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< letters> NUKE AD IS MISLEADING A recent Vermont Energy Partnership advertisement in Seven Days [February 25, March 4] overstates the carbon dioxide consequences of a future without the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The fullpage ad states, “Without Vermont Yankee, Vermont carbon dioxide emissions would likely increase by two million tons annually, or a 10,000 percent increase.” The two million is a reasonable number, but this is approximately a 29 percent increase, not 10,000 percent, in Vermont’s emissions. Apparently the Vermont Energy Partnership did not take into account other sources of carbon dioxide, notably residences and transportation, in its statewide baseline assumption.

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‘BI’ PARTISAN? While reading the Seven Days sex survey [“Stimulus Package,” February 25], I was disturbed to read a sentence in the ninth paragraph that describes the demographics of those who had taken the survey: “...fewer people claimed ‘bisexual.’

Finally made up your minds, did you?” Whether or not this was meant to be a witty attempt at invoking a laugh, I found it rather offensive. Some may read this and assume that the writer of the

article agrees with the notion that bisexuals are just confused in their orientation, and they haven’t yet made up their mind. Unfortunately, we do live in a binary society of either/or. In this case you are either gay or straight, and when the writer poses such a question, it confirms the prejudice that bisexuality is just a phase before a confirmation of one’s true orientation. Being gay or straight is accepted as something that is not a choice and instead a biological predisposition. Why should bisexuality be any different?

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voice! My favorite part of your review is when you mention that the album “features a couple of acoustic numbers amid the din of nü-metal crunch.” Nü-metal crunch? We are talking about a band that defies categorization, an issue that you discuss within your review. It’s a huge injustice to Working Man’s Army to label them with this derogatory term, mainly because it is so ill-fitting. Really, it doesn’t matter what genre you

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» Recount Ramblings fRom the Rabble Last Friday, “Fair Game” columnist Shay Totten reported on Blurt, the Seven Days staff blog, that Burlington mayoral candidate Kurt Wright had asked for a recount.

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Here are some excerpts from that conversation: “This isn’t gonna take too long or cost that much and it will do a lot to explain/instill confidence in IRV and the process ... That doesn’t seem like a bad thing.” — Ivan Jacobs “It is fairly clear to me that very few of us really understand how the system works. When I was involved as Chair of the Charter Change Committee, shepherding IRV through the process, I bought the argument that people don’t have to understand how the voting system works, they just need to understand how to mark their ballots. My view has changed. I think it IS important for voters to understand how our voting system

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Action on Republican Kurt Wright’s recount request in the Burlington mayoral election is getting underway as this week’s issue goes to press, so I hope to be delivering the news on the Seven Days staff blog, Blurt, by Wednesday night.

While the recount isn’t likely to change the outcome, it may answer this question: What the hell were Burlington voters thinking by reelecting Progressive Bob Kiss?

Given this info, it does appear those pesky Montroll and Smith supporters mucked things up by ranking Kiss before Wright on their ballot. What losers.

Seriously, in a liberal city where you had three candidates pulling votes from the left, and two from the right, IRV worked as intended. It gave voters a chance to rank their candidates: The one preferred by 50 percent of the electorate ends up the winner — you know, a majority.

With four competent candidates, it was sure to take a few rounds.

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Several Prog insiders who spoke privately to “Fair Game” said they were disappointed in the Kiss campaign.

State GOP Chairman Rob Roper pulled no punches on Vermont Public Radio: “I think that what happened in Burlington on Tuesday was a travesty, and I think the will of the voters was circumvented.”

Preach on, brother. A travesty, indeed.

Let’s review: • Two-thirds of the voters didn’t have the smarts to put Wright down as their first pick.

• Five out of seven wards ranked Wright behind Kiss and Democrat Andy Montroll.

• Kiss was in the lead, claiming the most first-place votes in only six of seven wards, before Ward 7 voters pushed Wright out front.

• Wright had 33 percent after the first round, 37 percent after round two.

That’s close enough to 50 percent, isn’t it?

See how our will was circumvented?

What was in those brownies at the polling site bake sales?

Let’s examine the math behind this circumvention: In the first round, Wright had 2951 (33 percent) votes to Kiss’ 2585 (29 percent) and Montroll’s 2063 (23 percent). In the second round, Wright had 3294 (37 percent) to Kiss’ 2981 (34 percent) and Montroll’s 2554 (29 percent) after Independent Dan Smith and Green Party candidate James Simpson’s votes were eliminated and their second preferences divvied up among the other three candidates. In the final round, Montroll was eliminated: 1332 of his preferences went to Kiss, while 767 went to Wright. That put Kiss on top with 4313 (51.5 percent) and Wright with 4061 (48 percent).

The outcome inspired a T-shirt offering a new definition of IRV: “Keep Counting ’Til Bob Wins.”

The race may not be over yet.

Anti-IRV forces are already at work to ensure the voting system is not used in state elections, and there is talk of recalling IRV in Burlington.

Wright is the poster child for dumping IRV and has been urged to lead the citizen petition effort to do so. “Citizens voted for IRV and if they choose to get rid of it, that process should be citizendriven, too, and not encouraged by me,” he said. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Word is, the Vermont GOP may file a lawsuit to make sure the will of Burlington voters is upheld. You know, voters who really meant to vote for Wright.

“A close election can create some controversy,” said Rob Richie, executive director of FairVote, a pro-IRV group that helped Burlington set up the ranking system in 2006. “I think IRV comes out of this smelling like roses if you step away from a partisan analysis and just look at the kind of campaign it helped generate, the way voters handled it, and the more democratic outcome it produced.”

A partisan analysis? In Burlington?

Now, that’s silly.

Silent Bob — The Progs pulled it off — again — but not everybody in the party is celebrating. Some key Progs see the reelection of Bob Kiss as a wake-up call, even a call to promotional arms.

“Many folks who live here and enjoy its great attributes are not as aware as they should be about who led in making this city great,” said Rep. David Zuckerman (P-Burlington). “We need to step up and be better messengers with respect to the good work that has been and will continue to be accomplished.”

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Several Prog insiders who spoke privately to “Fair Game” said they were disappointed in the Kiss campaign. They wanted to see a more energetic effort that praised Progressive successes and pulled more people to the polls.

That concern is now underscored by the belief that Kiss is governing from a position of minority rule, with Democrats holding a near majority on the city council.

Kiss doesn’t believe he is governing from a minority position, noting that his victory was a partial referendum on three decades of Progressive rule.

“The substance overshadowed the ‘stuff’,” he puts it.

That said, Kiss promises to do his part to turn up the volume on Progressive policy victories. “I can certainly do more than I have,” said Kiss, “and I will.”

He’ll have to, given the incoming council, a makeup

advance of a March 30 public hearing on these topics, Wright said. Holding the hearing in March allows the current council to finish up its work on major issues before the new council is seated in April.

That council, with possibly eight Democrats, is sure to put Kiss to the test.

Political Perversion? — On the topic of perpetual campaigning, Kiss could take a lesson from the guv.

Less than a month ago, Jim Douglas said it was “perverse” to be talking about the next election cycle rather than being fully focused on the work of the people. He was referring to the growing field of Democrats eyeing a run at Douglas in 2010.

Well, if you thought he was too busy palling around with Pres. Barack Obama, think again. Guess what Douglas sent out the day before Town Meeting Day? That’s right, a fundraising letter reminding supporters of this truism: Democrats want to take your money, so consider giving it

Obama’s stimulus funding.

That slogan sure sounds familiar. Back in January, I predicted the guv might foist a new campaign mantra on us.

“Road to Recovery” and “Path to Prosperity” were my picks.

They didn’t even say thanks.

Fogel Under Fire — As we noted last week, UVM prez Dan Fogel has had a rough go of it lately.

But rather than hiding in his campus office, Fogel took to the airwaves Friday to answer calls as Bob Kinzel’s guest on VPR’s “Vermont Edition.”

Fogel told VPR listeners that the budget cuts should be viewed in the context of his growth strategy since 2003.

That focus has brought more Vermont students to campus, increased applications to UVM, boosted salaries for faculty and staff, and added roughly 300 jobs. Currently, UVM employs roughly 1359 full- and parttime faculty and 2418 staff.

“I would say that this has been a successful strategy and that because of it we will emerge from this recession

Despite cutbacks, UVM will boost financial aid by $10 million for the coming academic year to help families struggling to pay for college. not seen by a Progressive mayor since Sanders. To break through the Ds stonewalling in the 1980s, Sanders struck deals with Republicans and created neighborhood groups to build support for Progressive proposals.

Franco doesn’t see that scenario playing out. “The Democrats would be foolish to simply act as obstructionists again,” he said. “They would be setting themselves up for another three decades of exile.”

I’m not so sure. Take Monday’s city council meeting, for example: The Ds refused to let the council meeting go past 10:30 p.m., derailing important discussion of housing issues vital to Champlain College and the University of Vermont.

The reason? They didn’t like a separate minor zoning change to let Burlington grow up, literally.

The change would let 10-story commercial buildings in the city’s downtown reach 127 feet — 11 feet taller than currently allowed.

“It was a win-at-all-costs approach,” said Wright, council president. “And the council simply can’t behave this way.

It was very disrespectful to the university, to the college, to the planning commission and other councilors who have spent a lot of time on these important issues.”

Dems say they didn’t mean to gum up the works and are OK with debating everything but building heights.

Bataphobia perhaps?

Councilors who support more debate will likely convene a special session Friday night in

to Douglas. All in the name of stopping Dems from implementing their “job-killing agenda.”

The guv needs campaign cash because he can’t “sit back and let the attacks on my record go unanswered.”

Oh, really?

As readers will recall from last week’s column, Douglas dispatched six highly paid commissioners and secretaries to tamp down criticisms made by Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin (D-Windham). But I guess having minions at your disposal isn’t enough.

Shumlin is one of the Democratic names being floated as a possible gubernatorial candidate. Sen. Doug Racine (D-Chittenden) is a definite candidate, while Secretary of State Deb Markowitz is “exploring” the idea.

Another sure sign that Douglas is ramping up for reelection is that he named former campaign manager Dennise Casey, who is currently deputy chief of staff, to be his official spokeswoman.

Dave Coriell, who used to work in the governor’s office before joining the campaign, and was later given a “job” at the Department of Finance and Management, is rejoining the fifth-floor team. Talk about revolving doors.

One final example of Douglas in campaign mode is his use of alliteration to describe official functions. Douglas is in the midst of a 10-day “Road to Recovery” tour to talk up

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And, despite the cutbacks to staffing and programs, UVM will boost financial aid by $10 million for the coming academic year to help families struggling to pay for college.

Despite his best efforts, Fogel isn’t off the hot seat yet.

This week, supporters of baseball and softball announced a petition drive to save their teams, which are to be axed at the end of the spring season. Nearly 2000 people had signed as of Monday.

The petition’s wording states that if Fogel doesn’t change course, its signers are not likely to give money to UVM. Ouch.

On the topic of job growth under Fogel, union spokespeople believe they have identified two more top administrators earning at least $150,000. That brings their count of six-figure administrators to 40.

Interesting growth strategy.

Get Your Blurt On — Come join the ongoing debate about IRV on our staff blog, Blurt.

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n December 20, 2007, Vermont State Trooper Eugene Duplissis and his canine partner, Niko, were called in to help search for a 9-year-old girl who disappeared during an evening snowstorm. Shortly after their arrival, Niko tracked the girl from her home to a wooded snow bank three-quarters of a mile away, where she was found lying in a fetal position, nearly frozen.

Niko was credited with saving the girl’s life.

A few weeks ago, Niko was forced to retire unexpectedly when a compression lesion on his spine left him “ataxic,” or unable to walk properly. Already, his veterinary bills total more than $3000. But, unlike with a law-enforcement officer who is disabled in the line of duty, the cost of caring for a retired police dog in Vermont is almost invariably borne by its handler.

Paul Howard, a veterinarian with the Vermont Veterinary Surgical Center in Colchester who treats many local police dogs, didn’t think that was right. So he decided to do something about it.

With help from his friends Kirk and Loretta Walters of Shelburne, “Lacey’s Fund” was born. Named after the Walters’ family dog that died last year, the private nonprofit fund helps pay for police canines’ medical care so they can live out the remainder of their lives in relative comfort.

Currently, there are 38 working police dogs in Vermont, according to David Dewey, a Colchester police officer and president of the Vermont Police Canine Association.

Although most police departments in the state take good care of their active-duty animals, including paying for their food and vet bills, Dewey says that not all municipalities can afford to do so. Moreover, many of the other expenses related to police canines, including acquiring and training them as puppies, caring for injuries incurred offduty, and post-retirement care, are typically the handlers’ own responsibility.

Retired police dogs don’t just suffer from the normal ailments associated with aging but also the serious wear and tear that comes from years of rigorous training and working, including arthritis, hip and knee injuries, torn ligaments, and back and spinal problems. As Dewey puts it, “The surgeries these dogs need are not the result of being couch potatoes.”

In fact, it was Dewey’s previous canine, Kilo, a drug dog with the Colchester Police Department, that was the impetus behind Lacey’s Fund. In November 2006, Kilo, a 110-pound German shepherd, developed a knee problem that required routine surgery. But unbeknownst to Dewey or Howard, his vet, Kilo’s leg had become seriously infected. As a consequence, Kilo died unexpectedly on the operating table.

Kilo’s untimely death was a serious blow to both Dewey and Howard. Shortly thereafter, Howard introduced Dewey to Kirk Walters, who offered to pay for Kilo’s successor. Walters, an airplane pilot, even flew them out to Ohio to pick up the puppy. Tazor, a Belgian Malinois, now works with Dewey at the Colchester PD.

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In February 2008, after Walters lost his own family dog, Lacey, a 13-year-old yellow Lab, he and his wife were looking for a way to honor her memory. After discussing it with Dewey and Howard, Lacey’s Fund was born. The Walters made a “significant contribution” of their own, as did Walters’ em-

expenses for retired police dogs; an advisory board decides on a case-by-case basis which ones it should help. Still, since it was established, Lacey’s Fund has already assisted three retired police dogs.

Ultimately, both Howard and Dewey hope to establish a more permanent funding stream so that

Retired police dogs don’t just suffer from the normal ailments associated with aging but also the serious wear and tear that comes from years of rigorous training and working.

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ployer at the time, the Chittenden Bank. (Walters now works as chief financial officer for Sovereign Bank in Boston, which also supports Lacey’s Fund.)

“We’re trying to help out wherever we can, so these dogs can have a comfortable and happy retirement,” Walters says. “The goal is to be that financial backstop when something large comes up.”

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For more information on Lacey’s Fund, or to make a tax-deductible contribution, visit the Vermont Police Canine Association website, www.vtpca.com, and click on “Lacey’s Fund.”

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After three rounds of IRV, Burlington’s incumbent mayor pulled it out. His small but decisive win is a victory for reluctant politicians. But it’s no mandate.

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Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. More Burlingtonians selected Montroll “second” than any other mayoral wannabe. He’s our number-one number two.

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The young professional candidate had lots of money, plenty of buzz — and not so many votes. Time to pick up those lawn signs.

There’s always next time.

JAMES SIMPSON

The Green candidate went ballistic for being left out of a story that went to press before he made his candidacy official, then didn’t show up for a single debate.

kibbles and bits If you build it, they will Litter o’ kitties Make all the jokes you like, but former lieutenant come... gubernatorial hopeful Nate Freeman of Northfield A group of local dog lovers is sniffing around for a suitable site for another fenced-in dog park in Burlington’s South End. Burlington dog owner Connie Gunther is leading a volunteer effort to find an apropos spot for pups to play, and has organized a public meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, at the Outer Space Café at 208 Flynn Avenue.

“Everyone’s been very supportive so far,” says Gunther, one of about 60 local dog owners pushing for the new bark park. According to Gunther, her group has gotten encouraging feedback from Burlington Parks and Recreation reps, and from Jodi Harvey, the city’s animal-control officer. Nevertheless, there are still plenty of hurdles to clear, including finding a spot with adequate drainage and no conflicts with wildlife.

“Our biggest challenge right now is our location and our funding,” says Gunther, noting that a new dog park would cost about $10,000, including $5500 for fences and gates alone. “Right now,” she adds, “we don’t have either.”

A generous DeGeneres When Roy Haynes and his wife, Lisa, got a phone call on January 21 asking if they’d be home later that day to receive a delivery, the couple never expected to see an 18-wheeler pull into their Huntington driveway. Their shipment: 1000 cases of free gourmet dog and cat food, compliments of actor and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres.

The Haynes, who operate “Save Our Strays,” a nonprofit animal rescue facility, out of their home, were secretly nominated by a local community member to receive the donation from DeGeneres’ pet food company, Halo Purely for Pets. This year, Halo has donated about $350,000 worth of pet food to 15 organizations nationwide, including $32,000 worth of Halo’s Spot Stew to Save Our Strays alone, a company spokesperson confirmed.

Over the last 14 years, the Haynes have placed nearly 3000 cats and dogs in permanent homes, despite the fact that they don’t advertise themselves as an animal shelter or even have a listed phone number. Nevertheless, so many locals know that they adopt out or find homes for strays that they had to erect a taller backyard fence. The couple permanently houses six dogs and four cats, and built a 16-by-30-foot addition on their garage for the cats alone.

“We’d come home from running errands in town and there’d be a dog in our backyard we didn’t know,” Roy Haynes notes.

How long will 12,000 cans of pet food last? “Quite a while,” Haynes predicts. “I might be dead of old age before that food expires.”

has traded his political aspirations for cat poop.

Freeman, who lost in last fall’s Democratic primary to Tom Costello, is now trying his hand at a higher calling: selling Vermont-made kitty litter. And thus far his progress has been nothing to scratch at.

Two years ago Freeman founded the company, Green Mountain Kitty Litter, after his girls, who were 5 and 6 at the time, adopted a pair of kittens. Freeman, who was initially buying the cheapest clay cat litter he could find, immediately realized the stuff was less than ideal, either for home cleanliness or eco-friendliness. One corner of his backyard was becoming “a monument to cat poop.”

After trying out a few biodegradable alternatives that were little more than wood pellets, Freeman saw an opportunity to seize on the Vermont brand.

Hence, Green Mountain Kitty Litter was born. Its slogan: “Happy kitties. Happy noses. Happy home.”

Currently the product, which has been on store shelves since November, is sold only at Pet Food Warehouse. And, as Freeman explains, the wood-based product includes a triple-enzyme powder to control odors, though he admits it “doesn’t clump well enough.” But with two cats at home to keep up the R&D, Freeman expects to have that problem solved soon.

It’s also worth noting that Green Mountain Kitty Litter isn’t made from Vermont wood. But, Freeman notes, the most common local wood source, oak, is less than ideal. “Oak is fine for whiskey barrels,” he says, “but not so good for the litter box.”

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Hair of the dog Shedding can be a good thing — especially when Cindy Kilgore of Sacred Spirit Dog gets a hold of the dog hair. The Granville resident, who also works as a travel writer, crafts scarves and rugs from canine fur.

She sells the furry fashions on her nascent website — sacredspiritdog.com — and at Vermont fiber festivals and “doggie events.” Prices range from $70 to $175.

Kilgore says dog hair is a perfect medium — much warmer than sheep’s wool. It also has inherent sentimental value: Kilgore receives hair deliveries from dog owners in such distant locales as Florida and California. The warm-and-fuzzy products of her labor double as living shrines to deceased pets.

Sacred Spirit Dog products promote a righteous cause.

Kilgore, who has worked in dog rescue for 12 years, says she donates 40 percent of sales from each scarf and rug to animal rescues and humane societies. “Nobody needs to be buying a dog,” asserts 53-year-old Kilgore. “This gives another vehicle to put that word out.”

Joyce Roberts, who owns the Waitsfield grooming service Dog Gone Style, supplies Kilgore with dog hair.

Roberts recalls that, on top of making her a pretty scarf, Kilgore helped her save money on trash bills.

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s Sean and Debbie came out the door of their Shelburne Village condo, I had to blink. Sean was wearing a black suit, a pale blue tie and dress shoes, and Deb was in a short black dress, stilettos and a lacy violet shawl. In a word, they looked hot. I’ve been driving this couple for years, but had never before seen them dressed to the nines.

Deb held Sean’s arm as they walked toward my waiting taxi. When they reached the curb, Sean opened the rear door for his girlfriend, who smiled warmly in appreciation. Romantic gestures can fall by the wayside when a couple has been cohabitating for a couple of years, so I transmitted some silent props to Sean for the gallantry.

“It looks like a big Valentine’s Day for you guys,” I said as we headed into town.

“Ayup, we’re doing it up right,” Sean replied. I love to hear this guy speak because he’s Northeast Kingdom born and bred, right down to the deer hunting and ice fishing. He’s struck it big in Burlington with a successful carpet business but has never forsaken his farm-boy roots. “I made reservations at Leunig’s for the prix fixe

For the remainder of the ride, Sean wisely stayed awake and kept his mouth shut.

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special they’re serving tonight,” he went on. “I guess it’s about 11 courses including champagne cocktails.”

“Hey, Sean, you deserve it,” Deb piped up. “You’ve been working like mad all month.”

“Hey, yourself,” Sean responded. “You’ve been working your butt off, too.”

Deb works with special-needs kids in a local school system. His pride evident in his voice, Sean has shared with me how the administrator gives her the most challenging cases because she’s known to work wonders.

“OK, you got me there,” Deb said with a laugh. “We both deserve it. How’s that?”

I have no idea why Sean hasn’t yet put a ring on Debbie’s finger. She’s a gorgeous girl, inside and out, though not the type to wield her beauty like a club. She and Sean seem to be at the center of a large social circle; they regularly throw parties at their home, and tons of friends show up. And I don’t think it’s the hot tub on the back porch that draws people to them; I believe it’s their generous spirits.

After I dropped off the couple at Leunig’s, business remained brisk; even in the tough economy, couples apparently dared not neglect the one day of the year dedicated to romance. But this year, the lovey-dovey aspect of the holiday was conspicuously absent. In my taxi, at least, couple after couple displayed signs of dissension. Not that they were at each other’s throats — that would have been truly

disillusioning. But things were decidedly not rosy.

Certain nights, holidays or otherwise, play out like this, and the patterns defy the simple tag of coincidence. I’ve talked to emergency room nurses about the phenomenon. (Some nights, I’m told, the hospital is jam packed with victims of violence, while other nights, nada.) The consensus explanation is the moon. I kid you not.

Around 9:30, I received a pick-up call from Debbie for a ride back to Shelburne.

Something is amiss, I deduced as I motored along College Street. It had been only an hour and a half, not long enough for a luxurious, multicourse dinner.

When I arrived at the restaurant, I found Sean standing sheepishly at the curb, his head bowed. Next to him, Deb was glaring, barely containing her anger. Needless to say, they were not holding hands.

As we wended our way to Shelburne Road, I had to ask, “So, how was dinner?”

(Well, obviously, I didn’t have to ask. I’m not a provocateur, but I do harbor a mighty curiosity.)

“How was dinner?” Deb echoed. “Well, I guess it was, like, so terrific that Sean couldn’t stay awake. He fell asleep right at the table, before the final course.”

“Oh c’mon, Deb,” Sean defended himself. He was rubbing his temples with his fingertips, suggesting a splitting headache.

“What’s the big deal? I said I was sorry. I’ve just been exhausted lately.”

There’s your classic male error, my mind silently chimed in. If you’re going to apologize, apologize. Don’t make excuses, too. The latter, I’ve learned from long and painful experience, simply cancel out the former.

“Really? Is that the case?” Deb shot back. “Do you think maybe the Godknows-how-many glasses of champagne might have contributed? Do you know how, like, embarrassing that was? It just shows how important tonight was for you.”

“Deb, what can I say, honey? I’m totally sorry. I’ll make it up to ya. I promise.”

That’s better, I thought. Just stick with that, Sean, and at least you have a shot.

I felt like I was coaching the guy via mental telepathy: I mean, Valentine’s night sex is clearly a nonstarter, but there’s still the hope of not sleeping on the living room sofa. That’s a realistic goal if you play your cards right.

For the remainder of the ride, Sean wisely stayed awake and kept his mouth shut. When we arrived at their home, Deb said, “Jernigan, I’m sorry you had to hear all that.”

I said, “You guys are great. Look, I was born at night, but not last night. What I’m saying is, I know about relationships. Just hang in there. In a few weeks, you’ll be laughing about all this.”

I said it and I meant it. There are some couples you just can’t help rooting for. m

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teaching kids that we should treasure nature and value animals, contest kills send the message that entire species of animals are disposable.”

In an effort to avoid negative publicity, most coyote derbies have since “gone underground.” As a result, state wildlife officials say they have no idea how many are held each year. But, there’s plenty of evidence that coyote derbies are still being held, according to Holly Tippett with the group, Vermonters for Safe Hunting and Wildlife Diversity. She contends that coyote derbies promote a “war-games mentality” and irresponsible hunting behavior.

For example, in recent years Addison County landowners have reported derby participants driving their trucks and ATVs across closed property, leaving farm gates

ajar and using radio-collared dogs to flush out the wild canines. In response, many angry landowners have barred all hunters from their land.

“In 2005 and 2006, we posted over 3500 acres of previously unposted land in Addison County alone ... so the ethical hunters no longer have access,” Tippett notes.

“There’s been a big backlash. It’s given hunting a black eye.”

Supporters of coyote tournaments contend that such contests benefit the health of Vermont’s whitetail deer herds. But wildlife studies don’t bear out that conclusion. Wildlife biologist Kim Royar chairs the furbearer team for Vermont Fish and Wildlife. While she agrees that coyote hunting, in general, has kept the animals wild and averse to humans, she believes that “there’s more public education that needs to occur” about the relationship between deer and coyotes.

“Although coyotes may have a local effect on some of the deer ... over the long term they’re probably not having an effect on the deer population,” Royar says. In fact, she adds, heavily hunted coyote populations can actually increase their rates of reproduction and survival, a conclusion confirmed by a national, peer-reviewed study published in the December 2004 Wildlife Society Bulletin.

Past legislation to ban coyote derbies hasn’t progressed, in part due to opposition from state wildlife officials, who objected to certain provisions, such as one that required rehabilitation for wounded coyotes.

Tippett hopes that state wildlife officials will back the current bill, especially since the provisions they objected to last year have been removed. m

WORKING ANIMALS

New Legislation Would Protect Working Farm Dogs From Nuisance Complaints

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nyone who’s ever been kept awake all night by a neighbor’s barking dog can sympathize with the desire to punish the dog — or more appropriately, the owner — for his or her negligence and inconsideration. However, in rural areas, oftentimes that late-night yapping serves a vital function: to protect the farmers’ livestock, poultry or crops from nocturnal predators.

But as more and more “flatlanders” move into Vermont’s countryside, many are either unsympathetic toward, or simply ignorant about, the important role that working dogs play on many Vermont farms. As a result, a growing number of farmers have received repeated and costly citations from police and animal-control officers simply because their farm dogs were doing their job.

In response, Rep. Phil Winters, a retired dairy farmer from Williamstown, has introduced legislation to exempt working farm dogs from municipal noise ordinances if the dogs are duly registered with the state.

Winters explains, “This bill will,

hopefully, make it a little easier for folks who own these types of dogs to deal with their neighbors.”

There is no official number of working farm dogs in Vermont, but, according to Amy Shollenberger with the farmers’ advocacy group Rural Vermont, it’s estimated that about 90 percent of Vermont family farms have at least one. This bill, H.62, which passed the House on February 27, would require farmers to register their canines as working farm dogs and pay an extra fee. It’s estimated that between 50 and 100 farms would register their dogs, Shollenberger says.

“I’ve been really amazed at how many farmers have told us that they’re so glad this is coming up,” Shollenberger adds, “because a lot of folks didn’t know they had any recourse.”

For instance, Scout Proft, a farmer with Someday Farm in East Dorset, raises about 5000 chickens and uses Marama sheep dogs to protect her flock. Although Maramas are known as a quiet breed, for about three weeks each year, the dogs can bark steadily if coyotes are circling the area.

“She’s concerned that, one year, there’s going to be a complaint and the animal-control guy is going to come out and confiscate her dogs,” Shollenberger says. Other farm dogs are used to protect corn crops from deer; one farmer, Alan LePage, even keeps Jack Russell terriers to kill the woodchucks that eat his crops.

Unsurprisingly, H.62 is not without its critics; the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, for example, urged lawmakers to vote against its passage. Nevertheless, Shollenberger says this bill is narrowly tailored so that only working farm dogs that are registered as such are exempt from local nuisance ordinances. She notes that the dogs wouldn’t be permitted to stray off the farmers’ property or trespass on neighbors’ land to retrieve wayward livestock. Nor, she emphasizes, would they be protected if they bite someone.

Moreover, a working-dog license wouldn’t be a blanket protection to all bothersome barkers. As Shollenberger points out, “If your dog is just chained up in front of your house and howling at the moon, it’s not exempt.” m

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ew legislation introduced last week in the Vermont Senate would ban the controversial practice of coyote-killing tournaments, or “derbies,” that offer awards or cash prizes based on the “size, quality or number” of coyotes taken. Supporters of coyote derbies say they’re necessary for maintaining the health of Vermont’s deer herds. But opponents counter that such bounty hunts only promote a callous disregard for wildlife and give ethical hunters a bad name.

Vermont has between 4500 and 8000 coyotes statewide, according to recent estimates from the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. The bill, S.113, introduced

by Senator Claire Ayer (D-Addison), would not outlaw coyote trapping or the open-season killing of coyotes, which is already regulated by Fish and Wildlife. Farmers, hunters and others would still be allowed to shoot coyotes, provided they have a valid hunting license.

In 2005, the first annual Howlin’ Hills Coyote Contest in Whiting resulted in the killing of 46 coyotes. That same year, more than 600 hunters participated in the fifth annual Hound Dog Hill Coyote Hunt in Orwell, and killed 70 coyotes for an estimated $5000 grand prize. Typically, the carcasses are discarded once the competition is over.

In recent years, coyote derbies have sparked considerable public outrage among hunters and nonhunters alike.

“Excess kills of this kind really showcase the tendencies of a stubborn few who completely miss the value of animals,” says Joanne Bourbeau, senior state director for the Vermont and New Hampshire chapter of the Humane Society of the United States. “Instead of

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omething else to blame on George W. Bush: The tanking economy has forced the Vermont Stage Company to cut costs by scaling down its current production, Looking Over the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shoulder. Six staged readings of the play (between today and Sunday) take the place of the originally scheduled two-week run of 12 performances.

According to VSC Artistic Director Mark Nash, a slight decrease in ticket sales and a steep drop in donations made it clear by December that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the economic downturn was going to take a toll on our budget for the season.â&#x20AC;? Ticket receipts cover just 50 percent of the nonprofitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costs. With little administrative fat to cut and few other ways to raise revenue, scaling back one of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remaining three shows seemed the only option. Januaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production was already under way, and trimming the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finale would make VSC run the risk of â&#x20AC;&#x153;closing on a whimper,â&#x20AC;? Nash remarks.

Looking Over the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shoulder is a one-man play based on the life of Alonzo Fields (19001994), an African American man who served four presidents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Herbert Hoover through Dwight Eisenhower â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as chief White House butler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We realized that we could save a certain amount of money by not having to rehearse the actor for the full three weeks, by not having to hire designers and build sets,â&#x20AC;? Nash explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But at the same time, I felt we could do justice to this particular play because it is essentially one man telling a story, and it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need the bells and whistles of a full theatrical production as much as some other show might.â&#x20AC;?

The 2004 script has been on Nashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radar screen for a while, in part because the Vermonter went to college with playwright James Still at the University of Kansas.

Nash, a fan of the TV show â&#x20AC;&#x153;The West Wing,â&#x20AC;? is intrigued by the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique behind-the-scenes perspective on the commander in chief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, this may be the most powerful man in the world, our president. But what is he like as a guy?â&#x20AC;? he muses. The play captures the butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s observations of this â&#x20AC;&#x153;guyâ&#x20AC;? as he eats dinner with his family, world leaders and, occasionally, ill-behaved celebrities.

Vivid detail emerges, such as Winston Churchillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beverage requirements: sherry with breakfast; Scotch with lunch; champagne, brandy and more Scotch with dinner. The playwright draws from

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Fieldsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own memoirs and portrays him with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;humble, human voice,â&#x20AC;?

Nash says. Fields was trained as an opera singer, but the Depression curtailed the already limited career opportunities for black performers.

Having spent a lot of time waiting tables himself as a young actor, Nash identifies with the way Fields channeled his artistry while

reading differs from a fully realized production. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will be almost no set, and the actor [New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Andre Montgomery] will have a script with him. Other than that, there are more similarities than differences. He will have a costume; there will be theatrical lighting; the play is full of sound cues.â&#x20AC;? Nash is confident the compelling tale will move audiences,

I felt we could do justice to this particular play because it is essentially one man telling a story.

MARK NASH, VERMONT STAGE COMPANY working in domestic service, however rarified. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you can find a way to use your creativity in whatever way life hands it to you, then thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truly a creative soul,â&#x20AC;? Nash reflects. Even though Fields never fulfilled his opera dreams, â&#x20AC;&#x153;he found a way to put that creativity into this other line of work ...

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very moving approach to life.â&#x20AC;?

Nash, who is directing the show, explains how this staged

even in this leaner staging. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives your imagination the chance to create the story.â&#x20AC;? m Looking Over the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shoulder by James Still, directed

by Mark Nash, produced by Vermont Stage Company.

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vIgnETTEs Opera lovers in the Essex Junction area have until March 12 to sign up for a bus ride to and from the Palace 9 in South Burlington for its high-def â&#x20AC;&#x153;encoreâ&#x20AC;? presentation of Madama Butterfly on Wednesday, March 18. The Brownell Library is offering the ride, along with â&#x20AC;&#x153;opera admission, a briefing on the production by a local opera expert and some chocolate truffles,â&#x20AC;? for $27.50. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an â&#x20AC;&#x153;experiment,â&#x20AC;? says library director Penny Pillsbury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If folks show up for this, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll consider some more opera bus rides in the future.â&#x20AC;? To get on board, stop by the library with a check, or call 878-6955 â&#x20AC;Ś Heads up, Vermont dance lovers who complain thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not enough movement in the Green Mountains! Middleburyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Big Action Per-

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formance Ensemble, directed by Tiffany Rhynard, is presenting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sampler: an evening of dance theatreâ&#x20AC;? this Friday and Saturday at the Town Hall Theater.

Leave the kiddies at home; some of the half-dozen pieces in this show are billed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;not appropriate for young children.â&#x20AC;? Info and tickets, 382-9222 â&#x20AC;Ś The brand-new Vermont Photography Workplace, cofounded by Kirsten Hoving and Rick Clark of Middlebury, is soliciting local shooters for its debut exhibit of nature photography, to open at Bristolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Walkover Gallery in late June. Deadline for entries is April 20.

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lenty of writers are publishing books about the global water crisis. Annette Smith, executive director of the nonprofit Vermonters for a Clean Environment, reads many of their works with keen interest.

But after a while, the outspoken Danby activist admits, such aqueous tomes leave her feeling rather blue.

In December, Smith tried to spice up the H20 debate by producing Respect Water ~ Protect Water, a 42-page ode to the world’s wettest resource.

Self-published in color and black and white through the online service Blurb.com, the chapbooksized volume includes a torrent of grim environmental stats; it was designed as a educational resource that is “spiritual,” Smith says, without being tied to a religious denomination. Aesthetically, though, Respect Water is artier; its facts are tastefully presented alongside poems and water-themed landscape photos of the Champlain Valley.

Creative content comes courtesy of Smith’s friends. Poems were written by Rosemary Partridge, a California minister; pictures were

a water-related disease.”)

For their part, Powell’s outdoorsy shots, many of them stunning sunsets, complement Partridge’s haiku-like stanzas.

“This was a conscious decision to do something that is not just depressing,” Smith says, noting that her blurb-free book has received positive feedback from readers across the United States. “We are offering people hope in a time that’s very bleak.” m

snapped by Ellen Powell, a local bassist whom Smith met while working on a campaign to ban chloramine from Vermont’s public water systems. (A related bill, H.80, was referred to the House Committee on Fish, Wildlife & Water Resources in late January.)

Powell, a cofounder of the local advocacy group People Concerned About Chloramine, says she likes how Respect Water ~ Protect Water balances information and spirituality. Indeed, while Partridge’s poems wouldn’t pass muster in an MFA workshop, they offer a pleasing contrast to Smith’s more depressing facts. (“Every eight seconds somewhere in the world, a child dies of

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That may be one reason Al Stirt was especially pleased to hear last week that one of his wooden bowls had been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Though his gorgeous turned pieces have landed in 18 museums around the United States — including the American Craft Museum in New York City and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. — “There’s something about that British accent,” he quips. “I was really pleased, maybe because it’s overseas.”

Stirt, 62, explains that the fluted butternut bowl, which he made in 1987, had been in the possession of a collector in Arkansas. Apparently the woman — who Stirt says has one of the largest collections of turned wood in the country — was deaccessioning. “My guess is she offered them some pieces and they made a few choices,” he says of the V&A. The bowl, made of native Vermont wood, will take its place amid the vast store of treasures at the London facility.

Stirt, a Brooklyn native who moved to Vermont in 1970, says the best market for his bowls is “not in Vermont.” Though he has sold functional pieces through Frog Hollow, his best venues are galleries in places such as Los Angeles and Miami. The functional works, he explains, sell from $100 to $400, while “the more decorative work can go for anywhere between $300

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Turning wood is a venerable craft tradition, and sylvan Vermont would seem to offer plenty of natural material. Not on Stirt’s property, though; he reveals that his 40 acres contain “mostly scrub wood.” He buys most of his hardwood from local firewood cutters — call it one small transaction in the creative economy. That butternut bowl now owned by the Brits began as a hunk of American log, Stirt

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Stirt’s website displays other pieces in the fluted style, along with African-inspired works, “classic bowls” and a newer series of square “ceremonial” bowls. Each piece is unique, and reveals why wood artists are enthralled by the unpredictable beauty of what was once part of a tree. m

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Curses, Foiled Again Alejandro Melendez, 20, called 911 to report that two men with guns were watching him, but then hung up. When the dispatcher called back, police records show he asked the dispatcher to hang on a moment. The dispatcher then overheard Melendez making a drug deal and called police, who arrested him after finding cocaine in his pants.

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Japan has discovered there’s more gold in sewage than in some of the world’s best mines. Reuters reported that the Suwa sewage treatment facility in Nagano prefecture recorded finding 1890 grams of gold per ton of ash from incinerated sludge. The official noted that Japan’s Hishikari Mine, one of the world’s most

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news quirks productive, yields 20 to 40 grams of gold per ton of ore. Speculating that the facility’s gold is the result of precision-equipment manufacturers in the vicinity that use the metal, the official said the prefecture expects to earn more than $167,000 for its gold this fiscal year.

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Airlines began requiring flight attendants to wear aprons with a Bud Light beer logo on the front. When the cabin workers objected, the airline, which touts itself as “the ultra-low cost” carrier, said it wouldn’t pull the logo. Instead, Spirit official Misty Pinson told the St. Petersburg Times, the South Florida-based airline should “be commended” for finding innovative ways to reduce operating costs and for keep-

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“It is quite embarrassing to see that the system has created Prawo Jazdy as a person with over 50 identities.”

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a grip on gaming consoles and furiously pushing the buttons can cause a newly identified skin disorder marked by painful lumps on the palms, according to Swiss scientists, who labeled the affliction “PlayStation palmar hidradentitus.” Their finding, reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, was based on the case of a 12-year-old girl who showed up at a Geneva hospital with the painful lesions, which disappeared after doctors recommended the girl stop using her PlayStation.

• Children who talk on their cellphones while crossing streets are 43 percent more likely to be hit by a car than when their phones are turned off, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The study, reported in the journal Pediatrics, also found that the 77 children ages 10 and 11 taking part in the study took about 20 percent longer to begin crossing the street and also forgot to look both ways in about 20 percent of the crossings.

Slightest Provocations Carlos Navarro, 38, beat another man with a golf club, according to police in Falmouth, Mass., who reported that the 50-year-old victim held the door open for Navarro, who failed to thank the man. When the older man uttered a sarcastic “thank you,” Navarro told police he felt disrespected.

The two argued until Navarro went to his car, selected a driver from his golf bag and bashed the victim several times in the stomach and legs.

• Calvin Edwards, 48, pulled a pocket knife on his brother while the two were “scuffling over chicken wings” at their home in Fort Pierce, Fla. According to the police report, Edwards said he was looking in the oven for a wing and planned to take out a tray of wings, when his brother told him to get another tray. He explained he pulled the knife because his mother and brother started yelling at him, and he “needed to defend himself.”

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political parties registered for Israel’s Feb. 10 elections, but only 33 fielded candidates, among them an alliance of elderly Holocaust survivors and pot lovers.

Campaigning under the banner of “The Moral Choice,” the “Holocaust Survivors and Grown-Up Green Leaf ” party advocated improving social conditions for the country’s 250,000 Holocaust survivors and for the legalization of cannabis.

Despite hoping the merger would win public attention, the party registered 0 percent of the total vote, well below the 2 percent threshold required to win a seat in parliament.

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Dear Cecil, I once saw a man on Oprah who always unplugged appliances because he didn’t want to pay for “phantom” electricity that would leak through the plug even when the appliance wasn’t being used. Recently, a coworker told my husband he saved a lot of money unplugging TVs, computers, etc.

Am I really wasting money leaving appliances plugged in even if I turn them off?

Rebecca Cecil, I’ve heard people are selling capacitors to lower electrical bills. Is that possible?

Big Red With everyone trying to economize these days, you’re going to hear a lot of dubious ideas about reducing energy costs. Here are a couple.

We’ll start with the dumber one.

Capacitors. I think you’re referring to “power factor correction devices,” which are used to fix an obscure problem found in some AC electrical circuits. For example, a circuit used to run an induction motor sucks up a lot of juice to energize the coils, but only some of it is actually used to make the motor spin. The rest gets spit back out and flows back to the power company.

It’s like the water circulating through a fish tank, which doesn’t get used up, just moved around a bunch.

The power company doesn’t like this, because it has to go to the trouble of sending you all those amps but typically can only charge you for the part you actually consume. If you’re a big industrial energy user running all kinds of motorized equipment, you don’t like it either, because you have to install heavy-duty cabling and electrical apparatus to move power you’re not really using, and in the process some of the energy is lost as waste heat.

(Also, big users often get charged a penalty for this inefficiency.) So you install power factor correction devices, typically capacitors, which magically allow you to sip only as much electricity as you genuinely use. (In geek terms, your power factor is corrected to more closely approach 1.0, the optimal value.)

However, chances are you’re not a big industrial energy user — you’re an ordinary civilian, and the biggest motor you’ve got runs the air conditioner or fridge. If your power factor isn’t 1.0, what do you care?

The electric meter records only the juice you really use. If the house’s wiring is heavier than it needs to be, big deal, it’s already there. You lose some energy as waste heat, but experts say with correction devices you might save 2 percent on your electric bill. Every little bit helps, I guess, but you’d do better just shutting off lights you’re not using, installing compact fluorescent bulbs and energy-efficient appliances, etc.

Unplugging appliances. Here’s a more interesting question. The idea that plugged-in appliances

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Me, I’m a big-picture guy, and I figure energy is energy. My lifetime commitment to a better world consists of stuff like (a) insulating the hell out of my house; (b) WITH SUCH A WIDE RANGE OF HOMES ON THE MARKET, buying little cars; and (c) taking the el (that’s the train, for you forest dwellers) when Mrs. Adams and I go out for our Valentine’s date.

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nne Ross went to PetSmart in Williston the other day and asked for some free cat litter. It wasn’t for her own felines but for residents of the Central Vermont Humane Society, an animal shelter the 25-year-old has managed for two years.

Ross’ unprecedented request made perfect sense: Her Barre shelter’s stash of holiday donations is drying up just as animal relinquishments become more frequent, and adoption clients

name Anne Ross more rare.

job Shelter Manager, Central Vermont Humane Society Shelter staffers location Barre are stretching budgets and working harder, Ross reports. Even so, needy pets-in-limbo aren’t receiving the same Image attention they would in healthier financial times.

Jeb WallaceThat’s a typical story, says Joanne Bourbeau, president of the Waterbury-based Brodeur Vermont Humane Federation. According to Bourbeau, who lobbies for 10 of the state’s 22 animal shelters, reps from those nonprofits tell her they are struggling to Central care for an increasing number of relinquished animals. Since most shelters rely on Vermont grants and private donations, she adds, “We’re not going to get any bailout money.”

Humane On a recent Friday morning at CVHS, Ross stands in a room with a dozen-odd Society, adoptable cats. The room smells of feces and disinfectant. Ross, whose white sweater 476-3811. and electric blue T-shirt match the shelter’s décor, explains that the animals were www.cv given up by clients who are dealing with evictions, unplanned moves, and other humane.com housing and financial crises.

Ross climbs the stairs to her cramped second-floor office. As she answers questions, cats meow incessantly from a nearby room. Ross says the relinquishment crunch started last fall, when she noticed that more clients than usual were giving up their domestic animals. In January and February, CVHS accepted double the number of cats and dogs it did during the same period last year.

In Ross’ view, media hype about the economy may be encouraging people to abandon animals. But she says watching so many homeless creatures arrive at her shelter also makes her wonder: Oh, my God, what is going on?

SEVEN DAYS: What are your daily tasks?

ANNE ROSS: I oversee the staff. Part of it is keeping an eye on the flow anne ross at the central vermont humane society

of animals. I also run the foster-care program, and I support the staff on the different projects they work with.

SD: Have you worked at other shelters?

AR: I worked at San Bernardino City Animal Control, in Southern California, and I’ve interned at Best Friends Animal Society [in Utah] and Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York.

SD: What was San Bernardino like?

AR: It was absolutely huge. I don’t know what their intake was, but I think they had 600 animals on site at a time, and a 96 percent euthanasia rate. It was just horrific: something that you can’t imagine until you’re there.

SD: What’s the euthanasia rate at this shelter?

AR: It’s a different way of measuring.

In San Bernardino, those animals aren’t tested; it’s entirely [for] space. Here, we make health and behavioral decisions — we wouldn’t adopt a hugely aggressive dog. We euthanized a very, very tiny percentage of animals last year for space: It was a lot less than 1 percent.

SD: How do you process incoming animals?

AR: There are different ways of animal sheltering. One is having a scheduled process, and I know there are several facilities in Vermont doing that. Our shelter is more geared toward open admission, but we beg and plead with people to please allow us to schedule, so that we don’t have to make spacebased [euthanasia] decisions. People are generally very good about that, and if they’re not, they usually have a really good reason.

We try not to book more than a week or two out. Once you’ve made that decision, it’s pretty devastating, and to have that animal in your home is hard. This service has to be accessible to them. We hope a certain number [of animals] will be adopted. And we cross our fingers that, when we schedule two dogs for the end of the week, we’ll have adopted out two other dogs.

One thing that is going to be changing: In the course of taking in more and more animals like we are, we’re about to launch a big campaign to increase our foster-care program.

have cats available for adoption. We have cats full-time at PetSmart ... We also want to increase our presence at adopt-athons and go to farmers markets.

We also had a “general animal care adoption counselor” position open up, and we’ve changed that to “adoption specialist.” I’m interviewing for it next week.

That person will say, “Hey, how can we market these animals to find the right homes for them?” And, in the past six months, [Vermont Companion Animal Neutering] opened a low-cost spay and neuter clinic in Middlesex. When they opened up, we had the flexibility to take animals knowing that we’d be able to make them available for adoption.

SD: What happens without that service?

AR: Back up: When animals are waiting two weeks for their spay/neuter appointments, they can become ill. Then they have to be on meds for two weeks, and once they become healthy, they’re waiting another two weeks. It’s a very vicious cycle.

SD: How is your staff coping?

AR: They’re working harder. We’ve been talking for months about how we would get to work on some new projects, but we haven’t had the opportunity yet. We hope to count more on volunteers in the coming months, particularly to help us clean the animals in the mornings, so that the staff has time to do temperament tests, basic training or volunteer recruitment. If you don’t have time to recruit volunteers, that’s another vicious cycle. We need time to expand our foster-care program.

SD: How does your space crunch affect animals day to day, or can you tell?

AR: It’s very stressful to have a kennel full of dogs ... If there are eight dogs, and a couple of them need training work, we can do it. If there are 15 dogs, they all need walks. The training can happen on the walks, but we’re counting on volunteers to help us.

SD: At what point will you turn cats away?

AR: We don’t: That’s what distinguishes us from other organizations. We feel very strongly that, if there’s a need for a cat to come here, choosing to euthanize another animal to make space for that animal is better than closing our doors and saying, “Good luck,” and [having] people leaving cats in the woods. We think a shelter is the best place for an animal. It does make our decisions more difficult, but we don’t stop taking animals.

SD: What keeps you engaged?

AR: When you see multiple organizations working toward a common goal of no more homeless pets, you know that we’re getting there, little bit by little bit. And certainly in my lifetime, the number of animals that have to be euthanized across the country could be significantly different.

In New England, people really feel like we don’t have a dog problem anymore, and a lot of that is from spaying and neutering. Now, it is very hard to get a puppy in Vermont, and so a lot of [local] organizations work on transferring from down south.

But I would say we’re not done yet.

We still have homeless dogs that need placement, but [our dog situation] is much more manageable than our cat situation. My true passion is cats. And we have so much more to do — how could I not be involved? With a clinic opening up practically down the street from us, central Vermont in five years is going to be a very different place for cats, and I’ll be excited to be here and see what that’s like.

SD: Are you developing other strategies to weather the recent influx of animal relinquishments?

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SD: How do you block out this meowing all day?

AR: [laughs] It’s torture! See these two kennels in my office? They don’t have pets in them right now, thankfully. m

SD: How will the situation at this shelter change in the coming months?

AR: It’s very frightening. Cats are pregnant right now, and that means, in a month or so, we’re going to start getting slammed with kittens. And then cats come out of the woodwork in the summer.

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ictures of cute critters may well elicit more “awwws” than those of human babies. At least that’s what the response to our “Best of the Beasts” Photo Contest leads us to believe. We received almost 400 entries to the categories “Paws” for the Camera, Fat Cats, Off the Chain, Lady and the Tramp and Wild Card, as well as pet-centric videos. Seven Days staffers winnowed down the prospects, and hundreds of readers voted on the finalists.

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Sheep have an inexhaustible creativity when it comes to death, and every year I am stunned by the richness of their originality.

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A Vermont shepherd-filmmaker takes stock of his flock

Story and Images John O’Brien

hich of the following is not true of sheep? Lambs are adorable. Lamb’s wool is warm. Lamb chops are to die for. A flock grazing under maples on an October day is a pastoral fantasy come to life. Sheep farming is where the big bucks are.

Old Vermonters sometimes refer to rams as “bucks.” Those are the only big bucks I’ve seen in sheep farming.

There are two ways to make a profit raising sheep: Work a second job or write a book about raising sheep.

Since my other job — as an independent filmmaker — is financially sketchy, I think it’s time to write the book.

I don’t think I could improve on the dozen or so sheep-raising how-to guides currently in print. But that’s all right; I’ve got a new angle. In homage to Kiwi Godfrey Bowen’s seminal 1955 book Wool Away! The Art and Technique of Shearing, I’m toying with the title Run Away! The Art and Technique of Steering Clear of Sheep. Another possibility is to use a big number in the title. Is 666 Reasons for Saying No to Sheep enticing, or a turn-off? Ultimately, I will probably go with something that could grow into a franchise the way the Chicken Soup series has. I’m leaning toward Don’ Even Think About Sheep, which, like the “Dummies” books, might just take off. Imagine the possibilities: Don’ Even Think About Pugs. Don’ Even Think About Reiki. Don’ Even Think About Kazakh Cuisine.

One man might just foil my plans.

His mother calls him Chester, but anybody with sheep in Vermont knows him as Chet. “I’m pretty much the sheep guy,” admits Chet Parsons with equal parts pride and responsibility. Parsons is a “livestock specialist” for the UVM Extension Office. He grew up in Richford, still lives there,

and speaks with a touch of a Vermont accent. He got out of dairy farming and into sheep 20 years ago and currently maintains a flock of about 70 ewes. This spring, he’s offering a series of workshops called “Introduction to Sheep Management.”

more sheep, dummy.” You wouldn’t know it from sweater shopping at Banana Republic, but there’s a glut of wool on the worldwide market, thanks to Australians and New Zealanders being very good at sheep farming.

There is money to be made in

dairies. Yes, Vermont is fast becoming the artisanal cheese capital of America.

The only thing I know for certain is that you’ll never hear a grandpa tell a wide-eyed grandchild, “We sure ate a lot of Pecorino Romano during the Second Great Depression.”

Here’s the thing: My book won’t sell if someone as knowledgeable and reasonable as Chet is running around the state campaigning for sheep. I ask him what, as the sheep guy, his mission is. “If I can help sheep farmers become more profitable ... or lose less ...” he trails off before laughing softly and confessing, “Kind of a negative, I guess.”

If his quote doesn’t quite work as a blurb on the back of my book, it does recall an old joke: How do you make a million dollars raising sheep? Answer: Start with two million and keep farming until you have a million left.

Why is it so hard to make money with sheep? Let’s start with wool. In the Civil War, wool sold for more than $1 a pound. On the UVM Extension’s website, Parsons has created a “Sheep Enterprise Budget” to help neophytes get started. He estimates that a sheep produces 7 pounds of wool per year, with each pound going for 8 cents.

That’s 56 cents of income. Most sheep shearers charge more than $7 per sheep now.

You say, “I just lost $6.44 on one sheep!” Alan Greenspan smiles inscrutably and whispers, “Then raise

meat. Sheep farmers who supply niche restaurants, localvores or ethnic customers can get as much as $200 for a slaughtered lamb.

But consider the Vermont sheep farmer’s problems, starting with climate: For six months of the year, grass does not grow in Vermont.

Most sheep farmers don’t make their own hay; none that I know of grows crops for grain. Let’s face it, unless you run a used bookstore and feed Jane Austen to your pigs, Vermont is a very expensive place to raise livestock.

Another challenge is the U.S. diet.

Americans consume 64 pounds of beef a year; they eat less than 1 pound of lamb every 12 months. Call me when the “McShank” is introduced.

Economies of scale? The fact is, if five sheep farms with 500 ewes each appeared in Vermont tomorrow, the local meat market would crash. The lamb market is not unlike the duck market or the chanterelle market; it kind of works at the moment because it’s so small potatoes.

I only milk my sheep when they have mastitis or I need colostrum for an orphan, so I plead ignorant when it comes to the profitability of sheep

My parents could’ve written a book about sheep rearing, but they were too busy losing money. Sheep don’t pay. Golden retrievers don’t pay.

Children don’t pay. My parents had ’em all.

In the late ’50s, before I was born, my parents settled in Tunbridge. They were very idealistic, keen on “rural restoration,” as it was called, and they had a farm but no animals. My father, a native of Framingham, Mass., played saxophone in the high school band; he was a sprinter at Dartmouth; a bombardier in the Eighth Air Force; an English professor in Puerto Rico.

My mother did have experience with animals: As a kid growing up in Brooklyn Heights, she bought turtles with brightly painted shells on the street and brought them back to her bathtub. They all died. These résumés prepared my parents to become sheep farmers. They purchased six Romney sheep from a well-to-do woman in Brattleboro.

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twins, how many sheep do you have? Way too many, according to my mother. In the end, my parents figured out they could manage about 30 ewes and four children.

Fifty years and about 10 generations of sheep later, there are still 30 ewes on the farm. The original two million dollars has dwindled to about 20 bucks.

Why do I still have sheep? My father was a Democrat, so I’m a Democrat.

My parents never smoked, so I’ve never smoked. My parents raised sheep, so I raise sheep. These weren’t logical decisions; they just happened. Children imitate their parents, and then all of a sudden it’s midnight and you’re up to your elbow in a ewe’s uterus trying to deliver a breech birth and you remember your mom doing this during the Nixon administration.

As it happens, my mother and her significant other, Bill Blachly, keep sheep, too. Blachly vividly remembers one profitable lamb sale. A black Cadillac

pulled up to his East Calais barn one mud season, and a Greek from Astoria, wearing a black trench coat and black patent leather shoes, got out with two henchmen.

The Greek wanted a lamb. “That one,” he said, pointing. Then he signalled to Blachly to cut the lamb’s throat, which Blachly promptly did. The henchmen put the lamb in a plastic bag and threw it in the trunk. The Greek explained that his wife would tie the lamb to a showerhead and dress it out. “We eat everything,” he said. They paid well. They drove away.

Blachly never heard from them again.

Success is a bird with wings.

One of the most attractive sheepraising books is Chuck Wooster & Geoff Hansen’s Living With Sheep. In his introduction, Wooster doesn’t even mention the pecuniary aspect of this potential cohabitation. He asks “Why sheep?” and answers, “Because sheep are soft and fuzzy ...” Then he lets Hansen’s

lovely photographs corroborate this statement. (I use the word “lovely” here because — full disclosure — some of the photos are of my sheep. Sheep farmers, like parents, always think their own are the most beautiful.)

An earlier sheep bible, much reprinted, is Paula Simmons’ Raising Sheep the Modern Way. I assume the word “modern” here is a secret code for “be smart, lose less.” There was a time, in ye olde New England, when sheep raising was indeed profitable. In the 1830s, Vermont harbored as many as 1.6 million sheep — 41,000 in Shoreham alone.

Today, the state is home to approximately 14,000 sheep. To give this number some context, consider that Vermont currently has 421,000 chickens, 265,000 cattle, 178,000 cats, 158,000 dogs, and 35,000 horses. No statistics were available on rabbits or ducks.

What do these numbers mean? They mean that if a sheep picks a fight with a hen, on average, 30 other chickens got the hen’s back. It also means that, assuming an average flock size of between 10 and 25, the state has about 1000 sheep raisers. No statistics were available on ex-sheep raisers.

One of the promising commercial aspects of Don’ Even Think About Sheep is that it would appeal to sheep raisers, ex-sheep raisers, and people who have never had sheep but are thinking about it.

How-to sheep-raising books continue to sell, but they have no allure for those who have watched their last wooly ruminant go down the road. Not so my book. I get giddy thinking about how every time an ex-sheep raiser has a dinner party, down will come the dog-eared Don’ Even. With great anticipation, the host will turn to the chapter called “Sheep Dead.”

You would think that, after living with sheep for five decades, I’d seen it all. Wrong. Sheep have an inexhaustible creativity when it comes to death, and every year I am stunned by the richness of their originality. A few true stories of expirations that I or other sheep farmers have witnessed:

Flock hysterically runs to shepherd bearing grain. Sheep trampled to death.

Fourth of July fireworks. Sheep scared to death. Literally.

Lamb being born gets stuck with head out, feet back. Head swells. Lamb can’t be pulled out; can’t be pushed back in. Lamb’s head cut off. Ewe lives.

Shearer accidentally shears off ram’s penis or scrotum. Ram slaughtered.

Raven bites off tongue of sleeping lamb. Lamb chokes on its blood. Raven plucks out lamb’s eyes.

Coyote kills sheep. Many sheep.

Lamb preferred, but if no lamb, mutton also good and will suffice.

Bear kills sheep. Dead sheep carcass rolled up like rug.

Lightning strikes sheep.

Sheep dead.

Donkey brought in to protect sheep, goes crazy, bites off ram’s ears, bites out ram’s eyes. Ram slaughtered. Jackass returned to former owner.

Great Pyrenees, brought in to protect sheep, joins pack of friendly dogs.

Pack maims sheep. Sheep slaughtered.

Great Pyrenees returned to Massachusetts.

Sheep gets disease with odd name: gid, fluke, scrapie, orf, braxy, listeriosis.

Sheep dead.

Sheep lies down and gets stuck upside down, like a turtle on its back.

Can’t get up — a condition called “cast.”

Sheep dead.

Newborn lamb not breathing; fluid in lungs. Shepherd grabs lamb by back legs and swings lamb in giant circle, windmill fashion, like Pete Townsend playing guitar. Centrifugal force clears amniotic fluid from lamb’s lung. But shepherd loses grip on lamb. Lamb flies through air. Lamb dead.

Sheep has itch. Sheep finds old rotten tree. Sheep rubs against tree. Top of tree breaks off, falls on sheep. Sheep dead.

Sheep has itch. Sheep puts head through feeder to scratch. Something spooks sheep and sheep runs forward, pulling feeder over on top of itself. Sheep breaks neck.

Sheep finds baler twine on nail.

Sheep puts head through baler twine loop.

Sheep spins around and around trying to get out. Sheep hangs self.

Sheep gets tangled in electric fence. Sheep electrocuted.

Sheep with horns gets head stuck in woven wire fence. Sheep starves to death.

Sheep ducks under electric fence keeping it out of wetland. Sheep drowns in mud.

Sheep gets diarrhea. Diarrhea gets on wool. Flies lay eggs on diarrhea.

Maggots eat sheep flesh. Sheep dead.

If this essay comes off as just a little gloomy, let me make a positive prediction: I foresee sheep making a big comeback in a hundred years.

In baseball, there’s something called a “five-tool player.” This is the guy who hits for average, hits with power, steals bases, has a great arm, and wields an exceptional glove.

Every team wants one. Sheep are a five-tool domestic animal: They supply wool, meat, milk, pelts and breeding stock. When oil costs what it should, synthetic fibers will fade, and beef will wither. Sheep are very patient. They were domesticated 12,000 years ago.

When one chews a cud, a hundred years goes by like a daydream.

It’s time I got back to the barn. A ewe is dying. I need to feed her twin ram lambs. Does anybody want this bottle baby? I really don’t have time to raise them. I’ve got a book to write.

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ive and a half years ago, a few days before Halloween, Casey Hamwey and her uncle Roger Blake saw a moose on a mountain in the Northeast Kingdom. The animal kicked dirt. Hamwey fired her rifle and watched the moose fall. Then she called her aunt Susan Blake, who was stationed at a nearby hunting camp.

Hamwey’s aunt didn’t believe her niece’s description of the half-ton carcass. The 14-year-old hunter, for her part, didn’t imagine she had, as a front-page newspaper caption would claim, “reached a goal many hunters wait a lifetime for.” And she didn’t know her moose’s 63-inch antler rack would be the eighth largest ever reported in Vermont.

In past decades, Hamwey’s “big-game trophy” might have been archived by officials from the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. But eight years ago, a funding crunch forced the department’s big-game archive, established in 1983, into premature retirement.

Hamwey didn’t receive formal recognition from a Vermont scorer until this year, when she saw a TV ad for the

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Fish and Wildlife has deemed them “official keepers” of state trophy records. Now they’re scouring the state for taxidermy treasures.

The Fairfax-based Vermont Big Game Trophy Club is more public resource than cult secret. Smiley and Hanson are posting records in Outdoors magazine and on their website, Vermontbiggametrophyclub.com, which includes links to archival photographs.

They plan to publish a related book of big-game stories, photographs and trophy listings in 2010.

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That’s a subjective assessment. But the numbers do show Vermont’s average biggame trophy isn’t as big as it used to be, says Mark Scott of the Fish and Wildlife Department. Scott, who started the state’s big-game record program, explains that huntable animals grow in proportion to

Passing the beef jerky and camouflage vendors at the January event, Expo attendees couldn’t miss the full-wall Vermont Big Game Trophy Club display.

A gaggle of volunteers stood at card tables wearing matching sleeveless shirts. Behind them, Casey Hamwey’s moose head and dozens of dead deer and moose faces stared plaintively from their mounts. A stuffed bear cub lay curled on the floor.

Two days into the event, Smiley was shooting the breeze with Expo patrons.

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It’s not that Scott thinks Vermont is a bad place to hunt. The state’s deer herd is larger than it was 15 years ago and denser per square mile than that of any other New England state, he notes. Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Wayne Laroche is currently trying to increase the state’s stock of mature deer via stricter antler restrictions.

Local interest in hunting appears to be holding steady. Despite a 14 percent overall drop in license sales since 2001, Vermont’s hunter-license registry increased slightly between 2005 and 2007, from 80,476 to 83,089. Scott says the Vermont Big Game Trophy Club won’t directly increase license sales. But to his mind, “Any time people generate excitement about an activity, it’s going to lead to more participation.”

Attracting new hunters is hard in a digital age, notes Curtis Smiley. He remembers hunting as a kid growing up in Westford — “I hate to say it, but it’s Chittenden County” — and thinks today’s young Vermonters don’t spend enough time outside. To help build buzz around their archiving project, Smiley and Hanson have revived an annual awards banquet Fish and Wildlife discontinued in 2001. They’re also buying advertisements and attending public events such as the Yankee Sportsman’s Classic, an annual hunter’s bazaar at the Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction.

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Hamwey, a soft-spoken 19-year-old with dark brown hair and a warm smile, drinks tea at the kitchen table with her aunt and uncle. She says she’s thinking of hunting moose this fall if she can find time between her classes at Lyndon State College and a part-time job. But her aunt and uncle can’t stop gushing about her now-famous kill.

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innie’s being ignored, and she doesn’t like it. The lithe tabby pokes a white paw through the bars of her cage, mewing plaintively. When that doesn’t elicit the desired reaction, she springs to a high perch, rises on her hind legs and offers her paw insistently.

Meanwhile, in the adjoining cage, a smaller tabby named Tiger is performing the same sequence of actions — in exchange for tuna treats.

Winnie’s yowling draws the attention of Humane Society of Chittenden County volunteer Minton Clark, who’s prompting Tiger by tapping the bars with a straw. “Even though I’m not working with this cat,” she says, “she’s very engaged; she’s watching what’s going on and trying to do what Tiger’s being asked to do. They watch each other.”

All the news about local shelters overflowing with abandoned animals conjures images of unwanted cats crouching terrified in cages. But here in South Burlington, the felines seem more responsive and curious than shell-shocked. Some sleep on colorful donated beds. In another room, visible through glass, volunteers have arrived to give the cats some heavy petting.

It’s all part of a strategy of “environmental enrichment,” says Clark.

Clark is moving from cage to cage, as she does once a week, practicing a simple training method that requires a cheap plastic clicking device, a drinking straw and a ready supply of chunk light tuna. Princess, a silky gray longhair with exemplary abilities, has just found a home. “I got here this morning, and all my clicker stars have been adopted!” Clark says.

That’s the whole point. Clark, 45, used to work at the HSCC and now serves on its board of directors. She explains that the petting, training and other attentions are all aimed at making the cats more sociable, and thus adoptable. An animal that stands up and volunteers a paw — even if it’s only in hopes of snagging a treat — is more likely to tug at human heartstrings than one that doesn’t engage.

Still … training cats? Everyone knows dogs are eager to please, but cats have a reputation for being above it all. (Or, some dog owners might say, not up to the mental challenge.)

Solitary hunters with no notion of a pack leader, can they really be induced to do anything that’s not their own idea?

Why not? Clark started training her own cats after seeing a demonstration at a conference six or seven years ago, she says. She wanted to persuade them to use their scratching post instead of the furniture. She wound up teaching them to run through an obstacle course, “tell fortunes” and pound on the piano.

Three years ago, Clark brought her clicker-training methods to the HSCC after observing a similar program at the Upper Valley Humane Society.

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People don’t give cats enough credit. They can learn; they can retain things.

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shelter cats,” she recalls. “There’s too much going on; they’re too distracted.

I was pretty amazed by how well the cats did at that shelter.”

Here, she says, training has proved an effective way to “overcome the shyness some of these cats might have.

We’ve had a lot of success with some quasi-feral kittens.” And, surprisingly, the training sticks: “We had one cat that was adopted and then returned after five or six months,” Clark says.

“The cat remembered everything.

People don’t give cats enough credit.

They can learn; they can retain things.”

Clicker training is a simple form

of operant conditioning, aka behavior modification, that works on animal brains of all sizes. Clark demonstrates on Sparky, a black-and-white male whose owners abandoned him at a motel — another economic indicator, according to Clark. Unlike the showoffy Winnie, Sparky has never had a training session. Clark starts by giving the cat shreds of tuna while activating the distinctive tick-tick sound, so he begins to associate the two.

Next, she introduces a “target” through the bars — a straw that tempts Sparky to investigate with his nose, the standard feline way to process new info.

Probing with his nose earns Sparky some tuna. “When the cat does a desired action, you click and give them a treat, and the click reinforces the desired action,” says Clark, who has a low, feline-friendly voice and earnest brown eyes. “It builds a little bridge in their brain. It’s sort of an ‘if, then’ premise.”

While dogs shake hands, cats generally learn to “high five” a target.

Sparky’s not there yet, though Clark rewards him when he desultorily raises a paw. “You’re being very laissezfaire about this,” she tells him, then voiceovers for Sparky: “‘I’ll just lie here on my pillow, and you can peel me a grape!’

“Sometimes with a cat, the only thing I’ll get it to do is just this,” Clark explains. “Which is great, because they’re sort of learning a foundation.” Extending paws is rewarded; so is “anything cute.”

Finally, Sparky is getting more interested in the straw that’s poking into his lair from above. He stretches up and reaches for it — a cell inmate’s version of the classic “sit pretty” move.

“Perfect,” Clark croons. “Jackpot, there we go. Smart boy! First time I worked with this cat, and he’s 7 years old. You did such a good job, buddy!”

In one of the “cabins” down the hall — enclosures where cats get exercise — Clark works with a fluffy, white-nosed female named Frisky.

After countless “high fives,” “down lows,” two-paw waves and sit pretties, Frisky is stuffed with tuna. But she refuses to sit on a shag-carpeted pedestal that was recently added to her space.

Cats are notoriously uncomfortable with change. “I have worked with scaredy cats, that have been really frightened, and gotten them sort of to come out of their shells,” Clark says. She recalls a litter of feral kittens that took six weeks to socialize; the whole staff pitched in. The first step is getting such an animal to accept human touch. By the age of 8 to 10 weeks, Clark says, ferals stay feral: “Sometimes they have to be a barn cat or whatever.” As for domestic cats that are simply shy, she says, “I try to think like a cat. Do you need a lot of toys?

Do you need a box to hide in?” Once a cat overcomes its native cautiousness, training can be “a relief from the boredom of sitting in [the] cage.”

Clark has taught other volunteers to clicker-train, including the groups of 30-odd kids who attend Camp Paw Paw at the HSCC. She’s demoed her techniques in a video posted on YouTube.

But the goal of the training isn’t to produce particularly accomplished felines — just animals that people want to adopt. It’s a bit like staging a house to make it more attractive to potential buyers. Just as the new owners don’t get to keep the decorations, “We don’t expect them to perform in their new homes,” Clark says.

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1x2-HighDesign031109.indd Randy springs from the table straight to the piano keyboard, where he uses his hefty paws to produce sounds Clark describes as “atonal improv jazz.”

In the living room, Randy “walks the catwalk” on a raised plank. Finally, back in the kitchen, he plays fortune teller, spinning a cardboard dial on the fridge to “answer” a question.

Clicker-training is strictly a method of positive reinforcement, and Clark says she never did manage to teach her cats not to sharpen their claws on woodwork and furniture. “My original goal

that didn’t stop him from hamming it up.

Though he hasn’t been training for the past few months, Randy is ready to go today. He hops on a plastic container in the center of the kitchen, and Clark puts him through his paces. “High five! Down low! Sit pretty! Give me a wave!” (That’s scrubbing the air with both paws at once.) With her own cats, she doesn’t need the clicker, and offers the tuna so deftly that the incentive is barely noticeable to a human observer.

Next, Clark carries a stepladder into the dining room, saying to Randy, “You know what this is!” The ladder goes at the head of the table, which has been outfitted with a simple obstacle course made of candlesticks.

“Up!” Clark commands.

“Weave!” The cat threads his way between the candles, eyes fixed on a tuna-bearing hand just out of reach. “Make some noise!”

was not met, so we moved on to loftier goals,” she says wryly. If she owned a barn, she adds, she’d build her cats a full-fledged agility course, as some trainers have done. Some have even coaxed their pets to play tunes on the piano. Sure, that sounds a bit silly — but training gives indoor cats something to do, and redirects energy they might otherwise devote to shredding the furniture, or each other.

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EXHIBIT “Four Today,” paintings by Alexandra Bottinelli, Deborah Hillman, Beth Pearson and Tari Swenson, Main Gallery, T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier.

Through April 19.

ARTWORK “Rain on the Mountain”

by Deborah Hillman

PHOTO Marc Awodey

n the March 5 edition of National Public Radio’s “The Story” with Dick Gordon, Vermont artist Tari Swenson revealed that her first attempts at calligraphic sumi brushwork were awful. So bad that she packed away her roll of rice paper in the attic and intended to never revisit the technique. But the interview went on to reveal a transformational experience for Swenson: a house fire that brought her face-to-face with a scrap of that old calligraphy. The incident led her to reexamine, and ultimately master, the sumi calligraphy brush.

Swenson is one of a quartet of artists exhibiting now in a show called “Four Today” at Montpelier’s T.W. Wood Gallery. The sense of self-discovery she described on the radio seems to be shared by her co-exhibitors: Alexandra Bottinelli, Deborah Hillman and Beth Pearson. Rather than imposing her will on images the way a realist might do, each of these artists has allowed her subjects to reveal themselves in layered stages.

Swenson’s triptych “Storm Light” is a landscape with a flat, low horizon running across three 18-by-18-inch oils. The sky begins with patches of pale yellow at left and gradually gives way to cerulean blue at right.

The ground is shadowy, with pale passages indicating a lake and fields. The monoprint “Storms Over Lake Champlain” is likewise a graceful landscape, with bands of blue and green under a broad firmament. While not totally atypical, Swenson’s landscapes are not her predominant style. She explained in her NPR interview that the sumi aesthetic is “still what I yearn for when I do the work,” and her monoprint “With Amusement” reflects the calligraphic epiphany she described.

Pearson’s largest contribution to the show is her 40-by-72-inch oil “Victorious Horse.”

It’s almost figurative, with repeated arc forms bent like the neck of a grazing equine. Both the scale and the echoed curve of a real creature are unusual for Pearson, known for her abstractions. The painting is described with a limited range of hues; the background is essentially three values of gray, while the central form is a pale sandy brown merging into red brown. This simple harmony works very well.

While most of Bottinelli’s pieces are her usual small- or medium-sized fare, “Vessels” and “Cornucopia” are both 18-by84-inch oil collages on hollow-core doors.

Hundreds of cutout pictures of chalices, beakers, bowls and spoons are jumbled in a lavender field on the surface of “Vessels.”

“Cornucopia” is equally whimsical, portraying dragonflies, starfish, shells, sharks and birds among its collaged images. All are colorfully painted, and the background is rich and dark.

An online bio describes Hillman’s intuitive approach — specifically, that she allows “the process itself to reveal what’s there.” Her

Each of these artists has allowed her subjects to reveal themselves in layered stages.

2008 oil “Tending the Source” is a 20-by-72inch oil with circles and soft-edged triangles in pale orange, white and light green in the lower portion of the composition. A sinewy line leads upward to a lilac cloud at the top; a group of white rings floats in this mist. Hillman’s “Rain on the Mountain” is a 21-by-30-inch piece that employs shapes and hues similar to those in “Tending the Source.” An abstract purple mountain with a white peak contains small objects. The paint quality is rich and varied. Hillman has a PhD in anthropology and has worked as an ethnographer; perhaps this explains why she’s interested in universal forms.

Each of these artists seems to experience aesthetic epiphanies with every piece. That makes “Four Today” a show of visual discovery for the viewer, as well. marc awodey

‘Combat Paper’: Vermont artists and Iraq war vets transform the gallery into a paper-making studio and turn out paper, then artworks, from former military uniforms. Through April 11 at Firehouse Gallery in Burlington.

Paper-making workshop: Saturday, March 14, 1-4 p.m. Info, 865-7165.

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Jess Graham: “Love, Winter,” large-scale new works inspired by street art and the natural world.

March 13 through April 12 at Seminary Art Center in Waterbury Center. Reception: Friday, March 13, 5-7 p.m. Info, 253-8790.

Paul Rossi: Vibrant figures and portraits by the Wadhams-based artist. March 14 through April 4 at Premises Storefront Gallery in Essex. The gallery hosts its monthly Second Saturday openhouse event Saturday, March 14, 12-4 p.m. Info, 518-963-7150.

The 22nd Annual Children’s Art Exhibition: Original works by students in Burlington’s elementary schools. Through March 31 at Metropolitan Gallery, Burlington City Hall. Awards ceremony with Mayor Bob Kiss: Wednesday, March 18, 5-7 p.m. Info, 865-7166.

ongoing :: burlington area Amy Bourgeois: Colorful acrylic Vermont landscapes, as well as prints, by the local artist.

Through March 31 at Bistro Sauce in Shelburne. Info, 985-2830.

Annie Tiberio Cameron: “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” photographs from cross-country solo camping trips, and from Vermont.

Through March 28 at Firehouse Center Community Darkroom in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

Ben Alshire: Black-and-white photography, Gates 1 & 2; Sage Tucker Ketcham: “2010 Year,” abstract acrylic on canvas, Escalator; and Helen Shulman: Abstract paintings, Skyway. Through March 31 at Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

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‘Brasil’: A group exhibit by Jairo and Helen Dechtiar, Leonara Dechtiar, Andrea Farley and Bonnie Anderson includes batiks and paintings inspired

by Brazilian carnival, folklore, nature and prehistoric cave art.

Through March 31 at City Market in Burlington. Info, 540-0209.

“Bright and Bold”: Members of the Essex Art League show works in this colorful theme.

Through March 31 at Phoenix Books in Essex. Info, 862-3014.

CCV Group Show: “Rebirth,” a multimedia show highlighting the talents of faculty members and community artists exploring the title theme. Through May 28 at CCV Burlington Cherry Pit Gallery. Info, 652-2081.

Ciaran Brennan: “Photographic Suburbia,” color images of domestic interiors by the local artist.

Through March 31 at Union Station in Burlington. Info, 864-1557.

Dan Doyle: “Mr. Bones Loves Chili,” art photographs. Through April 8 at Avenue Bistro in Burlington. Info, 652-9999.

David Kearns: Mixed-media drawings on paper. Through April 30 at CCV Burlington Pearl Gallery. Info, 652-2081.

Frank Gonzalez: “Transformations,” 3-D paper constructions by the local artist and his students. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

‘Freedom in Creation’: An exhibition of drawings and paintings by children of northern Uganda.

Through March 31 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 770-596-8134.

Hugh Townley: “Against the Grain,” a large-scale retrospective featuring more than 60 works of art by the late American wood sculptor who spent his final years in Bethel, Vermont; and ‘Objects of Power and Identity’: An exhibition of objects, from weapons to jewelry, curated by UVM’s Museum Anthropology class.

Through May 5 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0570.

Jay Vogler: In the center’s Chittenden Bank branch, the Vermont artist shows a series of recent abstract, mixed-media paintings on canvas that explore color field relationships.

Through April 30 at Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 425-2152.

Jodi Whalen: New abstract paintings. Through April 17 at Drink in Burlington. Info, 865-0108.

Joe Harig: “Honesty and Production,” acrylic paintings on panel. Through March 31 at Muddy Waters in Burlington. Info, 734-3640.

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Lois Eby. Inspired by the rhythmic vitality of calligraphy and energy of Zen ink painting, the Wolcott-based artist also references free-form jazz in her abstract works on paper and canvas. A selection of paintings from 2000 to 2007 is on view through May 18 at Johnson State College’s Dibden Center for the Arts. Pictured: “Dancing Improvisations VI.”

KAren DAwson: Landscape paintings en plein air in the fourth-floor atrium.

Through March 31 at Davis Center, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 865-1208.

Kenji KAtAKurA: “Phantoms,” abstract graphite portraits; jAson osterhout: Abstract expressionism; LinDA reynoLDs: “Impressions of Place,” watercolors; and jAmes teuscher: “Remnants of the Iron Age,” sculpture. Through April 23 at Artpath Gallery in Burlington. Info, 563-2273.

Lynn Powers: The member of the Essex Art League display her works. Through April 30 at Essex Town Offices. Info, 862-3014. mALtex GrouP exhibit: The hallways on all four floors are filled with works in multiple media by nine local artists. Through March 31 at the Maltex Building in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. michAeL sAGer: “Gathering of the Minds: Vermont Roots, Pictures of the Universe and the Artwork of Michael Sager,” mixed-media paintings.

Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211. muffin rAy: “Discarded and Salvage,” richly textural two-dimensional works that employ oils, beeswax, resins and other media, all salvaged from warehouses, dumpsters and basements. Through March 28 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4505. robert G. jones & LinDA e. jones: The father and daughter artists show representational oceanside landscapes and earthy abstract paintings, respectively. Through March 29 at 215 College Artists’ Cooperative in Burlington. Info, 863-3662. shAwnA cross: “Echo on a String,” large-scale abstract oil paintings that straddle the line between the conscious and subconscious.

Through March 31 at The Daily Planet in Burlington. Info, 782-1675. tAtiAnA ZeLAZo: “Still Life,” a series of black-and-white photographs that look at “looking in;” and Kris jArrett: Images by the St. Albans photographer.

Through March 31 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438. the chAmPLAin VALLey reGionAL Art show: Artworks by students at local elementary, middle and high schools. Through March 20 at University Mall in South Burlington. Info, 863-1066.

the one womAn PhotoGrAPhy Project: The college’s community photography project distributed disposable cameras to women around the Old North End, resulting in an exhibit of more than 200 images reflecting the area’s diversity.

Through March 13 at Burlington College. Info, 862-9616. wiLLiAm corDoVA & mAjor jAcKson: “More Than Bilingual,” a collaborative project by the Peruvian-born artist and AfricanAmerican poet, respectively, featuring mixed-media drawings and installations and poetry exploring race and language. The works celebrate and critique how cultural territories are dispersed, redefined and transformed in urban settings.

Through May 10 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. women’s history month DisPLAy: The Chittenden County Historical Society exhibits photographs of history-making local women. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free Library in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

:: central ‘four toDAy’: Paintings by Alexandra Bottinelli, Deborah Hillman, Beth Pearson and Tari Swenson, Main Gallery; and ‘the wPA in Vermont’: Pieces from the gallery’s collection, South Gallery; and ‘PortrAiture from the PermAnent coLLection’: Paintings, Wood Room. Through April 19 at T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-8743. frAnK wooDs: “Kimono,” an exhibit that captures the Japanese cultural icon in a variety of media, using the familiar T-shape as a template.

Through March 31 at Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-3292.

GAyLeen AiKen: “When Cousin Gawleen Comes,” mixed-media works portraying the life of the Barre artist profiled in Jay Craven’s film Gayleen.

Through April 1 at Governor’s Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

Gretchen becK: “Balepate,” mixed-media imagery by the chair of the art department at Concordia University. Beck lived in Niger for several years and in her art studies aspects of the landscape, culture and native art forms. Through April 10 at Feick Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Info, 287-8926. jAcK sAbon: “Clouds,” oil paintings.

Through March 31 at Restaurant Phoebe in Montpelier. Info, 253-8220.

mirAnDA syP: “The Evolving Door,” new acrylics. Through March 31 at The Shoe Horn in Montpelier. Info, 223-5454. neD KAhn: “Planetary Landscapes: Sculpting the Solar System,” an interactive, multimedia work that illustrates the dynamic forces that shape our solar system. Through March 15 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2220.

PAtriciA LAurin: “Images of Machu Picchu and Beyond,” photographs. Through March 31 at The Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier.

Info, artwhirled23@yahoo.com.

Peter thomAshow: “Wolfson Memorial Laboratory of Colour,” whimsical installations featuring toys “from a parallel universe” and examining play and fantasy. Through March 31 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 765-4274. rebeccA mAcijesKi: Pairs of photographs portraying contrasts: large and small, natural and artificial, and plain and ornate. Through March 12 at Vermont Chocolatiers in Northfield. Info, 485-6088. riA bLAAs & LisA KiPPen: Oil paintings and recent drawings, respectively. Through April 11 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404. scott mAnninG: Sand-blasted granite tiles. Through March 31 at Montpelier City Hall. Info, 485-8747. ‘whoLe new bALL GAme’: A group show of artworks in multiple media exploring the motion and emotion of athletic competition, Main Floor Gallery; Second Floor Gallery; siLent Auction: Sales to benefit SPA programs; begins March 10 and concludes at the Gala March 28; and cAmeron schmitZ’: Paintings and drawings, Third Floor Gallery.

Through April 18 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069.

:: champlain valley ‘Art now: DouG AnD miKe stArn’: An installation features enlarged photomicrographs of snowflakes along with the museum’s recently acquired, many-layered photographic image of a tree, both by the famous identicaltwin artists; and ‘confrontinG history: contemPorAry Artists enVision the PAst’: A group show of printmakers who invoke historic sources to examine the current state of the world, using an array of contemporary techniques. Through April 19 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-5007.

DeAnnA shAPiro: Acrylic and mixed-media paintings. Through March 31 at Charlotte Community Library. Info, 877-8332. jAmes fLorschutZ: Using by-products of society and culture, the artist carves, stacks, welds, ties, bends and otherwise manipulates mixed media into sculptural forms. Through March 27 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1394. jAy ericson: Photographs of the Town Forest; and ‘rememberinG roGer’: books, photos and other artifacts from the life of author and part-time Lincoln resident Roger Shattuck, compiled by Bob Bernstein and Nora Shattuck. Through March 31 at Lincoln Library. Info, 453-2665.

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JuditH Lerner: Paintings in gouache by the local artist. Through April 3 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans’ Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury. Info, 535-5008.

Lois eBy: “Fourteen Works 20002007,” a selection of abstract and improvisational works on paper and canvas by the Vermont artist. Through May 18 at Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. ‘nvAA: PAst And Present’: An exhibit features works by members of the Northern Vermont Artists Association from 1930 to 2000, Main Gallery; and nvAA AnnuAL Juried exHiBition: Selected works by current members,

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Altoon SultAn. The Vermont artist is known for her exacting, luminous landscape paintings, but in her current exhibit in the East Gallery of Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, she gives viewers up-close-and-personal details of farm machinery, silage and draped tarps. The brilliantly colored egg-tempera works are on view through March 21. Pictured: “Orange Arc.”

Through April 28 at Brandon Artists’ Guild. Info, 247-4956.

Pete sutHerLAnd: “Calendar Art,” collages. Through March 30 at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury. Info, 453-3795. ‘sPirits, dreAms And HALfrememBered tALes’: Artists Kirsten Hoving, Emma Powell and Bridget Milligan manipulate the photographic medium, using recorded facts to craft imaginative fantasies.

Through May 2 at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Info, 382-9222.

:: northern ALtoon suLtAn: Egg tempera photo-realist paintings exploring New England light and space via close-up details of farming equipment.

Through March 21 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. cAroLe roBB: “Walking Towards Venice,” works on paper. Through March 14 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College in Johnson. Info, 635-1469. cAroLe rosALynd drury: “Les Bois du Nord Est Royaume,” paintings about the woods in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Through March 31 at The Bee’s Knees in Morrisville. Info, 533-2359. cindy LudLAm: “Art of Impermanence,” paintings and virtual imaging. March 16 through 28 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Info, 635-1469. crAig mooney & HeLen sHuLmAn: “Human Landscapes,” evocative figurative works and earth-toned abstract paintings, respectively.

Through April 26 at West Branch Gallery and Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

East Gallery. Through March 15 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

PHiLLiP roBertson: “Moments in Meditation,” recent prints and paper constructions, displayed in Brown Library. Through April 3 at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common. Info, 586-7711. ‘tHe sHAPe of tHings: JoHnny swing And tHe Best of vermont design 2009’: An exhibit featuring Vermont artists and artisans who repurpose materials and stretch meanings includes furniture

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by David Sellers; fine metals by Laurie Peters; glass works by John Chiles; and illuminated sculpture by Riki Moss and Robert Ostermeyer of Studio Glow. Through March 21 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358. winter grouP sHow: Winter-themed paintings by 15 local artists. Through March 31 at Vermont Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-9653.

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Visiting Vermont’s art Venues

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urlington’s hip-hopsters flock to Steez for the latest gear, from oversized shirts to designer caps.

But the newly expanded retail store on Church Street, right above Speeder & Earl’s, is also a de facto gallery for the bright, graphic portraiture of co-owner Kyle Thompson. Music lovers know him as Fattie B., a DJ extraordinaire whose role in local lore began with the wildly popular band Belizbeha in the early ’90s.

the way Kyle gives a bright ‘pop’ sensibility to his paintings, but doesn’t use a mechanical process like photographing or screenprinting,” Larsen says. “His work is all handmade.”

For his part, Thompson says he loves it when viewers think his paintings are silk-screens. “I want it to be that clear, to look like a reproduction,” he declares.

In fact, his images begin as photographs — subjects are “a

Thompson copies his images onto canvas “by eye” and uses Deco markers to fill them in. Since he was little, the artist says, “I’ve always had a gift of being able to transfer.”

At first glance, the resulting works indeed look printed.

Thompson’s minimalist images with eye-popping color recall the artists he credits as influences: Andy Warhol and Keith Haring.

And his transferring talent is

Monroe, Martin Luther King Jr., the Statue of Liberty — mingle with more idiosyncratic, edgier designs such as a young woman aiming a handgun and a don’tmess-with-me glare.

Thompson’s work will also be introduced to Chicago this spring at a soon-to-open gallery called Import. And Jan Larsen’s future plans include additional galleries in Los Angeles and Japan, where he thinks

To a growing number of fans well beyond Vermont, though, the 38-year-old is a visual artist whose career is heating up by the day.

One of those admirers is Jan Larsen, whose eponymous gallery in Brooklyn has been showing and selling Thompson’s paintings for the past two years.

Jan Larsen Art carries about 30 artists whose work, the gallerist says, “tends to be edgy and urban.” Never mind that Thompson is from rural Bristol, Vermont; he fits right in. “I like

combination of what I’m inspired by and what I think will look good on a wall,” such as hip-hop stars and sports heroes, he says.

Thompson scans these into his computer and “throws some filters on them” in PhotoShop.

He carefully chooses just two or three bold hues — “I try to pick colors that change your perspective on something,” he explains, pointing to the portrait of a fierce-looking subject rendered in Easter-egg lavender.

Then comes the handmade part.

one for which urban art buyers are willing to shell out several thousand bucks. (Mindful of Vermont incomes, Thompson sells his works locally for a fraction of that price.)

This week Larsen is opening a new gallery called JLA Baxter in Manhattan, and Thompson is the star of its debut show, titled “Change We Can All Get With.”

Among the acrylic creations is, fittingly, a vibrant headshot of President Barack Obama.

Other iconic images — Marilyn

Thompson’s sensibility will click.

“People’s comments tend to be about the subject, whether that be Lauryn Hill, Amy Winehouse or Lady Liberty,” Larsen notes.

“But mostly folks just admire the color choices, the contrasts and the detail.” In New York, one couple is currently “falling in love with” Thompson’s bubble-gum-colored Paris Hilton, he adds.

Thompson’s big-city art shows grew out of his posterdesign work for Culturenik,

a company that used to be headquartered just down the street from Jan Larsen Art. Culturenik, which produces posters and other merch, possesses the licensing rights to myriad pop-culture images.

Steez is one of the brands listed on its website, and the company is already duplicating Thompson’s paintings on products such as notebooks, shower curtains and jigsaw puzzles. Conversely, he has access to some of Culturenik’s trove of subjects. “I hope to get a couple Bob Marley images,” Thompson says. “The Elvis Presley estate saw my stuff and contacted Culturenik,” he adds hopefully, suggesting the King could use some updating for the now generation.

Marketing is the name of this game, and Thompson acknowledges its tantalizing possibilities while maintaining his modest, laid-back demeanor. After all, in addition to fulfilling his retail duties at Steez, the homeboy is still DJ’ing three or four nights a week around town — his gigs include a nearly 10-year stint at Club Metronome’s Saturday-night dance party. “I want to write a book,” Thompson faux-threatens: I Was a 400-Pound DJ on ’80s Night. m “Change You Can All Get With” opens at JLA Baxter, 123 Baxter Street in New York City on March 12, reception 6-8 p.m.

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“Impossible!” said Pythagoras. His system was built on the axiom that there are no such numbers. Yet he couldn’t refute the student’s proof. By some accounts, Pythagoras had the student drowned for his impunity.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This would be a perfect week to practice writing love letters. It’s not yet a favorable time to actually send the love letters you compose, however. You need some work before you’ll be ready to produce the finished products.

You’ve got to drain off the chatter that’s at the top of your head before you’ll be able to penetrate to the more interesting truths that lie at the bottom of your heart. But if you do your homework — churn out, say, at least three eruptions of rabid amour — you’ll prepare yourself well to craft a thoughtful meditation that will really have a chance to make an impact.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I decided to call my cable TV company to inquire about a mistake on my bill. From past experience, I suspected this would be a visit to the suburbs of hell. My expectations were soon fulfilled. After being cycled through three phases of the automated system, I was told by a machine that I’d get to speak with an actual person in 16 minutes. Then I was delivered into the aural torment of recorded smooth jazz. But a minute into the ordeal, something wonderful happened. The muzak gave way to a series of great indie rock tunes, including three I’d never heard before. A song that I later determined to be Laura Veirs’ “Don’t Lose Yourself” became my instant new favorite. By the time the billing consultant was ready for me, my mood was cheery. I predict a comparable sequence for you, Capricorn. An apparent trip to the suburbs of hell will have a happy ending that exposes you to fresh sources of inspiration.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In response to the recession, some companies have come up with an ingenious way to avoid raising prices: They reduce the amount of product they offer by shrinking the packaging. The makers of Skippy Peanut Butter, for instance, restructured the bottom of the jar so that only 16.3 ounces could fit inside instead of the previous 18. In the coming weeks, Aquarius, I suspect you will be having to deal with metaphorical versions of this strategy. Now that I’ve told you, maybe you won’t be fooled.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the past few weeks

you have veered close to the edge of blissful triumph.

From what I can tell, you averted total ecstatic breakthrough and fantastic raging success by only the narrowest of margins. If you don’t want to go all the way in the coming days — if you’d rather remain faithful to your fear of success and fall back into your humdrum comfort zone — you should slam on the brakes immediately. But I warn you: The cosmic pressure to push you over the top into loopy, grinning, shameless victory is almost irresistible.

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Two Lovers HHH

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MAD LOVE

Phoenix juggles mental problems and girl troubles in James Gray’s romantic drama.

oaquin Phoenix, one of the most gifted actors of his generation, has arrived at a pivotal juncture in his career: the end of it. Or so he would have us believe. He’s announced that Two Lovers will be his final film. That he’s transitioning to a career as a rapper. He’s grown a long beard and done interviews — such as that infamous one on “Letterman” — that suggest he’s suffered a nervous breakdown.

All of which would make for a tragic Hollywood train wreck if it weren’t a practical joke.

Not a particularly amusing one, but a put-on nonetheless. Tip-off number one: Phoenix is filming the prank.

He’s hired Casey Affleck, brother of Ben, to follow him around, ostensibly for the purpose of creating a documentary lampooning entertainment-industry hubris. Tip-off number two: An unnamed friend conveniently “leaked” the following to Entertainment Weekly: “It’s an art project for him. He’s going full out. He’s probably told his reps that he’s quit acting. Joaquin is very smart. This is very conscious. He has a huge degree of control.”

And, in fact, Phoenix’s reps are playing along as if they’ve been punk’d. His publicist, Susan Patricola, told MTV News that “the transition from one career to another is never seamless. It should come as no surprise to anyone [considering] that Joaquin came from a musical family, in addition to winning a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Johnny Cash. He intends on exploring his musical interests despite speculative, negative or positive reactions.”

Of course, Patricola neglects to mention either Phoenix’s bizarro beard-and-shades makeover or his mumbly, borderline-comatose demeanor on “The Late Show.” Neither exactly screams hip-hop artist in training, though the whole business does smack of a foray into Andy Kaufman-style comedy. My theory, however, is that something entirely different is going on here.

There is indeed a method to Phoenix’s make-believe madness, in my humble opinion. It just doesn’t have anything to do with hip-hop music or documentaries. (Can you think of three people who’d pay to see a movie about the actor pursuing a rap career?) What we have here, I believe, is much less than meets the eye. It’s nothing more than a movie star doing what movie stars always do: making the rounds to promote his latest project — albeit a tad more conceptually than most.

And so we come to Two Lovers, the story of a mumbly Brooklyn oddball named Leonard, son of a dry cleaner, who has had a nervous breakdown and dabbled in writing and singing rap. He even gives a brief performance in one scene.

So, in essence, Phoenix’s recent antics may be viewed as a walking, talking trailer for his third collaboration with writer-director James Gray (after The Yards and We Own the Night). If I’m right, it ranks with the most intriguing promotional stunts in film history. If I’m wrong, well, I don’t even want to think about it. And don’t get any funny ideas about sending me his CD on my birthday. Please.

This is a gentle, understated, character-driven piece that has more in common with European romantic dramas than those generally made in this country. The narrative concerns Leonard’s pharmaceutically treated

instability. (Read 10 reviews and you’ll see 10 different psychological conditions attributed to the character, but his problem is never specifically identified in the script.)

Whatever the issue, it complicates Leonard’s efforts to distinguish between the true love offered by a caring, young Jewish woman (Vinessa Shaw), whose family is about to merge its dry-cleaning business with his family’s; and the obviously bogus illusion of bliss proffered by a self-loathing and drug-abusing — though babelicious — shiksa played by Gwyneth Paltrow.

Many of the picture’s most endearing elements have little or nothing to do with Phoenix. Particularly well done, for example, are the scenes depicting the growing closeness between the two families. I can’t remember the last time I saw Jewish parents portrayed in a motion picture with such warmth. In the hands of too many writers, every Jewish mother is a joke waiting to happen, but here Isabella Rossellini is a model of maternal tenderness and empathy.

I’d have preferred to spend more of the film’s 108 minutes with the parents and less with Leonard — who, to be frank, presents as rather a dull boy. Certainly, the character is far too stunted to merit in real life anything approaching the level of female attention lavished on him here. The movie benefits from a powerful sense of place and a number of nicely observed moments, but I have to say it suffers from a serious case of We Can See What’s Coming From a Mile Away.

“One of the best films of the year,” reviewers began raving roughly five weeks into 2009. Compared with what — The Pink Panther 2? Fired Up? OK, one of the best films about dry cleaners, sure. Any more glowing assessment is as misleading as it is premature.

RICK KISONAK

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane ... it’s apocalyptic angst in Snyder’s adaptation of the cult comic series.

re you ready to take a parody of superheroes seriously?

That’s the attitude Watchmen requires. A Day-Glo panorama of alternate history and ultra-violence, it may merely dazzle and deafen viewers who don’t appreciate the ironies rooted in its source, the 1986 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons. Director Zack Snyder (300) has pulled off an unusually faithful adaptation, yet he doesn’t always seem to be in on the joke.

Watchmen takes place in a bizarro version of the 1980s in which America won in Vietnam, thanks to superheroic intervention. But all is not well. A triumphant Nixon, still in office, is chomping at the bit to nuke Russians. Meanwhile, the “costumed heroes” who patrolled the streets of mid-century America have been put out to pasture, and it’s not hard to see why. The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is a sneering Rambo figure who has no compunction about mowing down civilians. (Naturally, he still works secretly for the government.) Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) is a raspy-voiced, masked sociopath. Even Moore’s less shady superheroes are pretty messed up: Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), his version of Batman, is paunchy and impotent, while Doctor Manhattan (Billy Crudup) acts like Superman might after he spent several years holed up in the Fortress of Solitude smoking peyote.

In short — saving the world? Not gonna happen. Still, when Rorschach, Nite Owl and token female the Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) don their forbidden costumes to track down a mysterious assailant who murdered the Comedian, they do become heroes of sorts. In Moore’s world, the difference between good and bad guys is far less important than the rift separating the old noir-style vigilante crime fighters

— exemplified by Rorschach — from new-style technocrats such as Ozymandias (Matthew Goode), who would rather manipulate the populace with insidious marketing tactics than whip it into shape. When it comes down to the question of who’s right, Watchmen offers no easy answers.

Brilliant storyteller as he is, Moore sometimes comes off as an earnest high school teacher lecturing his readers on man’s inhumanity to man. But it would be hard to accuse the Watchmen comic of promoting fascism, brutality and general nastiness, a charge some critics have leveled at the movie. Perhaps they’re responding to the glee with which Snyder takes each violent scene in his source and expands four or five drawn panels into a ballet of bone crushing and blood squirting, complete with realistic sound effects.

This is exactly what fans of 300 expect. And a dose of sheer mayhem may be required to guarantee big grosses for a film in which a giant, glowing, nude blue dude wanders Mars expounding on the nature of time. (That’s Doctor Manhattan, an unusually convincing CG creation.)

Still, the film’s comic-book violence doesn’t always feel true to its comic-book source. Snyder uses his patented slow-motion/freeze-frame action technique to create visually stunning effects, often reproducing panels straight out of the text. But he doesn’t always get the lighter moments,

such as the scene where Nite Owl regains his sexual potency thanks to a Spandex costume. What came across as tender and silly in the book, Snyder stages as a cross between opera and Cinemax softcore.

Luckily, a (mostly) good cast is on hand to highlight the human element in the material. Haley, who played the pedophile in Little Children, makes self-righteous, self-hating Rorschach a compelling antihero. As a physicist transformed by one of those convenient lab accidents into a superhuman, Crudup has the most difficult role: He could save humanity from nuclear annihilation, but he can’t be bothered. With voice acting that combines regret, resignation and infuriating intellectual detachment, he suggests HAL 9000 from 2001 with a soul. On the negative side, Goode is strangely mushmouthed, and Akerman — well, it’s clear why she generally plays the second banana in bad romantic comedies.

Running nearly three hours, the film is so stuffed with plot, imagery and throwaway allusions that anyone who can stomach it the first time may crave a second viewing.

Others may come away with a bad taste in their mouths after the clumsily handled denouement.

The ideological differences between Snyder’s Watchmen and Moore’s Watchmen will be fodder for countless college (and Internet) bull sessions. But one thing the film is not, and that’s negligible. For those who don’t appreciate the rise of genre lit to mainstream artistic respectability, it’s a sign of the apocalypse. For those who welcome that shift, the studio’s willingness to bankroll this geek wet dream of a movie augurs better things to come.

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MISS MARCH: Former NYC comics Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore wrote, directed and star in this laugh-fest about a young man who wakes from a four-year coma to discover that his high school girlfriend has grown up to become a Playboy Playmate. (And this is your main concern after four years in a coma?) Naturally, that necessitates a road trip to Hef’s mansion for the purpose of winning her back. Raquel Alessi costars. (89 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace) RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN: Dwayne Johnson, the artist formerly known as The Rock, stars in this update of the Disney franchise. A cab driver finds himself in the middle of a magical mix-up when a couple of teen passengers turn out to be runaways with supernatural powers fleeing the forces of evil. AnnaSophia Robb and Alexander Ludwig costar. Andy (The Game Plan) Fickman directs. (99 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount, Welden) THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT: Are you getting the impression that a remake of a vintage horror film will be released every week this year? Dennis Iliadis brings us this recycling of the 1972 Wes Craven gore-athon in which psychos torture and molest two young women and then coincidentally hide out at the home of one victim’s parents. Starring Tony Goldwyn, Monica Potter and Sara Paxton. (85 min, R. Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount) TWO LOVERSHHH In what he claims will be his final film performance, Joaquin Phoenix plays a mentally unstable thirtysomething who earns the love of a caring young woman, but chooses instead to pursue an equally unstable drug abuser who’s dating a married man.

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CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLICHH1/2 Sophie Kinsella’s bestselling series about a spunky young woman who dreams of working at a fashion magazine but somehow winds up writing for a financial periodical gets the big-screen treatment from My Best Friend’s Wedding director P.J. Hogan. Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack and John Goodman star.

(112 min, PG. Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Stowe, Welden)

CORALINEHHH Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher and Dawn French are among the voice cast in director Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s latest stop-motion feature, in which a young girl discovers a secret door in her home that leads to an alternate version of her life.

Based on the book by Neil Gaiman. (100 min, PG. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic [3D version, costs about $2 extra], Palace) DOUBTHHH1/2 It’s a Battle of the Thespians: Meryl Streep squares off against Philip Seymour Hoffman in this tale of a nun in a 1964 Catholic school who won’t stop till she’s proved a popular priest guilty of wrongdoing. John Patrick Shanley directs, from a screenplay based on his acclaimed play. With Amy Adams.

(104 min, PG-13. Capitol, Roxy) FANBOYSHH In this comedy/drama set in 1998, five über-geeky Star Wars fans take a road trip to George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch in an effort to view The Phantom Menace before anyone else. With Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, Dan Fogler, Kristen Bell and, yes, William Shatner.

Kyle Newman directs. (90 min, R. Palace) FIRED UPH1/2 Nicholas D’Agosto and Eric Christian Olsen star in this teen laugher about a pair of high school football hot shots who join the school’s hottest girls at cheer camp as a hoot — only to find they’re naturals. Sarah Roemer and Philip Baker Hall costar. Will Gluck makes his directorial debut. (94 min, PG-13. Capitol, Essex) FRIDAY THE 13THHH Good news for everyone who didn’t get enough of Mr. Hockey Mask in the original slasher franchise’s 11 films: Director Marcus Nispel, who recycled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, now goes back to Camp Crystal Lake to butcher those sexcrazed counselors all over again. With Aaron Yoo, Odette Yustman and Jared Padalecki. (95 min, R. Bijou, Capitol) FROST/NIXONHHHHH: Frank Langella and Michael Sheen reprise their stage roles in Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s award-winning play about events surrounding the historic series of television interviews David Frost conducted with Richard Nixon in 1977. Rebecca Hall, Toby Jones, Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell costar. (122 min, R. Big Picture) GRAN TORINOHHH: Clint Eastwood directs, scores and stars in this drama about a bigoted Korean War vet who befriends a Hmong teen and his multigenerational family. With Bee Vang, Ahney Her and Christopher Carley. (116 min, R. Bijou, Majestic, Palace, Roxy, Welden)

HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOUHH Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Connelly appear in this fictional spin-off of the bestselling self-help book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, featuring an interconnected group of characters who spend way too much time analyzing their love lives. Directed by Ken (License to Wed) Kwapis. (129 min, PG-13. Bijou, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Roxy) HOTEL FOR DOGSHH1/2 The canine trend in American film comedy continues with this adaptation of the Lois Duncan novel in which a pair of orphaned siblings convert a closed hotel into a sanctuary for strays. Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin star. Thor Freudenthal make his directorial debut. (100 min, PG. Big Picture, Essex, Majestic, Palace) JONAS BROTHERS: THE 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCEHH1/2 The Jonas Brothers, um, perform in concert.

Directed by Bruce (Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert) Hendricks. Where was this guy when Hanson needed him? (76 min, G. Majestic; tickets are $15) MAN ON WIREHHHHH James Marsh’s Oscar-winning documentary looks back at what some have called “the artistic crime of the century”: In 1974, an agile Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a tightrope he’d strung illegally between the towers of the World Trade Center. (90 min, PG-13. Roxy) MILKHHH1/2 Sean Penn stars in Gus Van Sant’s drama about the life and tragic death of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office in this country.

With Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch and James Franco. (128 min, R. Palace) PAUL BLART: MALL COPHH Kevin James plays a New Jersey shopping center security guard forced to save a group of hostages without the aid of a gun or actual police training. Costarring Jayma Mays and Keir O’Donnell. Directed by Steve (Daddy Day Care) Carr. (91 min, PG. Essex, Majestic, Palace) RACHEL GETTING MARRIEDHHHH Anne Hathaway stars as a recovering drug addict who checks out of rehab to check out the wedding of her jealous, unforgiving sister in this dysfunctional family drama from Jonathan Demme.

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REVOLUTIONARY ROADHHHH Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio — together again. Of course, the couple they play in Sam Mendes’ big-screen version of Richard Yates’ scathing novel about 1950s suburban life doesn’t get along quite as swimmingly as the pair they played last time around. With Kathy Bates and Michael Shannon. (119 min, R. Roxy) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIREHHH1/2 In this fanciful drama from Danny (Trainspotting) Boyle, Dev Patel plays a kid from the slums of Mumbai whose painful life experiences help him win big on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” With Anil Kapoor and Freida Pinto. (120 min, R. Big Picture, Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Roxy, Stowe, Welden) STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LIH The popular video game featuring ultraviolent Bangkok thugs behaving ultraviolently in various combinations gets the big-screen treatment from director Andrzej (Doom) Bartkowiak. Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein and Michael Clarke Duncan star. (97 min, PG-13. Majestic) TAKENHHHH A former CIA agent takes matters into his own hands when his daughter travels to Paris and is abducted

by Albanian sex traders. Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen star.

Pierre Morel directs. (91 min, PG-13.

Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Palace, Paramount) THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONHH1/2 Brad Pitt is a man born with the unique problem of aging backwards in this historically sweeping adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, directed by David (Fight Club) Fincher from a screenplay by Eric (Forrest Gump) Roth. With Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton. (167 min, PG-13. Palace) THE INTERNATIONALHH1/2 Clive Owen plays an Interpol agent who tries to bring to justice a powerful bank that’s financing terrorist activity. Costarring Naomi Watts and Armin Mueller-Stahl.

Directed by Tom (Run Lola Run) Tykwer.

(118 min, R. Majestic) THE PINK PANTHER 2HH Norwegian filmmaker Harald Zwart has made some of the lamest movies in the annals of American cinema: Agent Cody Banks and One Night at McCool’s, for example. He promises to continue the tradition with this follow-up to the critically savaged 2006 remake. Steve Martin, Jean Reno and Alfred Molina are squand — I mean, star.

(92 min, PG. Capitol, Essex, Majestic) THE READERHHH In this adaptation of Bernhard Schlink’s novel, a postwar German teen has a passionate encounter with an older woman that forces him to ponder his relationship to the Nazi past. With Kate Winslet, David Kross and Ralph Fiennes.

Stephen (The Hours) Daldry directs. (123 min, R. Essex, Roxy, Savoy, Stowe) THE UNINVITEDH1/2 Thomas and Charles Guard direct this remake of the 2003 Korean thriller Changhwa, Hongryon [A Tale of Two Sisters], about a young woman whose mother returns from the grave to warn her that the woman engaged to her father is not who she pretends to be. Starring Elizabeth Banks, Emily Browning and David Strathairn. (87 min, PG-13. Paramount) THE WRESTLERHHH1/2 Mickey Rourke makes a stunning comeback in this gritty saga chronicling the struggles of a past-his-prime pro wrestler. Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood costar.

Darren Aronofsky directs. (109 min, R. Capitol, Palace) TYLER PERRY’S MADEA GOES TO JAILHH The prolific writer-director stars once again as an irascible seventysomething matriarch in this comedy in which Madea’s anger issues land her behind bars. With Keshia Knight Pulliam, Derek Luke and Viola Lewis. (103 min, PG-13. Majestic) WALTZ WITH BASHIRHHHHH Proving to any remaining skeptics that cartoons are not always for kids, Israeli director Ari Folman presents his own and others’ troubled memories of serving in the first Lebanon War in animated form. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. With Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag and Folman.

(87 min, R. Roxy)

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WATCHMENHHH1/2 What would superheroes be like in the real world?

Saviors of humanity or fascist tyrants?

In Zack (300) Snyder’s adaptation of the landmark 1986 comic series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, a couple of misfits try to figure out who’s killing off “costumed heroes.” With Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Goode and Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. (163 min, R. Bijou, Capitol, Essex, Majestic, Marquis, Palace, Roxy, Stowe, Welden)

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CADILLAC RECORDSHHH1/2 From writer-director Darnell (I Like It Like That) Martin comes this drama chronicling the emergence of Chess Records, one of the first labels to introduce mainstream America to blues legends such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Etta James. Starring Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright and Beyoncé Knowles. (108 min, R) HAPPY-GO-LUCKYHHHH Mike (Vera Drake) Leigh’s new film stars Sally Hawkins as a 30-year-old London schoolteacher whose positive outlook on life is put to the test when she winds up taking driving lessons from an abusive instructor. Stanley Townsend and Alexis Zegerman costar. (118 min, R) LET THE RIGHT ONE INHHHHH In this Swedish arthouse alternative to Twilight, a 12-year-old finds refuge from schoolyard bullying in his friendship with an odd girl who only appears after dark. With Kare Hedebrant and Lina Leandersson. Tomas Alfredson directs. (114 min, R) MILKHHH1/2 Sean Penn stars in Gus Van Sant’s drama about the life and tragic death of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office in this country.

With Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch and James Franco. (128 min, R) RACHEL GETTING MARRIEDHHHH Anne Hathaway stars as a recovering drug addict who checks out of rehab to check out the wedding of her jealous, unforgiving sister in this dysfunctional family drama from Jonathan Demme.

With Debra Winger, Bill Irwin and Rosemarie DeWitt. (111 min, R) ROLE MODELSHHH David (The Ten) Wain cowrote and directed this comedy in which two friends get in trouble with the law and find themselves performing community service by acting as unlikely mentors. Starring Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott and McLovin himself, Christopher Mintz-Plasse. (95 min, R) SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORKHHHHH Charlie Kaufman, the mind-bending scribe behind Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, makes his directorial debut with this meta-fest about a regional theater director who spends a lifetime trying to stage a monumental play unlocking the meaning of life. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Tom Noonan head an ensemble cast. (124 min, R) THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMASHHH From writer-director Mark (Little Voice) Herman comes this drama about the friendship that develops between the son of a Nazi officer and a young prisoner in the concentration camp he oversees. Based on the novel by John Boyne. Starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon and David Thewlis. (94 min, PG-13) TRANSPORTER 3H Jason Statham attempted to give Bond a run for his holiday box-office money in the third film about a lethal martial-arts expert who plays chauffeur — this time around, to a comely Ukrainian kidnapping victim (Natalya Rudakova).

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wednesday 11 — thursday 19 Frost/Nixon 5:45 & 8 (except Sat).

Slumdog Millionaire 2 (Fri-Sun), 5, 7:30. Hotel for Dogs 2 (Fri-Sun), 4.

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Gran Torino 6:50. friday 13 — thursday 19 Watchmen 2 (Sat & Sun), 6:30 (all week), 9:15 (Fri & Sat). He’s Just Not That Into You 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 9:15 (Fri & Sat). Slumdog Millionaire 1:20 & 3:45 (Sat & Sun), 6:40 (all week), 9:15 (Fri & Sat). Gran Torino 3:50 (Sat & Sun), 6:50 (all week). Coraline 1:10 & 3:40 (Sat & Sun). Friday the 13th 7 (all week), 9:15 (Fri & Sat).

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93 State Street, Montpelier, 229-0343. wednesday 11 — thursday 12 Watchmen 6:45. The Wrestler 6:30, 9.

Slumdog Millionaire 6:30, 9. Doubt 6:30, 9. Confessions of a Shopaholic 6:30. Fired Up 9. friday 13 — thursday 19 Watchmen 1:15 (Sat & Sun), 6:45.

Slumdog Millionaire 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. The Wrestler 6:30, 9. Taken 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30, 9. The Pink Panther 2 1:30 (Sat & Sun), 6:30.

Coraline 1:30 (Sat & Sun). Friday the 13th 9.

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ESSEX CINEMA

Essex Shoppes & Cinema, Rt. 15 & 289, Essex, 879-6543. wednesday 11 — thursday 12 Confessions of a Shopaholic 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45. Coraline 12:15, 2:45, 5:15. Fired Up 1:10, 3:10, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20. He’s Just Not That Into You 4, 6:50, 9:30. Hotel for Dogs 12:15. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2:40, 7:10, 9:15. Slumdog Millionaire 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40. Taken 7:25, 9:25. The Pink Panther 2 12:30, 5. The Reader 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20. Watchmen 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50. friday 13 — thursday 19 *Miss March 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 9:45. *Race to Witch Mountain 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30. *The Last House on the Left 12, 2:30, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50.

Confessions of a Shopaholic 12:15, 7:30. Fired Up 3:15, 5:20, 7:20. He’s Just Not That Into You 4:25, 9:30.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 12:15, 2:15, 7:10.

Slumdog Millionaire 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40. Taken 1, 9:25. The Reader 2:30, 5, 9:45. Watchmen 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50.

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wednesday 11 — thursday 12 Watchmen 1, 2, 4:30, 6:10, 8:30, 9:30. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience 12:45, 2:40, 4:40, 6:40, 8:35 [tickets $15]. Slumdog Millionaire 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:35.

Coraline (in 3D) 1:30, 4, 6:20. The Pink Panther 2 1:15, 3:45, 7:05.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1:40, 4:10, 6:50.

He’s Just Not That Into You 12:50, 3:40, 6:30. Gran Torino 3:30, 8:40.

Confessions of a Shopaholic 12:55, 6:15. Taken 4:20, 7:10, 9:40. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li 9:25.

Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail 8:45.

The International 9:15. Hotel for Dogs 1:20.

wednesday 11 — thursday 12 The Metropolitan Opera Presents Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor 1 (Wed). Watchmen 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1, 2:40, 4:15, 6, 7:35, 9:15. Milk 12:50, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05. The Wrestler 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:20. Confessions of a Shopaholic 3:30, 6:15. Coraline 10:30 a.m. (Thu), 1:30. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3:50, 7:15. Fanboys 1:35 (Thu only), 8:45. Gran Torino 1:10, 3:40 (Thu only), 6:25, 8:55. He’s Just Not That Into You 3:45, 6:25, 9:10. Hotel for Dogs 1:25. Taken 1:20, 4, 6:30, 8:50. friday 13 — thursday 19 The Metropolitan Opera Presents Puccini’s Madama Butterfly 1 (Thu), 7 (Wed). *Two Lovers 10:30 a.m.

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Milk 12:55 (except Thu), 8:40 (except Wed). Taken 1:20, 4, 6:30, 8:50. The Wrestler 3:40 (except Thu), 6:15 (except Wed). The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2:30. Gran Torino 3:50, 6:20. He’s Just Not That Into You 1:05, 8:45.

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Watchmen 1, 2:50, 4:30, 6:10, 8, 9:30. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience 3, 7, 8:50 [tickets $15].

Slumdog Millionaire 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25. Coraline (in 3D) 12:50, 4:50.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1:20, 4, 6:40.

Taken 1:35, 4:10, 7:15, 9:35. Gran Torino 12:55, 6:30, 8:55. He’s Just Not That Into You 3:30, 9. The Pink Panther 2 12:45.

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The Reader 1:10, 3:35, 6:40, 9:10.

Waltz With Bashir 1, 3, 5, 7:10, 9:05.

Revolutionary Road 1:20, 7. Doubt 1:15, 6. Man on Wire 3:30, 8:15. He’s Just Not That Into You 4, 9:25.

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wednesday 11 — thursday 19 The Reader 1:30 (Sat-Mon), 4 (Fri-Sun), 5 & 7:30 (Mon-Thu), 6:30 & 9 (Fri-Sun).

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here was a time in the recent past when Americans, even eager carnivores, didn’t like to know where their food came from. Picking up a package of pallid, plastic-wrapped chops or cutlets from the mega-mart, they could rest on the assurance that they’d never see the pasture — or the pen — where their meal spent its day like, well … a pig in shit.

the food. Erin Buckwalter, 25, and Mike Shepard, 28, who put the meat in the ragout, said this was their first season raising pork at Starksboro’s Mountain View Farm. They mentioned that they were about to bring the last of the year’s pigs to slaughter.

My mind — and stomach — sprang to attention: I would get some of that delightful pig flesh and have my way with it — or perhaps share the pleasure with friends. But it didn’t seem practical to shell out $360 for

Scrubbed clean, but with some congealed blood stuck under my fingernails, i arrived at the office. i felt like a murderous Santa claus, bearing boxes of pig meat for my coworkers.

Then came mad cow disease and liberalguilt food culture. These days, “sourcing” is a buzzword, farms and even slaughterhouses are new hipster food havens, and we have “Top Chef ” contestants cuddling the lambs they’re about to cook.

Here in Vermont, the Fresh Network uses its periodic dinners to make connections among food producers, restaurateurs and gourmets. That’s where I got my own wacky idea about how to “respect the protein” — and enjoy some great meals in the process. On November 12, 2008, Richmond’s The Kitchen Table Bistro hosted a Fresh Network meal that featured Herb Stuffed Chicken, Boyden Farm Beef Short Ribs and an Heirloom TomatoPork Ragout with Braised Kale Ravioli.

As is the tradition at these dos, the producers introduced themselves along with

the privilege of trying to find freezer space for 80 pounds of dead meat. So I came up with a master plan: The Seven Days office needed a mascot. Granted, the porker would no longer be squealing by the time she made it to Burlington, but we would name her, anyway: Daisy, as in our “Best-of” Seven Daysie awards.

I called Mike Shepard and reserved half a pig. Then I sent out an office invite to encourage pig-part participation. Food Editor Suzanne Podhaizer, Music Editor Dan Bolles and Account Executive Michelle Brown all got on board. Unlike me, though, they were not aware of the finer points of piggy anatomy. I printed out an anatomical chart, telling my new comrades in pork to meet me in the Seven Days archive — a room that we fittingly refer to as “the morgue.” Here, the “Pig War Room” commenced. Each armed

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with a colored pencil, we took turns reserving parts of the animal’s musculature.

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Smoking a pork shoulder is not for those who need instant gratification. Given the average cooking time of one-and-a-half to two hours per pound, it’s a lengthy process requiring no small amount of patience and attentiveness. Got 14 or 15 — or, gasp, 20-plus — hours to kill? Read on.

I use a horizontal smoker with an offset firebox that rests just below and to the left of the cooking chamber. But a wide variety of smokers is available, all of which do an adequate job in the right hands.

I like to start with a large base of coals in the firebox.

Initially, this brings the temperature in the cooking chamber well above the desired 180 to 220 degrees, so you’ll need to wait a bit before you start cooking. But the solid base of coals makes it possible to add fuel in smaller increments and helps maintain a consistent temperature, which is any smoker’s greatest challenge — especially in colder months or inclement weather. I also like to keep a healthy supply of coals burning in a separate grill to add as needed.

Speaking of fuel, use hardwood charcoal when possible. If you absolutely must, you can use briquettes. But never, under any circumstances, try instant-light charcoal — unless you really enjoy the taste of lighter fluid.

Once you’ve reached temperature, add a few chunks of wood and get a good, rolling smoke going. I prefer a blend of hickory and apple, but it’s really a matter of personal taste. It’s a good idea to allow your wood chunks to soak in water for half an hour or so before adding them to the firebox; otherwise, they burn too quickly.

Place the pork in the center of the cooking chamber, keeping in mind that every time you open the lid, the temperature will drop. Once you’ve added the pork, you will probably need to make adjustments to return to temp. For my smoker, this usually means opening the air intake vent on the firebox and damping the chimney on the cooking chamber. Depending on weather variables — cold, wind, etc. — you may even need to add more fuel. Pay close attention to temperature, especially during the first hour or so.

Once the smoker has settled into a good temp and level of smoke, I like to check in about once an hour. It’s always easier to increase the temperature than it is to bring it back down, so add coals and wood in small increments. I also like to brush the pork liberally with a “mop,” which helps keep it moist. (It’s better to do this only when adding fuel, to lessen the impact of opening the lid.)

The general consensus seems to be that most of the flavor is imparted to the meat during the first six to eight hours of smoking. Though purists might cry sacrilege, after that point, you can transfer the pork to an oven, set at 200 to 220 degrees.

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Once the internal temperature of the pork reaches 190ºF, remove it from the smoker — or oven — and allow it to sit for at least one hour; the shoulder bone conducts heat and actually continues to cook the pork. Once the pork has cooled, remove the bone. If the meat’s cooked properly, you should be able to slide it out effortlessly.

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beast, my cuts-of-meat chart was bloodstained. “This is a beautiful pig,” marveled Ward.

It was. Meat almost as red as beef stood out starkly against the thinner-than-normal layers of fat.

In less than two hours, Ward and I had reduced the animal to slices and scraps. I had even cleaned the vertebrae with a sculptor’s precision, trying to reserve every shred I could for sausage.

Scrubbed clean, but with some congealed blood stuck under my fingernails, I arrived at the office.

I felt like a murderous Santa Claus, bearing boxes of meat for my coworkers. What we had not apportioned were the 4 pounds of bone and 8 pounds of pure fat that had once bolstered and cushioned Daisy. Suzanne, who makes her own stock, was happy to give the bones a home. Meghan Dewald, the calendar writer, glowed at the sight of my bags-o’-lard. A serious baker, she thrilled to the idea of rendering it into piecrusts for the Seven Days Christmas party.

I headed home, all excited to get my first taste of sweet Daisy. I already knew I wanted to pair my pork with tiny Eastern Europeanstyle dumplings called spaetzle.

I freed two chops and set about improvising an all-American smothered pork-chop recipe, with the Vermont-y kick of apples instead of onions.

As the chops hit the pan, I realized olive oil would be unnecessary. Though the meat didn’t look particularly fatty, what lard there was rendered into its own grease. The result was sweet and surprisingly clean tasting. The pig’s apple finish was palpable. The real shock came later. The flesh was so juicy that, even after a satisfying dinner, I continued to salivate.

After tasting our pig, I wanted to know a bit more about its pedigree. So I paid a wintry visit to Mountain View Farm. Apple orchards run alongside the mountainous stretch of road, named for Shepard’s great-grandfather, that leads to the Starksboro farm. Shepard says his heritage pork stock — Tamworths, to be exact — feast on the fallen apples in autumn. In summer, the pigs eschew their organic grain diet to graze on whatever is handy, including compost from The Kitchen Table Bistro — an incestuous food chain if ever there was one.

The old white farmhouse, sitting at the bottom of a steep hill, has been in the Shepard family for seven generations; it pulled Mike back from a career in field biology on the West Coast.

He met Buckwalter playing Ultimate Frisbee in Burlington.

An heirloom gardener, Buckwalter — former master gardener for the Winooski Community Garden, now chair of the Middlebury Area Community Gardens — admits, “I did not eat meat for many years.” Now, though, she’d rather source flesh than shun it: “I figured I could eat soybeans from

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Argentina, or I could eat the meat from our own animals.”

It’s easy to see the love between the couple and their remaining sow, Maxine. They enumerate her personality quirks like proud parents of a 2-year-old as Maxine attempts to herd a cow and three calves that all appear to be terrified of her.

The pair hopes the feds will allow the state to enforce Vermont Senate Bill S.322, which would make it possible for them to slaughter on their own farm. An exception to the rigorous USDA slaughterhouse regs would apply only to animals that farmers have contracted to sell to individuals — not commercially. Buckwalter argues, “It seems more respectful to them to slaughter them in their own place.”

Last year, 12 pigs filled the orchards; three were sold commercially, while the rest went in halves or wholes to private buyers like me. I recognized Daisy’s head right away in the photos of the once-living animals. Turns out “she” was actually a boar named Wee Wee Wee. Whoops.

This year, Shepard and Buckwalter plan to sell the meat through community-supported “shares.” Despite last year’s 25 percent rise in the price of organic grain, Mountain View Farm nearly broke even. Business from The Kitchen Table had something to do with that, as did sales to The Bobcat Café. An upcoming beer dinner at The Bobcat will feature Mountain View bacon and blue-hued eggs from the farm’s South American Araucana chickens — available at Mountain Greens Market in Bristol. Look for Mountain View pork at Mary’s at Baldwin Creek later this year, too.

What is it that’s so miraculous about the roasts, chops and ribs made from Daisy and her — er, his — fellow farm denizens? The Kitchen Table Chef Steve Atkins puts it perfectly: “The flavor was incredible. It looked like pig — not ‘the other white meat.’”

Erin Buckwalter explains that in trying to breed the color out in factory animals, “they also bred out the flavor.”

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2 pork hocks 2 sticks of cinnamon 1 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon coriander 1 teaspoon turmeric 6 cloves 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1/2 tablespoon fresh mashed ginger 2 pickled lemons (I got them at the Asian market in Winooski) or one full-sized preserved lemon, halved 1 cup chicken stock 1/2 cup guava juice Heat oven to 300ºF. Trim silver skin from hocks. Sear hocks over medium-high heat until brown on all sides. (No need to add fat; they’ve got plenty of their own.)

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When the strained lard is room temperature, pour it into plastic containers. It will keep in the freezer for a year or more. (Freezing the lard in premeasured amounts suitable for a two-crust pie recipe is particularly handy.)

If your cracklings are completely rendered, they’ll be light and airy, and you can salt and eat them — better-quality pork rinds cannot be had at any convenience store. If they’re still fatty, freeze them and use them to add flavor to hash or baked beans.

This procedure rendered 2 1/2 cups of solid fat into 1 1/4 cups of liquid fat and about a cup of cracklings.

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ost bakery owners whip up their new treats from butter, sugar and chocolate. When Milia Bell, 41, tries out a recipe, it might feature albacore tuna, minced parsley and cheddar cheese decorations. Her customers won’t complain — they have fur and play with squeaky toys. Since 2004, Bell has been baking for canines and felines as the owner of PupCat Bakery, which she runs out of the South Burlington home she shares with a large Maine Coon. Her wares range from $1 cookies to pricier custom cakes.

We caught up with Bell — who supplements her income by working 30 hours a week at ReCycle North — to learn more about how she began baking for Buster.

3/10/09 11:04:57 AM

SD: What’s your most sensual pet creation?

MB: One of my best-selling cookies is a “Buster Pie,” a calzoneshaped cookie with a peanut butter filling. At the farmers market, I tried one that was salmon with cream-cheese filling.

I could go crazy doing innovative ideas, but there aren’t a lot of places with cooling bakery cases for pets, so [the results have] gotta be shelf stable.

CAT CAKE SD: What inspires you when you’re creating a new treat?

MB: When I have a new dog in my life, I play around and make something based on what [he or she] likes, but I always maintain the integrity of keeping things as local and organic as possible. I should play around with cat stuff more than I do.

SD: You do make “tuna sushi.” My cat loves it.

MB: I created that for my [late] cat Artemis. It had three things she

SD: Some of your treats, like the fetching “PupCat Tortes,” include carob — as most people know, chocolate is toxic to many animals.

Is carob particularly good for dogs, or is using it more about being visually appealing to the humans?

MB: Carob is a great source of potassium, but I think that, because it looks like chocolate, people think it will be a decadent treat for their dogs. I sell a lot of canine confections around Valentine’s Day.

Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting.” Are any of your products good for two-legged folks, too?

MB: At the farmers market I would have this problem where people wouldn’t know [my cookies] were for dogs and would just start eating them.

All of the ingredients I use are organic, human-grade ingredients, but the one thing that separates them from being really delicious for humans is that they have no sugar.

SD: Do you ever think about doing this full time?

MB: It’s growing. I do have accounts in Vermont, Virginia, Maine, New Jersey and Georgia.

But I don’t have the start-up capital to take the big risk — I’m not quite there yet.  For info on the treats and where to find them, go to pupcatbakery.com or call 859-9574.

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In 2006, when Crystal Maderia and Alanna Dorf opened Montpelier’s Kismet — a tiny café serving locally sourced fare on an out-of-the-way street — expansion was already on their minds. “It was in our business plan from the beginning that if things went well, we’d move downtown in our third year,” Maderia says.

And so, with customers begging for more seats, the women began scoping out new properties and thinking about how to expand the menu to include dinner. “We definitely want more meat options,” Maderia muses. “We’ll have more soups, pastries, things of that nature.”

They likely won’t add more crêpes to the menu.

Although the 11 French wraps sell well, Kismet faces stiff competition from The Skinny Pancake: The owners of Burlington’s crêperie are opening a Montpelier location in May. When SP co-owner Benjy Adler began looking to expand his successful venture, he considered towns all around New England, including Northampton, Massachusetts. But in the end, he and his business partners settled on Vermont’s capital. “In the spirit of our social mission ... we wanted to stay close to our original food shed,” Adler explains. “We also heard from the people of Montpelier that they needed and wanted more food, and that we were a great fit.”

While he knew about Kismet and the fact they had crêpes on the menu, Adler attests that he was unaware of their expansion plans when he selected a downtown spot for his order-at-the-counter venture. “I didn’t think there would be a disastrous conflict of interest,” he explains. In its current location, he notes, Kismet has shorter hours and full service.

He learned about Kismet’s expansion plans when he reached out to Maderia last Friday via email to let her know The SP was coming to town.

In her response, she noted, “Honestly, your menu,

to guarantee that they can supply at a consistent price.”

Although she’s keenly aware that every eatery fights for eaters’ food dollars, Maderia is trying to look on the bright side: “I need to clearly differentiate my business from their business.

This is a great opportunity to check in with my customers, and to continue to use my business as an expression of my life’s work.”

Late night

Lounging in the PLanet SoLarium.

Rise and Shine new bakery coming To b-Town

It’ll be called August First, but Burlington’s newest bakery is slated to open sometime in June. So, what’s with the name? According to owners Jodi Whalen, 41, and Phil Merrick, 52, the name has multiple meanings: It’s a “lovely” poem by erstwhile Vermonter Hayden Carruth; a holiday (Lammas Day) celebrating the wheat harvest; and the peak of Vermont summer. “It was fun discovering the name,” says Whalen. “We’ll have a big party every year on August 1.”

The eatery will be located at 67 Main Street in the spot that previously housed 802 Action Sports.

Although the space needs lots of work, the couple is pleased with the “maple floors, tin ceilings and big windows.”

Merrick isn’t new to the bread biz. He used to own a wood-fired bakery in upstate New York, but gave it up to head to Vermont. “He moved here a year ago, and we took a year off to figure out what we wanted to do together,” says Whalen. So far, things are going swimmingly: “We got married and are starting a bakery,” she reports.

The plan is to sell artisan breads made with organic flour and a.m. pastries such as cinnamon buns and coffee cake. At lunch, there will be soups, flatbreads and salads.

Good eats call for good drinks, and the pair will augment the fare with coffee roasted right in their European-made, gas-powered bread oven. Their “green” beans will come from Royal Coffee, which “has a full line of Fair Trade and organic” offerings.

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New Ethic Café, which opened in Burlington’s Old North End last August, is for sale. Owner Sam Lai, who also owns China Express on North Street, says that the vegan eatery hasn’t been profitable.

“It’s definitely the economy. People are afraid to try something new,” Lai guesses.

KISMET your prices and your appeal [are] very similar to ours.” Over the course of the weekend, the e-conversation — which Maderia posted in full on her business blog — got a touch acrimonious. As of Monday this week, the pair had a conversation that Adler believes improved the relationship, though it didn’t resolve the underlying issues.

“We can’t turn back,” Adler admits. “We’ve bought all the necessary equipment ... Contractors have poured their time into giving us estimates.

I have people expecting to start work for us ... A guy that I met working in New Orleans is driving across the country to have a job with me because he can’t find a job anywhere.”

Adler also says that he has done his best to work with, not against, Montpelier business owners. “I contacted all the music venues in town to talk about the prospect of bringing music, and they asked me not to,” Adler says. He also stresses his commitment to helping improve the local food scene — something to which Maderia is also committed.

“We don’t have an Intervale. The businesses here that depend on local foods do compete for ingredients,” Maderia suggests. “This winter I’ve been making secure connections with local farmers

David Glickman, owner of The Vermont Butcher Block & Board Company, fields plenty of online orders for custom-made bottle stoppers, cutting boards and knife blocks. But right before the Chinese New Year, he got one that stopped him in his tracks. The request, which came in on a Friday and requested delivery to the Boston area the following Monday, was from a customer named Ming Tsai — as in the TV star and chef-owner of Blue Ginger in Wellesley.

“I wrote back to find out what he needed it for,” Glickman dishes. “Tsai said, ‘If you can get it here by Monday afternoon, I can stand next to it [in a photo for a magazine article].”

That was enough for Glickman. Over the weekend, he created a 36-inch lazy Susan out of walnut with tiger-maple stripes. “It’s not that labor intensive, there are just a lot of steps,” he explains. They include gluing, sanding and three coats of finish, each of which takes six hours to dry. When the piece was done, Glickman hotfooted it to the city to drop it off.

Although Glickman referred to the quarter-hour he spent chatting with Tsai as his “15 minutes of fame,” it’s not the woodworker’s first brush with a celeb chef. Last year he crafted charcuterie boards for Daniel Boulud’s Bar Boulud in New York City and, this year, was asked to make another round for Boulud’s Vegas eatery.

The folks at Rabbit Hill Inn in Lower Waterford are hoping that somebody buys the right vowel ... On March 24, one of the prizes on “Wheel of Fortune” will be a six-night stay at the AAA four-diamondrated inn. Bedandbreakfast.com takes care of airfare and car rental.

According to owner Leslie Mulcahy, the inn will only enjoy the limelight for 10 seconds, but will be seen by 44 million viewers.

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WED.11

PurPLe Moon PuB: Tim Foley (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free.

SLiDe BrooK LoDge & TAvern: Bossman (reggae), 9 p.m., Free.

1/2 Lounge: Sirenix: Acoustic Musicians’ Workshop (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free. gabby & Burette Douglass (indie), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Leunig’S: Dan Silverman Trio (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LincoLn inn TAvern: eagle country Music night with Phil ‘n’ the Blanks, 7 p.m., Free.

MAnhATTAn PizzA & PuB: open Mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free. necTAr’S: An evening with W.e.S.T. (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. rADio BeAn: ensemble v (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. irish Sessions, 9 p.m., Free. reD SquAre: grippo/Sklar quintet (funk), 8 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hiphop), 11 p.m., Free.

SeconD FLoor: Superstar Karaoke with robbie J, 10 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

:: champlain valley

:: burlington area

:: central

i WAnT My MTv :: We love the ’80s. And really, what’s not to like? Feathered bangs. Day-Glo clothing. Reaganomics ... um, maybe scratch that last one and replace it with music, in all its synth-y pop glory.

Locally, there are few keepers of the New Wave flame more in tune with the decade of decadence than hot

neon Magic. The all-star

chArLie o’S: Live Music, 10 p.m., Free.

LAngDon STreeT cAFé: geek Week: kuFui (alt-experimental), 9 p.m., $5.

:: champlain valley 51 MAin: Sanford Pritchard (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. ciTy LiMiTS: Karaoke with Balance entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. on The riSe BAKery: open Bluegrass Session, 7:30 p.m., Free.

:: regional MonoPoLe: That Toga Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

MonoPoLe DoWnSTAirS: gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. oLive riDLey’S: open Mic with Mike Pederson, 9 p.m., Free. naked Thursdays with 95 TripleX (DJ), 10 p.m., Free.

TABu cAFé AnD nighTcLuB: Karaoke night with Sassy entertainment, 5 p.m., Free.

FRI.13

:: burlington area

:: central

:: central

chArLie o’S: entendre (prog-rock), 10 p.m., Free.

LAngDon STreeT cAFé: Luminescent orchestrii (Gypsy-punk), 9 p.m., $5-10.

BLAcK Door BAr & BiSTro: Doug Perkins & Jamie Masefield (acoustic), 9:30 p.m., $5. chArLie o’S: The Shed Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

audiences to a simpler time when it truly was hip to be square. Catch the

Bee’S KneeS: The heckhounds (country), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

THU.12 :: burlington area

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Bee’S KneeS: eric Linberg (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

MATTerhorn: 5 o’clock Shadow (acoustic rock), 8 p.m., Free.

1/2 Lounge: Jah red (Latin soul), 7 p.m., Free. Luis calderin (DJ), 10 p.m., Free. ciTy SPorTS griLLe: The Schriz (rock), 8 p.m., Free. cLuB MeTronoMe: Blues & Lasers, Wagan (rock), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

FrAnny o’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. green rooM: DJ Francise (hip-hop), 9 p.m., Free. higher grounD BALLrooM: The Wailers, Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds, yvad (reggae), 9 p.m., $20/22. AA. Leunig’S: Mike Martin & geoff Kim (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

LincoLn inn TAvern: WcLX Blues night with nobby reed Project, 7 p.m., Free. necTAr’S: Live Album recording residency with Pulse Prophets (reggae), 7 p.m., Free. nighTcrAWLerS: Karaoke with Steve Leclair, 7 p.m., Free.

PAriMA AcouSTic Lounge: carol Ann Jones, rebecca Padula (singersongwriters), 8 p.m., $5. rADio BeAn: Jazz Sessions (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. Shane hardiman group (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. rASPuTin’S: Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. reD SquAre: A-Dog Presents (hiphop), 10 p.m., Free. rí rá iriSh PuB: Audio Journal (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

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

The SKinny PAncAKe: Paul cataldo (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

:: northern

Montpelier’s Langdon Street Café.

:: northern

1/2 Lounge: quiet Songs with Myra Flynn (neo-soul), 7 p.m., Free. Black: Dimensions in house with DJ craig Mitchell, 10 p.m., Free.

242 MAin: Set the Scene, Front Page Fix, next Time We Talk, Bridges to Dream, Burritos for Breakfast (rock), 7 p.m., $7. AA. BAcKSTAge PuB: Karaoke with Steve, 9 p.m., Free.

BAnAnA WinDS cAFé & PuB: Tim howard (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Free. ciTy SPorTS griLLe: The BoomFlowers (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. cLuB MeTronoMe: Twiddle, Lucid (jam), 9 p.m., $10/15. 18+. green rooM: DJ Fattie B (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. higher grounD BALLrooM: John valby a.k.a. Dr. Dirty (comedy), 8:30 p.m., $14/16. 18+. higher grounD ShoWcASe Lounge: That 1 guy, Aram Bedrosian (eclectic), 8 p.m., $10/12. AA. JP’S PuB: Dave harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LincoLn inn TAvern: The growlers (blues), 4 p.m., Free. chick Peas (rock), 7 p.m., Free. The X-rays (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

The MonKey houSe: The villanelles, The rosesmiths, Spirit & Dust (rock), 9 p.m., $5. necTAr’S: Seth yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. close to nowhere, gutterpup, Sour Boy (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. nighTcrAWLerS: nightrain (rock), 9 p.m., Free. rADio BeAn: iliamna (folk), 7 p.m., Free. The Medicinals (bluegrass), 10 p.m., Free. rASPuTin’S: Top hat Danceteria (DJ), 10 p.m., $3. reD SquAre: Jason cann (singersongwriter), 6 p.m., Free. nautilus (rock), 9 p.m., $3. nastee (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3. rí rá iriSh PuB: Supersounds DJ, 10 p.m., Free.

SeconD FLoor: voodoo with DJ robbie J. (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $3/10.

The SKinny PAncAKe: nate vaill Trio (indie-folk), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

quintet is like a musical version of Doc Brown’s time machine, transporting

high-octane tribute band this Saturday, March 14, as part of Geek Week at

51 MAin: verbal onslaught Spoken Word Lounge (poetry), 9 p.m., Free. on The riSe BAKery: charlie Messing (folk), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

TWo BroTherS TAvern: DJ Jam Man (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

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guSTo’S: native Tongue (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

LAngDon STreeT cAFé: happy hour with Katie Trautz & Friends (folk), 6 p.m., Donations. Sputnik! (’80s dance party), 9:30 p.m., $5.

PurPLe Moon PuB: James Kinnie (singer-songwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free.

SLiDe BrooK LoDge & TAvern: cougar (acoustic), 9 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley 51 MAin: WDev radio rangers (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Free.

BriSToL BAKery AnD cAFé: Kelly ravin (roots), 8 p.m., Donations. cAroL’S hungry MinD cAFe: o’hanleigh (Irish), 8 p.m., $10. ciTy LiMiTS: Top hat entertainment Dance Party (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free. on The riSe BAKery: Jimmy Branca (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

TWo BroTherS TAvern: DJ Dizzle (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

:: northern Bee’S KneeS: red hot Juba (cosmic Americana), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

The huB PizzeriA & PuB: gordon Stone Band (bluegrass), 9 p.m., Free.

JD’S PuB: Live Music, 9:30 p.m., $3.

MATTerhorn: natalie Stovall (country), 8 p.m., $8.

The TAMArAcK griLL AT BurKe MounTAin: Sean Mccarthy (singersongwriter), 8:30 p.m., Free.

:: regional MonoPoLe DoWnSTAirS: gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 5 p.m., Free. oLive riDLey’S: Sirsy (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

SAT.14

:: burlington area 1/2 Lounge: Stereophonix with DJ Tricky Pat (jazzy downtempo), 10 p.m., Free.

BAcKSTAge PuB: Sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free. ciTy SPorTS griLLe: Funk collection (funk), 9:30 p.m., Free. cLuB MeTronoMe: retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

FrAnny o’S: Balance DJ & Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. green rooM: envy with DJs Matt Joseph & vasilis (trance), 10 p.m., Free. higher grounD BALLrooM: Bash for cash (talent show), 7 p.m., $10/15.

AA. JP’S PuB: Dave harrison’s Starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

LincoLn inn TAvern: rhythm rockets (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

MArrioTT hArBor Lounge: queen city quartet (acoustic), 8 p.m., Free.

The MonKey houSe: tooth ache., Jenny Montana & The Fancy Pants, Lady Lioness (indie-folk), 9 p.m., $5/10. 18+. nighTcrAWLerS: Sideshow Bob (rock), 9 p.m., Free. rADio BeAn: Dick Derry (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., Free. gretchen Witt (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

Jo henley Band (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

Spirit & Dust (indie-folk), 10 p.m., Free. Dangerbird (indie-folk), 11 p.m., Free. rASPuTin’S: Massive (DJ), 10 p.m., $3. reD SquAre: The general Lee (rock), 9 p.m., $3. DJ A-Dog (hip-hop), 11:30 p.m., $3. rí rá iriSh PuB: The gobshites (Irish), 5 p.m., Free. The Bob Wagner Band (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

SeconD FLoor: Déjà vu Ladies’ night (DJ), 9 p.m., $3/10.

The SKinny PAncAKe: Jay ekis (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $5 donation.

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:: central Black Door Bar & Bistro: longford row (Celtic), 9:30 p.m., $5. the center Bakery & café: Billy caldwell (acoustic), 9:30 a.m., Free. charlie o’s: Dave keller Band (blues), 10 p.m., Free.

Gusto’s: area 51 (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. lamB aBBey: chad hollister Band (rock), 8 p.m., Free. lanGDon street café: James kochalka (experimental-pop), 6 p.m., Donations. modal combat (experimental), 7 p.m., Donations. lefty & the leftouts (Peruvian folk, one-man band), 8:30 p.m., Donations. hot neon magic (’80s New Wave), 9 p.m., $5.

PurPle moon PuB: the Willoughbys (folk), 8:30 p.m., Free.

:: champlain valley 51 main: Poetry reading, 6:30 p.m., Free. David Bain (piano), 9 p.m., Free. city limits: Dance Party with DJ earl (DJ), 9 p.m., Free.

Dan’s Place: take two (country), 8 p.m., Free.

:: northern Bee’s knees: Damn yankee string Band (bluegrass), 7:30 p.m., Donations. the huB Pizzeria & PuB: supergroup (rock), 9 p.m., Free. matterhorn: natalie stovall (country), 8 p.m., $8.

Piecasso: karaoke championship with John Wilson & Danger Dave, 9:30 p.m., Free.

SUN.15 :: burlington area

1/2 lounGe: youtube night, 10 p.m., Free.

BackstaGe PuB: karaoke with Pete, 9 p.m., Free. cluB metronome: family night open Jam, 10 p.m., Free (18+). franny o’s: Balance DJ & karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. hiGher GrounD Ballroom: Busta rhymes, ron Browz, red café (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $30/33. AA. hiGher GrounD shoWcase lounGe: hardcore & metal showcase 11, 6:30 p.m., $10. AA. lincoln inn tavern: Pine street Jazz with tracie cassarino, 6 p.m., Free. nectar’s: mi yard reggae night with Big Dog & Demus (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. niGhtcraWlers: karaoke with steve leclair, 7 p.m., Free. raDio Bean: old time sessions, 1 p.m., Free. trio Gusto (jazz), 5 p.m., Free. David martel (indie-folk), 7 p.m., Free. rí rá irish PuB: trinity (Celtic), 9 p.m., Free.

:: northern Bee’s knees: the Different Drummer string ensemble (Irish), 5 p.m., Donations. the huB Pizzeria & PuB: Jazz on tap (jazz), 7:30 p.m., Free.

MON.16

:: regional monoPole: lucid (rock), 10 p.m., Free. shameless strangers (rock), 10 p.m., Free. olive riDley’s: zero tolerance (rock), 10 p.m., Free. taBu café anD niGhtcluB: all night Dance Party with DJ toxic (DJ), 5 p.m., Free.

:: burlington area

1/2 lounGe: heal-in sessions with Briandeye & reverence (reggae), 10 p.m., Free. nectar’s: the feverbreakers, uvm latin Jazz ensemble, trouble free transmission (rock, Latin jazz), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

raDio Bean: open mic, 8 p.m., Free. reD square: DJ zJ (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

:: central lanGDon street café: open mic, 7 p.m., Free.

:: northern Bee’s knees: film screening: sick around the World, 6:30 p.m., Free.

TUE.17 :: burlington area

1/2 lounGe: the eames Brothers (blues), 7 p.m., Free.

Banana WinDs café & PuB: sea Wolves (Irish), 4:30 p.m., Free. leuniG’s: red thread (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. lincoln inn tavern: three left feet (Irish), 4 p.m., Free. the monkey house: hip-hop open mic with Dakota, 10 p.m., Free. nectar’s: the sea Wolves (Irish), 10 p.m., Free.

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CAROL ANN JONES, OUT OF THE BLUE (Self-released, CD)

(Self-released, CD) 2008 was a productive year for Burnt MD. He released another excellent full-length album and appeared on Northampton-based collective The Problemaddicts’ top-notch regional compilation mixtape The Guestlist.

In addition, the hardest-working man in Vermont hip-hop has been touring regularly in the Northeast, spreading his higher-conscience Green Mountain flow from legendary Cambridge nightclub The Middle East to South Burlington’s Higher Ground. Somehow Burnt MD found the time, under the banner of his own collective/ movement GTD, to reconnect with New York-based collective/movement Projectivity and release the latest installment of their high-minded hip-hop comps, Projected Mixtape Vol. 3. Whew.

The estimable Burnt Microphone Doctor appears three times on the weighty volume’s 25 tracks. Each of these contributions appears on his previous effort, Burnt MD & Tha Professor. But local hip-hop aficionados will find them worth revisiting. Of particular note is the comp’s second track, “Daydream,” which follows a smooth intro cut by Albany’s Origin.

With ace beats courtesy of Tha Professor, Burnt unleashes his signature, paradoxically laid-back and aggressive flow before yielding to longtime collaborator Network. The latter MC has been quiet of late, but the song is an apt reminder of just how potent this dynamic duo can be.

Next up, “Fuck You Mean” introduces the comp’s considerable star power: Pack FM, Atmosphere’s Slug and current underground heavyweight champ Brother Ali trade verses with ease and wit.

The hit parade continues throughout as underground luminaries from Staten Island’s The Higher Concept — whose MC, Tekst, spearheads Projectivity — to NYOIL, Akrobatik, iCON the Mic King, Sons of Kalal and The Problemaddicts, among many others, contribute stellar tracks. As The Higher Concept themselves put it, “We’re all stars. But we’re better as a constellation.”

That line does a better job of summing up the comp’s overriding message than any keyboard jockey could.

In an age when hip-hop is notable for lavish overstatement, it’s refreshing when truly artistic and accomplished talents join forces, reminding us that the culture was inspired by a need to make the world a better place. There is power in understatement, too, and few examples are more effective than Projected Vol. 3.

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As the quote at the top of her MySpace page reads, Carol Ann Jones is “just coming into turn one.” For the nonNASCAR literate, the inference is that, for this St. Albans-based songwriter, the race has just begun. Though she’s sung her entire life, Jones didn’t even own a guitar until 2006, when her husband urged her to purchase one. Then she forced herself to learn to play it. Along the way she began writing songs, and the result is her debut effort, Out of the Blue. To roll with the racing metaphor, Jones is off to a fast start. But she’s still got a few left turns to go if she wants that checkered flag.

The disc begins in radio-ready heartland glory with “All About the Wheels.” Jones is a self-described “car nut,” and the vehicular allegory here is certainly not the album’s last. But it’s the most fun. The tune unabashedly harkens back to the heyday of that quintessentially American aphrodisiac, a hot ride. “I saw the car and thought, ‘Someone fantastic’s gotta drive that,’” she sings in a solid, unadorned croon.

The car in question is a ’57 Chevy. “Mustang Sally” it ain’t. But, c’mon, no one will ever write a rock song about being turned on by a Prius.

In addition to her automotive fixation, Jones is an acknowledged Paula Cole fan. That singer’s pop-rock influence is readily apparent throughout, especially on tunes such as the bluesy “Mr. Engineer” and the classic-rock-tinged “No Rest for the Weary.”

Jones has a naturally pleasing vocal tone and favors a sturdy, measured delivery. But her deliberateness occasionally comes across as polite restraint. Jones has the chops, but she could stand to — in keeping with the theme — open the throttle.

Jones’ backing band, The Superchargers, is a crack outfit, featuring local luminaries Gordon Stone, Will Patton and Dan Skea, among others. The group anchors the record with unrivaled professionalism and deftly traverses a variety of Americana terrain, from pop, rock and country to bluegrass and rockabilly. The only real pileup is the Latin-flavored “Uncontrollable,” which to my ears evokes Carlos Santana locked in an elevator with Anne Murray. I’m throwing the caution flag here.

Like most new artists, Carol Ann Jones has room for improvement. But all in all, Out of the Blue is a promising debut from a considerable local talent. Or, to further belabor the racing thing: She may not be the pole-sitter quite yet, but don’t be surprised to see her in the winner’s circle soon.

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BY DAN BOLLES

A

s the economy continues to crumble, its full scope has been slow to come into focus. Every day seems to bring new revelations about the ways our lives will be affected.

One such side effect is the toll the recession is taking on our four-legged friends (see stories in Section A in this week’s Animal Issue).

Animal shelters around the country, including Vermont, are receiving animals in record numbers as more people shed their pets to spare their pocketbooks.

The strain on facilities, and their caretakers, is alarming.

The Animal Media Foundation in Chester, founded in 2002 by Dexter Brown and Carol Scafuro, aims to ease that burden by combining our collective love of fuzzy animals with our love of music.

Together with Utah-based animal rescue coalition Best Friends Animal Society, they are set to release a star-studded compilation of music this week entitled Giving Animals a Voice Through Music: The Best Friends 25th Anniversary Collection.

The two-disc album is essentially split along stylistic lines. Disc one was produced by Grammy-winning Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman.

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Phil Aaberg, Tracy Silverman and Karen Marie Garrett.

The second disc was compiled and produced by AMF’s Brown and should appeal to those with more conventional pop tastes, with cuts from the likes of John Oates, They Might Be Giants, Cyndi Lauper and noted animalrights advocate Emmylou Harris.

The disc also boasts a distinct local flavor with contributions from Diane Zeigler, Gregory Douglass and the state’s newest musical resident, Neko Case. Brown, an avid music fan and an accomplished musician and recording engineer in his own right, wrote and performed the disc’s eleventh track, “Just One Love.”

Proceeds from the sales of the collection will primarily benefit Best Friends, which received national attention for spearheading efforts to place thousands of abandoned animals in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. More recently, the group’s 2000-acre sanctuary in Utah became home to 20 dogs rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring. Funds will target the shelter’s Puppy Mill Campaign, a program that aims to reduce the number of pets bought and sold from breeding facilities across the country and encourage adoption from animal shelters.

AMF itself was originally conceived as an animal shelter — though presumably under a different name. But following a training seminar at the Best Friends sanctuary, Scafuro and Brown realized their talents were better suited to providing financial means for organizations such as Best Friends to do their work.

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‘the work,’” says Scafuro. “An avenue which would not only bring financial resources to further the good works, but could also [create] products — such as this CD — or experiences like a live concert for those who participate in the cause as consumers.”

Several years in the making,

the double CD is AMF’s largest project to date. But it won’t be the last. The foundation will also receive a share of the proceeds from CD sales, and Brown and Scafuro plan to use the money to benefit animals closer to home.

Specifically, they’re thinking a compilation featuring regional

artists, and concerts such as the one they presented last summer at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester with Ackerman, Zeigler and others. And with Neko Case, perhaps?

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PHISH TALES: IT WAS THIS BIG!

• rprice23 (via FestivalCrashers): “ ... sounding distinctly ’98ish.”

• Matisyahu (yes, that Matisyahu): “At phish show in hampton!!!

Yeah boy.”

• Auzzie07 (via FestivalCrashers): “First set break. Hour and fifty minute first set. F***ing epic. Phish 3.0 is sick.”

• PhishTwit (via PhishTwit): “security just found baggie with some ‘crystals’ and asked if I knew what it was.”

Welcome back, boys.

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS Raise your hand if this past weekend’s run of sunny, warm(ish) weather inspired gleeful flights of fancy and dreams of greenery to come. Now, keep your hand raised if Monday’s snow crushed those notions in that special way that only Vermont in March can. Just as I suspected.

But take heart, folks. Snow squalls be damned, we’re almost there.

And there can be no surer sign of spring than Higher Ground unveiling the lineup for Vermont’s answer to Tanglewood, the annual Concerts on the Green series at Shelburne Museum. Well, Tuesday morning, Alex Crothers and Co. announced this year’s lineup. And as we’ve come to expect, it’s a good one.

The fun begins, rain or shine, on Monday, June 1, with Talking Heads front man David Byrne. If the museum folks will let you — trust me, they won’t — you might as well camp out, as three days later, on Thursday, June 4, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller join forces for what promises to be an unparalleled evening of Americana. On Tuesday, July 14, iconic singer-songwriter Jackson Browne makes his second Vermont appearance in as many years. Closing out the series on Sunday, July 26, are Canadian arena-rockers The Tragically Hip. Tickets for all shows go on sale this Friday and are available through the HG box office, the club’s website, ticket hotline (888-512-SHOW) and Pure Pop Records in downtown Burlington.

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Montpelier’s Halogen Records — you might know them from such shows as The Wailers this Thursday at the Higher Ground Ballroom — just announced that it has inked a “content distribution” deal with Eos Music, a sister company of the Applied Media Technologies Company. For the uninitiated, AMTC is the primary competitor of Muzak, the outfit primarily responsible for watered-down instrumental versions of classic-rock songs that inevitably are stuck in your head after grocery shopping. In other words, they are the original purveyors of elevator music. Bastards.

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Halogen’s increasingly impressive roster of local talent includes the likes of The Dixie Red Delights, Aaron Flinn, Tha VT Union and Strength in Numbers. So don’t be surprised the next time you stroll into your local co-op and find yourself bouncing to VTU’s “Handz On It” while checking a tomato for ripeness. Although, given that tune’s lyrical content, said tomato may now come with a “Parental Advisory” sticker.

It’s still organic, though.

In other Halogen-related news, up-and-coming hip-pop outfit Strength in Numbers — an early favorite for this year’s Daysies award for Best New Vermont Band — recently announced a string of East Coast tours this May with Jurassic 5’s Akil the MC. Congrats, guys.

BITE TORRENT With many area colleges away on spring break, it’s kind of a quiet week on the live-music front. Still, there are a few solid options to suit your listening pleasures. In no particular order ...

The Boys and Girls Club of Burlington turns it up to 11 this Sunday. Quite literally, in fact, as they present their eleventh Hardcore and Metal Showcase at the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge.

Slated to appear are Motionless in White, My Hero Is Me, The Hottness, The Things He Carried, Blinded by Rage and Seconds Before Sundown.

Local rock snags a choice Friday-night slot at Nectar’s this week with Close to Nowhere, Gutterpup and Sour Boy. Rock on.

Meanwhile, upstairs at Club Metronome, local jam takes the spotlight as Twiddle and Lucid get their noodle on.

Sadly, St. Patrick’s Day falls on a Tuesday this year, seriously limiting the degree to which we can all pretend to be Irish and remain gainfully employed.

However, I’m officially naming this Friday St. Paddy’s Day “observed,” as renowned local Irish band O’Hanleigh ups the craic at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café in Middlebury. photo courtesy of Danny clinch

If you were there, you’re probably still high — metaphorically speaking, of course. If you missed it, you’ll probably say you were there anyway. And if you still haven’t returned ... well, you’re probably fired.

I am of course referring to last weekend’s greatest moment in rock history, like, ever, brah: the Phish reunion shows in Hampton, Va. The blogosphere is positively afire with reports of an unprecedented return to phorm for the local jam giants, putting widespread fears of hasbeenery to rest — at least until they resume touring this summer.

By nearly all accounts, the trio of epic performances re-cemented Phish’s standing as “totally, like, the best band in the world and I’m not even kidding.” Righteous.

But perhaps more intriguing TREY ANASTASIO was the role of technology in the evolution of what many are terming — and I wish I were making this up — “Phish 3.0.”

The Willy Wonka-like travails of acquiring tickets to the reunion shows have been well documented. While ticket scarcity no doubt led to legions of depressed hippies — which is only slightly worse than a legion of sad clowns — the fact that so many phans were shut out of the phun led to the application of social networking tools to keep erstwhile Phish-heads in the loop. Most notably, live blogging and — again, I wish I were making this up — Twitter feeds.

Scads of blogs featured up-to-the-minute reports of the goings-on, largely consisting of set lists and occasional outbursts photo courtesy of phish of near orgasmic hyperbolic glee, as in “Dude!” and “Whoa. Dude.” Yes, those are actual quotes. Several blogs, including noted live-music site FestivalCrashers (festivalcrashers. blogspot.com), even reported — are you ready? — what their friends were text messaging about the show. Really. The constant stream of updates made it feel as though the reader were actually there in person.

Only without the, you know, music.

In a true sign of the times, the Phish shows inspired more “tweets” than a presidential address to Congress as average fans and celebs alike offered insights from the show in 140 characters or less. There is now even a “tweet aggregator” called “PhishTwit” solely devoted to compiling Phish-related posts from across the tweetscape (jamtopia. com/phishtwit). By the way, I am officially mandating that “Phish-twit” replace “Phish-head” as the subculture’s preferred nomenclature. Let’s make this happen, people.

Anyway, some personal favorite tweets from the weekend that was:

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1/2 Lounge, 136 1/2 Church St., Burlington, 865-0012.

242 Main, Burlington, 862-2244.

38 Main Street Pub, 38 Main St., Winooski, 655-0072.

Akes’ Place, 134 Church St., Burlington, 864-8111.

All Fired Up, 9 Depot Sq., Barre, 479-9303.

The Alley Coffee House, 15 Haydenberry Dr., Milton, 893-1571.

American Flatbread, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999.

Ariel’s Riverside Café & Pub, 188 River St., Montpelier, 229-2295.

Avenue Bistro, 1127 North Ave., Burlington, 652-9999.

Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494.

Backstreet, 17 Hudson St., St. Albans, 527-2400.

Banana Winds Café & Pub, 1 Market Pl., Essex Jct., 879-0752.

Barre Opera House, 6 North Main St., Barre, 476-8188.

Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Dr., Vergennes, 1-800-622-4000.

Battery Park, Burlington, 865-7166.

Bayside Pavilion, 13 Georgia Shore Rd., St. Albans, 524-0909.

The Bearded Frog, 5247 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-9877.

Bee’s Knees, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889.

Big Fatty’s BBQ, 55 Main St., Burlington, 864-5513.

Big Moose Pub at the Fire & Ice Restaurant, 28 Seymour St., Middlebury, 388-0361.

Big Picture Theater & Café, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994.

Black Bear Tavern & Grill, 205 Hastings Hill, St. Johnsbury, 748-1428.

Black Door Bar & Bistro, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 223-7070.

The Blue Note Café, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309.

The Bobcat Café, 5 Main St., Bristol, 453-3311.

Burnham Hall, 52 East River Rd., Lincoln, 453-3803.

Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Rd., Bolton Valley, 434-3444.

Bonz Smokehouse & Grill, 97 Portland St., Morrisville, 888-6283.

Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865-2711.

Breakwater Café, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276.

The Brewski, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366.

B.U. Emporium, 163 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 658-4292.

Bundy Center for the Arts, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-4781.

Buono’s Lounge, 3182 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2232.

Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 149 Church St., Burlington, 865-7166.

Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800.

Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, 388-0101.

The Center Bakery & Cafe, 2007 Guptil Road, Waterbury Center, 244-7500 Champlain Lanes Family Fun Center, 2630 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2576.

Charlemont Restaurant, 116 Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-4242.

Charlie B’s, 1746 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-7355.

Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820.

Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405.

Cider House BBQ & Pub, 1675 Rt. 2, Waterbury, 244-8400.

City Limits, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919.

City Sports Grille, 215 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 655-2720.

Coffee Hound, 97 Blakey Rd., Colchester, 651-8963.

Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563.

Cuzzin’s Nightclub, 230 North Main St., Barre, 479-4344.

Dan’s Place, 31 Main Street, Bristol, 453-2774.

Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 656-4636.

Dobrá Tea, 80 Church Street St., Burlington, 951-2424.

Drink, 133 St. Paul St., Burlington, 951-9463.

Finnigan’s Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864-8209.

Flynn Center/FlynnSpace, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863-5966.

Franny O’s, 733 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909.

Giovanni’s Trattoria, 15 Bridge St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-5856.

Good Times Café, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444.

Great Falls Club, Frog Hollow Alley, Middlebury, 388-0239.

Green Door Studio, 18 Howard St., Burlington, 316-1124.

Green Room, 86 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-9669.

Ground Round Restaurant, 1633 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-1122.

Gusto’s, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919.

Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278.

Harbor Lounge at Courtyard Marriott, 25 Cherry St., Burlington, 864-4700.

Hardwick Town House, 127 Church St., Hardwick, 456-8966.

Harper’s Restaurant at Holiday Inn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-6363.

Higher Ground, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777.

Hooters, 1705 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 660-8658.

The Hub, Airport Dr., Bristol, 453-3678.

The Hub Pizzeria & Pub, 21 Lower Main St., Johnson, 635-7626.

Iron Lantern, Route 4A, Castleton, 468-5474.

JD’s Pub, 2879 Rt. 105, East Berkshire, 933-8924.

JP’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389.

Jeff’s Maine Seafood, 65 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-6135.

Koffee Kat, 104 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-566-8433.

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Krazy Horse Saloon, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-570-8888.

La Brioche Bakery, 89 East Main St. Montpelier, 229-0443.

Langdon St. Café, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667.

Leunig’s, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759.

Lincoln Inn Tavern, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309.

Localfolk Smokehouse, Jct. Rt. 100 & 17, Waitsfield, 496-5623.

Mad River Unplugged at Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910.

Maggie’s, 124 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-562-9317.

Main St. Grill & Bar, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188.

Main St. Museum, 58 Bridge St., White River Jct., 356-2776.

Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776.

Mary’s at the Inn at Baldwin Creek, 1868 N. Route 116, Bristol, 424-2432.

Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198.

McKee’s Pub, 19 East Allen St., Winooski, 655-0048.

Memorial Auditorium, 250 Main St., Burlington, 864-6044.

The Monkey House, 30 Main St., Winooski, 655-4563.

Monopole, 7 Protection Ave., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222.

Muddy Waters, 184 Main St., Burlington, 658-0466.

Murray’s Tavern, 4 Lincoln Pl., Essex Jct., 878-4901.

Music Box, 147 Creek Rd., Craftsbury, 586-7533.

Naked Turtle, 1 Dock St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6200.

Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771.

Nightcrawlers, 127 Porter’s Point Rd., Colchester, 310-4067.

Odd Fellows Hall, 1416 North Ave., Burlington, 862-3209.

Old Lantern, 3620 Greenbush Rd., Charlotte, 425-2120.

Olde Yankee Restaurant, Rt. 15, Jericho, 899-1116.

Olive Ridley’s, 37 Court St., Plattsburgh, 518-324-2200.

On the Rise Bakery, 44 Bridge St., Richmond, 434-7787.

Orion Pub & Grill, Route 108, Jeffersonville, 644-8884.

Overtime Saloon, 38 S. Main St., St. Albans, 524-0357.

Paramount Theater, 30 Center St., Rutland, 775-0570.

Parima, 185 Pearl St., Burlington, 864-7917.

Park Place Tavern, 38 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3015.

Peabody’s Pub, 11 Clinton St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-0158.

Pickle Barrel Nightclub, Killington Rd., Killington, 422-3035.

Piecasso, 899 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-4411.

Positive Pie 2, 20 State St., Montpelier, 229-0453.

The Pour House, 1930 Williston Rd., South Burlington, 862-3653.

Purple Moon Pub, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-3422.

Radio Bean, 8 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 660-9346.

Rasputin’s, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324.

Red Mill Restaurant at Basin Harbor, Vergennes, 475-2311.

Red Square, 136 Church St., Burlington, 859-8909.

Rhythm & Brews Coffeehouse at Living and Learning, UVM, Burlington, 656-4211.

Ripton Community Coffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782.

Rí Rá Irish Pub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401.

River Run Restaurant, 65 Main St., Plainfield, 454-1246.

Roque’s Restaurante Mexicano & Cantina, 3 Main St., Burlington, 657-3377.

Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 864-0744.

Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245.

Second Floor, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088.

Shooters Saloon, 30 Kingman St., St. Albans, 527-3777.

Skinny Pancake, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 540-0188.

Slide Brook Lodge & Tavern, 3180 German Flats Rd., Warren, 583-2202.

Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6607.

St. John’s Club, 9 Central Ave., Burlington, 864-9778.

Starry Night Café, 5371 Rt. 7, Ferrisburgh, 877-6316.

Stowe Coffee House, 57B Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-2189.

Stowehof Inn, 434 Edson Hill Rd., Stowe, 253-9722.

Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864-9800.

Tabu Café & Nightclub, 14 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, 518-566-0666.

Tamarack Grill at Burke Mountain, 223 Shelburne Lodge Rd., East Burke, 626-7394.

T Bones Restaurant & Bar, 38 Lower Mountain View Dr., Colchester, 654-8008.

Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 655-9542.

Three Mountain Lodge Restaurant, Smugglers’ Notch Rd., Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-5736.

Two Brothers Tavern, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

Upper Deck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-6585.

Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910.

Vergenes Opera House, 120 Main St., Vergennes, 802-877-6737.

Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College St., Burlington, 865-0500.

Village Tavern at Smugglers’ Notch Inn, 55 Church St., Jeffersonville, 644-6765.

Wasted City Studios, 1610 Troy Ave., Colchester, 324-8935.

Waterbury Wings, 1 South Main St., Waterbury, 244-7827.

Watershed Tavern, 31 Center St., Brandon, 247-0100.

Waterfront Theatre, 60 Lake St., Burlington, 862-7469.

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WED.11 dance Hip-Hop Workshop: Pop-’n’-lockers pick up moves at an uptempo street-dance session. Essex Junction Great Events, Essex Junction, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $10.

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Burlington Business Share & Learn: Managers of Queen City companies discuss ways to encourage and sustain efficient, earth-friendly commuting options for employees as part of Burlington’s Way to Go! Commuter Challenge. Courtyard Marriott Burlington Harbor, Burlington, 7:309:30 a.m. Free. Info, 660-4071, ext. 14.

Embroiderers Guild: Multicolored floss forms stitch pictures at a Green Mountain Chapter meeting. Senior Community Center, The Pines, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 879-0198.

Geek Week 3.0: Six days of nerdy exploits pair vintage video games with hobby how-tos and music lineups.

Langdon Street Café, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. - midnight. Free. Info, 223-8667.

Italian Conversation Group: Parla Italiano? A native speaker leads a language practice for all ages and abilities. Room 101, St. Edmund’s Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 899-3869.

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honey, do Grammy-winning folk-rock-country balladeer Lucinda Williams has been writing music for most of her life, but fame for her gritty, heartbreakingly honest tunes came only after two and a half decades in the profession. Long championed by Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris and others who’ve covered her catalogue, Williams proves that persistence pays. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998) and World Without Tears (2003) earned the bluesy, Louisiana-born singer-guitarist a rep for darkly introspective songs she describes as “boy meets girl, boy leaves girl, girl gets bummed out.” In a concert tour stop this weekend, the fiftysomething chanteuse explores sweeter territory with tunes from her 2008 album Little Honey — lauded as one of the year’s top discs

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Friday, March 13, 8 p.m. at the Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $35-50. Info, 863-5966. www.lucindawilliams.com

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Please join us in support of the Vermont Foodbank by bringing a donation of non-perishable canned food to the concert.

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY Think of Iran, and anti-American protests, nuclear inspections and violent extremists may come to mind. Works such as Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis offer a fuller, more accurate portrait of a land filled with religiously tolerant people struggling to preserve 2500 years of rich cultural history under an oppressive government. In a talk celebrating the one-year anniversary of the One-World Library Project, Vermont Public Radio reporter Steve Zind describes recent trips to Iran to research his family roots.

Bristol-based architectural designer Mitra Samimi-Urich relates her youth as a fashionable, educated woman in metropolitan Tehran before the 1979 Islamic Republic takeover that forced her Bahá’í family from the country. Members of the Samimi family share photos, stories, poetry and music while marking Nawruz — the Persian New Year celebration that coincides with the spring equinox.

‘IRAN REVEALED: UNLOCKING THE PERSIAN PUZZLE’

Sunday, March 15, 1-4 p.m. at Holley Hall in Bristol. Free; donations encouraged. Info, 453-4147. www.oneworldlibraryproject.org

MON.16

BAD BLOOD Mahatma Gandhi is widely regarded as the father of modern India. As the nation’s primary political and spiritual leader during its nonviolent bid for independence from Britain, he earned the title “bapu,” an honorary “dad.” But the patriarch also fathered four children fairly young in life, before satyagraha struck. Commanded to follow in his father’s footsteps, Gandhi’s eldest son Harilal Gandhi rebelled, becoming an embezzler and alcoholic on a tragic path of self-destruction.

(Small wonder; trying to emulate one of the 20th century’s greatest spiritual figures would be a tough row to hoe.) Released in 2007, the awardwinning Indian film Gandhi, My Father chronicles the pair’s stormy relationship. The Brownell Library screens the English-subtitled spectacle and follows it with a discussion about family love and forgiveness.

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‘GANDHI, MY FATHER’

Monday, March 16, 6:30 p.m. at the Brownell Library, Essex Junction. Free. Info, 878-6955. http://gandhimyfather.erosentertainment.com/

NIGHTMARE AFFAIR

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In the summer of 1873, Arthur Rimbaud self-published Une Saison en Enfer. Just 18, he’d recently ended a tumultuous relationship with 29-year-old married symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, who’d landed in jail after shooting his young lover in the wrist. Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell cemented his reputation as the archetypical enfant terrible — the azure-eyed prodigy had been cursing God, smoking hashish, drinking absinthe and writing lucid, awe-inspiring stanzas since age 16. But the words also inspired some heavenly music. In a WordStage Vermont program, performers Simon Chaussé, Wendy Hoffmann-Farrell, Mary Jane Austin-Reynolds, Jeff Tolbert and Tim Tavcar retell the story, using excerpts from both poets’ verse, musical settings of it by Debussy, Ravel and Fauré, and scenes from the 1995 docudrama Total Eclipse, starring none other than Leonardo DiCaprio.

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‘A SEASON IN HELL’

Saturday, March 14, 8 p.m. at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier; Sunday, March 15, 4 p.m. at the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington. $20. Info, 223-1279. www.wordstagevt.com

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sport AduLt Coed FLoor HoCkey: Grown men and women push plastic pucks with slick sticks at this weekly showdown. St. Anthony’s Parish Hall, Burlington, 6:45-8:45 p.m. $4. Info, 651-7555.

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‘LAugHter on tHe 23rd FLoor’: McCarthyism and conservative station execs complicate the lives of a group of 1950s TV writers in Neil Simon’s 1993 comedy. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $25-58. Info, 296-7000.

‘Looking over tHe preSident’S SHouLder’: A one-man show brings to life the diaries of Alonzo Fields, the first African American chief butler in the White House — a position he held from Hoover’s administration to Eisenhower’s. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $16-21. Info, 863-5966. vAriety SHoW AuditionS: Talented folks ages 7 and older try out for the chance to demo their skills at a mud-season showcase. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 5 p.m. Free; call for audition time. Info, 728-9878, outreach@chandler-arts.org.

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Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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kids preSCHooL StorieS: Future readers aged 2 to 5 take in tales. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. nAtALie mACmASter: Cape Breton’s fiddling phenom brings her highenergy Celtic music and step dancing back to Vermont. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $23-38. Info, 863-5966.

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“Whenever and wherever she plays, MacMaster causes a stir. There is so much life in what she does that sitting still is a near impossibility… Her fiddling is mind-boggling.”

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empty BoWL dinner: Hungry patrons support a nonprofit that serves local homeless youths, then take home a hand-crafted vessel or an auctioned item. First Congregational Church, Burlington, 5:30 p.m. $35-40 includes soup, salad and bowl. Info, 862-5396, ext. 250.

tHurSdAy Ski-inn: Cross-country skiers traverse the landscape en masse on a group outing, then entertain lunch options. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 533-2647.

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Senior tAx ASSiStAnCe: Those over 60 with an annual gross income of less than $60,000 can get help on their returns from a tax counselor in half-hour increments. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:15 a.m. 12:15 p.m. Free, call for appointment.

Info, 878-6955. vermont ConSuLtAntS netWork: Accountant Terry Stone explains methods self-employed advisors can use to calculate fees for their services. Network Performance, South Burlington, 8 a.m. $15; free for first-timers. Info, 862-4557.

THU.12 etc. geek Week 3.0: See WED.11, 6:30 p.m. - midnight.

‘LAte nigHt SAturdAy’: Studio audience members do their part at a double-taping for this local TV variety show with trivia, prizes and featured guests from political satirist Danny Gore to acoustic rocker Chad Hollister.

Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free.

Info, LNS@champlain.edu.

‘LAugHter on tHe 23rd FLoor’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘Looking over tHe preSident’S SHouLder’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m. vAriety SHoW AuditionS: See WED.11, 5 p.m.

FRI.13 etc. geek Week 3.0: See WED.11, 6 p.m. - midnight.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. LuCindA WiLLiAmS: The Louisianaborn alt-country chanteuse dips into witty, gritty songs from her new album Little Honey. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $35-50. Info, 863-5966.

LumineSCent orCHeStrii: This New York City-based band of genre blenders mixes Romanian Gypsy melodies, punk-rock klezmer and Appalachian fiddle tunes. (The Stafford Allstars open from 6:30-7:30 p.m.) Unitarian Church, Rutland, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 353-1904.

talks ‘reeF mAdneSS’: Author and naturalist David Dobbs presides over a scientific show-and-tell session on the second-greatest controversy involving Charles Darwin — one concerning the formation of coral reefs. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Donations.

Info, 229-6206.

theater ‘AmeriCAn BuFFALo’: Green Candle Theatre presents David Mamet’s mature-content play about a team of men who try to pinch a wealthy numismatist’s coin collection.

Flynndog, Burlington, 8 p.m. $20.

Info, 863-5966.

‘LAugHter on tHe 23rd FLoor’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m.

‘Looking over tHe preSident’S SHouLder’: See WED.11, 7:30 p.m. ‘tHe merry WiveS oF WindSor’: Music, dance, slapstick fun and a surprise historical guest enliven this Echo Valley Community Arts production of Shakespeare’s fauxcuckoldry comedy. Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7:30 p.m. $10-14. Info, 454-9334.

SAT.14 etc. geek Week 3.0: See WED.11, noon - midnight.

food & drink rutLAnd Winter FArmerS mArket: Shoppers seeking locally raised edibles pick up root vegetables, cheeses, pickles and other lavish provender. Rutland Natural Food Market, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free.

Info, 438-9803.

SugAr on SnoW: Hardened-maplesyrup edibles usher in spring at an outdoor party. Palmer’s Sugarhouse, Shelburne, 12-4 p.m. $4; free to watch. Info, 985-5054.

WiLLiSton oFF-SeASon FArmerS mArket: Shoppers peruse fresh local produce, specialty prepared foods and one-of-a-kind gifts in a once-monthly winter mart. National Guard Armory, Williston, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7728.

kids ‘Coyote tALeS’: Native American and Mexican folklore yield this stage adaptation of legends about a lively, four-legged trickster and his pals.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 11 a.m. $3. Info, 728-9878. iriSH FeStivAL StorieS & CrAFtS: An bhfuil Gaeilge agat? Kids of all ages learn a few words in Gaelic, hear classic Irish tales, and create Emerald Isle items. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7216.

sport green mountAin derBy dAmeS’ ‘mArCH meLtdoWn’ Bout: Vermont’s all-girl roller derby team hosts a sold-out skatefest against Assault City Roller Derby of Syracuse, New York. Live music by Subsophisticate and Bunny’s A Swine fosters aggro ambience. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 5-10 p.m. $6-12. Info, 318-1751.

SnoWSHoe nAture WALk: A naturalist leads a drift-top New England safari on a family-friendly route. Highland Lodge & XC Center, Greensboro, 2 p.m. $8; $5.50 for kids age 12 and younger. Info, 533-2647. tHe BAttLe For BurLington: Highschool-aged skiers and riders of both genders each get two runs to stake a claim in this slope-style competition.

Bolton Valley Resort, Bolton Valley, 4 p.m. Registration $10; lift tickets $19. Info, 324-6209.

theater ‘A SeASon in HeLL’: Members of the chamber music theater ensemble WordStage combine sex, drugs and lovely melodies in this retelling of the fin-de-siècle affair between French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. See calendar spotlight. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $20.

Info, 223-1279.

‘AmeriCAn BuFFALo’: See FRI.13, 8 p.m. ‘goodnigHt moon & tHe runAWAy Bunny’: Whimsical puppetry and evocative original music by the Mermaid Theater of Nova Scotia bring a 3-D perspective to two classic storybooks. Lebanon Opera House, 3 p.m. $8-15. Info, 603-448-0400.

‘LAugHter on tHe 23rd FLoor’: See WED.11, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

‘Looking over tHe preSident’S SHouLder’: See WED.11, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘tHe merry WiveS oF WindSor’: See FRI.13, 7:30 p.m.

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BiLL SchuBart: The Hinesburg-based writer and commentator reads from The Lamoille Stories, his collection capturing the clash between “old” and “new” Vermont. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

‘a SEaSOn in hELL’: See SAT.14. Upstairs, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 4 p.m. $20. Info, 223-1279. ‘aMErican BuFFaLO’: See FRI.13, 7 p.m.

‘LauGhtEr On thE 23rd FLOOr’: See WED.11, 5 p.m.

‘LOOkinG OvEr thE PrESidEnt’S ShOuLdEr’: See WED.11, 2 p.m. ‘thE MErrY WivES OF WindSOr’: See FRI.13, 2 p.m.

‘iran revealed: UnlockinG the Persian PUzzle’ (talks)

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GEEk WEEk 3.0: See WED.11, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

WOkO FLEa MarkEt: Feeling thrifty?

Bargain-hunters lose themselves in the state’s largest indoor tag and collectibles sale. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m.

- 2 p.m. $3. Info, 878-5545.

food & drink SuGar On SnOW: See SAT.14, 12-4 p.m.

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FaMiLY SinG-aLOnG: Parents and kids belt out fun, familiar favorites.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

MOndaY MuSic: Local musician Mia Adams tells stories and sings kid-friendly faves. In the J.C. Penney seating area. University Mall, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

movies Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘Gandhi, MY FathEr’: English subtitles make meanings clear in this Hindi film depicting the tumultuous relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his oldest son. A discussion about love and forgiveness in families follows. See calendar spotlight.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955.

LOLLiPOP Ski racE: Young skiers don racing bibs for a fun zip down the “Mighty Mite” hill, with encouragement from bystanders.

Cochran’s Ski Area, Richmond, 1 p.m.

Free with purchase of a $14 youth day pass; includes postrace lollipop.

Info, 434-2479.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. cELtic crOSSrOadS: Seven world-class musicians put an Irish twist on classical, Gypsy-jazz and bluegrass tunes, and two live dancers round out the act. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 7 p.m. $25. Info, 728-6464. iriSh MuSic & dancE ShOWcaSE: The Burlington Irish Festival presents jigs and reels by the Fiddleheads, Marty Morrissey, Triskele, Sarah Blair and members of the McFadden Academy of Irish Dance, among many others. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 6 p.m. $15. Info, 849-6968.

talks ‘iran rEvEaLEd: unLOckinG thE PErSian PuzzLE’: VPR reporter Steve Zind relates recent travels in Iran to explore his ancestry, and local resident Mitra Samimi-Urich describes growing up in the country before the Islamic Republic takeover in 1979.

See calendar spotlight. Holley Hall, Bristol, 1-4 p.m. Free; donations encouraged. Info, 453-4147. ‘thE naturE OF EviL’: UVM education professor Robert Nash sums up malignancy from the secular humanist viewpoint, then compares how various social, religious and political systems define and categorize it. Downstairs, College Street Congregational Church, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0788.

words QuEEr WritinG GrOuP: Poetry, fiction and other output goes up for friendly workshopping and discussion at this LGBTQ-supportive scribes’ circle. R.U.1.2? Community Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812, chase@ru12.org.

See spotlight, p.19B

SUN.15

SLidE & Gráda: Dublin comes to Burlington for St. Patty’s Day, with two up-and-coming Irish bands putting modern twists on traditional Emerald-Isle tunes. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $29-36. Info, 863-5966. ‘tWO OLd FriEndS’: Mac McHale and Emery Hutchins, original founders of The Northeast Winds, play a St. Patrick’s Day gig of fave Irish ditties and old-time country tunes.

Vergennes Opera House, 7:30 p.m. $10-12. Info, 877-6737.

WED.18 dance

See spotlight, p.19B

TUE.17 kids SinG-aLOnG Fun: The host of Vermont Public Radio’s “All the Traditions” — also a reference librarian — leads a lighthearted folk session for all ages.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

music Also, see clubdates in Section B. GrEEn MOuntain chOruS: Men who like to sing learn four-part harmonies at an open meeting of this all-guy barbershop group. St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5439, w1sj@arrl.net.

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Also, see movie theater showtimes in Section A. ‘FindinG Our vOicES’: As the Iraq war enters its sixth year, Huntington filmmaker Holly Stadtler presents her award-winning documentary about dissent on the home front. Merrill’s Roxy Cinema, Burlington, 7 p.m. $10.

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Also, see clubdates in Section B. ‘MadaMa ButtErFLY’: Opera aficionados absorb the Met’s high-def audiovisual broadcast of Puccini’s opus about a Japanese maiden wronged. Palace Cinema 9, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $20. Info, 660-9300.

‘PaSSaGES at thE ParaMOunt’ SEriES: Members of the Modigliani String Quartet perform as part of Rutland’s new classical concert lineup. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $10-15. Info, 775-0903.

SchOOL BuS OPEra OutinG: Essexarea fans of Madama Butterfly hitch a yellow-painted ride to a simulcast Metropolitan Opera screening at South Burlington’s Palace Cinema 9.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5:45 p.m. $27.50 includes opera admission and pre-screening talk; please call for a reservation. Info, 878-6955.

sport ‘Gandhi, My Father’ (FilM)

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aduLt cOEd FLOOr hOckEY: See WED.11, 6:45-8:45 p.m.

theater auditiOnS FOr ‘thE nExt GEnEratiOn’: High school students who’ve seriously studied dance or any form of vocal or instrumental music try out for a regional talent showcase.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 5 p.m. Free; please call to schedule a specific time. Info, 728-9878.

‘MOvin’ Out’: Famed choreographer Twyla Tharp adds live dancers to 26 Billy Joel songs in a musical that follows five high school buddies through two decades. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $54-62. Info, 863-5966. m

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MEN seeking MEN ENERGETIC TO DISCOVER LIFE! Looking to spend quality time & companionship with. Honesty important, no games, just the real you! Friendship is important & discretion a must. Work hard to play hard. Traveling, hiking, seeing the world. Searching for over 30 under 50. Enjoy quiet nights at home or out, weekend getaways w/a great guy, good bottle of wine does wonders for me. Let’s talk & see where life takes us! 2btogether, 43, l, #113042 ISO ANOTHER LAID-BACK GUY I’m an athletic, single, 24 y.o. college grad who moved back home to VT in order to save up while I pay off my loans. I’m looking for friends & maybe more. My friends say I’m a kooky, adventurous type, which could explain why I love to try new things. So come on & surprise me! Tabascofish, 24, l, #113004 STARK RAVING MAD Have no clue what are the qualities of friendship or emotional attachment, bonds can be varied and unique as the snowflake, yet hold us together. Though I’m not a woodchuck, i lived in the NEK for several years, left for school and a career, now i’m back. Hoping to keep cool and hang out with woodchucks and woodchuck wannabes. bluerider, 84, l, #112981 ISO ANOTHER “LIBERAL ARTS GUY” I’m someone who knows a little bit about a whole lot. My wife’s been on me to stop “driving (her) nuts with so much ‘crazy guy energy’. Find another liberal arts guy... wear condoms and don’t get arrested at the border.” If you believe you might fit the bill in helping break a few good taboos, get with me.

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BoredinVt, 30, l, #108386 START A NEW LIFE NEEDING SOMEONE WHO LIKES ATTENTION, AND WHO IS LOOKING FOR A RELATIONSHIP. NOT JUST A ONE TIME FLING. CLAEN AND RESPECTABLE. KIND AND GENTLE. LOOKING TO START A NEW BEGINNING.LOVE AND LAUGHS.IN THE SAME AGE RANGE AROUND 40IS.POSSIBLE TRAVEL AS WELL. CA2001, 41, u, #106992 CINDERELLA WITH THE DOUBLE DS You know, I’m refusing to give up! I am voluptuous, plus-sized - there’s no disguising the fact - so if that’s not your type, don’t respond and waste my time, okay? I’m looking for a little bit of the wild side with some domination thrown in, but admittedly, I’m somewhat of a novice at things. I’d love some help in that department. biggrlzdocry, 33, #106753 HELP ME THANK HIM My guy has been very good to me!! Will you help me thank him? Looking for a woman or women to help me make his fantasies become moments of ecstasy. Don’t be shy, unless you want to play the role of the quiet...yet naughty school girl. If this ad makes you as wet as me then you’re right for this encounter. 3isbetter, 36, l, #104249 QUITE A CATCH Voluptuous (so there’s more to love), brunette, brown eyes. Looking to try new experiences, very curious about BDSM, but not into pain.

Searching for someone to be my private tutor. Please, don’t bother responding if you’re not the plus-size type or involved with someone. Let’s not waste my time or yours. wholelottaluv, 36, #103993

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I am a man experienced in the ways of love & Love to please a woman in many, many enjoy moments of sexual ecstasy. My greatest different ways. Your orgasms are my goal... :). joy is your pleasure. Your climax my goal. Life CreativeGuy69, 38, #112908 is too short to be lonely. If you want a caring man to hold you & make caring, joyful love REQUIRES A FEW ITEMS with you, get in touch. I’m safe, STD free & very discreet. lovepoet, 46, l, #113019 Single man who only requires a few items.

I like to laugh & have fun. This Vermonter loves mountains, long walks, camping, hiking A BREAKFAST OF YOU & sex outdoors & indoors. newday101, 59, Hi. Bear with me, I’m brand new at this #112878 & more than a little nervous. I’m 46 y.o. & married going on 28 years. I am looking for INTENSE SAFE SEX no commitment, no problems, no strings - just sex, plain & simple. I would love to experience Nothing else will work for me if the sex a woman cumming on my tongue. Can you doesn’t. I’m a straight guy who enjoys help? I am fit, trim, healthy & have been receiving anal from female partners. If you called attractive. Looking in the Burlington/ don’t think you could work your hand up my Northern Chit. County area. silverdragon, 46, ass, don’t bother. I like physical, intense sex. I #112992 cook well, am well read, cultured & respectful; I’m a good time if you’re into the kink. krisj, 47, #112816 WE WERE REALLY HIGH AND...

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LOOKING FOR HOT, STEAMY, SEX 10 women. Oh, well, if you don’t try, you don’t get anything. I like laughing, carrots, music, I’m looking for discreet encounters. I like to drugging, swimming, sci-fi/fantasy, cats, do most anything. Willing to travel, if need reading, sexing, staying out till morning. Sex? be. canukeepasecret, 26, l, #112811 I’ve had it, yes! I almost know what I’m doing after several years. *Pats self on the back and SISSY BOY NEEDS MISTRESS eats a cookie*. sir_kibles, 22, l, #112963 I am a submissive M in search of a dominant mistress. I have searched for so long...if you’re CAN I TIE YOU UP? out there, please, please help me. I am into Looking for a woman who shares my sexual most SMBD games. I like to cross dress, mostly interests. I love BONDAGE. I’m a switch who dildo training, whips, spankings. I promise I loves to top. I do enjoy pain play; it can hurt will obey all commands. 5’11, white M, 39, so good. I love handcuffs, though for sex young looking, 155 lbs., unhappily married. sometimes you gotta use comfy tie-ups. I like sissyboy69, 39, u, l, #112795 blindfolds, gags, tie-ups, nipple clamps, whips (if you will), vibrators, plugs, etc. I am very MULTIPLE ORGASMS A MUST adventurous. Cuffluvr, 25, u, l, #112952 Basically I am a nympho. I don’t drink or drug but 4\20 friendly. Very healthy in mind, body & ATHLETIC, LOOKING FOR SOME PLAYTIME spirit. I’m good looking, clean cut, respectful So, I’m a 19 y.o. M who lives in the Burlington & polite. No big macho ego, but good sense area & who is looking for a good time. I’m in of humor. Being open minded lets me accept good shape, I have a six pack, & love to play people for who they are & be nonjudgmental. sports & also play with you. hybrid, 19, l, I love the natural turn on & high of multiple #112937 orgasms. One on one or with others. 7+ cut. ford4x4, 46, #112779 PIRATE LOOKING FOR BOOTY I have no one to share my wealth with, not because I am boring or ugly; it is because most people can’t handle me. I am very fast & I don’t care about what you think about me. I am a lot of man to handle, so you have to be willing to go above & beyond (maybe bring a KINKY COUPLE LOOKING FOR FRIENDS friend). Kinkster69, 23, #112928 Hi, we are a couple looking to explore every bit of our sexuality. We can be open minded, STRANGER IN YOUR ROOM... kinky, but most of all, we are good people who Looking for a couple to excite & to assist in love to explore. Cum join us - the more the making fantasies come to life. What will she merrier! kinkyclp4u, 45, #113108 do or say with a stranger? Ask for more? I am healthy, very all-American, & will do whatever I think will please my partner. You must be healthy, open & real. Let’s talk on the phone... give her that complete stranger! excitenite1, 36, #112926

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MATURE LOVERS SEEKING KINDRED SPIRITS! We’re a middle-aged couple, both HWP and both white-collar professionals. She is a lite but considerate smoker. We always meet for a platonic drink or lunch or dinner to check chemistry, then if all agree, play on the second date. Neither of us is homophobic. We can often host if necessary. Sexualfriends08, 53, l, #112943 LOOKING FOR SOME FUN Looking to find a girl to have some fun w/my boyfriend. NSA. sashas69, 26, l, #112818 WANNA PLAY Happy, engaged couple looking to fulfill fantasies before tying the knot & getting out of the game. About us: both BI w/a few extra pounds. If this matters, no need to reply.

Seeking: man, woman or couple. Man-top prefer uncut under 7” who will please both & woman either way. Let’s connect - ball’s in your court now... madeforeachother, 28, u, #112805 BLOSSOMS ONLY IN THE SNOW Shy, sexy crossdresser looking for winter fun and erotic encounters, discreet or not. I am tall, thin, smooth and feminine, hoping to meet a man or a couple to play with.

Imagination, respect (for yourself and others) and a desire to leave boundaries behind are what I am craving. There must be MORE out there... are you part of it? frozenorchid, 31, l, #112245 “DELIGHTFULLY SCRUMPTIOUS FLOWING RIVER” Married couple, early 40s, looking to find another bi-female/couple, 35-50, to have adult playtime with. Love foreplay and she is bi-curious and has a fantasy of being with another woman while I watch, as well as me joining in when the time is right! Are open to new ideas in and out of the bedroom. Must be discreet. sunsetstogether, 41, l, #112179 KINKY COUPLE SEEKING THIRD Voluptuous couple seeks third playmate (female) for sexual encounters. Must be clean and in their 20s. Kinky bisexual girlfriend wants to spice up the bedroom with another girl, into domination, without the whips, the man is submissive. Openminded2, 20, #112167 YOUNG, ATTRACTIVE COUPLE Couple looking to have some fun with another girl or couple with same interest and NSA. Must be mature, clean, equally attractive. Laid-back and just love having a good time. Somewhat new to this but have some experience. We are kinky, love trying new things. He is 27, 5’10, 150 lbs. I’m 5’3, 120 lbs. blindedbylust, 21, #111698 HOT, HORNY COUPLE Interested in trying something new, as a couple or individually. Me: WELL HUNG! Her: VERY HOT! Utmost discretion required. availableplaymates, 31, l, #111021 GORGEOUS WIFE LOOKING FOR LUST I’m a well-educated wife with a wild sexual side. I love hung, handsome, smart guys and couples who aren’t shy and don’t need a lot of hand holding. Very, very discreet. Husband can join or not. deliciouswifefun, 37, l, #110439

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Where: Barnes & Noble. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905440 VPIRG TRAINER We ran into each other the day you were leaving. I liked spending time with you.

I liked watching you (creepy! - haha).

I’d like to stay close when you get back.

When: Saturday, March 7, 2009. Where: Laundromat. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905439 BADASS WITH A SMILE Walking tall & bold, in a pair of tough black boots. Full dreads fall on a black jacket with a zipped-up hood. Faded gray rocker jeans with white, worn-out seams. You know I’ve always dug a chick who smokes cigs. You’ve got a part in my stories, even if I’m not in yours. When: Saturday, March 7, 2009.

Where: Walking in the Sun. You: Woman.

Me: Man. #905437 RADIO BEAN 3/6 9 p.m.-ish. You were with a friend at the bar.

I apologized for touching you. You left too early! Would love another chance to start up a conversation... When: Friday, March 6, 2009. Where: Radio Bean. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905436 IN LINE AT SHAW’S We were waiting for someone to pay. You made room for my stuff on the belt. You had brown, short buzzed hair & a beard. I said thanks. I have dark blonde hair and was wearing a black hoodie. I thought you were really cute & nice. Want to get coffee?

When: Thursday, March 5, 2009. Where: Shaw’s in Colchester. You: Man. Me: Man. #905435 GRACE! TALL BRUNETTE BI-CURIOUS VIXEN! Hot lady, where did you go? I must have responded too late. I liked our brief, discreet chat. Let’s chat again soon & maybe rendezvous. I feel like making out in the bathroom, so our boyfriends won’t know - ha ;) When: Monday, February 2, 2009.

Where: online. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905434 YOU WERE BREATHTAKING IN SNOWSHOES It didn’t matter what you were wearing, only that you shone like the headlamp upon your noggin. You took my breath away. You always do. I need you like vitamins, I dream of you at night, I loved you before we even met. When: Thursday, February 26, 2009.

Where: Bolton Valley, VT. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905433 HEALTHY LIVING To the gorgeous woman at the back counter: I’ve seen you there a few times when I come in & pick up a few things to take home, but yesterday I ate there just because of your beautiful smile! Maybe next time I’ll have the courage to say more than “Thanks” and “You, too.” Your genuine smile made my day!

When: Thursday, March 5, 2009. Where: Paying for my plate of goodness. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905430 HUNKY It’s been almost a year since you literally swept me off my feet. You are my strong, sensitive, thoughtful, handsome knight.

Just when I thought there was no such thing, you appeared out of nowhere. You are a great man, wonderful father & I look forward to our life together with our family.

I love you. When: Friday, March 21, 2008.

Where: Every morning in bed. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905425 I CALLED YOU CLASSLESS? I spy a hottie who’s taught me so much about loving & accepting myself that I don’t know how to say thank you! Here’s to chocolate squirrels, Christmas parties & Red Box (with a beer fountain coming soon?).

I luv you, friend. Thank you for enduring my alcohol-fueled, redheaded tantrums & always saying what I need to hear. When: Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Where: here, there & everywhere. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905424

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IS YOUR NAME SEAN? I see you everywhere! Love your car. Twice I saw you at Price Chopper on Shelburne Rd. with some blonde - you called her Jenny.

Why don’t you take me for a test drive? You won’t regret it! Wendy When: Wednesday, January 14, 2009. Where: Price Chopper.

You: Man. Me: Woman. #905423 PUNK GIRL OF MY DREAMS When I first met you, you said you would be waiting for me with all the “bells & whistles”.

When we first met I fell madly in love. I long to be back in your arms someday & you’re in my heart every passing moment. You were sporting blond & hot pink hair & the most beautiful eyes ever. You’re my love. When: Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Where: Maple St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905422 CHELSEA OR CHELSEY? Chelsea/Chelsey, we were in the waiting room on Monday, March 2. Your illness wasn’t apparent as you looked like a million bucks (white pants, black sweater, gorgeous face)! I probably looked about as bad as I felt in a grey hoodie & winter hat to combat my fever. Any chance you’d like to meet somewhere other than a hospital? When: Monday, March 2, 2009. Where: Fanny Allen Walk-In Clinic. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905421 NECTAR’S SECURITY - BLACK HEADBAND Where did your headband go? Either way I love seeing you move those spaghetti legs around the dance floor & sometimes pick up a bottle or two. I really enjoyed it when you helped that man with the bandana who was being harassed...you are my hero.

See you at reggae night - we can dance to traffic jam? When: Sunday, March 1, 2009.

Where: Nectar’s/my dreams. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905420 B&N BABE Hey, Hot Stuff - spied at B&N reading erotica in the “soft chair section”. Yippee, yahooty, I got the full benefits of your explorations. I loved the step-by-step personal demonstrations. I am the luckiest girl alive! Need another private time for reading? Yummy BABY, I want some more of your attention...please ; ) When: Sunday, March 1, 2009. Where: B&N. You: Woman.

Me: Woman. #905419 THANK YOU TO MY BUSBOY Who knew that I would meet the love of my life waiting for my bus at Port Authority in NYC? We owe that old heckler our gratitude...if not for him you would have never asked to sit with me (yes, you started it!) & passed on your phone number. Eleven years...it’s been a grand adventure. - h, the busgirl When: Saturday, March 6, 2004.

Where: Port Authority, NYC. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905417 WHERE ART THOU ANNA I heard from a mutual friend you peeped my Seven Days profile. I believe I remember you from that first Friday. Leather pants, glitter shirt with rock star written on it?

Am I close? Drop me a line sometime, so we can determine who’s going to stalk who ;-) When: Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Where: Through a mutual friend. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #905416 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE BOY We hung out with you & your roommates for my friend’s birthday in your room. She was so wasted I had to take care of her & leave. I was really interested in talking to you more. You seem like an awesome person to hang with. Me: Blondie with the blue water bottle. You: Cutie with brown hair/ eyes. Coffee sometime? When: Wednesday, February 25, 2009. Where: Champlain dorms. You: Man. Me: Woman. #905415 PUNK GIRL OF MY DREAMS When we first met I fell madly in love with you. I remember like yesterday. You said you would be waiting for me with all the “bells and whistles”. You had a hot haircut - blond in front, pink in the back. I love you so much and I ache without you, longing for the day we can be together again. When: Tuesday, October 14, 2008. Where: Maple St. You: Woman. Me: Man. #905413

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1996 2-dr. Toyota Tercel Great little car. 35-40 mpg. Sold on an “as is” basis. Only serious buyers please. $1475, only cash accepted. Info: Brigette Brown, 802485-8692.

2006 Volvo: Do you love Swedes? Outstanding vehicle.

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1998 Subaru Outback 2.5 motor overheated, 2.2 motor installed in place. New t-belt, oil seals, water pump, more. No rust.

Limited edition. Sunroof, heated leather seats. $3700. Info: 802249-7266.

2000 Dodge Dakota Sport 4WD, V6, A/C, driver & passenger airbags, Pioneer stereo & CD, tow pkg., ABS, 121K, black, $3000/ OBO. Info: 802-318-2836.

2001 Volkswagen Jetta Sunroof, 4-dr. sedan, CD, new wheels, new battery. Meticulously maintained.

VIN: 3VWSK29M31M066400. Engine: 2.0 GLS. Black. 111K. $5300/OBO. Casey, 801-318-8591 or Casey8Clark@gmail.com.

2002 Ford Expl. Sport Clean, well-maintained. Sage green, 108K. New tires, remote starter, tinted rear windows, running boards, sunroof, rear air, A/C, CD, KBB. Price: $7200. Asking: $5700/OBO. Info: 802-876-7471, elzs_email@yahoo.com.

2003 GMC Safari AWD Hard to find! AWD minivan! Just 93K, great condition, well maintained.

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call 540-0007 for service Burlington 2-BR South end, beautiful apt. on the bus line. 2 car off-street parking. NS/pets.

Older landlords live downstairs. $1300/mo. incl. cable TV w/ HBO & all utils. Avail. now. Info: 802862-2058.

Burlington 3-4-BR $1350 Newly renovated (paint, carpet, etc.), sunny kitchen w/ separate DR, W/D, efficient utils., lots of storage, parking, short walk to downtown, $1350/mo. Info: Harold Moran, 802-862-3496.

Burlington Apt. Lg. 1-BR in owner-occupied duplex. W/D hook-ups, whirlpool tub, HDWD. Avail. April 1. $900/mo. Call 802864-0692.

Burlington Colchester Ave. Avail. June 1. 1-BR apt. Parking. W/D. $800/mo. incl. elec.

No dogs. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1030, www.nevilleco.com.

Burlington Colchester Ave. Avail. June 1. 4-BR. Parking. W/D. No dogs. $1225/mo. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1030. www.nevilleco.com.

Burlington Colchester Ave. 2-BR, parking, coin-op W/D. No dogs. Avail. May 1. $990/mo.

Neville Companies, Inc. 802-6603481 x1030, www.nevilleco.com.

1996 VW Jetta only 118K! Manual transmission, black, runs great! Just $3995. Info: 802-8683327, www.barretteford.com.

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Burlington S. End Lg. 1-BR. Heat & HW. NS/pets. Lease. $850/ mo. + dep. Info: 802-864-9314.

For Rent 4-BR, 2 full BA Heat incl.

Serene & green, beautiful views, 5 min. to 89, 15 min. to VLS, 25 min. to Montpelier. Attached, heated 2- door garage. 1.51 acres.

New appliances, cherry HDWD floors. Pet friendly. $1800/mo.

Heat, water, snow, trash incl.

Info: Randy Clark, 802-793-1487, Neshach@gmail.com.

ALBURGH - FREE HEAT! Charming, new 3-BR townhouse in lovely wooded setting. Fireplace, 2.5BA. All appliances. Full finished basement & garage. Heat & HW incl. $1000/mo. + ref., dep. Info: 802-796-3649.

Beautiful 2-BR/2-BA duplex Colchester. Avail. Mar. 15. 2 BR, 2 BA, full eat-in kitchen, lg. deck, W/D, parking, storage. NS. Pets neg. $1250/mo. + utils. 578-1072, 862-2269. Info: elabd@comcast. net, www.elabdarchitecture/ properties.

Burlington 1-BR, LR, full kitchen, completely renovated. Heat/ HW incl. Parking for 1 car. Avail. now or Apr. 1. $825/mo. + dep.

2-BR, full kitchen, LR, parking.

Heat/HW incl. Avail. Apr. 1. $895/ mo. + dep. Info: 802-425-2678, 802-338-2335.

Burlington S. End 1-BR $850/ mo. Modern, well-lit, ground level apt. in a quiet home. Parking, heat, lights, water, trash. Lease, refs. req. No pets, no smoking.

Info: 802-863-6773.

Burlington, Buell St. Avail. now. Private room w/ common BA. W/D. NS/pets. $400/mo. incl. all utils. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1030. www.nevilleco.com.

Burlington/Winooski Roommates wanted to share lg. furnished house. All utils. incl.! 2.5BA, W/D, parking, on bus line. No pets. $650/mo. + dep. Info: 802863-9612.

Burlington: 4-BR Penthouse Immaculate w/ 1-3/4-BA, phenomenal views, stained glass windows in all BRs, porches, W/D. $2500/mo. incl. heat. April 15 or May 1; 1 year. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rental s @ hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Cambridge Inn Apartments Nice 1 & 2-BR apts. starting at $595/mo. + utils. Great Village location, close to shopping & skiing. Gas heat, laundry. No pets!

Info: 802-863-8200.

Clean, Quiet 4-BR Near UVM 1.5-BA, spacious clean home adjacent to UVM & a short walk to FAHC. Lg. basement for storage, incl. W/D. Attached garage. Pets neg. $2800/mo. + utils. Rent incl. sewer/water, trash removal, snow removal, yard care.) Avail. Jun. 1.

1-yr. lease. Email to schedule showings. Info: whitfellows@gmail. com, http://burlington.craigslist. org/apa/1049675176.html.

Colchester Efficiency in quiet neighborhood. No pets. $625/mo. incl. all heat, electric, parking, garbage & plowing. Info: Pierre Apartments, 802-879-3836.

Colchester: 4-BR Home Wall St., sprawling 3000+ sq.ft. ranch w/ 3-BA, cathedral ceiling, gas fireplace, kitchen w/ granite, breakfast nook, on wooded acre.

Avail. now, flexible lease. $2000/ mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rentals@ hickokandboardman.com, www.

HickokandBoardman.com.

Cozy 2-BR $1100/mo. Beautiful apt. on North Ave. Big backyard, porch, off-street parking, easy access to downtown, North Beach & bike path. Path to waterfront, mountain views. Water & trash removal incl. Pets neg. Info: 802598-1436.

Downtown Burlington Apt. On lake, park w/ great views, sunny, lg. 2-BR, separate DR. All new HDWD floors, parking, W/D in kitchen, efficient utils., storage garage. NS/pets. $1150/mo. Info: 802-476-4071.

Downtown Montpelier Monsignor Crosby Ave. 1st Flr, 1-BR, Pergo flooring, gas stove, heat, W/D, off-street parking. $750/mo + utils. Avail. Apr. 1. Info: 802310-4205.

Essex Jct. 2-BR Townhome W/D, private parking, quiet, close to IBM & St. Mikes. $1100/mo. + utils. & dep. No dogs. Info: 802-310-2554, bennettcarol2000@yahoo.com.

Gorgeous 2BR near FAHC/UVM Lg. lovely older duplex. WF, french doors, mudroom, garage, W/D, porch, yard, parking, ample storage. Walk to everything. $1500/ mo. + utils. Info: 802-861-2720, pj_shea@yahoo.com.

Hinesburg, Rt. 116 2-BR, parking. Extremely lg. unit. No dogs.

Avail. Jul. 1. $895/mo. incl. heat & HW. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1030. www.nevilleco.com.

Luxurious Studio Essex Jct Fully furnished. New carpet & paint. Complex amenities: pool, workout room, on-site maintenance, restaurant. Rent covers heat, AC, elec., trash, snow removal, water. Nonsmoking building. Short term, $950/mo. Long term: $850/mo. Avail. April 1.

Info: Alain Brunet, 802-3184286.

Montpelier Newly renovated 1-BR apt. Front porch, off-street parking, W/D avail. NS. Avail. Apr. 1. $775/mo. + utils. Info: 802310-1147.

Winooski, Main St. Avail. June 1. 3-BR. 2nd floor. No dogs. $900/ mo. incl. heat & HW. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x 1030. www.nevilleco.com.

S. Burl.: Indian Creek Immaculate & sophisticated townhouse w/ 2-BR, 1.5-BA, +/-1460 sq.ft., breakfast nook w/ greenhouse windows. Numerous updates, association pool, garage, deck. No pets. April 1; 1 year. $1550/mo.

Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802846-9568, rentals@hickokandboardman.com, www.HickokandBoardman.com.

Winooski: 2-BR Duplex West St.: 2-BR, 1-BA, 784 sq.ft, W/D, lg. yard, freshly painted, tiled kitchen. $75/avg. for heat, $38/ avg. elec. Avail. NOW; 1 year. $850/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-846-9568, rentals@ hickokandboardman.com, www.

HickokandBoardman.com.

S. Burlington Georgetown, 2nd floor, 2-BR, kitchen, LR, DR, screened porch, all appliances, W/D, carport w/ storage, pool.

NS/pets. $975/mo. Info: 802862-8047.

For Sale

S. Burlington Dorset Commons, incredibly situated on Dorset St. Very spacious, refurbished 2-BR on bike path, bus line, gas heat.

Convenient to bank, supermarket.

No dogs. $950/mo. Info: 802864-7766.

S. Burlington Horizon Heights, 2-BR, first floor, carport, gas heat.

NS/pets. Near UVM/hospital. Very clean. Lease. $950/mo. + utils.

Info: 802-655-9075 or 802-9998797.

SOUTH HERO Studio apt., easy commute to Burlington. Avail. now. NS/pets. $550/mo. Sec. dep., ref. req. Call for more info.

Info: 802-372-8391.

Shelburne: On the Water!

General Greene: 2-BR, 1-BA endunit townhouse in 3-unit building built 1907. 179 ft. of waterfront/ beach, views, W/D, shared yard.

Now; 1 year. $1600/mo. Info: Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman, Kaitlyn Dorey, 802-8469568, www.HickokandBoardman. com.

Unfurnished 2-BR apt. 2nd floor. Close to downtown Burlington & bus route. Newly renovated.

On-site parking, no pets. $800/ mo. + utils. Info: 802-862-7039.

Vergennes 281 Main St. Lg. sunny 2-BR, full BA, lg. enclosed porch. Heat & HW incl. No dogs. $850/mo. Call only between 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Info: 802-349-4017.

Waterbury 2-BR, 2 story. Incl. heat, trash, snow removal, offstreet parking. $1000/mo. No dogs. Avail. Apr. 1. Info: 802496-4406.

Winooski 88 Malletts Bay Ave. Avail. now. Very lg. 1-BR, full BA, huge kitchen, HDWD, 2nd floor, low utils., gas heat/HW, W/D across street. No dogs. $700/mo.

Info: 802-862-7467.

Winooski 2-BR, Hickok St. Avail. now. Encl. porch. Parking.

No dogs. $875/mo. Neville Companies, Inc. 802-660-3481 x1030. www.nevilleco.com.

Browse Housing on Your Phone:

Winooski Condo For Sale 1-BR w/ loft in old school. 12’ ceiling, lg. windows. New updates/paint.

Storage, indoor basketball, reserved parking, garden, security, cable, satellite, pets. Walk downtown. $155,900. Info: 802-6554167.

Housemates 2-BR avail. March 1 12x12 room, $450/mo;. 18x12 room, $500/mo. Small pets OK. Monthto-month lease. Deposit req. Info: 802-893-4643, pgillander_1@ netzero.net.

ALL AREAS - RENTMATES.COM Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Rentmates.com. (AAN CAN) Adult housemate wanted To share my furnished home. Private BA, parking. $600/mo. incl. all utils., Internet, satellite TV. Quiet neighborhood near Husky in Milton, 20 min. from Burlington.

Info: 802-578-0909.

Beautiful home in Jericho BR avail. in beautiful 3-BR home in the country. Walk-out trails, W/D, high-speed Internet, mini gym, fireplace, pool table, in-ground pool, peace & quiet. $500/mo.

999-1265. Info: 802-999-1265, densh591@aol.com.

Burlington Roommate wanted. $525/mo. incl. everything. Call 802-922-8995 or 802-540-0715 and ask for Lee or Mike.

Burlington Roommate Needed 2 rooms in large 3-BR apt. close to downtown. $600/mo. negotiable, incls. utils., cable, internet. Laundry on-site, off-street parking, dry storage. Call Frank, 863-5347.

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SEVEN DAYS | march 11-18, 2009 | autofinder 27B

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An Ounce of Prevention

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t’s no secret that the economy is in tatters and consumers aren’t buying very many new cars. Instead, they’re hanging on to their older rides and putting many more miles on them.

This shift in use requires a shift in care. If you rely on an automobile for transportation, then you absolutely need to take care of it to ensure it stays in excellent running order. As Benjamin Franklin said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Last week I paid a visit to two well-respected local auto shops — Advantage Automotive and Twisted Wrench — and spoke with Denver Webb and Eric Provost, respectively, to get some tips.

BK: Eric, what wisdom could you share with our readers to help them keep their cars on the road?

ERIC PROVOST: It all starts with trying to keep the salt

off your car. Wash your vehicle regularly, especially the rear wheel wells. That’s where it really seems to hammer on your car. That’s not about us fixing things. That’s about me not having to tell you that your car is shot. If you look under any car this time of year, it will be just covered with a film of salt that is chewing away at the car.

That’s what kills cars in Vermont.

What we also often see, especially with young people, is that they finally come in and their car needs $2000 worth of stuff because they’ve just been waiting and waiting and waiting. That’s not good for your car’s long-term health, and that’s not good for your wallet. Regular maintenance is the key. Part of regular mainte-

Technician Tim Pratt at the Twisted Wrench

BK: So it’s a numbers game.

DW: I guess it can go either way right now. I have another custom-

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nance is getting your car checked out once in a while and working with someone who is trustworthy.

BK: Have you seen any trends in the last year?

EP: We’ve seen three cars this year that were driven way past the oil-change interval and the engine seized. Now [they are] basically valueless. The auto manufacturers are saying, because of the CAFE [Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations, set by the federal government] standards, what I think are ridiculous things, like waiting 7000 miles between oil changes.

BK: How does that relate to the CAFE standards?

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BOB KILPATRICK: What should people be doing to take care of their cars?

DENVER WEBB: My key suggestion is that if you can see your mechanic every 3000 miles or three months, that is the absolute best way to keep your car in good condition. Developing the right relationship between you, your car and your mechanic can lead to longevity and cost savings. I have a customer’s Jetta out front. She bought it new in ’94. It’s got 277,000 miles on it.

She’s changed her oil every three months. She was trying to decide whether to put money into it this year or get a new car. Her total repair bill was $500. Break that down and it comes to about two months of car payments. So that repair is paying for itself in just a few months.

er who drives down from Nova Scotia once a month for school.

She puts on a ridiculous number of miles. She had a Dodge Neon with 104,000 kilometers on it.

The repairs that the car needed were well over $1500. Instead, she was able to trade the car in and got a new Hyundai Elantra for $11,000 that gets almost twice the gas mileage. All things considered, she lowered her monthly costs. For her it made perfect sense to buy a new car.

EP: My understanding is they get a better rating on their overall environmental impact that way.

Well, oil is oil and metal is metal, and it’s just not good in the long run for the car. Can you do that when the car has 30,000 miles on it? Sure you can. Can you do it when the car has 130,000 miles?

It’s probably not a good idea. My opinion is that this actually has a negative effect [on the environment] when a perfectly good car blows up because you didn’t change the oil often enough. Now they’ve got to build another car.

You basically just lost thousands of dollars because you didn’t spend $30 or $40 on an oil change.

Other people are, like, “Argh, I’m 10 miles over my oil change!

I’ve got to get it done!” That’s way better than neglecting it. When I was a kid, you couldn’t drive five miles without seeing somebody broken down on the side of the road. It’s not like that anymore, so I think people just think, you put gas in it, you drive it, and that’s it. And with age comes wisdom, because the younger you are, the more likely you are to ignore your car completely until it’s right inyour face.

Around here, there’s not a lot of public transportation; if you don’t live and work in Burlington, you’re probably not going to take the bus, [so] you’ve got to have your car and your car has got to work.

There’s no getting around that. m Twisted Wrench, 60 Ethan Allen Drive, S. Burlington, (802) 660-0838 Advantage Automotive, 82 Winter Sport Lane, Williston, (802) 865-3618

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Prime Location, owned Land

From this Contemporary Ranch on 5.1 acres, beautifully landscaped, 3 bedrooms, one bath, family room with 10’ ceilings and woodstove, plus office, oversized deck, shed. Enjoy the birds and wildlife from your front door. $275,000. MLS#2810550.

Williston Woods home, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath on owned land. Low association fee, no age restriction, join the activity center to socialize. Sunny deck, one-car garage, office/den. $151,900. MLS#2900547

End of the road privacy on 10 acres, this 2 bedroom, 2 bath Jeffersonville Contemporary retreat boasts 2 story great room, open design and wrap around decks overlooking the grounds of rolling lawns with 2 stocked ponds, perennial gardens and woods. $278,500

Private and spacious 3 bedroom, 3 bath Colonial in Milton offering 2400+ sq. ft. on 1.06 acres. 2 car garage. Partially finished basement. Wood burning fireplace. Wood flooring in living, dining and family. Views of mountains. $289,900. MLS#2810838.

call Geri Reilly coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty 802-862-6677 www.buyvtrealestate.com

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call nancy desany coldwell Banker hickok & Boardman Realty 802-846-9540 www.Vermonttrademarkhomes.com

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This 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath Colchester Condo is close to everywhere - I-89, St. Mikes, Burlington and more! Low association fees and move-in ready! New dishwasher to be installed in the light and bright kitchen. Living room with gas stove heater! $162,000

Call Chris Von trapp Coldwell banker Hickok & boardman realty (802) 846-9525 www.Chrisvontrapp.com

Call edie brodsky Coldwell banker Hickok & boardman realty 802-846-9532 www.edieHomes.com

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www.getahome.org Westwood Condos, Winooski

Country home to share On 30 acres in S. Starksboro. $500/mo. incl. major utils. + dep. Prefer long-term. NS/pets. Communityminded person. Avail. immed.

Info: 802-453-5409, lescoe@madriver.com.

Essex Jct. Seeking professional roommate to share beautiful older home. W/D, cable, parking.

Near IBM, 10 min. away from colleges/Burlington. $530/mo. incl. all utils. NS/pets. Info: 802-3636009.

House/pool/hot tub 2 guys, 20s, looking for 2 females 21+, clean & laid back, to share house w. We’re not perverts, just prefer to split it up. Females are cleaner!

House is awesome. Backyard, storage, separate BAs. Avail. March 15. Info: 802-881-4069.

Monkton FarmHouse Large rooms, W/D, master BA, cathedral ceilings. 20 acres. 19 miles to Kennedy Dr. Barn, garden space, etc. Amenities/utils. incl. Horses & pets OK. $450/mo. Info: 802453-3457.

Townhouse style unit has a nice deck off the kitchen/dining area for enjoying summer days & barbecuing and features energyefficient gas-fired hot air heat.

Recent updates include complete kitchen renovation, new flooring, and paint throughout.

$145,000

No income or sales restrictions

Grants available for income eligible buyers.

Cameron’s Run, Milton

PURCHASE

GRANT

NET PRICE TO BUYER

$241,150

$71,250

$169,900*

Call robbi Handy Holmes Century 21 Jack Associates 802-652-9803 ext.2128 robbihandyholmes@c21jack.com

Room for Rent $350/mo. New empty nesters seek to fill 1 BR. All utils. incl., cable possible, slightly extra. 2 dogs already in family, no more, please. NS. Info: 802-658-6283.

Room for Rent Jericho In beautiful location. All utils. incl., W/D, DW, some storage, garden space. I have 2 cats but can’t have any more animals. Info: 802-3434412, sprite3@gmail.com.

Room in S. Burl. Townhouse Professional artist who works at home seeking student or professional for housemate. Rent incl. all utils. heat, water, electricity, Internet, cable, trash removal, plowing, parking. Near busline. Refs., dep. No smoking, partying, pets as I have two gentle cats. Avail. Apr. 1. Info: 802-999-5485.

Roommate wanted Openminded/responsible roommate for small 3-BR house located between UVM & St. Mikes, close to nature trail, off-street parking, W/D. $425/mo. + dep., 1/3 utils.

802-658-0302, 802-338-2834.

Info: Paul.

3 bedroom, 1.5 bath single family home with full basement. Energy-efficient gas-fired hot water baseboard heat. Located minutes from schools, shopping and I-89.

CONTACT: Brandy at (802) 861-7337 bgrattan@getahome.org

Buy NOW to qualify for an $8,000 tax credit in 2010.**

roommate to share house One housemate wanted to share 4-BR house w/ 2 other roommates. Free parking, W/D, lg. backyard. Very quiet, clean, safe. $600/mo. Bill, 802-881-5937.

*Prices subject to income eligibility. **Restrictions apply.

Peaceful Burlington House Share quiet, mellow old 2-story Peaceful Rural Living Share home w/ 1 roommate. Right by 151CHT-SE_2X5-01_7D.indd 2x5-CHT031109.indd 1 Lg. BR, priquiet, soulful1 house. lake, bikepath & park; porches, vate BA. Dead end road, mounW/D, parking. I’m considerate, tain views, wooded area. Female quiet, progressive. $650/mo. incl. gas & elec. Avail. Mar. 1. Info: preferred, dog lover a plus. Great place for active person who wants 802-864-2890. to help out with dog for low(er) rent. Info: Paul, 802-899-4087.

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Conveniently located in the heart of Burlington. This one bedroom condo is a great opportunity for yourself or as an investment in the Historic Vermont House.

Association fee includes heat and central air. Pets are allowed. Amazing location at a an amazing price. $129,900

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« housemates Burlington/Winooski Roommates wanted to share lg. furnished house. All utils. incl.! 2.5BA, W/D, parking, on bus line. No pets. $650/mo. + dep. Info: 802863-9612.

BUILD GREEN!

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Gleaming hardwood and softwood floors on the first floor. Living room with fireplace. Family room, first floor laundry and bedroom. All stainless appliances and tile flooring in the kitchen. Large deck, hot tub, fully fenced backyard. $319,000. MLS#2902220.

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Room Avail. Seeking roommate 3/9/09 3/9/09 10:00:13 3:45:51 PM AM to share beautiful 4-BR/1.5-BA historic home. Incl. W/D & beautiful backyard. All utils. shared equally except trash & cable/ WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE ProfesWiFi, which are incl. Info: 802sional female seeks accessible apt.

578-3189.

Flexible on the amount of rooms & price, accessibility is foremost.

Info: 802-482-2255-101.

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4-BR, 3-BA cape style home will fit your budget & beyond. Solar domestic hot water, super insulated walls, heat recovery system & advanced waste treatment system are just some of the standard features. Only 35 mins. to Burlington. $267,500.

Heather Armata, Century 21 Jack Associates 802-338-8235, HeatherArmata@c21jack.com

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Land TEXAS LAND -0- Down! 20-acre ranches near El Paso. Beautiful mountain views. Road access.

Surveyed. $15,900. $159/mo.

Money back guarantee. Owner financing. 1-800-843-7537, www. sunsetranches.com. (AAN CAN)

Office/ Commercial BURLINGTON - 106 MAIN ST. At new courtyard next to The Men’s Room. 1200 sq.ft. 3 offices + reception & workspace. Private BA, great location, parking avail.

Info: David Farrington, 802-3166452, brickboxco@aol.com.

BURLINGTON OFFICE LOFT 182 Main, above Old Gold. 1500 sq.ft., under renovation. Exposed brick, timbers & ductwork. Private BA, kitchenette. 4 lg. windows on Main. Gas heat & A/C, track lighting. Very nice. Info: 802-3166452, brickboxco@aol.com.

Burlington 2 Room Office Across from south entrance to Mall. Nice 2-room office w/ full BA. Walk to Church St. or Waterfront. Parking on street or parking garage only! $695/mo. + utils.

Info: 802-863-8200.

Businesses for Sale 1. Green energy products dealer. 2. Popular, established recreational dealership. 3. Marketing products dealer. 4. Natural beverage producer. 5. Wellness/beauty center.

Plus many more! jstimets@countrybusiness.net, fmotch@coun-

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trybusiness.net. Info: Country Business, Inc., 802-863-3459.

Creative Shared Office Shared, small w/ larger open skylight/brick space in downtown loft-space building w/ creative professionals. $400/mo. Info: 802-865-2321, henninge.com.

Main Street Landing On Burlington’s waterfront has affordable office & retail space. Dynamic environment with progressive and forward-thinking businesses.

Mainstreetlanding.com, click on space available.

Office or Retail Space In busy downtown Bristol on Artists’ Alley (off Main St.). Approx. 700 sq.ft. $550/mo. Info: 802-453-4065.

Williston Office Space 255 sq.ft. Office avail. on So. Brownell Rd. Reception area, kitchen, deck, cable access, and ample parking.

Great location. Info: Hubbard Development Company, 802-8602211.

Vacation Rentals Aruba Caribbean Palm Village Resort the week of March 2128. $400-$800/wk. Time can be moved to mid-May 2009 or later.

Info: 802-363-3009.

Ireland Beautiful Galway Bay cottage. 3-BR, avail. weekly June-September. $1500/week.

Info: 802-476-6176.

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Great views atop Monkton Ridge. Vintage 3 bedroom home with rental apartment. Could easily return to a single family home. Newer mechanical updates & roof.

Much of original woodwork & wood floor remain. Wraparound deck overlooking yard & gardens. $199,000.

Existing camp on almost two acres. Town approval & state wastewater permits for 4 bedroom year round home. Well already drilled, septic design & material at house. Seller will hook well & pump to house & complete septic installation. $96,500.

Cape style home features: three bedrooms, two full baths, a full basement, natural woodwork, bamboo flooring, beamed ceilings and a large deck. Energy efficient gas heating system. Enjoy the peace and quiet of this wooded lot with easterly views. $299,900.

4 bedroom, split level style home in a small development with a pleasant setting. Corner lot with large deck and partially fenced yard. Newer roof, windows, System 2000 boiler and vinyl siding. $197,300.

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Specializing in women’s issues, postpartum issues, divorce and grief counseling. Individuals and groups. Sliding scale. Info: 130 Church St., Burlington, Jennie Kristel, M.A. CPT, 802-860-6203.

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RICHMOND CONDOMINIUM

Village View condo end unit. Two bedroom, one and a half bath w/ laundry room and attached garage located in the center of Richmond.

Tastefully updated with appliances, paint and flooring. Low association fees. Very affordable home. Come and take a look! Great location! $175,000. 802-434-2626.

QUIET AND PRIVATE 3-BR, 2-BA, quiet neighborhood, just about new everything - addition, deck, bathrooms, kitchen, roof, wiring, sound system & flat screen, furnace, hot water, plumbing, windows, 2nd floor washer & dryer, gas insert and landscaping. $449,900. 802-316-9749. www.73rivermount.com

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Two Bedroom Condo

3/9/09 3:10:36 PM Well maintained, 2 bedroom, 1 fullFSBO-DRoby-031109.indd bath 2nd Floor condo in Oak Park.

Pleasant rural neighborhood, close to IBM, schools, community park and bike path in Essex Town. $123,000.

802-999-2155.

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Bright, hip, modern home3/4/09 in new 10:57:12 AM north end - minutes walk to beach, school, dog park, community gardens. New electrical, light fixtures, wood stove, windows and more! 3-BR, 1.5-BA. Lake side of North Ave.! $283,000. 802-881-2348, houseinvermont@gmail.com

IndIan Creek Condo

2/23/09 2:23:56 PM 1 Creek, S. Burlington. Bright, sunny unit in fabulous location 3/6/09 11:32:15 AM 3-BR, 2.5-BA spacious colonial onFSBO-NLowe-031109.indd 2-BR condo at Indian quiet dead-end street near Landry close to shopping, schools & recreation. 12 min. to downtown, 5 min. to Rte. 89.

Park. 1800 sq.ft. Living room, dining Unit is located at far end of complex w/ minimal traffic. Excellent condition w/ room, family room w/ fireplace. recent paint, carpeting & tile. Unit incl. 1.5-BA, ample closet space, fireplace living Central vac. Large fenced yard. room, solarium kitchen, deck, one car garage. Indian Creek is a park like complex w/ Partially finished basement. New mature vegetation, pool & tennis courts. See indiancreekcondos.org for more info. roof in August 2008. A must see! & photos. $224,900. $274,900. 3% to buyer-brokers.

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MODERN BRIGHT HOME!

3/9/09 12:23:34 PM Two bedroom, one bathroom, 850FSBO-LThurber031109.indd sq.ft. Private basement with secure outdoor storage, three season porch, new appliances, recently renovated.

Friendly neighbors, pets welcome.

Off-street parking. Asking $137,000.

Offering $1000 back at closing.

802-598-2382.

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2 bedroom, 1.5 bath in Cardinal Woods. Fresh paint, new carpet, updated kitchen cupboards. New ceiling fans in bedrooms. New stackable washer/dryer. Efficient heat, carport, low association fees. $179,000. 802-578-9732.

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ANTIQUE SYLVANIA STEREO 1970s console. Works, turntable arm in need of repair, but I have most, if not all, parts. In great condition. $75. Info: 802-8634037, nj31james@yahoo.com.

Appliances/ Tools/Parts 1 YR OLD WASHER & DRYER for sale! Kenmore 600 series, excellent condition, washer = 3.5 cu. ft. Dryer = 7 cu.ft. capacity. Paid over $1000, asking $650. Info: Anne MacPherson, 802-540-0470.

COMMERCIAL REFRIGERATOR Brand new True worktop, 1 dr., 6.5 cu. ft. Reg. price: $1200-1700.

Asking: $650/OBO. No delivery.

Location: Burlington. Info: 802377-5764.

WET/DRY SHOP VAC Craftsman, 4 gal.: all attachments, manual, good condition. $30. 862-9355.

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DRIVERS W/ LATE-MODEL vehicles possessing entertainment and MC qualities wanted to host shows w/ exotic dancers. Info: 802-658-1464.

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SOLID GOLD, DANCERS Exotic dancers. Adult entertainment for birthday, bachelor, bachelorette, Mardi Gras parties or any time good friends get together. #1 for fun. New talent welcome. Info: 802-658-1464.

8’X12’ HAND-TUFTED RUG Wool.

Beautiful, like new. Colors are beige/yellow ochre, black, maroon, green. Design is border/antique/floral/ paisley. $2000 new, asking $500. Info: 802-999-6163.

BEDROOM SET NEW Headboard, footboard, side rails, dresser, mirror, 2 nightstands. All in boxes, never opened. Can split up. Cost: $4500; sell $1250. 802-734-0788.

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Bunk Bed NEW Solid wood w/ ladder, sturdy, still in box, easy to assemble, never opened. $350.

Beth, 802-598-0316.

Futon - Solid Wood, new W/ brand new mattress. Still in box, never used. Cost $895, sell $350.

802-735-3431.

NASA MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS New! Like seen on TV w/ full replacement warranty! “The real thing,” in plastic. Full $349, queen $399, king $499. Info: 802846-7622.

New Mattress Sets In plastic.

W/ full warranty. Twin $205, full $260, queen $310, king $510.

Delivery avail. Memory Foam Mattress avail. starting at $350. 802598-0316.

Sofa & Chair for Sale! Ashley Furniture “Boulevard” full sleeper sofa & chair. Leather, brown, good condition, paid $1800 for both, asking $550 for sofa & $275 for chair. Info: Anne MacPherson, 802-540-0470.

Garage/Estate Sales INDOOR MOVING SALE Huge variety of indoor/outdoor household goods. No reasonable offers refused. Call 316-6897 for details/ directions.

Moving/Garage Sale Sat. & Sun. March 14-15. 89 Timberlake Drive. Info: 802-863-1735.

Kid Stuff Kids growing too fast? Trading Post for little folks. The Essex Town Market Place, Susie Wilson Rd., Essex Jct. Mon.-Fri., 9-5.; Sat., 10-4. Info: Trading Post for little folks, Michelle Ertle, 802878-1327, www.tradingpostforlittlefolks.com.

Pets 1 Y.O. Ferret to Good Home Basil, litterbox trained, needs a new lovable home. Very playful.

Comes w/ 4-story cage, all supplies ($400+!). Downsizing pet collection. Can you help? $180/ OBO. Info: 802-482-3687, snapdragonpop@gmail.com.

Sports Equipment Atomic e:TL Skis etc. $125 Zene TL Solomon C509 girl’s baby blue skis, Scott aluminum alloy series poles & Technic Duo 70 boots.

Used but in great condition. Info: 802-999-6163.

Rossingnol B2 Alpine Skis 160 cm, Rossingnol Power 100 Bindings, tuned regularly & kept in great shape. Blue & white cosmetics, a steal at $195! Info: 802863-1537.

Treadmills, Bike 2 treadmills, one motorized, one manual. Both fold easily and have monitors. $150/OBO for motorized, $50 for manual. Cross country bike, 26”, 21-speed. Needs brake pads only. $75. Info: 802-863-5347.

Trade Burlington Bartering Group Want to barter your handmade goods or services to other Burlingingtonians? Join http:// groups.google.com/group/burlington-barter! Info: Laura Hale.

Want to Buy Antiques Furniture, postcards, pottery, cameras, toys, medical tools, lab glass, photographs, slide rules, license plates, silver.

Anything unusual or unique. Cash paid. Info: Dave, 802-859-8966.

BUYING USED VINYL RECORDS We pay cash for LP albums, 45 RPM records, used CDs, stereo equipment (incl. vintage), musical instruments, original concert posters, music memorabilia. Convenient Montpelier drop-off location. Info: Riverwalk Records, Jacob Grossi, 802-223-3334, saiddone@hotmail.com, www.RiverwalkRecords.com.

Wanted: Wagon/Lawn Tractor Pull wagon for lawn tractor w/ rubber wheels. Call Burlington, 802-324-3113. Info: 802-3243113.

Boston terrier puppies Nick, Tom, & Walter are my 3 Boston terrier puppies for sale. They will be ready mid-March; vet-checked, first shots, dewormed. Well loved. $450. Info: 802-933-9135, acochran742@yahoo.com.

Bouvier Puppies AKC-OFA. Athletic, working, titled parents.

Great temperaments. Parents on premises. Ready to go end of April. Terrific dogs! Info: Margaret Teitelbaum, 802-285-6699, kasha@franklinvt.net.

GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES! Ready to go 03-14-08. Both parents on premises. CKC, OFA hip & elbow certified. Family raised, very loving & mellow. Vet checked, first shots, dewormed. Asking $500. Info: Tara and Daren Smith, 802-434-8425, taralhuntoon@ yahoo.com. baby goats for sale & raw goats milk. Info: 802-586-2406.

For Sale Ibnz 5 String Bass & Equip SR405, elixir strings. Custom hard case, boss pedal, guitar stand, livewire cables. Everything in excellent condition. $500 for everything, or make offer. Info: 857-205-2764.

Seeking Latin Jazz Bassist Timbales and congas seek bassist to complete our rhythm section playing Latin Jazz classics & originals, keys & horns will follow. For studio & live performance. All skill levels welcome.

Info: 802-922-0580.

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Models Wanted Open call, North End Studio or on location in Burlington. Photo portraiture

by James Augustine Gero. Info: 802-363-5950.

Instruction Andy’s Mountain Music Affordable, accessible instruction in guitar, mandolin, banjo & more. All ages/skill levels/interests. Refs., results, convenient scheduling 7 days/week! Info: Andy Greene, 802-658-2462, guitboy75@hotmail.com, www.andysmountainmusic.com.

Drum Lessons Have fun while achieving your goals as a drummer! Experienced, professional & active drummer seeks students of all ages, styles & abilities for private instruction. Study at your convenience in my Burlington studio, or in your own practice space. I offer a custom curriculum, flexible scheduling & the best rates around. Info: steve@ stevehadeka.com.

Guitar Instruction Berklee grad. w/25 years teaching experience offers lessons in guitar, music theory & ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach.

All ages/styles/levels. Info: Belford Guitar Studio, Rick Belford, 802-864-7195, rickbelf@verizon. net, www.rickbelford.com.

Guitar School of Vermont “Not your usual music instruction.” Attention from multiple teachers, fundamentals, theory, technique, composition. Teaching Guitarist’s Growing Musicians.

802-655-5800, www.guitarschoolofvermont.com.

Music Lessons Piano, guitar, voice, theory, composition, songwriting. All ages, levels, styles.

20 yrs. exp. Friendly, individualized lessons in S. Burlington.

Info: 802-864-7740, eromail13@ gmail.com.

Old-Time/Bluegrass Teacher Fiddle/guitar lessons w/ professional, experienced musician.

Performance history: NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion” w/ Garrison Keillor, Champlain Valley Folk Festival, Club Passim, many more. Info: Samuel McDougle, 646-369-0651.

Bands/ Musicians GUITARiST VOCALiST Hey, looking for bass player & drummer for a 3-piece power trio. Been doing this for years. Call anytime. Info: Prism, Frank Mesick, 802-9991410, frnkmsck@yahoo.com.

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Auditions/ Casting FEMALE MODELS WANTED to work w/ 2 professional photographers for artistic, fashion & portraiture projects. Compensation will be in photography, experience & a chance to build a free portfolio.

No experience needed, but potential models must be at least 18. For more info, contact David Russell Photography at 373-1912 or dave@daverussell.org. www. daverussell.org.

burlington city arts Clay: Ceramic Design: Mar. 25 - May. 6, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $210/$189 BCA members (clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag). Limit: 12. Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Students will learn creative ceramic techniques on and off the wheel and will learn how to make a variety of aesthetic and functional objects. Projects may include garden planters, lanterns and fountains, vegetable garden plaques/markers, birdbaths and more! Come with ideas and enthusiasm to move into springtime with creative fun. Over 20 hrs/week of open studio time to practice!

Prerequisite: Basic wheel or handbuilding skills.

Clay: Wheel-Throwing I: Apr. 6 - May. 18, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $210/$189 BCA members (clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag). Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This seven-week 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. Students will also be guided through the various finishing techniques.

Over 20 hrs/week of open studio time to practice! Limit: 12.

Clay: Wheel-Throwing II: Apr. 9 - May. 21, 7-9:30 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $210/$189 BCA members (clay sold separately at $20/25 lb. bag). Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. In this mixed-level class for advanced beginners and intermediate potters, students will learn individualized tips and challenges for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover advanced throwing, trimming and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Over 20 hrs/week of open studio time to practice!

Limit: 12. Prerequisite: Basic wheel experience.

Design: Graphic Design Basics: Apr. 1 - May. 6, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $165/148.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Learn the basics of graphic design and explore design and composition theory, typography, layout, color principles and concept development. Learn how to create professional quality designs with your own aesthetic, both by hand and with Adobe Creative Suite software. Projects may include altering photographs, creating selfportraits and more! Limit: 6.

Drawing: Figure Drawing Basics: Apr. 2 - May. 7, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $165/148.50 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Draw from a nude model and experiment with a variety of media including charcoal, oil pastels and pencils. Incorporate human anatomy and structure into your drawings and express your own personal viewpoint. The last half-hour of the class will include a class critique. Limit: 10.

Experimental Photography: Apr. 14 - May. 19, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $225/$202.50 BCA members.

Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Expand your creative vision to create painterly, dream-like images through the exploration of experimental photographic techniques. Photomontage, layering multiple exposures, panning and more will be covered. This class will include hands-on instruction both in the classroom and in the field. Suitable for film or digital SLR users. Limit: 12.

Fresh Flower Design: Apr. 8-29, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $110/$99 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Work with a professional floral designer and become familiar with different flower names, learn tips on selection, preparation and arrangement of a variety of fresh flower centerpieces. Students will bring home their own fresh arrangement at the end of each class.

All fresh flowers, vases and green floral foam included. Limit: 8.

Jewelry: Silver Jewelry II: Apr. 14 - May. 19, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $125/$112 BCA members (materials fees vary based on type and amount of metals used). Location: BCA Print & Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This class is for students who have some basic experience with jewelry making and wish to learn new skills. The instructor will demonstrate a new technique each class, such as etching, building hollow forms, using hinges and more. The instructor will guide students with individual projects and goals. Limit: 10.

Painting: Watercolor: Mar. 30 - May. 4, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Monday. Cost: $136/122.40 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center, 135 Church St., Burlington.

Learn how to paint with watercolor, focusing on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students will paint on watercolor paper stretched on board or watercolor blocks and will gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade.

Class may move outdoors to paint on nice days! Limit: 12.

Photo: Mixed Level Darkroom: Apr. 1 - May. 20, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $250/$225 BCA members. Location: Firehouse Center’s Community Darkroom, 135 Church St., Burlington. Take your work to the next level! Guided sessions will help you improve your printing and film processing techniques.

A discussion of the technical and aesthetic aspects will be included.

Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside of class printing and processing. Limit: 6.

Photography Critique: Apr. 14, 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public. Location: Firehouse Gallery, 135 Church St., Burlington.

Come receive feedback on what you

are working on photographically and see what other photographic artists in the community are doing in a supportive, discussion based critique session. Bring 1-4 examples of your work. Participants with all levels of experience are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Call 802-865-7166 for info or register online at BurlingtonCityArts.com.

Teacher bios are also available online.

art Art Classes at CVU High School: 150 spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs. org/access. 3 Watercolor classes; Drawing Tuesdays, 2 levels; Painting with Water Soluble Oils; Calligraphy. CULINARY ARTS: One-night classes where you eat well! Portuguese Comfort Food, Vietnamese, Specials from Singapore, Vegetarian Burmese, Caribbean, Southwestern, Indian, Summer Soups, Salads, Gelato & Sorbets, Cheese Pie, Barbeque Action, Japanese Green Teas & Ceremony, Decorated Easter Cookies. All materials included with few exceptions. Senior Discount 65+.

10 minutes from exit 12.

astrology INTRO. TO MEDICAL ASTROLOGY: Apr. 2-23, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Thursday. Cost: $60. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: 802-244-7909. A short introduction to the complex subject of interpreting the astrological chart for its insights into health and physical conditions that offers the advanced student of astrology insights into the deeper issues behind physical and mental problems. Prerequisite: Astrology I, II and III, or their equivalent. Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

beverages KOMBUCHA! with Sandra Lory: Mar. 15, 1-2:30 p.m. Cost: $8/1.5 tasty workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-865-4372, www. purpleshutter.com. Kombucha is simple & fascinating to grow & prepare. With Sandra, you’ll learn how to make this healing tonic beverage & about what makes it a unique expression of its fermented culture environment. Bring a clean pint or quart-sized jar & lid to take home your own Kombucha starter.

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er. Hands-on workshop covers five treatments, theory, concepts, products & supplies. Hot Stones: Learn specifics for performing a 90-minute hot stone treatment. Tailor to your style and clients’ needs. A detailed manual is provided.

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body Body & Mind Classes at CVUHS: 150 spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs. org/access. Core Strength with Caroline Perkins; Weight Training, 2 levels; Yoga, 3 choices; Swing or Ballroom with Terry Bouricius; Piano Lessons; Tap Dance, 2 levels with Brea McBride; Ballet Exercise with Brea; Jump into Jazz; Pennywhistle; Guitar; West African Dance and Djembe Drumming; Fitness for Riders; Natural Facials; Scents of Vermont; Circus Arts. All levels, low cost, excellent instructors, guaranteed. Materials included. Senior Discount 65+.

bodywork Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork: Mar. 21, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost: $95/6 CE hours. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info @ touchstonehealingar t s. com, www.touchstonehealingarts. com. No prerequisites: Open to everyone. Participants learn a series of techniques to be practiced as a full, flowing complete Thai session.

The instruction is hands on, participatory & easy to follow. If you are considering professional training, One-Day Workshops are a great way to sample the practice. Manual is included.

Spa Treatments & Hot Stones: Mar. 28-29, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Cost: $425/16 CE hours. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St Paul St., Burlington. Info: Touchstone Healing Arts, 802-658-7715, info @ touchstonehealingar t s. com, www.touchstonehealingarts. com. Spa: Learn to perform wraps, scrubs & foot treatments with or without the availability of a show-

Postpartum Doula Training: Mar. 27-29. Cost: $350/Weekend workshop. Location: Postpartum Doula Training Workshop, Burlington. Info: Birth Arts international, Genevieve Henry, 802-3733236, www.birtharts.com. Learn how you can help mothers and their families with the adjustments that having a new baby brings. Class topics: The Role of the Doula; Breastfeeding; Newborn Basics; Special Circumstances; Building Your Practice; & much more. Cost includes training manual, teacher support on the assignments, certification fee. Contact Helena Wu, helena@ birtharts.com, 802-235-1512.

climbing Co-Ed I & II Climbing Clinics: Co-Ed I: 6-8 p.m.; Co-Ed II: 7-9 p.m. Cost: $175/2-hour class + 6-visit punch card. Location: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center, 105 Briggs St., Burlington. Info: Petra Cliffs Climbing Center & Mountaineering School, 802-657-3872, www. petracliffs.com. Develop balance, flexibility and strength through climbing! Co-Ed I begins with the basics: Our professional instructors teach belaying, footwork, balance and movement to get you to the top! Co-Ed II is a perfect follow-up to Co-Ed I or for those with some experience. Learn advanced techniques and lead climbing.

computers Computer Classes CVU Hinesburg: 150 spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs.org/ access. Computer & Internet Basics Tutorial, MS Word Basics, MS Excel Basics, Excel Up - The Next Steps, Excel Data Analysis, iPods & iTunes, Movie Maker Lab, Web Site Design Fundamentals, Dreamweaver: Advanced Web Design, Graphic Design with InDesign, Moodle Classroom

Cooperative, Keyboarding, Slideshow Presentations, Publisher, Window Management. Low cost, handson, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Senior Discount 65+.

craft Crafts at CVU high school: 150 spring offerings for all ages.

Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg.

Info: 802-482-7194, access@ cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs.org/access. Woodworking; Pottery classes; Platters, Plates and Bowls with Jen Labie; Carving a Wooden Spoon or Animal Figurines; Whittling; Rug Hooking, 2 levels; Sewing; Flower Arranging; Rustic Furniture, Adult Chair or Loveseat; Cake Decorating, Fondant; Knitting; Quilting, Beginners. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed. Materials included with few exceptions. Senior Discount 65+.

dance Ballroom Dance Classes: Location: First Step Dance offers Ballroom Dance classes in Burlington, Shelburne and St. Albans on Monday, Tuesday and Sunday, respectively. Also holds Ballroom practice sessions in Burlington on Thursday., Ballroom Dance Social on the 2nd Friday of each month.

Info: 802-598-6757, www.FirstStepDance.com. Beginning classes repeat each month, and intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and dance!

Dance Studio Salsalina: Cost: $12/class. Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info: Victoria, 802-598-1077, info@ salsalina.com.

Salsa classes, nightclub-style. One-on-one, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Argentinean Tango class and social, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., walkins welcome. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout!

design/build AMVIC Insulated Concrete Forms: Cost: $95/8 hours (lunch incl.). Location: Best Western, 13 Blush Hill Rd., Waterbury.

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Info: Vermont Insulated Concrete Forms, Joel Baker, 802-2446111, jwing@vticf.com, www. vticf.com/training.html. Plumb, straight and level. Every successful project starts with basics. Insulated concrete form construction is no different. Our hands-on building seminar teaches the basics of ICFs and everything else needed to design and build an ICF home.

Energy-efficient and cost-effective.

On 4/18/2009 learn why ICF construction outperforms traditional building!

drumming Burlington Taiko Classes: Location: Taiko Space (across from Outer Space Deli), 208 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Info: Burlington Taiko, 802-999-4255, classes@ burlingtontaiko.org, www.burlingtontaiko.com. Beginning classes Tuesdays - Kids, 4:30-5:20 p.m., $47/6 weeks. Adults 5:30-6:20 p.m., $53/6 weeks. Session begins 10/28. Advanced Beginner/Ensemble class meets weekly on Mondays at 5:30-6:50 p.m., $48/6 weeks, beginning 10/27. Gift certificates are available! For a full schedule of classes or more info, go online or email.

empowerment Empowerment at CVU High School: 150 spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs. org/access. BeeKeeping with Bill Mares; Advanced BeeKeeping, Genes with Dave Ely; World History Through Fiber with Chris O’Donnell; Knots for Life, Fantasy Sports with John Bennett; VT Architecture-19c, Solar Energy 101, Energy Medicine, Get Published!, Memoir Writing, Baby Sitting by Red Cross, CPR/ First Aid, Horsemanship, Bridge, Chess, Mah Jongg, Body Image, Smart Cycling 101, Financial Management, Structuring a Business, First Garden, Myers-Briggs Typing, Goal Setting, Parenting Tips. Senior Discount 65+.

Goals & Dreamboarding Wrkshps: Cost: $20/2-Hour Class.

Location: The O’Brien Center at the Winooski YMCA, 32 Mallets Bay Ave., Winooski. Info: Dorothy Hay, 802-324-3640, www.Dreamboarding.net. Fun w/ Goal Setting: Monday, 3/23, 5:30 p.m. Stand in the future, look back and create a road map for reaching your goals.

Dreamboarding: Monday, 3/30 at 5:30 p.m. Learn how to create a Dreamboard focusing on one specific area of your life. It’s simple

and fun, just bring imagination and enthusiasm!

family Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork: Mar. 21 - Feb. 21, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost: $95/6-hour class. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Kristin Borquist, 802-985-5888, www. kbestudio.com. Bring the gift of massage to family, friends, community. A delightful way to spend time together, this clothed massage/movement art benefits both practitioner and receiver. Learn simple, effective techniques to expand ease and flexibility. Individuals and pairs welcome. No experience required. Enjoy a day that will be relaxing and rejuvenating.

fitness Girls Get’n Fit Boot Camp: Cost: $255/4-week program. Location: Williston Community Park, 195 Central School Dr., Williston.

Info: Girls Get’n Fit, LLC, Melissa Milam, 802-310-5009, smmilam@ gmavt.net, www.girlsgetnfit.com.

A result-driven boot camp for women that provides a fun and challenging change to any exercise routine. Achieve optimal fitness and maintain it! Be prepared to get up early, work hard and feel great for the rest of the day! Starts May 4, 200. Limited space, register now!

SharkBite Fitness Boot Camp: Cost: $180/5 weeks, 10 classes, Mon & Thurs 5:30 a.m. or 5:15 p.m. Location: SharkBite Fitness Boot Camps, 16B Morse Dr., Essex Junction. Info: SharkBite LLP, 802-233-3391, info@sharkbitevt. com, www.sharkbitevt.com. Feeling fat, tired and out of shape?

Vermont’s most innovative and challenging fitness boot camp now has morning and afternoon camps!

Afternoon camps are currently running. Morning camp starts March 16. Get in shape and have a blast doing it. Visit website for early sign-up and other discounts.

gardening Get the Most From Veg. Gardens: Mar. 21, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Road, off Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info:

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802-660-3505. Growing your own vegetables is a rewarding experience. You can also save money if you plan and plant your garden the right way. Whether in a small space or expansive plot, Charlie will provide the know-how to maximize the bounty of your garden. Presenter: Charlie Nardozzi.

Planning & Growing for Cooking: Mar. 21, 12-1:30 p.m.

Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Road, off Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-660-3505. Join the chef-owners of Sugarsnap restaurant and caterers for a culinary demonstration on preparing and cooking the produce you grow. Presenters: Kirk Fiore & Abbey Duke of Sugarsnap.

Soil 101: The Building Block: Mar. 14, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/ workshop. Location: Gardener’s Supply, 128 Intervale Road, off Riverside Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-660-3505, retailinfo@gardeners.com. Soil 101: The Building Block for Any Garden. Back by popular demand! Good soil is the foundation for any successful garden. This seminar will present the basics about testing, preparing, and maintaining healthy soil for flowers and vegetables, indoors and out. Presenter: Mike Ather.

herbs Honoring Herbal Tradition 2009: Cost: $850/1 Sat./month for 8 months, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Location: Horsetail Herbs, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Info: Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 802-893-0521, htherbs@comcast.net, www.horsetailherbs.org. Eight-month herbal apprenticeship program, April-November, held on a horse farm! Will cover: herbal therapies, nutritional support, diet, detox, body systems, medicine making, plant identification, tea tasting, wild food cooking, field trips, iridology, women’s, children’s, men’s & animal health.

Textbook & United Plant Saver membership included! VSAC grants avail.

INTERNAL HERBAL REMEDIES: Mar. 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $15/2-hour hands-on workshop.

Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-8654372, www.purpleshutter.com.

Our ancestors’ first medicine was most likely fresh herbs taken internally. Do you crave spicy food when sick? Common herbal medicine!!

We instinctively crave herbs when our body is unwell. We’ll look at preparations such as syrups, capsules, pill-balls, douches, suppositories, oxymels & slurries, as well as medicinal herbal candy.

SPRING TONICS/IMMUNE BOOSTERS: Mar. 22, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $12/2-hour workshop. Location: Purple Shutter Herbs, 7 West Canal St., Winooski. Info: Purple Shutter Herbs, 802-865-4372, www.purpleshutter.com. Some of the very best spring tonics are likely growing in your own yard - for free!

Alisa will discuss some key herbs & why taking them is beneficial at this time of year. We’ll review basic considerations when gathering wild plants & learn some basic methods of herbal preparation.

Wisdom of the Herbs School: Wild Edible Intensive 2009: Enhancing Local Food Security.

Class meets for two terms, three Sundays each term, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Spring term: 5/24, 6/14 & 7/12, 2009. Summer Term: 8/9, 9/20 & 10/4, 2009. Tuition $480 both terms or $240 each term. $50 nonrefundable deposit each term. VSAC non-degree grants avail. Wisdom of the Herbs 2009, 8 weekends: May 16-17, June 6-7, June 27-28, July 18-19, Aug. 1516, Sept. 12-13, Oct. 10-11, Nov.

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7-8. Tuition $1750. Nonrefundable deposit $250. Discounted tuition for early registration paid in full one month before class begins. VSAC non-degree grants available. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, South Woodbury. Info: Annie McCleary, director, 802-456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool.com, www.

WisdomOf TheHerbsSchool.com.

Unique experiential programs embracing wild plants, holistic health and sustainable living skills, valuable tools for living on the Earth in these changing times. Learn through herb walks and nature adventures, communion with nature, hands-on wild harvesting and preparation of wild edibles and herbal home remedies, with intention and gratitude.

jewelry Jewelery classes: Location: Jane Frank at Pine Street Studios, 339 Pine St., Burlington. Info: jane frank jewellerydesign, Jane Frank, 802-999-3242, info@janefrank.de, www.janefrank.de. Learn how to make your own jewelery with a German trained goldsmith in a fully equipped studio in town.

You will learn basic techniques but also be able to specialize for certain projects you choose. Capacity: 5 students. Monday nights: 6-8 p.m., $135/month. Weekend: Sat. + Sun., 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., $260 (incl. lunch), ask for specific dates.

kids Kids Classes CVUHS Hinesburg: 150 spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs.org/ access. Music Seeds for newborn to 2 and 2-4 year olds on Mondays; DJ Techniques, ages 10 and up; Stroller Strides Parent Workout; Incredible Decorated Easter Cookies, all ages welcome; Music Games, ages 4-8 with parents; Move & Groove, ages 2-5; Parenting the Joy of Reading. Many of the 150 classes appropriate for learners of all ages.

Materials included.

language Language at CVU Hinesburg: 150 spring offerings for all ages.

Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs. org/access. Italian for Travelers, 2 levels; Beginner French, 2 levels; Conversational Immersion French; Beginning Spanish, 2 levels; Beginning Mandarin, 2 levels. Low cost, hands-on, excellent instructors, limited class size, guaranteed.

Materials included with few exceptions. Senior Discount 65+.

SPANISH IN WATERBURY CENTER: Cost: $155/10 1-hour classes. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Watebury Center.

Info: 802-659-4181, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishparavos. googlepages.com. 10-week spring session begins week of March 23.

Learn from a native speaker in a small class environment. Beginning to advanced Spanish classes: 1 hour per week. Available class times: Monday-Thursday, 5:30-6:30 and 6:50-7:50 p.m. Also: lessons for children, customized classes, and private tutoring scheduled at your convenience.

martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tuesday, April 7 at 5:30 p.m.. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info: 802-951-8900, aikidovt.org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome. Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 5th Dan - Vermont’s only fully certified (shidoin) Aikido teacher.

MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CTR: Introductory class. Location: One minute off I-89 at Exit 17, Colchester. Info: 802-8938893. Day and evening classes for adults. Afternoon and Saturday classes for children. Group and private lessons. Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Arnis and Wing Chun Kung Fu. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Road, Williston. Info: 802-6604072, www.bjjusa.com. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a complete martial-arts system; it enhances balance, flexibility, strength, cardiorespiratory fitness and builds personal courage and self-confidence. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and self-defense classes, Boxing, Muay-Thai Kickboxing and MMA for all levels. Head instructor is five-time Brazilian Champion Rio de Janeiro, certified 6th Degree Black Belt under Carlson Gracie.

Classes for men, women and children. First class is free.

Vermont Aikido: Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Info: 802-8629785, vermontaikido.org. Practice the graceful martial art of Aikido in a safe, supportive environment.

Aikido training teaches body and spirit together, promoting physical flexibility and flowing movement, martial awareness with compassionate connection, respect for others and confidence in oneself.

Visitors are always welcome in the dojo! Class hours are at our homepage.

massage Active Isolated Stretching: May 28-31, 2009, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., but 9-3 on Sunday. Cost: $545/4day seminar (Cost is $495 if registered by March 15). Location: Sheraton Hotel, 870 Williston Rd., Burlington. Info: Neuromuscular Therapy of Vermont, Stephen O’Dwyer, 802-658-1005, AISvermont@gmail.com, www.

PainReliefVermont.com.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn directly from internationally renowned kinesiotherapist Aaron Mattes, originator of Active Isolated Stretching. This revolutionary stretching technique is used by health practitioners worldwide to relieve pain, greatly improve range of motion, and enhance overall health and well-being.

meditation Introduction to Zen: Sat., Mar. 21, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cost: $55/all-day workshop, lunch incl.

Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Info: Vermont Zen Center, 802-985-9746, vermontzen.org/workshops.html.

The workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism.

Preregistration required. Call for more info, or register online.

LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction available Sunday mornings, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month for meditation and discussions, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. An Open House occurs every third Wednesday evening of each month, 7-9 p.m., which includes an intro to the center, a short dharma talk and socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 So. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

Info: 802-658-6795, www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself.

The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

photography Contemplative Photography: Fri., Mar. 27: 7-9 p.m.; Sat., Mar. 28, 9-4 p.m.; Sun., Mar. 29: 9-noon. Cost: $100/weekend class. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski St., Burlington. Info: Burlington Shambhala Center, 802878-5841, lungta108@gmail. com, burlington.shambhala.org.

In Miksang contemplative photography, which was developed by Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa, we train in the purification of our visual perception by working directly with the elements of the visual field: color, light and form (texture, line, and patterns) and space. When we experience the harmonization of eye and mind, we move beyond conceptual and habitual ways of seeing. All levels of experience are appropriate. Everyone will need to have a digital camera.

Dig. Camera CVUHS Hinesburg: 150 spring offerings for all ages. Location: CVU High School, 10 minutes from exit 12, Hinesburg. Info: 802-482-7194, access@cvuhs.org, www.cvuhs.org/ access. Digital Camera Fundamentals, Enhance Digital Photographs, Create Digital Compositions, Advanced Digital Photography Workshops, Adobe Photoshop Elements - 3 choices of levels, Digital Video Vacation. Senior Discount 65+.

pilates ABSOLUTE PILATES: Affordable, invigorating group mat classes and 1-on-1 sessions that rock your body, not your wallet. Location: Espire, 12 Gregory Drive, Suite 1, South Burlington. Info: 802-3102614, www.absolutepilatesvt. com. Tone, stretch, and strengthen with certified classical Pilates & Polestar Pilates instructor Lynne Martens. Sculpt a great new body in fun group mat classes or private lessons on reformer, Wunda chair and tower unit in an attractive, welcoming locale. In the works: floor mat to standing movement to challenge stamina, coordination and balance. Visit our website for pricing, class times and specials.

ALL Wellness, LLC: Many package/pricing options to suit your budget. Please call for pricing details. Location: 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park), Burlington.

Info: 802-863-9900, www.pilatesspace.net. We encourage all ages, all bodies and all abilities to discover greater ease and enjoyment in life by integrating Pilates, Physical Therapy, Yoga and Health Counseling services. Come experience our welcoming atmosphere, skillful, caring instructors and light-filled studio. First mat class

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Natural Bodies Pilates: Enjoy Pilates Mat and Reformer, Ballet Barre, and Integrative Movement classes, or combine all three in our Studio class. Private sessions, class cards and per-class rates available. Free group introductions, and special rates on private introductions by appointment.. Location: Natural Bodies Pilates, 49 Heineberg Dr. (5 minutes from Burlington’s Battery Park), Colchester. Info: Lucille Dyer, 802-863-3369, lucille@ naturalbodiespilates.com, NaturalBodiesPilates.com. Now you can relieve stress while developing a strong, flexible and articulate body in a professionally equipped studio. Benefit from Lucille Dyer’s 20 years’ teaching expertise combining Pilates, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis and adult ballet. Experience movement that’s enlivening, effective and enjoyable, all within a calm and supportive environment.

printmaking Make Your Own T-shirts: Youth: Grades 3-5 or 6-8, 6-week after-school courses, starting Mar. 10. Adults: 3 classes, April 1, 18, 15 from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Cost: $160/youth, $140/adults.

Supplies included!. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe.

Info: Kiersten, 802-253-8358, kiersten@helenday.com, www. helenday.com. This stencil method of printmaking in which a design is imposed on a screen and ink is forced through onto the printing surface is the technique used to make graphic t-shirt designs. Our silk-screen classes will introduce you to the basic techniques of this exciting art form. Workshop led by Natasha Haugen. To see Natasha’s work, visit www.twinspirations.us.

psychology THE PATH OF INDIVIDUATION: Apr. 1 - May. 20, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wednesday. Cost: $125 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury.

Info: 802-244-7909. Discover your unique spiritual path via a variety of hands-on activities and exercises set in the context of the individuation process as Jung defined it.

Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

reiki USUI REIKI DAYLONG CLASSES: Cost: $175/Usui Reiki Level 1 (offered twice): Sat., March 7, and Sat., March 28, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Usui Reiki Level 2: Sat., April 18, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Rising Sun Healing Center, 35 King St., Burlington. Info: Chris Hanna, MSW, Reiki Master, 802-8811866, chris@risingsunhealing. com, www.risingsunhealing.com.

USUI REIKI LEVEL ONE: Receive attunement, which allows you to give Reiki healing energy to yourself and others, with plenty of in-class practice time. $175. USUI REIKI LEVEL TWO: Usui Reiki 1 graduates: Receive level 2 attunement, three Reiki symbols. Learn distant healing, empower goals. $195. Member: Vermont Reiki Association.

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SCUBA Certification Class: Mar. 15 - Apr. 12, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Every 5 weeks on Sunday. Cost: $275/5 Sundays. Location: Waterfront Diving Center, 214 Battery St., Burlington. Info: Waterfront Diving Center, Jonathan Eddy, 802865-2771, info@waterfrontdiving. com, www.waterfrontdiving.com.

SCUBA Certification Course - March 15 to April 12. Five Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Only $275.

Add a new dimension to your tropical vacation this winter. Explore the underwater world! Call Waterfront Diving Center at 865-2771 for more info or to register.

Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan: Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE , 100 Church Street, Burlington. Info: 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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Make YouTube Your Tube!: Youth workshop (ages 6-8) being held Mar. 28-29 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Adult workshop (ages 16+) being held Mar. 21-22 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Cost: $140/youth workshop, $160/adult workshop.

Materials incl. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Info: Kiersten, 802-253-8358, kiersten@ helenday.com, www.helenday. com. Spend a weekend with media professional Adam Walker who will immerse you in the digital video world and help you to promote your ideas with a video message.

Learn about camera controls, different motion techniques, creative angles, tripods, lighting and iMovie video editing software while creating a 1 minute video ready for YouTube. Check out www.dogooder. tv for inspiration.

Snowkiting Lessons: Daily lessons while ice is safe (generally Jan.-April). Cost: $95/3-hour beginner class ($85 for 2-hour advanced). Location: Lake Champlain - Sand Bar State Park, South Hero/Milton. Info: Stormboarding, Rachael Miller, 802-578-6120, rachael@stormboarding.com, www. stormboarding.com. Start snowkiting during your first lesson. Use the same alpine, tele or snowboard as on the mountain. We provide experienced, professional, fun instruction and modern gear. Great for skiers/ riders ages 10 to no-limit, cruise or go big. Makes an excellent gift. Get gear discount after lesson. Lesson/ gear gift certificates available.

spirit Basic Psychic Development: With Bernice Kelman. 10 Thursdays starting March 19. Cost: $175. Location: Underhill. Space is limited, reserve your space now! Info: Bernice Kelman, 802-899-3542, kelman.b@ juno.com. Everyone is born with natural psychic abilities. There is nothing “supernatural” about these abilities. All children are naturally psychic. We were psychic when we were children. However, our culture teaches us to shut off these abilities.

You can learn simple and easy ways to tap into your own hidden abilities, to “become as little children” and play as naturally as you did then, to use your inborn talents to make your life healthier, happier, more loving and more fun.

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weight loss Vtrim Weight Management: Mar. 24 - Sep. 1, 5:15 p.m., Weekly on Tuesday. Cost: $31/week. Location: Vtrim on UVM Campus, 322 So. Prospect St., Burlington. Info: The University of Vermont, 866956-8258, www.uvm.edu/vtrim.

The University of Vermont Weight Management Research Program is offering Vtrim, its research-based weight loss program, to the community. Learn how to modify your eating and exercise behaviors and succeed at weight management.

Sign up today! You can register for Vtrim classes today at uvm.edu/ vtrim.

yoga spirituality Conscious Recovery: Mar. 27 Jun. 12, 6:30-8 p.m., Weekly on Friday. Cost: $12/1.5-hour class, sliding fee and class cards available. Location: Dhatri Movement Arts Center at Eastern View, 185 Tilley Dr., S. Burlington. Info: Katherine Kelley, 802-343-5790, k a t @ b ur ling t ont e l e com.ne t , www.lovingriver.com. Exploring 12 step recovery in the context of the knowledge and practices of some of the ancient wisdom traditions of the East. This meeting of mind, body and soul is about recovering consciousness, about waking up, and improving conscious contact with Higher Power through discussion, meditation, mindfulness and relaxation practices.

ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY: Mar. 14 - Apr. 4, 2-4 p.m., Weekly on Saturday. Cost: $60 Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Info: Sue, 802-244-7909. Discover the “hidden wisdom in the Holy Gospel” in this workshop that uses exercises and hands-on experience to reveal the deeper layers of meaning in both the Old and New Testament. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

COPPER CRANE YOGA: INTEGRATED YOGA FLOW with Janet Chill. 4-week series, $50/series.

Tuesdays 5:30-7 p.m., 2/17-3/10.

Preregister. Cost: $14/drop-in, $60/5-class card, $110/10-class card, $200/20-class card. Location: Copper Crane Yoga, 179 Main St., Vergennes. Info: 802877-3663, coppercraneyoga.com.

Individual, group and custom yoga classes. Copper Crane provides wise and compassionate teaching to strengthen the body, uplift the heart and calm the mind. Be yourself here. Copper Crane is directed

by Carolyn Conner, RYT, Advanced Certified Thai Yoga Bodywork practitioner. Thai Yoga Bodywork and Zero Balancing sessions by appointment.

EVOLUTION YOGA: Daily yoga classes for all levels, conveniently located in Burlington. Cost: $14/10 class cards and unlimited memberships available for discounted rates. Mon., Wed., Fri. 4:30 p.m. classes are sliding scale $5-$10. Location: Evolution Yoga, Burlington. Info: 802-864-9642, www.evolutionvt.com. Our staff of all certified teachers are skilled with beginners as well as students

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Romance in a Nutshell

STAGE #1: Posting It EVAN COOK: The story starts some time ago when I created my Seven Days “Two to Tango” account. For about a year, no yield. I tried other sites and still nothing. Well, after about a year I rewrote my personal page, focusing on the “sell yourself” part. You know, “talk about yourself in a nutshell.” So I asked myself: What would I be like in a nutshell?

Very small, probably; that or a really big nutshell would be sitting in the middle of the room. Now, with that kind of crazy humor, how could she resist?

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MICHELLE COOK: I had a Seven Days profile for roughly a year and went on about four or five first dates. When I was coming close to my wit’s end with dating, I saw Evan’s new and improved crazy profile. I was sold. His nutshell joke had me in stitches.

We only tossed back three or four emails before I got a good vibe, and we traded phone numbers. Once we got to talking, we realized that we grew up literally three miles away from each other and even went to two of the same schools.

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Vinyasa, Anusara-Inspired, Kripalu, Iyengar and babies/kids classes available. Prepare for birth and strengthen post-partum with pre/ post-natal yoga. Participate in our community blog: evolutionvt.com/ evoblog.

Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork: Mar. 21, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Cost: $95/6-hour class. Location: Touchstone Healing Arts, 187 St. Paul St., Burlington. Info: Kristin Borquist, 802-985-5888, kristin@ kbestudio.com, www.kbestudio. com. Learn simple, effective techniques to expand ease and flexibility. This clothed massage/movement art benefits both practitioner and receiver. Individuals and pairs welcome. No experience is required.

Begin your professional training, or bring the gift of massage to family and friends. Enjoy a day that will be relaxing and rejuvenating.

The Studio at The Field House: Daily yoga & Pilates classes for all levels. Drop-ins welcome; no membership required. Cost: $15/ drop-in, $60/month (6 classes).

Unlimited yoga, $70 (incl. club membership). Location: 166 Athletic Drive, Shelburne. Info: 802985-4406, www.shelburneathleticclub.com. Vinyasa, Iyengar, Anusara, Yin, Ashtanga & Kripalu classes as well as reformer, mat & senior Pilates.

YOGA VERMONT: Daily drop-in classes, plenty of choices, open to all levels, two locations. Cost: $14/drop-in, $115/10 class card, $130/month pass. Location: Chace Mill on Winooski River, downtown at 113 Church St. (top floor of the Leunig’s building), Burlington. Info: 802-660-9718, www.yogavermont.com. Six-week Skiier and Rider class, six-week Intro to Ashtanga, Monthly Restorative, Adaptive Yoga, Yoga Instructor Training Course and more listed on website. Gift certificates available. For the latest, check out our blog: http://yogavermont.typepad. com.

Yoga for Men by Steve: Beginner Level I, Mon. & Wed., 6-7:15 p.m. Intermediate Level II, Tues. & Thurs., 6-7:30 p.m. Open Class Level I & II welcome, Sat. 1011:30 a.m. Restorative yoga, Sat. 12-1 p.m. Privte sessions available by appointment.. Location: 6393 Route 7, North Ferrisburgh.

Visit our website www.miraclesoftouch.com for detailed description of class offerings. To schedule a class or inquire about fees or services contact Jim, jhart1159@comcast.net, 802-310-8291. Class registration limited to 6/class.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On February 25, 2009, the Town of Williston and the Pleasant Acres Homeowners Association, filed application #4C0583-4 for a project generally described as: the removal of the existing 5-foot wide path and construction of new 1,317 lf, 6-foot wide multi-purpose path. The project is located on Mountain View Road in the Town of Williston, 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 Williston Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 30 Kimball Avenue, South Burlington, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above.

No hearing will be held unless, on or before March 24, 2009, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status.

Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us

by March 24, 2009.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners, other interested persons granted party status pursuant to 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c). Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(5).

Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 27th day of February, 2009.

By/s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state.vt.us

The purpose of this Notice is to identify the actions to be taken by the Agency of Commerce and Community Development (hereinafter Agency) as grantee and Vermont Housing Finance agency (VHFA) as subgrantee. On or about March 20, 2009, the Agency will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter HUD) to release funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). These funds will be subgranted to VHFA to be used for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), Housing Acquisition and Rehabilitation Program (HARP).

Project Title: NSP Program-HARP Location of Project: Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Rutland and Windham County, and the Town of Alburgh, Barre City, Belvedere, Bennington, Berkshire, Eden, Elmore, Enosburg, Franklin, Highgate, Isle LaMotte, Johnson, Montgomery, North hero, Richford, Sheldon, Springfield, St. Albans City, Swanton, Waterville, Windsor and Wolcott.

Estimated cost of Project: Approximately $7,000,000.00 Project Purpose/Summary: To acquire and rehabilitate and sell of single family homes (1-2 units) in the “targeted communities as identified in the Vermont’s Neighborhood Stabilization Plan that have been foreclosed upon by lenders (REO’s). The Sale of the homes will be targeted for households at income up to 120% of Area Median Income.

FINDING OF CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION An environmental review for the project has been made by the Agency is available for public examination and copying at the Agency office located at National Life Building, 6th Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620 during normal business hours. This notice applies to those activities which are Categorically Excluded only; other activities not meeting the Categorically Excluded criteria will require an Environmental Assessment. The activities proposed are Categorically Excluded under HUD regulation at 24 CFR Part 58 from National Environmental policy act (NEPA) requirement. An Environmental Review Record (ERR) that documents the environmental determinations for these projects are on file at National Life Building, 6th Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620 during normal business hours.

PUBLIC COMMENTS ON FINDING All interested agencies, groups, and persons may submit written comments to the Agency at the address above no later than March 19, 2009. All comments so received will be considered by the Agency prior to any administrative action or any request for release of funds from HUD. RELEASE OF FUNDS The Agency is certifying that Tayt Brooks, in his official capacity as Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Community Affairs, consents to accept jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to environmental reviews, decision-making, and action; and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The legal effect of the certification is that upon its approval, VHFA may use the HUD funds, and the Agency will have satisfied its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and other environmental responsibilities listed in 24 CFR Part 58.

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OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS HUD will accept objections to its approval of the release of funds and acceptance of the Agency’s certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if it is on one of the following bases: (a) that the certification was not if fact executed by the Certifying Officer, (b) that the environmental review record for the project indicated omission of a required decision, finding, or step applicable to the project in the environmental review process, (c) the grant recipient or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) any other reason allowed under 24 CFR Part 58 section 58.75.

Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to Richard Hatin, Deputy Director, U.S. Department of HUD – Community Planning and Development, 275 Chestnut Street – Manchester, NH, 03101.

Potential objectors should contact HUD at (603) 666-7510 to verify the actual last day of the objection period. No objection received after 15 days from the date of request for funds listed above will be considered.

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S0684-08 CnC Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage, Loan Trust 2006-1, Plaintiff v.

Francis Wilkins, Penelope Momaney-Wilkins, Long Beach Mortgage Company, Eugene J. Ward, III, P.C. D/B/A Ward & Babb And Occupants residing at 183 Cooper Road, Milton, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Long Beach Mortgage Company to Francis Wilkins dated November 28, 2005 and recorded in Volume 325, Page 36 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2:00 P.M. on April 1, 2009, at 183 Cooper Road, Milton, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being a portion of the land and premises conveyed to Donald H. Turner & Sons Construction Corporation by Warranty Deed of Carol A. Hughes dated August 30, 2004 and recorded in Volume 302 at Pages 239-240 of the Town of Milton Land Records.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 660-9000.

30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO. S1683-08 CnC American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc., as successor-in-interest to Option One Mortgage Corporation, Plaintiff v.

Jan-Eric Johnsson, Andrea Bedard, State of Vermont Office of Child Support and Occupants residing at 419 Marble Island Road, Colchester, Vermont, Defendants SUMMONS & ORDER FOR PUBLICATION THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO: Jan-Eric Johnsson and Andrea Bedard

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, Chittenden Superior Court, 175 Main Street, Burlington, 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 14, 2005. Plaintiff’s action may effect your interest in the property described in the Land Records of the Town of Colchester at Volume 541, Page 238. 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 Rutland, 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 March 11, 2008. 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 175 Main Street, Burlington, 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.

Your 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 defendants, Jan-Eric Johnsson and Andrea Bedard, 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 March 11, 2009 in the Seven Days, a newspaper of general circulation in Chittenden County, and a copy of this summons and order as published shall be mailed to the defendants, Jan-Eric Johnsson and Andrea Bedard, if an address is known.

Dated at Burlington, Vermont this 25th day of February, 2009. /s/ Hon. Dennis Pearson Hon. Dennis Pearson Presiding Judge Chittenden Superior Court

DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (tollfree) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636.

Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (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.

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« support groups THE ADDISON COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS (TCF), a nonprofit self-help bereavement support group for families that have experienced the death of a child will hold its regular meeting this Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. at the Hospice Volunteer Services Office located at the Marble Works (first building on the left as you enter across from the Addison Independent) in Middlebury. Bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents are encouraged to attend to meet others who have gone through a similar experience and for support. For more information, contact chapter leaders, Nancy Merolle at 388-6837, or Claire Groleau at 388-9603.

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 Poing Center, corner of Main & S. Champlain St. in Burlington. 802-861-3150. For more information about codependence, see www.coda.org and click on “Am I Codependent?”

A NEW PERSPECTIVE A peer support group for people working through the combination of mental health and substance abuse issues.

Wednesdays at the Turning Point Center, 5-6 p.m. The group will be facilitated and will be built around a weekly video followed by a group discussions. Some of the topics will include: Addictions and mental illness, recovery stories, dealing with stress, understanding personality problems, emotions. Corner of Main & S. Champlain St. in Burlington.

802-861-3150.

LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP Third Wed. of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Howard Center, 1138 Pine St., Burlington. Facilitator: Coleen Lillie. Call 802-488-6663 for more details.

BEREAVED PARENTS & SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, UVM. Info, 660-8797. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause.

NEED A HUG? New support group starting. Would you like to explore personal intimacy in a safe environment? This is accomplished by using touch for expressing and receiving tenderness. This is platonic and personal boundaries are respected. Day, time and location TBA. Jeff 310-4903 email iiyog@ aol.com.

COED SINGLES GROUP Ages 5065, forming for friendship and fun.

Chittenden County area. Activities to include weeknight/weekend dinner, bowling, hikes, snow shoeing, movies, etc. If interested email Myra at csbnc27609@aol.com.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step group. Women only.

Do you have problems with your relationships? Are you unable to leave an unhealthy romantic relationship? We can help. Call Valerie, 802-825-4643.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA’S SUPPORT GROUP Held monthly at The Arbors at Shelburne. For info. or to register, contact Nicole at 802-9858600.

MENOPAUSE SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN Meets Sundays, 4-6 p.m. & Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m.

Location: Pathways to Well Being, 168 Battery St., Burlington. Share knowledge, experience, stories & get support. This is a FREE support group that meets every other Sunday and Thursday. Call 862-8806 x5 for more info.

BERLIN WASHINGTON COUNTY PARENTS OF CHALLENING CHILDREN: Support group for adoptive parents of children presenting serious emotional and behavioral challenges. First Wednesday of each month: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Easter Seals Vermont, 641 Comstock Road, Berlin, Vermont. Info: Kristi Lenart, 802-223-4744.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP: 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday at the Burlington Police Station on Battery St. in the new Community Room. NOTE: This group will not meet again until March. Please call or visit website for location information, www.vtcfids.org or call 1-800-296-1445 or 802-660-4817 (Helaine “Lainey” Rappaport).

WOMEN’S RAPE CRISES CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10-week support group for adult female survivors of sexual violence.

Please call 864-555 ext. 19 for information.

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LIVING SINGLE SUPPORT GROUP This course is a follow-up to the Divorce Recovery course that is offered at Essex Alliance Church. If you’ve been through the Divorce Care Class, you have an opportunity to continue to grow, heal, rebuild, and start again. Call Sue Farris for more information at 802734-0695.

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Location: Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main Street, Wallingford, 802-446-3577. 6:30-8:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month.

GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided.

The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register.

MS SUPPORT GROUP A support group for people with multiple sclerosis and their caregivers.

Sponsored by the Vermont Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Join others who have MS to discuss concerns, ask questions, share information and get support.

Meets the first and third Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30 p.m. in Williston. For more information contact Michele at 862-4085 and leave a message.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Champlain Valley (NAMI: CV) is offering a free PTSD Support Group for Women on Thursdays from 12:30-2 p.m. The group focuses on both support and education about PTSD. Meetings are held at the NAMI office at 14 Healey Avenue, Suite D, Plattsburgh.

For more information or to register, call NAMI: CV at 561-2685.

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 6559136 or email kgcromey@aol.com.

SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening, as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@pshift.com.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Tues., Thurs. & Sun., 6-7 p.m. in Barre. Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St., Barre, VT (parking in back of church/please use back entrance).

Meetings are FREE and anonymous.

For more info please call 802-8632655.

RIGHTS FOR CAREGIVERS support group – If you are a part-time caregiver for elders for an agency in Chittenden County, we need you to help everyone obtain better wages and more respect for the work we do. Contact Zoe at 802-861-6000 or zoe1944@yahoo.com.

AL-ANON Family group 12-step.

Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802-472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick.

“WOMEN CHANGING” An educational support group on changing unhealthy patterns for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence.

Tuesdays, 6-7:15 p.m. Ongoing.

Join us any time! Childcare reimbursable. Ask about Survivors of Incest Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick.

CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children.

Meetings weekly in Winooski. For more info. call Tana at 802-8934878 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-2295724 or 1-800-children.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Burlington evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Comfort Inn and Suites, corner of Williston Rd. and Dorset St. from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772.

FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/management of addictions, compulsions and their resulting imbalances on our lives.

Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food?

Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@gmail.com.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators.

Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations.

Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP will meet every second Tues, 6-7:30 p.m. at Fanny Allen Hospital, lower level in the Board Room.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Mondays, 7-8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie at 825-4643.

HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094.

LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713.

CENTRAL VERMONT SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS COPING WITH BEHAVIORAL CHALLENGES will meet at the Easter Seals office in Berlin the first Wednesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. New members welcome. Facilitated by Kristi Lenart, BA. For more information, call Kristi at 802-223-4744.

SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions.

Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@ cs.com STARTING A WOMEN’S GROUP: Ages 45+, to meet weekly for lunch and other activities such as walking, book discussions, museum visits, matinees, etc. Email Katherine at MKR27609@aol.com.

MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER: Support group meets 5 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month in the board room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. 1-800ACS-2345.

MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE/DYSAUTONOMIA: Group forming for information sharing purposes. Please call 863-3153.

Age/Sex/Fixed: 7.5-yr.-old NM Domestic Long Hair SiZe/WeigHT: Small — 10 lbs. energy LeveL: Med. reASOn Here: My owners no longer had time for me.

KidS: 8+ dOgS: Unknown CATS: Yes SPeCiAL COnSiderATiOnS: Has medical write-up concerning removal of eye while in previous home.

SUMMAry: This special guy is looking for that special home. He’s super social and very loveable but don’t let that one eye fool you — he’s very aware of his surroundings and likes to be a part of what’s going on around him. He can be startled by sudden movements toward his head, as he may not see your hand immediately, but loves to be petted and brushed. visit me at HSCC, 142 Kindness Court, South Burlington, Tuesday through Friday, from 1 to 6 pm, or Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. 862-0135.

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SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS): Open to anyone who has lost a loved one, friend, relative, neighbor, co-worker to suicide. The group provides a safe place where survivors can share their experiences and support each other. The Burlington support group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. at the The Comfort Inn & Suites, 5 Dorset St., South Burlington, VT. This is not a therapy group; this is a support group.

There is no fee. Please contact Linda Livendale, 802-479-9450, ljlivendale@yahoo.com.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier.

Wednesdays, 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345.

BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP: Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749.

EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554.

OCD SUPPORT GROUP/THERAPY GROUP: Come share your experience, get support from those who have been there, learn about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how to reduce its symptoms. Therapist facilitated. Weekly meetings, 802-343-8114.

AUTISM: Free support group for parents and caregivers of children with ASD. Montpelier, 2nd Sunday of the month, 3-5 p.m. at the Family Center. Call Jessica, 249-7961, for childcare inquires. More info, www.aaware.org.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington.

Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP: If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women, 658-1996.

DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION: If you suffer from either of these trance states, please call Todd, 864-4285.

DIABETES EDUCATION and Support Group of Chittenden County meets the third Thursday of every month at the Williston Federated Church, 6:30-8 p.m. We often have guest speakers. Info, 847-2278.

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www.sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Full-time Physical Therapist

Position available at Cornerstone Physical Therapy in Williston, Vermont.

Postural Restoration Certified Center.

Contact: Holly Spence 802-878-3600 fax 802-879-3041 cornerstonephysicaltherapy.com

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ynamic self-starter to develop sales and marketing strategy for a Vermont-owned healthcare company. Prior businessto-business sales experience in healthcare or related field a must.

Excellent people skills, ability to identify new market opportunities and manage and grow existing client base. If you seek a satisfying work experience with opportunity for professional growth and advancement, send resume with salary history/requirements.

Director of Admissions

Sterling College, a small experiential liberal arts college in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, focusing on the environment and community, invites applications for a full-time, senior staff position as Director of Admissions.

EXTERIOR PAINTER Must have: • 2 summers experience • Good work ethic • Ability to work 40 hours weekly Lafayette Painting • Over 30 years in Business • Eco-Friendly Company • Specialize in High-End, Professional Work • Commercial/ Residential Work • Call Paul, 802-863-5397.

For detailed description go to www.sterlingcollege.edu/jobs.

Submit electronic applications only to mmartin@sterlingcollege.edu.

Part-time Nurse Practitioner Must have Vermont license and have experience with urgent care, occupational health or family practice.

is looking for a Kitchen Manager.

This full-time position will be responsible for assistance in daily operations, catering, managing staff, and overall customer satisfaction. Must have strong food background. Salary is negotiable.

Apply in person or contact Matt at 802877-2772. 221 Main Street, Vergennes, VT

Medical Assistant Experienced Medical Assistant for very busy urgent care/ occupational health practice. Must have reliable vehicle and flexible schedule. Weekend availability required.

Reply to: andrew.conte@cvurgentcare.com

Pharmacy Health Services 99 Maple Street, #19 Middlebury, VT 05753 dianeg@phsrx.com

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Painter wanted to join a small, growing residential paint company. Ideal candidate will have one or more years similar experience, the ability to take direction well, a hardworking attitude, an obsession with punctuality, and a mind able to focus on minute details all day long.

No drama. Nonsmokers only.

Send resume to: gmackpainting@gmavt.net. www.mackpainting.com

Certified Radiology Technician

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MBA HealthGroup is seeking an experienced Certified Radiology Technician this is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for an experienced individual who thrives on challenges and can work on a team.

The ideal candidate will have the following experience;

• Experience taking and developing radiology films (2-3 yrs) • Experience working with managed care and Medicare population • Knowledge of practice management software • Strong knowledge of a busy medical practice a plus

Employer of choice…

Employees of choice…

If you are interested, please email your resume to: fleury@mbahealthgroup.com or fax it to Tamika Fleury at 802-660-8410.

CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION ~~~Local Partnerships in Learning~~~ Serving Washington, Orange and Lamoille Counties for Forty Years

Development Coordinator

CVABE, a community-based education nonprofit, is seeking the person who can generate increasing levels of support to continue local literacy instruction for the men and women of central Vermont.

Responsibilities include full-time development leadership and coordination with direct activity related to fundraising. Applicants must demonstrate skill and experience in the areas of public relations, research, proposal writing, planning, collaboration, and database management.

Selection will be based on evidence of a successful track record by the candidate of donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and meeting fundraising targets.

Please submit cover letter, resume, list of references, and supporting materials by March 2, 2009 to: Executive Team Central Vermont Adult Basic Education, Inc. 46 Washington St., Ste.100 Barre, VT 05641

Nursing positions • • • •

• Nurse Practitioner Psychiatric Services • Nurse Practitioner Breast Care Program

Emergency Room (full-time) Telemetry (full-time) Operating Room (full-time) Graduate Nurses

Allied Health • Medical Technologist • Physical Therapist

• Speech-Language Pathologist • Biomedical Technician

At Rutland Regional Medical Center, you’ll enjoy working in a unique, welcoming culture where you can expect state-of-the-art technology and exceptional educational opportunities. Picture yourself working for an organization that allows professionals to practice their skills in a technologically advanced setting while enjoying a lifestyle with a true work/life balance.

For full descriptions and to apply online, please visit:

www.rrmc.org or call Human Resources at: 866 • 213 • 5934 (Toll-free)

160 Allen Street Rutland, VT 05701

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Qualified Developmental Disability Professional (QDDP) Organized, detail-oriented, professional with excellent time management and interpersonal skills. Must adapt to meeting the needs of various individuals and families. Understanding of a variety of developmental disabilities preferred. Position entails general oversight of the programs, goals and plans of individuals with developmental disabilities 15 hours per week (in Burlington office and travel statewide).

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Human Services or related field plus 1 yr minimum experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities or H.S. diploma and 6 yrs working with individuals with developmental disabilities plus 2 yrs performing QDDP tasks.

The Green Mountain Audubon Center is now hiring Instructors and Interns for our summer day camps in Huntington.

All positions are open until filled.

Please check our website for job descriptions or call for more information.

434-3068

Please email your resume by 3/20 to: Kara Artus, Executive Director kara@transitionii.com

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HOTEL OPENING Continental Breakfast/ Room Attendant This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position.

Previous hotel experience and willingness to work weekends/holidays are required.

Interested candidates should apply in person to:

Best Western Windjammer Inn & Conference Center 1076 Williston Road So. Burlington, VT 05403 Fax: 802-651-0640 Email: selena@windjammergroup.com

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Seeking highly self-motivated, enthusiastic, organized individual who has great interpersonal skills and can thrive in a fast-paced work environment.

Applicant will be responsible for maintaining an existing sales list for both ABC and FOX, as well as cultivating new business. Ideal candidate will have at least one year prior sales experience, preferably in media, and have the desire to excel in outside sales.

Please submit resume to jobs@smithmediavt.com, or mail to the below address. No calls, please.

Lund Family Center, a multiservice nonprofit agency, is seeking motivated, flexible and dynamic individuals with a passion for working with children and families for the following positions: Temporary Post-Adoption Case Manager: 32-hour-per-week position for 3 months starting March/April. Case Manager needed to provide post-adoption services to adoptive families throughout Chittenden, Washington and Addison counties. Minimum of BSW. Knowledge of child development, adoptionrelated issues, and the impact of trauma preferred. Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation required.

Substitute Residential Counselor: Fulltime. Substitute needed for evening, weekend and overnight shifts to provide parenting and life-skill support to pregnant and/or parenting women and their children in residential treatment setting. Minimum of bachelor’s degree in relevant field needed; experience working with adolescents and flexibility a must.

Please send cover letter and resume to: Jamie Tourangeau HR Manager PO Box 4009 Burlington, VT 05406-4009 fax 802-861-6460.

Videojournalist

Fox 44 Local News is looking for a multi-skilled news reporter/photographer with a good eye, a great attitude, sound news judgment and flexibility in work assignments. Your creative visual storytelling must reflect your interest and knowledge of local news. Regular duties include live breaking news to personal, emotional storytelling. Our news staff prides itself on teamwork, self-starters and accountability. Successful candidates will have the ability to gather news and tell stories. Ideal candidate will have at least one year prior experience in a professional television newsroom.

Send resume and DVD to: News/Sales Recruiting, WFFF-TV, 298 Mountain View Drive, Colchester, VT 05446

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

Administrative Services

EnvironmEntal SErvicES tEchnician 40 hour/week position to provide both routine and complex cleaning at agency owned or leased buildings. Must be familiar with a broad spectrum of cleaning methods and chemicals and must be able to work with staff to coordinate scheduling around employee and client needs. One-year minimum experience in commercial cleaning required. Valid Vermont drivers license and own transportation required.

Child, Youth and Family Services

cultural and linguiStic coordinator Seeking a part-time team player to join Vermont’s Youth in Transition Grant Operations Team.

This position provides leadership in the development, implementation and monitoring of policies, procedures and services for transition-aged youth to assure cultural and linguistic competence.

Developmental Services

SharEd living ProvidEr Charlotte/Hinesburg area couple, no children at home, large first-floor bedroom/bath sought for an independent middle-aged woman with mild developmental disabilities. Pets a plus!

Generous tax-free stipend. Please contact Jamie Banghart at 802-488-6595

Mental Health and Substance Abuse

nurSE, chittEndEn clinic The Chittenden Clinic, an outpatient opiate addiction treatment center in Burlington, has an opening for a part-time nurse. We are seeking a highly motivated, meticulous individual with a passion for working with patients suffering from addiction disorders and/or psychiatric illnesses.

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.

Assistant Director of Admission, Division of Continuing Professional Studies

Champlain College seeks an organized, detail-oriented self-starter who thrives in a goal-driven environment to become a contributing member of the adult student recruitment and admission team.

Significant phone work is required to implement a vigorous relationship-oriented sales strategy.

Receive and counsel prospective students from numerous lead sources and develop customer relationships to encourage prospects to become enrolled in one of Champlain’s online or campus-based degrees, certificates or individual classes. Perform admission functions including transfer credit evaluations and file review. Be knowledgeable about CPS programs, curriculum, admission procedures, financial aid, and registration policies. Ability to advise and shepherd prospective students through the application and enrollment process. Serve on the Admission Committee to review and finalize application files to admit adult students. Track recruiting efforts via a CRM system.

Assume responsibility for special projects related to recruiting and admission.

Work is typically performed in a high-paced office environment that requires teamwork, flexibility and innovative thinking. Some travel and irregular hours, including nights and weekends, can be expected.

For more information about this position and to apply online, please visit www.champlain.edu/hr.

Champlain College values, supports and encourages diversity of backgrounds, cultures and perspectives of students, faculty and staff. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Accountant

Private Duty NURSES Private Duty Nurses

Nonprofit with approx.

35 employees and annual budget of $1.6 million seeks staff accountant to perform all financial accounting and related human resource tasks. An accounting degree, 3 years related experience required, knowledge of GAAP, cost alloc. methods and accountingrelated software. Nonprofit experience a plus. The ideal candidate will be organized and analytical and have excellent timemanagement and communication skills. Fulltime, flexible schedule, generous vacation.

Send cover letter and resume

by March 23 to: EM, Child Care Resource 181 Commerce St. Williston, VT 05495 emeyer@childcareresource.org www.childcareresource.org

Care for one patient and be appreciated for a job well done!

Seeking professional, dependable

Engaging, 17-year-old girl in need of loving, loving nurses to provide dependable nurses.

Privatein-home home is nursing to young needing 25 minutes northpatient of Burlington.

Total assist with ADL’s, G-tube, respiratory total care. Private home is located management andBurlington.

TLC. 25 minutes north of Monday – Friday Vermont nursing license required.

8:30a – 4:30p, $27/hr.

Day shifts (some weekends).

Part-Time: other weekend $26.00every - $28.00/hour 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., $28/hr.

Please send resume to: VT nursing license required.

caregiverjob@surfglobal.net Call 893-6368 or email resume ornursingad38@aol.com call 802-893-6368

Pet Food Warehouse, a locally owned pet food and supply business, is looking for part- and full-time retail sales associates to provide courteous service to our customers and assist with store projects. If you’re willing to work hard in a fun team environment, are reliable, able to lift 40 lbs., are willing to learn about our products, are computer friendly and love people and pets, please apply in person at: Pet Food Warehouse 2500 Williston Rd. South Burlington or 2455 Shelburne Rd. Shelburne.

Flexible Choices Advisor Residential Counselor – Shelburne House

Flexible Choices is an option for elderly Vermonters and those with physical disabilities who are enrolled in the Choices for Care long-term care Medicaid program. Transition II, our nonprofit organization, provides orientation and guidance for Choices for Care participants who want to self-direct their services, by helping each participant understand his/her role as an employer, and how to design a plan of care and budget that works best for them.

The Shelburne House Program of NFI Vermont is seeking a Residential Counselor.

Shelburne House is a residential program that provides assessment and stabilization services to male teenagers, ages 13-18. Responsibilities include counseling youth, ADL (activity, daily learning), assisting with living skills, and assisting in treatment.

Experience working with teenagers with emotional and behavioral challenges desired. BA in psychology or related field highly desirable. This is a full-time position with a comprehensive benefits package.

Thirty hours per week plus benefits with an excellent opportunity to advance to full-time. Strong interpersonal and customer service skills, detail-oriented, focused, proactive individual with excellent communication and organizational skills. Ability to travel throughout Vermont with dependable transportation and valid driver’s license. Familiarity with Choices for Care or Medicaid a plus.

Send cover letter and resume to:

Danielle Bragg 771 Essex Rd. Suite 1 Williston, VT 05495Need to place an ad? or email DanielleBragg@nafi.com.

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Please email your resume by 3/20 to: Michelle Brown Kara Artus, Executive Director

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City Manager/CFO

Has your pet passed?

Winooski, VT seeks an experienced administrative/financial leader for a 7000-person community with over 50 employees and a $7M+ budget. Manager reports to a five-member City Council. Winooski has a strong-manager form of government. Responsibilities include; financial oversight, administrative and management leadership, community relations, human resource recruitment and development, labor relations and more. Bachelor’s degree required and master’s in finance, public administration, business administration or similar helpful. Check www. onioncity.com for more details. Salary range from $70,000 to $80,000, DOQ, plus a broad set of benefits.

Honor his/her life with a public memorial.

Unabridged memorials online at 7dspot.com [click on pet memorials].

Contact Ashley 864-5684, ashley@sevendaysvt.com for more info.

Send cover letter, resume, at least three written references and current employment status to: Manager/CFO Search Committee 1x3c-petmemorial.indd 1 Box 25, 27 West Allen Street PART Winooski, VT 05404.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

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LEAD COOK

Mountain View Cafe at VSAC is looking for a qualified lead cook. Hours run approximately 7 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Monday – Friday.

Apply in person at 10 East Allen Street, Winooski.

Contact Dionne at 802-654-3770, ext. 816 or email: Sodexho@vsac.org.

Minimum of 3 references required.

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COTS provides emergency shelter, services and housing for people who are without homes or who are marginally housed, with the belief that housing is a fundamental human right.

FULL TIME LIFE Per Diem RN

The Committee on Temporary Shelter

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Oncology

CASE MANAGER,

Full or part-time position available March through August.

Shift options: Full time, 4-10 hour shift with some evenings; Full time, 5-8 hour shift with some evenings; Part time, 4-5 hour shift with 2-5 evenings per week

Full-time or part-time

Consider joining the dedicated team at COTS and helping to make a difference!

Case Mangers work directly with families who are without homes or who are at imminent risk of homelessness, as they transition to stable housing. Case Managers provide a full range of services to clients while working as a team within COTS’ programs and with community partners. Willingness to learn, and the ability to work with families with mental health, medical, substance abuse and employment issues required. Good written and verbal communication required.

Previous experience with homeless population, crisis intervention and housing are desirable. The ideal candidate will have a BSW or BA in a related field plus three to five years of relevant work experience.

COTS SHELTER STAFF, Evenings and awake overnight

COTS is seeking a dynamic, creative and organized individual to work at our emergency shelters for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Responsibilities include working in shelter to maintain a safe and supportive living environment. Strong communication and crisismanagement skills a must. A desire to work with a diverse client base, and basic word-processing and Internet skills preferred. A variety of evening shifts (6 p.m. - 12 a.m.) as well as awake overnight shifts are available.

For all openings, send resume and cover letter to: Karen Saudek Human Resources Director COTS PO Box 1616 Burlington, VT 05402-1616 Email: Jobs@cotsonline.org TTY relay 1-800-545-3323.

No phone calls accepted.

Position is open until filled.

Experienced nurse needed for flexible position with progressive department.

Oncology background preferred.

EOE

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Apply online at Fletcher Allen proudly offers a non-smoking work environment.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

Counselors Phoenix House is under contract with the VT Department of Corrections to implement and operate a variety of treatment programs throughout the state of Vermont. We are currently recruiting for full-time and part-time Counselors in the following locations: St. Albans: full-time vacancies at the Northwest Correctional Facility for women and a part -time out-patient position in the Probation and Parole Office.

Burlington: a part-time outpatient position at the Probation and Parole Office and a part-time position at the regional correctional facility.

St. Johnsbury: a full-time outpatient vacancy at the Probation and Parole Office.

Windsor: full-time positions at the Windsor Correctional Facility.

Springfield: part-time positions at both the Probation and Parole Office and the Correctional Facility.

Bennington: a part-time position at the Probation and Parole Office.

Brattleboro: a full-time position at our residential women’s facility and part-time residential aid position.

In general the counselors will be required to conduct assessments, facilitate group therapy, monitor program activities and maintain records. Certification (LADC, CADC or Apprentice CADC ) is required for the outpatient positions and desired, although not required, in the correctional facility programs. Experience in human services is required.

EOE

Applicants interested in working full- or part-time are invited to complete voluntary Applicant Self-ID form at www.phoenixhouse.org/National/Careers/Opportunities.html.

Send resume and form to: Richard Turner rturner@phoenixhouse.org or 802-672-2500

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Licensed Psychotherapist Part-time office in wellestablished women‘s practice on Burlington waterfront. Beautiful suite with kitchen. Parking included.

CornerStone Psychotherapy 802-651-7507

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INN AT SHELBURNE FARMS

HOUSEKEEPERS

Learn to care for a 19th century building with its original furnishings that is now a 24 room Inn and Restaurant.

The Inn is a National Historic Landmark located on the shores of Lake Champlain. We will train you to become part of a strong team dedicated to providing a high level of cleanliness. Pride in work and attention to detail a must. Should enjoy working with guests.

Cosmetology or Barbering Ask about our evening Massage Therapy class beginning Monday, April 20th!

Cosmetology & Barbering classes starting in May. Classes are held Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Call today to schedule your interview and tour! Bring this ad to your interview and receive your FREE OTC T-SHIRT!

O’Brien’s Training Center 1475 Shelburne Road South Burlington, VT 05403 658-9591 www.otc4me.org

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Full-time mid-April through October, weekends included. Previous experience helpful but not required.

Competitive wage offered.

Please email kpolihronakis@shelburnefarms.org or call 802-985-0403 for further information

Financial aid available to those who qualify.

The Inn at Shelburne Farms is owned by Shelburne Farms, a nonprofit environmental education center and working farm whose mission is to cultivate a conservation ethic by teaching and demonstrating the stewardship of natural and agricultural resources.

NFI St. Albans has two openings for

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These positions are connected to our Children and Family Supports Program, working with the Juvenile Services Unit of the Dept. of Children and Families (DCF), in Franklin and Grand Isle counties. They are part of a joint team of NFI and DCF professionals. Effective communication skills, experience working with children and adolescents, and a strong ability to build relationships a must. Bachelor’s degree in mental health or related field preferred.

Place your ad where everyone is looking (right here!)

Contact Michelle: 865-1020 x21 michelle@sevendaysvt.com

Orchard workers needed 3/25-6/15.

Everett Orchard, Peru, NY, located in the Lake Champlain Valley.

518-643-6824. 5 jobs available. Manually plant, cultivate fruit crops. Use hand tools such as saws, pruning loppers. Duties include tilling soil, applying fertilizers, clearing brush, pruning and thinning.

Send resume and cover letter to: marc Adams 35 Catherine St. St. Albans, Vt 05478

Tools and equipment supplied at no cost. Rate of pay is $9.70/hour.

Pruning requires worker to handle ladders up to 22 ft to reach limbs for cutting. Hand thinning requires selectively removing fruit to improve fruit quality. Workers expected to work at least 8 hours/day, 5 or 6 days/ week, weather and crop conditions permitting. Workers guaranteed opportunity to 3/4 of the total workdays. Housing provided at no cost to workers who reside outside normal commuting area.

One-time transportation and subsistence expenses to the job will be reimbursed to workers to reside outside the commuting area. Payment made no later than completion of 50% of work contract.

Apply to: NY Dept. of Labor office in Plattsburgh, NY. Phone 518-561-0430.

Job order number NY0896515.

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Employment Consultant A challenging position in partnership with the Brain Injury Association of Vermont. Based in Waterbury, this position will be responsible for educating and supporting Vermont business across the state to train and hire individuals with brain injury, with a specific focus on serving the needs of returning veterans with brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. This position will also be responsible for motivating and supporting individual job seekers with brain injury, including job search, securing employment, and providing ongoing follow-up. Ideal candidate will have knowledge of the business community, veteran’s issues and traumatic brain injury, and will be able to maintain positive rapport with clients, employers and military. Requires a selfstarter with attention to detail and creative problem-solving skills. Minimum qualifications include HS diploma, reliable transportation, good interpersonal and communication skills, and computer knowledge. Salary begins at $25,000 plus benefits.

Send a cover letter and resume summarizing relevant experience and interest to: VABIR, 75 Talcott Rd., Suite 30 Williston, VT 05495 Application deadline March 13.

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Successful financial services company in Burlington, Vt, is in need of permanent part-time employee for a Technical and Financial Assistant position. The ideal candidate will demonstrate accounting experience; strong computer applications skills in spreadsheets, database, and web applications; must be detail-, deadline- and service-oriented; ability to multitask; presentation skills; and communications and training skills.

Office Manager Full-time salaried position with generous benefits package available April 6, 2009.

Must have computer expertise, strong organizational and interpersonal skills, detail orientation and multitasking abilities.

Send resume, cover letter and references to: VSO Office Manager Search 2 Church Street, Suite 3B Burlington, VT 05401-4457

Contact: mikes@hbfs.com or call 802-488-8730.

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Experienced Sous Chef Full-time Must be able to work in a small, fast-paced environment.

Full-time hair stylist position available at Gentlemen’s Top Option Salon for Men.

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Please send resume and references to: Blue Paddle Bistro Pheobe R. Bright, Chef/Owner PO Box 524 South Hero, VT 05486

is looking for an energetic, motivated and serviceoriented individual to join their team. Part-time hours available, weekends are a must. Competitive pay and commission incentives.

Bring your resume and apply in person at: 18 Main Street, Essex Juunction, VT

Facilities & Maintenance Supervisor We are looking for a Facilities & Maintenance Supervisor to manage the maintenance and alteration of equipment, machinery, facilities and building security. In this role, you will collaborate with engineering staff in the design and construction of machinery. You will play a role in the manufacturing processes and will work closely with engineering in design and implementation of new processes and products.

You will coordinate the activities of workers engaged in setting up, installing, repairing, and maintaining machinery, facilities and in fabrication of parts and tools.

Looking for a motivated, flexible team player to join our growing childcare team. Must have experience, education and a sense of humor! Pay based on education and experience.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of five years of experience in a hands-on facilities and maintenance role.

Knowledge of HVAC systems helpful.

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For more detailed information and to apply online, go to www.burton.com.

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Online Producer - Ad Operations The Rutland Herald and Barre-Montpelier Times Argus seek an Online Producer - Ad Operations. In this critical position you will help grow revenue for our network of websites by managing online advertising operations, including classified feeds and online display inventory management, producing online display creative and working with sales representatives to optimize client advertising campaigns.

A background in data analysis and development of online display advertising along with an eye for perfection and technical acumen are required in this position. The successful candidate will have: • Prior experience working with data feeds, preferably involving one or more of the following: AdPay, Monster.com, Adicio • Prior experience with campaign management and ad-serving software or applications, preferably Google AdManager • Prior experience creating online display advertising, preferably including animated and rich media units • Proficiency with HTML, PhotoShop and Excel • Prior experience working with metrics software, preferably Omniture • Strong analytical skills • A creative approach to problem solving • Experience with Flash, php or rich media a definitive plus.

Job location is in either Rutland or Barre, Vermont. Occasional travel between locations is required.

Send cover letter and resume to: Russell.glitman@rutlandherald.com The Times Argus, Rutland Herald and New England Business Journals offer an excellent benefits package, competitive pay, 401(k), great people to work with, and a commitment to serve our customers and the community.

802-879-2021

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Facilities Manager

The Central Vermont Community Land Trust, a nonprofit, affordable housing organization, is seeking a facilities manager to oversee the short- and longterm maintenance goals of our sixteen (16) multifamily housing units and four (4) mobile home parks. This person will be responsible for the development, implementation, and oversight of maintenance plans for all CVCLT-owned and/or managed property. Three years of supervisory experience in building construction and maintenance work is required. Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted. The person we seek must be able to: • Coordinate and plan the maintenance schedule for all CVCLT properties; • Develop, implement and manage a 10-year building management plan; • Plan, organize, direct, and inspect the work of building maintenance staff; • Estimate labor and material costs; • Demonstrate a working knowledge of project management functions • Prepare bid specifications for contracted services, such as snow removal and grounds-keeping; • Review plans and specifications and make recommendations as to maintenance and operation of new facilities prior to and during construction; • Inspect remodeling and repair work in progress for quality of workmanship and compliance with specifications; • Coordinate work with property managers and receive and investigate major emergency calls; • Supervise the maintenance of records and reports on work performed; • Prepare budget estimates, make recommendations to the Director of Tenant Relations, and control expenditures; • Supervise and evaluate performance of the maintenance staff; • Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality customer service.

Please send a letter of interest and resume to: Central Vermont Community Land Trust 107 North Main St. Barre, VT 05641 ATTN: Susie Luce The Central Vermont Community Land Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer