penny Cluse Café in Burlington. Info, 318-1906.

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‘wedding story’: Ten local and out-of-town photographers display their unique wedding shots. Through July 9 at Vermont Photo Space Gallery in Essex Junction. Info, 777-3686.

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Annette lorrAine: “Mixing It Up,” watercolors by the land conservationist. Through July 31 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. “Art oF Action: curAtor’s choice tour”: In its final leg, a touring exhibit of paintings by Vermonters commissioned to interpret social, cultural and political issues affecting the future of Vermont. Through June 30 at Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749. cArol lippMAn: “Ordinary Unordinary,” prints. Through June 30 at Two Rivers Center in Montpelier. Info, 295-5901. cAtherine hAll & Axel stohlBerg: Playful new work in mixed-media doll heads and houselike wood sculptures. Through July 18 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743.

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s.r. wild: Collage and assemblage of found, discarded items representing the artist’s experiences, failures and observations. Through August 31 at SEABA Gallery in Burlington. Info, 793-8482.

steve hogAn: “Hogie Goes Bananas,” cartoony, “low-brow” art inspired by popular culture and animation. Through August 31 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 793-8482.

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norA townsend: “Working With the Grain,” renderings of insects, birds and flowers in wood stain and India ink on etched birch panels. Through July 1 at The Block Gallery in Winooski. Info, 356-9536.

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MiA Feuer: “Dissonance/Resonance,” sculptural installations that require the viewer to navigate through them, and comprise meditations on conflict, volatility and flux in Israel and the West Bank. Through June 26 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington. Info, 865-7165.

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sAge tucKer-KetchAM: A 10-year retrospective of abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through June 26 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-5763.

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Kari Meyer: “Natural Paths: A Portrait of Vermont’s Rivers, Roads and Forests,” paintings. Through June 30 at The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, artwhirled23@ yahoo.com. Miranda Syp: “Rainbows and Dancers on Duckcloth,” acrylic paintings. Through June 30 at The Shoe Horn in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454.

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‘One Single CataStrOphe’: A cheap-art show by Daniel McNamara of Bread and Puppet Theater addressing circumstances in Haiti, Palestine and Afghanistan, along with “totally unrelated cheap-art mysteries and revelations” in crayon and cardboard. Through August 31 at Plainfield Community Center. Info, 525-4515.

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‘CeleBrity’: Paintings, prints and photographs from the permanent collection that convey the idea and presentation of being famous. Through August 15 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007. ‘garden inSpired’: A group exhibit of works in multiple media by local artists, as well as a living-art indoor garden space created by guest curator Alena Botanica. Through June 30 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. gregOry Miguel gOMez: “Maps and Fortifications,” relief works and charcoal drawings in the titular themes. Through July 5 at The Brick Box Gallery, Paramount Theatre in Rutland. Info, 235-2734. ‘intO their Own’: An exhibit of works by 19 Middlebury College alumni-artists including Woody Jackson, Timothy Clark, Fred Danforth, Ann Cady and others. Through July 18 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury. Info, 458-0098.

‘tO life! a CeleBratiOn Of verMOnt JewiSh wOMen’: Oral histories, photographic portraits, archival images and artworks by female Jews in the state make up the Vermont Jewish Women’s History Project directed by Sandy Gartner and Ann Buffum. Through July 3 at Vermont History Museum in Montpelier. Info, 479-8505.

JaMeS BOrden & rOBert a. gOld: “81 Restaurants, 81 Paintings, 81 Years,” watercolors by the octagenarian artist; and “Cityscapes,” digitally altered multimedia works, respectively. Through June 30 at Tourterelle Restaurant in New Haven. Info, 377-2579.

‘a deep lOOK at a SMall tOwn: MarlBOrO, vt’: Documentary photos and recordings by Forrest Holzapfel, who interviewed 200 of his fellow townsfolk in 1999. Through September 6 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. ‘ahh... SuMMer’: Member artists show their works in painting, furniture, photographs, fiber arts and 6/14/10 2:50:55 PM

annual MeMBerS’ ShOw: Members of the nonprofit arts organization show their works in a variety of media and techniques. Through June 30 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 438-2097.

‘the art Of Creative aging’: A juried exhibit featuring original work of older artists created since their 70th birthdays. Through June 30 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 479-0531.

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liza MyerS: “Starry Night Sunflower Moonlit Vista,” a 4-by-16-foot mural painted on the outside of the gallery as part of the Brandon Artists Guild Sunflower Power summer exhibit. Through August 30 at Liza Myers Gallery in Brandon. Info, 247-5229. patty SgreCCi & MiChael Kin: The artists present mixed-media work in exhibits titled “Fanatical Botanicals” and “Light in Flight: A Year of Avian Observation in Vermont,” respectively. Through June 29 at Brandon Artists’ Guild. Info, 247-4956.

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Prindle Wissler & dick Wissler: Paintings and sculptures, respectively, by the artistic local couple. Through July 3 at The Art House in Middlebury. Info, 458-0464.

thomas Pollak: “Threads in Our Tapestry,” wide-angle photographs of Vermont’s landscape. Through June 25 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188.

sheila scharf: Paintings of local scenes by the late artist, from the private collections of family members. Through June 30 at Lincoln Library. Info, 453-2665.

Warren kimble: The renowned Vermont folk artist shows his contemporary works from several of his collections, “Let the Sun Shine” and “Widows of War,” and other new paintings. Through June 30 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

summer GrouP shoW: Karla Van Vliet, Karin Gottshall, Paige Ackerson, Kit Donnelly and other local artists present their works in a variety of media. Open Saturdays or by appointment only. Through October 1 at The Gallery at 85 North Street in Bristol. Info, 453-5813. summer members’ exhibit: Paintings and photographs by Don Haynes, Jonathan Taylor, Romy Scheroder and Joseph Rizzi. Through August 8 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. ‘the art of action’: A touring exhibit of 2-D works by 10 Vermont artists that envision the future of the state, a project of philanthropist Lyman Orton and the Vermont Arts Council. Through June 27 at Vergennes Opera House. Info, 877-6737. ‘the nature of Wood’: An exhibit of locally crafted furniture by Vermont woodworkers, 1790 to the present. Through October 23 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

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burton koPeloW: The Los Angeles-based artist shows a sampling of his stylized, whimsical figurative paintings. Through July 18 at Hangman Framing & Art Gallery in Hardwick. Info, 310-5318. debi Gobin & holly sierra: “Spirited Nature,” paintings and prints that celebrate nature. Through August 8 at The Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-6007. deborah GreGory & nancy earle: “Reflections on Nature,” textile works and acrylic paintings, respectively. Through July 11 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. eiGht reGional artists: Photography, painting, artist books and charcoal drawings by Bethany Bond, Janet Fredericks, Marie LaPre Grabon, Ken Leslie, John Miller, Victoria Patrick, George Pearlman and Lauren Stagnitti. Through July 10 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

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GeorGe selleck: “Forbidden Fruit,” oil and acrylic paintings of fruits and vegetables as seductively aesthetic objects. Through July 19 at Claire’s Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053. herb sWanson & rosie Prevost: The photographers show images from Ireland and Portugal, respectively. Through June 30 at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Info, 748-2600. nvaa Juried art shoW: Members of the Northern Vermont Artist Association show works in various media in this 80th annual exhibit. Through July 10 at Visions of Vermont in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-8183.

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lyna lou nordstrom: “Nature Distilled,” colorful hand-pulled prints by the Vermont artist. Through June 30 at The Great Adirondack Soup Co. in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Info, lynalou@lynalouline.com. ‘We Want miles: miles davis vs. Jazz’: The first major North American multimedia retrospective dedicated to the legendary jazz trumpeter and composer (1926-91) features images and sound. Through August 29 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000. m

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todd sarGood: “Complex_simplex,” abstract drawings and paintings that include elaborate maps and metaphors for how cultures interact. Through July 4 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

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‘the Golden caGe’: Photographs of Mexican migrant workers and dairy farmers in Addison County by Caleb Kenna, with text and audio by Migrant Education Program tutor Chris Urban, make up this touring exhibit from the Vermont Folklife Center. Through July 17 at Bent Northrop Memorial Library in Fairfield. Info, 827-3945.

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Patricia de GorGoza: “Chronicles in Wood and Stone,” sculptures by the Woodbury-based artist; and Michael Lew Smith: “Accidental Abstracts,” photographic studies from the boneyard. Open Sundays or by appointment. Through July 15 at White Water Gallery in East Hardwick. Info, 563-2037.

There was a lot of family waiting to meet sweet Wyatt Engelhard but great grandmother Alice Partlow decided patience was no virtue she put stock in! Alice arrived and indeed couldn’t take her eyes off the newest in her large brood (17 by her count)! Little 6lb/9oz, 19” long Wyatt was born on June 14. He is the son of Jennifer Partlow and Chris Engelhard. Wyatt has not yet met siblings Kristin, Cassandra, Elizabeth, Anthony, James and Gracie. We suspect he shall never shed a tear for attention and will rarely have a minute alone. Best wishes to the Montpelier family.

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neW artist exhibit: An exhibit with newcomers to the gallery, Lisa Morrison, sculpted tree paintings; Daniel Pattullo, paintings of Vermont scenes; Corliss Blakely and Clair Dunn, paintings and photography, respectively, made using iPhone technology. Returning artists Meta Strick and Kimberlee Forney add idiosyncratic paintings to the mix. Through July 31 at Staart Gallery in St. Albans. Info, 524-5700.

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early a half century after the formation of The Doors comes the first documentary about the band. It strikes me as strange that nobody made one before now, but, as we learn in Tom (Living in Oblivion) DiCillo’s fact-packed homage, when it came to Jim Morrison and company, strangeness was never in short supply. The surviving members of the group — keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger — have squabbled famously over business matters in the years since the frontman’s 1971 death. So it’s even sort of strange that all three gave their blessing to the use of the music and of fascinating, never-before-seen footage. Stranger still that the filmmaker to whom they gave it was DiCillo, a director of decidedly modest accomplishment. He does a craftsmanlike job of stitching together the story of the group, from its early days as the house band at the Whisky a GoGo, to the worldwide fame, gold records and spectacular onstage meltdowns. Most of the time, understandably, DiCillo focuses on Morrison. Admirers will find it intriguing to watch home movies of the broodingly handsome

16-year-old while narrator Johnny Depp informs them that, at that tender age, “he’s already reading Nietzsche, Rimbaud and William Blake” and “is obsessed with Elvis Presley.” They will also be confounded by the extent to which the Lizard King comes off as an addlebrained, self-important bore away from the studio or stage. One of the movie’s primary revelations, in fact, is just how unexceptional these twentysomething young men were when they weren’t making some of rock history’s most enduring music. (Thirty-nine years after Morrison’s death, more than a million records are still sold every year.) At those moments, lightning often struck, and their talents combined to create songs unlike anything produced before or since. The film contains riveting footage of the four in the process of recording several classics. Another revelation is the degree to which individuals other than Morrison were responsible for those classics. Just as The Beatles wouldn’t have been The Beatles without George Martin, The Doors owe an incalculable debt to producers Paul Rothchild and Bruce Botnick for shaping their material and refining their sound. Also, who knew Krieger composed so many of the band’s hits? Or

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that he picked up the electric guitar just six months before laying down his majestic tracks on the debut album? The film sent his stock up big time in my book. Less interesting — and, in some cases, totally irrelevant — are sequences in which Morrison passes out in midperformance, hippies dance at unspecified concerts, protesters burn draft cards, bombs fall on Vietnam, police hose down civil-rights marchers, RFK and MLK are shot and Charles Manson is arrested. DiCillo’s picture could’ve justifiably received a rating of ADHD. In the end, the movie is redeemed by the music. As was Morrison, whose favorite vocalist by the time he’d achieved acclaim, we learn, was Frank Sinatra. Though Morrison was insecure about his singing, describing it

as a “sick croon,” his ranks as one of rock’s all-time great voices. And you can hear Sinatra in there along with a host of heroes, gods and demons. It’s a singular creative legacy, and DiCillo’s film succeeds in placing The Doors in proper historical context. He flakes out, though, in giving equal weight to baloney about the whole “doors of perception” business and Morrison’s being “like an ancient shaman leading his followers into worlds they’d never dare enter alone.” As this movie makes painfully clear, the rocker ended up about as enlightened as the average L.A. barfly, and the only time he broke on through to the other side was in a Paris bathtub.  RICK KISONAK

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o you think Toy Story movies are fun and games? Think again. The villain of this third installment in the immensely popular Pixar series is a cuddly, strawberry-scented stuffed animal named Lots ’o Huggin’ Bear (Lotso for short, voiced by Ned Beatty) whose view of the world is “We’re all trash.” Call him a materialist nihilist. Sure, when it comes down to it, toys are trash. But they’re also the repositories of kids’ fears and fantasies. We see that at the film’s opening, when young Andy (Charlie Bright) acts out a wild Western-slash-science-fiction scenario with his beloved Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the rest of the gang. After we watch his tall tale unfold in Technicolor, the action shifts to the real world (or a 3-D computer-animated simulation of it), where the boy quickly ages into a college-bound young man. Will Andy’s precious toys end up in the attic or the landfill? And can they trust him to make the right choice? Woody, a loyalist to the principles of family and private property, believes they can. (He’s like one of those old-time English butlers who refuses to hear a bad word about the gov’nor.) Jessie the cowgirl (Joan Cusack) is more of a maverick. She thinks the crew might be better off donated to a daycare

center, where they’ll never lack children to play with them. At the daycare, though, the toys’ dream of collective ownership gives way to the reality of brutal toddler play and a prison-like toy regime presided over by Lotso and his henchmen, who include a sparkly purple octopus and a preening Ken doll. Talk about harsh lessons. And you don’t need a PhD to apply them to humans. For the past three years, Pixar has given us incredibly wrenching animated fantasies about things or people — it doesn’t really matter which — that are discarded, forgotten, left behind. In WALL-E, a robot was the last guardian of a trashed Earth. In Up, an old man’s house, dwarfed by skyscrapers, embodied his deferred dreams. When WALL-E brought humanity back home, when the codger’s house became airborne, we all felt reassured that people and their imaginations are not trash destined for some cosmic landfill. In Toy Story 3, those terrors play out on a smaller scale — though a sequence set in a garbage-processing plant evokes Dante’s Inferno. The toys’ fears about being dumped by the one who loved and nurtured them plug into kids’ fears of parental abandonment. One flashback is almost as painful to watch as the death of Bambi’s mom. Which isn’t

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mARmADUKEH1/2: Owen (Marley & Me) Wilson continues his canine comedy period with the big-screen debut of the comic strip character. Judy Greer, Lee Pace and William H. Macy costar. Tom (Failure to Launch) Dey directs. (87 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace) miD-AUGUSt lUNcHHHH1/2 Gianni Di Gregorio directed and starred in this Italian comedy-drama about a middle-aged Roman bachelor who finds himself cooking for four ninetysomething women in one small apartment. (75 min, NR. Savoy) NOW PLAyING

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iRoN mAN 2HHH Billionaire inventor and superhero Tony Stark finds himself facing an unexpected foe: the U.S. government. Plus Sam Rockwell as a rival, Scarlett Johansson as super-spy Black Widow and Mickey Rourke as his new Russian archenemy. Will the iron guy live to see No. 3? Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Samuel L. Jackson also star. Jon Favreau once again directs. (124 min, PG-13. Majestic, Sunset)

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citY iSlANDHHH1/2 An unusual neighborhood in the Bronx is the setting of this family drama about a prison guard (Andy Garcia) with a few secrets. With Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait and Alan Arkin. Raymond (Two Family House) De Felitta directed. (103 min, PG-13. Roxy)

GEt Him to tHE GREEKHH1/2 Jonah Hill plays a record company intern charged with dragging an uncooperative rock legend from London to a comeback concert in L.A. in the latest laugher from Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller and producer Judd Apatow. Russell Brand costars. (109 min, R. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy)

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tHE A-tEAmH1/2 Joe (Smokin’ Aces) Carnahan directs this big-screen version of the ‘80s television series. Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson and Sharlto Copley play former Special Forces soldiers fighting to clear their names after taking the fall for a crime they didn’t commit. Really, Liam Neeson? (117 min, PG-13. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Sunset, Welden)

Linney star in the latest drama from director James Ivory, the story of a graduate student who travels to Uruguay to request permission to pen a deceased author’s biography from his family. Charlotte Gainsbourg costars. (118 min, PG-13. Ends 6/24, Savoy)

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wednesday 23 — thursday 24 *Knight and Day 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. Jonah Hex 7:15, 9:30. toy Story 3 (3-D) 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 4:50, 6:10, 7:10, 8:30, 9:20. The A-team 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10. The Karate Kid 1, 4, 7, 9:50. Get Him to the Greek 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10. Killers 7:40, 9:55. marmaduke 1, 3, 5:10. Shrek Forever After (3-D) 1:10, 3:20, 5:30. friday 25 — monday 28 *Grown Ups 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30. *Knight and Day 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50. Jonah Hex 7:15, 9:30. toy Story 3 (3-D) 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 4:50, 6:10, 7:10, 8:30, 9:20. The A-team 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10. The Karate Kid 1, 4, 7, 9:50. Get Him to the Greek 12, 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10. marmaduke 1, 3, 5:10.

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wednesday 23 — thursday 24 toy Story 3 (2-D) 7. The Karate Kid 7. Killers 7. friday 25 — thursday 1 *The twilight Saga: Eclipse Wed & Thu only: 7, 9:15. *Grown Ups 2:30 (Sat & Sun only), 4:30 (Sat & Sun only), 7, 9. toy Story 3 (2-D) 2:30 (Sat & Sun only), 4:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 8:30. The Karate Kid Fri-Tue only: 2:30 (Sat & Sun only), 6:30, 9:10.

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wednesday 23 — thursday 24 toy Story 3 (2-D) 2, 4, 7, 9. The A-team 4, 7, 9. The Karate Kid 2, 7, 9:15. Shrek Forever After (2-D) 2.

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PLEASE GIVE★★★★1/2 Writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature offers a portrait of an Upper West Sider suffering from liberal guilt and the impact her obsession has on family, friends and neighbors. With Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall. (90 min, R. Roxy) PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME★★ Mike (Donnie Brasco) Newell directs this Disney-Bruckheimer hybrid about a pair of young royals who team up to save the world from the Forces of Darkness. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton. (115 min, PG-13. St. Albans Drive-In, Sunset) ROBIN HOOD★★1/2 Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott, history, horses and hand-to-hand combat — what more do you need to know? With Mark Strong, Cate Blanchett and Max Von Sydow. (148 min, PG-13. Majestic) SHREK FOREVER AFTER★★★ The green guy makes an ill-advised deal that sends him into an alternate reality in this fourth and supposedly final entry in DreamWorks’ animated series — which is, of course, in 3-D in equipped theaters. With the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas. Mike Mitchell directed. (93 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol [3-D], Essex, Majestic [3-D], Palace, Welden) SPLICE★★★1/2: From Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo (Paris, Je T’Aime) Natali comes this sci-fi thriller concerning a pair of scientists whose cutting-edge experiments with genetic hybrids produce unexpected living, breathing but not quite human results. Featuring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chanéac. (90 min, R. Sunset) TOY STORY 3★★★★: The toys are back in town. Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and the rest of the original’s

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A woman in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., reported hearing a man outside her bedroom window telling someone on a cellphone, “I’m about to commit a crime.” She awoke her boyfriend, who said he observed the intruder sit down on a nearby deck and continue his call. Later, he heard a glass door breaking. An Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy who responded followed a trail of blood from the glass door to a nearby intersection, where he found Kevin Wayne Weathersby, 30, sitting on a curb bleeding. (Northwest Florida Daily News) A worker counting the night’s take at a Burger King in Pine Bluff, Ark., told police a man approached with a gun, threatened to kill her and demanded the cash. When he set the gun down so he could put the money in a bag, the worker grabbed it, shot the robber during a struggle, then put him in a headlock and called police, who arrested Jason Robinson, 22. (Pine Bluff Commercial Appeal)

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An Iowa man was telling a 911 dispatcher that a stranger punched him for no reason at a pedestrian mall in Iowa City when he interrupted himself to tell the dispatcher that a different man had just walked up and punched him. Police said the second man was a friend of the original assailant. (Cedar Rapids’ KCRG-TV News)

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Authorities said Timothy Neal, 44, and his twin 18-year-old sons beat up another man during a drunken brawl at a bonfire in Madison County, Mo., according to sheriff’s Capt. Brad Wells, who explained, “The victim had been talking about religion and demons, when the other three became upset and started whipping up on him.” Wells added he didn’t know what specific religious issue started the argument, but that the demon talk prompted the beating. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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NBC launched a campaign to enlist social-media users to promote its shows. “A recommendation from a friend is infinitely more powerful than any message we can put out through conventional marketing channels,” said Adam Stotsky, president of NBC Entertainment Marketing. Participants in the network’s “Fan It” initiative sign up on NBC’s website, and then log in to their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or MyNBC accounts to earn points for chatting about series and directing friends to NBC-related links. They can redeem points for sneak previews of

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After Lauren Rosenberg was hit by a car while trying to cross a four-lane highway in Park City, Utah, at night, she sued Google Inc., claiming its online directions were “not reasonably safe for pedestrians.” Although social networks, websites and cable-news networks blasted Rosenberg for ignoring her own safety to blindly follow online directions, her lawyer, Allen Young, insisted that Google Maps “created a trap with walking instructions that people rely on.” Google official Elaine Filadelfo pointed out that every software version of Google Maps warns that walking routes may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths. (Associated Press)

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After high school students and collegeage adults complained that the 40 million condoms the District of Columbia distributes free each year are poor quality and too small, the city began offering Trojan condoms, including the company’s supersize Magnum variety. Durex condoms are still available, but health officials acknowledged that, although both brands are equally effective in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, Trojan condoms have greater appeal because of the company’s marketing strategy, which includes packaging Magnums in a shiny, gold wrapper that HIV/AIDS Administration representative Michael Kharfen noted “has a little bit of the bling quality.” (The Washington Post)

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New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported that 51 city bus drivers took an average of two paid months off last year to recover from being spat upon by upset riders. The drivers’ union classifies the indignity as an assault, entitling spitting victims to paid leave. One driver needed 191 days to recover. (Associated Press)

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The world’s largest chocolate maker declared that its new formula could fight wrinkles and slow the aging process. Conceding that chocolate “is probably at the bottom of the list when you think about making food healthier,” Barry Callebaut Chief Innovation Officer Hans Vriens said the Swiss company’s studies showed that a daily dose of 0.75 ounces of its specially developed chocolate, fortified with antioxidants and flavanols preserved during the manufacturing process, boosts skin elasticity and improves hydration. (Reuters)

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aries (March 21-april 19): a few years ago,

a group of artists built a giant bunny out of pink wool on an italian mountainside. The 200-foot-long effigy will remain there until 2025. There’s a disturbing aspect to this seemingly goofy artifact, however: it has a wound in its side where its guts are spilling out. That’s why i don’t recommend that you travel there and commune with it. according to my reading of the astrological omens, you would definitely benefit from crawling into a fetal position and sucking your thumb while lying in the comfy embrace of a humongous mommy substitute. but you shouldn’t tolerate any tricks or jokes that might limit your ability to sink into total peace and relaxation.

taurus (april 20-May 20): in 1998, i spent three weeks reading The Psychoanalysis of Fire and The Poetics of Reverie, two books by French philosopher gaston bachelard. His teachings were so evocative that i filled up two 120-page journals with my notes. to this day, i still refer to them, continuing to draw fresh inspiration from ideas i wasn’t ripe enough to fully understand when i first encountered them. you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when a similar event could happen for you, taurus: a supercharged educational opportunity that will fuel you for a long time. gemini (May 21-June 20): Congrats, gemini! you have not only weathered your recent phase of relentless novelty; you’ve thrived on the adjustments it demanded of you. i am hereby awarding you with the rare and prestigious title of Change-lover, which i only bestow upon one of the signs of the zodiac every four years or so. so what’s next on the schedule? The shock of the new will soon subside, giving you a chance to more fully integrate the fresh approaches you’ve been adopting. i suggest you relax your hypervigilance and slip into a slower, smoother, more reflective groove. (July 23-aug. 22): each year, Playboy magazine publishes a list of the best colleges to go to if you prefer partying to studying. in its recent rankings, a top spot went to the University of Wisconsin, which was dubbed “the best beer-drinking school in the country.” as a counterpoint to this helpful information, HuffingtonPost.com offered a compendium of the best anti-party schools. brigham young

Virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22): you’re entering a

phase of your long-term cycle when cultivating abundance is an especially smart thing to do. to take maximum advantage, i suggest that you be both extra generous and extra receptive to generosity. bestow more blessings than usual and put yourself in prime positions to gather in more blessings than usual. i realize that the second half of this assignment might be a challenge. you Virgos often feel more comfortable giving than receiving. but in this case, i must insist that you attend to both equally. The giving part won’t work quite right unless the receiving part is in full bloom.

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(sept. 23-oct. 22): What have you lost in recent months, libra? This week begins a phase when will you have the potential to not exactly recover it, but rather to re-create it on a higher level. Maybe a dream that seemed to unravel was simply undergoing a reconfiguration, and now you’re primed to give it a new and better form of expression. Maybe a relationship that went astray was merely dying so it could get resurrected, with more honesty and flexibility this time around.

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(oct. 23-nov. 21): i’m guessing that you’ve been ushered into a frontier that affords you no recognizable power spot. it probably feels uncomfortable, like you’ve lost the inside track. and now along comes some wise guy — me — who advises you in his little horoscope column that you are exactly where you need to be. He says that this wandering outside the magic circle is pregnant with possibilities that could help you make better use of the magic circle when you get back inside at a later date. i hope you will heed this wise guy and, at least for the moment, resist the temptation to force yourself back into the heart of the action.

lilac, orchid, snapdragon, tulip and rose under my pillow, and subsequently dreamed of being visited by the lily-crowned goddess of intimacy, who asked me to convey a message to you sagittarians. she said that if you even just imagine slipping seven flowers under your pillow, you will have a dream about what you should do in order to help your love life evolve to the next stage of its highest potential.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)

Here are the low-paying jobs I’ve done that I wasn’t very good at: tapping sap from maple trees in Vermont; driving a taxi in North Carolina; toiling as an amusement-park ride operator in New Jersey; being a guinea pig for medical experiments in California; digging ditches in South Carolina; and picking olives from trees in the south of France. Do I feel like a failure for being such a mediocre worker and making so little money? No, because although it took me a while, I finally found jobs I was good at, and have been thriving ever since. Why would I judge myself harshly for having trouble doing things that weren’t in sync with my soul’s code? Please apply this line of thinking to yourself.

sagittarius (nov. 22-Dec. 21): There used to be a tradition in sweden that young women could dream of the person they would ultimately wed if they put seven kinds of flowers beneath their pillows on Midsummer’s eve. That’s crazy nonsense, of course. right? Probably. although i must note that two nights ago i placed a gladiolus, hydrangea,

caPricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you ripened into such a knowledgeable, sophisticated person that you’re hard to surprise? Do you draw conclusions about each new experience by comparing it to what has happened to you in the past? i hope not. i hope you’re ready to be a wide-eyed, open-armed, wild-hearted explorer. i hope you will invite life to blow your mind. in the days to come, your strongest stance will be that of an innocent virgin who anticipates an interesting future. blessings you can’t imagine will visit you if you’ll excuse yourself from outdated expectations and irrelevant complications. aQuarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The notori-

ous Wicked bible was published in 1631. That wasn’t its original name. it was supposed to be as holy as every bible. but it contained an error that slipped by the proofreaders’ notice: in the book of exodus, where the ten Commandments were listed, the word “not” was excluded from one commandment. What remained, an insult to pious eyes, was “Thou shall commit adultery.” Most of these books were later burned, and the publisher was punished. be on the lookout for a comparable flap, aquarius: a small omission that could change the meaning of everything. ideally, you’ll spot the error and fix it before it spawns a brouhaha.

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(Feb. 19-March 20): The plant known as the squirting cucumber has an unusual talent: When the fruit is ripe, it opens up and spits out a rapid-fire stream of seeds that travels a great distance. in the coming weeks, Pisces, you’ll have resemblances to this aggressive fructifier. it’ll be prime time to be proactive about spreading your influence and offering your special gifts. The world is begging you to share your creative spirit, preferably with rapid-fire spurts that travel a great distance.

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Flirty, Playful, Redhead & Latino Looking for a down-to-earth couple (M/F) or SF who wants to be friendly & flirty first. We have some experience, but would like to find a couple who don’t have any possessive issues & have positive communication skills. We are not in hard-body shape, so you shouldn’t be either ;) We have young children & are unable to host. IrishPeruvianCpl, 28, l, #117573 hook up w/ us We’re a couple looking to fulfill a fantasy: threesome w/ another woman or couple (M/F). Neither of us have ever had the pleasure but want to try. Should be fun to hold up good convos, too. We’d like to meet up & get to know you to talk about what we’d expect from each other because we’re grown-ups, ya’ know! Intl28, 28, l, #117470

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about you. I look forward to spending time w/ you. When: Sunday, June 13, 2010. Where: Shelburne Beach. You: Man. Me: Woman. #907612 Amazing Are you seeing the sky? It makes me miss you that much more; beautiful as it is, like you. When: Thursday, June 17, 2010. Where: in my heart. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #907611

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W/ your funny back beagle You looked sad w/ a cute black/gray beagle mix sitting on the rocks. I said hi, but should have stopped. When: Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Where: Waterfront boardwalk. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #907619 FeverFamily Creepy licks, Micky’s big mouths, Family Dinners, EW. Who’s driving to the beach? I miss it. Going to the Rim? Voices coming from the graveyard, the couch is on the lawn. Godspeed boys & girl. (I know you hate these - that’s exactly why I did it.) When: Friday, June 18, 2010. Where: Burlingtron, City of the Future. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #907618

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know what I was up to & can only hope that it was like the Ring girl crawling out of your television. Shawn When: Friday, December 19, 2008. Where: Burlington. You: Woman. Me: Man. #907603 How Do I Tell You How do I tell you that “I love you” when you’re such a pain in my ass? All the times you purposely piss me off I try to take it. Thanks for 3 years of making me realize I don’t like hemorrhoids, and you should start giving me more of those “promised” back massages (and not no 60 seconds either)! When: Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Where: on the floor in the kitchen. You: Man. Me: Woman. #907601 re. big pimpin onomatopoeia The fact you mention concurs it probably was as painful as it sounds deer in headlights, “I don’t know much but I know I love you & that may be all I need to...” thud. When: Saturday, September 27, 2008. Where: from the heart. You: Man. Me: Woman. #907600 At La Brioche Served you at La Brioche: You seemed very thoughtful, earnest. You have short brown hair, big brown eyes & great eye contact. You were w/ a woman, but not sure if you were together. You ordered a ham sandwich. Please, come by again. When: Monday, June 14, 2010. Where: La Brioche. You: Man. Me: Woman. #907599 I wonder how it’s possible I overheard you saying that you’ve never gotten an “I Spy” behind the counter at Northern Lights & I cannot fathom how that is even possible because you are the most beautiful woman to have ever existed. Your flaming hair & your lovely smile leave my whole body feeling like Jello. Well ... not my whole body. :) When: Saturday, March 20, 2010. Where: Northern Lights. You: Woman. Me: Man. #907598

mistress maeve Dear Mistress Maeve,

Thirty-two-year-old gay male here, and I’ve been with my partner for a little over five years. We’ve occasionally opened our bedroom to third (and sometimes more) parties for extracurricular fun together. I would be happy to have sex with other people on a more regular basis, but my partner has been somewhat resistant to it at times over the years. However, sometimes he’s really into it. Lately, he’s been hinting around about finding a guy on the Internet to screw, so — unbeknownst to him — I went online and scouted out a good candidate. My question is, do you think it’s a good idea to surprise my partner with a hot guy in our apartment when he gets off work one night? He’s been so stressed out lately that I think it could be a welcome surprise, but something is making me hesitate. In the past, we’ve always talked about it and decided on a guy together.

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Dear Planner,

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Trust your gut. If something about this idea is giving you pause, best to heed the warning. You say your partner has been resistant to opening your relationship in the past. For that reason alone, you must be certain to give your partner every consideration before planning a three-way. While sexual surprises sound good in theory, any little thing could throw off your plans. What if you’re misreading your partner’s “hints”? What if he would rather sit on the couch, eat a pint of ice cream and cuddle on the night you plan the big rendezvous? At the very least, ask your partner if he’d be interested in coming home to find a naked dude in your bed. If he gives you the green light, go ahead and plan your date — you can still use elements of surprise. If you’re interested in increasing the intimacy in your relationship through these “extracurricular activities,” I highly suggest picking partners together. Not only will you be on the same page about date, time and other logistics, but you’ll have a chance to anticipate the encounter together — an intensely erotic and bonding experience. You have the best of intentions, and it’s admirable that you’re trying to meet your partner’s needs; however, wouldn’t it be far better to communicate with him first so your efforts will be 100 percent effective?

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