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THE LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

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NOVEMBER 07-12, 2013 COMPILED BY JEFF GOOD & TYLER MACHADO

Gun Deaths Gun-regulation advocates who gathered in Burlington City Hall on Monday knew they needed more than the usual rhetoric to make their case in a state that has steadfastly resisted most firearm restrictions.

Instead, Fletcher Allen psychiatry resident Sean Ackerman brandished some powerful statistics.

Vermonters are 10 times more likely to kill themselves than each other, and more than half those suicides are carried out with firearms, Ackerman told people gathered at a forum organized by Gun Sense Vermont. Suicide rates among adolescents are as much as 10 times higher for teens living in homes where a gun is present.

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The state has the secondhighest per-capita rate of gun-related deaths in the Northeast, second only to Pennsylvania. While the bulk of those are suicides, one advocate called for greater attention to the instances in which a domestic conflict turns deadly.

Ackerman’s conclusion was clear, if (to some, at least) counterintuitive: “If you want to protect yourself, you won’t have a gun in your house,” Kevin J. Kelley reported on the Seven Days Off Message blog.

“Vermont has a problem with domestic violence and a problem with firearms used to kill in domestic violence,” said Karen TronsgardScott, director of the Vermont Network Against Domestic & Sexual Violence. She produced a statistic of her own: Of the 225 homicides between 1994 and 2012 2012, she said, half came in cases of domestic violence — and most involved firearms.

Whatever their views, most of those in attendance listened politely Monday. But few left expecting major changes in the near future. State Rep. Mike Yantachka, a Charlotte Democrat, ticked off a list of gun-safety measures that failed to emerge from last year’s legislative session.

One proposal that might stand a chance is designed to address the lack of secure storage for weapons seized in domesticviolence cases. Under Gov. Peter Shumlin’s plan, the money to lock the weapons away would come from the hands of the defendants themselves.

STROLLER STEALER? Not sure we want to know why a Burlington man allegedly tried to steal a couple’s baby Monday night.

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3. “A 25th Anniversary for Vermont Pub & Brewery” by Corin Hirsch. The Burlington landmark has left an indelible mark on the state’s craft beer industry over the course of a quarter century.

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While making a statistical case for the risk of in-home firearms, Ackerman declared himself “neither for guns or against guns.” Others among the roughly 150 people who gathered for the Veterans Day event wore their colors more plainly.

Some sported green T-shirts emblazoned with the logo of Gun Sense Vermont, which aims to promote a “civil conversation” about firearm-safety regulation.

Others turned out in blaze orange hats and vests, the standard uniform for hunters and those who oppose most restrictions on firearm ownership and use.

Hard to imagine that a police encounter with a shovel-wielding man had to end in deadly gunshots.

That’s how many homes have tested positive for a banned pesticide used by a now-suspended North Clarendon exterminator, according to the Rutland Herald.

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 11/11/13 12:30 PM Jarrett Berman, Alex Brown, Matt Bushlow, Justin Crowther, Erik Esckilsen, John Flanagan, Sean Hood, Kevin J. Kelley, Rick Kisonak, Judith Levine, Amy Lilly, Jernigan Pontiac, Robert Resnik, Sarah Tuff, Ginger Vieira, Lindsay J. Westley PHOTOGRAPHERS Caleb Kenna, Matthew Thorsen, Jeb Wallace-Brodeur

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KNODELL’S SWITCHEROO

There was not one shred of “courage” in Jane Knodell’s vote switch regarding the basing of the F-35 at the Burlington airport [“Fair Game,” October 30]. Her claim of protecting jobs, particularly for her constituency, is ludicrous at best; specious and self-serving would be more accurate.

“Saving jobs” is the mantra of those who wish to obscure the real cost of the F-35 to every U.S. citizen. The money the basing will bring to the area pales in comparison to the cost of the entire project. Whether or not her vote would have been symbolic, to change it essentially on the night of the vote, thereby not allowing her constituents a chance to speak to her, is a style of politics she should be ashamed of.

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Our consumption of fossil fuels has global repercussions, threatening to gravely affect natural goods and services that are essential to human well-being [“Too Much of a Good Thing? Inside Vermont’s Solar Standoff,” October 9]. Certain greenhouse gases persist in the atmosphere for centuries, meaning our emissions today will reverberate for generations to come. If we are to mitigate the negative impacts upon the environment of our energy consumption, we must adjust our actions in a responsible manner.

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Thousands of households and businesses have been doing just that by installing solar panels as a clean and renewable source of energy. Above and beyond its minimal carbon footprint, solar creates jobs in the community and fosters state energy independence. Net metering has been instrumental in helping Vermonters overcome those steep initial costs of solar.

It enables adopters to connect to the electrical grid and be fairly compensated for the renewable, local, emissions-free energy that their panels harness in excess of their personal usage.

The state is now ninth in solar electrical capacity per person, and net metering has been a large part of that continued growth and success. This is a critical period in human contributions to climate change.

Vermonters are embracing renewables and helping lead the nation through changing individual mentalities and behavior. These hesitant electrical utilities should take a long look at their out-of-date business model and consider doing the same.

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Thank you to Judith Levine for bringing people’s attention to the inhumane policies of what we call the criminal justice system [Poli Psy, “Criminal Acts,” October 9]. Most of those incarcerated in Vermont and in the private prisons that our state contracts with are our fellow Vermonters [“Reform v. Reality: Prison Crowding Compels Vermont to Keep Shipping Inmates Out of State,” November 6]. They are people with families and friends. The reasons for their incarceration and the events that brought them there are varied.

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This is an economic issue as much as anything. It’s much bigger and more complex than “zoning” and the law. The common misconception that construction of more of everything — aka development — is the only thing keeping the economy moving is to some degree the heart of the matter. As developers pave over the landscape for up-market housing and the accompanying schlock-shop commerce that goes with it, for the sake of making a buck, somebody else is losing out. I won’t go into the housing-shortage myth…

If you build your McMansion in the woods and start posting no-hunting signs because you believe you are entitled to do so, conflicts will arise and accidents will happen. One side says, “I’m entitled to walk safely through paradise”; the other side says, “My family and I have been hunting here for a hundred years.” Rifle season for most game is limited to certain seasons that are relatively short, thankfully. I take precautions during hunting season. I either do not walk into the woods at all or, if I do exercise that right, I wear bright orange and make myself obvious.

Even that is no guarantee.

Yet the “no contact” rules meant that he did not get a kind touch until 15 months later, when he was moved to Kentucky and I was able to visit him there. The “no contact” rules are far from trivial. They are inhumane. They deprive people of the affectionate touch of their loved ones at the times that they need it most. The visiting rooms are attended by corrections officers and overseen by cameras, and the inmates are strip-searched upon leaving the room. These measures should suffice to control contraband without adding the cruel practice of denying human contact.

I am in favor of Rep. Suzi Wizowaty’s efforts to reduce the number of incarcerated Vermonters and end contracts with Corrections Corporation of America. But I also believe that Vermont, a sane and humane state in so many ways, can humanize its prisons and treat inmates with the respect that everyone deserves.

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Pre-Turkey Trot Offset those gravy, mashed potatoes and pumpkinpie calories in advance at Run Your Can Off. The unusual, Thanksgiving-themed fundraising event invites participants to run anything from a single lap to six hours on a 1.25-mile trail in Winooski’s Gilbrook Natural Area. Instead of an entry fee, runners bring donations for the local food shelf.

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We’re not sure which body of water inspired the moniker of Newfoundland folk-rockers Great Big Sea, but we can tell you they have a great big sound. And a great big following, not just in their native Canada but Stateside, as well. And no wonder — GBS have projected what they call a “dysfunctional-family-bar-room-brawl-studentart-project-musical-pirate-crew” for a couple of decades. We’d add this adjective: danceable. Their latest release, a two-disc collection called XX, celebrates 20 years of rocking out.

UP IN THE AIR Brattleboro’s identical twin trapezists Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion traveled with Cirque du Soleil before returning home to found the New England Center for Circus Arts. Last year, along with jugglers, contortionists and other acts, they formed Ruckus. And now, the ensemble brings Ruckus: A Cirque Spectacular (pictured), which combines the thrill of the circus, the drama of a stage production, and the fun of vaudeville in a family-friendly show.

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Making Changes Vermont bluesman Dave Keller grew up in the Boston ’burbs and lives in Montpelier, but you could say Memphis is his spiritual home. And so he had the sessions of his dreams while laying tracks for his latest, aptly titled CD, Soul Changes, in Memphis’ Royal Studios — which, by the way, is where Al Green recorded “Let’s Stay Together.”

Keller was accompanied by some of his southern soul heroes, and the result is a collection that producer Bob Perry calls “the best of Keller’s career.” Check it out for yourself at a CD release party this week.

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The word “eco-thanatology” has a nice rhythm to it, but what the heck does it mean? According to harpist, teacher, composer and performer Linda Schneck, it’s “the study of death and dying in relationship with the earth.” More to the point, the certified musicthanatologist has attended nearly 3000 vigils in a variety of health care settings over 15 years. In her talk, “The Harp: The Healing Power of Sound,” Schneck shares her knowledge about her creative, and transformative, sub-specialty of palliative care.

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Talk about soup to nuts. Or pease porridge to TV dinners. Food scholar and historian Abigail Carroll regales listeners with stories of modern eating habits — many of which will likely surprise you — in a presentation based on her new book Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal. The Vermont author earned her PhD from Boston University and has taught in that school’s gastronomy program. Wonder if she’ll bring snacks?

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Fairfield artist Al Salzman unabashedly calls his paintings “propagandistic.” That’s because his works, which Ethan de Seife describes as “uncompromising, ripped-from-the-headlines tableaux,” are pointedly political. His current exhibit at ArtsRiot features new works in an old format: Renaissance-era ovals, or tondos. But the elegant, somewhat religious presentation doesn’t soften the stark, expressionist depictions of governmental and military misdeeds. “Subversive” includes nearly 50 works, along with some of Salzman’s equally outraged poetry.

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ess than a month after Gov. PETER SHUMLIN offered health care guru ANYA RADER WALLACK a $100,000, no-bid contract with the state, Rader Wallack offered Shumlin’s collegeage daughter a job as her administrative assistant.

“I’d say nobody’s signed on the dotted line, but it looks like it might work out,” Rader Wallack said last Thursday afterUSHFORD noon. “She’s looking for work. She’s a very AMILY HIROPRACTIC bright young woman … And she’s got a lot 100 Dorset Street • 860-3336 of experience.” www.rushfordchiropractic.com Rader Wallack, the architect of Se habla Español Shumlin’s ambitious health care overhaul, stepped down as chairwoman of the Green Mountain Care Board at the end of July to 12v-rushford103013.indd 1 10/28/13 4:36 PM KINGDOM COUNTY return home to Rhode Island.

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PRODUCTIONS Barely a week after her departure, Secretary of Administration JEB SPAULDING signed a no-bid contract with Rader Wallack’s consulting firm to oversee a $45 million federal grant she had helped Vermont obtain while she worked for the state. The one-year contract, signed on August 8 and funded by the governor’s office budget, could be renewed twice.

It promised her firm, Arrowhead Health Analytics, $100,000 for up to 500 hours of work.

Later that month or early the next, Rader Wallack said, she contacted OLIVIA SHUMLIN to see if the soon-to-be Brown University graduate would come to work for her.

“My recent model of hiring assistants is I go for really bright people right out of college who need experience,” she explained. “The last one was [former House Speaker] GAYE SYMINGTON’s son, so there’s a pattern in terms of political kids, I guess.”

Prior to that, she added, she hired the son of her former boss, KSE Partners lobbyist BOB SHERMAN. RESERVED SEATS: Rader Wallack said she had met Olivia $58, $49, $39.

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“It’s mine,” she said. “It’s my business.”

Within hours of Seven Days’ first inSPONSORS: quiry into the matter last week, Rader Wallack called back Thursday evening to say she had just spoken to Olivia Shumlin for the first time since September.

“I talked with her, and she has not acMEDIA SPONSORS: cepted any offer from me, and, in fact, is looking at other options, so we’re still very much up in the air,” Rader Wallack said.

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haven’t talked in a couple of months. She is looking at other stuff and also still considering whether she wants to work for me.”

That consideration quickly came to an end.

Later that evening, in response to questions from Seven Days, Gov. Shumlin’s spokeswoman, SUE ALLEN, wrote in an email, “Liv is not going to work for Anya.

She did receive an offer, but declined.”

In a voicemail message Rader Wallack left the next morning, she said, “Just calling to confirm that Olivia Shumlin has indeed decided to pursue other options and will not be working for me.”

It’s unclear whether state-contracting regulations would prevent a recent administration official from hiring a family member of the governor to help imple-

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ment a state contract. But the state’s executive code of ethics, which was signed

by Shumlin and governs him and members of his administration, would appear to bar him from using his office to advocate for such employment.

The ethics code calls on administration officials to avoid “giving preferential treatment to any family member or member of the appointee’s household” and “using public office for the advancement of personal interest.”

Asked whether such a scenario would run afoul of the rules, Shumlin’s legal counsel, SARAH LONDON, said in an email last Friday, “In the event such an employment relationship existed, it would need to be disclosed and would be addressed under both the Executive Code of Ethics and the state’s procurement policies.”

Asked what she meant by “addressed,” London said in an email Tuesday, “depends on the circumstances,” but declined to elaborate further.

Like most state contracts, Rader Wallack’s specifically precludes her from giving “any thing of substantial value (including property, currency, travel and/ or education programs) to any officer or employee of the State” during the term of the agreement.

Asked whether a job offer to a family member constituted “a thing of substantial value,” Spaulding said in an email Tuesday

that “the answer would depend on the nature of the employment relationship.”

“Since no such relationship exists, we have not had to address the issue and we do not need to,” he wrote.

It’s also unclear what role Shumlin personally played in awarding Rader Wallack’s contract — and whether he weighed in on the idea of her hiring his daughter.

When it was signed in August, the contract itself drew scrutiny from reporters and opponents of health care reform. They questioned why Rader Wallack got a lucrative private-sector contract just days after leaving her job in the public sector — and why nobody else had an opportunity to bid on it.

In a written request to waive the state’s competitive bidding process, Deputy Administration Secretary MICHAEL CLASEN argued in August that Rader Wallack “is uniquely suited for this role and project” due to her experience on the Green Mountain Care Board and as Shumlin’s special assistant for health care reform.

Asked Monday whether Shumlin played any role in awarding the contract to his former top adviser, the governor first said, “I have no memory of that.”

“I remember very clearly discussing the need to take on this extraordinary talent and keep it working for us,” he then added.

“I don’t get into contracts. What’s that got to do with the price of eggs?”

Asked whether he ever spoke to Rader Wallack about the prospect of her hiring his daughter, Shumlin declined to say.

“My daughters have no interest in being a part of my political life,” he responded. “I respect that and I don’t involve them in my public life. I hope you’ll respect that, too.” (Both of Shumlin’s daughters have worked for his campaign, introduced him at campaign events and lent their names to fundraising solicitations.)

The Shumlin administration declined to put Seven Days in touch with Olivia Shumlin.

Asked last week whether her hiring practices were appropriate, Rader Wallack said, “I don’t think there’s anything inappropriate about it. I suppose it would be plausible there’d be some scenario where there’d be some sort of conflict, but nothing occurs to me off the top of my head.”

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Nearly two weeks ago, when Shumlin extended the deadline many Vermonters face to buy health insurance through Vermont Health Connect, he pitched the three-month delay as a way to provide “additional options” and “peace of mind” to consumers.

But for those who work for businesses with 50 or fewer employees, their choices

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“As I’ve told you, I’ve learned a lesson as governor: I’ll never say a date again,” the governor said. “But I’m very hopeful that we’ll have it up and running by the end of the month. That’s my hope. I’m not promising. That’s what we’re working really hard to try and do.”

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Vermont’s Republican and Progressive parties elected new leaders over the weekend, both of whom are pledging to expand the reach of their respective parties.

At the GOP’s state committee meeting Saturday in Montpelier, former representative DaviD SunDerlanD defeated former U.S. Senate candidate John MacGovern 48 to 30 to become the party’s new chairman. Sunderland, of Rutland Town, succeeds Jack linDley, who last week dropped his plans to seek reelection in the face of health challenges and eroding political support.

Sunderland was endorsed by the party’s sole statewide officeholder, Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, along with many GOP legislators. MacGovern, of Windsor, was favored

by Lindley.

“I think today what we can take away from this is that the Vermont Republican Party has voted for change — a change in direction, a change in tone — and we plan on going forward,” Sunderland said after the election.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, the Vermont Progressive Party unanimously elected former Burlington city councilor eMMa Mulvaney-Stanak to succeed Martha abbott as chairwoman.

Mulvaney-Stanak said she planned to focus on “building the party’s capacity” to support Progressive candidates and to encourage more women and young people to enter the fold.

As for whether the Progs will field a candidate for governor, as they perennially threaten to do?

“It’s too early to tell. I do think every cycle it’s worth a serious conversation,” Mulvaney-Stanak said. “[Shumlin] hasn’t really been a champion of the working people, and I think there might be a need to hold him accountable for some of those decisions.” m

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under Shumlin’s new contingency plan could actually evaporate.

Prior to Shumlin’s delay, small businesses could choose to offer insurance through Vermont Health Connect — or they could decline to offer coverage, which would allow their employees to enroll on their own and take advantage of federal subsidies. Either way, every small business employee in the state would have been able to choose from a menu ranging from nine to 18 plans.

But now, thanks to ongoing technical problems facing the Vermont Health Connect website, many employers may offer their employees only one plan.

Why? Companies that elect to sign up directly with insurance companies, as Shumlin’s new plan allows, can pick just one plan for all their employees. And those who work for companies that fail to take any action at all will be automatically enrolled in a plan that most closely matches their current coverage.

So much for choice.

And what about the “breathing room” that three-month delay will provide small businesses?

Sure, it’ll give them more time to weigh their options — and to await fixes to the website — but it will also essentially prevent their employees from switching carriers.

That’s because, under new rules outlined last Friday, deductibles and out-ofpocket maximums will reset January 1 for those whose current plans are extended into the new year. When such people sign up for coverage by the new March 31 deadline, any deductible and out-of-pocket payments they’ve accumulated will apply to their new plan — so long as they don’t switch carriers.

But if, come March, they switch from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont to MVP — or vice versa — those out-of-pocket caps reset again.

Asked Monday whether his contingency plan actually limited choice for small-business employees, Shumlin said, “That’s a temporary fallback given the challenges that we’ve been facing.”

He added, “So yeah, you can find scenarios where people aren’t going to get the choice they would have under an ideal world. Is that what you’re asking? Yes. Plead guilty.”

Shumlin declined to say when he expected Vermont Health Connect to be fully operational, though he said he was “hopeful” it would be able to process electronic premium payments by the end of the month. He also said he was “hoping” he would not have to deploy any further contingency plans.

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In Wake of Fatal Burlington Police Shooting, Some Question Use of Deadly Force B y M ar k D av i s

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The Burlington Police Department and the Vermont State Police are conducting separate inquiries focused on Thibault’s decision to use deadly force against Brunette. According to court records, the victim had a history of unspecified mental illness and previous runins with police. His family could not be reached for comment immediately after the shooting.

As of press time, authorities had not said how many times Brunette was shot, how many times Thibault fired or how far Brunette was from the officers when he was killed. During a press conference last week, Schirling said a preliminary review indicated the officers acted appropriately.

Police say that the officers confronted an agitated

Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling speaks at a press conference

LAW ENFORCEMENT Brunette outside, in the front of the home, and have provided few other details of what ensued.

“An officer may use lethal force to protect him/herself or another person from what the officer reasonably believes to be an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury,” Burlington police regulations state. “An officer may also use lethal force to prevent the escape of a suspect where the officer has probable cause to believe that the subject has committed a violent crime involving the infliction or threatened infliction of serious bodily harm or death AND it is reasonable to believe that the freedom of the suspect poses an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or other persons.”

In assessing the threat they face, department procedures tell Burlington police officers to consider several factors, including the size of the suspect, the type of weapon or other instrument the suspect is wielding, the location of the encounter, prior dealings with the suspect, the subject’s response to verbal commands, and the availability of cover for officers.

But officers are told they are not required to consider any alternatives to deploying deadly force if doing so would increase the danger to themselves or others.

Schirling said that Burlington officers are taught that they can be in danger of serious injury or death if a subject is wielding a potentially deadly weapon from as far as 30 feet away.

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ne week ago, Burlington police officers visited a New North End home after the mother of a man with a history of mental illness reported that he was agitated and destroying property.

Approximately two minutes after he arrived on the scene, Cpl. Ethan Thibault squeezed the trigger of his Glock .40 — the first time a Burlington police officer has fired a gun in the line of duty in 16 years. The bullet killed Wayne Brunette, 49, who police would later say was wielding a shovel in a threatening way. Thibault and Cpl. Brent Navari were not injured.

Many questions remain unanswered. How large of a role did Brunette’s apparent history of mental illness play in the incident? Why did one officer fire, and the other did not? And are police justified in gunning down a man armed only with a shovel?

Burlington police, along with most law enforcement agencies in America, are trained to fire if they believe themselves to be in danger of serious injury or death.

Officers are instructed not to wait until they are attacked, and to shoot to kill — not to injure or disarm.

“This is a complex area of operations and one of the most misunderstood areas of law enforcement operations, thanks to movies and TV that largely portray the impossible,” Burlington Police Chief Michael Schirling said in an interview.

But some legal experts said Brunette’s shooting, even if it was done in accordance with police department regulations, appears at first glance to follow an alarming pattern in Vermont: mentally ill people being killed by police during encounters that began when officers were called to help.

“It’s a tragedy that could be avoided if we have a better response to these situations,” said Hinesburg attorney Robert Appel, who represents the mother of Macadam Mason, an unarmed Thetford man who died after Vermont state police shot him with a Taser last year. “It’s hard to second-guess cops. They have a very difficult job; they have to make snap decisions; they don’t have a lot of time. Why not talk? Why not other means of intervention? It seems so avoidable — two minutes ... here we are again.”

“Within training, we talk about a distance of 21 to 30 feet with any object, whether it be a bladed object or an object small or large, as being an imminent threat, because people can close that distance,” Schirling said in the shooting’s immediate aftermath.

While not discussing the Brunette incident specifically, Schirling said that officers will sometimes stay back from a potentially dangerous subject when they know details of the situation in advance.

“Avoiding a known threat is another option when a threat is known to exist,” Schirling said in an interview.

“In the event we know we are responding to a situation with a person armed with anything — gun, knife, bat, anything — in most instances we set up at a safe distance and try to engage the person from there. There are instances in which a person may be posing a direct and immediate threat to themselves or someone else and that distance may not be possible or practical. In some cases we do not have the option to keep distance and in others we have no idea a threat will be posed until it is too late.”

Neighbors told Seven Days that at least one of Brunette’s parents witnessed his shooting, and police have said there were other witnesses, though it is unclear who they are or where they were located at the time.

In addition to their Glock pistols, Burlington officers are armed with batons and Taser stun guns, but those tools, according to department regulations, are to be used when the officers need to gain compliance or believe themselves at risk of physical harm, not “serious bodily injury or death.”

“If I had a knife or baseball bat, and I come at you, you can shoot me,” said Washington County State’s Attorney Tom Kelly, speaking generally and not about the Burlington investigation. “You have to look at all the different circumstances, but ... you could kill someone with a shovel.”

And there is no such thing, in police protocols, as shooting to injure or disarm: Officers are taught that, once they believe they are at risk of serious injury or death, to shoot for the center of the visible portion of their target — in most cases, the torso.

The Burlington Police Department explicitly forbids officers from firing warning shots.

“That is not the reality of law enforcement in Burlington, in Vermont, or anywhere else in the nation,” Schirling said.

Legal Challenges

Incidents in which citizens are shot by police often end up in court, usually as a result of a lawsuit filed on behalf of the dead subject’s estate and family, or, on exceedingly rare occasions in Vermont, in criminal court if the officer is charged with a crime. (Winooski police officer Jason Nokes is currently facing an aggravated assault charge for allegedly shooting the leg of an unarmed, mentally ill man suspected of trespass.)

There, the question boils down to one essential determination — the “reasonableness” of the officers’ decision that deadly force was necessary.

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sk “Ann,” a 21-year-old recovering heroin addict who graduated from the University of Vermont in May, what was the hardest thing about staying sober at college. Her answer may surprise you.

It wasn’t living in the dorms, which often reeked of marijuana and stale beer. Nor was it going to frat houses and off-campus parties, where friends downed shots of booze and got high before heading downtown to the bars.

It was studying at Bailey/Howe Library.

“Ugh, I hate the library!” Ann says with a laugh.

Ann, who asked that her real name not be used, joined 14 undergrads who agreed to give a Seven Days reporter a glimpse of what it’s like to pursue a degree while also recovering from addiction to drugs or alcohol.

Ann didn’t mind studying. But in the relative quiet of the library, she says, it’s too easy to hear other students snorting cocaine or Adderall in their cubicles and “tweaking out while I’m trying to write a paper.”

As Ann describes the library experience, the others murmur or nod their heads in agreement.

“Laura,” an undergrad and recovering opiate addict who transferred to campus in the spring of 2012, says she can always spot the students who are “using” during study sessions based on the frequency of their “smoke breaks,” their incessant fidgeting or the sound of their teeth grinding.

“Some of them could be on way too much caffeine,” she says, “but I can usually tell.”

It’s a Tuesday afternoon in a windowless, groundfloor lounge in UVM’s Davis Center. Every Tuesday a small but growing number of students meet in the Living Well office for a free lunch and get-together to talk about their college lives, which are anything but typical.

This is the Collegiate Recovery Community, a program launched in 2010 to help students getting over substance abuse continue their studies without compromising their sobriety. The CRC isn’t a drugtreatment program or a sober house; there are no mandatory drug tests to ensure that students stay clean, nor any residency requirements other than those that apply to all incoming freshmen. For former users, who enroll voluntarily, the CRC provides an invaluable survival tool for college: a social life that’s not centered around getting drunk or high.

Amy Boyd Austin is director of the CRC and its only employee. Before coming to UVM in 2004, she spent 12 years running substance-abuse treatment programs in Delaware, Maine and California prisons. She founded the CRC three years ago after hearing a coworker express concern that recovering addicts living in the dorms were at risk of relapse due to the behavioral “triggers” all around them.

Because those students were bound by university housing contracts, Boyd Austin explains, most couldn’t find other places to live that were more conducive to

DRUGS their recoveries. As a result, many would end up couch surfing with friends, where they were often exposed to equally unhealthy lifestyles.

In addition to the free weekly lunches, the CRC offers students monthly socials, weekend outings such as movie nights and camping trips, and drop-in hours three nights a week in the Living Well lounge. There, CRC students can study, talk, sleep or just hang out, without fear that someone will be using, dealing drugs or talking about last weekend’s bender or ecstasy trip.

Though CRC’s numbers are still small — about 15 active students and another 20 who are either recent grads or not currently enrolled in classes — the need is there and growing. In 2010, Boyd Austin had just 10 referrals all year. This fall, she had 15 students referred to her in September alone; another four students contacted her just last week. Addiction on campus, she’s discovered, “is a lot more prevalent than most people realize.”

It’s not news that alcohol and illicit drug use are commonplace at UVM. “Groovy UV’s” consistent ranking among the top-20 U.S. party schools can be quantified: In 2012, campus police services reported 558 drug-law violations, 1192 liquor-law violations and 118 students requiring detox.

But UVM students are hardly unique in their liberal consumption of intoxicants. According to 2012 data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more than one in five young people between the ages of 18 and 22 meet the criteria for

substance-abuse disorders — and those figures tend to be several percentage points higher for college students than among their nonstudent brethren.

Students find the CRC through one of several routes, Boyd Austin explains. Some are high school students already in treatment when they apply to UVM. In fact, two of her students this year specifically chose UVM because it’s one of only a handful of colleges around the country with an organized recovery community.

Others are transfer students who finally decided to get serious about their studies but don’t want to “return to the scene of the crime” at their former colleges. Then there are those, Boyd Austin says, who arrive at UVM, “do the typical college thing, then crash and burn.”

A native of Houston, Texas, Ann says she first started drinking when she was 8 years old, then quickly graduated to harder drugs. With two parents who are also addicts, Ann says she’s been in and out of court-ordered rehab since she was 13. (According to Boyd Austin, long and intractable addictions among incoming students are becoming more the norm than the exception.)

Ann arrived in Burlington in January three years ago and was in trouble within two months. “I spent spring break at the hospital going through withdrawal,” she recalls. Once she got out, someone referred her to the CRC. Recently, Ann hit the one-year mark of remaining clean and sober. She’s now applying to a doctoral program at the University of Texas at Austin. After years of failed

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rehab attempts, she credits the CRC for make sense to force them to weather an much of her success. Why? Among her entire semester of sobriety alone. friends in the group, Ann says, she doesn’t “Plenty of students don’t use on have to explain herself, or her sense of campus, but they often struggle to find humor, such as when she jokes about one another because they think they’re overdosing or smoking crystal meth. the only ones,” she explains. “Finding an Enter “Dave.” As he does, the tall identity and a college community based freshman with closely cropped hair on what you don’t do is much harder.” grabs a freshly baked brownie off a tray, To assist with that, the university has sits down at the table and introduces set aside two residential cottages on its himself.

Trinity campus for as many as 25 CRC “Hi, my name is Dave, and I can’t students who want drug- and alcoholstop eating brownies,” he announces. free housing options.

“Hi, Dave!” the group echoes, Interestingly, as more incoming mimicking the ritual greeting of support students are coping with serious groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous addiction issues earlier in life, Boyd and Narcotics Anonymous, with which Austin says parents often ask her everyone in the room appears all too whether their kids should reveal those familiar. problems in a college application.

Dave, who describes his addiction After all, an intravenous drug habit as “pretty traditional — mostly whiskey isn’t the sort of extracurricular and cigarettes,” applied to UVM out activity that usually wins over of high school, where he’d been in admissions boards. treatment since his junior year. Dave But while some CRCs at other started coming to the CRC on Tuesdays schools urge students to conceal that “just for the free food,” aspect of their identities, he confesses. But thanks Boyd Austin actually to the people he’s met, he proposes the opposite. says, he’s now majoring “Going through a in “staying in school.” recovery process is one And despite his of the hardest things you flippant, self-deprecating will ever do in life,” she humor — “I’m such a says. “There are people judgmental asshole!” my age, people my he says — Dave talks parents’ age, who have seriously about how not done the internal the CRC has benefited work these young people him. He talks about in recovery have done to the opportunities he’s figure out what’s going AMy BOyd AuST in had to speak to firston in their lives and set year medical students, themselves on a different fraternities and students at other path. So I think they should be loud and Vermont colleges about substance abuse proud about who they are.” and mental illness.

Indeed, many CRC students appear “Those are good opportunities” to to have forged tight bonds with each make addiction real to other people, he other, which seem akin to those of says. “We’re not in the gutter and shit. combat veterans who return from war, We’re your students. We’re your kids. then find it difficult for others to relate We’re your friends. We’re your fucking to their experiences. As Laura puts it employees, your doctors and teachers. matter-of-factly, “I think that’s because We’re all over the place!” we all almost died. Most people never Unlike some CRCs at other colleges, experience that.” the one at UVM has only a modest set So what happens if — or more of requirements. They include a one- commonly, when — a CRC student credit academic course on dealing with relapses? As Boyd Austin explains, a addiction, which students can take up to “zero-tolerance” policy is neither a three times, and a commitment to stay compassionate nor realistic approach, clean and sober, as expressed in a written given the prevailing understanding of “recovery protection plan.” Finally, all addiction. incoming freshmen and transfer students “Relapse is a part of the recovery must be in recovery for at least six months process, and recovery is a process,” before they can apply to it. she says. As long as students who slip But even that “mandate” has some up admit that they want to stay in the flexibility. Boyd Austin has allowed community, she says, the CRC will current UVM students to join the group support them. m who had been in recovery for as little as two months. Her reasoning: It doesn’t Ken Picard: ken@sevendaysvt.com

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In recent years, more than 90 percent of all school district budgets were approved at the March annual meeting, said Steve Dale, executive director of the Vermont School Boards Association.

In 2013, the percentage was closer to 95 percent.

“This is an anomaly,” Dale said of the impasse in Walden. “Big time.”

There are notable exceptions. Milton and Williston voters took two tries this year to approve their school budgets. In Bennington, there were three rounds of balloting. For Rutland Town, five special district votes were held before residents gave their OK to a level-funded budget in September.

Generally, though, a consensus is reached within a few months.

In fact, it has been 20 years since a Vermont district has gone past mid-November without an approved budget. The Benson school district in Rutland County operated for an entire year without voter approval in 1993-1994, paying its way with a bank loan. That misadventure prompted the legislature to set the 87 percent borrowing limit in 1995.

“It’s intended to put pressure on both sides,” said Bill Talbott, deputy commissioner of the Agency of Education. Unless school district officials and voters find a compromise, he said, “they won’t make it through the whole year.”

Yet after four rounds of voting in Walden, the opposition, despite getting off to a late start, remains stiff.

Budget opponents joined forces after the district’s $2.75 million school budget — representing a 20 percent increase in spending — was approved by just four votes, 84-80, at the March meeting. A signature drive resulted in a successful petition for a rescission vote by ballot in May, when the budget first went down in a stinging defeat, 197-66.

Since then, that core of about 200 opponents has shown up again and again to keep a budget from passing. The latest round was much closer, with the naysayers prevailing 200-149.

“All of the board feels a little bit blindsided,” said Ray Lewis, one of three members of the Walden School Board.

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“My kids don’t have basic school supplies,” said parent Angela Apicelli at a November 5 Walden School District meeting that drew around 30 residents.

“That seems kind of crazy.”

Teachers at the school — which last year served 106 students in grades pre-K through 8 — are doing their best to continue on as normal, Principal Liz Benoit said at the meeting. But she has had to advise staff to make do with the minimum of supplies until uncertainty around the school’s funding is resolved.

That may not be any time soon.

Under Vermont law, property owners in a district without a voter-approved budget still pay the base statewide education tax rate and, in return, their district still receives some money to continue educating its students.

But state education funds can only be tapped for funds equal to three-quarters of the base education amount per pupil, a number set every year by the legislature.

For the Walden district, that will equal less than half of the total anticipated in the district budget.

The law also allows the district to borrow, but only enough to fill the coffers

“Schools are required to educate students at the public’s expense. What happens if there is not enough money to do that?” Tucker said. “No one knows what happens, because it has never happened before.”

“This is uncharted water,” concurred Vermont Agency of Education finance manager Brad James in an interview.

“We don’t know.”

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For all the concern about the growing burden of education costs on taxpayers, a revolt like the one going on in Walden is still rare.

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Another less obvious factor is that high school choice draws families to the area — specifically to take advantage of it.

Several residents there said it seems that parents who are in town for a discrete period of time are less personally invested in the success of the elementary school.

“It does drain away resources for the elementary school, and it drains away allegiance to the elementary school,” Tucker said at the meeting.

“You can’t overstate this vicious circle around high school choice,” added Gene Podhurst.

“I feel really concerned for the future of this town right now,” Bill Half said.

However, administrators say they know that most of the community wants to support the schools. “These are people who care and are struggling to educate their kids,” Tucker said. “All of the issues that are going on in Vermont are nestled here in this community.”

left to consider that was discussed at the meeting would be to entirely close down the modular classroom that now houses a library, designed to serve both the school and the community. That idea did not sit well with library board secretary Marie Batchelder. “I really want you to understand that we as a board have good rights to sue the school” if that happens, she said.

“So we should keep the library open to the detriment of the children if it comes to that?” asked school board chair Judith Clifford.

The obvious way to end the looming financial crisis at Walden Elementary School would be to get a budget approved before the funds run out next year. The district’s weary board members know they will soon be scheduling another day of voting.

12v-kavanah111313.indd 1 11/7/13 2:39 PM But before they do, they want to spend open fri & Sat 10am–5pm or by appointment more time trying to engage middle-of(OPEN DAILY in December) the-road voters who may have not yet participated. There are 655 registered voters in town. Budget supporters suspect a significant number of parents of schoolchildren are not coming out to vote.

The board also wants officials at the Agency of Education to come to a meeting to explain what lies ahead for the district. And it’s looking into professional mediation services.

TIMOTHY GRANNIS “We’ve done everything we can do to 802.660.2032 pass this budget — even more than that,” Lewis said at the meeting. “It’s time to bring in outside help.”

Another road leads to the state legislature, which has left unclear what should happen if the district runs out of cash. If there is no budget by January, JANE FRANK agency and school district officials 802.999.3242 expect to be soliciting help in defining the next steps.

But at least one of the politicians representing Walden believes the time has come for an even broader discussion of state education financing.

“I think there is a growing consensus MARIE-JOSéE LAMARCHE that the funding mechanism is in the 802.233.7521 process of breaking down for a number of towns,” said State Senator Joe Benning (R-Caledonia). “It is probably past the time that we should have this brought back for discussion.”

Either way, Lewis fears that Walden’s recent history will end up being a cautionCONNIE COLEMAN 802.999.3630 ary tale for other school districts. He sees voters focusing more and more only on the cost side of education and not on its results and overall benefit to society. He won’t be surprised if new budgets stall in several districts in Vermont next year.

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special needs. Unfortunately, in Walden, both have popped up during the same budget year. Several students now require expensive support services. And additional students added to an already large combined fifth- and sixth-grade class made the group too large for one teacher to handle, Tucker said.

At the same time, the district is carrying a lot of fixed expenses. There are the staff and bussing contracts and, most significantly, high school tuition.

The Walden district does not currently have a designated high school, which means families can decide where to send their teens. In recent years, almost half of the high-school-age students have gone to the private St. Johnsbury Academy.

Other popular choices are Hazen Union High School in Hardwick and Cabot High School. In total, tuition for the town’s 54 high school students costs almost $800,000 — more than one-third of the total budget and a line item with zero flexibility.

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The district has had its budgets approved with relative ease over the past five years.

“During that time, we have been really careful with finances,” he said.

In fact, recently Walden has been among the most conservative Vermont districts in terms of spending. Perpupil spending in fiscal year 2013 was just under $11,600, a figure that landed the district in the bottom quarter of all 286 statewide, according to an analysis by the Agency of Education.

“Here we have been spending the bare minimum to educate the kids who show up at our door,” Lewis said. The board has shared those facts with the public at informational meetings and a website, but it hasn’t seemed to make a difference. “People don’t want to listen or don’t believe me,” he said.

As in most communities, some Walden voters consistently vote against the school budget. For some, it stems from long-standing anger over the loss of the town’s one-room schoolhouses decades ago, Lewis said. Others oppose the very idea of public education.

This year, that group is joined by people who feel they are doing the only thing they can to stem the growth in education spending — and its impact on their tax bills.

As much as 75 percent of the Walden budget this year is set by contract or regulation and can’t be scaled back by district officials or voters.

“We are being asked to vote on a budget and then being told that we can’t impact three-quarters of it. We don’t have any control over our spending,” said resident Lee Johnson at the board meeting. “Walden can’t afford to support this on their own, and neither can any other town in this state.”

Another resident, Pam Montgomery, responded by saying she agrees that rising property taxes are a big problem, but continuing to vote “no” is not the way to address it. “Punishing the children of Walden is not the way to go about it.”

The fact remains that even the stripped-down $2.6 million budget presented in October would bring a 16 percent spending increase.

Tucker, the superintendent, told residents at the meeting that district officials had shaved off about as much as they legally could.

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1938-2013, ROXBURY Edward R. Pincus, 75, died of leukemia on Tuesday, November 5, 2013, at his home in Roxbury. He was born July 6, 1938, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Julius and Anne Pincus. A graduate of Midwood High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Brown University, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Harvard University.

He married Jane Abigail Kates on June 22, 1960, in Manhattan, N.Y. Edward made his career as a still photographer and filmmaker. He had taught

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filmmaking at MIT and Harvard University, inspiring many students. A pioneer of cinema verité documentary films, he was a published author, having written Guide To Filmmaking. A fifth-degree black belt, Edward taught Japanese martial arts at Aikido of Champlain Valley in Burlington. He also owned and operated a flower farm, Third Branch Flowers, LLC, at his home in Roxbury.

Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Jane Pincus of Roxbury; a daughter, Ruth Samuela Pincus of Burlington; a son, Benjamin Pincus and his wife, Heidi Albright of Underhill Center; a brother, Martin Pincus of Manhattan, N.Y.; and three grandsons, Jordan, Caleb and Kai. In keeping with his wishes, there are no calling hours or funeral. A celebration of his life is being planned for July 2014 at his home in Roxbury. In lieu of flowers, donations (tax exempt) may be made in his memory to Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington, VT. 05401, burlingtonaikido. org.

Above photo: Ed Pincus Sensei teaching aikido at Aikido of Champlain Valley in Burlington, Vt.

JUNIOR’S LAMENT A son who stayed so close to his mother’s keep With a heart of gold, full of love, now rests at his father’s feet Among the silence when so many failed to speak You declare emergency with sirens blaring for the weak.

So damn blunt, he immediately had you on the ropes.

But with his extraordinary sense of humor, you’d find that footing to pull yourself up. His independent lifestyle full of raw energy, new ideas and excitement inspired so many to follow his lead. The choices people made after crossing Junior’s path gave birth to real change, which evolved into an incredible punk scene, where selfawareness exploded into a genuine alternative lifestyle we now call cool.

Oh, and there were the stories! Holy shit, his endless stories, you would have thought he lived a double life … and he did. Junior’s ferocious love of all animals was infectious. He adored children to the point of sainthood, and his passion for controversial art became his signature to everyone who met him.

How it is that one man can possess all of these things? Because his family and friends needed him to.

Junior, you broke the ice, you broke the rules and you broke our hearts. Thank you and farewell, my brother, my friend, the original son.

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and Marcia, Bernie and Evelyn, John and Freda, Tom and Angel, Claire and Dick, Margie, Martha, and Sue. Survivors include his four children: Corinne and Dave Chamberlin, Janine Silvey, Darlene and Mark Johnson, and Eric and Meridith Berry; nine grandchildren: Stephen Gogan and wife, Melanie; Chad Cole; Michael Silvey and wife, Cassie; Brandy Cole; Ben and Ian Sackett; Jade Berry; Carter Duncan; and Camden Berry; three great-grandchildren: Layla Sackett; Cason and Gemma Silvey; a sister, Ladoska “Sis” and husband Orville “Bud” Currence; a sister-in-law, Betty, and husband Butch Van Echaute; a brother in-law, Joseph Mayer; and many cousins, nieces, nephews and dear friends.

He was predeceased by his parents; his wife of 44 years, Pat, in 2002; a sonin-law, John Sackett, also in 2002; two brothers, Edwin

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Everett D. Berry, 74, of downtown Red Village in Lyndon, died peacefully Tuesday afternoon, November 5, 2013, at his home surrounded by his loving family.

He was born January 26, 1939, in Lyndon, the son of Maurice and Shirley (Lynaugh) Berry. Following his schooling, Everett served his country in the US Army. On February 23, 1958, he married Patricia “Pat” Mayer. They moved from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Lyndon in 1966.

Everett worked at VT Tap & Die Co. in Lyndonville and Goss Tire Co. in St. Johnsbury before starting his own business, Berry Tire, in Lyndon, in 1975. Besides his family, his work and customers were his life.

He worked hard with much help from Lloyd Morse, John Berry, Dick Berry, Justin Berry, Dave Berry and many other great employees that made Berry Tire a great success.

He loved to go to camp with Pat for the weekends.

He also enjoyed mowing his backyard golf course and everyone else’s lawn. He was an avid Red Sox and Green Bay Packers fan. Everett and Pat made several trips around the country to Arizona, Nevada, Florida and Dollywood, with their bowling buddies: Carroll

and Richard Berry; and two sisters-in-law, Ida Berry and Judy Mayer.

Graveside services were held Friday, November 8, at 2 p.m. at Lyndon Center Cemetery.

A gathering of friends and family was held following the service at the Lyndonville VFW Post 10038 located on Hill Street, from 3 to 7 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations made in Everett’s memory may be directed to either H.O.P.E., Depot Street, Lyndonville, VT 05851; the Pat Berry Field Hockey Scholarship, c/o Lyndon Institute; or the John Sackett Memorial Fund, c/o Lyndon Institute, P. O. Box 127, Lyndon Center, VT. 05850.

Private online condolences may be shared with the family at guibordfh. com. Arrangements are by Guibord Funeral Home of Lyndonville.

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e have some secret weapons. I’m not telling you what they are,” says Ralph Farris, cofounder of and violist in the groundbreaking string quartet ETHEL. Those weapons are of the musical variety, though, which is good news for attendees of the group’s upcoming performance for the Lane Series at the University of Vermont’s Recital Hall.

ETHEL shatter every preconception of what a string quartet can be. To pigeonhole the group as “classical music” would be to miss the point. Farris’ colleagues are cofounder Dorothy Lawson on cello and Kip Jones and Tema Watstein on violin. Together, they excel in performing music of many genres — jazz, rock, folk, rap — and are more than happy to bust down any barriers between them.

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The band’s astounding list of collaborators reflects that passion for ignoring perceived musical boundaries. They include David Byrne, Andrew Bird, Joe Jackson, Todd Rundgren and Bang on a Can, as well as musical talents whose names may be less familiar, such as classical pianist Ursula Oppens, Czech avant-garde singer/composer Iva Bittová and ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. ETHEL are not kidding when they speak of “the unifying power of music.”

Farris, 42, never uses the words “quartet” or “ensemble” to refer to ETHEL. “We make up a string quartet, but the vibe really is that of a band,” he says, speaking by phone from Manhattan. ETHEL are known for their improvisational shows and for disregarding the formal distance between performers and listeners.

Despite their nontraditional ways, Farris says that ETHEL have not, to his knowledge, been excoriated by the classical music community. He sees the group’s work as a natural evolution of the form. “Every classical institution is having to reimagine their world now to

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keep themselves relevant … We didn’t want to start something that we were going to have to change to make ourselves relevant,” Farris says. “We wanted to be relevant from the beginning.”

ETHEL’s delight in defying convention is part of their appeal for the Lane Series. “ETHEL is exactly the kind of ensemble that we’re interested in presenting,” says director Natalie Neuert.

“Their instrumentation is that of the

traditional string quartet, their training is classical, and they can play all that music. But they’ve chosen not to go that route.” Neuert praises not only the group’s unique collaborations but its willingness to incorporate electronic music and effects.

In their Lane Series show, ETHEL will perform — for only the fourth time — “Grace,” named for the sole album by the late American singer-songwriter

Jeff Buckley. The centerpiece of the performance, though, is a suite of pieces

by Italian composer Ennio Morricone from the 1986 film The Mission. Even Farris is surprised by how moved he and his bandmates are when they play this “gorgeous, lyrical” music. “We are just amazed at what the piece has come to mean for us,” he says. “It gives us great joy to … put forth the spirit of this extraordinary score. I still well up with tears when I’m playing it.”

The program also includes works

by Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos, American multimedia artist Mary Ellen Childs and Vermont-born composer Nico Muhly. Neuert suggests “Grace” is “a great way to hear contemporary classical music, which we sometimes think can be dissonant and can make you uncomfortable. This concert is going to be like being bathed in light.”

In one way or another, each of the selections in the program evokes its titular idea. “The concept of grace is a loosely binding element that is expressed in the various pieces in really different ways,” says Farris. He refers to the “technical grace” of Vijay Iyer’s complex piece “Mutation 1,” as well as to the “grace and joy and love” of Carlo Mombelli’s “Song for Sandra,” which the South African composer wrote for his wife for their 30th wedding anniversary. “We’re not prescribing an interpretation to the audience,” Farris adds.

Asked about the music he’s been enjoying lately, Farris lists off a highly eclectic roster: the a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, Rush (“There’s no tighter band on the planet than Rush,” he says) and Air Supply.

Wait — Air Supply? The Australian soft-rock titans? Turns out that Farris is working on a musical based on that group’s oeuvre. The world may not be ready for one, but Farris and ETHEL surely are.

“There’s some sort of validity in most artistic expression,” Farris says. “There’s always something of merit, and we’re going to look for that … We are openeared in our listening all the time.” m

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Pre-performance talk at 6:30 p.m. $15-25. uvm.edu/laneseries

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Goreau painted with exterior latex and applied a protective coat of varnish.

“It’s supposed to last 10 years,” she says, while taking a break at a nearby outdoor table on a windy afternoon.

The 25-year-old native Vermonter cites Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera as important art-historical influences. More immediate inspiration comes from her father, Peter Goreau, an artist who’s “now more of a poet,” the tall, slender painter relates with a ready smile. Goreau adds that her teachers in high school (St. Johnsbury Academy) and college (Johnson State, after stints at the University of British Columbia and the Design & Arts College of New Zealand) encouraged her inclination to draw on walls.

Goreau got started as a professional muralist by offering to beautify blank walls of Northeast Kingdom businesses at no charge to their owners.

High Mowing Organic Seeds, a company in Wolcott, and Pete’s Greens, a Craftsbury-based source of organic produce, are consequently graced with early examples of Goreau’s art. Visible to more Vermonters are the sugaring and autumnal scenes she painted last year on the doors of a Jeffersonville barn that faces Route 15.

Goreau’s City Market mural occupies one of the highest-traffic spots in Vermont’s largest city. It’s even more of a prime location than the alleyway between Church Street and the Marketplace parking garage, where

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hopping at Burlington’s City Market/Onion River Co-op just got even more unlike meating up or vegging out at Price Chopper, Hannaford or Shaw’s. The entrances to those suburban chain stores are nondescript at best. Member-owned City Market, by contrast, now greets customers with a skillfully executed, vividly colored mural that melds farming scenes with a stylized Queen Cityscape.

Cottony clouds and a gaggle of geese sail by overhead.

The still-unnamed mural that wraps around doors and windows is the work of local artist Tara Goreau. Her mockup was chosen from a handful of submissions sent to the co-op last summer in response to a call to artists. Goreau will receive half of the $10,000 allocated for the project, says co-op marketing maven alliSon WeinhaGen. The prep team that spent days priming and sealing the 25-by-17-foot surface gets the rest, with City Market covering the cost of materials.

The cheerful composition has been eliciting appreciative oohs and smiles from viewers. Co-op member ChriSTa loeSCher offers a response echoed by many other shoppers during a recent 15-minute stakeout. “It’s gorgeous,” she says. “It’s very descriptive of our town.”

Loescher’s 10-year-old son, Teddy, is similarly impressed. “There’s a lot going on,” he observes, pointing in particular to paddleboarders stroking along the North Beach shoreline.

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But Goreau does acknowledge the strong impact of Hardy’s work. “It does what a mural is supposed to do. It gets Personalized Tours people looking and talking about what it in the Comfort shows,” she says. of a Customized Van Her own mural is casting that same spell. It doesn’t have the photographic • Holiday Gift Certificates • quality of Hardy’s, instead depicting “You gave us a wonderful recognizable Burlington locales and look into Burlington’s past.” vignettes in a spatially mashed-up ar—The Richards rangement. Goreau’s populist approach www.BurlingtonHistoryTours.com might remind some viewers of the rolBurlHistoryTours@aol.com licking work of American artist Red 802.863.9132 Grooms, although Goreau doesn’t rely on caricatures.

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Similarly, the hill rising from the lake to the University of Vermont is much steeper in Goreau’s rendering than in reality, but it features several moreor-less properly situated landmarks, including the steeple of the College Street Congregational Church. Goreau says that, in the two weeks before fire destroyed the steeple on October 23, she would check the time on its clock while working on the mural.

The exterior artwork will soon be complemented inside the co-op by a set of four farm-and-food panels painted by Burlington’s Bonnie aCker. “We wanted to engage our members and local artists,” City Market’s Weinhagen says of the reason for these commissions. Also, “in our travels to other co-ops around the country, we noticed how effectively many of them incorporate art.”

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and each other. And how does identity tear us apart and bring us together?”

The story, which Kipp says has “a bit of magic realism,” is set in a fictional town in Vermont and features a “white rural girl having a relationship with a black boy.”

But there’s a “whole Holocaust connection,” she explains. Kipp says she did a lot of research on Anne Frank and notes that her body was never found. Could Anna’s grandmother, living quietly in Vermont, actually be an older version of the German-born Jewish girl made famous by her diaries left behind in Amsterdam?

“I leave it to the reader to decide if the grandmother is or isn’t Anne Frank,” says Kipp. “But everything is based on fact.”

Other, more personal facts influenced Kipp’s story. She notes that Jews make up only about 2 percent of the U.S. population, and the percentage in Vermont is

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All FirED Up If you took in the “Chihuly: Utterly Breathtaking” exhibit at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts this year and are still puzzling over how the Seattle glass artist makes his astonishing, enormous works, you can get a little sample this Friday.

And walk away with a piece of your own. Burlington’s aO Glass WOrks co-owners rich arentzen and tOve Ohlander are throwing open their Pine Street studio to the public for an interactive demonstration of ornament making using “many of the techniques that Chihuly used,” but on a smaller scale.

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much smaller. “Many people don’t know anything about Jews and have never met one,” she says. One scene in the play has a black woman going through a store checkout and receiving different treatment from the cashier than do the white customers. “But that happened to me about 20 years ago, when a cashier asked my daughter, who was very small, whether she was getting ready for Christmas,” Kipp recalls. “My daughter very sweetly said, ‘Oh, no, we celebrate Hanukah.’ The woman stopped talking.

She just didn’t know what to do.”

Kipp’s creative output is not all serious; she has performed as a standup comedian. But she’s fallen out of it because, she says, “I’m not a night person or a bar person.” She quips, “I was just talking to an elderly man about doing it at a senior living home.”

For now, Kipp is focusing on getting her debut novel out in the world — Thirty-Seven is also “about a woman searching for identity … with a lot of connections to 1937,” she says — and, of course, seeing Anna’s Journal through its first unfolding onstage. m

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We’re told that Galvis will be taking a break from blowing 2100-degree molten glass to juggle fire outside the studio at 6 p.m.

Back inside, Swedish-born Ohlander will also demonstrate how

she sketches images onto glass freehand and “pours” glass letters.

She says visitors can try their hand at pressing glass stamps.

Oh, and Dale Chihuly himself will be there — in a streaming video showing the master and his team in action.

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designed original costumes from found materials, including authentic Korean military jackets from the Korean War era.

After Besaw’s crew has worked the FlynnSpace audience into a meditative state, Colburn plans to rile them up with a trio of comedic duets performed by local dancers clare Byrne and JameS moore.

Colburn’s portion of the evening, called “Potboilers,” features three minicomedies. “They Can’t” is a slapstick piece in which two dancers attempt to put on a performance but are thwarted at every step. “They mis-enter, the music isn’t right, they don’t really know their cues,” says Colburn.

“Pairs,” another duet starring Byrne

and Moore, features a duo of ice skaters — one stereotypical Cold War-era Russian and one American — performing for the first time at a charitable event. Expect hilarious snafus and silly accents. “It’s not subtle in its comedic conventions,” says Colburn.

In the third and final segment, Brooklyn-based performer Paul Benney joins Colburn onstage in a new duet inspired by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The piece is part of a larger body of work Colburn has been creating about the Hall of North American Mammals. That work, says Colburn, “is kind of endlessly evolving for me.” Another comedy, this piece features Besaw and his wife incognito as a bear and a shrub, respectively.

“It’s a huge experiment,” says Colburn, who is excited to see how her and Besaw’s works are received together.

“It might be a really wonderful experience, it might be really disjointed.”

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t would be difficult to find a pair of more disparate performances than the two works that make up Antagony Loves Company, a dancetheater event coming to Burlington’s FlynnSpace this Thursday and Friday.

Half the evening belongs to paul BeSaw, associate professor and dance coordinator at the University of Vermont, who has created a dark, slow-moving meditation on the Korean War. The other half is a slapstick comedic romp featuring a Russian figure skater, a pair of incompetent dancers and scenes from the American Museum of Natural History, all sprouted from the mind of Vermont choreographer Selene colBurn.

“We’re both taking divergent approaches to dance theater,” says Besaw.

The works may seem wildly different, but presented side by side, he adds, “Who’s to say if they aren’t related?”

Besaw’s “Momma at the Gate,” is a nonlinear interpretation of two war stories — Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, written in response to the start of World War II and set during the Thirty Years War, and Korean writer Park Wan-Suh’s Momma’s Stake, written about her experience during the Korean War. Both stories explore themes of mothers and daughters, war and survival. “I was really surprised how closely related they are,” says Besaw’s wife, chong ho KIm, who is performing at FlynnSpace. Still, the works offer different perspectives.

“Brecht is political, Park is so personal,” says Besaw. “It’s really her life story.”

“Momma at the Gate” was created collaboratively with the dance collective Agnes Table, which includes Korean dancer Hansol Jeong, American actress Sarah Wiggin and American costume designer Leon Wiebers. An electronic score by local composers alec JulIen and yutaKa Kono will be enhanced at the performance by live percussion and singing

by Korean musician Min Jung Kim. Besaw hatched the idea for this work while on sabbatical with his family in Seoul last spring. The movement in the piece is contemporary, but influenced by salpuri, a traditional Korean dance marked by soft, slow, fluid movements that Besaw studied while abroad. And the text is bilingual — Kim speaks exclusively in Korean; Wiggin in English.

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loaded with “natural stimulants” and served by a “nurse”; a handgun-shaped popsicle made from absinthe and, allegedly, holy water) began offering a breastmilk-based dessert named “Baby Gaga” (later “Baby Googoo,” following contact from Lady Gaga’s lawyers) at about $24 a scoop. The feedstock came from more than a dozen women selling their milk at more than $300 per gallon, with one Victoria Hiley of Leeds providing the inaugural 30 fluid ounces — enough to make 50 very small servings. A reviewer from the Guardian said the stuff tasted like “regular vanilla ice-cream,

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o be honest, C.J., my first thought was: This is what comes of giving internet access to neckbeards. However, being the scientist of the human condition that I am, I had Una conduct a quick reconnaissance. Reviewing the result, all I can say is: merde sainte. So here you go. You think guacamole’s disgusting? Ha. Human cheese can and has been done. In 2010, for example, New York chef and restaurateur Daniel Angerer infamously created small amounts of cheese from excess breast milk produced by his wife until the health department ordered him to cease and desist. One food critic described it as “quite bland, slightly sweet … It’s the unexpected texture that’s so off-putting.

Strangely soft, bouncy, like [the pudding-like Italian dessert] panna cotta.” The milk donor herself thought the cheese wasn’t bad, claiming it paired well with a Riesling.

But why stop at cheese?

Breast milk has abundant uses.

To start with the obvious, you can

drink it. The ancient legend known as “The Roman Charity” tells of a man named Cimon, sentenced to die of starvation in prison but kept alive by his daughter Pero, who breastfeeds him during visits. (This scene became a perennial favorite of Baroque painters the voyeurs.) After they’re caught in the act, the father is released in tribute to the daughter’s selflessness. The same trope appears at the end of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, when Joad’s daughter Rose of Sharon, her baby stillborn, offers her breast to a starving stranger.

This past July, the BBC ran reports from China about wealthy deves paying wet nurses $2500 a month to supply them with fresh product, either via pumping or straight from the tap. One blogger told of sex parties for senior Communist Party members where drinking breast milk direct from nursing mothers was one of the kinks.

Urban legend?

Maybe.

However, perusing an online breast-milk exchange called Only the Breast, we find more than 100 classifieds under “Men buying breast milk.” Sample: “Attractive professional male 35/m looking for VERY fresh, warm milk on demand in western Mass area for health benefits and stress relief.”

Bid price: $100 a session. My advice: Hold out for two grand a month.

In 2011 the Icecreamists, a determinedly in-your-face London ice cream parlor (typical offerings: a “Sex Bomb” sundae

until the mouth-coating back taste kicks in — like a thin, more goatish, dairy.”

Thinking we should see what the fuss was about, I asked my assistants Una and Fierra if they felt equipped to contribute. They demurred, instead volunteering to stop in at the Icecreamists on an upcoming field trip to London.

After enduring a two-hour train ride, closed tube stations, a torrential rainstorm and other

misadventures, the women arrived at Covent Garden only to be told the shop had shut its doors. Vainly attempting to contact the proprietors by phone, they at length discovered the store’s blog, last updated in July 2012. Amid rants about the British fascist state, they read that a massive rent hike had sent the Icecreamists’ retail operation the way of the empire.

Maybe it’s just as well.

While I acknowledge Homo sapiens has survived OK on the stuff without regulatory oversight, the fact remains that consuming breast milk from an unknown source can be hazardous. A 2010 Stanford University study found one in 30 potential milk donors were rejected after testing positive for syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C or human T-cell lymphotropic virus.

If you have a safe source and want to make breastmilk cheese yourself, be advised that you’ll need to use rennet rather than, say, lemon juice (another common cheesifying ingredient), since breast milk doesn’t curdle the same way cow’s milk does. Chef Angerer has posted his recipe on his blog, and if any of the Teeming Millions would like to give it a shot, let us know how it comes out. Just don’t send us any in the mail.

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cutie. “She’s a little doll,” I said. “What’d you name her?”

“Harper,” the man replied, lifting his daughter and carrying her over to the car seat, which Mom had just finished installing in the rear of my taxi. These two operated together like a well-oiled machine.

“Oh, that’s very cool,” I said. “Anything to do with the Paul Newman movie of that name?”

“No, I’ve never even heard of it,” the dad answered. “Have you, honey?”

“I don’t think so,” she said. “It’s actually an old family name.”

“Well, in the ’60s, Paul Newman made a series of movies all beginning with the letter H. There was The Hustler, Hud, Harper and I think a fourth one whose name escapes me.”

I forget sometimes: The 1960s were a very long time ago. I am fast approaching codger status, hence my antiquated frame of reference. My twentysomething customers just smiled at me graciously.

“So, you folks finishing up a Vermont vacation?” I asked as we crept up Ledge Road, the steep cut-over to Prospect Street.

“Yeah, we had a great time,” the man replied. He was sitting next to me, while in the back his wife tended to little Harper, who was cooing away like nobody’s business. “We live in Baltimore now, but we’re from western Pennsylvania. And we both attended York College.”

“York College — yeah, I heard of it. Is that where you guys met?”

“No, we went to high school together.”

“I love it — high school sweethearts.”

“Not quite,” said the woman, jumping in. “We only got together at college. Todd wanted to hook up back in high school, but I was having none of it.”

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Todd laughed, saying, “I wore you down, honey. Persistence pays off.”

“So what are you doing for work, Todd?”

“I’m a lawyer.”

“What kind of law do you practice?”

“I’m working for a large Baltimore firm specializing in corporate securities.”

“Sounds boring and lucrative,” I joked.

“You’re exactly right — it is both boring and lucrative. And the hours are totally crazy. I graduated law school with a mountain of debt, so I am grateful to have a good job. It’s been tough for law school graduates for a number of years now. But I hope to get out of the firm after I pay down a chunk of these loans.”

“So what are your career aspirations? Some kind of public service law?

Please don’t tell me you’re one of those do-gooders.”

“That’s what I hope to be,” Todd replied, chuckling. “In fact, we both love it up here and wouldn’t mind moving to the area.

What do you think?”

I paused before replying. I play second fiddle to no one in my appreciation of Vermont, and, perhaps because of that, I’m hesitant to fill the place up with unworthy candidates. Maybe it sounds selfish, not to mention snobbish, but I want to maintain the quality of our immigrant stock. On reflection, these people seemed great, so I let it rip.

“Well, I’ll tell you this. I don’t think there’s a better place to raise a family. And, at least in the Burlington area, the economy is percolating nicely. I’m sure there’s

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opportunity for lawyers. I don’t think the salaries approach what you can make in the big cities, but quality of life, baby — it can’t be beat.”

“Thanks for that assessment,” Todd said. “I think we’re really going to explore the options up here when I’m ready to leave the law firm.”

We passed Al’s French Frys. Right here, a few months ago, I got a ticket for “unsafe driving” when, apparently, I cut it too close taking the diagonal left onto White Street.

This was my first moving violation in more than a dozen years, and I requested a hearing. I have no legitimate excuse; I’m just going to throw myself — prostrate if necessary — on the mercy of the court.

“Did you get up into the mountains during your stay?” I asked. “Did you visit Stowe?”

“No, we didn’t get the chance,” the woman replied. “Maybe next time. We did tour Shelburne Farms. That property was, like, amazing.”

“Wow, that’s great. I love that place. It’s like a window back in time. You know — to simpler, happier days, when we all had dozens of servants attending to our every need and desire.”

The couple laughed. Harper did, too, though I got the feeling she didn’t fully appreciate the wry subtlety of my humor. m

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he late-afternoon call came in from Majestic Car Rental on the Shelburne Road rotary. Majestic is one of the local businesses — a small group mostly composed of restaurants and bars — that contact me first when they have a customer in need of a cab, and I love them for it.

“Jernigan, I have a couple going to the airport,” said Holly, the manager. “Are you available?”

“I’m on my way,” I replied. “Thanks for the call, Holly.”

Approaching rush hour, the rotary was a tangled mess, big surprise. Five distinct roads feed into the darn thing. There is a plan to convert it into a roundabout — which, if traffic studies are to be believed, should help immensely. Two things to consider, however: First, this project has been on the drawing board for the better part of a decade, so I’m not holding my breath in anticipation of the groundbreaking. Second, when construction finally does get under way, get ready for a gridlock nightmare of “The Walking Dead” proportions.

I pulled into Majestic’s small parking lot, and a young woman immediately approached me. She said, “Last-minute emergency, I’m afraid. Sorry to hold you up.”

I glanced over at one of the parked rental cars to see an equally young man leaning into the open rear door. I quickly surmised that he was changing the diaper of their baby.

“Better now than on the plane, right?”

I said, chuckling. “Of course, it’ll probably happen in the air, as well.”

“Ohh, yeah,” she said, with the proud resignation of a young mother.

As her partner finished up, I stepped over to check out the baby, a chubby-cheeked

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Why more Vermont physicians are making the switch to “concierge” practices

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ichael Sakash admits he’s not the kind of patient who gets in and out of a doctor’s office in 15 minutes. The 62-year-old Stowe resident has a long and complex medical history that includes diabetes, diverticulitis, depression and substanceabuse issues. Then, in July 2012, Sakash suffered a stroke, which left him unable to work.

A few months ago, Sakash was notified by his primary care physician of more than 20 years, Dr. David Bisbee of Stowe, that he was switching to a “concierge” practice.

For the patients who choose to enroll, Bisbee now charges an annual fee of $1500, for which they receive 24-hour-a-day access to their doctor. He gives patients his cellphone number, accommodates them with same-day appointments and makes house calls.

Office visits are less rushed and more comprehensive — an annual physical can take two hours — with virtually no time spent in a waiting room. And, regardless of the medical reason for it, every office visit costs just $25. Despite the annual fee, which isn’t covered by his insurance policy though Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, Sakash says he’d never consider looking for a different doctor.

“Dr. Bisbee knows my background,” he says. “If I need 25 minutes, he’ll give me 30 because he won’t leave until he’s done.”

To some, the term “concierge,” “boutique” or “retainer” medicine conjures up images of high-end practitioners who cater exclusively to rock stars and Park Avenue socialites. But though Sakash resides in the Stowe area, he’s no member of the 1 percent. A former school bus driver of 13 years, he was working in the maintenance department of a maple syrup processing plant in Hardwick when his stroke occurred. He now gets by — and pays Bisbee’s annual fee — on his disability checks.

For Bisbee, the son of a seventh-generation Waitsfield dairy farmer, the motivations for switching to a concierge practice a month ago were only partly financial.

The 59-year-old family practitioner says he was driven more by a desire to regain his “autonomy” as a physician and get back to the basics of why he got into medicine 27 years ago.

“I do house calls, I deliver babies, I go to the hospital and the nursing home,” explains Bisbee, who’s also the medical director of a long-term nursing facility in Morrisville. (He waives his annual fee for

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most of his elderly patients and allows others to pay in installments.) “This is what I call a modern medical practice with a lot of old-fashioned notions.”

Bisbee is hardly alone in this desire.

Increasingly, Vermont’s independent physicians say it’s never been harder for them to make a living. Faced with declining reimbursement rates, rising overhead costs, and excessive time spent filling out paperwork and obtaining insurance company preauthorizations — not to mention the confusion and uncertainty of the shift to a more centralized insurance system — many say they face a difficult dilemma: either join a large, hospital-affiliated medical practice and become salaried employees, or leave Vermont to practice in another state where they can make more money.

Evidently, many doctors have chosen the former. A decade ago about half of all primary care practices in Vermont were independently owned. That’s according to Dr. Paul Reiss, president of a Vermontbased association, Healthfirst, that bargains to get independent physicians better rates on their malpractice insurance, equipment and contracts with the state. Today, Reiss says that figure has dropped to a third.

But some doctors, like Bisbee, have found an attractive third option: Set up a concierge practice, which dramatically reduces their “panel,” or caseload, from several thousand patients to several hundred. By charging each individual or family an annual fee, practitioners are free to spend more time as doctors and less as bookkeepers.

“I just really like the flexibility of getting back to the one-on-one, doctorpatient relationship. It feels really good,” Bisbee adds. “And I feel pretty confident in saying that these practices are going to pop up right and left now.”

Dr. Alicia Cunningham agrees. The 38-year-old primary care physician in South Burlington left a Fletcher Allenowned group practice in February to set up her own concierge practice, which she refers to as “direct primary care.”

Previously, Cunningham says she was spending more than half her time dealing with “paperwork, bureaucracy and mandates ... time I could have spent caring for people.”

Since then, Cunningham has reduced her panel of patients from 3000 to 400, a limit she’s fast approaching after advertising her new concierge practice extensively in the Chittenden County market. As she puts it, “You cannot have a personal relationship and be on call for 3000 patients.

“I enjoy caring for my patients, which means being available to them and on call when they’re in trouble or have questions, and I don’t want them to be limited to a 15minute visit,” she adds. Cunningham keeps her schedule open to see patients in her office the same day they call, and to answer their emails, texts and phone calls.

As with most concierge practices, Cunningham’s patients still need insurance to cover their other medical expenses, such as lab work, ER visits, prescriptions and hospital stays. But with all the extra time in her schedule, she’s now free to provide more hands-on care to her patients in hospitals, rehab centers, nursing homes and assisted-living facilities. As she puts it, “I wanted to get back to the way medicine should be practiced.”

Good for the Few but Not the Many?

Plenty of doctors and patients would likely sign on to providing more personalized care. But critics worry that the growing popularity of concierge medicine will

worsen Vermont’s already existing shortage of primary care physicians. The state has been struggling to recruit enough doctors to meet the growing demand.

Dr. Paul Harrington, president of the Vermont Medical Society, says Vermont currently has just 600 primary care docs, a shortage of 25. That shortfall is expected to rise to 63 doctors by 2015, he adds, due to Vermont’s aging population and a projected 18 percent increase in new patients who will gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act. To date, the Green Mountain Care Board, which concerns itself with accessibility, has yet to take a formal position on the issue, or make it an agenda item at one of its meetings.

Because concierge medicine is so new to Vermont, Harrington doesn’t even know how many doctors have switched to it; for its part, the Vermont Medical Society has not yet taken an official stance on the model. Local concierge docs estimate their numbers in Vermont at fewer than a dozen. A 2010 congressional commission convened to study issues of access for Medicare patients put the figure at 756 nationwide, a fivefold increase in five years.

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practices typically retain only 12 percent of their former patients and tend to care for fewer African American, Latino and Medicaid ones. They also tend to treat fewer patients with complex medical histories, including diabetes.

Local concierge doctors such as Cunningham say they’re treating a broad demographic of patients and medical conditions. Equally important, she says they’re doing something the Affordable Care Act, and the insurance companies, have yet to accomplish: They’re increasing the quality of care their patients receive while simultaneously controlling costs.

“Many patients pay a lot of money for insurance and if they don’t meet their deductible, they get nothing in return,” she says. “My patients receive high-quality, convenient care from their physician who is available 24/7, all for a reasonable cost.

Given the time I spend with patients, I can save them money by reducing medications, specialist appointments, emergency-room visits and hospital stays, making the overall cost even lower.”

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“overburden themselves” to provide access to the entire community. Nevertheless, he says, “We should take it as a red flag that the system needs to be fixed so that these primary care doctors can have a reasonably healthy lifestyle of their own.”

Because concierge doctors are few and far between in Vermont, the model has few vocal critics here. But one skeptic at the national level includes the powerful American Medical Association. In its written policy on the practice, the AMA states that, while such practices are part of the “pluralism in the delivery and financing of health care,” they also raise “ethical concerns that warrant careful attention,” including issues of patient access.

One survey cited on the AMA Journal of Ethics website notes that concierge

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external affairs and sales for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, says the jury is still out on whether concierge medicine is good for Vermont — or his company.

“It’s an evolving thing for us. Because it’s so new, we’re still trying to understand the implications for our members,” Goddard says. “If it were to unduly limit access to primary care for a large part of the population, that would be a concern.”

Even Reiss, who advocates for independent physicians, says there are “definitely downsides” to the concierge model, in that those doctors “have fewer patients and there aren’t nearly enough primary care docs as it is.”

Reiss emphasizes that he doesn’t fault individual physicians for their decision to switch, noting that they shouldn’t have to

One of the first concierge practices in Vermont was not in Chittenden County but in Rutland. Dr. Seth Coombs and his partner, Dr. Bruce Bullock, made the switch two years ago to turn off the “conveyor belt” of patients.

“In the traditional model, where efficiency is king, basically all your systems are developed to create an assembly line, where you’re ... going from one exam room to another trying to get in and out in 15 minutes,” he says. “Your time has to be spent making money, and the only way you make money in primary care is seeing patients.”

Coombs soon realized that he was also saving his patients, and insurance companies, money. Coombs says that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont has done enough analysis of doctors around the state to confirm that Coombs is more likely than most to prescribe generic drugs and to be more selective about the tests he orders.

Coombs also says he’s more likely to treat patients in his office, or over the phone, than he was three years ago. For example, he can review photos of a patient’s rash emailed to him, then call in a prescription to a pharmacy, saving his patients time and money.

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Likewise, he’s also more likely to treat patients in his office for more serious complaints rather than instantly sending them to the emergency room. “I now have the time to explain to someone why they don’t need a CT scan for their headache.”

Coombs’ findings are more than anecdotal. A five-year study of “personalized preventive care,” published last year in the American Journal of Managed Care found significant reductions in patient hospitalizations, elective and nonelective surgeries, and unavoidable admissions. For some patients, especially those on Medicare, the rates were nearly 80 percent lower than those not receiving “managed care.”

Despite such apparent cost benefits, Coombs reports that some insurance companies, including Cigna and United Healthcare, had “extremely negative” reactions when he changed to a concierge practice. He says Blue Cross Blue Shield is now reimbursing him one-third less than it was previously. Only MVP Health Care of Vermont, he says, seemed unconcerned about the change. (Numerous phone calls to MVP were not returned.)

Goddard acknowledges that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont reduced some of its reimbursement rates for concierge doctors. He notes, however, that while the company initially declined to list them as “preferred providers,” it has since reversed that decision. Those practices are now included in its Vermont network on a “pilot” basis.

For his part, Coombs says he cannot understand why insurance companies would object.

“Medicare was looking for reasons to kibosh concierge medicine when it first came out about 12 years ago, but they’re much more warm to it now,” he says, “I’m sure the other payers will be, too. They just don’t have the data yet to show the benefits.”

Finally, with patients enjoying 24-hour access to their docs and their cellphone numbers, one might assume that some patients would abuse that privilege. Not so, report Bisbee, Cunningham and Coombs.

Equally important, they all say they’ve never been happier as doctors, which means they’re more likely to stay in medicine, and in Vermont.

Notes Bisbee, who’s 59, “I don’t plan to retire at 65, because I just love what I do.” m

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but also subjects us to the potential HR nightmares of a mid-year changeover.

Or, irony of ironies: We can ask someone like Holcomb to help us pick one of the new plans and sign all qualifying Seven Dayzers up for it. That means: Instead of having the “KAYAK.com” experience of customizing their health care adventures, as the president pitched it, our employees would be on the same plane for a group trip booked by a travel agent.

If we pick none of the above, Blue Cross will assign us a plan that most closely resembles the one we currently have.

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bamacare can’t come soon enough for Megan James. Our associate arts editor is pregnant, her baby’s due in May and under Vermont’s new health care plan, the birth could cost her as little as $500 instead of $2500 — the deductible for an individual on our current plan. Almost every one of her pregnant predecessors at Seven Days has paid $5000 — the family deductible — for the pricey privilege of reproducing.

Delivering a new way to purchase health insurance is proving to be painful indeed. Talk about complications! Six agonizing weeks after the nationwide launch of the health care exchanges, the fruits of the Affordable Care Act have yet to emerge. Closer to home, the Vermont Health Connect website — on which Seven Days and other Vermont small business employees were supposed to be able to shop for health care — has been plagued by problems since it went live on October 1.

As a result, we’re in health care limbo. Like many other companies too small to engage a full-time HR person, Seven Days finds itself caught between the hell of a mandate we can’t carry out and the vague promises of more choice now and “single payer someday.”

Most vexing: We can go on the Vermont Health Connect website and register our employees, along with the amount we’re contributing toward their monthly premiums — or so I’d been told. But the website won’t let employees complete step two of the process: They can’t log on, comparison shop among the 18 plans and buy one.

No click, no coverage.

In a meeting at our office last Thursday, Jessica Holcomb, an “exchange specialist” from Blue Cross Blue Shield, told us that, to her knowledge, no one has successfully completed the employee portion of the online sign-up.

Acknowledging that major mess-up,

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is proving to be painful indeed.

Gov. Peter Shumlin recently announced the small-business enrollment deadline would be extended three months, to March 31, 2014. Companies like Seven Days now have four choices: We can hold out

hope that the exchange will be functional in time to get our employees enrolled for the first of the year. We can hang on to our current health care plan for three more months, which puts off the pain

All summer long, I tried to ignore the mounting hysteria about Vermont’s health care exchange, deleting countless email invites to info sessions and webinars. I just didn’t have the bandwidth to dig in and figure out if it could really be worse, as some business interests were saying, than what we have had for years: a plan with ever-escalating premiums announced too late in the year to shop around for another one.

I was hoping some other CEO — one with more time and stronger opinions about health care — would fight the good fight, and all of us small-business owners would benefit from his or her carefully considered analysis and conclusions.

But no pearls of wisdom ever emerged, and the argument divided — unhelpfully — along political lines. In August, I noticed the two employees charged with researching our options were getting really anxious

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processes. She had surrendered her birth date, Social Security number, address, childhood street name, the town in which she got engaged and the name of the hospital where her eldest child was born before the computer abruptly announced: “An unexpected error occurred. Please contact administrator.”

Call No. 2 to the help line instructed us to close out of the web browser and log in again. But the website didn’t recognize either the login or password we had just set up. The guy on the phone told Cheryl he’d refer the problem to the IT department and to expect either an email or a call. He didn’t say when.

Three days later, we’re still waiting.

So what are we going to do as a company?

The reason we met with Holcomb was to learn more about health reimbursement accounts, or HRAs, which are harder to budget for than health savings accounts.

If all of our employees use the maximum amount Seven Days promises each of them, we’ll spend twice as much as we did last year on their HSAs. No less a gamble are the health plans themselves, nine of which Holcomb went over in great detail — down to the double asterisks. Cheryl observed that they aren’t really much different from each other in terms of the total cash outlay: You can save money paying a lower premium — unless you get sick or hurt. The high-premium plan takes your money up front.

But there’s still no beating the house.

Holcomb directed us to a plan — the nonstandard “Gold” — that costs about the same as our current one but covers more preventative care. The amount of the deductible will equal the value of the HRAs we plan to set up. An individual employee could potentially rack up another $3000 in medical expenses after that, but only in a slow drip of accumulated co-pays: It’s $20 to see a primary care doc or therapist; $30 for a specialist; $250 for an emergency room visit; $500 for a hospital stay, no matter how long. Megan’s baby should cost her no more than that.

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about it. Everybody else in the company, too, was starting to fret over what we intended to do.

Then came Ken Picard’s September 18 cover story, which looked at how the exchange would affect the health care of five different Vermonters. It was a crash course for Ken. Editing the article had the same effect on me. In the process of peppering Ken with questions, I learned about subsidies, deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums, standard and “nonstandard” plans, and, just before they were to disappear, the differences among Catamount, VHAP and Medicaid.

I came away thinking: How hard can it be to figure this thing out?

Hard enough that it took four “navigators” to lead me to a place that looks a lot like where we came from. Of course we’d continue to insure our full-time employees — on average, they earn too much to qualify for subsidies — and we’d pay the same amount toward premiums as last year.

But what about the health savings accounts to which we contribute as part of our current coverage? Not all the new plans have them. We’d start “health reimbursement accounts” instead. They’re not pre-tax cash in the bank but a promise to pay an employee’s medical expenses up to a certain amount.

Similar concept, different acronym.

No navigator was on hand last Friday to help me and Seven Days business manager Cheryl Brownell explore the webby wilds of Vermont Health Connect. Holcomb expressed confidence that we could at least get the company’s 32 qualifying employees registered on the website. Then, in the event the exchange starts working before the end of November, they can buy into Obamacare as it was originally envisioned.

We were ready to do our part.

After clicking on the “start here” box for employers, we got a login prompt.

Since we didn’t have one yet, we pushed “register,” which generated a form that looked as if it was designed for an individual. Call No. 1 to the help line reassured us to keep going.

Cheryl filled in some of her personal information, and more still as part of the identity verification and security

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hirty-seven percent: That’s how much Logic Supply, a computer manufacturer based in South Burlington, plans to save on health insurance next year.

It’s a strikingly different narrative than the doom-and-gloom story playing out for other employers. No health exchange maze to navigate. No benefit changes to parse. That’s because Logic Supply is choosing an unusual path for a company its size: It’s “self-insuring,” which means Logic Supply and its employees, instead of a traditional insurance company, will pay the health care expenses of the 46 fulltime employees.

“Personally, I will save $168 a month” on premiums, says Logic Supply human resources director Mark Heyman, who insures himself and his family through Logic. A zero rate increase would have been a pleasant surprise in the world of

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health insurance, Heyman says. Thirtyseven percent is practically unheard-of.

Not having to purchase insurance through an outside firm will save Logic Supply — a company that shares profits with workers — $100,000 next year.

Benefits will largely stay the same, and where they change, they’ll change for the better, company officials say. Employer contributions to employee health savings accounts will double. What’s left will go straight to Logic Supply’s bottom line.

Self-insuring isn’t a revolutionary concept. Nor is it particularly unusual — for larger companies. According to the Self-Insurance Institute of America, an estimated 50 million workers and their families receive benefits through selfinsured group health plans sponsored by their employers.

In fact, many of those employees may not even realize that their companies

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self-insure; the plans and benefits are often administered by other insurance companies — Cigna, in Logic Supply’s case — and closely resemble plans in the traditional insurance marketplace. Logic Supply’s broker, Tim Cope of Fleischer Jacobs Group, says employees often don’t care how claims get paid, just that they do.

But the concept of self-insurance is making headlines now, as some politicians — notably, former New York governor George Pataki — label it an “escape hatch” from Obamacare. Pataki, in an op-ed

published in the New York Post last week, called out the White House for “leading the charge to close what it calls the ‘selfinsurance loophole.’”

“The administration and its allies fear that the more people gravitate toward the successful, free-market self-insurance approach, the worse their governmentengineered health ‘reform,’ will look,” Pataki wrote.

If Logic Supply hadn’t chosen to go self-insured next year, the company’s employees would have purchased insurance

on the Vermont Health Connect exchange, as mandated by state law. Heyman says his firm’s choice wasn’t motivated by an urge to dodge Obamacare or the Vermont exchange. But after recent headlines about website glitches, he says he’s glad he’s in a position to say, “I support the health care reform, but we don’t have to deal with the technical problems. I get to have my cake and eat it, too.”

Logic Supply operates from a spare gray cube of a building, built in 2007, off Route 116. It is set to break ground on an addition that will more than double the company’s space next spring. Logic Supply manufacturers rugged computers for harsh environments — think dusty factory floors, mining machinery and seagoing vessels. The company grew rapidly from three employees in 2004 to 46 as of last week. By February, when a few more vacant positions are filled, it should crack 50, Heyman predicts.

How will self-insurance work? The company and its employees will make monthly payments not unlike the insurance premiums they now pay for their Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont plan.

A portion of that pool of money goes to pay the bills if an employee has a baby, or needs surgery, or just heads to the doctor for a cold.

Another portion finances what’s called “stop loss” insurance, which functions like catastrophic insurance if a company’s claims exceed a certain amount.

Self-insurance makes sense for Logic Supply in large part because of demographics. “You have to have enough employees to spread the risk,” says Cope — and they have to be a reasonably healthy group.

Logic Supply officials say that selffunding won’t influence their hiring decisions; discriminating based on age or health would be illegal, Heyman concedes.

“It just so happens … that we’ve got a lot of young’uns running around,” Heyman says. That makes the company an attractive bet for larger insurance companies that administer self-insured plans. Logic Supply’s generally young and healthy workforce brings lower risk and, thus, lower rates.

But demographics aren’t everything.

At least one of those Logic Supply “young’uns” is expecting a baby in the next year, and, on the flip side, the company hires plenty of mid-career professionals.

Heyman adds, “Anybody can have needs or medical issues.”

That self-insurance is especially

attractive for companies with younger, healthier workers has some experts worried. The Center for American Progress warned in June that small businesses opting to self-insure could increase insurance premiums for the small-group market by taking those young, healthy workers out of the larger insurance pool. A top lawyer to the Montana insurance commissioner told the New York Times earlier this year that stop-loss plans are free to reject less healthy groups because they aren’t subject to the same regulations as commercial insurers.

In its position paper, the Center for American Progress also pointed out that because self-insurance plans aren’t required to provide the same level of benefits as the federal health care law mandates, some employers could look to self-funded plans as a way to skirt the new regulations.

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Of course, there’s a certain degree of risk for self-insured companies, even if their workforces are fairly healthy. A few expensive medical cases — for example, a cancer diagnosis or premature birth — could ratchet up costs dramatically. Stoploss insurance kicks in at a certain point, but carriers can always raise premiums or decline to renew coverage if a group becomes less attractive from a risk-assessment perspective.

But Heyman points out that insurance costs could fluctuate regardless of whether a company is self-insured or purchasing a plan through a major insurance company.

“I think we’ve positioned ourselves as well as we can to provide good benefits at a great cost,” Heyman says. “Next year, if rates skyrocket, we’ll be out looking for something [different].”

Employees at Logic Supply aren’t

raising many concerns. Heyman says most questions run along the lines of, “Hey, are my benefits going to change?” The answer — no — is what many care about most.

“I can’t see a downside to this in any direction,” says operations manager Scott Aguiar. “It’s a win-win all the way around.”

Aguiar snags a Granny Smith apple and steps away from his standing desk station in Logic Supply’s computer production room.

“It’s fun to give great news like this to the team, especially in a time like this when there are some scary stories out there,” he says. “We’re sitting pretty.”

Will more companies follow in Logic Supply’s footsteps? That depends.

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hen the Tropical Fish Club of Burlington held its “less than annual” auction on a recent Sunday, Brian Scott cleaned up in every sense of the phrase. In the auction, he scored fish and plants left and right. When they called the door prize, Scott won more than $100. And around his seat at the back of the Burlington Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, he found himself mopping up water that had seeped out of one of his fish-filled plastic bags.

Scott corrected me when I suggested he had acquired a lot of stuff. He was trying to do the opposite. “My wife will kill me if I come back with more than I brought!” exclaimed Scott, whose arms are lined with tattoos and whose beard and black leather cap could qualify him to play with ZZ Top. He had lugged several multigallon fish tanks up from Benson that day, hoping to unload them on his fellow auction-goers.

With about 45 current members, the TFCB has been uniting freshwater fish fans for almost a quarter century. Judging by the scene in the VFW, it’s a small but spirited society. Some 40 people attended the event, which was emceed by Doug Patac and featured everything from fish to filters to cartoonish figurines of nude females — for aquariums, of course. Around the meeting room, several long tables were loaded with fish and plants in clear plastic bags of various sizes. While local vendors donated some of the auction items, most were fish bred by the hobbyists themselves.

It’s an odd experience to walk from a freezing November morning into a tropical fish auction. A sign at the front of the VFW ironically commanded “No Pets.” A seagull serendipitously flew overhead as I entered. Inside, the spirit was convivial.

Some attendees were eating chili, others drinking beer and writing down the numbers of items on which they’d placed bids. The VFW walls bore a mashup of Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations.

Patac, a teacher from Bennington, introduced each auction item with a pitch.

“These are lemon-yellow African cichlids.

These are just gorgeous. You get saltwater colors with a freshwater fish,” he began, then rattled off the bids on that offering with the flourish of an experienced auctioneer. “Bidding starts at $3. $3 looking? $3 looking? OK, $4! $4 looking? $4 looking? Are you all done? Sold!”

Although a few hot commodities climbed into the $50 range, including a 50gallon tank, the process never seemed cutthroat, with most winning bids less than

$10. The individuals placing them included members of the TFCB, avid collectors from as far away as Connecticut, Massachusetts and Montréal, and a 12-year-old girl whose father had dropped her off with $45.

The auction functions as the main fundraiser for the club, which David and Janine Banks founded 24 years ago as a way to build interest in the hobby. (They’re planning an unusually large auction next year to celebrate TFCB’s 25th anniversary.) Living in Hinesburg at the time, the couple once stored as many as 45 tanks in their garage. Since moving to North Hero, Janine Banks said, they’ve downsized to a third of that number.

Their favorite fish are cichlids from the African lakes of Malawi and Tanganyika.

So fond are the Bankses of those lakes that they named their two cats after them.

(Fortunately, the felines haven’t inherited an appetite for their namesakes’ fauna.)

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When you have guppies and they have babies, what do you do?

Do you kill them? No, you get ’em a new tank.

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The TFCB invites experts from across the region and country to speak about fish and aquarium maintenance at its monthly meetings. The idea, Banks said, is to help people learn how to strengthen their collections. One of the earliest lessons for new collectors is that fish will eat almost anything that fits in their mouths.

More advanced hobbyists learn how to breed. “When you have guppies and they have babies, what do you do? Do you kill them? No, you get ’em a new tank. Some fish have babies who are a half inch long.

So it’s a lot of education,” explained Banks, the club’s treasurer. She has also served as chairperson of the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies, an umbrella organization for tropical fish groups across the region. Her husband is president of the TFCB. For auction attendee Olivia Strong, the big question is how to get her cichlids (a diverse family of fish that’s popular in Vermont) not to pulverize every plant she places in their small sea. “Ideally, I’d like to have a planted tank, but cichlids tear up plants. Those little leafy, frilly things?

They don’t last,” she lamented. “You come home from work and there are little pieces floating on top.”

Strong, a Jericho resident, has been

collecting fish for three years. She got involved with the TFCB after attending last year’s auction, she said over a cup of chili.

More experienced members suggested plants that might deter her fish’s mandibles. Although Strong hadn’t planned to get anything at the auction, her eyes had turned to an Anubias plant that might do the trick.

While the auction occupied the front of the VFW hall, the back was given over to the “bowl show” — a competition in which participants could enter their fish for a chance at prizes of up to $20. Strong had brought her cobalt blue African cichlid, which looked like a whale compared with the other fish in the contest. Its smallest competitor was a chili rasbora, the color of a goldfish and barely larger than a mosquito.

Judging was open to anyone, so as the bidding continued, auction-goers periodically got up to scan the selection and cast ballots. Ultimately, the winner was a koi angelfish, a ghost-white specimen with translucent fins and orange-and-black markings across its face and body.

Though the TFCB is accessible to beginners, the more experienced collectors carried themselves with a certain swagger, discussing in minute and authoritative

detail the merits of stocking shrimp versus paramecium, or the stuff they’d managed to acquire through scrupulous surfing of Craigslist.

Local aquarium expertise isn’t limited to the members of the TFCB. As it happens, the world’s most widely circulated magazines about fresh and saltwater aquariums — Amazonas and Coral, respectively — are published in Shelburne

by Reef to Rainforest Media. Though both bimonthly publications are actually translations of German magazines, editor and publisher James Lawrence explained in a later phone call that the English-language versions produce original content and enjoy a wider circulation.

“We’re kind of tucked away in Shelburne here,” Lawrence said. The former editor and publisher of EatingWell, he has moved on to books and magazines for the fish-collecting set. Although Lawrence believes enthusiasm for tropical fish is high in Vermont, his publications sell best on the coasts. “[Reef to Rainforest has] a very strong environmental stance, and we hammer away at climate change. That tends to drive away the right-wingers, so maybe we’re self-selecting for blue states,” Lawrence explained of his magazines’ audience, citing California as their largest market.

Although he didn’t attend the TFCB auction, Lawrence donated several books and magazines. The auction-goers who paid $2 for the most recent issues of Amazonas and Coral got great deals, since they retail at $8.

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While the TFCB does raise conservation issues at its meetings, the club’s primary mission is promoting responsible collecting, Janine Banks explained. A collector, she said, should never release tropical fish into the wild. Almost 2000 miles north of the nearest tropics, another important principle for Vermont collectors is storing their fish in insulated environments. That meant people would be stowing their catches in Styrofoam coolers for the car ride home.

Unlike breeders of certain furry pets, patient hobbyists don’t need much time or money to end up with striking specimens. Winning second place at the bowl show was Lam Phan, who entered a red-tailed shark. Not nearly as fearsome as its moniker would suggest, the shark is a black, whiskered fish with a brightorange tail. Phan, who took home $15 for the honor, isn’t some grizzled veteran; he’s only been at the hobby for three years.

The beauty of fish collecting, suggested Richard Maxwell, an early club member who now sits on TFCB’s board of directors, is that it’s not the Westminster Kennel Club.

“Fish aren’t some status thing, like horses or German shepherds,” the veteran collector said. “No, fish people are pretty jolly.” m

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spring’s museum-studies class. Tamulonis and Dickinson came up with the theme of food’s social significance, and the former preselected most of the objects from the collection for the students to curate.

“It came out really beautifully,” she says, and adds, “I feel like there are a hundred more food exhibitions in the collection.”

“Margaret and I are such object-heads,” Dickinson says affectionately. The anthropology prof first collaborated with Tamulonis in 2010 after the two “got to talking about material culture.”

They produced a small exhibit tracing the stories of Vermont women’s lives from the objects they used, pairing such items as a late-19th-century bassinet and an audio recording of a Franco-American lullaby.

Tamulonis also collaborates with Dickinson — who directs UVM’s Center for Teaching and Learning, a faculty development center — on helping other professors incorporate the museum’s collection in their curricula. She coteaches a second class, with lecturer David Houston, on museum anthropology. These projects also culminate in student-curated exhibits, with themes such as fetishes and travel and tourism.

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argaret Tamulonis has managed the 24,000-item collection of the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art since 1999. Having charge of such a vast assortment of objects might overwhelm some. But for Tamulonis, the job — inventorying the items, pulling them for display or educational purposes, ensuring their safety — is one unending learning opportunity.

“I like to say, ‘There are 24,000 research projects upstairs,’” quips the easygoing 42-year-old, referring to the three storage rooms of the Fleming that house most of the collection.

Tamulonis is dressed casually in pants and flats, her brown hair escaping its elastic. She stands in her downstairs office, a utilitarian basement room packed with shelves of manila folders and beige file towers. There she has reluctantly agreed to start a tour of her life as the Fleming’s manager of collections and exhibitions.

“My office is really terrible, because it’s all paper!” she says apologetically.

Tamulonis is more at ease around the objects themselves, which give her plenty of opportunities for happiness. The museum’s holdings are staggering not just in number but in range — from fine art to obscure archaeological finds. The objects date from the present back to the 15th century BCE and come from around the globe. The collection is particularly strong in Native American — especially Plains — artifacts, as well as in works on paper and pre-Columbian objects.

Additionally, about 30 items are offered to the museum each year, according to Fleming director Janie Cohen. Tamulonis choreographs the multistage process through which they are vetted and then, generally, accepted.

The manager and her assistant, Nicola Astles, have been working for several years on creating an online digital catalog of the ever-growing collection. The result will be a public resource similar to those now offered by the American Museum of Natural History and other major institutions.

Casual and modest, Tamulonis is averse to acknowledging her own expertise — which is “encyclopedic,” according to her frequent faculty collaborator, UVM anthropology professor Jennifer Dickinson.

Tamulonis prefers to praise others, including the Honors College sophomores who take the museum-studies class she coteaches with Dickinson. “They always point out something new to me,” she marvels.

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To be able to respectfully work with objects from around the world is amazing to me.

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Meanwhile, Tamulonis neglects to mention two made-for-media moments in her 14-year tenure until the very end of the tour — and then discusses them only when pressed. Two years ago, she helped move the museum’s Egyptian mummy to Fletcher Allen Health Care for a CT scan; three years ago, she prepared to accompany Chief Medicine Bear’s moccasins to Montana for an ancestral family reunion.

(The latter trip was canceled when “Bear,” as she calls the chief’s great-great-grandson, ran into funding problems.)

Tamulonis likewise doesn’t mention that she’s a grant reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services or that she is chairing a panel on involving students in exhibitions at the upcoming New England Museum Association conference — national and regional accolades that Cohen cites without hesitation.

While Tamulonis may not tout her own achievements, she reveals her depth of knowledge as she talks about the current student-curated exhibit, “EAT: The Social Life of Food” — the product of last

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amulonis’ fascination with anthropology goes back a long way. Born in Manhattan, she became hooked in high school when she interned with New York’s city archaeologist, a woman she credits with having “led me to material culture and the ways it reflects individuals and history. The cool thing is that I still get to do that today,” she adds cheerfully.

She went on to study anthropology and history at the College of William and Mary, summer-interned at the Museum of the City of New York, and worked after graduation as assistant registrar at the New York Historical Society before moving to Vermont in 1999.

Almost immediately upon her arrival, Tamulonis become the caretaker of the Vermont Queer Archives for RU12?

Community Center, a Burlington-based advocacy organization for LGBTIQA Vermonters (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexed, questioning individuals and allies). She also joined the boards of other organizations and galleries and for a number of years has worked part-time on a master’s in history through UVM.

An intricately carved ivory tusk on a shelf below catches our eyes next. With some conservationists predicting the end of elephants in our lifetime, the art object is a troubling sight. Tamulonis assures it has been vetted, adding, “One of my jobs is doing research on provenance and making sure we’re legally compliant.”

The far end of the room is filled with black, acid-free boxes of photos, printed artworks and other works on paper. Here Tamulonis mentions “how cool my job is.”

Last week, she notes, she pulled a 19thcentury print by John Audubon for one class and early-20th-century Lewis Hine photographs for another.

Now Tamulonis pulls out a box of Hine’s work and brings it to the already

“This is why I love working in museums,” Tamulonis comments upon leaving the storage room. “To be able to respectfully work with objects from around the world is amazing to me.”

After winding through the processing room for new acquisitions, Tamulonis ends up in front of the Egyptian mummy.

Purchased by founding curator George Henry Perkins in 1910, the preserved 14-year-old girl has long been “a star of the collection,” she says.

The mummy is also a good example of the balancing act Tamulonis constantly must perform between making the collections accessible and keeping them safe.

When a fourth-year radiology resident at Fletcher Allen proposed in 2011 to update

Tamulonis decided to leave the mummy inside the bottom half of her ancient wood coffin, and the Fleming’s exhibition designer-preparator, Jeff Falsgraf, built a bier for it. On the morning of the transfer, they placed this on a stretcher and carried it downstairs and out to Johnson, who was waiting with a gurney. Tamulonis, Falsgraf and Johnson then wheeled the mummy the few hundred feet to Fletcher Allen. Fortunately, the weather held.

In the end, the scan offered no additional information on whether the girl’s head injury was pre- or postmortem. But the technique Johnson used — heavily radiologic to produce images of unprecedented accuracy — was soon adopted by

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the Vermont medical examiner to better determine causes of death in children. The method has since changed coroners’ practices in many states, says Johnson.

The mummy was safely returned to her museum home, and somewhere in the collection lies a 3-D print of her skull.

Tamulonis ends our tour in front of a vitrine containing African artifacts, again curated by students. She helped those students choose the items, directed them to information sources and edited the in-depth labels, or “chats,” where the student group’s names appear in the final display. But Tamulonis’ own name is nowhere to be found. m

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the mummy’s 1930s X-ray with a highresolution CT scan, Tamulonis entered into long discussions with the doctor.

The scanner could not be moved to the museum, so the 2700-year-old mummy would have to be carted to the hospital — after lying undisturbed for a century.

Jason Johnson, now a neuro-radiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, recalls some of those discussions by phone from his West Coast home.

“There was a lot of talk about whether the benefits outweighed the costs,” he recollects, as well as “a huge amount of discussion about whether we would need security, and the logistics of moving the mummy. We didn’t know what the weather would be, for example … The worst possible outcome was that we could damage her.”

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crowded side counter to open. “Oh, look, see? I’ll just have to move Andy Warhol to view Lewis Hine,” she jokes, carefully lifting out of the way an unusual photo portrait of the pop artist in drag. “I’m not an art historian, of course,” she adds, “but I’d never seen this kind of photo of him. These are some of the nice surprises we have.”

Inside the well-organized box of Mylarsleeved photos lies an image of four elaborately hatted female mill workers. “Some of the girls from the Chace Cotton Mill, Burlington, VT,” reads a typed transcription of Hine’s notes from 1909. Tamulonis guesses that Hine himself developed the photo, but she’s more interested in the hats, noting that the image prompted a class discussion about mill-worker wages and how they might have been spent.

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Tamulonis’ enthusiasm for her job has created an atmosphere of accessibility around the Fleming collection.

“From what I understand, they love having students come in and look at objects for their papers,” comments junior Cole Burton, a history and art-history double major who curated the late-19th-century pewter serving dish from China in “EAT.” After the museum-studies class ended, Burton interned with Tamulonis over the summer, and he has become something of a spokesperson for the food exhibit with local media.

In his work-study job as a Fleming gallery attendant, Burton sometimes sits in the Wilbur Room watching visitors examine “EAT.” “It’s really nice to see people spend time there,” he says.

Tamulonis is thrilled when she can kindle such interest. “Then we know we’ve converted them,” she says with a laugh. She particularly likes working with anthropology students because, she points out, “I can say, ‘This is what you can do with an anthropology degree!’”

Her current intern, Hilary Hilmer, is a senior anthropology and history double major. Hilmer says she first encountered Tamulonis when the manager pulled four Buddha sculptures for her sophomore class on legends of the Buddha in art. At that time, Hilmer and her classmates were allowed only to look at the carvings. One had been chiseled off a temple and then recarved to look like it hadn’t been pillaged, the student recalls.

Hilmer realizes now that those four samples represented a fraction of the Fleming’s holdings. “They have all this stuff,” she says. “And they allow me to dabble in everything.” Hilmer can handle the objects now; her job is to fill out detailed condition reports, complete with line drawings, on Native American pottery and baskets from the Southwest. Hilmer is clearly a Tamulonis convert: She’s hoping to spend a year working in a museum before pursuing a graduate degree in the profession.

Tamulonis generously allows us to peek into one of the three upstairs storage rooms where she and her team spend much of their time. “This is, like, restricted access,” she says, only half joking. After unlocking the room, she stops to enter our names and the time in a logbook, then heads down one of the narrow aisles of floor-to-ceiling metal shelving. The objects are attractively grouped on shelves, everything remarkably dust free.

Tamulonis stops at an arrangement of stunning Sri Lankan masks, which were the subject of a 2008 exhibit she curated.

“I knew we had this great collection,” she explains, so she brought it to the attention of then-curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, who encouraged her to mount a focused exhibit. Tamulonis put the masks in the context of the exorcism dances for which they were fashioned.

Queen for a Day A locally shot web series brings drag and drama to Burlington B y Ma r got H arr i s o n

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n a cramped dressing room in Burlington, two go-go boys are bending over to show how little their G-strings cover.

“Oh, shit,” groans a newcomer to the room, shocked by the display of flesh.

“You’ve never seen asses before?” one performer retorts cheekily.

“At least our junk is covered,” the other adds. “State law: No pickles on parade.”

No, Burlington hasn’t suddenly acquired a gay nightclub. The dressing room — part of FlynnSpace — currently holds these three speakers, a director, a cinematographer, a guy with a boom mike and a few other crewmembers. They’re shooting a scene for a web series called “Queen Dad.” The show is the brainchild of Sëan Moran and Don Bledsoe, writing partners with years of experience in Hollywood.

A Vermont native and Saint Michael’s College grad, Moran, 56, danced in the movie Grease and has appeared in a slew of movies and TV shows. These days, he lives in Shelburne and flies to LA periodically to play roles such as an angry customer on the hit sitcom “2 Broke Girls” — or to participate in the annual Hollywood Bowl Grease Sing-A-Long.

When he’s not earning money on a network show, Moran is putting his own into “Queen Dad,” which he produces and directs in and around Burlington. He and Bledsoe, who lives in Kansas, collaborate long distance. They plan to produce a full first season, running 70 minutes in total.

In the old days of the small screen, shooting a series without committed funding from a network or investors would have been unthinkable. In the brave new world of digital media, however, independents can produce TV pilots on the (relatively) cheap and pitch them to established networks. “We had to make the whole thing and then sell it. The rest is out of our pockets,” Moran explains — excepting about $3700 raised through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.

The project’s budget is considerable for Vermont filmmaking, though tiny for Hollywood: The first season of “Queen Dad” will cost about $20,000, Moran says, and represent roughly 2400 hours of labor.

Much of that budget pays a crew of eight and cast of 18, all locals except for a few guest stars.

The plot of “Queen Dad” is a classic “odd roommates” situation, with a twist. In the eight-minute pilot, we meet

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Monty Ellis (Moran), a beefy, plaid-shirted plumber with a nocturnal life as a drag queen. This comes as a rude surprise to his homophobic son, Jack (Matt Parisi), who is meeting his dad for the first time — in wig and costume.

The premise of “Queen Dad” is “based on the true story of a father and son,” Moran says, with some modifications: “The real-life Monty wasn’t a drag queen.” When he and Bledsoe conceived the project, he recalls, “We said, you know, this would be a good web series, because everything now is going to the web. New media — that’s the new frontier in entertainment.”

The trick, of course, is making money from web content, which more often serves as a pitch or a lure to established media outlets. The DVD of “Queen Dad” will “be like our shopping tool,” Moran says. “We can take it to Oprah’s network [OWN], Showtime, MTV.” If a network shows interest, the possibilities are several: Moran and Bledsoe might find themselves selling the show’s concept and walking away from it, reshooting it, or watching it run on TV as is.

The crew is currently shooting a scene

set backstage at the Male Box, the club where Monty performs and Jack finds himself reluctantly earning a paycheck.

Arnold Wetherhead, a local video producer who serves as director of photography, promises the scene will be cut to afford only a modest view of the go-go dancers’ rear ends, which scandalize Jack.

As the crew prepares for more takes, Moran bemoans the difficulty of finding male G-strings and size 13 pumps (for Monty) in Burlington.

“You’re wearing your socks this whole scene?

That is so farmer,” he tells one of the go-go boys.

On a low-budget web series, Moran says, time is tight. He cautions Wetherhead that they only have 10 minutes left to get all the pickups (close-ups and other supplementary footage) they need for the scene.

“Almost done,” Wetherhead assures.

“That’s Arnold’s biggest lie,” Moran says jovially.

The youthful cast and crew include several local college students and recent grads. Others are familiar faces from the Vermont theater scene, such as Parisi, who’s starred in several Lyric Theatre

As the crew prepares for more takes,

Moran bemoans the difficulty of finding male G-strings and size 13 pumps.

Company productions, and Jon van Luling, cofounder of Green Mountain Cabaret.

Moran has his own roots in local theater; as a teen, he ushered at the Flynn. At St. Mike’s, he shared the stage with Ethel Goldstein, daughter of the then-owner of Burlington mainstay Henry’s Diner. In “Queen Dad,” she plays the Male Box’s owner, a maternal figure who presides over a bar that sharp eyes may recognize as that in the FlynnSpace.

“I’m having a blast,” says Goldstein, a retired educator now living in Westford.

“The people are great.”

Labor, locations and rented equipment — the costs of a web series add up. “We pay all our kids, and we feed them, which we’re very proud of,” says Moran, who seems to be settling into a role of mentor to the young Vermonters on the set. “We don’t pay them what they’re worth,” he adds.

There’s a bonus, though: Moran says he’s helped 17 players in the show become eligible for the Screen Actors Guild. That’s important to cast members such as Dustin Bruley, who studied improv at St. Mike’s and now wants to pursue voice acting in LA. So far, Moran says, reactions to the show from his LA contacts have been positive: “They saw this and said, ‘Wait, this is all Burlington actors?’” To get that result, he says, he had to coach Parisi and others to tone down their broad theatrical style and play more intimately to the camera.

Still active in the theater — he’ll direct the Williston School District’s upcoming production of Beauty and the Beast — Moran notes, “It’s very hard to go from stage to screen.” He’s considering building a database of screen-trained actors to aid local film students in casting their productions, he says.

For now, producing “Queen Dad” provides plenty of work. With December 2 set as the end of principal photography, Moran expects to have this season of “Queen Dad” edited and scored, and ready to upload, in February.

Coordinating everyone’s schedule is “a nightmare, but fun,” Moran says, as the cast and crew move out to the bar for a snack. The town may frown on “pickles on parade,” but the saucy style and inclusive message of “Queen Dad” seem to suit Burlington just fine. m

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id you see the pig in the window?” asked my friend as he returned from the bathroom. He seemed both fascinated and slightly horrified.

I had. A trip to the loo at Burlington’s Hen of the Wood brings you face to face with tomorrow’s dinner: A window into the walk-in cooler shows you cylinders of head cheese and maybe a carcass hanging from a hook, ready to be broken down.

These are not just for show. Various pig parts figure prominently on the menu at HOTW, from fried head cheese to pork rinds to ribbons of ham served under feather-light squash fritters. Lamb parts pepper the menu, too, such as lamb tartare and velvety lamb ribs. Then there are beef, rabbit … you get the picture.

Many Vermont restaurants list their farm partners on a menu or chalkboard.

The next step in strutting one’s localmeat cred may be hanging carcasses in full view of the diners. That practice is also in keeping with the whole-animal ethos of HOTW, which opened alongside Hotel Vermont on October 9. At this sleek new resto, a line of chairs facing a kitchen window allows butchering to become a spectator sport.

Burlington’s Hen of the Wood was arguably the city’s most eagerly anticipated restaurant this year. HOTW’s first location, in a former Waterbury mill, carries a certain mystique; wildly atmospheric and challenging to diners seeking reservations, the place has long been popular for special-occasion dinners.

Chef Eric Warnstedt, a multiple James Beard Foundation Award nominee, is behind its resolutely seasonal dishes.

Two years ago, Warnstedt and the owners of Hotel Vermont announced that a second location of HOTW would open in Burlington in spring 2013.

Then, in summer. Then, in early fall.

So many delays ensued that, when the restaurant finally opened last month, the staff joked, “Finally, right?” on the softopening menu.

Once you see the place, you understand why creating it took so long: It’s

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Street. Inside is a sophisticated space of inky hues, hickory bars, leather chairs and low lighting. Wood fires crackle on either end of the room, and stacked wood lines the walls. Even the ceiling has presence — it’s crisscrossed with barn wood.

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Perhaps those beams help absorb sound, helping make the place a combination of sexiness and serenity with the sensibility of a postmodern barn — even though HOTW, with 95 seats, is twice the size of its central Vermont sister. Restaurant designer Scott Kester and crew did a phenomenal job.

The room has two focal points: Near the door stands a U-shaped bar lined with swiveling wooden seats; on the far side of the room, a dining counter fronts the open kitchen. On a recent evening, former Bluebird Tavern chef Paul Link stood at the open, wood-fired oven, loading steaks and fish onto metal shelves that he adjusted with a pulley. Around him, the rest of the line — including chef de cuisine Jordan Ware — languidly plated food. No one seemed harried, including Warnstedt, who stood on the other side of the counter expediting the process. Clad in a T-shirt, jeans, apron and baseball cap, the chef read orders to the crew and then studied the plates before servers whisked them away.

“I look calm, but I have butterflies in my stomach,” Warnstedt said. It didn’t show. The service ran like a well-oiled machine, with dishes arriving quickly and at perfect temperature. The staffers seemed to work as if telepathically; they appeared when you needed them and gracefully left you alone when you didn’t.

Away from the counter, the room was so dim that I noticed several people using their cellphones to read the menu.

It’s divided into starters (such as oysters, pork rinds and a ham plate), small plates and a few entrées, along with a couple of desserts and a carefully curated list of local cheeses. My dining companion and I sat in the corner lounge near the fireplace, where the small plates appeared to us as blurs in the dusk, gently focusing our senses on flavor rather than on presentation.

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As if the South End weren’t already bursting with new ventures, we can now add another to the list: CItIzEn CIDEr, which will move its production and tasting room to 316 Pine Street by the end of the year.

Though Citizen Cider’s tanks are still filled with 25,000 gallons of apple juice from the harvest, co-owner krIs nElsOn and his two partners plan to plunge into the “tricky” move from their current Essex location to the 7000-square-foot space by mid-December.

“We signed the lease last week, and we’re excited to be growing,” says Nelson, though the federal government shutdown caused a hiccup in their plans when a U.S. Small Business Administration loan was delayed.

The former U-Haul depot on Pine Street has west-facing windows looking Kris Nelson toward Lake Champlain, where Citizen Cider will build a tasting room of 40 to 50 seats, Nelson says. Other windows will look out on the production area, retaining some of the funky, industrial feel of the company’s Essex location.

Instead of parking a food truck outside, as they did in Essex, the Citizen Cider crew will eventually serve their own raft of small plates. “We’ll probably have a small tapasstyle menu and keep with food that goes well with cider, so maybe some Basque-style food and a few things from Brittany, Normandy and southwest England,” Nelson says.

“Everything depends on how fast the contractor works on the innards of the place,” which right now is “pretty bare bones,” he adds.

In addition to the full range of Citizen Ciders, Nelson says, the tasting room will serve a few local spirits, and beers from FIDDlEhEaD brEwIng and zErO gravIty CraFt brEwEry “here or there.”

Citizen Cider is on track to produce 80,000 to 100,000 gallons of cider this year. Its line has grown beyond the flagship unIFIED prEss to include a bourbon-barrel-aged cider and a dry-hopped cider, and soon the company will debut a cider made with organic apples and another fermented with Belgian witbier yeast called Wit’Sup.

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compose Oak45’s opening salvo, with choices ranging from the slightly offbeat (Picpoul de Pinet, Lirac) to California-produced Chardonnay and Zinfandel.

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spiked with sweetness and tang from pickled apples. crêpes filled with chanterelle mushrooms, ricotta and squash and scattered across the top with singed corn. This meatless, beautiful, delicious dish was almost my favorite thing on the menu.

The hanger steak at HOTW was cooked expertly: charred and smoky on the outside, deep ruby and succulent on the inside. Marry top-quality, well-aged meat to a deft chef’s hand, and you get sublime moments such as this. It would have been perfect but for the smear of salty blue cheese underneath. Maybe it’s a personal tic, but I find cheese on prime steak distracting.

With all that flesh, fish and salt on the menu, thirst inevitably sets in. Perhaps

the epic beverage list was created with that in mind. Two of the barkeeps, Megan Mcginn and Chris Maloney, migrated to HOTW from Bluebird Tavern.

They draw on eclectic influences, ranging from colonial America (Switchel, Stone Fence, punch), to 1930s hotel bar (Corpse Reviver), to Compton (Gin & Juice). Local apples make it into Ancho & Apples, an earthy martini with a spicy edge, as well as into the sweeter Apple Daiquiri. A standout is the Hopped Cachaça, a frothy blend of the South American spirit with egg whites and a drizzle of bitters.

Wine director and HOTW co-owner William McNeil has put together a

diverse wine list filled with of-themoment bottles from the Loire Valley, Beaujolais, Sicily, Austria, Alsace and Piedmont. By-the-glass sips range from Domaine de la Paonnerie Beaujolais to Folk Machine Chenin Blanc from California, and include a pair of rosés. The bottle list veers from ultramodern (Dirty & Rowdy Sémillon) to classic (Domaine Louis Boillot Gevrey-Chambertin).

Even some of the excellent beers are served in wine glasses, a choice that kind of captured my heart. Dieu du Ciel’s robust Belgian-style quadrupel (Rigor Mortis) stands up mightily to the heft of HOTW’s dishes. There are also Heady Topper and a bevy of other craft beers on draft, cans of Schlitz and sharable large bottles such as Anadromous, a sour black Belgian from Anchorage Brewing.

Despite heartily imbibing at HOTW, I drank something else once I got home: a dash of bitters in seltzer water to ease the feeling that I was about to burst. It could have been the to-diefor dessert of molten brownie topped with pine-laced meringue; it could have been my overall gluttony. But all that wood-fired meat, the cream, the butter-soaked toast and melted cheese took their toll. I would have mixed them up with lighter plates, but there aren’t many on the menu.

There are chefs in town working with more restraint and finesse at the same prices — dinner and drinks for two at HOTW could easily cost more than a Ben Franklin. Yet with its whole animals, wood fires, farm-sourced ingredients and servers in flannel shirts, HOTW captures the quintessence of Vermont dining in 2013. It’s not for the meat shy or the small of stomach. m

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crisp and briny, delivered with a delicate mignonette and an old-fashioned cocktail sauce. A pot of tonno di maiale, or wine-braised ham, bore a bay leaf on its glistening surface. The shredded ham, submerged in nutty olive oil, was luscious and velvety, almost a dead ringer for the tonno of its name. It was also tinged with garrigue flavors from chopped green olive and herbs. We piled it on garlicky triangles of toast daubed with grain mustard.

Lamb ribs resembled a pile of tiny meat flutes resting in a smear of crème fraîche.

My lips had barely touched one when the crisp, wood-fired outer skin gave way to soft, melting fat. With veins of tomato jam cutting through and slightly sweetening the meat, they were good — so good that I sucked every bit from the bones.

I had high hopes, then, for a plate of wood-fired octopus with smoky and tender tendrils, served atop a sunchoke purée. Yet its flavors fell a bit flat — especially compared with the other, zingier dishes, such as paper-thin radishes tumbled with piquant anchovies and slathered in a quenching citrus dressing.

Fat, cream and salt are used to full effect in many of HOTW’s dishes. Some could use a touch more of the kitchen’s housepickled and fermented garnishes, such as the plate of creamed, smoked bluefish piled on toast beneath ribbons of shaved celery. That was tasty but probably won’t reel me in another time. A side dish of cider-glazed radishes tasted undercooked.

By contrast, I probably could have eaten three more ramekins of shredded Maine lobster and an earthy parsnip purée spiked with sweetness and tang from pickled apples. Or of the amazing discs of breaded, fried head cheese served atop yet another vegetable purée, its gamey, savory, almost bloodlike flavors tarted up with pickled zucchini and peppers. Or of the delicate

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If there’s a spirit intertwined with New England history, it’s rum. Now a new distillery in Warren has joined a handful of Vermont producers that are resurrecting the liquor.

FIrst run rum began flowing at maD rIvEr DIstIllErs last summer and will show up in Vermont liquor outlets this month. “It’s a sipping rum, with a lot

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of depth,” says maura Connolly, whose husband, John Egan III, founded the company with partner BrEtt lIttlE. The idea of making apple brandy originally inspired Egan and Little, both Boston attorneys, to order a Germanbuilt custom still to occupy a former horse barn on land they own near Warren. After local builder (and friend) alEx hIlton renovated the barn, the pair hired him as head distiller and manager.

While an apple brandy is still in the works — 3.5 tons of heirloom apples arrived at Mad River Distillers last week — the company’s first product is rum made from organic Demerara sugar and aged in American oak barrels for about a month before bottling. In its wake will come a corn-based whiskey incorporating grain from nItty grItty graIn Company oF vErmont, plus a rye and a bourbon.

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Burlington location something of a bear.

“It’s been a great 10 years,” says Duke. She sounds slightly pained about letting down her regulars on Riverside Avenue — including workers in the Intervale, where the Sugarsnap staff farms three acres.

Those hankering for Sugarsnap’s soups and sandwiches can still find them on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m at 30 Community Drive in South Burlington.

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the First 25 Years.) Yet practically every page brims with suggestions on the best ways to enjoy each ingredient, with topics ranging from making chestnuts into marrons glacés or castagnaccio to harvesting, buying, cleaning and storing lettuce. (Behr cheekily recommends storing a just-picked head in the refrigerator for a week to replicate “supermarket” lettuce.)

To school himself in other delicacies, such as oysters, he relied on years of travel to the source, including trips to the coast of Maine to meet farmers raising spat. Frequent visits to France and Italy have made Behr a recognized authority on cheeses, and five of his “50 foods” are European fromages, including Roquefort and Munster. (Though he’s an aficionado of Vermont cheddar, it didn’t make the cut.)

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It’s no surprise to see a Vermont food writer displaying expertise in fresh cream or green beans, which Behr grows at home. But how did he become an expert on caviar and raw oysters? Grueling research — or perhaps not so grueling. “On and off, I have done a certain amount of blind tastings — not even blind tastings; thoughtful tastings,” says Behr, who’s conducted experiments such as comparing pasteurized with nonpasteurized caviar.

It was while living in Vermont that the New York-born, Washington, D.C.-bred writer began developing his gustatory expertise. A college dropout, Behr came to St. Johnsbury to take advantage of the cheap land for sale in 1973. He worked as a carpenter, but over the years the desire to “find something more intellectually challenging” inspired him to turn to food.

Behr bought a local building in which to open a restaurant and attended a New York culinary program, but he eventually changed his mind about the viability of fine

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nudi — the plump, flour-bolstered ravioli fillings without pasta coverings — have established a strong presence in U.S. restaurants over the past decade. They may sound like a trendy twist on gnocchi, perhaps conceived by Mario Batali. But, says food expert Ed Behr, gnudi were actually invented in the 13th century.

“They seem hardly to be pasta at all, and yet in Italy they’re always regarded as pasta and are considered the forebear of it,” the St. Johnsbury author writes in his new book 50 Foods: The Essentials of Good Taste.

Even the most food-knowledgeable readers will learn plenty of fun facts from the author best known for his quarterly magazine The Art of Eating. But 50 Foods shouldn’t be confused with a trivia book. Behr has produced a highly detailed treatise on how to enjoy the finer things in life, as useful to a chef as it might be to an alien dropped on Earth who is hearing about beef and potatoes for the first time.

Behr offers no recipes in 50 Foods.

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dining in that time and place. After selling the building, he says, he was at loose ends until he seized on the idea of starting a “food letter.”

Behr began producing a black-andwhite, eight-page newsletter, following the path of his journalist father. Twenty-seven years later, The Art of Eating is still print based and filled with art and recipes that have made back issues fodder for eBay. Behr has had plenty of time to hone his writing skills and his palate. He says 50 Foods has been a separate 10-year project: He accumulated the information slowly, then, last year, focused on the book while running his magazine and completing occasional freelance assignments.

When his book tour for 50 Foods ends, Behr will continue his work on two more books, collections of essays on France and Italy. While he is passionate about the subject matter, he doesn’t have the hopes for those books that he does for the current one. “I’d like to think this is the most substantial, enduring food book that will be published this year. This is my magnum opus — I’ve even used those words,” Behr says. “It’s the big, commercial idea. If I have another best seller, it will be a steamy novel.”

Clearly, Behr has some big ideas about what we eat. We sat down at his St. Johnsbury dinner table to learn more about his artistry there and in the kitchen.

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CHAMPLAIN ECHOES SEEKS MORE WOMEN to sing 4-part harmony for holiday performances. Rehearsals, Mon. nights, 6:30. The Pines, Aspen Dr., So. Burlington. Call 655-2174.

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BEGINNER GUITAR LESSONS Great for kids. Plenty of experience in the area.

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ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION #4C0582-16B 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 - 6093 On October 10, 2013, GMS Realty, LLC, c/o Gregg Laber, 5452 US Route 5, Newport, VT 05855 filed application #4C058216B for a project generally described as the reconfiguration of the

parking lot to provide an outside material storage area and move 18 spaces to the western side of the building and 28 parking spaces to the south end of the building. The total number of spaces will remain the same.

In addition the permit authorizes a relocation of a waterline and installation of a wind and solar powered entrance light.

The Project is located on Rathe Road in Colchester, Vermont.

The District #4 Environmental Commission is reviewing this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications.

Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Colchester Town Office, Chittenden County Office, and the office listed below. The application and a draft 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” and entering the project number “4C0582-16B”.

No hearing will be held and a permit may be issued unless, on or before December 3, 2013, a person notifies the 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 must be in writing to the address below, must 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 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.

If you feel that any of the District Commission members listed on the attached Certificate of Service under “For Your Information” may have a conflict of interest, or if there is any other reason a member should be disqualified from sitting on

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this case, please contact the district coordinator as soon as possible, no later than prior to the response date listed above.

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 December 3, 2013.

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, affected state agencies, and adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. Section 6085(c)(5).

Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 6th day of November, 2013.

By: /s/ Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel District#4 Coordinator Natural Resources Board 111 West Street Essex Jct., VT 05452 802-879-5658 Peter.Keibel@state.vt.us

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: Sec. 7. No-Parking Areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1) through (215) As Written (216) [Reserved.] On the west side of Spruce Court.

(217) through (238) As Written (239) [Reserved.] On the west side of St Paul Street starting 35 feet south of the driveway to 567 St Paul Street extending south for 70 feet.

(240) through (516) As Written Adopted this 30th day of October 2013 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: Sec. 12-1. No parking except vehicles loading or unloading.

No person shall park any vehicle in the following locations unless engaged in loading or unloading a vehicle: (1) through (11) As Written (12) [Reserved.] On the south side of Bilodeau Court in the space in front of 69 Bilodeau Court.

(13)[Reserved.] On the north side of Berry Street in the first Space west of North Avenue.

(14) through (51) As Written Adopted this 30th day of October 2013 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners:

Attest Norman Baldwin, P.E. Assistant Director-Technical Services

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following traffic regulations are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to Appendix C, Motor Vehicles, and the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances: Sec. 7A. Handicap spaces designated.

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vehicle at any time in the following locations, except automobiles displaying special handicapped license plates issued pursuant to 18 V.S.A. 1325, or any amendment or renumbering thereof: (1) through (129) As Written (130) [The space in front of 22 Charles Street.]

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(131) through (157) As Written Adopted this 30th day of October 2013 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners: Attest Norman Baldwin Assistant Director-Technical Services Adopted 10/30/2013; Published 11/13/13; Effective 12/04/13 Material in [Brackets] delete.

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LEGAL NOTICE On December 9, 2013 at 7 PM, the City of Burlington will hold a Public Hearing before the City Council in Contois

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[CONTINUED] Auditorium to consider the submission of an amended application for Section 108 Guarantee Loan funds. A draft application is available for review at www. cedoburlington.org The public is encouraged to

review the draft application, to attend the Public Hearing and to comment. Written or oral comments will be accepted on the amended application through the close of business on December 13, 2013 at the Community & Economic Development Office, 149 Church Street, Room 32- City Hall Burlington, 865-7144. For more information or information on alternative access contact Kirsten Merriman Shapiro 8657284 or kmerriman@ burlingtonvt.gov

NOTICE OF SELFSTORAGE LIEN SALE CEDAR KNOLL STORAGE 13020 Route 116 Hinesburg, VT 05461 Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self-storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid at the Cedar Knoll Storage facility. This sale is being held to collect unpaid storage unit occupancy fees, charges and expenses of the sale.

The entire contents of each self-storage unit listed below will be sold, with the proceeds to

be distributed to Cedar Knoll Storage for all accrued occupancy fees (rent charges), attorney’s fees, sale expenses, and all other expenses in relation to the unit and its sale. Any proceeds beyond the foregoing shall be returned to the unit holder.

Contents of each unit may be viewed on November 20, 2013, commencing at 10:00 a.m. Sealed bids are to be submitted on the entire contents of each self-storage unit. Bids will be opened onequarter of an hour after the last unit has been

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE— Downtown Transition District Expansion ZA 14-04 Public Hearing Date: 11/04/13 First reading: 09/23/13 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 11/04/13 Action: adopted Date: 11/04/13 Signed by Mayor: 11/07/13 Published: 11/13/13 Effective: 12/04/13

viewed on November 20, 2013. The highest bidder on the storage unit must remove the entire contents of the unit within 48 hours after notification of their successful bid. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50.00 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned. Cedar Knoll Storage reserves the right to accept or reject bids.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO. 28-1-13 CNCV Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee for RALI 2007QS8, Plaintiff v.

Adam J. Norton, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., Homecomings Financial, LLC (f/k/a Homecomings Financial Network, Inc.) and Occupants residing at 77 West Street, Winooski, Vermont, Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Adam J. Norton to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Homecomings Financial, LLC (f/k/a Homecomings Financial Network, Inc.) dated May 4, 2007 and recorded in Volume 181, Page 506, which mortgage was assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Homecomings Financial, LLC (f/k/a Homecomings

Financial Network, Inc.) to Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Trustee for RALI 2007QS8 by an instrument dated March 27, 2012 and recorded on April 5, 2012 in Volume 222, Page 485 of the Land Records of the City of Winooski, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 8:30 A.M. on December 10, 2013, at 77 West Street, Winooski, Vermont all and singular

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Balance of Maps 4.3.1-1, Base Zoning Districts, 4.4.1-1 Mixed Use Downtown Districts, 4.4.5-1 Residential Zoning Districts, 4.4.1-3 Side Street Building Height Setback and 8.1.3-1 Parking Districts As written.

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That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Map 4.3.1-1, Base Zoning Districts, 4.4.1-1 Mixed Use Downtown Districts, 4.4.5-1 Residential Zoning Districts, 4.4.1-3 Side Street Building Height Setback and 8.1.3-1 Parking Districts to expand the Downtown Transition District boundary along the west side of South Champlain Street by straightening the boundary line and bringing the district boundary to the South Champlain Street street frontage, thereby changing the zoning district for 151 and 157-159 South Champlain Street (Parcel ID numbers 049-1-005-000 and 049-1-004-000 respectively) from Residential High Density to Downtown Transition.

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sevendaysvt.com/classifieds the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Adam J. Norton by virtue of a Limited Warranty Deed from Beneficial Mortgage Corporation dated March 22, 2002 and recorded April 1, 2002 in Volume 128, Page 314 of the City of Winooski Land Records.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the City of Winooski.

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entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

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

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe, Fortin & Rees, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000. This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice.

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S008410 Cnc Sovereign Bank, NA, Plaintiff v.

Stephen M. Bessette, Rebecca S. Bessette, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., Sovereign Bank and Occupants residing at 22 Quarry Lane, Milton, Vermont,

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 7th day of November, 2013.

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Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Stephen M. Bessette and Rebecca S. Bessette to Sovereign Bank dated May 24, 2006 and recorded in Volume 331, Page 570 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 10:45 A.M. on December 10, 2013, at 22 Quarry Lane, Milton, Vermont all and singular

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE— Conditional Uses in Mixed Use Districts ZA 14-03 Public Hearing Date: 11/04/13 First reading: 09/23/13 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 11/04/13 Action: adopted Date: 11/04/13 Signed by Mayor: 11/07/13 Published: 11/13/13 Effective: 12/04/13

Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000.

To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Stephen Michael Bessette and Rebecca Sue Bessette by Warranty Deed from Secretary of Veterans Affairs dated August 3, 1995 and recorded August 8, 1995 in Volume 168, Page 138 of the Land Records of the Town of Milton.

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 11th day of November, 2013.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Milton.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

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By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe, Fortin & Rees, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S075511 Cnc Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, Plaintiff v.

John A. Mower, Rachel A. Mower, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. and Occupants residing at 24 Forest Road, Essex, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by John A. Mower and Rachel

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the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John A. Mower and Rachel A. Mower by virtue of a Warranty Deed from Martha M. Kelley dated July 7, 2005 and recorded July 11, 2005 in Volume 655, Page 466 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex.

Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe, Fortin & Rees, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 306, South

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A. Mower to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CTX Mortgage Company, LLC dated July 7, 2005 and recorded in Volume 655, Page 468, which mortgage was assigned from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CTX Mortgage Company, LLC to Aurora Loan Services, LLC by an instrument dated October 25, 2010 and recorded on July 20, 2011 in Volume 849, Page 723 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, which mortgage was further assigned from Aurora Loan Services, LLC to Nationstar Mortgage, LLC by an instrument dated March 18, 2013 and recorded on March 29, 2013 in Volume 894, Page 1002 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:30 A.M. on December 10, 2013, at 24 Forest Road, Essex, Vermont all and singular

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That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending the Downtown and Neighborhood Mixed Use Sections (DT, BST, NMU, NAC and NAC-RC) of Appendix A-Use Table-All Zoning Districts with respect to the Non-Residential Uses of Automobile/Vehicle Repair, Food Processing and Machine/Woodworking Shop, thereof to read as follows: Appendix A-Use Table – All Zoning Districts

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COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE— Adaptive Reuse and Residential Bonuses ZA 13-11 Public Hearing Date: 11/04/13 First reading: 08/12/13 Referred to: Ordinance Committee Second reading: 11/04/13 Action: adopted Date: 11/04/13 Signed by Mayor: 11/07/13 Published: 11/13/13 Effective: 12/04/13

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That Appendix A, Comprehensive Development Ordinance, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Burlington be and hereby is amended by amending Sections 4.4.5, Residential Districts, Table 4.4.5-6: Adaptive Reuse Bonus and Table 4.4.5-7: Residential Conversion Bonus, thereof to read as follows: Sec. 4.4.5 Residential Districts (a) – (c) As written. (d) District Specific Regulations The following regulations are district-specific exceptions, bonuses, and standards unique to the residential districts. They are in addition to, or may modify, city-wide standards as provided in Article 5 of this ordinance and district standards as provided above.

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Residential Development Bonuses.

The following exceptions to maximum allowable residential density and dimensional standards in Tables 4.4.5-2 and 4.4.5-3 may be approved in any combination subject to the maximum limits set forth in Table 4.4.5-8 at the discretion of the DRB. Any bonuses that are given pursuant to this ordinance now or in the future shall be regarded as an exception to the limits otherwise applicable.

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C. Adaptive Reuse Bonus.

Development in excess of the limits set forth in Tables 4.4.5-2 and 4.4.5-3 may be permitted by the DRB subject to conditional use review for the retention, adaptive reuse and rehabilitation conversion of an existing non-conforming nonresidential principal use nonresidential structure and its conversion within a historic building to a permitted conforming residential use provided the structure has not previously been converted from a residential use to a nonresidential use. Any such redevelopment shall be subject to all of the following conditions: (i) The structure shall not have previously been converted from a residential use to a nonresidential use; (ii) The building shall be listed or eligible for listing in the United States Department of the Interior’s National Register of Historic Places or the Vermont State Register of Historic Places; (iii) The gross floor area shall not exceed the pre-redevelopment gross floor area of the existing structure by more than twenty-five (25) percent; (ivii) The density limits of the underlying residential zoning district in Sec 4.4.5(b) above shall not apply. Residential density The intensity and extent of development shall be limited by gross floor area maximum in (iii) above and Table 4.4.5-6 below; (viv) The building adaptive reuse and rehabilitation conforms to the requirements of Art 5, Historic Buildings; (viv) Neighborhood commercial uses less than 2,000 sq. ft. gross floor area may be permitted by the DRB subject to the applicable

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Development in excess of the limits set forth in Tables 4.4.5-2 and 4.4.5-3 may be permitted by the DRB subject to conditional use review for the conversion of an existing non-conforming nonresidential structure principal use not involving a historic building to a permitted conforming residential use provided, or for the elimination of a nonresidential structure and its replacement by a residential structure, subject to all of the following conditions the following: (i) The structure shall not have previously been converted from a residential use to a nonresidential use; (ii) Any structure proposed for demolition shall not be listed or eligible for listing in the United States Department of the Interior’s National Register of Historic Places or the Vermont State Register of Historic Places; and, (iii)

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[CONTINUED] Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000. This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice.

DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 11th day of November, 2013.

Nationstar Mortgage, LLC By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe, Fortin & Rees, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1219-9-13CNPR In re ESTATE OF Leigh Wren Butler NOTICE TO CREDITORS To The Creditors of Leigh Wren Butler late of Hinesburg.

I have been appointed to administer this estate.

All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within

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must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to us at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

James V. Butler Signature of Fiduciary

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James V. Butler Executor/Administrator 2033 Lundee Dr. Aiken, SC 29803-5709 803-643-3432 red_miata@bellsouth. net

s/ Charles J. Schmitt Charles J. Schmitt, CoExecutor s/ Kristen B. Smith Kristen B. Smith, CoExecutor

Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: November 13, 2013 Address of Court: Chittenden Probate Court PO Box 511 Burlington, VT 05402 STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN UNIT PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 1307-10-13CNPR In re ESTATE OF PAULA E. SCHMITT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To The Creditors of PAULA E. SCHMITT Late of South Burlington

Address: c/o Leigh Keyser Phillips Attorney-at-Law 308 Main Street, P.O. 466 Burlington, VT 054020466 Telephone No. 802-8601346 E-Mail: lphillip@together.net Name of Publication: Seven Days Publication Date: November 13, 2013 Address of Court: Vermont Superior Court Chittenden Unit, Probate Division 175 Main Street, P. O. 511 Burlington, VT 054020511

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THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT(S) 01-04144 LOCATED AT 28 ADAMS DR. AND 48 INDUSTRIAL DR., WILLISTON, VT 05495, WILL BE SOLD ON NOVEMBER 21ST, 2013 TO SATISFY THE DEBT OF SARAH VANSANT. Any person claiming a right to the goods may pay the amount claimed due and reasonable expenses before the sale, in which case the sale may not occur.

This is not a public sale.

from one another. 1st & 3rd Wed. of each month, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Turning Point Center, Bank St., above bookstore, Burlington. Louise, 324-9690.

AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS Join our support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport & its health-giving, life-affirming qualities.

Any age. No athletic experience needed.

Linda, 999-5478, info@ dragonheartvermont. org, dragonheartvermont.org.

AL-ANON For families & friends of alcoholics. For meeting info, go to vermontalanonalateen.org or call 1-866-972-5266.

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AL-ANON IN ST. DON’T SEE A SUPPORT JOHNSBURY GROUP HERE THAT Tue. & Thu., 7 p.m., MEETS YOUR NEEDS? Kingdom Recovery Call Vermont 2-1-1, Center (Dr. Bob’s a program of United birthplace), 297 Way of Vermont.Within Summer St., St. Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or Johnsbury. Sat., 10 a.m., 866-652-4636 (toll Unitarian Universalist free).

Calcoku Church, Cherry St., St. Using the enclosed math operations as a guide, fill the grid using the numbers 1 - 6 only Johnsbury. once in each row and ABA FAMILY SUPPORT column.

GROUP 1- by Addiction 12+ 13÷ Affected ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (ABA) is a community Sudoku peer support group for 3x Daily meetings in 30x variousby locations. adults (overthe 18) following puzzle Complete using Free. the 860-8382.

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BEREAVEMENT/GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Meets every other Monday night, 6-8 p.m., & every other Wed., 10-11:30 a.m., in the Conference Center at Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice in Berlin. The group is open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Info, Ginny Fry or Jean Semprebon, 223-1878.

BRAIN INJURY SUPPORT GROUP IN ST. JOHNSBURY Monthly meetings will be held on the 3rd Wed. of every mo., 1-2:30 p.m., at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St., St. Johnsbury. The support group will offer valuable resources & info about brain injury.

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

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets 1st & 3rd Thu. of the mo. at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance,” 1:302:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the 1st Mon. of ea. mo. at Vermont Protection & Advocacy, 141 Main St., suite 7, in conference room #2, 5:30-7:30 p.m. St. Albans support group meets the 2nd Tues. of the month at the St. Albans Diner, 14 Swanton Road from 4-5:30 p.m. St. Johnsbury support group meets the 3rd Wed. of the month at the Grace United Methodist Church, 36 Central St. Colchester Evening support group meets the 1st Wed. of ea. mo. at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the Board Room Conference Room, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Middlebury support group meets on the 2nd Tue. of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center from 6-8 p.m. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772.

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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Held every 2nd Tuesday of the month, 6-8 p.m. at The Hope Lodge, Lois McClure-Bee Tabakin Building, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Central Vermont Man to Man regular monthly meetings are open to the public, especially for recently diagnosed men w/ prostate cancer, those successfully treated, or men dealing w/ side effects from cancer treatment.

Additionally, it is for men having problems w/ recurrence. Info, Mary L. Guyette RN, MS, 802-274-4990, vmary@aol.com or Tara Genzlinger, American Cancer Society, 872-6309.

ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS W/ DEBT? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Anonymous. Sat., 10-11:30 a.m., Methodist Church at Buell & S. Winooski, Burlington.

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ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) This support group functions as a community & educational group. We provide coffee, soda & snacks & are open to PALS, caregivers, family members & those who are interested in learning more about ALS. Our group meets the 2nd Thu. of ea. mo., 1-3 p.m., at Jim’s House, 1266 Old Creamery Rd., Williston.

Hosted by Pete & Alphonsine Crevier, facilitated by Liza Martel, LICSW, patient care coordinator for the ALS Association here in VT. Info, 223-7638.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA SUPPORT GROUP Held the last Tue. of every mo., 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington.

Info, Kim, 863-6384.

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support groups [CONTINUED] CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP 2nd & 4th Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Circle, St. Albans. The Caregivers Support Group welcomes anyone who is helping care for a family member of a loved one with a chronic or life-limiting illness.

527-6717.

CELIAC AND GLUTENFREE GROUP Every 2nd Wed., 4:30-6 p.m. at Central VT Medical Center Conference Room #3. Free & open to the public! To learn more, contact Lisa at 598-9206 or lisamase@ gmail.com.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP AND FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP 1-3 p.m., every 3rd Thu. at the Bagel Cafe, Ethan Allen Shopping Center, N. Ave., Burlington.

Please visit new website or call for location info, www.immunedysfunction.org or call 881-3821 or Lainey Rappaport at 660-4817.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS CoDA is a 12-step fellowship for people whose common purpose is to develop healthy and fulfilling relationships. By actively working the program of Codependents Anonymous, we can realize a new joy, acceptance and serenity in our lives. Tues. 5:456:45 p.m., First Baptist Church, 81 Saint Paul St., Burlington. Thu. 7-8 p.m. & Sun. noon-1 p.m. Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. Susan 829-9340, Tom 238-3587, burlingtonvtcoda@gmail. com, burlingtonvtcoda. org.

DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming?

Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each other simplify.

989-3234, 425-3612.

DISCOVER THE POWER OF CHOICE! SMART Recovery welcomes anyone affected by any kind of substance or activity addiction. It is a science based program that encourages abstinence.

Specially trained volunteer facilitators provide leadership.

SMART Recovery can supplement or replace traditional addiction recovery groups. You have the right and the responsibility to decide what works for you. Sundays at 5 p.m. at The 1st Unitarian Universalist

Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Volunteer facilitator: Bert 802-399-8754. You can learn more at www. smartrecovery.org.

DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Divorce is a tough road.

Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger and self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share with you a safe place and a process that can help make the journey easier. The 13-week Divorce Care Support Group (for men and women) will be offered on Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:30 p.m., September 11-December 4 at the Essex Alliance Community Center, 37 Old Stage Road, Essex Jct. For more information and to register call Sandy 425-7053.

DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Addison County for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Info, 388-4205.

DROP BY THE WELLNESS CO-OP AND HANG OUT! Connect to a supportive community 43 King Street, Burlington.

Tues, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Mon., Wed., Thu., Fri, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. We have snacks and turtles! Free and open to the public thewellnesscoop@ pathwaysvermont.

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FAMILIES TOGETHER SUPPORT GROUP Join other parents for support, information, and connections at Vermont Family Network in Williston on the last Wed. of the month 5:30-7 p.m. Many parents say it helps to know they are not alone in parenting a child (any age, diagnosis, and situation) with special needs. Other parents can understand, listen, and share in the experience. No RSVP required. Contact is jan.hancock@vtfn. org, 876-5315. Call in advance if weather is uncertain.

G.R.A.S.P. (GRIEF RECOVERY AFTER A SUBSTANCE PASSING) Please join us if you have lost a child or sibling to an overdose.

Peer group for support over such a loss.

Meetings will start Oct. 9 and will meet on the third Wed. of the month at 7 p.m., 310 Pine St., Burlington (Kilburn and Gates building). If Interested please email graspvt@gmail.com.

GLAM CORE GROUP MEETING Wed., 6:30-8 p.m., RU12? Community Center, Champlain Mill, 20 Winooski Falls Way, Winooski. We’re looking for young gay & bi guys who are interested in putting together great events, meeting new people & reaching out to other guys! Core Group runs our program, & we want your input! If you’re a

young gay or bisexual man who would like to get involved, email us at glam@ru12.org or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/glamvt).

GRIEF AND LOSS SUPPORT GROUP The RU12? Community Center has organized a social support group for LGBTQ individuals experiencing the loss of a loved one, be it through death or separation. The group is currently on hiatus, but if you are interested or looking for more information, please contact thecenter@ru12. org or call 860-7812.

GREIF AND RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP 1st & 3rd Wed. of every month, 7-8 p.m., Franklin County Home Health Agency (FCHHA), 3 Home Health Circle, St. Albans. 527-6717.

HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCED THIS? I am looking for anyone who has been psychically attacked or who has been attacked (in general) by a Psychic or Healer. I am looking for support around this. Please call Patty, 989-0360.

HEARING VOICES SUPPORT CIRCLE meets every Wed. at 11:15 a.m., at the Wellness Co-op, 43 King St., Burlington. “I hear voices you can’t hear; you believe in a god others don’t see.” 888-492-8218 x300, thewellnesscoop@ pathwaysvermont.org.

HEARTBEAT VERMONT A free support group for those who have lost a friend, colleague or loved one by suicide. Meetings, facilitated by our clinician, Jonathan Gilmore, are held at Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main St. All are welcome to attend. Snacks & drinks are provided to make for a comfortable atmosphere. Some who attend have experienced a recent loss, & some are still struggling w/ a loss from long ago. Some people come to just 1 meeting, some return every mo. The choice is up to the participant & is as individual as the grieving process itself.

Please call 446-3577 for info when the group will be meeting next.

HELLENBACH CANCER SUPPORT Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107.

People living w/ cancer & their caretakers convene for support.

IF YOU ARE A YOUTH OR YOUNG ADULT AND LOOKING FOR A LISTENING EAR, spiritual encouragement, a companion on the journey First United Methodist Church invites you to contact Rachel, our Pastor at Large for youth & young adults in the Greater Burlington area. Rachel can be reached via email at RachelStampul@gmail. com and has open office hours for folks to just drop in on Thursday afternoons from 3:30 - 5:30 in the Burlington

Town Center Mall food court.

IN-PERSON QUITTING CLASSES Weekly on Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., UHC Given WEST Clinic, South Prospect St., Burlington. Call to register, 847-2278. This is a great way to connect with others who are also trying to quit with help from experienced counselors, as well. Free 4-week group sessions, free patches, gum or lozenges, service is provided by a Tobacco Treatment Specialist.

KINDRED CONNECTIONS PROGRAM OFFERED FOR CHITTENDEN COUNTY CANCER SURVIVORS The Kindred Connections program provides peer support for all those touched by cancer. Cancer patients as well as caregivers are provided w/ a mentor who has been through the cancer experience & knows what it’s like to go through it. In addition to sensitive listening, Kindred Connections provides practical help such as rides to doctors’ offices & meal deliveries. The program has people who have experienced a wide variety of cancers.

For further info, please contact Sherry.

Rhynard@gmail.com.

LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S COUNCIL DROPIN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/ cofacilitators. Open discussion format.

Varied topics, incl.

relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing.

Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions & sexual orientations.

Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thu., 7-9 p.m. More info, call Nick, 985-8984.

LGBTQ SUPPORT CIRCLE for individuals with disabilities. Thu., 3 p.m., at the Wellness Co-op, 43 King St., Burlington.

LGBTQ SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, & offer & receive support. Please call RU12? Community Center at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining one of these groups or for more info.

LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN? Want more support?

Join us to focus on the tools necessary for day-to-day living through open dialogue, knowledge & personal experience. Lets find a healthy balance along w/ an improved quality of life. Weekly meeting on Tuesdays, Camel’s Hump Room, Burlington Community Health Center. Call for details.

Martha, 415-250-5181.

LOOK GOOD... FEEL BETTER PROGRAM Look Good... Feel Better is a free program that teaches female cancer patients beauty techniques to help restore their appearance and help them feel good about they way they look during chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Volunteer cosmetologists teach women about make-up techniques, skincare and options related to hair loss.

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 3-4:30 p.m. American Cancer Society, 55 Day Lane, Williston. Call Peg Allen, 655-2000 or the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345. Oct 23, 1-3 p.m. National Life Cancer Treatment Center at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. Call Tara Genzlinger at your American Cancer Society at 872-6309.

Oct. 24, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. American Cancer society Hope Lodge, Lois McClure -- Bee Tabakin Building, 237 East Ave., Burlington.

Call Hope Lodge at 658-0649.

LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP Third Sat. of each month, 9:30 a.m.

Brownell Library in the Kolvoord Room, Essex Jct. Facilitator: Amy Plog. Fine out more by emailing vtlupusgroup@yahoo.com.

NORTHWEST VERMONT CANCER PRAYER AND SUPPORT NETWORK A meeting of cancer patients, survivors and family members intended to comfort and support those who are currently suffering from the disease.

Fourth Mon. of every month, 6:30-8 p.m.

Essex Center United Methodist Church, Route 15, Essex. Info: Brecnorton@comcast. net, 878-0468. Second Thurs. of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 11 Church St., St. Albans. Info: stpaulum@myfairpoint.net. Second Wed. of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Winooski United Methodist Church, 24 W. Allen St., Winooski.

Info: hovermann4@ comcast.net.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-step fellowship for people who identify as overeaters, compulsive eaters, food addicts, anorexics, bulimics, etc. Tues., 7 p.m., First Congregational Church, Essex Jct., 39 Main St., Rt. 15. 3rd floor (follow signs). All are welcome; meeting is open. Contact: Felicia, 777-7718.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS 12-step. Sat. 9-10 a.m.

Turning Point, 182 Lake St., St. Albans. Is what you’re eating, eating you? We can help. Call Valerie, 825-5481.

SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem w/ sex or relationships? We can help. Ralph, 658-2657.

Visit slaafws.org or saa-recovery.org for meetings near you.

PEER ACCESS LINE Isolated? Irritable?

Anxious? Lonely?

Excited? Bored?

Confused? Withdrawn?

Sad? Call us! Don’t hesitate for a moment.

We understand! It is our choice to be here for you to listen. Your feelings do matter.

321-2190. Thu., Fri., Sat. evenings, 6-9 p.m.

PEER SUPPORT CIRCLE for individuals with mental health challenges. We are never alone in our struggles. Every Wednesday at 5pm at The Wellness Co-op, 43 King Street, Burlington thewellnesscoop@ pathwaysvermont. org 1-888-492-8218 ext 300 QUIT SMOKING GROUPS Are you ready to live a smoke-free lifestyle?

Free 4-week group sessions are being offered through the VT Quit Network Fletcher Allen Quit in Person program. Free nicotine replacement products are avail for program participants. Currently, there is a group every Wed., 3:30-4:30 p.m., in Burlington, & every Wed. 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Milton. Info, 847-6541, wellness@ vtmednet.org. For ongoing statewide class schedules, visit vtquitnetwork.org.

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS VERMONT SUPPORT/ INFORMATION GATHERING Note: We will not be a November meeting.

Last Thu. of every month, 6-8 p.m. Fanny Allen Campus, Board Room #22, Colchester.

Gerard, 893-8877, www.ra-vt.org.

SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION New England: Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732.

SERVICE DOG SUPPORT for prospective/ experienced at the Wellness Co-op, 43 King St., Burlington.

How is it possible that I feel so “normal” and at the same time

SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT HOPE Works offers free support groups to women, men & teens who are survivors of sexual violence.

Groups are available for survivors at any stage of the healing process.

Intake for all support groups is ongoing. If you are interested in learning more, or would like to schedule an intake to become a group member, please call our office at 8640555, ext. 19, or email our Victim Advocate at advocate@sover.net.

SOBER-SECULARSELF-HELP Lifering MeetingEmpower Your Sober Self- We share ideas and insights in sober conversation, so that each individual can build a personal recovery plan. If you want to stay sober, then you are welcome in Lifering. More information at www.Lifering. com Thursdays, 8:15, Turning Point Center in Burlington, 191 Bank Street (2nd floor).

Lifering meetings have no outside affiliation.

Over 170 meetings nationwide, and growing.

SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES Come together to talk, connect & find support around a number of issues, incl. coming out, socializing, challenges around employment, safe sex, self-advocacy, choosing partners, discovering who you are & anything else that you would like to talk about. Tue., 4:30 p.m., at the RU12?

Community Center, located in the Champlain Mill in Winooski. For more info, contact thecenter@RU12.org or 860-7812.

SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide.

Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 N. Main St., Wallingford, 446-3577. 6:30-8 p.m. the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo.

SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Circle (Washington Co. only). Please call 1-877-543-9498 for more info.

SURVIVORSHIP NOW Welcome, cancer survivors. Survivorship NOW has free wellness programs to empower cancer survivors to move beyond cancer and live life well. Regain your strength and balance. Renew your spirit. Learn to nourish your body with exercise and nutritious foods.

Tap in to your creative side. Connect with others who understand the challenges you face. Go to survivorshipnowvt.org today to sign up. Info, 802777-1126, info@ survivorshipnowvt.org.

SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP Meets the 1st Wed. of ea. mo., 6-7:30 p.m., at the Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., S. Burlington. There is no fee. This is open to anyone who has lost someone to suicide. For more info, Liz Mahoney, 879-7109, erusso@ smcvt.edu or Myra Handy, 951-5156, myra. handyvt@gmail.com.

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS Burlington Chapter TCF meets on the 3rd Tue. of ea. mo. at 7 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Rd., Williston; for more info, call Dee Ressler, 598-8899. Rutland Chapter TCF meets on the 1st Tue. of ea. mo. at 7 p.m. at Grace Congregational Church, West St., Rutland; for more info, call Susan Mackey, 446-2278.

Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) also serves bereaved parents w/ monthly peer support groups, short-term educational consultations & referrals to local grief & loss counselors. HVS is located in the Marble Works district in Middlebury. Please call 388-4111 for more info about how to connect w/ appropriate support services.

THE NEXT STEP A group dedicated to helping people that are tapering off opiate treatment medication.

This is a peer-led educational group that will assist the group member work through issues and concerns related to getting

off these medications. Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:15 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Suite 200, Burlington.

Info: 310-8515.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Hedding United Methodist Church, Washington St., Barre. Wed., 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call David at 371-8929.

TRANSGENDER SPOUSES I am a mom of 3 children whose father is now living the life of a woman. If this has happened to you & you need/want to talk, please call 279-1423.

We can help each other through this.

TRANS GUY’S GROUP Every 4th Mon., RU12?

Community Center, 255 So. Champlain St., Suite 12, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to trans men at any state of transition & to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful & confidential space for socializing, support & discussion. Contact thecenter@ru12.org for more info.

TRANS SUPPORT GROUP Every 3rd Wed., RU12?

Community Center, 255 So. Champlain St., Suite 12, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to all trans people & to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful & confidential space for socializing, support & discussion. Contact the Center at 860-7812 or email trans@ru12.org.

VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want to feel supported on your vegetarian/ vegan journey? Want more info on healthy veggie diets? Want to share & socialize at veggie potlucks, & more, in the Greater Burlington area?

This is your opportunity to join w/ other like-minded folks. veggy4life@ gmail.com, 658-4991.

VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK Support group for parents of children/ youth/adults with special needs. Join other parents for support information and connections.

Many parents say it help to know they are not alone in parenting a child with special

needs. Other parents can understand, listen and share in the experience. No RSVP req. Last Monday of the month, 5:30-7 p.m. at 600 Blair Park Rd., Suite 240, Williston.

For more information, contact jan.hancock@ vtfn.org or 876-5315 ext. 215. Call if weather is uncertain.

GATHERINGS AT THE WELLNESS CO-OP The Wellness Co-op is a peer-run community center with a focus on emotional and mental wellness. Some of our current offerings include Laughter Yoga at 11 a.m. on Mondays, Community Potluck Dinner at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Peer Support Circle at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, Hearing Voices Support Circle at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays, Service Dog Support and Education, call 777-8603 for schedule, Writers Circle at 5 p.m. on Thursdays, Stitch & Bitch at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Women’s Spectrum Trauma Peer Support at noon on Fridays, Friday Night Public Jam & Open Mic, at 5 p.m. System vs.

Community Language at 10 a.m. on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, Beyond Meds... or not? at 10 a.m. on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Laughter Yoga Mondays, 11 a.m., free. Please drop in Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Free and open to the public! 43 King St., Burlington.

888-8218, x300 www. thewellnesscoop.org.

W.R.A.P. (WELLNESS RECOVERY ACTION PLAN) TWC is forming WRAP Groups. Please contact 888-492-8218 x300, thewellnesscoop@ pathwaysvermont.org for more information.

WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN Offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present. WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women & children in this community. Info, 658-1996.

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OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Meetings in Barre occur every Sun., Tue. & Thu., 6-7 p.m., at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St. Info, 863-2655. Meetings in Johnson occur every Sun., 5:30-6:30 p.m., at the Johnson Municipal Building, Route 15 (just west of the bridge). Info, Debbie Y., 888-5958. Meetings in Montpelier occur every Fri., noon-1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Info, Carol, 223-5793. Meetings in Morrisville occur every Fri., noon-1 p.m., at the

notice that I am the only one with a dog on the bus? Melanie, 777-8603, mel@ pathwaysvermont.org.

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MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS Do you have a problem with marijuana? MA is a free 12-step program where addicts help other addicts to get & stay clean. Ongoing Tue. at 6:30 p.m. & Thur. at 8 p.m. at Turning Point Center,

NAMI FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Brattleboro, 1st Wed. of every month, 6 p.m., 1st Congregational Church, 880 Western Ave., West Brattleboro.

Burlington, 3rd Wed. of every month, 6 p.m., Community Health Center, Riverside Ave., Mansfield Conference Room. Burlington, 2nd & 4th Tue. of every month, 7 p.m., HowardCenter, Corner of Pine & Flynn Ave. Berlin, 4th Mon. of every month, 7 p.m.

Central Vermont Medical Center, Room 3. Georgia, 1st Tue. of every month, 6 p.m., Georgia Public Library, 1697 Ethan Allen Highway (Exit 18, I-89). Manchester/ Londonderry, 1st Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., So. Londonderry Library. Rutland, 3rd Mon. of every month, 7 p.m., Rutland Regional Medical Center, Leahy Conference Ctr. Springfield, 3rd Wed. of every month, 6:30 p.m., HCRS (Café on right far side), 390 River St., N. Springfield.

White River Junction, last Mon. of every month, 5:45 p.m., VA Medical Center, William A. Yasinski Building.

If you have questions about a group in your

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live w/ out the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join.

The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.

Info, 862-4516, or cvana.org. Held in Burlington & Barre.

First Congregational Church, 85 Upper Main St. Contacts: Anne, 888-2356, or Debbie Y., 888-5958.

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MALE SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace is offering a peer-led support group for male-identified survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. This group will meet at the RU12? Community Center. Support groups give survivors a safe & supportive environment to tell their stories, share info, & offer & receive support. Please contact 863-0003.

NAMI CONNECTION PEER SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Bennington, every Tues., 1-2:30 p.m., CRT (Community Rehabilitation & Treatment Center), United Counseling Service, 316 Dewey St. Burlington, every Thurs., 3-4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St. (enter from parking lot). Burlington TPC, every Wed., 7-8:30 p.m., Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St. (upstairs). Rutland, every Sunday, 4:30-6 p.m., Rutland Mental Health Wellness Center, 78 South Main St. Springfield, every Mon., 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., HCRS, CRT Room, 390 River St. St. Johnsbury, every Thurs., 6:30-8 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, 47 Cherry St. If you have questions about a group in your area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont, info@ namivt.org or 1-800639-6480. Connection groups are peer recovery support group programs for adults living with mental health challenges.

area, please contact the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont – info@ namivt.org or 1-800-639-6480.

Family Support Group meetings are for family and friends of individuals living mental health challenges.

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LYME DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP Meeting Oct. 26, 2 p.m. at the Faith United Methodist Church, 899 Dorset St., S. Burlington. Susan, 849-7055.

191 Bank St., suite 200, Burlington. 861-3150.

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Retina Center of Vermont is looking for a friendly, motivated individual to work the front desk in our South Burlington office. The ideal candidate would have medical office experience, enjoy working with people of all ages and, most importantly, work well in a team-oriented environment.

This is a full-time, 40-hour-per-week position. We offer a competitive benefits package and a casual, friendly work environment. If you are interested, please email your resume and a brief paragraph about why you would like to work with us to aandrews@retinacentervermont.com.

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Leaps and Bounds is hiring directors and teachers to join our growing childcare team!

Email resumes to Krista@leapsvt.com, or call 802-879-0130.

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Established construction firm seeks experienced

carpenter helper/ carpenter/carpentry subs

with reliable transportation and a positive attitude. Positions available immediately. EOE. Women are encouraged to apply. Send resume to goldfieldmanagement@yahoo.com.

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Inside/Outside Sales Professional Are you a motivated person? Do you have a genuine curiosity about technology and interest in meeting people who change the world? Eastman Benz is looking for a salesperson to grow our customer base and help build mutually beneficial relationships with clients requiring printed circuit board and electro-mechanical assemblies. A proven sales history and a minimum of an associate’s degree with an emphasis on technology are required. Overnight travel is not required. Eastman Benz is offering a competitive base salary plus commission so you can focus on growing your sales.

Job Responsibilities 1. Develop new leads and introduce them to the services Eastman Benz offers 2. Track sales process using a CRM software 3. Work with management team to meet strategic goals 4. Work with the owner to analyze and identify competitors weakness/strengths 5. Work with the owner to develop sales material and lead generation opportunities 6. Thrive in a work hard/play hard environment Job RequiRements 1. 80% inside sales/lead generation, 20% outside sales 2. Past experience in lead generation (previous experience using Hoovers or other lead generation tools) 3. Past experience in cold-calling 4. Proficiency with computers and MS Office Suite 5. Minimum of an associate’s degree required 6. Valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and reliable car required 7. Ability to work 40-hour week with overtime when required 9v-EastmanBenz-111313.indd 1

AdditionAl skill pRefeRences 1. Printed circuit board knowledge 2. Previous experience using a CRM (Salesforce or equivalent) 3. Previous electrical engineering knowledge 4. Ability to blend confidence and humility driven by a genuine desire to understand client’s requirements About eAstmAn benz Eastman Benz is a small, dynamic contract manufacturing company that partners with local technology companies to manufacture printed circuit board and electro-mechanical prototypes and small-volume production runs. Eastman Benz has been on an exponential growth path since 2009 and is projected to remain on this same trajectory in the next coming years. You will be joining a young, vibrant group of professionals who are passionate about technology and strive to maintain a balanced work/life work culture.

Check out www.eastmanbenz.com for more information. If you are interested in applying for this job, send your resume to dan@eastmanbenz.com.

The Vermont Humanities Council, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Montpelier, seeks a Director of Public Programs to develop, implement and supervise the council’s public programs.

Relevant experience in program management and bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree desirable. Candidates should demonstrate broad background in the humanities, especially literature and history, have strong organizational skills, experience implementing programs, and excellent writing, people and computer skills. EOE. Please send cover letter, resume and the names of three references to Vermont Humanities Council, ATTN: Human Resources, 11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, VT 05602, or email lwinter@ vermonthumanities.org.

Country Home Products, winner of the “Best Places to Work in VT” award, is looking for a Human ResouRces GeneRalist to join the team in Vergennes!

This position will manage the company’s benefit plans; process the bi-weekly payroll using ADP; coordinate Workers’ Compensation and OSHA reporting; administer recruitment and on-boarding activities; and support managers with employee relations.

Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of human resources experience required; PHR or SPHR certification a plus • Payroll, benefits, and recruitment experience • Must be adaptable and flexible during change • Excellent interpersonal, communication and problemsolving skills Please apply with a cover letter and resume to: https://home.eease.adp.com/ recruit/?id=7181561

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Sales Associates

Koffee Kup Bakery has been a bakery manufacturer of donuts and rolls for over 73 years with a commitment to the local community and New England. Join a rapidly growing company with a proven record of success in one of these key positions at our Burlington facility:

We’re looking for mature, creative people with strong customer service skills. Retail experience preferred. Please send resume to: The Christmas Loft, Attn: Debbie Kelly 3155 Shelburne Road Shelburne, VT 05482, 985-4166, thechristmasloftvt@gmail.com

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Pick up and deliver products from packaging to warehouse Verify accurate counts of finished products and supplies Organize and store finished products into assigned lot numbers Load and unload trucks Operate all warehouse equipment in safe manner

Hours Available: • 2 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday • 10 p.m. - 6:30 a.m.: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday • 7:30 p.m. - 4 a.m.: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday

Associate Director of Family Support, Education

Floater Job

Are you committed to improving the lives of children with disabilities and their families? Colead a familysupport team in their work providing information, support and resources to families of children and young adults with special needs, individuals and professionals.

Manage education grants, oversee grant budgets, train and supervise staff, and collaborate with partners in the community around disability issues.

Will fill a variety of manufacturing positions in production and packaging. This position requires the ability to change readily from one task/department to another as necessary. Effective communication skills a must for the ideal candidate. Must have good mathematical skills.

Hours Available: • 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Oven Operator    

Content expertise needed in education systems, specifically special education and Section 504. Proven leadership and communication skills, experience working with families, and knowledge of disabilityrelated issues necessary. Experience parenting a child with special needs required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.

Full time, 30-37.5 hours/week.

Ensure proper setup of oven and operation of machinery Frequently inspect conveyor belt to ensure smooth flow of trays, donuts and rolls Ensure product quality Monitor line for speed, temperature and adequate feed of bakery products

Hours Available: • 1 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday

Sanitation Worker

Please send cover letter and resume to HR@vtfn.org or HR, Vermont Family Network, 600 Blair Park, Suite 240, Williston, VT 05495.

Sanitation of all equipment and work areas in the plant in compliance with company specifications policy related to GMPs and safety.

Hours Available: • 1 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 3 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Saturday

Family Resource Coordinator Family support organization seeks skilled professional for the Children’s Integrated Services/Early Intervention program in Chittenden County to conduct home visits, assist in the development and coordination of early intervention service plans, and communicate with multiple agencies and school districts. Must have experience parenting a child with special needs; knowledge of family-centered care, early childhood development and community resources for families with young children; and strong communication skills. Full time, 30-37.5 hours/week.

All available positions are for a workweek with two nonconsecutive days off.

Requirements:  Ability to frequently handle material from floor-to-shoulder and pushing/pulling/carrying  Ability to read, comprehend and communicate safety labels and orders  Gloves, hair nets, ear plugs and uniforms are required  Ability to constantly stand/walk and to frequently bend/flex/twist/squat  Product weight; up to 50 pounds  Compliance with all safety standards and regulations per company policy In return for your talent, we offer competitive wages and outstanding benefits including major medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with matching funds, long- and short-term disability and life insurance, and paid vacation, holidays and sick time.

Please send cover letter and resume to HR@vtfn.org or HR, Vermont Family Network, 600 Blair Park, Suite 240, Williston, VT 05495.

To apply, complete an application stating position and shift (available at koffeekupbakery.biz or at our facility) and send it to hr@koffeekupbakery.biz or drop off at facility 436 Riverside Avenue, Burlington.

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Manager of Finance & Accounting The Vermont Judiciary seeks to add a Manager to its leadership team. Reporting to the Chief of Finance & Administration, this position directs the finance, budgeting and accounting team of five in support of an organization of almost 400 employees, $40+ million budget and over 25 locations.

The ideal candidate will have four or more years of proven financial and accounting leadership experience for a public or private entity. At least a bachelor’s degree and solid credentials are desired.

This position is open until filled but preferred consideration will be given to candidates who apply before December 2, 2013. Please apply by email at JUD.HR@STATE.VT.US or by post at Office of the Court Administrator, Human Resources Department, 109 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05609-0701. Written employment application and furnished references may be required at a later date.

Vermont Legal Aid seeks a full-time advocate in its Health Care Ombudsman Project located in Burlington.

Responsibilities include: investigating and resolving complaints and questions from Vermonters regarding health insurance and health care; advising consumers about their rights and responsibilities; assisting beneficiaries with appeals; and maintaining case records. Must be able to work as a team member doing extensive telephone work in a busy environment. The position requires excellent communication and research skills and the ability to learn quickly. Prior health care, human services, insurance, or advocacy experience is desirable. A demonstrated commitment to social justice is also a plus. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.

Starting salary $33,000+ DOE; four weeks paid vacation and excellent fringe benefits.

Send cover letter, resume, contact information for three references and writing sample no later than December 1 to: Eric Avildsen, Executive Director c/o Sandy Burns Vermont Legal Aid P.O. Box 1367, Burlington, VT 05402 or email to sburns@vtlegalaid.org

The Vermont Judiciary is an equal opportunity employer.

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Applications will not be considered complete without all four required documents listed above.

Equal Opportunity Employer — women, minorities, and people with disabilities encouraged to apply.

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PROGRAM MANAGER Multi-state nonprofit has an immediate opening for an experienced grant management professional to join the team.

Responsibilities include administering all aspects of older worker job-training program including planning, staffing and managing program activities to achieve grant objectives.

College degree and 3-5 years’ experience required. Position located in St. Albans.

Please email cover letter with salary requirements, and resume to: HR@vermontassociates.org

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INDEPENDENT OWNER-OPERATORS In anticipation of a very busy season, we are looking to add independent owner-operators for the remainder of 2013 and beyond.

We are a fast-growing company looking for independent contractors to deliver and install appliances for prestigious retailers in the northeastern market.

Rewards of being your own boss include earning potential of $3000+ weekly, weekly commission settlement, comprehensive support, and training.

You must have a valid driver's license, pass a background check, have a clean MVR, the ability to purchase or lease a 24- to 26-foot straight truck, and strong customer service skills to begin getting on the road to financial success.

Please visit www.bdwsolutions.com to apply.

You also may call 802-238-1130 for immediate consideration.

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Employment Consultant, Project Hire — Job ID 1716

Bolton Valley will host JOB FAIRS on November 2 and 16, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., in our Sports Center.

Please join us for immediate interviews with hiring managers. We are hiring for:

Dynamic professional sought to join our supported employment team providing a wide array of employment expertise to our clients. FT.

mental HealtH anD SubStance abuSe ServiceS Data Manager, MAT — Job ID 1707

Lift Operations Food & Beverage Ski & Ride School Snowboard Manager Nordic Center Guest Services

Provide overall data management required by HC and other regulatory agencies. HS diploma. FT.

Sub Clinician, Substance Abuse, MAT — Job ID 1705 Provide individual, group and family counseling to patients dependent on opioids. FT, temporary, may become permanent after three months. Master's. Rostered.

Awake Overnight Clinician Assist — Job ID 1714 Immediate need for awake overnight staff in psychiatric hospital diversion/stabilization program. BA. FT. SaturdayTuesday nights.

Marketing Accounting Groomers Snowmakers and much more.

Check out our website, boltonvalley.com, for more information and online applications.

Residential Program Coordinator, Northern Lights — Job ID 1634 Provide clinical oversight for transitional house for previously incarcerated women. FT. Master's required.

Substance Abuse Clinician, MAT — Job ID 1694 Flex-time, temp clinician for approximately 12 weeks with potential to become a permanent position.

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Director, Crisis Services — Job ID 1586 Master's- or doctorate-level clinician sought to provide leadership and management of three adult mental health and substance abuse crisis programs. Spring 2014 opening.

Warehouse Specialist

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Vermont’s leading ceramic tile operation has a full-time position available in our busy warehouse. This position includes delivery service (must have a clean driving record).

We offer an exceptional benefits package and a great work environment.

Motivated individuals with attention to detail, apply in person Monday through Friday, l0 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Hub Interim Services Coordinator — Job ID 1647 Provide assessment, counseling/case management to clients waiting Chittenden Clinic opening. Master's.

Reach-Up Clinician — Job ID 1665 Provide Reach-Up adults/families employment and self-sufficiency support services. Master's. FT.

Reach-Up Case Manager (2) — Job IDs 1668 and 1664 Provide integrated service planning, coordination and case management to Reach-Up participants.

Night Owls Only! Clinician Act 1/Bridge — Job ID 1661 Thirty awake overnight hours in busy crisis program. Bachelor's preferred. Benefits.

Best Tile 287 Leroy Road Williston, VT 05495 www.besttile.com 802-651-0746

Clinician Act 1/Bridge (2) — Job ID 1695 24/7 substance abuse crisis program seeking two PT clinicians (20 hours/week and 30 hours/week). Benefits.

Case Manager (2), Safe Recovery — Job ID 1179 Service coordination/specialized services to people who inject drugs transition from active use to recovery.

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Interventionist, Enhanced Family Treatment — Job ID 1706 Great opportunity to provide safety and treatment to children with severe emotional, behavioral and/or psychiatric disturbances living in therapeutic foster care or with their families.

position in the retail service department 11/7/11 of vt-based convenience store supplier:

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Interventionist, Inclusion — Job ID 1680 Discover the power of what one person can do! Develop therapeutic/mentoring relationships with students. FT. BA.

Full-line, Vermont-based convenience store supplier looking for an energetic person in the Retail Service Department to merchandise stores. The position does involve some overnight travel. Candidate must have honesty, integrity and possess a positive and confident attitude. must be able to work independently and also with the merchandising or sales team. Valid driver’s license required. High school education or higher. Comprehensive benefits package offered.

Clinician, Early Childhood Mental Health — Job ID 1675 Culturally competent and creative clinician to provide family support, case management and consultation to families/young children. Knowledge of and experience working with multi-ethnic/racially diverse families/ communities required. Flex hours, FT. Master's.

Interventionist, FCBS — Job ID 1679 Offer community-based support/guidance to children with emotional/behavioral challenges.

Residential Clinical Supervisor II — Job ID 1678 Overall clinical accountability for individual and group therapy, implementation of treatment plans and documentation in residential setting serving adolescent males with sexual harming behavior. FT.

For more information, please visit our website www.howardcentercareers.org.

Send resumes to David Gaudette, 91 Catamount Drive, Milton, VT 05468, 802-893-5105, ext. 231 or davidg@bddow.com.

Positions of 20 or more scheduled hours are eligible for comprehensive benefits package. HowardCenter is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities, people of color and persons with disabilities encouraged to apply. EOE/TTY. Applicants needing assistance or an accommodation in completing the online application, please contact Human Resources at 802-488-6950.

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Country Home Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Country Home Products, winner of the “Best Agency of Commerce and Community Development Places to Work in VT” The Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) is seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery Grants award, is looking for a Management Specialist for work with the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). The Disaster Human ResouRces Job Description: Recovery Grants Management Specialist will be working with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cooRDInaToR to join (HUD) Community Development Blockto Grant Disaster (CDBG-DR) program, regionalof planning commissions, Experienced professional sought lead theRecovery Vermont Department Tourism the team in Vergennes! regional development corporations, nonprofit and for-profit organizations and developers, municipalities, and internal

Disaster recovery Grants ManaGeMent specialist

Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications

& Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts.

This mission-critical position staff to ensure compliance of all regulations and all reporting requirements of the CDBG-DR Program.

Duties will entail with multiple positive federal reporting systems, an internal database and a state system.in Thethe position will is designedworking to generate tourism-related coverage ofreporting Vermont report to the Director of Grants Management. national and international marketplace. The Director of Communications is responsibleQualifications: the development andatimplementation a on proactive business • for Ability to provide technical assistance a professional level with aof focus grants management, onsite compliance environmental labor standards, procurement, contracting, outreach planmonitoring, consistent withreview, the goals and Davis-Bacon missionrequirements, of the Department of auditing, and project closeout Tourism and Marketing as well as maintaining consistent communications • Ability to analyze and apply complex laws, rules and regulations via social networking This position is responsible for all tourism media • Ability to writetools. summaries and solutions in instances of non-compliance • Ability to be a team player with the patience and skill to train others relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching targeted • Strong interpersonal, leadership, and oral communication skills tourism story ideas to regional and national media; development of press Education: Bachelor’s in accounting, political science, or business administration.

Qualifications: familiarization trips and itineraries; management of media contact lists; and Experience: Four years at a professional level in grants management, compliance monitoring, auditing, accounting, or • Associate’s degree or support forfinancial Vermont’s international public relationsor initiatives.

The Director management.

Graduate degree in public administration business may be substituted for one year of the equivalent; or three years Tourism & Marketing: Director of Communications required experience. of related experience will also collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive team in the • Recruitment and HRIS Reference job posting ID 613849.

Location: Montpelier.

Status: Full time; limited service (end date:This September 2017). development of aDescription: proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. experience Job Application deadline: December 2, 2013.

• Skilled with theposition use of professional sought of to lead the Vermont Department of Tourism willExperienced report to the Commissioner Tourism & Marketing.

Microsoft Office and/or This position coordinates and provides support to a variety of projects and initiatives in the HR department. Primary responsibilities will include all aspects of the seasonal recruitment process; assistance with other recruitment initiatives; seasonal orientations; insurance of data integrity in electronic and paper employee files; and administrative support for the HR department.

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& Marketing’s public and trade relations efforts. This mission-critical position telecoMMunications infrastructure specialist is designed to generate positive tourism-related coverage of Vermont in the

Google applications Adaptable and flexible during change Strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills

Public Service CandidatesDepartment must: ofdemonstrate strong oral and written skills; have a BA in national and international marketplace.

Director ofofCommunications Performs specialized investigations, analysis advocacyThe for the Department Public related work tois the present Public Relations or related field; have aandminimum of five years of Service relevant responsible for the development and implementation of a proactive business and future capabilities, quality, reliability and readiness of Vermont's telecommunications infrastructure. The position experience;isoutreach demonstrate knowledge Vermont and Vermont’s tourism industry. responsible for understanding telecommunications technology and networks, to establish and plan consistent withof the goals and mission ofand thehelping Department of implement

policies whichand promote the development and maintenance of telecommunications that meet the day-toPlease apply with a cover Tourism Marketing as well as maintaining consistentnetworks communications day and emergency needs of Vermont.

An incumbent functions independently within broad policy guidelines. Work is letter and resume to: Resume, writing samples and atools. minimum offorthree referencesforshould be via social networking This position is responsible all tourism media performed under the general direction of the Director Telecommunications. https://home.eease.adp.com/ relations in-state and out-of-state; press release development; pitching submitted to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community targeted recruit/?id=7181611 Education and Experience: story to regional and national of and press • tourism Master's inideas engineering, economics,Montpelier, business, public media; policy, or adevelopment scientific field related to Development, One degree National Life Drive, VT 05620-0501.

Inout-offamiliarization trips itineraries; of media contact lists;planning, and service telecommunications AND and two (2) years or more management of experience in telecommunications engineering, state1 travel will be required.

Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000. provision,for or consultation in private industry or apublic regulatoryrelations agency.

4v-CountryHomeProducts-HRGen-111313.indd11/8/13 4:22 PM support Vermont’s international initiatives. The Director OR will also collaborate with the Agency of Commerce executive team in the • Bachelor's degree in engineering, economics, business, public policy, or a scientific field related to development of a proactive travel trade and business recruitment plan. This telecommunications AND three (3) years or more of experience in telecommunications engineering, planning, position will report to theinCommissioner Tourism & Marketing. service provision, or consultation private industry or aof regulatory agency.

OR • Candidates Bachelor's degree AND demonstrate five (5) years or more of experience in telecommunications planning, must: strong oral and written skills;engineering, have a BA in service provision, or consultation in private industry or a regulatory agency.

Public Relations or related field; have a minimum of five years of relevant work

Ifexperience; you would like more information about this position, of please contact James james.porter@state.vt.us.

Resumes demonstrate knowledge Vermont and Porter, Vermont’s tourism industry. will not be accepted via email. You must apply online to be considered.

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Reference job opening ID samples 613595. Location: Status: Full time.

Application deadline: 17, 2013.

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submitted to Kitty Sweet, Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community National Life Drive, Montpelier, VTFor05620-0501. and out-ofToDevelopment, apply, you must useOne the online job application at www.careers.vermont.gov. questions relatedInto your application, please contact the Department of Human Resources, Recruitment Services at (800) 640-1657 (voice) or (800) 253-0191 state travel will be required. Salary range: $45,000 - $50,000.

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Team Lead MHSAS Job ID 1662

Work in our busy Contact Center.

Must have computer skills. Flexible day & evening schedules.

Computers not for you? Opportunities also available in Fulfillment, Shipping, & Personalization.

Stabilization Treatment & Recovery Team (START) is seeking Team Lead to oversee an innovative program incorporating peers into the service delivery system. This outreach-based leadership position provides clinical and administrative supervision, budget oversight, and resource allocation. Some on-call responsibilities are required.

Master's required, license and/or QMHP preferred.

New dental practice in Bristol seeking a friendly and enthusiastic certified dental assistant. Three days/week to start, with the possibility of additional days as the practice grows. Training in midDecember, with full schedule beginning in January.

Please visit www.howardcenter.org to learn more.

In-store hiring starts November 4th from Noon to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday at our Shelburne Road Factory (6655 Shelburne Road, Shelburne, VT)

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Nov. 9th, 16th & 23rd we will have in-store Saturday hiring from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We look forward to having you join in the fun!

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COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN Radio North Group is interested in interviewing electronics technicians for the position of Communications and Electronics Technician. Position will be based in South Burlington covering northern Vermont and New York.

QUALIFICATIONS 3+ years of experience as an electronics technician with one or more of the following: networking; land mobile systems; wireless communications systems. Previous work with Motorola Communications Systems is a plus.

EDUCATION Electronics school certificate or an AA degree in electronics, military electronics training and related work experience. Basic understanding of audio, RF, digital and microprocessor circuits.

SCOPE OF EXPECTATIONS Problem-solving skills to troubleshoot critical communications systems day or night with minimal supervision. Must be skilled in use of basic hand tools and have computer skills with Microsoft Windows and specific Motorola radio programming software with some training.

TRAINING Must be able to learn new technical systems with online training as well as attending classes held at various locations.

BENEFITS Competitive salary, 401(k) plan, vacation, paid health care as allowed, and company vehicle for work-related travel.

Send resume and cover letter to John at john.p@radionorthgroup.com.

Radio North Group is an equal opportunity employer.

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The Institute of Professional Practice, Inc., seeks an IT Computer Support/Maintenance Supervisor. Job requires a strong ability to analyze and solve problems, ability to multi-task, excellent verbal and written communication skills. Knowledge of Windows operating systems, Imaging Technology, maintenance/repair, and a willingness to learn are essential. CompTia A+ certification is a must or equivalent education and experience.

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trainer: TechNicool program Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is looking for a trainer for TECHNICOOL. The TECHNICOOL Program provides training to 4th-12th grade students, their parents and educators. A successful candidate must have experience teaching and training adult learners and youth; knowledge of child and adolescent development; and knowledge and a passion for technology. A bachelor’s or master’s degree in child development, social work or education are required. The position requires organization, creativity and flexibility. This full-time position is based in Montpelier and includes extensive in-state travel.

Send cover letter, resume and three references to SEARCH, PO Box 829, Montpelier VT 05601 or pcavt@pcavt.org.

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Health benefits, retirement contributions included.

Salary commensurate with experience.

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We have over 40 seasonal full-time and part-time positions available in all areas of the store with starting 11:24 AM wages up to $11/hour.

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Communications Officer US Climate & Environment Team The Institute for Sustainable Communities is seeking a passionate, committed communications officer with exceptional writing and project management skills and super attention to detail to join our US Program team in Montpelier, VT. If you've got experience managing print and web projects, communicating about climate and sustainability issues, and working in a fast–paced environment, check us out!

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SEASONAL DRIVERS Kelly Services® is hiring experienced drivers for FedEx Ground®. Great opportunity, great pay.

City Market is seeking a full-time Facilities Assistant to direct traffic in our parking lot during nights and weekends, perform general maintenance and daily custodial duties, bag groceries and help wherever needed. Qualified candidates must have outstanding communication skills, excellent customer service skills and the ability to handle stressful situations. Candidates must also have at least one year’s experience with maintenance, equipment repair, and cleaning procedures. High school diploma or GED required.

INQUIRE IN PERSON! Mon-Fri 9am 5pm 322 Leroy Rd Williston, VT (802) 651-6837

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Visit www.iscvt.org/who_we_are/jobs to learn more about ISC and for instructions on how to apply. ISC is an equal opportunity employer.

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City Market is hiring a dedicated and dynamic food service professional to fill the role of Kitchen Shift Coordinator in our busy production kitchen. This position helps supervise the prepared foods team during their scheduled shifts, including, but not limited to, hot and cold food preparation, deli case, maintenance and cleanliness of all food preparation areas and storage of foods during their shift. The person in this position motivates and provides prepared foods staff with the support required to ensure the highest level of service. Ideal candidates must have at least two years of professional cooking experience. An associate’s or culinary degree is preferred. Candidates must also have experience leading others, knowledge of production-oriented kitchen operations and appropriate sanitation practices, and excellent communication and customer service skills. If you have the energy and skills this position demands, apply today!

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The Vermont League of Cities & Towns (VLCT) seeks a Staff Attorney for its Municipal Assistance Center. VLCT is a statewide association dedicated to serving and strengthening Vermont local government.

The Staff Attorney provides local government officials with legal counsel and timely information about their roles, responsibilities and statutory authority. Primary responsibilities include responding to member inquiries, delivering educational workshops, developing model ordinances, and writing legal opinions, monthly newsletter articles and other publications. This position offers broad experience in the laws, regulations, principles and practices of local government as well as employment law, planning and zoning, and public finance.

Excellent communication, research, writing, and teaching skills as well as the ability to work in a dynamic team environment are necessary.

Comprehensive knowledge of local government, municipal law and general legal principles and practices required. Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline such as public administration, political science or government-related field required; law degree and admission to the Vermont Bar required. Three years of professional experience with a Vermont municipality or state agency in areas of municipal administration and responsibilities preferred.

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The Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity seeks experienced, energetic, and committed individuals with a high degree of initiative to join our team!

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is seeking a Family Support Programs Coordinator for Rutland, Bennington and Addison counties to develop and manage parent education and support groups. Based in Rutland, position involves travel to central and southwestern Vermont. Duties include recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers and collaborating with community partners. Knowledge of child development and child abuse, love of parent education/support, and reliable transportation required. Bachelor’s degree in human services or related field required; master’s preferred. Please send cover letter, resume and three references to:

VT Tenants/Tenant Advocate: Our ideal candidate will inform and advocate for tenants regarding their rights and responsibilities. Job responsibilities include giving advice, information and counseling on rental housing issues and providing appropriate referrals to tenants with housing issues; serving as an information and training resource for social service providers and other agencies statewide; and provide public advocacy regarding tenant issues. To apply to this 20 hours/week position, please send a cover letter and resume to vttenant@cvoeo.org.

Mobile Home Program/Resident Organizer: We are looking for a motivated problem-solver to provide education and outreach to residents of Vermont’s mobile home parks. Job responsibilities include providing direct service to residents including individual advocacy, identifying resources and solutions to improve or maintain housing conditions, and providing trainings and technical support for resident associations and resident-owned cooperatives. To apply to this 32 hours/week position, please send a cover letter and resume to mhpdirector@cvoeo.org.

Successful applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline and relevant experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are acquired; the ability to deal effectively, efficiently and respectfully with clients served

by CVOEO and with a broad diverse range of individuals and organizations in carrying out all assigned functions. A valid driver’s license and access to reliable transportation is required.

Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, Coordinator Search PO Box 829, Montpelier, VT 05601 or email pcavt@pcavt.org No calls, please. | E.O.E. | www.pcavt.org

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SSTA, a local not-for-profit, is looking to hire an experienced Safety and Training Specialist to research, design, develop, implement and maintain comprehensive training programs specific to the organizational needs. SSTA offers competitive pay, paid holidays and vacation. All incumbents must successfully pass background checks and drug test upon offer of hire.

To apply for this position, please download an application from sstarides.org and submit it in one of the following ways: t Email to apply@sstarides.org t Fax to 802-878-7385, Attn: Human Resources t Mail to SSTA, Attn: Human Resources, 2091 Main Street, Colchester, VT 05446 E q u a l O p p O rt u nit y E m p l O y E r t In person at 2091 Main Street

New dental practice in Bristol seeks a friendly and familyoriented hygienist to join our team. Three days/week to start, with the possibility of additional days as the practice grows. Prevention-4t-SSTA-111313.indd 1 11/11/13 and evidence-based focus Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services a must. Training in midDecember, with full schedule The Center for Crime Victim Services is seeking an beginning in January. experienced, hands-on Financial Manager. Primary

Full-Time Temporary Position $16.10 per hour Must be 21 years old or older with an acceptable driving record.

Must be able to drive Standard Shift.

Must meet UPS appearance standards and requirements.

Must pass DOT physical exam.

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DRIVER HELPERS Seasonal Position in Your Local Area Team up with a UPS Package Car Driver delivering packages weighing up to 70 lbs.

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Earn Extra Holiday Cash Work 3-9 Hours per day for 4 to 6 Weeks $9.50 Per Hour • Weekends & Holidays Off

PART-TIME PACKAGE HANDLERS Various Shifts Available Must be able to lift parcels weighing up to 70 lbs.

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responsibility is the financial management, monitoring and reporting on numerous federal and state grants disbursed to community-based nonprofits. Other responsibilities include agency budget development and management, financial reporting, creating and maintaining financial systems and internal controls.

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or financial management and five years of relevant financial and grants management experience required.

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Lund is a multi-service nonprofit that has served families and children throughout Vermont for 123 years. Our mission is to help children thrive by serving families with children, pregnant or parenting teens and young adults, and adoptive families. We are currently seeking a professional to join our residential and community treatment team:

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Seasonal Sales Associates.

• Beauty Advisor positions available in various cosmetic lines – unlimited earning potential and vendor training • Regular Full Time & Part Time Sales positions in all areas, including specialized businesses: Commission, Better Sportswear, Fine Jewelry and Women’s Shoes • Schedules that fit your lifestyle • Outstanding benefits

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Macy’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Please submit cover letter and resume to Jamie Tourangeau, HR Manager, PO Box 4009, Burlington, VT 05406-4009, fax (802) 864-1619 or email jamiet@lundvt.org.

Milton town School DiStrict 2013-2014 School openings

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Do you have extra time or a flexible schedule? Would you like to earn extra money? We are looking for Substitutes to cover our:

rns (preferably with school nursing experience) classroom teachers instructional and Supervisory Aides Food Service custodial Department Stop by our elementary school and pick up an application or download the application and process from our website, www.mtsd-vt.org.

Submit an application and names of references to: Milton Town School District Attn: Terry Mazza 42 Herrick Ave. Milton, VT 05468 Fax: 802-893-3213 EOE

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Join Champlain Housing Trust’s team in St. Albans serving the affordable housing needs of a diverse group of people in Franklin and Grand Isle Counties as a fulltime Property Manager. You will be responsible for all aspects of the operation of a portfolio of properties including tenant relations, rent collections, rent increases, lease enforcement and compliance with Federal, State and local programs.

Qualified candidates must have excellent customer service skills, be able to work independently, enjoy a team environment, communicate effectively, exercise sound judgment and be organized with attention to detail. Significant travel for on-site visits required. Experience in residential and/or commercial property management and knowledge of Section 8 NC/SR 811 a must along with a commitment to perpetually affordable housing. Certification in LIHTC, RD, and experience in HOME program a plus.

CHT is a socially responsible employer offering competitive salary commensurate with experience. Our benefit package includes health insurance, vacation, holiday, sick leave, 403(b), disability and life insurance. Submit cover letter and resume by November 18th to Human Resources, Champlain Housing Trust, 88 King Street, Burlington, VT 05401 or hr@champlainhousingtrust.org. No phone calls, please.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - CHT is committed to a diverse workplace and highly encourages women, persons with disabilities, Section 3 residents, and people from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds to apply.

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Exciting new opportunity providing adults and families enrolled in Reach-Up the clinical services needed to support employment and self-sufficiency by addressing mental health and substance abuse barriers.

The Clinician will provide therapeutic and referral services, case management, and case review/case consultation for men and women enrolled in Reach-Up* with a mental health or substance use disorder.

The clinician will work with both WCMHS Outpatient and State Reach-Up teams.

Apply for the opportunity to work with a team of professionals across several agencies on this new and exciting initiative!

Duties include: • Work closely with Reach-Up case managers to provide targeted case management, service coordination and access to all clinical services • Conduct case reviews • Provide case consultation to Reach-Up teams on a regular basis • Conduct assessments and provide individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy • Screen and create treatment plan for individuals with substance abuse and mental health problems • Make referrals for assessments, individual, group and family therapies, and medication treatment • Complete all relevant documentation, including authorizations for services, clinical notes, treatment plans, administrative forms, etc.

• Participate in staff meetings, supervision and training *Reach-Up helps families with children by providing assistance for basic needs and services that support work and self-sufficiency.

Send letter of interest/resume to WCMHS, Personnel, PO Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601 or personnel@wcmhs.org. www.wcmhs.org | Tel: 229-0591 | Fax: 223-8623

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Join the Macy’s team and we will provide you with an exciting and rewarding career!

Full-time counselor position working 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Counselor will provide parenting and lifeskill support to pregnant and/or parenting women and the Macy’s Vermont store. their children in transitional housing program. Excellent opportunity to participate in team approach to treatment and provide services and resources to young parents and their children. Bachelor’s degree in human-services-related field or five years’ relevant experience required. Ability to work with a team and independently, experience working with adolescents, and flexibility are a must. Solid attention 2v-Macy's-111313.indd 1 to detail, ability to multitask, and strong written and verbal communication skills required. Lund offers a comprehensive benefit package including health, dental, life, disability and extensive time-off accrual.

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OperatiOns and Finance assistant Vermont Works for Women, a nonprofit organization helping women and girls recognize their potential and explore, pursue and excel in work that leads to economic independence, is seeking an Operations and Finance Assistant for our Winooski office. We’re looking for an energetic, detail-oriented individual who is looking for a supportive, stimulating work environment. Full-time position with generous benefits package and competitive salary.

Send cover letter, resume and references via email to acrawford@ vtworksforwomen.org or fax to 802-655-8922. For a job description, visit www.vtworksforwomen.org. Applications will be accepted through November 25. EOE. No phone calls, please.

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Sales & Marketing Coordinator Vermont Smoke and Cure seeks a Sales & Marketing Coordinator to support our small sales team and promotion in stores, at events, and via the web and social media.

Are you looking for part-time work through the holidays?

Join our team of dedicated servers!

Evening & Every Other Weekend Shifts Available!

Servers facilitate a fine dining experience for our residents. Experience as a server is preferred but not required. We will train applicants who demonstrate strong customer service skills and a strong desire to work with an active population of seniors.

Wake Robin offers an excellent opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting. Interested candidates, please email your resume with cover letter to hr@wakerobin.com or fax your resume with cover letter to HR, (802) 264-5146. EOE

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Youth Development Coordinator Do you have a passion for youth development work?

Do you have case management experience?

Do you want to help young people successfully transition to adulthood?

LCCDRJP is a team-oriented, nonprofit agency based in Hyde Park. We have a full-time position for someone who possesses strong communication skills, a clear sense of boundaries, brings a human services background, and believes in restorative practices.

Responsibilities include case management services for youth ages 15 to 22 as they transition from DCF/state custody to adulthood. A bachelor’s degree and experience in a related field is required.

Interested individuals can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to the following email address: info@lamoillecourtdiversion.org.

Applications accepted until position is filled.

LCCDRJP, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

More information available at www.lamoillecourtdiversion.org.

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DENTAL OFFICE MANAGER

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New dental practice in Bristol seeking enthusiastic and experienced office manager. 32 hours/week.

Begin part time December 1, full schedule when the practice opens in January.

Responsibilities include front desk, scheduling, billing, payroll, financial planning, office policy development and implementation. Dental assistant cross training provided. Long-term responsibilities will include direct supervision of additional front office staff as we grow.

After-school Assistant Site Directors and Core Staff Wanted!

The Burlington Kids after-school program seeks creative, enthusiastic individuals to work at sites across the district. Ideal candidates for all positions will have significant experience working with elementaryage children in educational and/or licensed childcare settings.

We are hiring two experienced educational leaders to serve as Assistant Site Directors alongside the Site Director and in collaboration with Burlington Parks & Recreation at the Edmunds and Champlain Elementary School sites. These leaders will help design and manage the programs in close partnership with multiple stakeholders. Positions require strong administrative and supervisory experience, along with a passion for working with children.

These positions are 30 hours/week, offer a generous pay and benefits package, are currently open and will be filled when highly qualified candidates are found. Application deadline: November 21.

BKids also seeks talented Core Staff members to join teams at multiple sites. These are part-time positions working with students Monday-Friday for approximately 15-20 hours/week and include an incentive plan. Hourly rate commensurate with skills and experience.

Health benefits, retirement contributions included.

Salary commensurate with experience.

To apply for either position, please submit cover letter, resume, three references with contact information and transcripts to: Nina L. Mazuzan Burlington Kids Lead Site Director Email: nmazuzan@bsdvt.org

Send resume and cover letter to: mountainhealthfamilydentistry@ gmail.com

Burlington Kids offers enrichment and recreational opportunities alongside exceptional academic support on a schedule that meets families’ needs for quality after-school care.

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Retail

BIG LOTS, the nation’s largest broadline closeout retailer has opportunities for you!

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MiltOn tOwn SChOOl DiStriCt 2013-2014 School Openings

YOUR FUTURE

OUR VISION

You have many choices in your career. Why not choose an employer who makes you an important part of their vision for the future?

Why not choose an employer that can offer stability, growth and vision.

Do you have what it takes? Could Our Vision match up with Your Future?

Family and Community Support Services

70-72 Pearl Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452

Food Service Department is looking to fill several openings. These are parttime, school-year positions.

Min. rate of pay is $11.13 (rate could be higher depending on experience) with no benefits.

Job #966 Essex Junction, VT 5.8 X 1.67

Manager, Learning and Organizational Development Full-time, day shift, 8am-5pm

(1) Cashier Opening – 27.5 hours per week/ 5.5 hours per day

CVCAC is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

The Learning and Organizational Development Manager is responsible for the development and implementation of learning programs, strategies and processes in support of talent management and employee engagement. This position works closely with the organization’s leadership, human resources and other stakeholders to design, manage, implement and oversee learning processes to meet the established goals of the organization.

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Requirements include a Bachelor’s Degree in a related area with at least 5 years of leadership experience designing, planning and delivering a variety of learning programs using multiple mediums, preferably in a healthcare setting.

Previous leadership development experience, strong facilitation and training delivery skills, high credibility as a communicator and coach at senior levels and strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.

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The ideal candidate will also have extensive familiarity with standard principles, theories and concepts in learning and organizational development, have the ability to work independently and take initiative, be committed to deadline management and be a motivated self-starter.

The Manager will also be expected to have demonstrated proficiency in program design, both face-to-face and virtual experiences (webcasts, podcasts, etc.) and be able to work in a dynamic, diverse and fast-paced environment with excellent attention to detail. Microsoft Desktop application skills (Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint) are necessary.

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Please apply online at: www.rrmc.org or for more information, contact:

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Chip Mitiguy, Recruiter at cmitiguy@rrmc.org Rutland Regional Medical Center 160 Allen Street, Rutland, VT 05701

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Come build your future at Middlebury College!

HVAC, Refrigeration A Full-time Benefits Eligible Position

MiltOn tOwn Size #8 (3.83” x 8.84”) BW SChOOl DiStriCt Price Attn: Terry 13-RUTL-0008082 Mazza Ad# 42 Herrick Ave. Milton, VT 05468 Fax: 802-893-3213 www.MTSD-VT.org

We offer an excellent benefit/compensation package.

Rutland Regional Medical Center is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action employer.

We are recruiting a Service Coordinator to work with people referred through the AHS Field Director to respond to and address significant issues that may arise around access of services for those deemed at high-risk for reincarceration, homelessness or hospitalization, or with other concerns. The Service Coordinator will often develop housing plans with participants toward a goal of achieving permanent housing.

BA plus two years’ experience providing service coordination or similar work required. Competitive wages and excellent benefits. Submit cover letter and resume postmarked no later than November 15 to: Central Vermont Community Action Council, Inc. Human Resources 20 Gable Place Barre, VT 05641 Or email cvcachr@cvcac.org

Middlebury College, located in Middlebury Vermont, seeks a HVAC, Refrigeration A technician who will be responsible for installing, repairing and maintaining freezers and refrigerators, plumbing systems and HVAC systems for campus buildings and facilities. The successful candidate will have a high school diploma or equivalent with appropriate technical school training in refrigeration systems, electro-mechanic systems and plumbing systems. Knowledge of refrigeration, electromechanical and plumbing systems necessary. RSES Type I and II Certified Refrigerant Technician required. Must be able to work independently with ability to troubleshoot and solve complex heat and refrigeration issues. Familiarity with large building systems preferred.

Why work for us? Middlebury College is a nationally recognized liberal arts institution. Our employees enjoy a high quality of life with excellent 2:28 PM compensation; competitive health, dental, life, disability, retirement, and vision benefits; and educational assistance programs. As the tenth largest employer in Vermont and an institution with operations on five continents, Middlebury’s workforce is one of its most valuable assets. Thus the college is firmly committed to the success and development of its employees.

To view the full job description and apply online, please visit: http://apptrkr.com/407591

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HowardCenter Shared Living Provider program seeks individuals or couples to share their Chittenden County home with people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorder.

Director of Human Resources

Basin Harbor Club is now recruiting for a Director of Human Resources. This is a year-round position with our seasonal resort and oversees all facets of the HR function. As the Director of HR, you oversee all recruitment of seasonal and year-round positions, benefit administration, workers compensation, employee relations, training, legal compliance, and employee housing. The ideal candidate will have at least five years’ experience in an HR Generalist capacity with a focus on recruitment, employee relations and training. Basin Harbor is a family-owned and operated seasonal resort located on the shores of Lake Champlain. We employ 30 yearround staff and up to 300 seasonal staff. This is a wonderful opportunity to work in a gorgeous setting with fabulous people.

30-something male or couple sought to support a young man on the autism spectrum with a co-occurring mental health diagnosis. This guy enjoys fishing, riding his scooter, b-ball, dogs and playing the guitar. Successful candidate(s) are creative, engaging, have strong boundaries and are willing to support someone with challenging behaviors as an active team member. No children in the home.

Structured and supportive home for a 19-year-old man who enjoys classical music and the Big Bang Theory! He is working on developing his independent living skills and really appreciates humor.

Early 2014: Horse and dog-loving roommate(s) sought to support a vivacious young adult.

Experience with trauma training a plus.

Generous, tax-free stipend, respite budget and community-based support provided. Please contact Marisa Hamilton, 488-6571.

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For more information about Basin Harbor Club, please visit www.basinharbor.com Interested applicants, please send resume and cover letter to Rachel Novak, Director of Human Resources, rachel@basinharbor.com (802) 475-7846 Basin Harbor Club is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Financial Manager

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SSTA, a local nonprofit, is looking to hire an experienced Financial Manager. Office duties range from day-today accounting and financial reporting, budget development and management, database reporting, and analyzing and maintaining financial systems and controls.

This position is part of the management team and will oversee two employees.

Bachelor’s degree in accounting and five years of relevant experience required.

SSTA offers competitive pay,

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paid holidays and vacation. All incumbents must successfully pass background checks and drug test upon offer of hire.

To apply for this position, please download an application from sstarides.org and submit it in one of the following ways: t Email to apply@sstarides.org t Fax to 802-878-7385, Attn: Human Resources t Mail to SSTA, Attn: HR, 2091 Main Street, Colchester, VT 05446 t In person at 2091 Main Street

Advancement and Communications Manager Are you passionate about mission-driven organizations? Do you want to make a difference in the lives of Vermonters? Join CVCAC’s entrepreneurial and successful development team and help people achieve economic sufficiency with dignity.

CVCAC’s Development Department seeks an experienced professional with initiative and the ability to work independently and to be an exceptional team player. As part of an experienced, highly skilled team, our Advancement and Communications Manager will fundraise, secure grants, develop and implement impactful multi-program marketing/communications strategies, and contribute compelling content to the agency’s website and social media efforts. S/he should have a minimum of a B.A., proven fundraising and grants success, and excellent oral and written communication skills. Knowledge of economic, social and cultural issues of importance to people with limited resources is ideal. Experience with local, state and national funders, cultivating major donors and capital campaigns are pluses.

Ability to work collaboratively on multiple deadlines while maintaining a sense of humor is important.

This is a full-time, exempt position (40 hours/week with occasional overtime). We offer competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and a friendly, informal work environment.

Please send resume, your salary requirements and a letter telling us why working at CVCAC interests you, what experience and skill sets you offer, and three references postmarked no later than November 22 to:

Central Vermont Community Action Council, Inc. Human Resources 20 Gable Place Barre, VT 05641 Or email cvcachr@cvcac.org CVCAC is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and people from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Commercial Lines Account Executive Are you dynamic and driven and seeking a position with a quality employer?

Consider Kinney Pike Insurance, a leading Vermont independent insurance agency with seven offices across Vermont. Kinney Pike is on the lookout for an enthusiastic, results-driven individual seeking a sales career with great earning potential for our Commercial Lines Account Executive in our Williston office. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build upon your current experience and share your positive energy, communications and sales skills with members of the business community.

Insurance background is preferred but not required.

Kinney Pike Insurance offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefit package.

Engaging minds that change the world Seeking a position with a quality employer? Consider The University of Vermont, a stimulating and diverse workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefit package including tuition remission for on-going, full-time positions. This opening and others are updated daily.

Student Financial Services Counselor - #0041033 - The Office of Student Financial Services is seeking a Student Financial Services Counselor to work with students at UVM, providing accurate advice about financial aid, billing and payment of tuition and fees, and methods available to settle financial obligations. Responsibilities include providing exceptional customer service to students, parents, and the campus community regarding student finances at the University of Vermont.

Individual must have excellent communication skills, commitment to professional growth and development, and the ability to be flexible and function efficiently in fast-paced environment.

Candidate must possess a genuine interest in supporting a broadly diverse campus community.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in business/accounting or related area and two to three years of related experience required. The ideal candidate must be a flexible team-player who is committed to exceptional customer service as demonstrated by a minimum of two years customer service experience in financial aid or in the financial services industry. Additional qualities desirable in a candidate for this position are: experience in student loan repayment counseling or debt management, public speaking and presentation skills, familiarity with Federal Student Aid regulations and policies, previous employment in a higher education setting, and experience with SunGard SCT Banner student information system and Microsoft Office products.

For further information on this position and others currently available, or to apply on-line, please visit our website at: www.uvmjobs.com; Job Hotline #802-656-2248; telephone #802656-3150. Applicants must apply for positions electronically. Paper resumes are not accepted. Job positions are updated daily.

The University of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, veterans and people from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

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Interested candidates should email resume and cover letter to Terry Hughes at thughes@kinneypike.com.

A full job description can be found at kinneypike.com.

Kinney Pike is an equal opportunity employer.

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Accounts Receivable Coordinator The Institute of Professional Practice, Inc. is a private nonprofit human services and educational organization serving people with developmental and other disabilities throughout New England and Maryland. The corporate office, located in central Vermont, is recruiting for an Accounts Receivable Coordinator. Duties will include assisting the Senior Accounts Receivable Coordinator with coding and entering cash receipts, reconciling bank accounts and calculating client allowances and monitoring account balances.

The appropriate candidate will possess excellent customer service and analytical skills, be detail oriented and well organized, and desirous of a fast-paced and challenging work environment. Minimum qualifications include an associate’s degree in accounting or two years' experience in bookkeeping, working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

IPPI offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits package.

Please send resume and salary requirements to: IPPI Accounts Receivable Coordinator, PO Box 1249, Montpelier, VT 05601 or reply to www.ippi.org. EOE.

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The Charlotte News has a commission-based, partPaper: Seven Days time position. Flexible hours 11/13 (averageIssue: 15-20 per week).

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PUBLIC GUARDIAN

Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living The Office of Public Guardian seeks an independent, energetic and organized person to protect and monitor the legal and human rights of individuals under court-ordered guardianship. This position covers a caseload of individuals with developmental disabilities or age-related cognitive impairments in northwestern Vermont who require assistance and judgment for critical decision making in a number of life domains (such as medical, residential, legal, contractual decisions, and financial). At times, a high level of stress is associated with this position.

The successful applicant will have a bachelor’s degree, strong emotional self-regulation skills, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Applicants must understand the needs of individuals with disabilities and services and opportunities for meeting those needs. Must be able to work well with diverse teams, learn a variety of computer applications, and be available for emergency response at night and on the weekends. Extensive travel within northwestern Vermont is required.

For more information, contact Joan Stephens at (802) 388-4693 or email joan.stephens@state.vt.us.

Reference job posting ID 613815. Location: St. Albans. Status: Full time.

Application deadline: November 22, 2013.

To apply, use the online job application at www.careers.vermont.gov.

For assistance, contact the Department of Human Resources, Recruitment Services Division at (855) 828-6700 (voice) or (800) 253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service). The State of Vermont offers an excellent total compensation package and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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THE BETTER HOMES AWARD (BHA) is a long tradition of the associations where we celebrate and recognize our members’ fine craftsmanship, excellence in housing design, architecture, interior design, landscaping and remodeling. This year we introduced our new online program, thanks to mRelevance.

It allowed HBRANV members to enter their projects, to have HBRASV judge the entries, to give recognition to our sponsors encompassing a public platform for people to view and vote for this years’ People’s Choice Award category. We were thrilled at the response and excitement for our program. Please make sure to check out all our entries and our winners at www.bhavt.com!

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SD: What was Vermont food like when you moved to St. Johnsbury in 1973?

EB: The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont was not a food area in 1973. There was game — it was a big thing. And it was kind of a culture of cheddar cheese. There was a certain appreciation for dairy.

The quality of home cooking was mixed, shall we say. People made yeast doughnuts with lard they had rendered.

And there was an appreciation of maple syrup tasting different [when it came] from different people. It was certainly not organized. There was no balanced sense of great raw materials.

SD: What is the most essential of the 50 foods?

EB: I once said in a risktaking moment that if I had to choose between giving up wine or olive oil, I would give up wine. I don’t know if that’s really true, but I did say it.

SD: Your 50 choices lean toward France and Italy. Do you like other world cuisines, too?

EB: It is a very Euro book. It’s a true observation. It’s a fair criticism. My defense would be [that] you can’t know all the world’s food well. What’s lacking in the world these days more than in the past is a point of view, and this book has one. I don’t think you can write with as much feeling if you’re just really an omnivore in that cultural kind of way.

SD: What’s your guilty pleasure?

EB: I don’t think you should have guilty pleasures. I eat vast amounts of butter and cream. I’m blessed with good genetics and low cholesterol. The doctor, when he got my cholesterol back, wrote me a note that said, “Dear Mr. Behr, Your cholesterol levels are enviable.”

Too much cream is my guilty pleasure, preferably raw. The whole thing about raw cream is you don’t want to cook it — then it’s not raw anymore.

I would use it for anything you would use cream for — raw and liquid, gloppy or whipped. I’ve also cultured it.

SD: Are there any foods you can’t stand?

EB: I’m really not fond of peanut butter cookies. It is the peanut/sweet thing — peanut butter frosting, peanut butter cake … There are very few things I don’t like — only three or four. I like almost everything, but people are always saying, “You’re so picky.” But I’ll eat many more things than [they] will. I just want them to be good.

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SD: If you wrote a version of the book just about Vermont, what would be your top five foods?

EB: Definitely heavy cream. Green beans from my garden — boiled. We bought some exquisite frozen pork chops at the St. Johnsbury farmers market from Tamworth pigs. They were from some guy — Yankee Chicken Coop or something [Yankee Coop, owned by Jeff and Jeanne

Nummelin] is his real business. I’ll go out on a limb and say Champlain Valley McIntosh [apples]. I think you have to say Vermont cheddar — wonderful clothbound cheddar. It’s no use doing a sideby-side taste test; it would give itself away. And I think you could come up with another five with equal claim.

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SD: Do you feel limited eating in the Northeast Kingdom?

EB: People say, “You must order a lot of food.” [In] one of the earlier pieces [I did for The Art of Eating], I was really interested in goat’s-milk cheese and went to the south of France to do that. It was fairly humble travel, a lot of going to markets and seeing what the cheeses were and seeing the cheese maker afterward or at that time. At one point long ago, I was interested in pizza. I went to Naples realizing that’s where to go. We don’t eat out in Vermont very often.

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SD: How have your tastes changed since you started The Art of Eating in 1986?

EB: I don’t think they’ve changed, but I think I’ve become more aware of them.

While I love really rustic food, and I tend to cook slightly unrefined food, the food I respect most and [that] I think I’ve realized I’m very appreciative of is very refined food, and the amount of skill and talent that refined food represents in a luxury restaurant.

On the other hand, I’ve become more conscious, in the other direction, [of ] how tough it is to find somebody who cooks in a more rustic environment and knows it well, when you consider that [such an environment is] disappearing in Western culture and people will eventually lose a feeling for what it is.

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HOMESHARE VERMONT INFORMATIONAL SESSION: Those interested in homesharing and/or caregiving programs meet with staff to learn more.

HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 5-6 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625.

MENTORING DISCUSSION GROUP: "Big buddies" in the King Street Center's program find common ground over a breakfast meeting focused on boundary setting. King Street Center, Burlington, 8:30 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 862-6736.

conferences

BURLINGTON BUSINESS ASSOCIATION DOWNTOWN PARKING SUMMIT: National parking expert Jeffrey Tumlin keynotes this gathering dedicated to current and future systems within the Queen City's infrastructure. Proceeds benefit related pilot projects and new technology. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 7:30-11:30 a.m. $30-50 includes breakfast. Info, 863-1175, jmclaughlin@bbavt.org.

crafts

GREEN MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA: Needle-andthread enthusiasts work on current projects and practice crazy quilting and Quaker Ball embroidery.

Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m. Free; bring a bag lunch. Info, 372-4255.

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Georgia Elementary & Middle School, St. Albans, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 528-2455.

VSAC PAYING FOR COLLEGE PRESENTATION: Students learn how to decipher the financial requirements of higher education. Cafeteria, Burlington High School, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 800-642-3177.

VSAC PAYING FOR COLLEGE PRESENTATION: SOUTH BURLINGTON: See above listing.

Multipurpose Room, South Burlington High School, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 800-642-3177.

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RESEARCH IN YOUR BACKYARD: Attendees explore the impact of local clinical trials on medicine, the economy and the bioscience research environment. Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7:30 a.m. Free. Info, vermontbiotech@ gmail.com.

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VALLEY NIGHT FEATURING COLLEEN MARI MAYS: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts.

Info, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info.

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hanneling Townes Van Zandt and Gillian Welch through an Appalachian tin-can phone line, the Stray Birds specialize in using lilting harmonies and delicate arrangements to make their original songs sound old. Tapping deep into folk traditions, this three-piece, all-acoustic string band from Pennsylvania creates genuine, heartfelt music that combines country, bluegrass and folk. The Stray Birds have earned critical and popular raves for their self-titled 2012 album, which NPR has called “one of the finest debuts of the year from a band to watch.”

VERMONT SONS OF UNION VETERANS MEETING: The local chapter welcomes new members at a planning session for a remembrance of Vermont's Civil War soldiers. Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 401-474-4889.

film

BRATTLEBORO FILM FESTIVAL: An eclectic mix of 30 films, speakers and discussions celebrates independent filmmakers and productions. See brattleborofilmfestival.org for details. Latchis Hotel & Theater, Brattleboro, 6:30-10 p.m. Prices vary.

Info, 917-239-8743.

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'COW POWER: THE FILM': Allison Gillette's eye-opening documentary examines the history and science behind using manure as a renewable energy source. A panel discussion follows.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5052.

Sunday, November 17, 4 p.m., at Richmond Free Library. $17.50 advance, $20 day of show. thestraybirds.com, valleystage.net

'DYING GREEN': The short film introduces viewers to the environmentally sustainable way of returning to the earth. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 3:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8140.

'FREEDOM AND UNITY: THE VERMONT MOVIE: PART THREE': "Refuge, Reinvention and Revolution" highlights influential figures in the state's history. Gateway Center, Newport, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

GLOBAL LENS FILM SERIES: 'LIFE KILLS ME': Sebastián Silva's 2007 comedy explores the unlikely friendship between a filmmaker grieving his brother's recent death and a drifter obsessed with morbidity. Spanish with English subtitles. Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 865-7211.

'JFK': On the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, folks screen American Experience's portrayal of the enigmatic president. A panel discussion follows. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

health & fitness

CREATIVE FLOW YOGA WITH DEBORAH FELMETH: A blend of meditation, Vinyasa-style asana, chanting and yogic philosophy builds physical and emotional strength. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 5:30-7 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

EMBRACING BITTERS: Sarah Corrigan presents the history of the digestive tonic and how to incorporate it into daily life. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister.

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Cast out by his jealous brothers, a young man finds fame in a new land as an interpreter of dreams. Young composer Andrew Lloyd Webber found fame, too, when he collaborated with lyricist Tim Rice on this tuneful, family-friendly adaptation of the Old Testament tale of Joseph and his coat of many colors. The sung-through musical incorporates a raft of popular styles, from Elvis-esque rock and roll to hoedown to calypso, and a choir of 25 kids keeps the energy high. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Burlington’s Lyric Theatre Company — the second largest such volunteer organization in the U.S. — demonstrates once again that “any dream will do.”

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Grand Canyon On her website, Lauren Fox describes herself as an “actress, singer, writer, restauranteur, bleeding heart, New Yorker.” But recently the multitalented Fox has taken some time away from the Big Apple to serve as an artist-in-residence at Castleton State College. Her latest production, “Canyon Folkies: Over the Hills & Under the Covers,” is an homage to the famed Laurel Canyon folk scene of the late 1960s, featuring the music of Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne and others. As New York Times critic Steven Holden observes, Fox’s show is no mere stroll down memory lane. It’s a time machine. “With her long, straight hair and full-length dress, and her theatrical know-how, she embodies [the era] physically and spiritually,” he writes. “She knows more about the period than most people who lived through it.”

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In response to a famous mathematician who had invited him to a party, Charles Darwin once wrote, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in heaven, I never go out.” Darwin was an introvert — just like Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt and Diane Sawyer. In his book The Everything Guide to the Introvert Edge, local psychologist Arnie Kozak encourages introverts to embrace their personalities. “To be an introvert in today’s world requires freedom from the noisy cult of extroversion,” writes Kozak, who in a talk at Phoenix Books Burlington will explain how inwardness can be a virtue.

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Yoga Class: Dominique Meyers leads yogis in a mixed-level, therapeutic practice based on Anusara and Kripalu styles. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 5-6:30 p.m. $12; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115, anitra99@ yahoo.com.

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storY tiMe & PlaYgrouP: Engaging narratives pave the way for themed art, nature and cooking projects. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. storY tiMe For 3- to 5-Year-olds: Preschoolers stretch their reading skills through activities involving puppets and books. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. the College searCh: Educational consultant Nancy Milne shares strategies for surviving the college application process. A Q&A follows.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6:307:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. 'the darK Knight' CoMiCs CluB: Ben T. Matchstick and Ash Brittenham lead an afternoon of drawing, writing and creative collaboration for comic-book enthusiasts ages 7 through 17. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

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english-language Class For neW aMeriCans: Beginner-to-advanced speakers improve their skills. Administrative Office and Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

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BaBY & Me storY tiMe: Mother Goose-inspired plotlines entertain parents and little listeners ages 2 and under. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

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

Free; preregister. Info, 876-7555.

Fall storY tiMe: Kiddos share read-aloud tales and wiggles and giggles with Mrs. Liza. Highgate Public Library, 11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 868-3970. historY For hoMesChoolers: In "Vermont Presidents," children ages 6 through 12 learn about the state's influential political figures. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. $4-5; preregister; limited space. Info, 828-1413.

let's talK turKeYs: A woodland adventure teaches explorers ages 3 to 5 and their adult companions about the lives of gobblers. Meet at the education barn. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 10-11 a.m. $8-10 per adult/child pair; $4 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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read to a dog: Lit lovers take advantage of quality time with a friendly, fuzzy therapy pooch.

Fairfax Community Library, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Free; preregister for a time slot. Info, 849-2420.

Yoga With tea: Participants incorporate breath, posture and meditation appropriate to their comfort and skill levels in a Kripalu class. Arrive early to request tea. Chai Space, Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 6:15-7:15 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com.

hoMeWorK helP: First through eighth graders get help with their reading, math and science assignments from Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science students. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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little exPlorer PrograM: 'disCover Your CoMMunitY': Little ones learn about preparing for winter on an excursion through the Sheldon Woods. Appropriate outdoor attire required.

Sheldon Elementary School, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 868-3970.

Meet roCKin' ron the FriendlY Pirate: Aargh, matey! Youngsters celebrate the hooligans of the sea with music, games and themed activities.

Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:45 a.m. Free.

Info, 764-1810.

Moving & grooving With Christine: Two- to 5-year-olds jam out to rock-and-roll and world-beat tunes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

PresChool art Class: Budding Picassos ages 3 to 5 and their adult caregivers get creative with painting, clay sculpting, collage and more. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. $20; preregister. Info, 425-2700.

PresChool storY hour: Tykes gather for themed tales and activities. Discovery Place. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 11:30 a.m. Regular admission, $9.50-12.50; free for kids ages 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

glBtQQia disCussion grouP: High school students and adults who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and allies chat about relevant issues and topics.

Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 5-6 p.m. Free.

Info, 878-6955, kat@brownelllibrary.org. lgBtQa FaMilY PlaYgrouP: Like-minded folks bring infants and children up to age 4 together for crafts and physical activities. Leaps and Bounds Child Development Center, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 860-7812, jean@ru12.org.

PoP-uP gaYMe night: Gamers join Melvin P. Pickle and Kim Jordan for an all-ages evening of bingo and trivia. Monkey House, Winooski, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 860-7812.

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PlaYing For PeaCe: Israeli-born pianist Sally Pinkas and Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh join the Apple Hill Quartet to promote cross-cultural understanding through chamber music. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-27. Info, 603-646-2422. the verMont Bluegrass revue: An evening of stellar picking and singing brings the talents of the Sky Blue Boys and Bob Amos & Catamount Crossing to the stage. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408.

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JiM Condos: As part of the Mad River Rotary Club speaker series, Vermont's Secretary of State updates attendees on statewide issues. An open discussion and Q&A follow. Optional breakfast, 7:15 a.m. Sugarbush Inn, Sugarbush Resort, Warren, 7:45-9 a.m. Free; $10 for breakfast; preregister.

Info, 591-0975.

seminars

adult CoMPuter WorKshoP: An interactive session teaches folks how to create online albums for digital photos using Picasa. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 9:30 a.m.-noon. $20. Info, 864-1502.

Planning With Wills & trusts: Attorneys Glenn Jarrett and Jennifer Luitjens cover relevant topics related to estate planning and elder law.

Jarrett Law Office, South Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m.

Free; preregister. Info, 864-5951, vermontestateplanning.com.

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Green Mountain table tennis Club: Pingpong players swing their paddles in singles and doubles matches. Knights of Columbus, Rutland, 6-9:30 p.m. Free for first two sessions; $30 annual membership. Info, 247-5913.

talks

institute for CiviC enGaGeMent: raCe & raCisM leCture series: Attorney John Franco analyzes Burlington's Church Street ordinance in "Who Gets to Use Public Space?" Burlington College, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. leaGue of WoMen voters of the ChaMplain valley: Senator David Zuckerman meets with members and the public to discuss issues related to agricultural legislation. 412 Farrell Street, South Burlington, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 860-4732.

MattheW biGl: The Dartmouth College graduate student considers how glaciers shaped the landscape and soil structure of the Upper Valley.

Greater Hartford United Church of Christ, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 295-3077. st. MiChael's ColleGe faCulty panel: Professors of geography, philosophy, chemistry and political science discuss "Biochemical Warfare: An Exploration of its Nature and Effects on Society." Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2356. the Wonders of funGi: Eric Swanson of Vermush explains the processes behind growing mushrooms from cultures. Participants receive spawns to take home. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 2238000, ext. 202.

theater

'avenue Q: sChool edition': The Fair Haven Union High School Break-A-Leg Society presents an evening of music, comedy and puppets, of course. Music Center, Fair Haven Union High School, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 265-4966.

'God of CarnaGe': Catherine Doherty directs this Northern Stage interpretation of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning comedy about two sets of parents whose hilarious feud tests the limits of civilized behavior. Contains strong language.

Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $10-60. Info, 296-7000.

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healinG Journal & Creative JourneyinG: Attendees develop new work in a guided, supportive session led by Kat Kleman. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $10. Info, 671-4569.

conferences

verMont Web MarketinG suMMit: Keynoters Patrick Gill of eCommerce Outdoors and Meredith Davis of High Mowing Organic Seeds join national experts and local professionals for an exploration of the digital marketing industry. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. $205-235; preregister; includes meals. Info, 862-8783, info@webmarketingsummit.com.

dance

'antaGony loves CoMpany': An evening of divergent dance theater works features Agnes Table's Momma at the Gate and Selene Colburn's Potboilers. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $16-20.

Info, 863-5966.

education

partnership for ChanGe iMpleMentation teaM MeetinG: Students, educators, parents, business leaders and community partners discuss current initiatives to redesign Winooski and Burlington schools. Childcare and interpretation provided. Library, Winooski High School, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 363-2342.

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games

open bridGe GaMe: Players of varying experience levels put strategic skills to use. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5:30-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 462-3373.

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aikido deMonstration: Aikido of Champlain Valley students showcase the Japanese martial art's throwing and pinning techniques.

Gymnasium, King Street Center, Burlington, 4 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-6736.

forza: the saMurai sWord Workout: Students sculpt lean muscles and gain mental focus when performing basic strikes with wooden replicas of the weapon. North End Studio A, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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Crossroads bni: Local professionals serious about expanding their business network with likeminded attendees. Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce, Berlin, 8-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 496-6251.

healinG With anCient WisdoM: Reiki master Christy Morgan helps folks find relaxation through the Japanese technique, aromatherapy and Andara crystals. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $11. Info, 671-4569.

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CoMMunity yoGa Class: Rachel DeSimone guides participants of all experience levels through a series of poses. Room 108, Burlington College, noon-1 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 862-9616.

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CoMedy for a Cause: Local jokesters use their comedic gifts to elicit big laughs at this benefit for Navicate. Magic Hat Brewing Company, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $16.50. Info, 863-5966 or 734-2802.

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'Wizard of oz': There's no place like home! The award-winning Colchester Theatre Company travels down the yellow brick road in a production of this time-tested classic. Colchester High School, 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 264-5729.

Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1476.

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Introduction to Healthy Cooking: Nutritionist Akshata Nayak details the importance of using quality pans and oils when preparing meals. A homemade salad-dressing demonstration rounds out the evening. Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $5-7; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

Systema With Ryan Miller: An in-depth exploration of breath and natural movement informs this individualized approach to the Russian martial art. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 7-8:15 p.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

kids

'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day': Kiddos in preschool through third grade watch the page come to the stage in Theatreworks USA's musical adaptation of Judith Viorst's best-selling children’s book.

Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, 10 a.m. $6. Info, 431-0204.

Franklin Story Hour: Preschoolers convene for tales, songs and crafts. Haston Library, Franklin, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 285-6505.

History for Homeschoolers: See WED.13, 1-3 p.m.

Middlebury Preschool Story Time: Little learners master early-literacy skills through tales, rhymes and songs. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4369.

Montgomery Infant/Toddler Playgroup: Infants to 2-year-olds idle away the hours with stories and songs. Montgomery Town Library, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

Music With Derek: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.

Music With Mr. Chris: Singer, storyteller and puppeteer Chris Dorman entertains tykes and parents alike. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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Teen Movie: Mel Brooks and John Candy star in the 1987 cult classic Spaceballs, about a motley crew of space travelers who embark on zany adventures. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

Teen Movie Night: Kiddos in grades 7 through 12 feast on popcorn while screening a blockbuster from the 1980s. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 5-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

Worcester Playgroup: Crafts, snacks and outdoor adventures delight little ones up to age 5.

Doty Memorial Elementary School, Worcester, 9:3011 a.m. Free. Info, 223-1312.

language

Hebrew Class: Those looking to learn the ancient language attend this weekly session. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister.

Info, 862-5125.

music

UVM Jazz Ensemble Concert: Alex Stewart conducts a performance featuring student musicians.

UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

Vermont Youth Orchestra Showcase: Esteemed young musicians perform instrumental and choral chamber works. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 655-5030.

seminars

'I-Ching (Book of Changes)' Class: Participants learn how to interpret the text and use its messages as a vehicle for healing. Food Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 2:30-3:30 p.m. $10; preregister; limited space. Info, 846-5198 or 363-2989.

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Building a Local Economy: As If the Earth Mattered: A New Energy Future: A panel of local, state and national leaders discuss ways to reduce the carbon footprint — including Vermont's goal of 90 percent renewable energy use by 2050.

Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, chris@balevt.org.

'Investigating the Taste of Place': In conjunction with the exhibit "EAT: The Social Life of Food," UVM's Amy Trubek, Rachel DiStefano and Jacob Lahne explore the relationship between anthropology and the food and sensory sciences. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington, 1 p.m. Regular admission, $3-10; free for kids under 3 and local college students, faculty and staff with ID. Info, 656-0750.

Pollinators in Vermont Lecture Series: Nature lovers learn about the biology and history of the iconic monarch butterfly, including its precipitous decline in recent decades. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7-8:30 p.m. $5. Info, 229-6206.

Robert Kest: More than 40 years of meditation practice inform the psychologist's discussion of moving beyond Western constructs of self, relationship and psychotherapy. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6989.

'Spirituality in Religion': Rabbi Ilene Haigh joins reverends Daniel Jantos and Norman MacLeod to examine the manifestations of the spiritual from different perspectives. A Q&A and open discussion follow. Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 457-2295.

Vermont Backcountry Ski Forum: Photographers Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson's slide show "Off Piste in the Northeast" serves a multimedia backdrop for a panel discussion hosted by the Rochester Area Sports Trails Alliance. Pierce Hall Community Center, Rochester, 6-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 496-5434.

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'Boston Marriage': Middlebury College senior Jake Schwartzwald directs a student production of David Mamet's farce about a pair of well-educated, cohabiting New England women who shunned societal norms of the 1800s. Hepburn Zoo, Hepburn Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. $4; preregister.

Info, 443-3168.

'Chapter Two': The Shelburne Players stage Neil Simon's acclaimed semiautobiographical comedy about a recently widowed writer's reentry into romance. Shelburne Town Center, 7:30 p.m. $12-15.

Info, 985-0780.

'God of Carnage': See WED.13, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat': Accompanied by a 25-member children's choir, Lyric Theatre Company stages Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's famed musical based on the Bible story of Joseph. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $21-35.

Info, 863-5966.

'Shrek, the Musical': A powerful score drives the hilarious adventures of a lovable ogre and cast of misfits, led by Leigh Guptill, Kim Anderson and Justin Bouvier. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 7:30 p.m. $18-23. Info, 382-9222.

Staged Reading: 'Anna's Journal': Theatre Kavanah presents Joy Kipp's screenplay about a Jewish teen's struggle to find her way in rural Vermont. For ages 13 and up. Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $1720. Info, 863-5966 or 482-5282.

'The Contrast': Peter Harrigan directs this St. Michael's College interpretation of Royall Tyler's 18th-century comedy about post-revolutionary characters struggling to escape the cultural influence of Europe. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2536.

'Wizard of Oz': See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

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Abigail Carroll: From porridge to popcorn, the author and food scholar examines the history behind modern eating habits in Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

Vermont Humanities Council Book Discussion Series: Bookworms share opinions about Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife with literary scholar Cheryl Heneveld. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420.

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Laugh Local Comedy Open Mic Night: Jokesters take advantage of a lighthearted atmosphere and perform brief material before a live audience. American Legion Post 03, Montpelier, registration, 7:30-8 p.m; open mic, 8 p.m. Donations.

Info, 793-3884.

conferences

Life of the Child Conference: Parenting consultant Sharifa Oppenheimer shares strategies for establishing family rhythms and rituals in the seminar "Discipline With Heart: Guiding Our Children." Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 7-9 p.m. $20-60. Info, 985-2827, ext. 12.

Music and the Human Experience Conference: Lectures and performances by award-winning scholars and musicians reflect the importance of music's role across historical periods and cultural traditions. See vermonthumanities.org for details. Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 3:30-10 p.m. $79-129 includes meals; preregister; limited space. Info, 800-325-3535.

dance

'Antagony Loves Company': See THU.14, 7 p.m.

Ballroom & Latin Dancing: Samir Elabd leads choreographed steps for singles and couples. No partner or experience required.

Jazzercize Studio, Williston, introductory lesson, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10 p.m. $14. Info, 862-2269.

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Gear of the Year: Sports enthusiasts check out the latest gadgets, attire and much more. Demos, raffles and silent auctions round out the evening.

Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Stowe, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 253-9216.

Silver Belles Gala: DJ Corey Hevrin gets revelers dancing at this benefit for the Miss Vermont scholarship organization featuring raffle prizes and a silent auction. Formal attire recommended.

Diamond Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, South Burlington, 7:30-10:30 p.m. $18-20 includes hors d'oeuvres and dessert; cash bar. Info, 527-1664.

Trunk Sale: Local herbalists, crafters and farmers display handmade crafts, foods and more at this seasonal gathering. Plainfield Community Center, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 505-8437.

film

'Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part Four': "Doers and Shapers" explores people and institutions that pushed sociopolitical boundaries. St. Johnsbury School, 8 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

'Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie: Part Three': See WED.13. St. Johnsbury School, 5:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

'The Hungry Heart': Presented through the eyes of Franklin County residents and St. Albans pediatrician Fred Holmes, Bess O'Brien's documentary illuminates prescription-drug addiction and recovery. Vergennes Opera House, 7-9 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

'United We Ski': See THU.14. Proceeds benefit Cochran's Ski Area. Richmond Free Library, 7 p.m. $7. Info, tyler.wilkinsonray@gmail.com.

health & fitness

Avoid Falls With Improved Stability: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.

Community Wellness Day: Practitioners offer Reiki, Shiatsu, aromatherapy, acupressure, energy work and more to those looking to experience alternative healing. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sliding-scale donations; preregister. Info, 870-0361.

Self Care for Lymphatic Health: Massage therapist Hannah Rohloff demonstrates noninvasive techniques for manual lymph drainage.

Community Room, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:15 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 2238000, ext. 202.

holidays

Holiday Art Show & Sale: Live music entertains art lovers, who peruse pottery, photography, collage, sculpture and paintings made by members of the Milton Artists' Guild. Grange Hall, Milton, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 355-6583.

kids

Acorn Club Story Time: Little ones up to age 6 gather for read-aloud tales. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

Circus Skills Experience: Kiddos ages 7 and up get a taste of circus life with an introduction to trapeze, juggling, balancing and acrobatics. Barre Opera House, 4-5:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 476-8188.

Early Bird Math: Inquisitive minds explore mathematic concepts with books, songs, games and activities. Richmond Free Library, 11 a.m.-noon.

Free. Info, 434-3036.

Enosburg Falls Story Hour: Youngsters show up for fables and crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 8 p.m. $10-12. Info, 603-646-2422.

Little Dribblers Basketball Program: Drive to the hoop! Preschoolers through first graders learn new skills in a supportive environment. Gymnasium, Highgate Elementary School, 4:45 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 868-3970.

Music With Derek: Kiddos up to age 8 shake their sillies out to toe-tapping tunes. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

Music With Robert: Music lovers of all ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.

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Peep Show: Drag kings Jonathan Bitchman and Quechee George host an evening of gender-defying cabaret featuring live performances honoring Fleetwood Mac's 1976 album Rumours. ArtsRiot, Burlington, 9 p.m. $5-20. Info, 860-7812.

Queer Youth Movie Night: Queer and allied youth ages 13 through 22 screen a flick and nosh on freshly popped popcorn. Outright Vermont, Burlington, 8:30 p.m. Free. Info, youth@outrightvt. org.

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Donna the Buffalo: The roots troubadours bring an eclectic blend of traditional mountain music and elements of Cajun, rock, folk, reggae and country to the stage. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 8 p.m. $20. Info, 518-523-2512.

Ethel: The acclaimed string quartet breathes new life into classical selections with a blend of technical mastery and imaginative programming.

UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, pre-performance talk, 6:30 p.m.; concert, 7:30 p.m. $15-25. Info, 863-5966.

Vermont Virtuosi: Flutist Laurel Ann Maurer, soprano Gail Whitehouse and guitarist Peter Mathews perform Astor Piazzolla's History of the Tango, among other notable works in "Poetic License." Bethany Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m.

Free to attend; $5-10 donations accepted. Info, 881-9153.

AARP Driver Safety Class: Folks ages 50 and older take a road refresher course as they deal with challenges posed by aging. Wake Robin Retirement Community, Shelburne, noon-4:30 p.m. $12-14; preregister; limited space. Info, 264-5107.

talks

Elder Education Enrichment Fall Series: Champlain College associate professor Craig Pepin presents "Education and Authority in China Today."

Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

'God of Carnage': See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat': See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

'Proof': See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

Ruckus: A Cirque Spectacular: A mix of circus, dance and theater on an intimate stage grants audience members access to high-flying, awardwinning performers. Barre Opera House, 7-9 p.m. $15-25; preregister. Info, 476-8188.

'The Contrast': See THU.14, 7 p.m.

'Underland': Trumbull Hall Troupe presents Jodi Picoult, Jake van Leer and Ellen Wilber's musical about a bully who finds himself inhabiting a miniature world after making fun of a classmate's science project. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 603-448-0400.

Fall Clothing Swap: Locals tap into the spirit of giving at an exchange of gently used threads.

Bugbee Senior Center, White River Junction, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 295-9068.

'Wizard of Oz': See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

Gear & Fashion Show: Outdoor Gear Exchange staff strut down the runway in this season's hottest new pieces, which will be up for raffle or auction, with proceeds benefiting local organizations.

Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5-10; preregister. Info, 860-0190.

'Shrek, the Musical': See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

Staged Reading: 'Anna's Journal': See THU.14, 2 p.m.

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Brown Bag Book Club: Bookworms voice opinions about Susan Vreeland's Clara and Mr. Tiffany.

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Catamount Trail Association Annual Meeting: Winter athletes join members of the Catamount Trail Association for a lively panel discussion on the state of backcountry skiing in Vermont. Green Mountain Club Headquarters, Waterbury Center, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5794.

Winter Clothing Drive: Those in need of appropriate cold-weather attire choose from gently used donations. Gymnasium, Old Schoolhouse Common, Marshfield, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

conferences

Life of the Child Conference: See FRI.15. Lake Champlain Waldorf School, Shelburne, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. $20-60. Info, 985-2827, ext. 12.

Music and the Human Experience Conference: See FRI.15, 7:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio Faculty & Student Showcase: Instructors Kiera Sauter, Paula Higa, Candace Fugazy and Isadora Snapp join their pupils in an evening of original choreography. Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio, Montpelier, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 229-4676.

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7:30 p.m. $10-12; $25 per family. Info, 767-3954.

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Bike Jam: Gearheads help low-income Vermonters with repairs, while others craft jewelry out of old bicycle parts or help out around the shop. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Info, 264-9687.

'Way of Life': Teton Gravity Research's latest feature-length ski film uses advanced camera technology to capture awe-inspiring athletic feats on the world's most daunting peaks. Higher Ground, South Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 652-0777.

food & drink

Lego League Qualifying Tournament: Seventeen teams of students ages 9 through 14 put their robotics-design skills to the test as they compete for a spot in the national competition.

Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Northfield, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 485-2210.

Lantern-Making Workshop: Folks learn how to craft props for Waterbury's annual River of Light parade. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 778-0334.

'United We Ski': See THU.14. Proceeds benefit Northeast Slopes. Bradford Academy, 7 p.m. $7.

Info, tyler.wilkinsonray@gmail.com.

Benefit Warehouse Sale for the United Way of Chittenden County: Foodies stock up on ice cream sandwiches and cookies, as well as items from Vermont Smoke and Cure, Cabot Creamery, Lake Champlain Chocolates and King Arthur Flour. Rhino Foods, Burlington, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 862-0252.

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'Ticket 2 Ride': Powderhounds get amped up for the season with a screening of Warren Miller's latest ski flick. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $16-18. Info, 518-523-2512.

Woodstock Film Series: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi's 2011 documentary 5 Broken Cameras gives viewers a glimpse of a Palestinian family's nonviolent resistance to five years of turmoil in a West Bank village. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 3 p.m. $5-11. Info, 457-2355.

Green Mountain Animal Defenders 30th Anniversary Gala: Humane Society CEO Wayne Pacelle keynotes this dinner fundraiser featuring acclaimed author Chris Bohjalian and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit animal-protection campaigns. Doubletree Hotel, South Burlington, 6 p.m. $50; preregister; cash bar. Info, 878-1102.

dance

'Big Love': Under the direction of Tazewell Thompson, Dartmouth College stages Charles Mee's over-the-top adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliants, featuring a determined group of runaway brides. Adult language and themes.

Catamount Benefit Auction: A silent auction and reception precedes live bidding led by auctioneers Mike Welch and David Reynolds at this annual fundraiser for the Catamount Arts Center.

Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, silent auction, 6 p.m.; live auction, 7 p.m. $25 includes refreshments. Info, 748-2600.

Colchester/Milton Rotary Auction: Folks bid on hundreds of donated items — including airline tickets, sports equipment and much more. See cmrotary. org for details. Hampton Inn, Colchester, 6-10 p.m. Free; cash bar. Info, 309-2380.

Rik Palieri: In "Tales From the Almanac Trail," the musician recounts his cross-country tour along the route taken by Woody Gutherie and other labor activists in 1941.

Carpenter-Carse Library, Hinesburg, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2878.

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'Boston Marriage': See THU.14, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.

Book Sale & Cookie Walk: Bibliophiles stock up on new titles and sweet treats at this benefit for the Friends of the South Burlington Community Library. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

Pomerleau Family YMCA Open House: Health screenings and consultations complement a tour of the facility and overview of classes and programs.

Pomerleau Family YMCA, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 862-9622.

The Vermont Wedding Affair: Brides-to-be find inspiration at this annual event featuring the region's top industry professionals, DIY charm, day-of décor, a fashion show and much more. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 4-7 p.m. $25; $40 per couple; preregister. Info, 866-595-9221.

fairs & festivals

Bolton Valley Resort Job Fair: Those looking for seasonal employment learn about more than 200 available positions at the ski area. Bolton Valley Resort, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 434-3444.

Charlotte Central School Artisan & Craft Fair: More than 50 Vermont handcrafters and artisans display fine art and unique gifts. Charlotte Central School, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Info, 428-4426.

'Fall Into Winter' Fair: A wide array of craft projects complement live music, outdoor games, a circus room, kids activities and much more. Orchard Valley Waldorf School, East Montpelier, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free to attend; prices vary for certain activities. Info, 456-7400.

film

'Searching for Sugar Man': Malik Bendjelloul's Academy Award-winning documentary follows the journey of 1970s rock icon Rodriguez, who disappeared for decades before reemerging onstage.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

'The Hungry Heart': See FRI.15. Holley Hall, Bristol, 7-9 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

Burlington Winter Farmers Market: Farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org.

Champlain Islands Winter Farmers Market: Baked items, preserves, meats and eggs sustain shoppers in search of local goods. South Hero Congregational Church, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 372-3291.

Deer Hunters/Community Breakfast: Rise and shine! Diners start their day with pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, home fries and plenty of coffee. Baptist Building, Fairfax, 4-9 a.m. Free. Info, 849-6313.

F.O.L.K. Hunters' Breakfast: A pancake feast with sides of eggs, sausage, bacon and pastries sates hearty appetites. Lowell Graded School, 6 a.m.-11 p.m. $3-7. Info, 744-5483.

Middlebury Winter Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers' totes. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 989-7223.

Rutland Winter Farmers Market: More than 50 vendors sell local produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at the bustling indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 753-7269.

health & fitness

Community Yoga Class: Laughing River Yoga's teachers-in-training help participants of all experience levels align breath and body. Room 108, Burlington College, noon-1 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 862-9616.

Happiness Day for Mind, Body & Spirit: Sisters-in-law Ginny and Susan Sassaman lend their expertise to research-based learning, moving, sharing and playing activities. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $75-80; preregister. Info, 223-1670.

Kung Fu With David McNally: The seconddegree black belt brings 25 years of experience to a practice of the martial art's five-animals style. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 10:45-11:45 a.m. $14. Info, 870-0361.

R.I.P.P.E.D.: See WED.13. North End Studio A, Burlington, 9-10 a.m. $10. Info, 578-9243.

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lgbtQ-SavvY health caRe: Shaping Medical School cuRRiculuM: Folks who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer share thoughts about what makes quality, effective doctors as part of a broader research project. RU12? Community Center, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812.

music

abRaxaS: The Santana tribute band heats up the stage with infectious rhythms and soulful guitar. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $25-30. Info, 760-4634. bob aMoS & cataMount cRoSSing: An energetic bluegrass romp features songs from Borrowed Time as well as time-tested classics. Tunbridge Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15-20. Info, 431-3433. daRtMouth college goSpel choiR: Under the direction of Walt Cunningham, the 90-member ensemble explores traditional and cutting-edge spiritual music in "Best Day of My Life." Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 2 p.m. $10-15. Info, 603-646-2422. get the led out: The Led Zeppelin tribute band capture the essence of the iconic rockers, to the delight of fans young and old. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $25.75-29.75. Info, 775-0903.

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Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free; limited space. Info, 603-646-2010.

SatuRdaY StoRY tiMe: Families gather for imaginative tales. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

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Their broad-based education and advocacy efforts work to ensure there are healthful meals wherever children are throughout their days, that adults and seniors have the resources to feed themselves and their families, and that all communities have access to nutrition education. Together, we can end the injustice of hunger and malnutrition for all Vermonters.

MontpelieR chaMbeR oRcheStRa: Violin virtuoso Mary Rowell performs Saint Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and other works, followed by the orchestra's interpretation of Stravinsky's Pulcinella Suite. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. $10-15.

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Info, 482-5189.

pReSchool aRt claSS: See WED.13, 10-11 a.m.

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kingdoM coFFeehouSe: Fiery jigs meet Celtic folklore in a concert by the Vermont-based quartet Wind That Shakes the Barley. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 7 p.m. $10 includes refreshments; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115.

the gibSon bRotheRS: Returning to their alma mater, the the award-winning Y OF siblings lead a performance TH D EG AN IBSO of hard-picking harmonies. E. kids N B ROTHERS B Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins Hall, helen c. hipp: A reading of A Different Kind SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. $6-18. Info, of Safari inspires little listeners to celebrate being 518-565-0145. different. Music and themed activities round out

open tot gYM & inFant/paRent plaY tiMe: Slides, jump ropes and a rope swing help little ones drain their energy in a fun, supportive environment. A separate area for babies provides age-appropriate stimulation. Elementary School Gymnasium, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, fairfaxsx6@gmail.com.

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composer to celebrate the release of his album Still. Brandon Music Café, 7:30 p.m. $15; $30 includes dinner package; preregister; BYOB. Info, 465-4071.

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outdoors

butleR lodge hike: A four-mile trek gains 1700 feet in elevation and provides interested parties with the opportunity for trail maintenance.

Contact trip leader for details. Mount Mansfield State Forest, Stowe, 8 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 355-7181.

Wagon Ride Weekend: Narrated horse-drawn hay rides amid pastoral scenery complement themed programs and activities. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Regular admission, $3-12; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 457-2355.

seminars

3d pRinting, deSigning & Scanning With blu-bin: Instruction in basic programs teaches attendees how to build digital models of their ideas. Blu-Bin, Burlington, 10:30 a.m.-noon. Free; preregister. Info, 345-6030. genealogY: Finding couSinS With autoSoMal dna: Ed McGuire presents new developments in genealogical testing that help individuals identify genetic cousins out to six generations. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 310-9285. vcaM acceSS oRientation: Video-production hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Free. Info, 651-9692.

sport

plattSbuRgh RolleR deRbY: paSS the gRavY bout: The North Country Lumber Jills give thanks for their season closer versus Maine's Rock Coast Rollers. Plattsburgh City Recreation Center, N.Y., 5-8:30 p.m. $5-12; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 518-420-7687.

'Run YouR can oFF!': Runners push their personal limits on a 1.25-mile forested loop — running a single lap or up to six hours at this Thanksgivingthemed "foodraiser." Gilbrook Natural Area, Winooski, registration, 8-9 a.m.; run, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Donations of canned items or frozen turkeys. Info, 879-2519, runyourcanoff@yahoo.com.

'can We bReak The chains oF maTeRialism?' oPen Discussion: Attendees consider ways to overcome material limitations and find a path to physical and mental freedom. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 864-4415.

theater

'alice in WonDeRlanD': See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m. 'avenue Q: school eDiTion': See WED.13, 7 p.m. 'biG love': See FRI.15, 8 p.m. 'bosTon maRRiaGe': See THU.14, 8 p.m. 'chaPTeR TWo': See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

'GoD oF caRnaGe': See WED.13, 7:30 p.m.

'JosePh anD The amazinG TechnicoloR DReamcoaT': See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

'PRooF': See THU.14, 7:30 p.m. 'shRek, The musical': See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. sTaGeD ReaDinG: 'anna's JouRnal': See THU.14, 7:30 p.m.

'The conTRasT': See THU.14, 7 p.m.

The meT: live in hD seRies: Patricia Racette plays the title role opposite Roberto Alagna as her lover in a broadcast production of Puccini's opera Tosca.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1 p.m. $16-18.

Info, 518-523-2512. 'unDeRlanD': See FRI.15, 7 p.m.

'WizaRD oF oz': See WED.13, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

words

aGnieszka PeRlinska & chiP chaPaDos: The coauthors sign and discuss their exploration in selfempowerment, The Conversation: Simple Truths to Make Life Work. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1-2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. allen yale: Drawing on more than 40 years of field experience, the Northeast Regional Tree Farmer of the Year presents "Yaledale: Guiding the Future of a Multi-Aged Forest." Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 9 a.m.-noon.

Free; preregister. Info, 723-6551, ext. 115.

DaRk mounTain sTaTe ReaDinG: Local authors excerpt works of horror and dark fantasy in an exploration of the genres. Quarterstaff Games, Burlington, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted. Info, 552-0547.

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Fall cloThinG sWaP: See SAT.16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

The biG kickeR: Mad River Glen and Sugarbush Resort throw an epic party to celebrate the ski and ride season. Festivities include a freestyle team exhibition, live music and film screenings. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 496-8994.

chanDleR Film socieTy: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake and Robert Warwick star in Preston Sturges' 1941 satire Sullivan's Travels about a film director with lofty ambitions to capture real life onscreen.

Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7 p.m. $9. Info, 431-0204.

'FReeDom anD uniTy: The veRmonT movie: PaRT FouR': See FRI.15. Tupelo Music Hall, White River Junction, 6:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

'FReeDom anD uniTy: The veRmonT movie: PaRT ThRee': See WED.13.

Tupelo Music Hall, White River Junction, 3:30 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

FRench conveRsaTion GRouP: Dimanches: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Local History Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 363-2431.

music

miDDlebuRy colleGe choiR & oRchesTRa: Jeffrey Buettner conducts a fall concert of musical works that explore nature, bohemia and the intersection of the two. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-3168. monTPelieR chambeR oRchesTRa: See SAT.16, 4 p.m.

Pancake bReakFasT: Bring on the syrup!

Neighbors catch up over stacks of flapjacks and eggs and sausage. Grace Methodist Church, Essex Junction, 8:30 a.m. & 10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-8071.

The FRuGal FRiDGe: Shoppers become savvy savers on an interactive tour of the store featuring healthy, economical choices. City Market, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

health & fitness

meDiTaTinG FoR haPPiness: Ginny Sassaman of the Happiness Paradigm joins yoga dance instructor Susan Sassaman to share simple methods for calming the mind. Women Writing for (a) Change, Burlington, 1-4 p.m. $25-30; preregister. Info, 223-1670. sPiRiTual healinG & eneRGy-uPliFTinG meDiTaTion: Drawing on 20 years of experience, Cynthia Warwick Seiler facilitates this lighthearted session aimed at accessing intuition, clarity and awareness. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m.noon. $15 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569.

holidays

holiDay aRTisans bazaaR: See SAT.16, noon-3 p.m.

kids

homeWoRk helP: See WED.13, 2-6 p.m.

Jambo! aFRican-sTyle Teen Dance PaRTy: Middle and high school students boogie down at this multicultural meet-up. North End Studio B, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $3-5. Info, 862-2608 or 863-6713.

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outdoors

WaGon RiDe WeekenD: See SAT.16, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

seminars

Family GenealoGy inTRoDucToRy session: Fair Haven Historical Society members Francis Owen and Dani Roberts share tips for researching ancestral roots. Fair Haven Grade School, 2-4 p.m.

Free. Info, fhvthistory@yahoo.com.

sport

loaDeD TuRkey Rail Jam: Shredders kick off the season with two runs through the rail park, the best of which counts toward prizes — including a frozen turkey and items from sponsors. See killington.com for details. Killington Mountain, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $20; $35 lift tickets available for participants; preregister. Info, 422-6200.

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Women's inDooR PickuP socceR: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up.

Info, 864-0123.

talks

maRk sToleR: The UVM professor revisits the past in "Founding Documents: The Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution." Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556.

theater

www.KissTheCook.net 72 Church Street 863-4226 Mon–Sat 9–9, Sun 10–6

'alice in WonDeRlanD': See FRI.15, 2 p.m. 'biG love': See FRI.15, 2 p.m.

'GoD oF caRnaGe': See WED.13, 5 p.m.

'JosePh anD The amazinG TechnicoloR DReamcoaT': See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. 'shRek, The musical': See THU.14, 2 p.m.

sTaGeD ReaDinG: 'anna's JouRnal': See THU.14, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. 'unDeRlanD': See FRI.15, 3 p.m.

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JouRnalinG in naTuRe: Inspired by the natural world and a book-binding tutorial, explorers ages 5 and up and their adult companions create personalized records of their observations. Green Mountain Audubon Center, Huntington, 1-3 p.m. $10-12 per adult/child pair; $4-5 per additional child; preregister. Info, 434-3068.

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YO in the annual fall performance. UVM R F D OU G SEY MO U Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7:30 p.m.

3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776. $7 suggested donation. Info, tyler.wilkinsonray@ gmail.com.

all-you-can-eaT Pancake bReakFasT: Foodies feast on flapjacks, eggs, bacon, ham, sausage and fruit. Alburgh Volunteer Fire Department, Alburgh, 7 a.m.-noon. $6-8; free for kids 5 and under. Info, 796-3402.

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Richmond Free Library, 4-6 p.m.

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'The hunGRy heaRT': See FRI.15. Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Middlebury, 7-9 p.m. $6-12; first come, first served. Info, 357-4616.

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inDooR GaRDeninG: Peter Burke teaches innovative methods for growing and harvesting salad greens throughout the winter. City Market, Burlington, 1-2:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister; limited space. Info, 861-9700.

'GysT'ival: Live music by the Aerolites entertains attendees at this community gathering hosted

by Get Your Stuff Together men’s peer group. VFW Post, Hyde Park, 2-6 p.m. $10; $20 per family; free for those wearing GYST gear. Info, 851-8825.

Russian Play Time WiTh naTasha: Kiddos up to age 8 learn new words via rhymes, games, music, dance and a puppet show. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 11-11:45 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

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The PoeTRy exPeRience: Creative prompts inspire wordsmiths to put pen to paper, after which they share stanzas in a supportive environment.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 489-5546.

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SuppOrtiNg AdOleSceNtS SerieS: A panel of experts shares current research and community resources to help parents identify when teenagers are at risk of self-harm or suicide. A Q&A follows.

Colchester High School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 578-0992.

crafts

Adult tech digitAl crAft Night: Angela Bernard teaches participants how to create personalized subway art using online photo editing.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 878-4918.

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Community Room. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. $10-12; half-price for kids; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

dance

AdAptive iNterNAtiONAl fOlk dANciNg: Creative movers of all ages, abilities and mobility learn international routines. Walkers and wheelchairs are accommodated. North End Studio A, Burlington, 1-2 p.m. $5; free for assistants. Info, 863-6713.

SAlSA dANce clASS: DsantosVT leads hipshaking steps for dancers of all experience levels.

North End Studios, Burlington, beginners, 7-8 p.m.; intermediate, 8 p.m. $10. Info, 863-6713.

WOMeN'S ANcieNt rituAl fOlk dANceS: Ladies learn international circle and line dances from centuries past. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 5:15-6:45 p.m. Free to attend; donations accepted; preregister. Info, 978-424-7968.

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tibetAN SiNgiNg & heAliNg bOWl MeditAtiON: Using multitonal frequencies, Kirk Maris Jones accesses the power of the ancient instruments.

Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. $9 suggested donation. Info, 671-4569.

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Free. Info, 603-643-4120. 'freedOM ANd uNitY: the verMONt MOvie: pArt fOur': See FRI.15. Welden Theatre 3, St. Albans, 7 p.m. $5-8. Info, 863-5966.

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'ruSh: clOckWOrk ANgelS tOur': Fans of the rockers are treated to an epic concert on the big screen, complete with behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and a rare glimpse into the band's touring life. Palace 9 Cinemas, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $12.50. Info, 864-5610.

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A begiNNer'S guide tO herbAl eMMeNAgOgueS: Emer McKenna presents timetested herbs that support the female reproductive system and menstrual cycle. Vermont Center for 10/30/13 12:06 PM

Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 224-7100.

AvOid fAllS With iMprOved StAbilitY: See FRI.15, 10 a.m.

AWAreNeSS thrOugh MOveMeNt: feldeNkrAiS With uWe MeSter: Increased flexibility and range of motion help participants address habitual neuromuscular patterns. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, noon-1 p.m. $14.

Info, 870-0361. herbAl cONSultAtiONS: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister at info@ vtherbcenter.org; limited space. Info, 861-9757. lAughter YOgA: Giggles help participants decrease stress and tap into a playful practice. The Wellness Co-op, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 888-492-8218, ext. 300. preNAtAl YOgA: Sila Rood leads expectant mothers in poses and stretches focused on preparing the body for birth. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 7 p.m., $14. Info, 870-0361. r.i.p.p.e.d.: See WED.13, 6-7 p.m.

YOgA With teA: See WED.13, 7-8 a.m. & 6:15-7:15 p.m.

kids

Alice iN NOOdlelANd: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810.

MuSic With peter: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song-and-dance moves to traditional and original folk. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:45 a.m. Free; limited to one session per week per family. Info, 878-4918.

MY firSt YOgA: Toddler-friendly poses led by Rachel Klatzer meet storytelling and song in this program for ages 5 and under. Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Free. Info, 388-4097. preSchOOl StOrY hOur: See WED.13, 11:30 a.m.

StOrieS With MegAN: Little ones expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes.

Daycare programs welcome with one caregiver for every two children. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free; groups must preregister. Info, 865-7216.

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lgbt bOOk diScuSSiON SerieS: Bibliophiles give feedback about Greg Louganis' autobiography Breaking the Surface. Hayes Room, KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338 or 223-7035.

music

recOrder-plAYiNg grOup: Musicians produce early folk, baroque and swing-jazz melodies. New and potential players welcome. Presto Music Store, South Burlington, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 658-0030, info@prestomusic.net.

SAMbAtucAdA! OpeN reheArSAl: New faces are invited to pitch in as Burlington's samba streetpercussion band sharpens its tunes. Experience and instruments are not required. 8 Space Studio Collective, Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5017. uvM chAMber eNSeMbleS cONcert: An exploration of classical music features selections for trios, quartets and quintets. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-7776.

politics

verMONt pOliticS SpeAker SerieS: Local professionals ranging from reporters to state government officials past and present weigh in on relevant topics. Ellsworth Room, Willey Library & Learning Center, Johnson State College, 4:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 635-1408, events.jsc.edu.

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seminars

Adult Computer Workshop: Participants get tech-savvy and learn how to organize digital files into folders. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 12:30-3 p.m. $20. Info, 864-1502.

talks

FAmily-Friendly yogA With deBorAh Felmeth: Meditation, Vinyasa-style asana, chanting and yogic philosophy help parents tap into creative expression. Kiddos ages 3 through 5 do the same at an art class across the hall. 2 Wolves Holistic Center, Vergennes, 9-10:30 a.m. $14; $25 includes kids art class; preregister. Info, 870-0361.

elder eduCAtion enriChment FAll series: Meteorologist Roger Hill weighs in on the weather in "Microclimates in Vermont." Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5.

Info, 864-3516.

lindA sChneCk: The certified music-thanatologist presents "The Harp: The Healing Power of Sound" as part of the Wellness and Alternative Medicine Lecture Series. Ellsworth Room, Willey Library & Learning Center, Johnson State College, 7 p.m.

Free. Info, 635-1308.

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systemA With ryAn miller: See THU.14, 7-8:15 p.m.

Book disCussion: '20th Century presidents BeFore & during World WAr ii': Suzanne Brown facilitates conversation about Robert H. Jackson's That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Wake Robin Retirement Community, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-0659. shApe & shAre liFe stories: Prompts from Recille Hamrell trigger recollections of specific experiences, which are crafted into narratives and shared with the group. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.

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intro to triBAl Belly dAnCe: Students access self-empowerment via this moving meditation based on ancient traditions. Arrive early to request tea. Chai Space, Dobrá Tea, Burlington, 6:45-7:45 p.m. $12. Info, piper.c.emily@gmail.com. sWing dAnCe prACtiCe session: Twinkle-toed participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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food & drink

A mosAiC oF FlAvor: Burmese Curry With pumpkin & pork: Zar Ni Maw demonstrates how to incorporate the seasonal squash into this rich dish flavored with tamarind. Sustainability Academy, Lawrence Barnes School, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. $5-10; preregister at citymarket.coop; limited space. Info, 861-2700.

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health & fitness

BABy pump: New moms break a sweat and get back into shape with their babies in tow. Hammer Fit Athletic Club, Essex Junction, 11-11:45 a.m. $9.

Info, 878-0444.

kids

CreAtive tuesdAys: Artists exercise their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3:15-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

FAll story time: See WED.13, 10 a.m. little driBBlers BAsketBAll progrAm: See FRI.15, 5:15 p.m. musiC & movement With Ali: Caregivers and their youngsters lace up their dancing shoes for songs, stretches and creative play with Ali Gibson.

Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30-11:15 a.m.

Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 388-4095. presChool Art ClAss: See WED.13, 10-11 a.m. presChool story hour: See WED.13, 11:30 a.m. presChool story hour: 'Winter WeAther': Kiddos up to age 6 have fun with engaging narratives and crafts. Fairfax Community Library, 9:3010:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. sCienCe story time: ButterFly sleeping BAgs: Kristen Littlefield explores the mysteries of hibernation with youngsters ages 3 and up.

Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m.

Free. Info, 878-4918. story time With Corey: Read-aloud books and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey engage young minds. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m.

Free. Info, 764-1810.

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language

ConversAtionAl spAnish: David Forman chats en español with folks whose skills allow them to converse comfortably. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2118.

FrenCh ConversAtion group: Beginner-tointermediate speakers brush up on their linguistics. Halvorson's Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. intermediAte ConversAtionAl spAnish lessons: Adults sharpen their grammar skills while chatting about various topics. 57 Charlotte Street, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. $20. Info, 324-1757, gsyaranga@gmail.com. pAuse-CAFé: French students of varying levels engage in dialogue en français. Panera Bread, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-5088.

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Beginning meditAtion Workshop: Those new to the practice learn basic tools for calming the mind. 132 South Main Street, St. Albans, 9-9:30 a.m. Donations. Info, 782-3821.

Brooke moen & leilAni Wong: The acupuncturists lend their expertise to a discussion of the tenets of traditional Chinese medicine. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 671-4569.

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AliCiA Feltus: The clinical nutritionist explores how the brain-gut connection affects digestive healing. Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 5:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 671-4569.

trAnsForming negAtive emotions: Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi guides folks through Buddhist techniques and practices aimed at turning pain into something positive. Hayes Room. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 633-4136.

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mAgiC: the gAthering: Decks of cards determine the arsenal with which participants, or "planeswalkers," fight others for glory, knowledge and conquest. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 5-7:45 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

tAking CAre oF your BrAin: Health coach Marie Frohlich outlines the ways in which food, herbs and exercises can support cognitive function. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7 p.m. $10-12; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202.

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'girl rising': Meryl Streep and other notable actresses narrate the stories of nine girls from around the world, who triumph over great adversity in Richard Robbins' 2013 docudrama. A panel discussion follows. Vermont Commons School, South Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 865-8084.

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WHAT: Holiday Open House Party DATE: November 14, 2013 TIME: 5:00 - 7:30pm PLACE: Gardener’s Supply, Williston • • • •

Great BiG Sea: The seasoned folk trio delivers an energetic show celebrating the release of the double album XX. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7:30 p.m. $55-65.

Info, 760-4634.

Handel Society of dartmoutH colleGe: With full orchestral accompaniment, the vocal ensemble interprets Francis Poulenc's Gloria, Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and Jennifer Higdons In the Deep of Night. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-15.

Info, 603-646-2422.

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lauren fox: In "Canyon Folkies: Over the Hills & Under the Covers," the actress and singer channels the 1960s musical landscape of California's famed Laurel Canyon. See calendar spotlight. Casella Theater, Castleton State College, 7 p.m. $6-12. Info, 468-1119.

tHe Vermont PHilHarmonic: Local chamber musicians interpret works by Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini and others in "Sounds of Italian Opera and More." Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. $10; free to JSC students with ID. Info, 635-1476.

seminars

'Bye Bye oBjectiVe, Hello Value: reSumeS WitH imPact' WorkSHoP: Vermont Works for Women presents simple techniques to transform resumes for ladies of all ages and professions.

Community Room, O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 7-8:30 p.m. $20; preregister. Info, 6558900, ext. 108.

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GreG WHite: The Smith College professor presents "Who's Afraid of Global Warming? Climate Change and Migration as a Security Issue." Room 103, Rowell Building, UVM, Burlington, 4 p.m. Free.

Info, 861-2343.

'PaSt liVeS, dreamS & Soul traVel': An open discussion focuses on gaining spiritual freedom and joy. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7-8 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-772-9390.

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african dance & muSic enSemBle: Damascus Kafumbe directs Middlebury College students in an end-of-semester concert featuring East African instrumentals, vocals and dance. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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arnie kozak: The local author shares insights about the quieter portion of the human population in The Everything Guide to the Introvert Edge. See calendar spotlight. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350.

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cady/Potter WriterS circle: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through assignments, journal exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 349-6970.

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'WHo WantS tarSandS?': The short films Tar Sands Action and Healing Walks inspire a presentation from 350VT facilitators.

Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 444-0350.

community

turkiSH cultural center friendSHiP dinner & aWardS ceremony: Governor Peter Shumlin joins local professionals for an evening of gourmet CO fare featuring keynoter Jon Pahl.

UR milton community Band TE Sy Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, M OF T reHearSalS: New members are welI M O T HI G R A H A South Burlington, reception, 6 p.m.; dincome as the band prepares for its December ner, 6:30 p.m. $25; preregister. Info, rsvp@tccvt. holiday concert. Milton Elementary School, 7-8:45 org. p.m. Free. Info, 893-1398. nonet & PoSt-BoP concert: A spirited program features the music of Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan and Marty Paich alongside works by Gigi Gryce, Tina Brooks and Hank Mobley. Southwick Hall, UVM, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free. Info, 656-7776.

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flynn center/fletcHer free liBrary Book diScuSSion: Readers share ideas and opinions about W.E.B. Dubois' The Souls Of Black Folk.

Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.

conferences

Vermont BuSineSSeS for Social reSPonSiBility fall conference: Workshops, conversations, business exhibits and a keynote address revolve around the theme "Social Entrepreneurship and the Next Generation." See vbsr.org for details. Grand Summit Resort Hotel, West Dover, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $25-130. Info, 8628347, ritab@vbsr.org.

education

colleGe aPPlication eSSay information SeSSion: Local author Lauren Starkey presents tips and strategies for crafting the high-stakes composition. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. colleGe PoSitiVe VolunteeriSm (cPV) WorkSHoP: Keynoter Paul Hernandez shares his expertise in preparing students for postsecondary success. International Commons, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2093.

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'tHe inner World of animalS' Human Society of cHittenden county fundraiSer: Virginia Morell, author of Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures, presents groundbreaking findings in nonhuman cognition at this annual event. A silent auction completes the evening. Cocktail or business casual attire. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. $100 includes heavy appetizers and dessert; cash bar. Info, 8620135, ext. 15.

Valley niGHt featurinG karen krajacic: Locals gather for this weekly bash of craft ales, movies and live music. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation; $2 drafts. Info, 496-8994, bigpicturetheater.info.

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'freedom and unity: tHe Vermont moVie: Part four': See FRI.15. Conference Room, Emory Hebard State Office Building, Newport, 7 p.m. $5-8.

Info, 863-5966. 'freedom and unity: tHe Vermont moVie: Part four': StoWe: See FRI.15. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 7 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634.

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food & drink

Winooski senior Center thanksgiving Feast: Diners ages 55 and up catch up over a roast turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Winooski Senior Center, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. $4; preregister.

Info, 655-6425.

health & fitness

Creative FloW Yoga With Deborah Felmeth: See WED.13, 5:30-7 p.m. kunDalini Yoga With Callie Pegues: See WED.13, 9-10:15 a.m. oPen meDitation: See WED.13, 8:30-9:30 a.m. r.i.P.P.e.D.: See WED.13, 6-7 p.m. relieF For Winter Woes: Homeopath Patricia Hechmer presents tried-and-true natural remedies for relieving cold and flu symptoms. Westford Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-5639.

Yoga Class: See WED.13, 5-6:30 p.m.

Yoga With tea: See WED.13, 6:15-7:15 p.m.

holidays

holiDaY artisans bazaar: See SAT.16, 5-8 p.m.

Winooski Coalition holiDaY CommunitY Dinner: Folks sit down to a meal of turkey with all the fixings and dessert. Live music and kids activities round out the evening. O'Brien Community Center, Winooski, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 655-4565.

kids

babY & me storY time: See WED.13, 10:30 a.m. babYtime PlaYgrouP: See WED.13, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Charlie broWn movie night: Little ones don PJs and enjoy a snack of cookies and milk while viewing A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. JCPenney Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 6:30-7:15 p.m. Free. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11.

'Chris PriCkett's 3 FiDDles anD more': Accompanied by the award-winning banjoist, members of Town Hall Theater's Young Company culminate a 10-week acoustic music program with a toe-tapping performance. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 382-9222.

Fall storY time: See WED.13, 11:15 a.m. homeWork helP: See WED.13, 3-6 p.m.

moving & grooving With Christine: See WED.13, 11-11:30 a.m.

PresChool art Class: See WED.13, 10-11 a.m.

PresChool storY hour: See WED.13, 11:30 a.m. reaD to a Dog: See WED.13, 3:15-4:15 p.m. storY time & PlaYgrouP: See WED.13, 10-11:30 a.m. 'the Dark knight' ComiCs Club: See WED.13, 3:30-5 p.m.

english-language Class For neW ameriCans: See WED.13, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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stuDent Piano reCital: A fall concert celebrates the efforts and talents of Diana Fanning's pupils.

seminars

aDult ComPuter WorkshoP: See WED.13, 9:30 a.m.-noon.

sport

green mountain table tennis Club: See WED.13, 6-9:30 p.m.

talks

institute For CiviC engagement: raCe & raCism leCture series: Vermont Community Law Center director Jared Carter presents "What Didn't Happen in State v. George Zimmerman?"

Room 253, Burlington College, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616.

theater

lYriC theatre kiCk-oFF meeting: Theater lovers learn about the company's upcoming production of the famed musical Les Misérables.

Cafeteria, Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 363-4599.

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big iDeas Dine & DisCuss: Led by Edward Cashman, folks share a meal, then converse about T. C. Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister; bring a Tex-Mex dish to share. Info, 878-6955. book DisCussion series: 'seven DeaDlY sins': Works by William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and others inspire conversation about lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride with facilitator Linda Bland. South Hero Community Library, 6 p.m.

Free. Info, 372-6209. book DisCussion series: 'solDiering on: aFter battle & baCk home': Merilyn Burrington elicits opinions about Jonathan Shay's Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. South Burlington Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7076. book DisCussion: 'earth tones': Readers chat about Thomas Berry's The Great Works: Our Way Into the Future with Theresa Gregory. Hartland Public Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 436-2473. book sale: Thousands of titles organized by category and author delight bookworms of all ages.

Proceeds benefit library activities and collections.

Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. 'bringing 'WonDer' alive through the arts': St. Michael's College students present a dramatic interpretation of R. J. Palacio's acclaimed youngadult novel about a boy born with facial deformities. Room 315, St. Edmund's Hall, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2356.

ContemPlative meeting: Reading material inspires discussion about Gnostic principles relative to "True Self-Knowledge." Foot of the Hill Building, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706.

Dzvinia orloWskY: The acclaimed poet and founding editor of Four Way Books excerpts selected works. Stearns Performance Space, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1342. healing Journal & Creative JourneYing: See WED.13, 7:30-9 p.m. sherrY olson: As part of the Readings in the Gallery series, the local poet shares stanzas from Four-Way Stop. A book signing and reception follow. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-8291.

‘We Do! ameriCan leaDers Who believe in marriage equalitY’ launCh event: Former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin joins UVM’s Ellen Andersen and Mary Burke in a panel discussion inspired by her recently released book. Susan M. Murray moderates. Phoenix Books Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. m

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'rite oF sPring' oPen reaDing: The Green Mountain Mahler Festival orchestra presents Igor Stravinsky's work under the direction of Daniel Bruce. UVM professor emeritus L. Thomas Read discusses the history of the piece. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free; qualified musicians must preregister.

Info, 864-0788.

Nearly 100 of the finest works from the collection reflecting founder Electra Webb’s pioneering collecting vision.

On view in the new Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education.

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Jazz voCal ensemble & tuesDaY Combo ConCert: "Wayneing Stars" brings the celestially themed jazz classics and choral arrangements of Wayne Shorter to the stage, which complement works by Monk and Ellington. UVM Recital Hall, Redstone Campus, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. Free.

Info, 656-7776.

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vermont Youth WinDs ConCert: Accomplished local musicians showcase their skills. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael's College, Colchester, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 655-5030.

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Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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Color, Pattern, Whimsy, Scale: The Best of Shelburne Museum

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DIY NIGHT: WRAPPING PAPER, BAGS & TAGS: Co-owner of New Duds Tessa Valyou, will help you print your own wrapping paper with premade silkscreens designs that are ready to print.

Fold paper into handmade gift bags, make customize gift tags. A great class to get in the holiday mood. Plenty of time to make multiples. No experience needed. Ages 16 and up.

Instructor: Tessa Valyou. Dec. 12, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $25/person; $22.50/BCA members. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. 865-7166.

VIDEO: TIME-LAPSE ANIMATION: Timelapse is a video art form that uses photos taken at regular intervals that, when sequenced together, can allow an audience to see subtle or imperceptible processes.

Learn more about the storytelling this medium can convey and the hardware and software you can use to do so. Instructor: Kevin Murakami. Prerequisite: Intro to SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Weekly on Mon., Dec. 2-16, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $105/ person; $94.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. 865-7166.

KIDS: JAZZY JEWELS: Come make some impressive jewelry using a variety of materials including rolled paper beads, glass beads and more. Learn some professional tricks to make your wearable art spectacular!

Instructor: Kim Desjardins. Ages 9-12. Dec. 7, 1-3 p.m. Cost: $25/ person; $22.50/BCA members.

Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. 865-7166.

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dance B-TRU DANCE W/ DANIELLE VARDAKAS DUSZKO: B-Tru is focused on hip-hop, funkstyles (poppin, locking, waaking), breakin’, dance hall, belly dance and lyrical dance. Danielle Vardakas

Duszko has trained with originators in these styles, performed and battled throughout the world. Classes and camps age 4-adult. She is holding a Hip-Hop Yoga Dance 200-hour teacher training this fall/winter. $50/ mo. Ask about family discounts.

Location: Honest Yoga Center, 150 Dorset St., Blue Mall, next to Sport Shoe Center, S. Burlington.

497-0136, honestyogastudio@ gmail.com, honestyogacenter. com.

BEGINNER TANGO IMMERSION: Argentine Tango is fancy walking, danced conversation, improvised art! Learn the basics in a friendly environment for adults of all ages. These sessions prepare you to participate in local tango activities. No partner or high heels required. Wear socks or clean, smooth-soled shoes. Class size limited. Contact Elizabeth to register. May. 8-29, Sat. Nov. 16 & 23, 11:30-1:30.

Cost: $40/both days; $22, Nov. 16 only. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Elizabeth Seyler, 862-2833, elizabethmseyler@ gmail.com, tangowise.com/ burlington-classes.

DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com.

DSANTOS VT SALSA: Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now! Mon. evenings: beginner class, 7-8 p.m.: intermediate, 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: North End Studios, 294 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com.

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is

encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary. Private lessons also available. Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance. com, firststepdance.com.

design/build WOOD SUP BUILDING: We’re opening our shop to stand-up paddleboard enthusiasts ready for the challenge of building their own personalized wooden SUP. Our craftsmen have dedicated SUP stations for individuals willing to work hands-on to create their own boards; from wood skeleton to fiberglass. Work is mentored by skilled shop foremen. Tue. &/or Thu. evenings. 6-9 p.m., + 1 weekend. Cost: $1460/2 mos. desk space & materials. Location: Tao Woodworking, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Tao Woodworking, Duane Albro, 999-3075, duane@ taowoodworking.com, taowoodworking.com.

drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE & CONGAS!: Taiko drumming in Burlington!

Tuesday Taiko Adult Classes begin Dec. 3 & Jan. 28, 5:30-6:30 p.m., $72/6 weeks. Kids Classes begin on the same dates, 4:305:20 p.m. $60/6 weeks. Djembe classes start Dec. 13, & Jan. 17, 6 p.m., $60/4 weeks, $18/class.

Montpelier Djembe classes start Nov. 21, Jan. 2, 7:30-8:30 p.m., $54/3 weeks! Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington & Lane Shops Community Room, 13 N. Franklin St., Montpelier.

Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@gmail.com, burlingtontaiko.org.

empowerment DEVELOPING YOUR HIGH SENSE PERCEPTION: Learn how to use the full range of your psychic abilities, access the Akashic records and develop your skill in working with subtle energies in this experiential workshop.

Led by Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. Nov. 16-17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $75/person, inc. snack & lunches. Location: 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury. Sue, 244-7909.

gardening MASTER GARDENER 2014 COURSE: Learn the keys to a healthy and sustainable home landscape as University of Vermont faculty and experts focus on gardening in Vermont.

This noncredit course covers a wide variety of horticultural topics: fruit and vegetable production, flower gardening, botany basics, plant pests, soil fertility, disease management, healthy lawns, invasive plant control, introduction to home landscaping, and more! Weekly on Tue.,

Feb. 4-Apr. 29, 6:15-9 p.m. $395/ person includes Sustainable Gardening book. (Noncredit course). Location: Various locations, Bennington, Brattleboro, Johnson, Lyndon, Montpelier, Middlebury, Newport, Randolph Ctr., Rutland, Springfield, St. Albans, White River Jct., Williston. 656-9562, master. gardener@uvm.edu, uvm.edu/ mastergardener.

healing HEALING RECENT LOSS WITH MINDFULNESS & MOVEMENT: Joey Corcoran & Susan Sassaman will guide participants in meditation, mindfulness practices and yoga movement with music to help heal recent loss. Pre-workshop interview required. Call Joey Corcoran. Fri., Nov. 22, evening, Sat., Nov. 23, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $130.

Location: All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. Info: Joey Corcoran, 654-7600 x4, mindfulrest.com.

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ANIMATED DRAWINGS: TEEN WORKSHOP: Animators-in-themaking combine creative forces to bring drawings to life! Product a sequence of drawings that will be interwoven with the group’s in one fluid Quicktime animation. Be ready to draw a lot and experience the thrill of working on an artistic team. Instructor: Leif Goldberg. Dec. 11 & 12, 6-9 p.m. Cost: $75/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. 253-8358, helenday. com.

herbs WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Now accepting applications for Wisdom of the Herbs 2014 Eight Month Certification Program, local wild plants for food and medicine, sustainable living skills, and profound connection with Nature, Apr. 26-27, May 24-25, Jun. 28-29, Jul. 2627, Aug. 23-24, Sep. 27-28, Oct. 25-26 & Nov. 8-9, 2014, tuition $1750, payment plan $187.50/ mo. VSAC nondegree grants available, apply early. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director.

Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool. com, wisdomoftheherbsschool. com.

kids NOV. BREAK AFRICAN ART/ FRENCH CAMP: Join us for one or two days in fun break camp as we explore music, languages, geography and art of Africa.

Madame Maggie has lived and worked in West Africa and has many treasures to share as she leads you on painting, drawing and 3-D discovery adventures! Vas-y! Wed., Nov. 27 &/ or Fri., Nov. 29, 8:30-5:15 p.m.

Cost: $160/2 days; $90/1 day.

Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St., 3rd floor, Burlington. wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 233-7676, maggiestandley@yahoo.com, wingspanpaintingstudio.com.

language LEARN SPANISH & OPEN NEW DOORS: Connect with a new world. We provide high-quality affordable instruction in the Spanish language for adults, students and children. Travelers’ lesson package. Our seventh year. Personal instruction from a native speaker. Small classes, private lessons and online instruction. See our website for complete information or contact us for details. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Center. Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com.

martial arts AIKIDO: This circular, flowing Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and reduce stress. We also offer classes for children ages 5-12.

Classes are taught by Benjamin Pincus Sensei, Vermont’s senior and only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. We offer adult classes 7 days a wk. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. 951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org.

AIKIDO CLASSES: Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington.

Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org.

AIKIDO IN BALANCE: Learn how to manifest balance internally and externally. Move with grace and precision. Begin the study of observing your own mind. Tue. & Thu., 7-9 p.m. Cost: $10/class, $65 for monthly membership.

Location: Tao Motion Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Aikido in Balance, tyler crandall, 5989204, tyler@aikidoinbalance. com, aikidoinbalance.com.

VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and selfconfidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. 660-4072, julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj. com.

meditation LEARN TO MEDITATE: 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. Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m.

The Shambhala Cafe meets 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house occurs 3rd Fri. of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington.

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HEALING RECENT LOSS WITH MINDFULNESS & MOVEMENT: Joey Corcoran & Susan Sassaman will guide participants in meditation, mindfulness practices and yoga movement with music to help heal recent loss. Pre-workshop interview required. Call Joey Corcoran. Fri., Nov. 22 evening, Sat., Nov. 23 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Cost: $130.

Location: All Souls Interfaith Gathering, 291 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. Info: Joey Corcoran, 654-7600 x4, mindfulrest.com.

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LIVING ARTS TAI CHI CHUAN: all welcome to join in these ongoing classes which introduce and develop the guiding principles and fundamental forms, (slowset/ long Form, Qigong, Push Hands), of this authentic Yang style tradition as passed by four generations of the Tung lineage. experience harmonious alignment of body/mind/spirit naturally with great benefit to wellbeing. Wed. (ongoing) 5:15-6:45 p.m. Cost: $15/class or $50/mo.; 1st class free. Location: McClure Multigenerational Center, 241 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. White Cloud Living Arts Foundation, Madeleine Piat-Landolt, 4533690, whitecloudarts@gmail. com, whitecloudarts.org.

SNAke-STyLe TAI CHI CHUAN: 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.

Beginner classes Sat. mornings & Wed. evenings. Call to view a class. Location: Bao Tak Fai Tai Chi Institute, 100 Church St., Burlington. 864-7902, ipfamilytaichi.org. yANG-STyLe TAI CHI: The slow movements of tai chi help reduce blood pressure and increase balance and concentration. come breathe with us and experience the joy of movement while increasing your ability to be inwardly still. Wed., 5:30 p.m., Sat., 8:30 a.m. $16/class, $60/mo., $160/3 mo. Beginning November 19: Tai Chi for Lunch, Tue. at noon. $16/person.

Location: Mindful Breath Tai Chi (formerly Vermont Tai Chi Academy and Healing Center), 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. 7355465, mindfulbreath@gmavt. net.

writing ‘yoU Be THe keATS’: DANIeL LUSk: It is in our nature to want to speak what is unspoken in the hearts of those around us, and in our own. such utterances, simple or sumptuous, can bring kindred spirits together. Many will labor over food and fare this holiday season. What might you bring to the table? Sat., Nov. 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost: $50/5-hr. class, incl. light fare. Location: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Kimberlee Harrison, 985-3091, kimberlee@

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HoLIDAy WRITING CIRCLe ReTReAT: Holiday Writing circle will focus on this time of year, when light dwindles, hopes soar, and traditions bolster. Writing the holiday family newsletter or just letting lose the unknown wonder of story and words, this class will wrap up the year’s journey as a gift to oneself. author Deborah luskin. Sat., Nov. 16, noon-3 p.m. Cost: $75/3hr. class. Location: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Kimberlee Harrison, 985-3091, kimberlee@windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com.

NoNTRADITIoNAL eSSAy WRITING: The current surge of essays utilizing nontraditional structures reflects the role that structure plays in creating meaning. In this class, we’ll read successful examples of the lyric essay. We’ll study how the structure creates resonance and truth. We’ll do exercises to help you access material by coming at it slant. Thu., Nov. 14, 6-9 p.m.

Cost: $40/3-hr. class. Location: Renegade Writers’ Collective headquarters, 47 Maple St., Burlington. Renegade Writers’ Collective, Jessica Nelson, 267467-2812, renegadewritersvt@ gmail.com, renegadewritersvt. com.

WHAT A Poem CAN Do: an instructional class on the properties of language in poetry as the physical materials of the art, not simply “ideas.” Taught by Vermont Poet laureate sydney lea. The class will be followed by a reading and Q&a (open to the public) from 6-7 p.m. in the gallery. Sun., Nov. 24, 3-6 p.m.

Cost: $40/3-hr. class. Location: Renegade Writers’ Collective, 47 Maple St., suite 220, Burlington.

Renegade Writers’ Collective, Jessica Nelson, 267-467-2812, jhnelson427@gmail.com, renegadewritersvt.com.

WRITING CReATIVe FICTIoN & NoN: Whether you wish to create a short or book-length memoir, begin work on an autobiography, or translate your experiences and ideas into fiction, this workshop can help keep you on track and keep readers on the page. Prevent your story from becoming derailed. stroke those literary aspirations! author lynda Majarian. Nov. 13 & 20 & Dec. 4, 11 & 18, 6:30-8 p.m. Cost: $125/5 classes. Location: Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, 233 Falls Rd., Shelburne. Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, Kimberlee Harrison, 985-3091, kimberlee@ windridgebooksofvt.com, windridgebooksofvt.com.

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schedule. Get hot: 2-for-1 offer. $15. 1-hr. classes on Mon. & Thu. at 5:30 p.m.; Wed. & Fri.: 5 p.m.; Thu.: noon; Sat.: 8:30 & 10 a.m.

Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave., Old North End, Burlington. 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt.com. eVoLUTIoN yoGA: evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and prenatal, community classes, and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, core, Breast cancer survivor and alignment classes. certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose. $14/class, $130/ class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington.

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LAUGHING RIVeR yoGA: Highly trained, dedicated teachers offer yoga classes, workshops, retreats and teacher training in a beautiful setting overlooking the Winooski River. all levels welcome. class types include Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Kripalu, Yin, Restorative and Gentle. check our website to learn about advanced studies for yoga teachers, class series for beginners and more. Classes 7 days a wk. $5-14/single yoga class; $120/10-class card; $130/ monthly unlimited; sliding-fee classes also avail. Location: Laughing River Yoga, Chace Mill, suite 126, Burlington. 343-8119, laughingriveryoga.com. yoGA RooTS: Flexible, inflexible, an athlete, expecting a baby, stressed, recovering from an injury or illness? Yoga Roots has something for you! Our aim is to welcome, nurture and inspire. a peaceful studio offering: Prenatal, Postnatal, Vinyasa Flow, Heated Vinyasa, Therapeutic Restorative, Gentle, Kundalini, Kripalu, anusara, Tai chi, Qigong & Meditation!

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n early February 2012, Vermont soul man Dave Keller found himself far from his physical home — and as close to his spiritual home as he’d ever been.

Since the age of 18, Keller, now 46, had idolized the great blues and soul singers of the Deep South. Now he was in Memphis at Willie Mitchell’s Royal Studios, ready to lay down tracks for his fifth record, Soul Changes. For a white guy who grew up in the suburbs of Boston, it seemed a little more than unreal.

“I thought, I can’t believe I’m here,” says Keller of standing in the same vocal booth where Al Green recorded “Let’s Stay Together.” “Later, people asked me if I was nervous,” he continues. “The answer is ‘no,’ because everybody there made me feel so welcome and so much a part of the universal club of making music.”

Entry into that universal club has given Keller a work of which he can be proud.

Recorded in Memphis and Brooklyn, and funded by a $15,000 Kickstarter campaign, Soul Changes radiates a richly textured intensity and the kind of emotional pain, joy and vulnerability that defines soul. Bob Perry, who produced the record, calls it the best of Keller’s career. Fans of the hardworking Montpelier musician will likely find little reason to argue.

The intimacy of Soul Changes gives it its power. For Keller, the pain expressed on the album’s 11 tracks — six originals and five covers — is all too real. In September 2011, his 17-year relationship with his wife collapsed. Two months later, his father died of cancer.

“It’s the heaviest time of my life, and the most personal record I’ve ever made,” Keller says.

Soul Changes also represents a step forward in Keller’s relationship with Perry, who has produced albums for Wu-Tang Clan, the Revelations and Foxy Brown, among others.

“For the last record, we did all covers,” Keller says of his 2011 release, Where I’m Coming From. “That was what [Perry] wanted to do. It wasn’t my idea, even though it did really well.” The album won

the Best Self-Produced CD award at the 2012 International Blues Challenge.

“That propelled me forward,” he continues. “But I wanted to do my original stuff.”

In preparation for his new record, Keller made a 20-song demo of originals at Bennett Shapiro’s Lovetown Recording in Middlesex, Vt. Perry liked what he heard and decided to go big.

“I thought that taking it to Memphis with his own songs was the thing that was gonna take it to another place,” Perry says.

“I didn’t know if it was gonna be better or it was gonna be worse, but it wouldn’t be the same thing over again.”

Still, Perry took no chances, stacking the deck with some of the heaviest hitters of 1970s soul to back Keller in the studio.

The Hodges brothers — Teenie (guitar), Charles (organ) and Leroy (bass) — made up the core of the studio team. As threefourths of the Hi Rhythm Section, they had played behind soul hits by Al Green, Ann Peebles, O.V. Wright, Otis Clay and many more. Bobby Manuel, a session player during Stax Records’ glory years, added what Keller calls the “money licks” on guitar.

Gintas Janusonis, from Brooklyn’s the Revelations, was on drums.

“Basically, Bob Perry believes that it’s not that hard to make a great record,” says Keller before revealing the producer’s formula: great musicians and great songs.

Armed with both, he describes a collaborative process in the studio.

“I would stand in the middle [of the studio] and play and sing the song, and all these people I idolize would listen,” he explains, adding that the players would then pepper him with questions about tempo, arrangements and accents — the subtle nuances that make a good song great. “We’d go through it two or three times ’til we got it pretty reasonably tight,” he continues.

“Then I’d go in the vocal booth and we’d lay it down.”

Keller’s Memphis experience also included cowriting “17 Years” with Darryl Carter, who penned Bobby Womack’s soul classics “Woman’s Gotta Have It” and

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Carter asked what was going on in his life, and Keller explained about his marriage. “[Carter] said, ‘Seventeen years. Let’s start with that. That’s a good title,’” says Keller. “And he started with that line: ‘I remember what you said when we first met / How much love can one girl get? / That was 17 years ago, baby…’ And we just sort of started filling in lines after that.”

Laid over a background of moaning horns and rendered in Keller’s emotional tenor, the lyrics are among the album’s most affecting. Perry is quick to point out that Keller’s emotional investment in his music is a critical strength.

“It’s not about technical virtuosity,” Perry says. “It’s about passion. There might be guys who are technically better singers, or technically better guitar players, but if they don’t have that passion, Dave’s gonna outshine them every night.”

For now, Keller is planning a series of CD-release parties, including two shows at Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier this Saturday, November 16. Keller, who’s built a loyal following across the Northeast, plays about 120 shows per year solo and with his band. Night after night, he’ll be doing everything he can to parlay Soul Changes

into a bigger audience and, hopefully, a label deal.

But perhaps more important than any of this is what Keller took from his Memphis experience: the idea that human grace makes great music possible.

“The more I get to hang out and play with people who are at that really high level,” Keller says, “the more I realize that the reason they are at that high level is that they are more highly evolved — as human beings.”

As Keller hits the road with Soul Changes, he’ll have the emotional — and, occasionally, the musical — support of another such evolved being, Mississippi blues musician Johnny Rawls. The two struck up a friendship years ago during a jam session at the Vermont Blues Festival. Since then, they have toured together, and Rawls has served as Keller’s mentor. Asked what he thinks of Keller and his new record, the 62-year-old Rawls is characteristically blunt.

“Put it to you like this,” he says. “Some people got it and some people don’t … Dave Keller got it.”

INFO Dave Keller CD Release party, Saturday, November 16, at Sweet Melissa’s in Montpelier, 8 and 10 p.m. $8.

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I don’t know about you, but I had a pretty funny weekend.

It started Friday night at the upright Citizens Brigade touring company’s late show at the FlynnSpace — the last of four shows they did here last week.

I can’t in good conscience offer any serious critical insight on the show, since one of my oldest and dearest friends, Ben rameaka, is part of the group. I will say that I laughed a lot, and I would suggest that any time you have the chance to see professional improv comedy in the area, you take it. It’s a fascinating, and at times harrowing art form, the comedic equivalent of a high-wire act. I’d add that there are several burgeoning local troupes —most operating under the spark arts banner — carving out a niche for improv in Vermont who are worth checking out, too.

And if you do, I’d like to offer one small, humble suggestion: Stop being so damned Vermont-y.

Generally speaking, the emergence of comedy in the Vermont mainstream is a relatively new phenomenon. So, understandably, there’s been a bit of a feeling-out process for local audiences.

I’ve had conversations with veteran local comics in recent years who’ve said they sometimes feel like Vermont audiences are still acclimating to the tone and atmosphere of a comedy

show and are not always completely comfortable with it.

I’ve noticed it, too. There can be a certain stiffness, a hesitance to fully engage, to let your guard down and laugh at a well-crafted joke that’s maybe a bit off color, flat-out obscene or otherwise just cuts too close to the funny bone. Sometimes it seems local crowds just need to lighten up a little.

For example, at the beginning of the UCB show, the performers were working the crowd and riffing on local current events, such as the police shooting in the New North End and the F-35 debate.

Following a rather innocuous jab concerning the latter topic, a woman on the far side of the room shouted, a shrill tremor of genuine how-dare-you outrage in her voice, “But you don’t have F-35s in New York!”

(That sound you hear is me repeatedly slamming my forehead against my desk and knocking over my leaded VPR mug.)

Fortunately, the spectators at the final round of the Vermont’s Funniest Comedian contest at Club Metronome on Saturday were thicker skinned. And they were treated to a tremendous showcase of the state’s best and brightest standup comedians.

The 12 contestants, narrowed down from a field of 60 over three rounds by some influential judges — including two bigwigs from the Just for Laughs festival in Montréal and Boston-based comedian/producer gary marino — were, from first to last, very solid and even transcendent.

Justin rowe, adam Benay, kyle gagnon and Carmen lagala were tabbed as finalists, finishing in that order, according to the judges’ tally. They took home an assortment of loot, including cash, free headshots and slots at next year’s Green Mountain Comedy Festival, among other goodies.

On any other night, you could have made a case for any of those comics as the overall winner. But this night belonged to phil davidson, who delivered a flawless set. I’ve been impressed by Davidson before, but he’s at a different level now. His jokes are crisp, clever and well timed and work seamlessly with occasional off-the-cuff one-liners — he had a few dandies, especially at the expense of the Canadian judges, who apparently didn’t take his barbs personally. His witty style kind of reminds me of John mulaney, which ain’t a bad thing.

I was a bit surprised that last year’s champ, kevin Byer, didn’t make the final cut. His set was certainly deserving.

Ditto will Betts, who turned out the best set I’ve seen from him, navigating some dark and deeply personal material while maintaining his unique, offbeat perspective. I would have placed both in the top five. Then again, I’d have a hard time choosing who wouldn’t have made it from the five who did. That’s a nice problem to have, and it speaks to the growing wealth of comedic talent in Vermont we’re lucky enough to enjoy … as long as they don’t joke about F-35s.

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Franny O's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., free.

HalFlOungE: Wanted Wednesday with DJ craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., free.

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JuniPEr at HOtEl VErmOnt: ray Vega Quartet (Latin jazz), 8 p.m., free. lEunig's BistrO & CaFé: paul Asbell, clyde stats and chris peterman (jazz), 7 p.m., free. manHattan Pizza & PuB: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., free.

CluB mEtrOnOmE: dBerrie (EDm), 9 p.m., $5/7.

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DOBrá tEa: robert resnik (folk), 7 p.m., free.

Franny O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., free.

nECtar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., free. pigeons playing ping pong, Gravity A (jam), 9:30 p.m., $7. 18+.

On taP Bar & grill: pine street Jazz, 7 p.m., free. raDiO BEan: social club (downtempo), 4:20 p.m., free. Ensemble V (jazz), 7 p.m., free. irish sessions, 8 p.m., free. rED squarE: The usual suspects (rock), 7 p.m., free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., free.

HalFlOungE: Half & Half comedy (standup), 8 p.m., free.

HigHEr grOunD BallrOOm: mcconkey presented by msp films (film), 7:30 p.m., $17.

HigHEr grOunD sHOWCasE lOungE: Alpha rev, Josh panda (rock), 7:30 p.m., $10/12. AA. JP's PuB: Karaoke with melody, 10 p.m., free. magiC Hat BrEWing COmPany: comedy Benefit for Navicate (standup), 8 p.m., $16.50. manHattan Pizza & PuB: Hot Waxxx with Justcaus & pen West (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free.

skinny PanCakE: Josh panda's Acoustic soul Night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

BagitOs: Al 'n' pete (acoustic), 6 p.m., Donations.

CHarliE O's: state & main 1983 Tribute (rock), 8 p.m., free. gustO's: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., free. skinny PanCakE: Jay Ekis saves Wednesday in montpelier (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., free. Tauk, the Bumping Jones (jam), 9 p.m., free/$5. 18+.

raDiO BEan: cody sargent & friends (jazz), 6 p.m., free. shane Hardiman Trio with Geza carr & rob morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m., free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11:30 p.m., $3.

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BaCkstagE PuB: slant sixx (rock), 9:30 p.m., free.

CluB mEtrOnOmE: Argonaut & Wasp (indie), 6 p.m., $10/12. 18+. No Diggity: return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

Franny O's: sideshow Bob (rock), 9 p.m., free.

rED squarE BluE rOOm: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., free.

BEE's knEEs: Audrey Bernstein (jazz), 7:30 p.m., free.

HigHEr grOunD BallrOOm: carbon Leaf, shannon Labrie (rock), 7:30 p.m., $16/18. AA.

tWO BrOtHErs taVErn: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

rí rá irisH PuB: Acoustic Blame (rock), 9 p.m., free.

tHE HuB PizzEria & PuB: Dinner Jazz with fabian rainville, 6:30 p.m., free. Open mic, 9 p.m., free.

HigHEr grOunD sHOWCasE lOungE: plants and Animals, Alpenglow (indie), 9 p.m., $12. AA.

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skinny PanCakE: colby Dix (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

mOOg's PlaCE: Open mic, 8:30 p.m., free.

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ParkEr PiE CO.: chick Weed (rock), 7:30 p.m., free.

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ParkEr PiE CO.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., free.

BagitOs: Dark Green folk (folk), 6 p.m., Donations.

mOnOPOlE: The snacks (rock), 10 p.m., free.

skinny PanCakE: mayfly, the mcGiver/falquet Duo (old time), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

mOnOPOlE DOWnstairs: Gary peacock (singersongwriter), 10 p.m., free.

sWEEt mElissa's: Tim Brick (country), 8 p.m., free.

tHEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., free.

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O'BriEn's irisH PuB: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., free.

sWEEt mElissa's: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., free. Bob Wagner & D. Davis (singer-songwriters), 8 p.m., free.

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On Halloween night, I went to a friend’s house in Burlington’s Old North End to have dinner and pass out candy to trick-or-treaters. At one point, two young girls climbed the steps as another friend answered the door, candy bowl in hand. After dispensing with the formality of actually saying, “Trick or treat” — seemingly a lost tradition, from what I can gather, and I blame the parents — they began to paw through Reese’s and Milky Ways. After a minute or so, one of the girls turned her painted face up to the friend holding the bowl.

“I can’t eat these,” she said, visibly discouraged. Then, “Do you have any fair-trade chocolate?”

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Nectar's: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Grippo Funk Band (funk), 9 p.m., $5.

Old shed Bar & Grill: carraway, 80 proof Hum, 4 Hot minutes (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

ON tap Bar & Grill: nerbak Brothers (blues), 5 p.m., Free. A House on Fire (rock), 9 p.m., Free. park place taverN: smokin' Gun (rock), 9 p.m., Free. peNalty BOx: salsa night with Hector cobeo, 9 p.m., $3/5. 18+. radiO BeaN: Kid's music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick, 11 a.m., Free. Bow Thayer & Friends (Green mountain soul), 7 p.m., Free. instant Karma (Beatles tribute), 9 p.m., Free. Joinery (Americana), 10 p.m., Free. Great Blue (reggae, jam), 11 p.m. And the Kids (indie), 12:30 a.m., Free. red square: Giovanina Bucci (singer-songwriter), 4 p.m., Free. Amida Bourbon project (folk rock), 9 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5.

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BackstaGe puB: Barbie and the Bones (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free. church & maiN restauraNt: night Vision (EDm), 9 p.m., Free.

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cluB metrONOme: Johnny Gates & the invite, colour of London (country), 6 p.m., $9/12.

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FraNNy O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

rí rá irish puB: supersounds DJ (Top 40), 10 p.m., Free.

hiGher GrOuNd BallrOOm: Way of Life (ski film), 8 p.m., $7/15/20. AA. Badfish: A Tribute to sublime (punk), 10 p.m., $7/15/20. AA.

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skiNNy paNcake: England in 1819, steafán Hanvey (grandwave), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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BaGitOs: Winston Ball (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Donations.

Buch spieler: Anachronist (indie), 7:30 p.m., nA. charlie O's: chalice (metal), 10 p.m., Free.

Fresh tracks Farm viNeyard & WiNery: mark Lavoie (blues), 6:30 p.m., Free.

GreeN mOuNtaiN taverN: DJ Jonny p (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. sWeet melissa's: Honky Tonk Happy Hour with mark LeGrand, 5:30 p.m., Free. northstar session (acoustic), 9 p.m., nA. Whammy Bar: Guinguette (French accordion), 7 p.m., Free.

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Jp's puB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., Free.

JuNiper at hOtel vermONt: Boss Hog's speakeasy with Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 8:30 p.m., $10. marriOtt harBOr lOuNGe: Gabe Jarrett (jazz), 8 p.m., Free. mONkey hOuse: insurrection: Goth night, 9 p.m., $5.

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mOOG's place: Abby Jenne and the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

ruBeN James: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free.

their strongest record to date. The band plays the Higher Ground Showcase Lounge this

Friday, November 15, with locals alpeNGlOW. [Note: This show was originally scheduled for Signal Kitchen. All tickets purchased before the venue change will be honored.] rí rá irish puB: Lyngustic civilians (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. skiNNy paNcake: The Western Den (ambient folk), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. veNue: n.O.R.E., VT union, colby stiltz, patron pone and sin (hip-hop), 9 p.m., $20. 18+.

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Dave Keller Band cD Release (blues), 8 p.m. & 10 p.m., $8. tupelO music hall: susan Gabriel (singersongwriter), 7 p.m., $20.

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Bee's kNees: cosa Bueno (Latin jazz), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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artsriOt: chris Thomas King, Dupont Brothers (blues, indie-folk), 5:30 p.m., $20/33. AA.

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REVIEW this Paul Asbell, From Adamant to Atchafalaya: Further Adventures in Steel String Americana (SELF-RELEASED, CD)

From Adamant to Atchafalaya, the third in a series of solo CDs that venerable Burlington musician Paul Asbell has produced over the past 10 years, is final proof — in case there was any doubt — that he is a guitarist to be reckoned with. The 13 tracks on this disc showcase the breadth and depth of Asbell’s knowledge of the music and his technical mastery over his instrument. The album will also be an eye-opener for fans who had only seen him wielding an electric guitar onstage while playing with the Unknown Blues Band or seminal local jazz band Kilimanjaro.

Asbell is a connoisseur and collector of fine acoustic guitars. And on this recording he brings out some of his

favorite ones and shows them off on some of his favorite performance pieces. The first track sets the scene.

Asbell’s version of “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” could also be named — if it were a special on a Chinese restaurant menu — “Bill Bailey in Many Ways.”

We are treated first to classy fingerpicking à la Big Bill Broonzy — one of the great masters of acoustic blues who often was a guest at the Asbell house when Paul was a youngster. Then we get a sizzling slide version on a resophonic guitar — a 20th-century invention that uses a metal “pie plate” to amplify the sound of the instrument so that it’s loud enough to compete with a big band. And then the song morphs into a jazzy, swingtime version. This track really, moves and, as he sails through it all, Asbell hardly seems to break a sweat. Lush and precise playing is his specialty, and he has filled the disc with a signature style and richness that has inspired many local guitar students over the past 40 years.

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After treating his listeners to the likes of Blind Blake’s country-blues classic “Police Dog Blues” and Steely Dan’s “Deacon Blues,” Asbell wraps it all up with a lovely rendition of “I’ll Be Seeing You.” Paul Asbell will perform at a CDrelease concert at the FlynnSpace on Saturday, November 16. Lots of ENROLLING NOW beautiful guitars and some amazing FOR 2014/2015 music guaranteed.

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as Dance Songs, Vol. II+. Much as his performance at Radio Bean impressed with sly songwriting and polish, the EP represents one of the finest local singersongwriter releases in recent memory — even though it was previously lost to our collective memory 10 years ago.

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about love and relationships — Busker plied his trade with a quiet confidence, steeled by fine instrumental chops and beautiful, versatile, measured vocal delivery.

A week or so later, Busker emailed to introduce himself. Turns out he was an aspiring singer-songwriter in Burlington about a decade ago. He won the Advance Music Singer-Songwriter Contest in 2002. Shortly after that, he released Dance Songs Vol. II on CD as an EP. And then he essentially disappeared, musically speaking. He says he’s not sure what happened to those 10-ish years, but it’s suspected that “marriage, children and paying work were involved.”

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I first encountered Milton Busker over burgers at ¡Duino! (Duende) a few months ago. During a conversation with a buddy — probably about women or … OK, it was most certainly about women — I paused, having caught a sweet, breathy croon and the ripple of acoustic guitar above the warm hum of conversational chatter from the next room. Peering into Radio Bean, I spied a man sitting onstage with a guitar. To his left lay a pair of shiny, black dress shoes.

Upon his feet were flip-flops, a curious contrast to his sharp, dark suit.

Busker bills himself as “the world’s foremost purveyor of suit-folk.” It’s a designation that, ahem, suits him.

What followed was a compelling set from an obviously seasoned performer.

Drawing from his originals and wellplaced covers — songs that provided a fitting soundtrack to that conversation

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ManHattan pizza & puB: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 9:30 p.m., Free. nectar's: What a Joke! comedy

give, at the recently opened Venue nightclub in South Burlington. Locals vt uniOn, cOlBy stiltz, patrOn pOne and sin open the show.

Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. stone Bullet, near north, causewell Apollo (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

skinny pancake: Jay Ekis saves Wednesday in montpelier (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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sweet Melissa's: Wine Down with D. Davis (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. Open Bluegrass Jam, 7 p.m., Free.

radiO Bean: irish sessions, 8 p.m., Free. mochester (reggae, rock), 11 p.m., Free. red square: mint Julep (jazz), 7 p.m., Free. DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. skinny pancake: Josh panda's Acoustic soul night, 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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BagitOs: Keith Williams (blues), 6 p.m., Donations. gustO's: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free.

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Painting Politic Artist Al Salzman

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onald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney sneeringly dunk a naked man into a tub of water.

Skeletal air traffic controllers direct drone attacks on petrified Muslim women. A passel of presidents, past and present, confidently mount a bloody-eyed, broken-backed soldier. These are just a few of the uncompromising, ripped-fromthe-headlines tableaux in Al Salzman’s new exhibit, “Subversive,” at Burlington’s ArtsRiot gallery.

Perhaps “arresting” is the best word for his artwork, which employs bold, even garish, colors; editorial-cartoon techniques; and freeform text and images to communicate Salzman’s political views.

Salzman, 80, a longtime resident of Fairfield, defines himself as “a leftist — a socialist, essentially,” but perhaps he’s putting it too mildly. Even a quick perusal of his work suggests that the artist would be satisfied with nothing less than a complete overhaul of the political system.

“Most of my artwork is unabashedly propagandistic,” he says with evident glee.

Like most propaganda, Salzman’s artwork is not subtle — the better to instill in its viewers a sense of political outrage.

But behind his overt imagery is technique that evokes German Expressionism. Max Beckmann, George Grosz and Otto Dix are among his inspirations, both for their stark depictions and their political conscience.

Salzman admires how these artists — who came of age in the early 20th century — used their medium to “comment on the militaristic junta mentality that was gaining roots in Germany between the two wars,” he says.

And there is another, unexpected influence on the works in “Subversive.” All of the paintings are presented in unusually shaped frames — most oval, some circular.

“Rectangles and squares have ‘dead corners,’ and ovals do not,” Salzman explains.

His use of this tondo framing, commonly employed in Renaissance paintings, is more than a compositional strategy: It’s also one way in which Salzman gives his work a religious undertone.

In their titles and content, too, the paintings use religion as an ironic context for scenes of injustice. “Via Dolorosa” depicts New York City cops abusing a young black man — Salzman’s commentary on the city’s controversial “stop and frisk” policy.

Another work, “Mea Maxima Culpa,” is even more irreligious. It depicts a sweaty, pig-faced Catholic cardinal praying, his eyes to the heavens. In front of him is a young, naked boy; above, a band of angels

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“Mea Maxima Culpa”

“Ecce Homo”

angrily points accusing fingers at him.

“The pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church is outrageous,” Salzman declaims.

“They should have been prosecuted under RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] laws.”

Just a few years ago, Salzman retired from teaching art in public school, where, he says, he ran his classroom as if it were an atelier. “I’d introduce a project to the

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kids, and I would always work alongside them, so they could see my process, as well,” he says. He also made a point of using public-school tempera paint to create his works. “I figured, if I’m going to teach art, I would do my own work with the same medium as the kids, to see how far I could stretch it.”

“Subversive” was curated just within the last month. Driving down Pine Street one

day, Salzman found himself attracted to the words “DESTROY APATHY” emblazoned on the exterior of the ArtsRiot building.

“Al just busted in here, told us he loved that, and that he was going to send me some artwork,” says curator Hillary Clark, 23. “‘Destroy Apathy’ can seem at first a little violent and negative,” she says, “but it’s really uplifting and empowering people to acknowledge that there is a problem … and to try to fight against it.”

Salzman brought his work for Clark’s consideration; soon thereafter, she decided his paintings were well suited for a show in ArtsRiot’s gallery. “One thing immediately excited me about Al: He had a clear and distinct statement,” Clark says.

The ArtsRiot staff blocked off a couple of windows with custom panels to accommodate the nearly 50 paintings in the show. Some of Salzman’s poems, which are just as incendiary as his visual art, are also displayed. In both his written and painted work, Salzman lets no one off the hook. He clearly has no love for George W. Bush, but he’s especially disappointed by Barack Obama, who, he says, has perpetuated “the most egregious policies of the Bush administration.”

The show is not all Sturm und Drang, though. The “Humandalas” series — charcoal drawings hung in their own “wing” of the gallery — stands out not just for its monochromatic palette, but because its imagery evokes shared human experiences rather than political oppression.

Surprisingly, viewers will also find a couple of paintings of skateboarders.

“I love skateboarders,” Salzman says. “I think skateboarders are like angels.”

His paintings of ’boarders celebrate their athletic grace and easy movements.

But, as with everything else in this show, there’s a political angle.

“If it were up to me, I’d ban cars from inner Burlington and allow only skaters, bikers and Rollerbladers,” Salzman says, before unleashing his genial invective against automobile emissions, the capitalist conspiracy behind traffic congestion and the sensory overload and overpopulation that have made New York City nearly unlivable.

For Salzman and his artwork, the aesthetic and the political are inseparable.

INFO “Subversive” by Al Salzman, ArtsRiot, Burlington. Through January 17. Reception, Friday, November 15, at 6:30 p.m. artsriot.com

art shows

ongoing burlington area

Ali Moore: "Quick Draw," acrylic and collage works on paper modeled after the artist's found-junk sculptures. Through November 30 at Feldman's Bagels in Burlington. Info, 578-2512.

Antonello Borra & Delia Robinson: Borra's new collection of bestiary poems, Alfabestiario, with illustrations by Robinson, is displayed alongside Robinson's new works on canvas called "The Middle Sister." Through December 31 at Flynndog in Burlington. Info, 863-0093.

Art Hop Group Show: More than 25 artists contributed to this collaborative exhibit curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at VCAM Studio in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

'COOL MOVES! Artistry of Motion': An interactive exhibit that explores the beauty of motion.

Through January 6 at ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain in Burlington. Info, 877-324-6386.

Carl Rubino: A selection of landscape photographs taken over the last six years. Through December 31 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in Burlington. Info, 864-2088.

Carol Winn Blakeley: "Here and There..." photography. Through November 30 at Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Info, 865-7211.

Carolyn Walton: "Visions," an exhibit celebrating Walton's 15 years showing her paintings at the gallery. Athenia Schinto, Susan Bull Riley, Betty Ball and Tineke Russell also exhibit their work. Through December 28 at Luxton-Jones Gallery in Shelburne.

Info, 985-8223.

Christy Mitchell: "It's All In There," a series inspired by the artist's childhood practice of hiding her thoughts on paper by writing the words on top of each other, creating a new text of her own in the process. Through November 30 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.

‘Dorothy and Herb Vogel: Fifty Works for Fifty States’: Work from the Vogels’ extensive collection by more than 20 artists, including Carel Balth, Judy Rifka, Pat Steir and Richard Tuttle.

Through May 18 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

'Feast': Food-related work by photographers from around the world, presented in association with Hunger Free Vermont. November 14 through December 8 at Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction.

Info, 777-3686.

Haley Bishop: Colorful, layered mixed-media images of familiar spaces by the winner of 2012’s "Labels for Libations" competition for SEABA/Magic Hat’s Art Hop Ale. Through November 30 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 862-9614.

Inaugural Exhibit: Prints by Bill Davison, sculpture by Kathleen Schneider, photographs by Don Ross and paintings by John Gonter. Through January 9 at Vermont Metro Gallery, BCA Center, in Burlington. Info, 865-7166.

Uninstructed Life-Drawing Session: Artists gather to draw from live models. Call for registration and full schedule. Thursday, November 14, 6-8 p.m., Shelburne Craft School. Info, 482-2407.

'Korean Art Comes to Middlebury': Sarah Laursen, curator of Asian art and assistant professor of history of art and architecture, discusses the museum's new Asian acquisitions.

A light lunch is served. Friday, November 15, 12:15-1:15 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

'Screened and Selected II: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions, 2006–2011': Acquisitions the college made with the help of students, including images by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Chuck Close, Robert Mapplethorpe, Shirin Neshat, Cindy Sherman, Alex Soth and James Welling, among others.

Through December 8 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Sotheby’s photographs specialist Emily Bierman discusses the world of photography auctions, focusing on examples from the exhibition, Tuesday, November 19, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Info, 443-3168.

'Gold, Sex and Death at the Museum': Art critic Jeff Kelley gives a talk in conjunction with Richard Saunders and Sarah Laursen’s art history class.

Wednesday, November 13, 4:30 p.m., Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168.

Chihuly Night: Watch glass blowers create glass pieces using the the same blowing techniques as artist Dale Chihuly. Friday, November 15, 5-8 p.m., AO! Glass, Burlington. Info, 735-5016.

Mobile-Making Workshop: Nationally known sculptor and performance artist Kevin Reese, in residence at Essex High School, helps community members make mobiles. Saturday, November 16, 10 a.m.-noon, Essex High School.

Info, 879-7121.

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Artist Yard Sale: Artists sell their old acrylics, mismatched paper, spare canvas or unfinished artwork at an indoor sale. Saturday, November 16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.

'The Floating World: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art': Wood-panel prints from Japan’s Edo Period, 1600-1868. Through December 16 at Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Reception: Tatsuo Arai, Montréal's Consulate General of Japan, discusses Japanese pop culture, Friday, November 15, 5-7 p.m. Info, 518-564-2474.

Art Town Meeting: S.P.A.C.E. Gallery director Christy Mitchell, artist Clark Derbes and Art Map Burlington publisher Ric Kasini Kadour meet with artists and the general public to discuss the local art market. Wednesday, November 13, 7 p.m., S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt. com.

Mary L. Collins: Photographs and other items that reflect the artist's close relationship with the Oglala Lakota nation of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Through December 18 at Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center. Reception: Thursday, November 14, 4-6 p.m.

Info, 728-1237.

'EAT: The Social Life of Food': A student-curated exhibit of objects from the museum collection that explores the different ways people interact with food, from preparation to eating and beyond. Through May 18 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Professor Amy Trubek and her "Taste of Place" research group discuss the methods they use to understand the influence of physical and cultural landscapes on food perception and preference, Thursday, November 14, 1 p.m. Info, 656-0750.

BFA Thesis Exhibits: Work in a variety of media by Brittany Daniels, Ira Musty and Ashley Shotwell. Through November 22 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Reception: Wednesday, November 13, 3 p.m.

Info, 635-1469.

'Art Under the Influence': Art supplies are provided at SEABA's community art-making event with guest artist Katharine Montstream.

Thursday, November 14, 6-8 p.m., Drink, Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

'Digital photography, New Media and Bio Art of Argentine Artists Andrea Juan, Joaquín Fargas and Grupo Proyecto Biopus': Lisa A. Crossman discusses these artists' responses to global environmental problems and explores their emphasis on the potential of discovery, creative adaptations and invention in their work. Wednesday, November 13, 5:30 p.m., Room 301, Williams Hall, UVM, Burlington.

Info, 656-2014.

Ninth Annual Holiday Art Show and Sale: Members of the Milton Artists Guild show and sell

'Hiding in Plain Sight: Decoding the Homoerotic Imagery of Grant Wood':

members. Through December 28 at Studio Place Arts in Barre.

Reception: Saturday, November 16, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Info, 479-7069.

Humberto Ramirez: Recent acrylic paintings by the chair of the art department at Landmark College. November 15 through December 17 at Feick Fine Arts Center, Green Mountain College, in Poultney. Reception: Friday, November 15, 5-7 p.m. Info, 283-8397.

Elvira Tripp: Art Affair by Shearer presents work by the Mexican-born artist. Through December 31 at Shearer Chevrolet in South Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 15, 6-8 p.m. Info, 658-1111.

'Good Beginnings: Group Holiday Exhibition': Work in a variety of media by artists from around the region. A portion of proceeds benefit Good Beginnings of the Upper Valley, a charity for newborns and families. November 16 through December 24 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Reception: Elaine’s Specialteas provides refreshments. Saturday, November 16, 4-6 p.m. Info, 674-9616.

Carolyn Letvin: “Keep Counting Sheep,” paintings of our wooly friends. Through November 30 at Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury.

Friday, November 15, 5-8 p.m. Info, 458-0098.

Austin Furtak-Cole: "Heavy Handed," paintings and prints that question the human condition via clouds, hands, knots and tangles that wander through space.

Through November 28 at Red Mill Gallery in Johnson. Reception: Wednesday, November 20, 7-9 p.m.

Info, 635-2750.

Christine Demarais: "From 50 to 60, the Last Ten Years," work by the fabric artist, costume designer and belly dancer. Through November 30 at Fletcher Room, Fletcher Free Library, in Burlington. Reception: Sunday, November 17, 3-6 p.m. Info, 865-7211.

Peter Miller: An exhibit celebrating the iconic Vermont photographer’s new book, “A Lifetime of Vermont People.”

November 15 through January 2 at Norman Williams Public Library in Woodstock. Reception: Wednesday, November 20, 6:30 p.m. Info, 457-2295.

Brittany Daniels: "Ascent," a BFA senior thesis exhibit. Through November 22 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Reception: Wednesday, November 13, 3-5 p.m. Info, 635-1469.

Quinn Delahanty: Hand-pulled silkscreens and pen-and-ink drawings of insects and animal skulls.

Through December 1 at ArtsRiot in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Info, 540-0406.

Al Salzman: "Subversive," paintings and drawings.

Through January 17 at ArtsRiot in Burlington. Reception: Friday, November 15, 6:30-8 p.m. Info, artsriot.com.

Ira Musty: "Adrift in Autumn," a BFA thesis exhibition. Through November 22 at Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College. Reception: Wednesday, November 13, 3-5 p.m. Info, 635-1469.

'Celebrate': An annual show of fine art and craft by artist

Jack Maiorino: "Art on Post-its," pen-and-ink landscape drawings on yellow Post-it notes, featuring scenes both urban and rural. Through November 30 at Vintage Inspired in Burlington.

Info, 355-5418.

Jean Carlson Masseau: Limited-edition giclée prints of transparent watercolor and gouache prints of the landscape and botanical subjects.

Through December 31 at Pompanoosuc Mills in Burlington. Info, 482-2407.

Jake Geer: Landscape paintings; Cindy Roy: Work by the self-taught Burlington artist. Through November 30 at SEABA Center in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

John Rivers & Marshall Webb: "The Color of Mood," landscapes in oil and photography. Through December 4 at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne. Info, 985-3819.

Karen Day-Vath: Paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 658-6016.

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Karen Dawson: Paintings and drawings by the Burlington artist. Through November 30 at City Market in Burlington. Info, 861-9700.

Karen Dawson: "The Boat Show," works by the Vermont painter. Through November 30 at Healthy Living Market and Café in South Burlington. Info, 863-2569.

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Grace Cothalis: Mandala shields, collage cards and works in pastel. Through November 29 at Vintage Jewelers in Burlington. Info, 862-2233.

Figure-Drawing Session: A live model poses for artists who have brought their own supplies; boards and benches provided. RSVP in advance to 775-0356. Thursday, November 14, 6-8 p.m., Chaffee Downtown Art Center, Rutland.

Info, 775-0356.

'Book Arts Guild of Vermont — Card Tricks': Artists bring a completed card or mini-book, along with six undecorated cards or mini-book structures to share and decorate. Wednesday, November 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Unitarian Church, Burlington. Info, bookartsvt@gmail.com.

James Maroney, former head of the American painting departments at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, gives an illustrated lecture on artist Grant Wood, who embedded phallic imagery in all his important work.

Thursday, November 14, 4:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Info, 443-3168.

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Ellen Goodrich: "Palette of Glass," mosaic and stained-glass work in which the artist reflects on her gardens and seasons on the lake. Through November 29 at Studio 266 in Burlington. Info, 578-2512.

Life-Drawing Session: Artists practice their painting and drawing techniques with a live model. Reservations encouraged.

Wednesday, November 13, 6-9 p.m.; Sunday, November 17, 2-5 p.m.; Wednesday, November 20, 6-9 p.m., Black Horse Fine Art Supply, Burlington. Info, 860-4972.

their pottery, photography, collage, sculpture, watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings. Food, a children's art center and live music round out the event. Friday, November 15, 6-8 p.m.; Saturday, November 16, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Milton Grange. Info, 355-6583.

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'Color, Pattern, Whimsy, Scale: The Best of Shelburne Museum': Nearly 100 works from the permanent collection including paintings, folk art, furniture, wallpaper, decorative arts, textiles, costumes and more, exhibited in conjunction with the grand opening of the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education. Through December 31 at Shelburne Museum. Info, 985-3346.

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Katherine Lucas: "NYC," paintings in tribute to the artist's hometown. Through November 30 at Red Square in Burlington. Info, 318-2438.

Libby Davidson: "50 Before 50 Project," a series of watercolor paintings the artist challenged herself to complete before her 50th birthday. Through November 25 at Colchester Meeting House. Info, 658-1923.

'Look Again: Images of Daily Life, 17th-21st Century': Depictions of daily life by Adriaen van Ostade, John Thomson, Martin Parr, Tina Barney, Nikki S. Lee, Guy Ben-Ner and LaToya Ruby Frazier.

Through December 14 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750.

Mallory Bratton Rich: Oil and pastel paintings of the landscapes of rural Vermont, eastern New York and coastal Maine and North Carolina.

Through January 2 at Left Bank Home & Garden in Burlington. Info, 862-1001.

Marcy Kass: Watercolors and drawings of landscapes and portraits. Through November 30 at Dorothy Alling Memorial Library in Williston. Info, 878-4918.

Michael Blankstein: Photographs by the world traveler who recently relocated to Vermont.

Through November 30 at Davis Studio Gallery in Burlington. Info, 425-2700.

'Murales Pintados: Painted Walls & the Painters': A collaboration between American documentary photographers Morgan Alexander and Kate Mack and Cuban street artists. Through December 3 at the Gallery at Main Street Landing in Burlington. Info, 540-3018.

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November Show: Work by Carl Rubino, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Gaal Shepherd, Maria Del Castillo, Marie LaPré Grabon, Sam K. and Scott Einsig/Red Birch Studio, Holly Hauser, Louise Arnold, Jacques Burke, Johanne Durocher Yordan and Tessa Holmes. Curated by SEABA. Through November 30 at the Innovation Center of Vermont in Burlington.

Info, 859-9222.

'Of Land and Local': A multidisciplinary, statewide exhibition designed to initiate a dialogue about issues surrounding the Vermont landscape; Heather McGill: "Night Moves," sculptures that incorporate automotive paints, hand-detailed lines and highly polished finishes to reference muscle car culture and custom motorcycle gas tanks.

Through December 7 at BCA Center in Burlington.

Info, 865-7166.

Paul Humphrey: "Sleeping Beauties," paintings by the late Burlington outsider artist. Through November 27 at New City Galerie in Burlington. Info, 735-2542.

Call to artists CALL TO PHOTOGRAPHERS: Professional and amateur photographers are invited to participate in an exhibit at the Jericho Town Hall from January through April. One requirement: All images must include at least one actual Jericho road. You may submit up to two photographs of any size. The show will not be juried; there’s no participation fee and no commission if you wish to sell your work. Deadline: December 15. For info and registration, contact Barbara Greene, 899-2974, blgreene@ myfairpoint.net.

CALLING ARTISTS USING ANY MEDIUM FOR ANNUAL ‘SMALL WORKS’ AND ‘LARGE WORKS’ EXHIBITS: Now accepting all work, in all media. The ‘Small Works’ exhibit at the S.P.A.C.E.

John Gemignani John Gemignani has worked as a teacher, carpenter and rural mail carrier. But he always dreamed

of devoting himself full time to his art, and he has done so since 1989. Over the years the Lincoln artist developed a distinctive painting style of bold, flat surfaces with figures defined by thick, black outlines. Recently, he dropped his signature outlines and has focused instead on creating atmosphere with texture and abstraction. In his show “Painting Outside the Lines” at WalkOver Gallery in Bristol through December 27, Gemignani displays both styles side by side. Pictured: “Multiplication.”

'Poster Riot: 32 Years of Performances at the Flynn': Show posters from the Flynn archives, plus posters from partner organizations such as Lyric Theatre Company, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Stage Company, UVM Lane Series, Higher Ground and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Through January 4 at Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, in Burlington. Info, 652-4500.

'Represent': An annual show coinciding with Art Hop that highlights the unique talents of artists near and dear to the gallery. Through November 16 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, spacegalleryvt.com.

STEEZ ART: "VIBES," signed and numbered prints by Kyle 'Fattie B.' Thompson. Through December 31 at Halflounge in Burlington. Info, 865-0012.

Gallery is for any piece that measures 12 inches or smaller in any direction (2-inch allowance for matt and frame). This show is perfect for holiday gifts! Limit: 10 pieces per artist. The ‘Large Works’ exhibit in the Soda Plant is currently taking pieces that measure 3 feet or larger in at least one direction. Think big, but not too big; the height of the piece is limited to 8 feet. Limit: five pieces per artist. All work that meets the criteria will be accepted. Drop off work between November 13 and December 2. Drop-off times and entry-fee info, spacegalleryvt. com or 578-2512.

‘FINE WORKS IN MINIATURE’: Submit your work for the “Fine Works in Miniature” exhibit by November 23.

Small works will be presented for sale during the holiday season. Work must be 120 square inches or less. Entry guidelines at artistreevt.org/gallery, or call 457-3500.

Susan Larkin: "Land & Lakeshore," oil paintings of Lake Champlain and Northern Vermont landscapes. Through January 2 at Skinny Pancake in Burlington. Info, 928-3081.

Tessa Hill: "Black Rhino Designs Mushrooms," wall hangings composed of painted polymer clay mushrooms and found wood. Through December 30 at Speaking Volumes in Burlington. Info, 540-0107.

Todd Kiel: Paintings by the 2013 Wall-to-Canvas winner, whose influences include vintage comics, retro signs, wartime propaganda posters, Bauhaus and the avant-garde. Through December 31 at Magic Hat Brewing Company in South Burlington.

Info, 658-2739.

LOVE: CALLING FOR PHOTOS: Deadline: January 8. Jurors: Joe DiMaggio and JoAnne Kalish. Love. Hearts entwined.

Unrequited. Moonstruck. Star-crossed.

Info, darkroomgallery.com/ex52.

POP-UP SHOW CAKE PARTY! We are currently seeking artists and crafters to join our Cake Party in mid-January. Info, stumbleuponbakery@gmail.com.

CALL TO ARTISTS: Seeking faith-based or nature-inspired artwork in any medium, two- or three-dimensional.

Deadline: December 15. Send resume, statement and images to karen@ vermontartfest.com. Info, 496-6682.

POP-UP ART MARKET VENDORS: Kasini House seeks artists, artisans, crafters, small presses, etc. for Pop-up Art Market at Burlington Town Center. November 23 through December 28. Info, info@ kasinihouse.com.

Vermont Artists: Work by artists such as Carl Rubino, Kim Senior and Kelly O'Neal. Curated by SEABA. Through November 27 at Vermont Custom Closets & Otter Creek Awnings in Williston. Info, 859-9222.

'Visions of Vermont': Photography by Lisa Dimondstein, Patricia Lyon-Surrey, Julie Parker and Sandra Shenk, and pottery by Gail Yanowitch.

Through November 30 at Shelburne Vineyard. Info, 985-8222.

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Arthur Zorn: "Cooling Bouquets for Summer Days," new paintings by the Barre artist. Through December 6 at Angeleno's Pizza in Montpelier. Info, 229-5721.

CHAOS: We are looking for 2- and 3-dimensional work, abstract or figurative, that reflects pandemonium, disorder and turbulence, and blows us away.

Deadline: December 6. Exhibit Dates: January 21 through February 22. Info, studioplacearts.com.

MODELS AND MEMBERS WANTED: White River Craft Center is seeking both members and models for figure-drawing sessions on Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Models of every kind and make, clothed or not, are welcome. $25 pay for a two-hour class.

Also seeking solo show possibilities and members for the center. Info, Alexis, 4856610, thesallonikipatera@yahoo.com.

PRINTMAKERS SHOW: January through March at Chandler Gallery in Randolph.

Looking for innovative prints of all kinds.

Submission deadline: November 29. Include digital images and a short statement of intent. Info, janetensia@gmail.com.

FACES: PORTRAITURE SHOW: Darkroom Gallery seeks photographs that reflect an enduring fascination with the photographic portrait. Deadline: November 13, midnight. Juror: Elizabeth Avedon. Entry fee. darkroomgallery.com.

FIVE ELEMENTS: PHOTO COMP: Photograph the beauty of nature; five elements provide the foundation for our entire physical world. Deadline: December 11. Juror: Eddie Soloway. darkroomgallery.com. Exhibit is in January.

MEMBERS’ ART SHOW 2013: Helen Day Art Center invites you to participate in our annual show highlighting the rich and varied talents of local artists. All you have to do is become a member. Special artist price: $30. All the work will be for sale; 80 percent of sales go to the artists. Deadline: November 15. Info, hdacexhibits@ helenday.com, helenday.com.

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'AviAry': Bird-themed works by Virginia Beahan, Varujan Boghosian, Gail Boyjalian, David Bumbeck, Anda Dubinskis, Jesseca Ferguson, Marcy Hermansader and more. Through November 30 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670.

georgiA myer: "Authenticity," mixed-media works featuring oil, paper, pastels, charcoal, ink and watercolor on paper, canvas and linen. Through December 27 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 828-0749.

BenjAmin BArnes: Recent paintings of the agricultural landscape, including tractors, trucks, barns and outbuildings. Through December 1 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043.

group show: Work by fiber artist Alison Cannon, blacksmith Chris Eaton, and beeswax candle makers Bonita Bedard and Shawna Sherwin.

Through December 31 at Collective — the Art of Craft in Woodstock. Info, 457-1298.

'eArth As muse: BeAuty, DegrADAtion, hope, regenerAtion, AwAkening': Artwork that celebrates the Earth's beauty while reflecting on tensions between mankind and the environment

by Fran Bull, Pat Musick, Harry A. Rich, Jenny Swanson and Richard Weis. Through April 4 at the Great Hall in Springfield. Info, 258-3992.

'From the mountAins to the seA; plAnts, trees, AnD shruBs oF new englAnD': A traveling exhibition of botanical illustrations by the New England Society of Botanical Artists. Through December 1 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200.

jen morris: "Pastoral," photographs that explore the history and complexity hidden in Vermont’s idyllic countryside. Through December 27 at Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 828-0321. jennie hArrimAn & Christopher smith: "Intersectionalism: An Interdisciplinary Art Show," drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture, works of graphic design and childrens' literature, plus a participatory art activity. Through December 27 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404. linDA mAney: "Abstract Thinking," acrylic and watercolor paintings by the Montpelier artist.

Through November 30 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier.

Info, 223-3338.

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'serviCe AnD sACriFiCe: vermont’s Civil wAr generAtion': An exhibit of photographs, flags and artifacts that show how the Civil War dramatically changed the course of life in many villages throughout Vermont. Through November 30 at Vermont History Center in Barre. Info, 479-8500.

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Nancy Dwyer & Steve Budington: "I Am Always Your Context," a collaborative exhibition of paintings and wallpaper. Through November 24 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

'Works in Clay': Clay sculpture created by students of Benjamin Davis. Through November 16 at Hermitage Gallery in Worcester. Info, 229-6297.

November Show: Work by artist Natalie Larocque-Bouchard, potter Alex Costantino and decorative painter Kitten Ellison. Through November 30 at Artist in Residence Cooperative Gallery in Enosburg Falls. Info, 933-6403.

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'Fashion & Fantasy at the Edge of the Forest': Selections from the museum’s vintage clothing collection paired with Vermont artist Wendy Copp's imaginative couture creations made from natural materials such as ferns, birch bark and hydrangea. Through December 31 at Sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Info, 388-2117.

Paul Gruhler: Abstract acrylic paintings on linen. Through January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

'Puente: An Exhibition of Cuban Artists': Photographs, large-scale drawings, sculptures and prints by seven contemporary Cuban artists reflecting on their island. Through November 24 at Helen Day Art Center in Stowe. Info, 253-8358.

Gingerbread House Contest: An exhibit of sweet creations by artists of all ages. November 15 through December 21 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0062.

Selina Coté: "In Foraging," black-and-white photographs that explore the artist's role as forager. Through December 3 at Tegu Building in Morrisville. Info, 793-6507.

Jessica Cuni: "Bioluminescence," recent work by the local artist who explores the dynamic interplay between biological form, observed natural systems and an increasingly personal, perceptual reality.

Through November 26 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1119.

'Shades of Fall: Small Picture Exhibition': One hundred fifty paintings by 88 artist members.

Through December 29 at Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Info, 644-5100.

John Gemignani: "Painting Outside the Lines," representational, graphic paintings and abstract, textural works by the Vermont artist. Through December 27 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188.

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Daisy Rockwell: “The Topless Jihadi and Other Curious Birds,” paintings of women in political situations such as members of the FEMEN movement, a Ukrainian feminist group that stages protests topless. Through December 30 at Bennington Museum. Info, 447-1571.

Meg McDevitt: "Links," sumi-ink drawings filtered through various papers onto wood panels and more paper, creating surfaces that evoke topography.

Through December 7 at Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland. Info, 468-1266.

Pat Musick: “Our Fragile Home,” sculptures and works on paper inspired by the words astronauts have used to describe seeing the Earth from space.

Through February 28 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

Nick Mayer & Maura Clancy: "Natural Patterns," naturalist fish paintings by Mayer; woven baskets

by Clancy. Through November 17 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032.

'Of Land and Local': A multidisciplinary, statewide exhibition designed to initiate a dialogue about issues surrounding the Vermont landscape.

Through December 1 at Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland. Info, 865-7166.

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'Portraits at the Fair': Fanciful portraits created by photographer George Bouret, who uses painted backdrops and props to construct an imaginary moment at fairs and public gatherings throughout southwestern Vermont. Through November 23 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964.

'Sixth Annual Photography Contest: Take the Streets!': Work by amateur photographers of all ages, including featured artist Robert Gold.

Through November 16 at Chaffee Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356.

'Small Treasures': Small-scale artwork and craft by guild members, plus handcrafted holiday ornaments. Through January 28 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956.

Tom Merwin: Abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through February 28 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071.

'Vito Acconci: Thinking Space': An exhibition that marks the inauguration on campus of a replica of Acconci’s "Way Station I," which was constructed in 1983 near what is now McCardell Bicentennial Hall. Through December 8 at Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168.

'Your Junk, My Art: The Transformation of Found Objects': Work by B Amore, Nancy Weis, Karen Koziol, Catherine Hall, Bob Hooker, Janet Van Fleet, Kristin Humbargar, Ronni Solbert, Dick Weis, Susan Farrow, Gene Childers, Tom Absher and Ruth Hamilton. Through December 15 at Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Info, 247-3000.

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Alan W. Morse: "Autumn Light," contemporary landscape paintings in oil. Through November 30 at Deborah Rawson Memorial Library in Jericho. Info, 899-4962.

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Renee Bouchard: “Baby Ensor,” recent paintings that chronicle the last 19 months of the artist’s life as a new mother. Through November 26 at Southern Vermont College Gallery in Bennington.

Info, 447-6316.

Landmark College in Putney, Ramirez has shown his multimedia works nationally and

Sabra Field: “Cosmic Geometry,” work by the Vermont printmaker. Through March 9 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Info, 257-0124.

paint to build up pop-art-influenced compositions. The chair of the art department at internationally. He revisits past themes — including social issues, the power of language in shaping values and perceptions, and mandala imagery — in his exhibit at Green Mountain College’s William Feick Fine Arts Center in Poultney, November 15 through December 17. Pictured: “Floaters.”

'Cats and Tigers and Turtles, Oh My!': Artwork by Gayleen Aiken, Berta Diller, Huddee Herrick, Dot Kibbee and Phyllis Putvain. Through January 14 at GRACE in Hardwick. Info, 472-6857.

Chris Stearns: "Vermont on Aluminum," highdynamic-range landscape photographs printed on sheets of aluminum. Through January 2 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261.

Diane Bruns: "Atmosphere," pastel landscape paintings by the Waterbury artist. Through November 30 at Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery in Stowe. Info, 253-1818.

'Draw the Line and Make Your Point: The Pencil and the 21st Century': A visual history of the invention and evolution of the pencil, including a display about a pencil artist, unlikely objects made from pencils, an interactive pencil launcher and a smattering of pencils from around the world.

Through December 1 at the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover. Info, 626-4409.

Elinor Osborn: Photographs. Through December 16 at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover. Info, 525-3366.

Elizabeth Nelson: Oil and acrylic paintings.

Through November 18 at Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in St. Johnsbury.

Info, 748-0158.

Gary C. Eckhart: Watercolors by the Vermont artist. Through November 17 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211.

Kay Healy & Casey Blanchard: In "Sublet," Healy's large-scale screen-printed and sewn fabric panels transform the gallery into the fanciful interiors of Philadelphia row homes; Blanchard's layered monoprints explore memory. Through November 26 at Upstairs at West Branch in Stowe.

Info, 253-8943.

Kent Shaw: Color photographs taken in Morrisville, Elmore and Hardwick. Through January 20 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in Hardwick. Info, 472-7053.

'Kick and Glide: Vermont's Nordic Ski Legacy': An exhibit celebrating all aspects of the sport, including classic and skate skiing, Nordic combined, biathlon, ski jumping, telemark and back-country skiing. Through October 31 at Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe.

'Kingdom Community Inside Out: Northeast Kingdom Artists Interpret the Northeast Kingdom': Artwork by Phyllis Hammond, Sam Thurston, Marjorie Kramer, Diana Mara Henry, Judy Lowry, Ken Leslie, Diane Peel, Jack Rogers, Richard Hodio, Mary Brenner, Bradleigh Stockwell and student artists. Through November 26 at the 99 Gallery and Center in Newport. Info, 323-9013.

Liz Le Serviget: "A Dog's World," a celebration of dogs depicted in oil paintings, furniture, stone assemblage, ceramics and fabric. Through November 15 at Inky Dinky Oinkink Gallery in Moscow. Info, 253-3046.

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'AVA Selections': Work by 20 artists; Linda Roesch: "Form and Pattern," photographs, watercolors and works in encaustic. Proceeds benefit AVA. Through November 15 at AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, N.H. Info, 603-448-3117.

'Between Tradition and Modernity: The Art of Fan Tchunpi': Oil paintings, works on paper and ceramics by one of the most important and prolific Chinese artists of the modern era; 'Shadowplay: Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art': Photographs from the mid-20th century onward that startle, disturb and cause one to question. Through December 8 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2095.

'Picasso: The Vollard Suite': A series of the artist's 100 etchings created between 1930 and '37. Through December 20 at Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. Info, 603-646-2095.

'Splendore a Venezia: Art and Music From the Renaissance to Baroque in Venice': An exhibit featuring approximately 120 paintings, prints and drawings, plus historical instruments, musical manuscripts and texts, including the first edition of The Four Seasons by Vivaldi. Through January 19 at Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. Info, 514-285-2000.

'Studio Selections': Work by current students in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Through January 26 at Plattsburgh State Art Museum, N.Y. Info, 518-564-2474. m

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here are the serious American films about slavery? And how did I fail to note the paucity of pictures addressing our national dirty laundry? Just one of the great things about this great new movie is that it shines a light on a significant cinematic hypocrisy.

Virtually every year, some film attracts award-season buzz with a saga set against the backdrop of Nazi Germany. Filmmakers revisit this shameful chapter as though it’s the only well to go to for examples of man’s inhumanity to man.

Meanwhile, as 12 Years a Slave reminds us, American storytellers have zero need to look elsewhere for instances of systematized inhumanity. And yet the list of sagas about slavery is astonishingly short.

One of the earliest — The Birth of A Nation (1915) — was actually pro-slavery! Gone With the Wind (1939) didn’t give a damn.

Mandingo (1975) turned the subject into softcore cheese. Beloved (1998) gave us a hearttugging, Oprah-flavored take on indentured servitude. A TV miniseries or two aside, that brings us to 2012’s Django Unchained. More Holocaust dramas get made in the course of the average presidential administration.

Well, it took a Brit to get the job done, but

we finally have it: a nightmare snapshot of plantation life from the viewpoint of a slave.

How authentic is the portrait? Not only does it tell a true story but the remarkable individual whose story it is has a writing credit.

Right there on the Internet Movie Database: “Writers: John Ridley (screenplay), Solomon Northup (based on ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ by).” Never mind how long it’s been since you saw a serious movie about slavery — when have you ever seen a movie credit for an honest-to-God slave?

Chiwetel Ejiofor is simply magnificent as Northup, a free man living in Saratoga, N.Y., with his family in 1841 when he’s offered a gig fiddling for an out-of-town circus. After celebrating with his two recruiters, he awakes to find himself shackled on the floor of an empty basement. With its echoes of Saw, the scene suggests the opening of a horror film. That’s exactly what it is.

Steve McQueen (Shame) and Ridley remain faithful to Northup’s 1853 memoir as they chronicle an intelligent man’s descent into a hell beyond comprehension. As a casually creepy slave dealer, Paul Giamatti plays about as far against type as an actor can. He displays his human merchandise, stripped of clothing and dignity, in an incongruously civilized parlor, inviting shoppers with a

PERSONAL PROPERTY McQueen’s latest conveys like no film before it the pain and powerlessness of being owned by another human being.

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Northup realizes survival will require WITH LAYAR hiding his ability to read and write, so no letSEE PROGRAM COVER ters begging for help are dispatched. When he winds up at the mercy of a perpetually drunken Louisiana cotton baron (Michael Fassbender), it’s strictly heart of darkness time. What we witness ranks with the most chilling of movie Looney Tunes creations.

Edwin Epps lynches, rapes and generally terrorizes his workers. Hell, that’s the job description. What sets him apart are little innovations like waking his slaves, inviting them into his home and ordering them to dance as part of a crazy pantomime of a

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RAD DAD Forget the lovey-dovey stuff: Nighy and Gleeson have by far the best relationship in Curtis’ romantic comedy.

the family, the latter seizes on the opportunity to improve his nonexistent love life via multiple do-overs. It works, but only after many reasonably amusing scenes of trial and error.

The script presents McAdams’ character as a person with her own quirks rather than a prize to be won, and her romance with Tim as a realistic long-term partnership rather than a stroll into the sunset. Those are refreshing traits for a romantic comedy, but the

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y favorite moment in About Time is when Bill Nighy, playing a retired professor who can reverse time and relive portions of his own life, admits how he’s used this miraculous talent: to read thousands upon thousands of books. He’s like a superhero who flies around the world just to see cool stuff.

Using superhuman power to fulfill human-size desires is a great comic conceit.

But the marketing of About Time presents it as something rather more cloying: a relentlessly adorable romantic comedy in which Nighy’s son (Domhnall Gleeson), who has inherited his physics-defying ability, uses it to woo Rachel McAdams. Judging by The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009), that’s just what time travelers do.

Writer-director Richard Curtis — who directed Love Actually and scripted Four Weddings and a Funeral — gives us a film with a broader scope than the ads suggest, relegating the romance to a modest slice of running time. At its best, About Time evokes one of the best time-wankery comedies ever made: Groundhog Day. At its worst, it gets scattered and pastel.

Gleeson’s Tim is a charmingly awkward carrothead whose family, living on the Cornwall coast, has quirk to spare: They’re like a cross between the Weasleys and the Tenenbaums. When Dad tells Tim about the timetravel gene, which manifests only in men of

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His whippings, let’s just say, are not forYOUR YOUR the delicate. They’d give Mel (The Passion of theTEXT Christ) Gibson bad dreams.

TEXT The director’s exquisite compositions, theHERE extraterrestrial poetry of the period di-HERE alogue and some of the year’s most searing performances combine to make this film a more-than-worthy companion to Spielberg’s monumental Lincoln. Both are masterworks.

Watch McQueen’s first, and the significance of Spielberg’s will come into full and horrifying focus. Between them, the real story of human bondage in the land of the free is finally told. Better late than never.

problem is that About Time covers nearly a decade in episodic fashion, making it hard to focus on anything in particular. Curtis keeps introducing juicy comic or dramatic situations and then skipping ahead so we don’t see them pan out. Devilishly fun characters, such as Tom Hollander as a vain playwright, are wasted.

Perhaps this fragmented storytelling technique is intended to show us life from a time traveler’s perspective: Nothing has

to be dwelled on, because everything can be revisited and revised (within limits, we eventually learn). In practice, however, the lack of focus leads to short-changing important milestones and superficial treatment of many characters and themes. Some of the setpieces feel dated and cheesy, and a subplot involving Tim’s troubled sister (Lydia Wilson) finds a far too easy resolution.

A movie that makes Big Statements about living every moment to the fullest needs to earn them by making those moments feel real and lived in, rather than bundling them into water-colored montages. Groundhog Day showed how a sense of grinding repetition (which is how many of us experience time) can give way to transformative appreciation. About Time too often fails to make the most of its fleeting moments, with a notable exception: the scenes between Nighy and Gleeson, whose father-son bond is by far the most compelling relationship in the movie.

Actually, just hearing Nighy explain time travel (it involves a “rumble and a stumble and a tumble,” he proclaims with Shakespearean diction) is pretty compelling, as is watching him play table tennis. Like reading thousands of books, little of what his character does is important, and all of it is great fun. High concepts may fall flat, but a brilliant performance is always worth your time.

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Free Birds 12, 2:10. Free Birds in 3d 3:50, 6, 9. Gravity 12:20, 9:30.

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Gravity 3d 3:45, 7. *The hunger Games: catching Fire Thu: 8, 9, 10, 12. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:20. last vegas 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25. Thor: The dark world 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10. Thor: The dark world 3d 1:20, 4, 6:40, 8:20.

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wednesday 13 — thursday 14 ender’s Game 7. Gravity 3d 7.

Thor: The dark world 7. friday 15 — thursday 21 Full schedule not available at press time.

merrill’s roXy cinema 222 College St., Burlington, 8643456, merrilltheatres.net

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 12 years a slave 1:10, 3:45, 6:25, 9. captain phillips 1, 3:35, 6:30, 9:05. ender’s Game 1:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:10. enough said 1:15, 3:15, 5:10, 7:10, 9:15.

Gravity 5:15, 9:25. Gravity 3d 1:05, 3:25, 7:20. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:15, 9:20. friday 15 — thursday 21 12 years a slave 1, 3:40, 4:30, 6:20, 8:55. *Blue is the warmest color 1:05, 6:30, 8:45. captain phillips 1:10, 3:45, 6:25, 9. ender’s Game 1:05, 3:25, 6:15, 9:10. enough said 1:20, 3:30, 5:25, 7:25, 9:20. Gravity 2:50, 6:55. Gravity 3d 1, 4:40, 9:40.

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wednesday 13 — thursday 14 about time 1:05, 3:40, 6:35, 8:40. captain phillips 1, 3:30, 6:20, 8:35. ender's Game 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9.

Free Birds 3:20, 6:30. Free Birds 3d 1:35, 9. Gravity 1, 9:10. Gravity 3d 3:50, 6:55. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 1:40, 4, 7:10, 9:15. last vegas 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:05. Thor: The dark world 1:50, 6:10. Thor: The dark world 3d 1:30, 4, 6:40, 9. friday 15 — sunday 17 about time 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05. *all is lost 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20. captain phillips 12:40, 2:35, 3:30, 6:20, 8:50. ender's Game 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15. Free Birds 12:30, 6.

Free Birds 3d 4, 8:20. Gravity 4:20, 9:15. Gravity 3d 1:20, 6:10. last vegas 1, 4:30, 6:40, 8, 9:10. Thor: The dark world 1:15, 6:45. Thor: The dark world 3d 12:45, 3:40, 6:15, 8:50. monday 18 — tuesday 19 about time 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05. *all is lost 1:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:20. captain phillips 1:45, 3:10, 6:20, 8:50. ender's Game 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15. Free Birds 1. Free Birds 3d 4, 8:20. Gravity 4:20, 9:15. Gravity 3d 1:20, 6:10. last vegas 1, 4:30, 6:40, 9:10. *royal Ballet: The nutcracker Tue: 7. *rush: clockwork angels tour Mon: 7. Thor: The dark world 1:40, 6:45. Thor: The dark world 3d 1:05, 3:40, 6:15, 8:50. wednesday 19 about time 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05. *all is lost 1:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:20. captain phillips 1:45, 3:10, 6:20, 8:50. ender's Game 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15. Free Birds 1, 6. Free Birds 3d 4, 8:20. Gravity 4:20, 9:15. Gravity 3d 1:20, 6:10. last vegas 1, 4:30, 6:40, 8, 9:10. Thor: The dark world 1:40, 6:45. Thor: The dark world 3d 1:05, 3:40, 6:15, 8:50.

paramount twin cinema 241 North Main St., Barre, 4799621, fgbtheaters.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa 6:30, 9. last vegas 6:30, 9. friday 15 — thursday 21 The hunger Games Thu: 6:15. *The hunger Games: catching Fire Thu: 9. Jackass presents: Bad Grandpa Fri: 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun: 12:45, 3:15, 6:30, 9. Mon to Wed: 6:30, 9. Thu: 9. last vegas Fri: 6:30, 9.

Sat and Sun: 12:45, 3:15, 6:30, 9.

Mon to Wed: 6:30, 9. Thu: 6:30.

the savoy theater 26 Main St., Montpelier, 2290509, savoytheater.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 all is lost 6:30, 8:30. muscle shoals 6. The summit 8:15. friday 15 — thursday 21 12 years a slave 6:30, 9. Sat and Sun only: 1, 3:30. all is lost 6, 8. Sat and Sun only: 12, 2. muscle shoals Fri and Sat: 10. Sat and Sun only: 4.

stowe cinema 3 pleX Mountain Rd., Stowe, 2534678. stowecinema.com

wednesday 13 — thursday 14 captain phillips 7. ender’s Game 7. Thor: The dark world 3d 7. friday 15 — thursday 21 captain phillips Fri: 6:45, 9:10. Sat: 2:30, 6:45, 9:10. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. ender’s Game Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:15. Sun: 4:30, 7. Mon to Thu: 7. *The hunger Games: catching Fire Thu: 8. Thor: The dark world Sun: 4:30. Thor: The dark world 3d Fri: 7, 9:15. Sat: 2:30, 7, 9:15. Sun to Thu: 7.

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wednesday 13 — thursday 14 ender’s Game 7:05. Free Birds 7:10. Thor: The dark world 7. friday 15 — thursday 21 ender’s Game Fri: 7:05, 9:30. Sat and Sun: 4:30, 7:05, 9:30. Tue and Wed 7:05. Free Birds Sat and Sun: 2:05, 4:30. *The hunger Games: catching Fire Thu: 8. last vegas Fri: 7:10, 9:30. Sat and Sun: 2:10, 7:10, 9:30. Mon to Thu: 7:10. Thor: The dark world Fri: 7, 9:30. Sat and Sun: 2, 4:30 (3D), 7, 9:30. Mon to Thu: 7. The vermont movie Mon: 7.

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tHoR: tHe DARK WoRlD HH1/2: The saga of the Marvel superhero universe continues as the Norse god of thunder (Chris Hemsworth) faces a threat too extreme for the denizens of Asgard to handle. Expect smiting. With Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston and Christopher Eccleston. Alan Taylor directed. (125 min, PG-13)

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Police charged Ethan Gettier, 16, with drug and weapons offenses after he aroused their suspicions by posting “over 600 photos on Instagram showing parties he was having in the house with ample amounts of suspected marijuana and alcohol,” according to the police report, which accused him of selling marijuana from the residence in Gaithersburg, Md. The SWAT team that raided the home also found 45 guns, including an M16 assault rifle.

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Hours after a gunman opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport, killing a Transportation Security Administration screener, Jeff Soto, the public relations director of a marketing nonprofit called Visit Newport Beach, sent a tweet to nearly 13,000 followers urging travelers to make alternate arrangements: “Heading out of town on a weekend getaway via LAX? Avoid the chaos and make it a beach vacation here in Newport Beach.” The tweet was deleted an hour later, but Soto was promptly fired. (Orange County Register)

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The Children Development Center at Florida’s Hillsborough Community College notified parents that the center “will no longer be partaking in the celebration of tradition holidays.”

When some parents objected, staffer Gwendolyn Parson referred them to

Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council issued new guidelines for childcare agencies that include a ban on candles on birthday cakes. To avoid spreading germs by blowing out the candles, the council requested that parents instead send individual cupcakes with candles on them. (Social Reader)

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The Washington, D.C., Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Service had to pay private ambulance companies $111,400 to provide coverage at two sporting facilities in July after the department pulled 67 of its 94 ambulances out of service for repairs because their air conditioning units failed during a heat wave. Several of the ambulances were repaired by jamming street signs into engine compartments as makeshift heat shields. (Washington Times) In August, three D.C. ambulances caught fire, including two on the same day, as a result of electrical malfunctions and a fuel leak. (Washington Post)

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Sheriff’s officials said Daniel R. Ricketts, 50, died while driving an allterrain vehicle in the backyard of his property in Albany County, N.Y., when he ran into a nearly invisible wire he had set up as a booby trap around four large marijuana plants. (Albany’s Times Union) Vic Bryant successfully contested a $100 parking ticket in New Westminster, British Columbia, after paying a lawyer $1500 to argue his case. (United Press International)

75-unit Apache ASL Trails, which received $2.6 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, have hearing disabilities.

Federal officials contend the complex violates federal housing discrimination rules and want 75 percent of the residents to be seniors who aren’t deaf or hearing impaired. (Phoenix’s Arizona Republic)

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When Michael Pierre, 58, flushed a toilet to check the water pressure in his New York City apartment, it exploded in his face. Thirty stitches were required to close shrapnel wounds from flying shards of porcelain, according to his lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, who explained that his client is so afraid since the incident that he uses a rope to flush the toilet from a safe distance behind the bathroom door. “Clearly,” Rubenstein said, “toilets are supposed to flush, not explode.” (Agence FrancePresse)

Nikhom Thephakaysone, 30, boarded a packed commuter train in San Francisco and began waving a loaded .45-caliber pistol, according to authorities, who said surveillance cameras showed passengers ignoring him because they were too busy looking at their phones and tablet computers until Thephakaysone finally opened fire, killing a 20-year-old college student.

“These weren’t concealed movements.

The gun is very clear,” District Attorney George Gascon said. “These people are in very close proximity with him, and nobody sees this. They’re just so engrossed, texting and reading and whatnot. They’re completely oblivious of their surroundings.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

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benevolent influence on your life all depends on how you handle your relationship with it. I suggest you treat it with respect but also let it know that you’re the boss. Give it guidelines and a clear mandate so that it serves your noble ambitions and not your chaotic desires.

If you do that, your big red snake will heal and uplift you.

taURUs (April 20-May 20): In my astro-

Scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21)

Sweetness is good. Sweetness is desirable. To be healthy, you need to give and receive sweetness on a regular basis. But you can’t flourish on sweetness alone. In fact, too much of it may be oppressive or numbing. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically: To be balanced you need all of the other tastes, including saltiness, sourness, bitterness and savoriness. From what I understand, you are headed into a phase when you’ll thrive on more bitterness and savoriness than usual. To get an idea of what I mean, meditate on what the emotional equivalents might be for bitter tastes like coffee, beer and olives, and for savory tastes like mushrooms, cheese, spinach and green tea.

gemiNi (May 21-June 20): “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind,” asserts novelist Chuck Palahniuk. your assignment, Gemini, is to work your ass off to fall out of love with your pain. As if you were talking to a child, explain to your subconscious mind that the suffering it has gotten so accustomed to has outlived its usefulness. tell your deep self that you no longer want the ancient ache to be a cornerstone of your identity. to aid the banishment, I recommend that you conduct a ritual of severing. tie one side of a ribbon to a symbol of your pain and tie the other side around your waist. Then cut the ribbon in half and bury the symbol in the dirt. caNceR (June 21-July 22): “you can look

at a picture for a week and never think of it again,” said painter Joan Miró. “you can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life,” he added. The coming days are likely to bring you none of the former kind of experiences and several of the latter, Cancerian. It’s a numinous time in your long-term cycle: a phase when you’re likely to encounter beauty that enchants you and mysteries that titillate your sense of wonder for a long time. In other words, the eternal is coming to visit you in very concrete ways. How do you like your epiphanies? Hot and wild? Cool and soaring?

Comical and lyrical? Hot and soaring and comical and wild and cool and lyrical?

erotic literature: dinosaur porn. e-books like In the Velociraptor’s Nest and Ravished by the Triceratops tell tall tales about encounters between people and prehistoric reptiles. I don’t recommend you read this stuff, though.

While I do believe that now is a good time to add new twists to your sexual repertoire and explore the frontiers of pleasure, I think you should remain rooted in the real world, even in your fantasy life. It’s also important to be safe as you experiment. you really don’t want to explore the frontiers of pleasure with cold-blooded beasts. either travel alone or else round up a warm-blooded compassion specialist who has a few skills in the arts of intimacy.

viRgo (Aug. 23-sept. 22): The saxifrage is a

small plant with white flowers. It grows best in subarctic regions and cooler parts of the northern Hemisphere. The word “saxifrage” is derived from the Latin word saxifraga, whose literal meaning is “stone-breaker.” Indeed, the plant does often appear in the clefts of stones and boulders. In his poem “A sort of a song,” William Carlos Williams celebrates its strength: “saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.” I nominate this darling little dynamo to be your metaphorical power object of the week, Virgo. May it inspire you to crack through blocks and barriers with subtle force.

libRa (sept. 23-oct. 22): you’re not being

swept along in a flood of meaningless distractions and irrelevant information and trivial wishes, right? I’m hoping that you have a sixth sense about which few stimuli are useful and meaningful to you, and which thousands of stimuli are not. but if you are experiencing a bit of trouble staying well-grounded in the midst of the frenzied babble, now would be a good time to take strenuous action. The universe will conspire to help you become extra stable and secure if you resolve to eliminate as much nonsense from your life as you can.

sagittaRiUs (nov. 22-Dec. 21): When you procrastinate, you avoid doing an important task. Instead, you goof off, doing something fun or simply puttering around wasting time. but what if there were a higher form of procrastination? What if you could avoid an important task by doing other tasks that

were somewhat less important but still quite valuable? Here’s what that might look like for you right now: you could postpone your search for the key to everything by throwing yourself into a project that will give you the key to one small part of everything.

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(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his utopian novel Looking Backward, American author edward bellamy wrote a passage that I suspect applies to you right now: “It is under what may be called unnatural, in the sense of extraordinary, circumstances that people behave most naturally, for the reason that such circumstances banish artificiality.”

Think of the relief and release that await you, Capricorn: an end to pretending, a dissolution of deception, the fall of fakery. As you weave you way through extraordinary circumstances, you will be moved to act with brave authenticity. take full advantage.

aQUaRiUs (Jan. 20-feb. 18): “I have your

back” is an American expression that could also be rendered as “I’m right behind you, ready to help and defend you” or “I’m ready to support you whenever you’ve got a problem.” Is there anyone in the world who feels that way about you? If not, now would be an excellent time to work on getting such an ally. Cosmic conditions are ripe for bringing greater levels of assistance and collaboration into your life. And if you already do have confederates of that caliber, I suggest you take this opportunity to deepen your symbiotic connection even further.

Pisces (feb. 19-March 20): over a hundred

countries around the world celebrate a holiday called Independence Day, memorializing a time when they broke away from another nation and formed a separate state. I encourage you to create your own personal version of this festival. It could commemorate a breakthrough moment in the past when you escaped an oppressive situation, a turning point when you achieved a higher level of autonomy, or a taboo-busting transition when you started expressing your own thoughts and making your own decisions with more authority. by the way, a fresh opportunity to take this kind of action is available to you.

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Whether it ends up having a disorienting or

logical opinion, almost nothing can keep you from getting the love you need in the coming days. Here’s the only potential problem: you might have a mistaken or incomplete understanding about the love you need, and that could interfere with you recognizing and welcoming the real thing. so here’s my prescription: Keep an open mind about the true nature of the love that you actually need most, and stay alert for the perhaps unexpected ways it might make itself available.

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When you bump into him in the future, act natural. If the moment is right, mention to him that you weren’t expecting him to take you to brunch, propose and make babies with you — but a quick kiss on the cheek and a thank you would have been the decent thing to do.

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