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Debate Season “into the gutter” by raising questions about Last Thursday, the candidates for secretary Gibbs’ recent car crash. Condos, a former of state and state auditor squared off in two South Burlington city councilor, chided debates at Burlington City Hall. Seven Days columnist Shay Totten and staff writer Ken Gibbs for suggesting that towns provide the state with annual municipal audits. “Clearly Picard moderated the contests, which drew my opponent doesn’t a couple dozen interested understand local spectators. More viewers State auditor Tom Salmon government, and has watched the debate live and Ken Picard on Channel 17, or online. never served in local government,” Condos quipped. The graphic we used to promote Watch both debates the debate showed a pair in their entirety at www.cctv.org, or of boxing view the transcript gloves, but the canof the live blog, which is linked from our election coverdidates didn’t deliver many age page at sevendaysvt.com. We asked blows, especially not in the live blog participants to vote in several auditor’s debate. unscientific polls. Besides judging who won the debate, they also weighed in Secretary of state candion the question “Is the duration of this dates Republican Jason debate the longest you’ve ever spent Gibbs and Democrat Jim thinking about the office of auditor? Be Condos mixed it up a bit. honest.” One hundred percent of the Gibbs charged that Condos respondents answered “yes.” was dragging the campaign

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10/8: Shay Totten previews the Burlington Young Professionals Group’s gubernatorial candidate forum.

10/11: Longtime Vermont political reporter Daniel Barlow leaves his press hat behind to be VBSR’s new public-policy head.

10/12: Miguel’s on Main isn’t quite “authentic” Mexican fare, but it’s still some of the best in the area.

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Savoy Basement Goes Arthouse Lounge It’s official — Montpelier’s savoy theater now has two screens, one in its spiffedup basement. “We’re just starting to show regular films down there every night,” says assistant manager eric reynolDs. Technically, those are digital presentations of films, he adds, since “we can’t fit film projectors in the basement.” But the space can fit 50 people — or 49 spectators plus a bartender. They occupy 18 movable beanbag chairs with tables made of glass-topped film reels, 15 traditional theater seats, a handful of barstools and — to complete the loungelike atmosphere — a faux-leather couch. Everyone has a view of the screen, which measures more than 100 inches diagonally and is accompanied by, says Reynolds, a “very impressive” sound system. The setup may not be huge, but it gives the Savoy more versatility, says Reynolds; now the theater can program “films that in the past we didn’t have time to show.” This week, Cairo Time occupies the basement while Get Low is upstairs. Later this month, look for Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen and the acclaimed doc A Film Unfinished, which dissects a famous Nazi film about the Warsaw Ghetto to reveal its layers of propaganda. In the future, says Reynolds, he and owner terrence youk may use the second screen for big-draw movies on weekends and devote it to special events and screenings on slower weekday nights. “People have suggested things like mystery-movie night or a movie book club,” he says. An open mic night on Tuesdays is a strong possibility. “We’re trying a lot of things to see

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Grassroots Film Screenings Sprout If you want to know what theaters are losing or gaining by going digital, stop by film historian Bruce Posner’s 2010 Ciné Salon film series, which starts at the Howe Library in Hanover, N.H. this Monday, October 18, at 7 p.m. This year’s theme is the “passing of film as film, that soon to be dead medium of creative expression used throughout the 20th century” — a transition Posner will illustrate by contrasting films projected from reels with standard-def DVDs. More info at www.thehowe.org. Want to support Vermont’s grassroots film industry? This is the weekend to do it. On Friday, October 15, at 7 p.m., the Barnard Town Hall hosts a “musical fundraiser” for Green Blooded: Vermont at a Crossroad. Director teo Zagar describes it as a documentary “about the grassroots movement of people taking ownership over the production of our collective survival.” Rural Vermont is sponsoring the $12-15 event, which includes a teaser for the film, a Q&A, and music from Bow thayer & holy Plow. Up north, local films take over the Hardwick Town Hall on Friday and Saturday. If you haven’t yet seen george wooDarD’s homespun period adventure The Summer of Walter Hacks — which is limited to festival screenings by rights issues — here’s your chance. It screens Saturday, October 16, at 8 p.m. for $6. Older films by Vermonters MereDith holch, John o’Brien and nora JacoBson are also featured. For info, call 456-8708. m

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’Shrooms aside, a more typical example of Vermont’s bioscience biz is Chroma Technology Corp. in Rockingham, which makes optical filters for microscopes that allow scientists to examine tissue closely for signs of cancer or other disease. Chroma was started by Paul Millman, who came to Vermont after college seeking “hippies” and ended up founding a company that now employs 90 in Rockingham, Burlington and Germany. What else do bioscience firms make? Products such as software applications that work with microscopes to map neuron passages in the brain; and

diagnostic devices that help prevent heart attack, stroke and complications from diabetes, according to Golann. Also under the bioscience umbrella: companies that specialize in water testing and renewable energy, such as methane-fueled “cow power.” If Vermont has any labs that handle dangerous pathogens or grow futuristic life-forms in Petri dishes, “nobody’s told me,” Golann says. “As far as I know, there’s no super-secret biological research being done.” Bill Church, president of Green Mountain Antibodies in Burlington’s Chace Mill, offers another definition of bioscience: “the commercialization of life processes.” For Church’s company, that means using a technology called cell fusion to make “small factories” that produce monoclonal antibodies, used in detecting everything from pregnancy to prostate cancer. Right now, Green Mountain Antibodies is working on developing “dipsticks” that will test for MRSA (an antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus infection) in hospital patients and toxicity in algae blooms. Church notes that beer brewing and bread baking — both catalyzed by yeast — qualify as bioscience. So does livestock farming. “Fermentation is a biological process,” says Church. “A cow is a biotechnology unit. Something goes in one end, [and] you take a product — milk — out the other end.” “Biotechnology,” or biotech, is a term you hear less often these days. Bioscience has become the industry’s preferred term, a switch that Church says was by design. “We wanted to get beyond the perception that we’re making mutant hot dogs — Frankenfood,” he explains. “Biotech” is often associated with genetic engineering, drug companies and

megacorporations such as Monsanto. Sensational experiments like Dr. Vacanti’s earmouse only serve to solidify that perception. The industry adopted “bioscience” to give its work “a more positive spin,” Church says. Whatever you call it, the industry is booming in Vermont. Jobs are growing at seven times the state average — so fast that companies are having trouble finding qualified employees, Golann says. And the jobs generally pay well. While some firms, such as Green Mountain Antibodies, were spun off from the work of faculty at UVM or other colleges, the 90 firms in the Biosciences Alliance aren’t clustered around academic institutions. They’re spread across the state — in St. Johnsbury, Brattleboro, St. Albans and elsewhere, Golann notes. In June, the Biosciences Alliance teamed up with the Vermont Technology Council to create an internship that has already placed nine high school and college students in Vermont bioscience firms. The alliance, which launched a new website on October 11, has a goal of working with educators to beef up math and science studies in public schools. Turns out, geeks are good for us. m

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or many people, the term “bioscience” might conjure images of weirdo experiments such as the so-called “earmouse,” a lab rodent with what looked like a human ear growing from its back. The “ear” was actually grown from cow cartilage by Dr. Charles Vacanti in a University of Massachusetts laboratory and fashioned to resemble an ear. No human tissue was used, and the rodent’s hearing was not improved. But scientists saw promise in the experiment for human transplants, while animal-rights and antigenetics groups saw danger. Vermont has a small but thriving bioscience industry, with companies making a range of medical devices and products. Earmice are not among them. The Vermont Biosciences Alliance has a membership of 90 companies, which in turn have a total of 1100 employees. The group’s president, University of Vermont School of Business Administration lecturer Bret Golann, says there’s no strict business definition of “bioscience” other than that a company’s work must involve “a biological process.” Using that definition, Vermont bioscience runs the gamut from Winooski’s high-tech medical-device maker BioTek Instruments to Moonshine Mushrooms, an organic farm in Chester that cultivates shiitake mushrooms using brewery grain from Wolaver’s beer made at Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury. “He’s a chemical engineer who found ways to speed up the productivity and growth cycle of gourmet mushrooms and, apparently, improve the quality of them,” Golann says of Moonshine’s Edward Kiegle. “We’re not just about medicine by any stretch of the imagination. We take a very broad view of bioscience.”

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equivocal, on the subject. Seven years ago, a beeper salesman and cell-tower builder named Karl Rinker applied to the Hardwick Zoning Board of Adjustment to build a 199.5-foot telecommunications tower in a pasture abutting an organic farm and hundreds of acres of conserved land on Bridgman Hill, where I live. Concerned about spoiling this rare place and endangering the health of neighbors and their livestock — but understanding the desire for cell service — a small group of local residents has fought to give Rinker what the ZBA granted: a 100-foot tower. Propagation studies show that a structure that height would work as well as one twice its size; in fact, a 57-foot “whip” is currently providing coverage to most of the town. Most people in Hardwick believe cellphones will improve life in the town they love. But here’s the sad irony: The prospect of a spiffy, high-tech Hardwick has turned them against lower-tech Hardwick. As with all consumer products, the Next Big Thing has rendered the old thing despicable. At the packed zoning board and Act 250 hearings, witness after witness portrayed Hardwick as a desert and Rinker as Moses, leading us to the Promised Land. Charles Sartelle, whose family has lived in town for generations, predicted that his would be the last. “My children want to be part of the 21st century, and they cannot achieve that here,” he said. He was sure they’d move somewhere else to enjoy the benefits of modernity. David Shepard, whose father is leasing his land to Rinker, testified that his wife had a “recent disability” and needed a cellphone to contact him in case of emergency. Until such service was available, she’d be forced to stay at home. Susan Cross, who worked on the town ambulance for 10 years, talked about the cell-less dead spots between Hardwick and Copley Hospital in Morrisville. She did not say if any patient had been harmed as a result of these sputteringsout, but “even if only one life is saved by the tower,” she asserted, “it’s worth it.” Cellphones would preserve families, liberate disabled women and save lives! In the face of these unassailable aims, those who pled for animal health or natural beauty were alarmists and Luddites.

’m not going to wax hypocritical about the Good Old Days out here in the hinterlands, beyond the reach of reliable cell and broadband coverage. Only a few years ago, our dial-up connection frequently threw in the towel in the middle of a download. A satellite dish didn’t work in rain or snow. Verizon refused to hook up DSL because our house was too far from a switching station to guarantee highquality service. FairPoint, less concerned about high-quality service, connected us. Now I can “chat” daily with a friend in England, buy a used bicycle from Florida — and, not least, earn a living far from my employers. I won’t lie about my feelings. That is to say, hallelujah! However. I work more and have to work faster, and since I’m perpetually available, I am expected to respond to email immediately, at any time. Meanwhile, the phone doesn’t ring, and that makes me lonely. And when I take a bike ride, I pack a cellphone. I rarely leave it all behind. As Vermont prepares to connect the “last mile” to broadband, you don’t hear a “however” anywhere. The Federal Communications Commission promises more efficient local government through “cloud computing,” extended distance learning and enhanced telemedicine. Every political candidate touts more and better jobs through technology. “Done properly, these projects will connect virtually all of Vermont’s homes, schools, hospitals and small businesses with each other and the world,” writes Essex-Orleans County Senator Vince Illuzzi in the Burlington Free Press. “It will bring us roaring into the 21st century and could be a model for all of rural America. “Vermonters from every walk of life understand the negative consequences caused by the lack of universal, highquality, affordable broadband service in our state.” He doesn’t mention any negative — or equivocal — consequences, as if small towns had nothing to lose by joining the global village. As it happens, I’ve been in the middle of a dispute over communications technology that has me feeling, well,

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The town had been redefined as a has-been; now it was a socially divided has-been. Sandy Howard, the tower’s most impassioned proponent, circulated ad hominem attacks on board members. “Take Back Hardwick” signs sprang up, signaling to flatlanders and bourgeois aesthetes to stop pushing their values on “real Vermonters.” And “real Vermonters” were no longer the conservers of the old, good-enough ways. They had become the champions of “progress.” Ask people if they want economic development, and they will almost always say yes. But the inconvenient truth is that much of what has kept Vermont’s economy — especially its tourist industry — healthy is underdevelopment: the endurance of that last sparsely populated mile.

Despite its reputation as the world capital of sustainable agriculture, Hardwick remains far from any airport and short on jobs; Main Street’s landlords rarely fill all the storefronts at the same time. You still can’t build a spec house here for less than the price of its potential sale, and that has kept development to a pace of one owner-built home at a time. Republicans use all this as evidence of the need for streamlined building permits, computers in every classroom and a cell tower on every hill. Like Sartelle, politicians harp on an alleged outflow of young, educated and higherincome Vermonters. In reality, Vermont “Poli Psy” is a twice-monthly column by Judith Levine. Got a comment on this story? Contact levine@sevendaysvt.com.

these virtues developed in a clinic 60 miles from the nearest high-tech medical center. (I might add that forgoing those tests hasn’t hurt my health — and it sure doesn’t hurt the public health care bill.)

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Will broadband create good jobs? Nobody knows. “We don’t know whether the wage rates go up or down just because broadband is available,” Northwestern University economist Shane Greenstein told National Public Radio. “We don’t know if the exit of businesses from rural areas increases or decreases when you have broadband. We don’t know whether you get growth. So, though we see examples, we don’t know

whether those stories generalize.” In fact, broadband could eliminate some jobs. In an article on Daily Yonder, a news website published by the Center for Rural Strategies, Sharon Strover and Nick Muntean pointed out that New Deal rural electrification brought labor-saving innovations to farming — but it also saved farmers from hiring laborers, who had to migrate to the cities. “The only unqualified winners were those national manufacturers of electrical equipment and appliances, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, whose profits were generally not returned to the localities in which they had been generated,” wrote Strover and Muntean, respectively, the director of the University of Texas Telecommunications and Information Policy Institute and a PhD student at the school. How might universal cell and broadband coverage change my town? Will teenagers who now joke and talk walking

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Tech Town A growing number of tech firms are getting wired in Winooski B y K evi n J. Kel l ey matthew thorsen

VERMONT 3.0 TECH ISSUE BioTek, the Champlain College Emergent Media Center and Physician’s Computer Company will be exhibiting at the Vermont 3.0 Tech Jam, Friday, October 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday, October 16, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington. BioTek CEO Briar Alpert will be interviewed during the CEO Speaker Series on Saturday. www.vermont3.com

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home to a couple of marketing firms, Fuse and New Breed, that rely heavily on digital media. And more white-collar techies may be on the way to Winooski. The Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, currently housed in two buildings in Burlington, is being aggressively recruited to relocate its 165 employees to the Champlain Mill, says Scott Johnstone, director of the conservationfocused nonprofit. The mill is “one of the places we’ve been looking at,” Johnstone reports, noting that in a tepid economy,

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College students working in the school’s Emergent Media Center in the Champlain Mill have created a video game that the United Nations is using in its global campaign to halt violence against women. The presence of long-established companies such as BioTek, a global leader in life-science instrumentation, along with frisky start-ups such as MyROW International, which designs and builds fiber-optic and wireless networks, gives Winooski’s tech sector diversity as well as density. The city is also

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f the apple could become synonymous with digital technology, then why not the onion? That’s onion as in the Onion City — Winooski, Vt. Tech companies and organizations have begun congregating in the 1.2-square-mile municipality’s redeveloped downtown and its two office/ industrial parks. In fact, the workingclass and immigrant-friendly city, often overshadowed by hip, high-end Burlington, might have the heaviest concentration of tech firms of any place in Vermont. Sovernet Communications, a telecom company that built a warpspeed fiber ring in Winooski, bases 40 employees — including voice technicians, field service reps and call center operators — in a nondescript building on East Allen Street. CPA Site Solutions, which designs websites for accountants, racked up three-year sales growth of 223 percent from its offices on West Canal Street. Champlain

prospective tenants do have a host of options. He adds that Winooski Mayor Michael O’Brien has been persistently pushing downtown Winooski as a desirable destination for the green group. Which is not to say that O’Brien and the city were aggressive in courting the tech businesses that have already set up shop in Winooski. O’Brien says Winooski is happy to have them, but that its one-person economic development unit lacks the firepower to conduct a focused recruitment drive. So, why do so many of them come to town? Transportation, for starters — the Champlain Mill is on two bus routes that originate at the Chittenden County Transportation Authority’s Cherry Street terminal. Bike commuters from Burlington have a safe, direct pedal to Winooski via the paved path that runs along Riverside Avenue. Those transportation assets, along with drivers’ easy access to I-89 and Burlington International Airport, are cited again and again by tech execs in explaining why they chose Winooski. “You do pay a bit of a tax in the form of commuting from downtown Burlington,” says BioTek CEO Briar Alpert, referring to parking fees in the Queen City and the crawl up its Main Street to the interstate. Ann DeMarle, director of the Emergent Media Center, adds that Champlain College’s decision to base its advanced computer lab in the mill was strongly influenced by proximity to student housing in the Winooski Falls development and its connection,

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via shuttle bus, to the college’s main campus in Burlington. College officials are currently considering whether to keep the center in the mill or move it to a Champlain building under construction in Burlington. Declaring “I love this space,” DeMarle says she will lobby for staying put. New Breed Marketing is situated a stroll down the hall from the media center on the mill’s third floor. That allows for convenient collaboration, DeMarle notes. She says New Breed and nearby Fuse, which specializes in youth marketing, talk with her when they’re searching for talent or want to get involved in projects like the UN game. In general, however, Winooski’s tech companies don’t appear to have much contact with one another. Alpert’s globe-spanning instrumentation firm, which now occupies 70,000 square feet of space in the Highland office park, doesn’t consult with Onion City businesses, he says, but adds that his employees do regularly travel less than a mile to UVM’s Laboratory for Clinical Biochemistry Research. That facility, with freezers holding 1.5 million biological samples, lies just across the border in Colchester off Route 7. “We tend not to be connected to other tech companies,” says Susannah Noel, a spokesperson for CPA Site Solutions, which employs 17 web designers and support personnel. Tech firms also “don’t need a lot of flash,” Noel adds in

reference to Winooski’s comparative lack of upmarket eateries where potential clients can be wooed over lunch. Tiny Thai on Main Street is a favorite takeout spot for her company’s desktop noshers, Noel notes. Winooski does have an adequate number of restaurants, most local techies say. In general, “the downtown is getting nicer and nicer,” Alpert suggests, saying that as part of BioTek’s push for employee wellness, the company encourages its workers to walk, not drive, down Main Street for lunch and to use the YMCA on Malletts Bay Avenue or the health club in the Woolen Mill. Brian Coppom, CEO of MyROW, can also walk to his West Canal Street office from his home in Winooski Falls. “It’s a fine place to live,” he says. But there’s still almost nothing to attract diners or shoppers to the Winooski Falls project, more than three years after its developers began marketing retail space; Winooski Falls Market & Deli opened there last month, and a sign in the window across the street from the market announces that Opportunities Credit Union is coming in November. Not even the presence of hundreds of college students living in Falls apartments or studying at the Community College of Vermont and Champlain’s Emergent Media Center has been able to attract retail shops. “There may have been expectations [on the part of the Massachusetts-based HallKeen

development company] that didn’t match the local market,” observes Mayor O’Brien. He says he’s mystified by the continued dearth of retail activity in Winooski Falls. Across the street, along the river, the Champlain Mill also remains mostly untenanted. Once filled with shops and a popular restaurant (Waterworks), its repurposed interior is now eerily quiet. (It was a lunch at Waterworks in 2002 that so impressed Galen Dow with Winooski that he subsequently decided to base his New Breed Marketing start-up in the Onion City.) An office in the mill leased by the Vermont Software Developers’ Alliance (vtSDA) currently contains only a few scattered chairs and looks as though it hasn’t been used in months. Messages left on the alliance’s phone go unanswered. The vtSDA’s vice president Tom Jaros says the nonprofit promoter of Vermont tech companies does remain active

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— in fact, it’s a key organizer and sponsor of the Vermont 3.0 Tech Jam this weekend in Burlington. But the organization doesn’t use its office as a gathering place, in part because of problems with the mill, he adds. Jaros, along with vtSDA board president John Canning, complains heatedly about parking limits in the 945-space garage built as part of the Winooski Falls redevelopment. “We chose Winooski because we got a great deal on the rent and the mill was convenient and had plenty of free parking,” explains Canning, who also presides over Physician’s Computer Company, which makes software for

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pediatricians; PCC’s office, with its 48 employees, is situated on the first and second floors of the mill. “Since that time, the city has totally messed up the parking situation,” he adds, saying two-hour metering “makes it almost impossible for our members to park and attend our events.” The tightened restrictions “are driving people out of the city,” Canning says. Jaros, who runs a mobile software development business out of his home in Essex, says he’s considering leasing space in the mill but is put off by the parking issue. Mayor O’Brien, for his part, acknowledges these frustrations and reports that the city will be “tweaking” its parking rules. The attraction of the mill for a small tech firm, Jaros says, lies mainly in the cost of rent. Office space there is advertised at $11 to $15 per square foot — less than prime space in the heart of downtown Burlington, but actually similar to prices in the Maltex Building on Pine Street, a cluster point for some tech businesses. Rents are listed at only $5.50 a square foot in the Hillside office park that’s about 100 yards from the southbound entrance to I-89 and is the home of Sovernet Communications and another tech firm, Ideas Well Done, which designs consumer products. Parking’s no problem there, reports Sovernet CEO Rich Kendall. “We like Winooski a lot,” he says, explaining “you don’t have to pay the prices of downtown Burlington but you’re just a few minutes away from downtown Burlington.” BioTek’s Alpert also applauds the city’s building-permit process, which has been “very manageable and predictable” for his expanding company. It’s partly for that reason, Alpert says, that BioTek has no plan to move from its home of 35 years. “We’re happy in Winooski,” he declares. Winooski’s school system, meanwhile, continues to dim the city’s attractions — not so much for tech firms but for middle-class families. The local high school finished last in Chittenden County on a recent measurement of students’ proficiency in science. And results were shockingly poor for Winooski’s eighth graders: Only 4 percent were rated as science proficient. That poses a huge marketing problem for a city trying to lure companies that require tech-adept workers. But for tech companies that want to give back to the community, it sounds more like a marketing opportunity. m

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We might not have statewide broadband access, but Vermont has plenty of mobile app developers B y L auren Ober

reating software, and getting it at venues around Burlington. It will into the hands of consumers, list all the shows happening on a used to be an expensive propo- given day in Burlington, along with sition. Not just any tech geek cover and ticket prices and drink could crank out a video game, package it specials. and sell it. Only large gaming companies That Vermont programmers are had the marketing muscle to make that suddenly app-happy is no surprise happen. to Dev Jana, a game developer who With the rise of mobile comput- recently moved from Arizona to ing, that equation has changed. take a faculty position in Champlain Mobile applications, or apps, repre- College’s electronic game design prosent an egalitarian gram. Jana began ideal. Anyone with making mobile software developapps during ing skills and a good what he calls the idea can create and “iPhone app gold sell apps directly to rush of 2006,” and mobile device users VERMONT 3.0 he understands via outlets such as the fickle mobile TECH ISSUE Apple’s app store. As market. “I believe smartphones such as that our proximity the BlackBerry and to the northern the iPhone — as well border and eastas devices that run ern shore, coupled the Android operatwith Vermont’s ing system — become reputation for more widely used, quality and crethe market balloons ativity, puts us in a for crisp, clever and unique spot,” Jana useful apps. says. As of September, UVM also the Apple store offered recognizes the more than 250,000 potential in this Ro be rt S napp, ass oci ate apps for its products, burgeoning field; prof essor of compu t e r science, UVM including the iPad and the university’s the iPod touch. That’s new Integrative up from 3000 apps in September 2008 Computing program, or iCompute, — a more than 8000 percent increase. focuses heavily on mobile technology. In Vermont, we might not have uni- Currently, says associate professor of versal broadband access, but we have computer science Robert Snapp, there plenty of developers, both professional are four billion cellphones in the world and hobbyist, who have entered the but not nearly as many personal comapp arena. They’re making everything puters. But in the future, Snapp says, from birding guides to alien battle those basic cellphones will be replaced games and all that lies in between. by billions of smartphones, and they And there are more on the way will all use apps. — nonprofit bicycle and pedestrian The goal of UVM’s iCompute proadvocacy organization Local Motion gram is to get students prepared for will soon launch an app for its web- that future. “There is an opportunity to based Trail Finder map program. reach a significant portion of the world University of Vermont researchers through these apps,” Snapp says. “We are developing an avalanche risk want [students] to make apps that are assessment app called Stabilitron. socially beneficial and not just shootAnd web developers Matt Sisson and ’em-up games.” Chris Lei are creating an app for their Vermont app developers do both. new venture, Burlington Source, a Here’s a smattering of what some of website that aggregates music events them have to offer.

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Last Portal: Defense The goal of this iPhone app, developed by

Champlain College electronic game design faculty member Dev Jana, is to prevent the evil Kryl from taking over your home dimension. One reviewer called it the “perfect iPhone game” for its simplicity and entertainment value. devjana.net

Sea Snake This game, which garnered an iTunes staff favorite pick

when it was released in 2009, is a play on classic snake games of yesteryear. Designed by Dev Jana, Sea Snake challenges users to add body segments to the snake while avoiding enemies, walls and the snake itself. devjana.net

Hexorcist This iPhone game, created by Dev Jana, “excites puzzleloving strategists with color mixing and touch-screen madness,” according to the online iTunes store. devjana.net

Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor

In 2009, this game, developed by Randy Smith of Huntington’s Tiger Style Games, won just about every accolade a mobile app could win. It has been praised as one of iPhone’s “most beautiful games.” In it, you play a spider roaming around an abandoned Vermont-y mansion. Build webs and eat bugs surrounded by the artfully depicted ruins of the Bryce family estate. tigerstylegames.com

Doomsday Terminal “Lost” fans will love this game, created by

Essex Junction software developer Small Rock Software. The world is connected to a doomsday device. Players enter a deactivation code every 108 minutes to prevent a virtual catastrophe. Scores are automatically synched with other players around the world, so you can easily talk smack about who is the true savior of the world. smallrocksoftware.com

Sir Revs-a-Lot Defeat aliens with your trusty little car in this game by Small Rock Software. But be careful — running out of gas will cause a “cataclysmic chain reaction.” And we don’t want that happening, now, do we? smallrocksoftware.com

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This is one of many Audubon apps, including African Wildlife, Birds of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and Bird of Central Park developed by Green Mountain Digital in Woodstock. Identify thousands of species of birds, butterflies, fish, insects and spiders, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, seashells, trees, and wildflowers, and then record your field experience. greenmountaindigital.com

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Wallpapers of Vermont Paul Moody, a Vermont photographer who

researches the design of collaboration and social software at IBM, created an app showcasing his nature, landscape and animal photography. But the app isn’t just a bunch of pretty pictures; it allows you to put contact information on your wallpaper so that if you ever lose your iPhone, it can be returned to you. wallpapersvermont.blogspot.com

Gesture Dial This app from Small Rock Software allows users to

maximize their mobile device’s touch screen when dialing the phone. Create personal gestures — swipe straight down to dial Bobby, swipe in a curve to text Cindy — for each of your friends. smallrocksoftware.com

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FakeSpeare According to its creator, UVM student Galen Wilkerson,

FakeSpeare generates “fake” plays using the actual language of the bard himself. The app analyzes word-pair frequencies to generate something that looks like Shakespearean English using a “Markov Parody Generator” — software that uses a statistical modeling process developed by 19thcentury Russian mathematician Andrey Markov. cadagastudio.com

iPlummet What could be more calming than floating through endless

space? Nothing, according to Small Rock Software, which used advanced physics to create this app. It lets you watch five different rag dolls drift among magically generated orbs. Guide them on their journey using tilt and touch controls. smallrocksoftware.com

Brand Master This game, designed by Tom Jaros at Empower Mobility for Brandthropology, tests players’ ability to recognize the evolution of wellknown brand logos — Kodak, Bell and Ford, for example. It’s integrated with the social gaming network OpenFeint, so you can post your scores on the Internet. empowermobility.com

Fridge Magnets

From Essex Junction software developer Small Rock Software comes an iPhone version of the ubiquitous fridge magnets. Drag words around to create your own literary masterpieces — you know, just like Robert Frost did. smallrocksoftware.com

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ermont Technical College was a fitting location for a techfocused town-hall-style meeting convened by Sen. Bernie Sanders late last month. The discussion centered on the future of high-speed Internet access, aka “broadband,” for the 84 Vermont communities — or one in five Vermont households — that don’t have it yet. It would be an overstatement to call the crowd of roughly 200 Vermonters an angry mob. But many came to voice their displeasure with the federal government’s decision to award the largest slice of Vermont’s economic-stimulus pie destined for broadband — $117 million — to Springfield-based Vermont Telephone Company, or VTel. The target of their contempt: VTel’s owner and president, J. Michel Guité. The largest and most vocal contingent? Loyal fans of East Central Vermont Community Fiber Network, or ECFiber, who were easily identifiable by their matching T-shirts. ECFiber, a partnership of 22 municipalities, also applied for stimulus money, with a proposal to run fiberoptic lines to every home and business in its service area. The USDA’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) denied its application. Some of the audience’s resentment stemmed from the fact that the money was awarded to a privately held corporation rather than to ECFiber, a publicly owned entity based on the Burlington Telecom model. In fact, ECFiber is led by former BT general manager Tim Nulty. Other attendees challenged the viability of Guité’s proposal. He plans to deliver high-speed Internet service to hard-toreach areas using a combination of fiber — indisputably the industry gold standard for broadband delivery — and a new, cuttingedge technology called 4G LTE, or fourthgeneration “long-term-evolution” wireless. To rural Vermonters who’ve been frustrated by years of unfulfilled promises of high-speed Internet connecting their homes and businesses, the mere mention of “wireless” likely conjured up images of Internet dead zones, weather interruptions, glacially slow connections and dropped cellphone calls. For those who’ve waited a long time to travel the information superhighway, it seemed as though Guité was offering them a ride in an Edsel.

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“I’m concerned that we’re essentially buying 8-track tapes for the entire state,” said John Fagan of Bethel. Dr. Carol Boerner, an ophthalmic microsurgeon from Reading, explained that she needs to be able to stream 3-D video at home for her continuing education classes. “Wireless is of no use to me,” she complained. Their scorn was shared by self-described experts in the field. “This system will be obsolete the day it’s built because the demand for broadband is doubling every five years,” asserted Jack Bryar, a former telecom editor for Thomson Reuters news agency. Stan Williams of Norwich, who identified himself as a former chief financial officer for a wireless phone company, described VTel’s proposal to use both fiber and wireless as “a stopgap at best.” But Jonathan Adelstein, the former FCC commissioner who runs RUS, which awarded the stimulus grants, tried to assuage such fears. 4G wireless is “a real game changer” for Vermont, he asserted, “the most robust technology out there, bar none. “You’re not getting some secondrate wireless,” Adelstein added. “This is as good a wireless as you can get in downtown Boston and New York City, and it may come here before it comes to many major cities in the United States.” It was Guité who was on the hot seat,

doing his best to remain upbeat and diplomatic. As expected, Sanders held Guité’s feet to the fire and put him on the record as promising to deliver “affordable, universal broadband access” to “every unserved community in Vermont within three years.” Starting price: $10 per month. Guité had no sooner agreed to the terms than he started qualifying the complexities of providing high-speed Internet to every nook and cranny of the state. “When we say, ‘everybody,’ we mean pretty much, functionally everybody,” Guité said, eliciting groans from the audience. “But life is complicated.” Indeed. Even after a two-hour grilling, questions remained: Who is Guité, and what’s his track record at VTel? Can Vermonters trust him with nearly $117 million in taxpayer dollars? And can his small rural carrier, with just 20,000 phone lines in Greater Springfield, deliver on such a bold statewide promise when larger companies have failed to do so? In short, will VTel become Vermont’s next FairPoint fiasco — or the success story that finally brings all of rural Vermont into the digital age?

The man with the plan

The VTel headquarters is a flat, white, one-story building sandwiched between Route 106 and the Black River in downtown Springfield. It could easily be mistaken for a community bank or a garden center. Inside, it’s a serene, open-air work space with a cheery receptionist who answers the phone on the first ring. Beside her desk is an antique wooden barrel filled with local apples free for the taking.

VERMONT 3.0 TECH ISSUE VTel will be exhibiting at the Vermont 3.0 Tech Jam, Friday, October 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday, October 16, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington.

GLOSSARY OF TECH TERMS: CONNECTING THE HIGH-SPEED WHOZZITS WITH THE WIRELESS WHAT-NOW? “The Internet,” as Sen. Ted Stevens once explained to a Senate subcommittee in 2006, “is not a big truck you dump something on. It’s a series of tubes.” While techies guffawed at the late senator’s antiquated analogy, Stevens wasn’t far off the mark. As the Vermont Rural Broadband Project explains on its website, the difference between dial-up and broadband is analogous to the difference between a 3/4-inch water pipe to the home and a 6-inch water main running beneath the street. Still stumped by all the techno-jargon? Here’s a quick primer:

4G LTE: Short for fourth-generation, long-term-evolution wireless, it’s the newest and most cutting-edge form of wireless phone and Internet communication. Unlike 1G, which were the old analog cellphones that delivered data at a rate of 12 kilobits per second (Kbps) of data; 2G (500 Kbps); and 3G (1.5 megabits per second), 4G has been tested at speeds of 50 to 60 megabits per second. Critics say it’s never been deployed in the United States and still must obey the laws of physics — e.g., it cannot penetrate mountains, of which Vermont has one or two. Proponents counter that it’s what the world’s largest telecom companies are adopting. Broadband: High-speed Internet access that’s always on, with near-instantaneous

access to the World Wide Web, email, instant messaging, video streaming, etc. Compared with dial-up service, which is typically carried over a copper phone line, broadband is faster and much more reliable. The FCC defines broadband as data flowing at a rate of at least 200 kilobits per second.

Dial-up: Remember the guttural screeching that once emanated from your hard drive while you waited minutes for your modem to connect? That was dial-up that carried data at 24 to 56 kilobits per second. The reason it sounds like a pterodactyl is that it’s a dinosaur technology that ought to be relegated to history museums. DSL: A digital subscriber line, which uses existing phone lines to carry both telephone and data services. Though it’s 10 to 100 times faster than dial-up, it’s still considered laughably slow by anyone who uses a computer to put food on the table. Fiber: No, not the kind your proctologist recommends. Short for fiber optic, it’s

indisputably the most advanced method for transmitting vast amounts of data, including phone, cable TV and Internet service. It works by carrying a series of light pulses over an optical glass strand. More costly to deploy and splice than copper wire, it’s the gold standard for broadband, capable of transmitting data at rates ranging from 1 megabit per second (Mbps) to well over 100 Mbps.

Fiber-to-the-home: Just like it sounds, it’s a method of delivering high-speed

telephone, cable and Internet service to residences using a single, bidirectional fiber-optic cable. While it provides the fastest and most robust broadband out there, it’s largely impractical in low-density areas where homes and businesses are few and far between.

Kilobit: 1000 bits of data. A unit for measuring bandwidth for data transmission. Megabit: See above. This one is 1000 kilobits, or 1 million bits of data. Satellite broadband: A form of high-speed (sort of) Internet access delivered via a satellite connection. Though it’s faster than dial-up and often the only option available in remote locales, satellite broadband has many disadvantages compared with landlines and wireless technologies. They include weather interruptions, “latency” — or the lag time for the signal to travel back and forth to a low-Earth orbit — and physical obstacles, such as trees, clouds and mountains.

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and still teaches there, is the son of the late William R. Hewlett, cofounder of HewlettPackard. Walter Hewlett’s name may be familiar because he chairs the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major underwriter of National Public Radio. But Wall Street investors know Hewlett better as the HP board member who, in 2002, led a contentious but unsuccessful proxy fight against then-CEO — and current U.S. Senate candidate — Carly Fiorina when she proposed a controversial merger with Compaq.

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Wall Street, where he got a job as a telecom industry analyst at Salomon Brothers in 1972. Twenty years later, he started looking to buy his first company. His partner at the time was businessman Walter Hewlett, whom he knew from his Stanford days. Together they put together a deal to buy a small, rural phone carrier in Vermont that was being sold off by GTE. On a shelf behind Guité’s desk is a nameplate that reads, “Walter Hewlett, music scholar” — an inside joke, he says. Hewlett, who studied music at Stanford

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Wireless: In the telecom world, it’s a method of transmitting data without using wires, often in places where it’s technologically or economically unfeasible to run fiber or phone lines. Typically, signals are broadcast from a transmitter or cell tower fed by fiber-optic lines. Though wireless cannot transmit data at the same speeds as fiber, it has the advantage of being both mobile and cheaper to deploy.

What was VTel like when Guité and Hewlett looked at it in 1994? Guité recalls it was “like a nice Chevy with 55,000 miles on it. There was nothing wrong with it, but it was nothing fancy.” At the time, VTel had only 17,500 lines and sold for $42 million. Initially, Hewlett and Guité tried to interest venture capitalists, but Wall Street investors wouldn’t bite. In fact, the VTel purchase was part of a much larger deal worth several hundred million dollars involving 18 properties in three states. Coincidentally, the entire deal was orchestrated by FairPoint in its preVermont days. “GTE left us a good resource, and it also left us an awful lot of really good people,” Guité recalls. “The problem was, it was a very dreary culture.” One of Guité’s first tasks, he says, was to renovate company headquarters, then a “concrete bunker.” More importantly, under his leadership — Hewlett’s interest in the company was largely bought out by the early 2000s — the company modernized rapidly. In 1994, VTel became the first telecom in Vermont to offer Internet service, smart payphones and fiber to the home. Today, VTel has more than 75 percent broadband penetration in its service area, one of the highest rates in the state. Guité primarily considers VTel a Vermont company — its 1400-mile fiber network runs to public schools in Burlington, Montpelier, Rutland, Springfield and White River Junction, among other places. But its reach extends well beyond Vermont’s borders. VTel also owns fiber networks running to Boston, Montréal and New York City. Its customers include major institutions such as MIT, Dartmouth College and McGill University. Recognizing that the future of telecom would require both fiber and mobile wireless technologies, about eight years ago Guité began buying up FCC wireless licenses around the state. David O’Brien, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Public Service, describes that decision as “visionary” on Guité’s part. “Michel’s been a real innovator,” O’Brien says. “He thinks big and he thinks long term.” Bob Flint, executive director of the Springfield Regional Development Corporation, describes Guité as a leader who “puts his money where his mouth is. “VTel is one of our strongest champions of economic development,” Flint says. “We’ve had ahead-of-the-curve broadband for years, pricing has never changed, and they’ve treated me very well as a customer.” Glenn Cordner agrees. The CEO of Springfield Hospital and Springfield Medical Care Systems, a network of nine community health centers in Windsor County, says that his medical centers are

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I’m quickly greeted by Guité, a small, round man with short gray hair who speaks almost in a whisper. He’s sporting khakis, brown moccasins and a rumpled, blue, button-down shirt with the VTel logo over one pocket. On his wrist is a plastic, multicolored watch that a child might wear. It’s not what one would expect from a former Wall-Street-analyst-turnedCEO with a second wife and a mansion in Greenwich, Conn. Over the last five years, Guité and his family have given about $80,000 to candidates of all political stripes, including Sanders, according to a recent report on VPR’s “Vermont Edition.” But Guité doesn’t have his own office or even a walled-off cubicle — just a modest desk in one corner of the room. It’s adorned with crayon drawings and photos of children of various ages I mistakenly assumed are his grandchildren. He clarifies that his five kids range in age from 6 to 27, and there’s a sixth on the way. Evidently, Guité sees himself as much younger and more vigorous than his 65 years suggest. Born in Montréal into a family of modest means, Guité was raised in English-speaking Nova Scotia. He put himself through college, while also supporting his mother and sister, by working as a bellhop for $135 a week at the HôtelMotel La Côte Surprise on Québec’s Gaspé Coast. In college — at Dalhousie University in Halifax — Guité wrote for the student newspaper, the Dalhousie Gazette of Nova Scotia, the oldest college newspaper in North America. Upon graduation, he got a job in Montréal as a financial reporter with the Canadian Press. One day in 1967, his editor announced that he was going to Israel to fight in what came to be known as the Six Day War. Guité was promoted to financial editor. Two years later, Guité came to the United States on a Ford Foundation grant to Stanford University. Later, he transferred to MIT, where he studied two-way interactive cable TV systems. However, since Guité was duty-bound by his Ford Foundation grant to complete his degree at Stanford, he returned to the West Coast and got a PhD working on early applications of microwave technologies. While still at MIT, Guité saw a flyer for a summer rental in Vermont. Eager to find a quiet place to complete his studies, Guité rented the place for $100 a month from Mrs. Richard Derby of Proctorsville. He soon discovered she was Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby, Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter. The deal required Guité to do some minor upkeep on the house that included daily dismantling of a nearby beaver dam. Guité attributes his fondness for Vermont to his experiences during the two summers he rented from Derby. After Stanford, Guité went to work on

High Wireless Act «P.33 heavily reliant on high-speed broadband. Guité, he says, has been “an exceptional community citizen” who’s provided “totally consistent and excellent” service to his facilities. “You want to put your money in his hands because he’s a man with a mission,” Cordner says of Guité. “He will deliver results. I guarantee it.”

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Most Vermonters — outside Springfield — had never heard of Michel Guité before VTel’s whopping $116.8 million federal stimulus grant was announced earlier this year. But he’d made news in early 2008 for trying to relocate the graves of a War of 1812 veteran and his two granddaughters on his 150-acre property in Hartland. As Guité told the Valley News at the time, the family plot was only 15 feet away from where he intended to build a house, and he feared the graves would disturb the “serenity” of the place. Two family descendants and several historical groups opposed Guité’s petition. But after a six-month legal battle, a Vermont court ruled in his favor. Judge Joanne Ertel noted in her decision that she “finds it difficult to fathom his persistence in the face of such widespread and heartfelt opposition. It’s hard to imagine introducing yourself to a community with an action that the community finds abhorrent.” Such “persistence” hasn’t won Guité many friends in Vermont’s labor community, either. Mike Spillane, business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2326, says his union walked away from VTel’s union employees because, as he puts it, Guité threatened to “put me in the poorhouse in court. “Michel Guité is a very headstrong individual,” Spillane adds. “In all the years I’ve dealt with him through union contract negotiations, he’s never once spoken to me. He only speaks through his lawyer. I have nothing good to say about him.” Spillane also wonders how VTel would be able to handle a major power outage, such as the ice storm of 1998, with just 70 employees on staff. On occasion, Guité has gotten his wires crossed with state regulators. As the Valley News reported last month, in 1997 VTel got in trouble with DPS for using revenues generated by ratepayers for, among other things, artwork and leisure travel. That case resulted in a $750,000 refund to VTel customers. Nevertheless, O’Brien and others at DPS report that VTel has had an “excellent” consumer track record in recent years. Based on such indicators as customer-service complaints, outages and the speed of restored service, DPS spokesperson Steve

Wark describes VTel as one of the best telecom companies in the state. But customer service is not a substitute for connectivity. Not everyone buys Guité’s assurances that VTel can provide fast, cheap and reliable broadband service to every farmhouse, henhouse and outhouse in the state. Is VTel’s plan for deploying a combination of fiber and 4G wireless technologies a workable solution for rural Vermont? Tim Nulty, ECFiber’s project director, doesn’t think so. In his recent editorial on the website Vtdigger.org — which failed to identify Nulty’s connection to ECFiber — Nulty described 4G LTE wireless service

as “roughly equivalent to DSL” and “far inferior” to what fiber delivers. Nulty likens 4G LTE wireless to “an experimental drug” and accuses Guité and VTel of using rural Vermont as their “guinea pig” for an “unproven” technology they wouldn’t “inflict” on their own subscribers. “Fiber,” Nulty concludes, “is the CHEAPEST way to get UNIVERSAL coverage.” Not so, according to other telecom experts who don’t have an ax to grind. Tom Evslin, Vermont’s former “technology czar,” told Sanders recently that wiring Vermont with 100 percent fiber would cost about $1 billion — or one-seventh of the total stimu-

TELJET’S HIGH-FIBER DIET: THE BIGGEST BROADBAND PROVIDER IN VERMONT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF Burlington Telecom gets all the press — and that’s just fine with Greg Kelly, founder, president and CEO of TelJet. Kelly doesn’t feel the need to advertise that he operates one of the largest fiber-optic networks in Vermont and New Hampshire. Commercial and institutional users in need of premium fiber-optic broadband know where to find him: at the company’s brand new headquarters and data center in Williston. Although it’s small as tech companies go — just 10 employees — TelJet is serving some of the biggest and most technology-dependent organizations in the state: Middlebury College, the University of Vermont, Champlain College, St. Michael’s College, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Vermont Public Radio and Vermont Public Television. Its progress is impressive, considering that TelJet didn’t even exist a decade ago. Kelly dropped out of college in 1983 to start his first company, selling phone systems. He stayed in the telecom business for many years and founded several other firms, including one, CatchTV, that developed patented technology that links a TV viewer to the Internet. In February 2000, after a two-year gig as chief information officer for the nascent Oxygen network, Kelly found himself unemployed and living in Vermont. He realized there was money to be made buying and selling the “high-tech junk” being unloaded by companies that had jumped into the deregulated telecom industry and went broke. Kelly describes the opportunity as “the biggest fire sale this nation has ever seen.” He quickly started buying up the stuff for “pennies on the dollar,” including warehouses full of electronics, conduits and fiber-optic cables. In 2002, Kelly joined with partners Douglas Hyde and David Storandt to form TelJet. The name, which sounds like a commuter airline, was itself something of an afterthought. It was the only telecom-sounding domain name that wasn’t being used by another company. TelJet started by buying its own utility rights of way and offering redundant, backup fiber networks to large institutions in the event their primary networks went down. And that’s exactly what happened. Clients began switching their broadband service to the smaller but more reliable company. TelJet, which also applied for federal stimulus money but was denied, offers only fiber-to-the-premises technology, no wireless or antiquated copper lines, Kelly explains. “What we’re really focused on is efficiency,” he says. “It’s all about how you build it, going that extra mile to build in quality.” For example, TelJet runs most of its fiber lines underground to reduce maintenance costs and improve reliability. And, because TelJet doesn’t try to offer service to every part of the state and doesn’t serve residential users, it only goes where it’s economically feasible to do so. Kelly emphasizes that his company is about more than providing basic high-speed broadband. For example, he’s been working on technology to transmit live performances from Burlington’s Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and the Elley-Long Music Center directly into Fletcher Allen Health Care for patients to watch on unused cable channels. Similarly, he envisions helping VPT offer a live cooking show from the New England Culinary Institute; he says his company has the technological expertise to pull it off. Vermont’s broadband landscape is still “like the Wild West,” says Kelly. And, while his company continues to invest in an ever-expanding fiber network, he admits it remains to be seen what other new technologies, including 4G LTE wireless, will mean for underserved areas of the state. “The technology is constantly changing,” Kelly says. “We’re just hanging on for the ride.”

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lus money dedicated to expanding rural broadband in the entire country. Brian Coppom is CEO of MyROW International, a Winooski-based consulting firm that serves the telecom and electric utilities industries. Coppom agrees that fiber is the gold standard for broadband, “but not for every application and not when it doesn’t make good business sense.” 4G LTE, he asserts, is “a great alternative.” Coppom disagrees with Nulty’s claim that 4G wireless won’t deliver video as promised. As he explains, video typically streams at a rate of between 3 megabits per second — say, for a mobile device — and 20 megabits per second for a large flat-screen TV. The latest tests of 4G done by Verizon Wireless delivered speeds of 50 to 60 megabits per second, Coppom says. Even if VTel delivers at half that rate, he believes, it’ll be fast enough for most Vermonters. “Will you get fiber capacity with a wireless link? No,” Coppom says. “But you’ll get enough. I firmly believe that.” MyROW’s president and chief technology officer, John Ferry, agrees. As a telecom expert who claims he’s run “tens of thousands of miles of fiber” in his career, Ferry asserts that deploying 4G LTE in sparsely populated regions, especially for “last-mile delivery,” makes a lot of sense, both technologically and economically. “Look at AT&T, Vodafone, Verizon Wireless. These are some of the biggest companies in the world, and their bet is on 4G,” he adds. “They’ve put billions into R&D so that we didn’t have to in Vermont. We’re getting the finished product.” 4G wireless has other benefits fiber doesn’t, Ferry adds: It’ll enable Vermont electric utilities to upgrade to smart-grid technologies such as smart metering, which can be read remotely and track individual home and business usage. It’ll also be a boon to Vermont’s mobile capabilities, which are less than optimal in vast parts of the state. In fact, Guité plans to build as many as 10 new cell towers to accomplish his goal. 4G wireless, Ferry concludes, is not the “experimental drug” Nulty makes it out to be — but “the great equalizer” between rural and urban areas. “Are there challenges? Of course there are,” Coppom agrees. “But challenges are opportunities. I think there are a lot of synergies here that make sense for Vermont.” And what does Guité himself say? In person, he vacillates between expressing humility in the face of the task before him, and a stubborn defiance of those who say he’s trying to do what can’t be done. He’s critical of detractors such as Nulty, whom he describes as part of “a class of Mandarin bureaucrats whose job it is to say how bad things are. “We have the phone customers to make the fiber-to-the-home piece work, and we’ve got the wireless licenses to make the wireless piece work,” Guité concludes. “Who but us can do it?” 

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tions — including the roofline, most of the square footage and some elaborately parqueted floors — made by the house’s second owners, John and Nellie Flynn, who lived there from 1913 to 1940. The front landscaping was influenced by Nellie Flynn, a leading botanist in her day whose collection of 22,700 plant and flower varieties is held at UVM. “There’s no ‘original’ in buildings that have been lived in for 150 years,” quips the 58-year-old architect. Nevertheless, Carroon and her crew, along with Engelberth Construction of Burlington and a host of local subcontractors, were careful not to “restore” anything for which there was no historical evidence. With the help of Mary O’Neil, a preservation specialist in Burlington’s planning and zoning office whom Carroon describes as “just wonderful,” Carroon was able to access key documents. Some old insurance maps, for example, showed the footprint of a porch on the south front, which Goody Clancy then rebuilt. And “the house clearly had a cupola,” Carroon says, “but we never

snug enough to pass the blower door test,” says Wanamaker. “It was nerve wracking.” “If I could clone Ron and his team and take them to every project, I would,” Carroon says appreciatively. That would include quite a roster of projects: The architect has led the restoration and greening of nearly a dozen national historic landmarks, including the architecturally iconic Trinity Church in Boston’s Back Bay. For her sustainability-enhanced preservation work, Carroon was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects — a group of about 2000 highly regarded architects, out of a registered 60,000 or so in the country, who can put “FAIA” after their names. As you look closer, Perry Hall’s environmentally sensitive measures seem to multiply: All lights are either motion- or ambient-light sensitive; every office has natural light; south-facing offices and balconies will be partly shaded in summer by “green shields,” three-story trellises that will eventually be covered

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describe it, the construction team drilled two wells beside the building down 565 and 725 feet to a large aquifer that sits below lake level. Pumps draw the water — which remains at 52 degrees all year — through a closedpipe loop past a heat exchanger, where its temperature is transferred to water in another closed-pipe loop running through the building. (The closed loops prevent adulteration of the aquifer.) Thirty-five strategically located coil-and-fan units, or heat pumps, blow the moderate-temperature air into the building. On the coldest days, electric heat will provide a boost. “The building will have very, very low energy use,” declares Carroon, who used geothermal wells in several previous projects, including Trinity Church and three Harvard University buildings. According to Christina Erickson, the college’s sustainability coordinator, software development students are currently designing an interactive “dashboard” for the building that will display energy-usage measurements in real time.

Perry Hall’s impending LEED platinum designation reflects only part of its sustainable design. Like most preservation architects, Carroon finds the U.S. Green Building Council’s rating system weighted toward new construction and less rewarding of building reuse than are other rating systems — even though, as Erickson puts it, “Building more is not better if we’re really talking about our greenhousegas emissions.” “[LEED] is still very much consumption based, and consumption is the problem that got us here in the first place,” Carroon says. The system also doesn’t reward durability — “thinking through the service life of a building,” as she puts it — though that was one of her main concerns with Perry Hall. By using exterior steel supports, including two X-shaped lateral braces designed in collaboration with Burlington-based Engineering Ventures, Carroon eliminated the need for interior columns, allowing the building’s spaces to be reconfigured for different purposes 50 or 100 years from now. Carroon also considered all-wood construction, but balked when she learned the wood would be coming from Vancouver instead of Vermont. And she looked into both solar and wind power. A wind turbine would have had to be too tall — and therefore too expensive — to be worthwhile, and solar panels are still, in her opinion, “not terribly affordable or effective.” But both options can be added as they become more sophisticated, she says. All of this came at a price, of course: The building itself cost $12 million, and that doesn’t include the landscaping and barn and cottage renovations. Mease says the college took out a $12 million tax-exempt bond, and another $3 million came from its ongoing capital campaign, called “Vision. Innovation. Passion.” Carroon can’t credit Champlain enough for that vision. “It’s unusual to find a client who is as visionary as Champlain,” she says more than once. And, while city residents who live near the college tend to view its expansion with a wary eye, they generally appreciate the institution’s commitment to historically respectful renovations. If it’s true, as Carroon claims, that “the stats on visiting students are that they decide within the first 15 minutes — I call it karmic shopping,” then Champlain’s millions may prove to be money well spent. m

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refreshingly plainspoken stance, telling the tale truthfully, he alleges, but “in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” The actor’s avoidance of grandiosity helps him slip smoothly into the domestic scenes back behind the fourth wall. His interactions with his mother and sister are nicely modulated; he shows a full range of responses to Amanda’s intrusions, mustering justifiable rage but also more tempered emotions, bemusement as much as belligerence. Tom’s fondness for Laura is clear, although this relationship, too, is colored by his doubts about whether their shared existence — or his own life — can improve its present course. As shy sister Laura, whose cherished collection of glass animals gives the play its title, Walsh plays the shrinking violet to sympathetic effect — in sharp contrast to her spirited brother and mother. Afflicted with a physical condition that causes her to limp slightly, Laura moves through the house like a cipher. The angst of having failed to meet her mother’s socialite expectations is written in Walsh’s downcast eyes and in surreptitious activities we learn Laura has undertaken outside the home to palliate her mother’s disappointment. Walsh’s portrayal conveys a resignation to spinsterhood. But something in her vacant gaze hints at a wellspring of emotional pain beneath her physical limitations. Laura’s seeming last shot at companionship outside her circle of miniature glass pals arrives in the person of Jim, Tom’s coworker at the Continental Shoe warehouse. Played with backslapping ebullience by Benjamin Wiggins, Jim embodies an optimism that’s in short supply among the Wingfields and, most important, a confidence to seize the day. When he shows up to dine with the Wingfields, not knowing Tom has arranged the meeting to introduce him to Laura, his presence reminds the family that some people forge ahead while others remain stuck in the past, or in each other’s way. Jim’s head may be in the clouds — he has determined that public-speaking ability is the secret

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baked brownies. I folded laundry. I drank a glass of water. And then there was nothing left for me to do but walk into my kitchen and face the raw chicken sitting on the counter. Or, rather, roast it. My cooking instructor didn’t notice my uneasiness. I’m normally at home in the kitchen, but I usually limit my culinary adventures to my preferred food groups: breakfast and dessert. Banana bread, apple cake, popovers ... piece of cake.

y digital cooking classes started a few months ago when I was hands deep in flour, rolling out pie dough. The cold butter clumps were flattening into little pockets that I hoped would make a light and flaky crust for my cherry pie. Having sliced the dough into straight, even strips, I paused. Must I literally weave the delicate

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pieces for the pictureperfect lattice crust I had in mind? There had to be an easier way. Without a second thought, I hopped on the computer — causing a minor explosion of flour dust that settled on my keyboard — and clicked on the first video that appeared when I searched “how to make a lattice pie crust” on YouTube. A Pillsbury representative unrolled pie dough from a can and explained how to crisscross the lines of dough starting from the middle of the pie. Ohh. Well, that made sense. About an hour later, a lovely golden pie with a proper lattice weave was cooling on the counter, and a toasted-butter scent wafted through the apartment. I was intrigued: What other techniques could I learn through my laptop? The ’Tube was like the culinary classes I couldn’t afford; it succeeded where TV cooking shows failed — on the strength of those crucial pause and replay buttons.

spouts tips about grilling the perfect steak. Thomas Keller is dying to let me in on how to clean mushrooms. It’s a digital world, even in the kitchen. All I had to do was press play. But finding the right teacher to guide me in the ways of roast chicken was trickier than I’d anticipated. Antony Worrall Thompson, a British celebrity chef I’d never heard of, seemed confident and knowledgeable, and his accent was charming. But I was insulted when he began by suggesting I remove the chicken from the plastic container: “That tends to melt if it goes in the oven,” he explained. No, really? With the world (or at least the World Wide Web) at my fingertips, surely I didn’t have to put up with a chef who talked down to me. Chef and restaurateur Marc Murphy seemed rushed and mildly annoyed at me from the get-go, but perhaps that was just the zippy editing. His hands

connection with him when he declared a silicone spatula one of his “favorite alltime kitchen tools” — mine, too! Like me, he seemed to have genuine fun zesting a lemon. Plus, his “ultimate roast chicken” looked perfectly brown and tender. I was in. It was strange cooking with “foodwishes” — “one of the web’s top video recipe producers and online culinary instructors,” boasts his YouTube profile — because he didn’t have a face. Or, at least, it never appeared in the video. The most I saw of him were his hands, which seemed quite capable as they slid the compound butter under the skin — “smoosh it and smash it and pat it,” he narrated. I cackled when he joked that perhaps he “was enjoying that a little too much.” I couldn’t remember the last time I’d gotten a chuckle out of a recipe. I still felt fairly icked out as I shoved two lemon halves and some chives down the cavity — did my chicken feel violated? I whispered an apology as I hoisted it up by a leg to sprinkle it liberally with

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Salt’s own graham crackers and marshmallows, and “Pop Tarts” in flavors such as lemon curd and apple compote. Among the sweet and savory scones will be ones featuring Serrano ham and piquillo pepper. Queen City residents can pick up the same snacks every other Saturday after the buRlIngton WIntER FaRmERs maRkEt opens in Memorial Auditorium on November 6. In December, Podhaizer and Green will debut a small dinner menu, which will rotate weekly but always include handmade pasta and braises. Savory soufflés, one of Green’s specialties, can also be expected on the bill of fare. Look for popovers stuffed with unlikely fillings, including duck confit. Prix-fixe meals will include composed cheese plates with condiments tailored to the curds. At a restaurant called Salt, the seasoning naturally gets pride of place. Each table will boast a selection, including Maine sea salt and smoked salt. “We like salted desserts,” says Podhaizer. Her salami-and-smoked-paprika truffles will find a home at her restaurant, along with salted caramels. Diners can accompany the dishes with a line of artisan cocktails. “I prefer savory cocktails,” Podhaizer says, “so I’ll be playing around with ingredients like preserved lemons, herbs and spices to make things that actually get you hungry for dinner, instead of something that’s sticky and sweet and satiating.” After four years at Seven Days, Podhaizer notes that the career switch will allow her to participate in the food scene instead of observing it. “I’m really happy to be an advocate for the local food movement and work with farmers who grow such wonderful produce,” she says. — A .L.

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Food writers know how to dish out criticism, but a local one is about to have the tables turned. On November 1, suzannE PoDhaIzER will leave her job as Seven Days food editor. If all goes well, the reviews will start coming when her new Montpelier restaurant, salt, opens just a few weeks later in mid-November. According to Podhaizer, the opportunity to open her own business arrived in the form of kismet — literally. Podhaizer recently interviewed kIsmEt owner CRystal maDERIa about her localvore café’s imminent move to the spot left unoccupied when Restaurant Phoebe closed in July. Podhaizer and her chef-husband, Dan gREEn, saw the cozy café space as the perfect spot to open the kind of restaurant they always hoped to find in their own dining-out experiences. What can guests expect at this food writer’s restaurant? Creative interpretations of classic dishes and techniques, made from scratch using local products and the best tastes from around the world, Podhaizer says. Green spent the summer laboring at JERICho sEttlERs’ FaRm, from which he’ll source some of Salt’s products. In return, the restaurant will supply prepared food to Jericho Settlers’ winter CSA. Salt will initially open for lunch, then add dinner in December. The midday meal will include quiches and soups, including sherried chestnut-mushroom, and a potato and kale potage with housemade chorizo. Afternoon strollers can sample espresso, coffee and a wide range of snacks, such as popcorn flavored with local cheeses, s’mores crafted from

Internet access and site revenue enable her to work from home, in between raising chickens, whipping up batches of ice cream, and pickling and preserving excess from her garden. When she and Roberto launched the BlogRoll, Campus says, “We never expected it would become what it has become.” Right idea, right time...

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The Foodie BlogRoll is Vermont based, but you’d never deduce it from a browse of the popular site, which aggregates links to 9188 food-centric blogs devoted to everything from Pakistani cuisine to restaurant-quality home cooking on a budget. The slick site, which also features ads, contests and giveaways, has approximately 30,000 visitors each month. In the right-hand column, a photo of a crowned woman with rosy cheeks is labeled the “Leftover Queen.” Text identifies her as “Foodie BlogRoll founder and manager” JEnn DIPIazza CamPus. Click on her smiling face and you’re transported to Hyde Park, where Campus and her husband, RobERto, relocated in April. After three years living in St. Augustine, Fla., Campus says, they “couldn’t take the heat.” Having enjoyed a previous stint in Vermont, they decided to move back and bring their blossoming web business, which takes in revenue via ads and contests and serves as Jenn Campus’ full-time job. The writer’s affection for her tiny new Lamoille County hometown shows in her writing. On October 11, Campus blogged an “ode” to Hyde Park’s aPPlEChEEk FaRm, as well as recipes for duck with olives and preserved plum tart. Previous posts recap a charity event put on by magIC hat and boloCo in Burlington, and a visit to bIstRo sauCE in Shelburne. But mostly Campus fills her blog with recipes and stories about growing and preparing healthy whole foods without breaking the bank. “It challenges me to learn new things in the

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preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Begin by making the compound butter. Zest the lemon and add it to the butter, along with the chives and garlic. add 1 teaspoon of both salt and pepper. Stir and set aside. place the chicken in a large roasting pan. Twist the wings backward and tuck the tips underneath the bird to prevent burning. Use your fingers or a narrow spatula to lift the chicken’s skin gently from its back — don’t remove it; just make space to add the compound butter. Slide the butter evenly under the skin on both sides of the chicken’s spine. Season the cavity with a big pinch of both salt and pepper. Halve the lemon and squeeze the juice into the cavity, then place each half inside the bird. Tie the legs tightly together in a double knot. Drizzle the bird with olive oil on all sides, using your hands to rub it evenly around. Liberally season on all sides with salt and pepper. put the bird in the oven for about 45 minutes; remove it and brush the liquids from the pan over the top of the chicken with a pastry brush. Continue baking for another 10 to 15 minutes, until it’s evenly browned and at an internal temperature of about 165 degrees. Remove it and let it rest for about 10 minutes before carving.

Digital Dishes « p.42 salt and pepper. Before I knew it, the legs were tied with some string I hoped wouldn’t catch fire in the oven, and my bird was ready to roast. An hour later, it was back on the counter, browned and reclining in a bath of lemony juices. My boyfriend and I were dying to eat ... but first I had to conquer carving. I could think of no one better to turn to than the French Culinary Institute’s master chef Marc Bauer, who assured me in his thick accent that, with a sharp knife and some pressure, my bird wouldn’t fly away as I sliced. I imitated his movements with my biggest knife as we chiseled out each drumstick; I couldn’t find the oyster but was too hungry to care. I took a wild guess on where to slice down the middle of the bird to remove each chicken breast, and, miraculously, found the bone and used the knife to pull the meat cleanly off. After that, I deemed myself a master of carving and hacked away at will — my hands were too occupied to man the keyboard, anyway. Once the chicken was plated and the white wine poured, I couldn’t help but agree with “foodwishes,” who called the outside of the chicken “perfectly crispy.” Better still, the inside meat was soft and tender, and the bites were packed with chives and the lingering trace of lemons ... I couldn’t be sure, but I suspected this was the taste of success.

atisfied with my first experiment, I proceeded to the next item on the list of things I’d always wanted to cook but was afraid to tackle alone: caramel sauce. Researching video recipes didn’t calm my fears: Every clip warned me about the dangers of crystallization — basically, ending up with rock candy. Though it was tempting to learn from two twentysomething girls who didn’t hesitate to throw vanilla and booze into the batch, I decided to go with chef Michael Montgomery of the Culinary School of the Rockies. I liked his laidback approach, which didn’t even call for stirring until the end. Plus, he was ruggedly handsome — an unexpected perk, I now saw, of taking lessons from a person rather than a cookbook page. We began by adding a dash of water to granulated sugar. To avert the dreaded crystallization, I wet my fingers under the faucet and ran them along the sides of the pan, making sure no sugar grains remained. “If anything crystallizes on the side of the pan ... the whole thing will crystallize,” chef Montgomery wisely noted. From there, it was a simple matter of swirling the pan around on high heat until the mixture boiled into dark, syrupy amber. The next step was the

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or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by October 26, 2010.

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On September 28, 2010, Catamount/Bolton Valley Water & Sewer, LLC and Mountain Operations and Development, LLC, filed application #4C0436-34 for a Project generally described as: improvements to the existing public water supply system with a change of source water and new connections. The Project is located on Bolton Valley Access Road in the Town of Bolton, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Bolton Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above. No hearing will be held unless, on or before October 26, 2010, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria

Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(5). Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 4th day of October, 2010. By /s/Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001-6092 On September 30, 2010, The Miller Realty Group, LLP, filed application #4C1040R-3A for a Project generally described as: the addition of 55 parking spaces and associated lighting. The Project is located on Marshall Avenue in the Town of Williston, Vermont. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 - Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Williston Municipal Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission

located at 110 West Canal Street, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database,” selecting “Entire Database,” and entering the case number above. No hearing will be held unless, on or before October 26, 2010,, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by October 26, 2010. Parties entitled to participate are the Municipality, the Municipal Planning Commission, the Regional Planning Commission, adjoining property owners and other persons to the extent they have a particularized interest that may be affected by the proposed project under the 10 criteria. Non-party participants may also be allowed under 10 V.S.A. § 6085(c)(5). Dated in Essex Junction, Vermont, this 5th day of October 2010. By /s/Peter E. Keibel Peter E. Keibel Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5658 E/ peter.keibel@state. vt.us

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A., SECTIONS 6001 - 6092 On October 1, 2010, Town of Milton Library filed application #4C0619-10 for a project generally described as The construction of a 6,500 sf addition to the Town library, including connection to the municipal sewer system. The Project is located in the municipal building at 43 Bombardier Road in the Town of Milton, VT. The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Milton Town Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Suite 202, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the case number above. No hearing will be held unless, on or before October 25, 2010, a party notifies the District Commission of an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing. Should a hearing be held on this project and you have a disability for which you are going to need accommodation, please notify us by October 25, 2010.

sevendaysvt.com/classifieds 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 October, 2010. By /s/ Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5662 E/ stephanie.monaghan@state.vt.us ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 10 V.S.A., SECTIONS 6001 - 6092 On September 24, 2010, Vermont Information Processing, Snake Alley LLC, Grouse Point LLC (Howard Aiken) filed application # 4C0757-4A for a project generally described as

Plans may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office, (City Hall, 149 Church Street, Burlington), between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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).

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Dated at Essex Junction, Vermont this 29th day of September, 2010.

The City of Winooski wishes to sell the old Public Library property at 19 East Spring Street, Winooski. Interested parties may inquire about the property and examine it during business hours by contacting Mr. J. Ladd, at 802 655 6410, extension 20 or jladd@onioncity.com.

By /s/Stephanie H. Monaghan Stephanie H. Monaghan Natural Resources Board District #4 Coordinator 111 West Street Essex Junction, VT 05452 T/ 802-879-5662 E/ stephanie.monaghan@state.vt.us

This may not be the final order in which items will be heard. Please view final Agenda, at www.ci.burlington.vt.us/ planning/drb or office notice board, one week before the hearing for the order in which items will be heard. Request for Bids to Purchase Real Estate

Interested parties should submit their offer to purchase the property before 4:00 PM, November 11, 2010, by hand or US mail to: The City of Winooski, City Hall, 27 West Allen Street, Winooski, VT 05404; Attn: J. Ladd – Library.

The City intends to accept the offer which best benefits the City. The City of Winooski reserves the right to accept or reject any offer, for any reason, as it deems in the best interest of the City. STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Chittenden Unit CIVIL DIVISION Docket No. S0384-09 CnC CitiFinancial, Inc., Plaintiff v. Daniel J. Place And Occupants residing at 51 Pinecrest Drive, Essex Junction, Vermont, Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by CitiFinancial, Inc. to Daniel J. Place dated June 26, 2008 and recorded in Volume 752, Page 730 of the Land Records of the Town of Essex Junction, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:30 A.M. on November 2, 2010, at 51 Pinecrest Drive, Essex Junction, Vermont all and singular the premises described

in said mortgage: To Wit: Being the same fee simple property conveyed by Warranty Deed from Denis H. Place and Lynn M. Place (f/k/a Lynn M. Villemaire) to Daniel J. Place, single, dated 03/05/1999, recorded on 03/09/1999 in Book 405, Page 482 in Chittenden County Records, State of VT. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Proof of financing for the balance of the purchase to be provided at the time of sale. The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Essex Junction. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Lobe & Fortin, 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306, South Burlington, VT 05403, 802 6609000. DATED at South Burlington, Vermont this 28th day of September, 2010. CitiFinancial, Inc. By: Joshua B. Lobe, Esq. Lobe & Fortin, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 306 South Burlington, VT 05403

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The Vermont Judicial TOWN OF UNDERHILL PLANNING Bureau Waiver Penalty COMMISSION Panel will hold a public NOTICE OF PUBLIC meeting at the White River Jct. courthouse at HEARINGS 10:00 a.m. on Friday, OcThe Underhill Planning tober 29, 2010. The purpose of the meeting is to Commission hereby provides notice of public receive comments and hearings to be held purestablish waiver penalsuant to 24 VSA §§4441 ties pursuant to 4 V.S.A. and 4442 for the pur§ 1102(d). All interested pose of hearing public persons are welcome comments concerning to attend. Agenda: (1) the proposed Town of consideration of waiver Underhill Land Use and penalties for employers Development Regulawho violate stop-work tions. Public hearings orders issued by the are scheduled for Commissioner of the Wednesday, November Department of Labor 3, 2010 and Wednesday, pursuant to 21 V.S.A. § November 10, 2010. 692; (2) consideration Both hearings will be of waiver penalties for held at 7:00 PM upstairs motor vehicle operators passing vulnerable users in the Underhill Town Hall at 12 Pleasant Valley in violation of 23 V.S.A. Road in Underhill, VT. §§ 1033 and 1039; (3) consideration of waiver penalties for persons The Planning Comwho interfere with mission’s draft of the guide dogs in violation proposed Town of of 13 V.S.A. § 355(d); (4) Underhill Land Use and consideration of waiver Development Regulapenalty for motorboat tions is intended to muffling devices pursuupdate and replace the ant to 23 VSA §3309; existing “Town of Underand (5) other busihill Zoning Regulations” ness as necessary and and the existing “Town appropriate. Written of Underhill Subdivision comments may be filed Calcoku Regulations.” The generprior to the meeting. Using the enclosed math operations as a guide, fill the grid purposes proposed Written comments may 1 - al using the numbers 6 only once in of each row and regulations are to: be mailed column. to: Judicial 3÷ 15x Bureau, Waiver Penalty 8x 1. Further state planning Panel, P.O.B. 607, White goals and purposes River Jct., VT 05001. 120x 12÷ established under the Act [§4302]. 1- 2. Implement 1Complete the1- following puzzle bya unified using the development plan for numbers 1-9 only once in each row, column the12+ Town of Underhill and 3 x 3 box. that conforms to stated goals, policies and strat230x 3 2- in the 3- Underhill 2÷ egies Town Plan.

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The Burlington Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Wednesday November 3, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. in Contois Auditorium, City Hall to consider the following applications: 1. 11-0137CA; 24 Russell Street (RM, Ward 2) Elizabeth Evelti Appeal of administrative denial to replace wood clapboard siding with fiber cement clapboard siding. 2. 10-0749CA/MA; 11891193 North Avenue (NAC, Ward 4) Eric Farrell Amend 10-0749CA/MA to add fourth story to approved residential building and increase residential units from 24 to 47. No change to footprint.

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The District 4 Environmental Commission will review this application under Act 250 Rule 51 — Minor Applications. Copies of the application and proposed permit are available for review at the Colchester Town Office, Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission located at 110 West Canal Street, Suite 202, Winooski, and the office listed below. The application and proposed permit may also be viewed on the Natural Resources Board’s web site (www.nrb.state. vt.us/lup) by clicking on “Act 250 Database” and entering the case number 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 Friday, October 22, 2010.

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Changes to the existing parking area for Vermont Information Processing, including reducing parking on Lot A-5 from 50 to 36 spaces, constructing 74 spaces on adjacent undeveloped Lot A-4, and adding parking islands and lighting. The Project is located on Lots A-4 and A-5 of Water Tower Hill in the Town of Colchester, VT.

an issue or issues requiring the presentation of evidence at a hearing or the commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Any hearing request shall be in writing to the address below, shall state the criteria or subcriteria at issue, why a hearing is required and what additional evidence will be presented at the hearing. Any hearing request by an adjoining property owner or other interested person must include a petition for party status. Prior to submitting a request for a hearing, please contact the district coordinator at the telephone number listed below for more information. Prior to convening a hearing, the District Commission must determine that substantive issues requiring a hearing have been raised. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law will not be prepared unless the Commission holds a public hearing.

3. Integrate land use and development regulations, including zoning, flood hazard, site plan and subdivision regulations, into one comprehensive document to promote coordinated and expedited municipal review of land development. 4. Address new statutory (Chapter 117) requirements. Proposed regulations will affect all properties in town. Table of Contents for the proposed Land Use and Development Regulations:

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Article 1: Authority & Purpose Article 2: Zoning Districts Article 3: General Regulations Article 4: Specific Use Standards Article 5: Development Review Article 6: Flood Hazard Area Regulations Article 7: Subdivision Review Article 8: Subdivision Review Standards Article 9: Planned Unit Development Article 10: Administration & Enforcement Article 11: Definitions Copies of the full text of the proposed Land Use and Development Regulations are available at the Underhill Town Hall located at 12 Pleasant Valley Road in Underhill, VT and electronically at the Town of Underhill website at www.underhillvt.gov

DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-11 or 866-652-4636 (toll free) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636, 24/7. CENTRAL VERMONT PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP Next meeting will be on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Conference Room #2 at the Central Vermont Medical Center, 6-7:45 p.m. Guest speaker Dr.

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CHITTENDEN FAMILIES TOGETHER MEETING Wednesday, Sept. 29, 5:30-7 p.m. Vermont Family Network Conference Room, 600 Blair Park Rd. #240, Williston. Deb Lisi-Baker, Associate Director of the UVM Center on Disability and Community Inclusion (CDCI) will lead a discussion about the challenges for families of adults who do not receive supports or financial assistance. Focus is on concerns of families with high school youth and adults who have developmental disabilities. Jan Hancock, 802-876-5315 ext. 215. jan.hancock@vtfn.org, www.vermontfamilynetwork.org. MAN-TO-MAN CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PROSTATE CANCER Support group meets 6-8 p.m., 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Hope Lodge at the UVM/FAHC campus. 1-800-ACS2345. VEGGIE SUPPORT GROUP Want To Feel Supported On Your Vegetarian/Vegan Journey? Want more info. on Healthy Veggy Diets? Want to share and socialize at Veggy Potlucks, and more, in the greater Burlington Area? This is your opportunity to join with other like-minded folks. veggy4life@gmail. com, 802-658-4991. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS Meets on Sundays from 12-1 p.m. at the Turning Point Center, 191 Bank St., Burlington. This is a fellowship of men and women that meet and review the 12 steps of CODA, read stories from the CODA anonymous big book and share their experiences, strengths and hopes as we support each other. Open to everyone. Info: Larry, WLTRS@aol.com, 802-658-9994 or Jeff, JCDANIS@Burlingtontelecom.net, 802-8633674. For directions, call the Turning Point Center at 802-861-3150. TRANS GUY’S GROUP Every fourth Monday, RU12? Community Center, 34 Elmwood Ave, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. This is a social and support group specifically for trans men. This informal, peer-facilitated group welcomes maleidentified people at any stage of transition. As this is currently a closed group, please contact the center to sign up: thecenter@ru12.org or 860-RU12.

PARTNERS OF TRANS GUYS Partners and Spouses of Trans Guys. Every third Thursday, 6:30-8 p.m. This peerled group is a space where the partners and spouses of trans guys can meet to talk, share thoughts and give each other support. Please let Kara know you’re coming at 860-7812. TRANS GUYS OVER 35 Every second Wednesday of the month from 6-8 p.m., Trans Guys over 35 will meet to discuss issues, shared and individual, and get support from other guys. For more info contact Kara at kara@ru12.org. TRANS SUPPORT GROUP Every first and third Wednesday, RU12? Community Center, 34 Elmwood Ave., Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. This peer-led, informal group is open to all trans people and to any discussion topics raised. It is a respectful and confidential space for socializing, support and discussion. Contact thecenter@ru12.org for more information. LGBTQ VIOLENCE SURVIVORS SafeSpace offers peer-led support groups for survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. These groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. Please call Ann or Brenda at 863-0003 if you are interested in joining one of these groups or for more information. MALE SURVIVORS OF VIOLENCE SafeSpace is offering a peer-led support group for maleidentified survivors of relationship violence, dating violence, emotional violence or hate violence. This group will meet in Burlington at the RU12? Community Center and will be facilitated by Damian. Support groups give survivors a safe and supportive environment to tell their stories, share information, and offer and receive support. Please contact SafeSpace if you are interested in joining this group, 802-863-0003. QUIT SMOKING GROUPS Are you ready to live a smoke-free lifestyle? Free 4-week Quit Smoking Groups are being offered through the VT Quit Network Fletcher Allen Quit in Person program in your community. Free Nicotine Replacement products are available for program participants. For more

information or to register, call 847-6541 or wellness@vtmednet.org. For ongoing statewide class schedules, contact the VT Quit Network at www. vtquitnetwork.org. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP Learn how to cope with grief, with the intention of receiving and offering support to each other. The group is informal and includes personal sharing of our grief experiences. Open to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one. There is no fee. Meets every other week Mondays, 6-8 p.m. at the Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice, Barre. 802-223-1878, www.cvhhh.org. DIGESTIVE SUPPORT GROUP Join this open support group, hosted by Carrie Shamel, and gain information regarding digestive disorders. If you suffer from any kind of digestive disorder or discomfort this is the place for you! Open to all. Meets the first Monday of every month in the Healthy Living Learning Center. For more information contact Carrie Shamel at carrie. shamel@gmail.com. www.llleus.org/state/ vermont/html. AL-ALNON IN ST. JOHNSBURY Tues. & Thurs., 7 p.m., Kingdom Recovery Center (Dr. Bob’s birthplace), 297 Summer St., St. Johnsbury. Sat., 10 a.m., Unitarian Universalist Church, Cherry St., St. Johnsbury. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS, ACA is a 12-Step program for people that grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional homes. We meet in a mutually respectful, safe environment and acknowledge our common experiences. We discover how childhood affected us in the past and influences us in the present. Tuesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Cherry St., Burlington. For info contact Emily at 802-922-6609, emily@ intrapersonalcoaching. com. SEEKING ACTIVE RETIREES/50+ To form a social group. Snowshoeing, theater, biking, hiking, kayaking, etc. Please call 802-864-0604. Lv. msg. if no answer. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS (NA) Drug Problem? We Can Help. If you think you have a problem with drugs, including alcohol, give yourself a break. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship for individuals who have a desire to recover from the disease of addiction. NA offers a practical and proven

way to live and enjoy life without the use of drugs. To find an NA Meeting near you in Vermont or Northern New York, please go to www.cvana. org/Meetinglist.pdf or call our 24-hour, toll free, confidential number, (866) 580-8718 or (802) 862-4516. For more information about NA, please go to http://www. na.org/?ID=ips-index and click on “>Is NA for Me? CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP AND FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP 1-3 p.m., every third Thursday at The Bagel Cafe, Ethan Allen Shopping Center, N. Ave., Burlington. Please call or visit website for location information, www. vtcfids.org or call 1-800296-1445 or 802-6604817 (Helaine “Lainey” Rappaport). ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS with debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous plus Business Debtor’s Annonymous. Saturdays 10-11:30 a.m. & Wednesdays 5:30-6:30, 45 Clark St., Burlington. Contact Brenda at 338-1170. IS FOOD A PROBLEM FOR YOU? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason? Is your weight affecting the way you live your life? Call Overeaters Anonymous, 863-2655. GIRL POWER Learn about your inner power through meditation, sacred space, healing energy modalities. Connect and attune to empower & enlighten, expand your sense of awareness, network with others your age, find peer support within this on-going monthly group. Please bring a notebook journal, writing utensil and a folding chair. Ages 12-18. First Sat of each month at 4 p.m. at Moonlight Gift Shoppe, Rt. 7, Milton. To reserve space call Michele, 802893-9966, moonlightgiftshoppe@yahoo.com. CIRCLE OF PARENTS support group meeting in Rutland Monday evenings. Snacks and childcare provided. Meeting is free and confidential. For more info. call Heather at 802-498-0608 or 1-800-children. Meetings Tuesday evenings in Barre. For more info. call Cindy at 802-229-5724 or 1-800-children.

ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) This support group functions as a community and educational group. We provide coffee, soda and snacks and are open to PALS, caregivers, family members and those who are interested in learning more about ALS. Our group meets the second Thursday of each month from 1-3 p.m. at “Jim’s House”, 1266 Old Creamery Rd., Williston, VT. Hosted by Pete and Alphonsine Crevier, facilitated by Liza Martel, LICSW, Patient Care Coordinator for the ALS Association here in Vermont. 223-7638 for more information. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP Meets the 1st Wednesday of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Comfort Inn, 5 Dorset St., S. Burlington, VT. There is no fee. This is open to anyone who has lost someone to suicide. For more info, call 802-479-9450, or ljlivendale@yahoo.com. BURDENS WEIGHTING YOU DOWN? Unemployed, homeless, in need of direction? We are people just like you and have found the answer to all of the above problems. We meet every Wednesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the Imani Center 293 N Winooski Ave. Please call 802-343-2027. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (OA) Meetings in Barre occur every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday 6-7 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 39 Washington St. Info: 863-2655. Meetings in Johnson occur every Sunday 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Johnson Municipal Building, Route 15 (just west of the bridge). Info: Debbie Y., 8885958. Meeting in Montpelier occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at Bethany Church, 115 Main St. Info: Carol, 223-5793. Meetings in Morrisville occur every Friday 12-1 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 85 Upper Main St. Contacts: Anne, 888-2356 or Debbie Y., 888-5958. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS) Hospice Volunteer Services (HVS) of Addison County and the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will collaborate to sponsor a monthly ongoing support group for people who have lost someone by suicide. The group will meet the 1st Wed. of each month from 6-7:30 p.m. These free peer support groups will be held at Hospice Volunteer Services at the Marbleworks in Middlebury, and co-

facilitated by professional representatives from HVS and AFSP, both suicide survivors. For more information and to register call HVS at 388-4111. A NEW PERSPECTIVE A peer support group for people working through the combination of mental health and substance abuse issues. Wednesdays at the Turning Point Center, 5-6 p.m. The group will be facilitated and will be built around a weekly video followed by a group discussions. Some of the topics will include: Addictions and mental illness, recovery stories, dealing with stress, understanding personality problems, emotions. 191 Bank St., Burlington. 802-861-3150. BEREAVED PARENTS & SIBLINGS SUPPORT GROUP of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at 277 Blair Park Rd., Williston. Info, 660-8797. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause. NEED A HUG? New support group starting. Would you like to explore personal intimacy in a safe environment? This is accomplished by using touch for expressing and receiving tenderness. This is platonic and personal boundaries are respected. Day, time and location TBA. Jeff 310-4903 email iiyog@ aol.com. COED SINGLES GROUP Ages 50-65, forming for friendship and fun. Chittenden County area. Activities to include weeknight/weekend dinner, bowling, hikes, snow shoeing, movies, etc. If interested email Myra at csbnc27609@aol.com. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA’S SUPPORT GROUP Held monthly at The Arbors at Shelburne. For info. or to register, contact Nicole at 802985-8600. WOMEN’S RAPE CRISIS CENTER Will be starting a free, confidential 10week support group for adult female survivors of sexual violence. Please call 864-0555 ext. 20 for information. LIVING SINGLE SUPPORT GROUP This course is a follow-up to the Divorce Recovery course that is offered at Essex Alliance Church. If you’ve been through the Divorce Care Class, you have an opportunity to continue to grow, heal,

sevendaysvt.com/classifieds rebuild, and start again. Call Sue Farris for more information at 802-7340695. SUICIDE SURVIVORS SUPPORT GROUP For those who have lost a friend or loved one through suicide. Location: Maple Leaf Clinic, 167 North Main Street, Wallingford, 802-4463577. 6:30-8:00 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month. GLAFF Gay and lesbian adoptive and foster families. GLAFF provides support, education, resources and strategies to help maintain and strengthen gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families in northwestern VT. Open to all GLBTQ foster and adoptive parents and their children. Food, childcare provided. The group meets on the 1st Thursday of each month. Call Mike at 655-6688 to get more information and to register.

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE BATTLING MULTIPLE MYELOMA? Support meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hope Lodge on East Avenue, Burlington. For more information call Kay Cromie at 655-9136 or email kgcromey@aol.com. SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS Group forming for family members and loved ones of people with terminal illness. The group will have a spiritual base. We will offer each other support by listening, as well as share creative ways to explore feelings of grief and loss through writing, prayer, etc. Please contact Holly, hollyh@ pshift.com. AL-ANON Family group 12-step. Thursdays, 12:20-1:20 p.m. Call AWARE at 802472-6463 for information and to register. Free of charge. 88 High Street, Hardwick.

BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT Montpelier daytime support group meets first and third Thursday of the month at the Unitarian Church “ramp entrance” from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Montpelier evening support group meets the first Tuesday of each month at Vermont Protection and Advocacy, 141 Main St., Suite 7, in conference room #2 from 6-8 p.m. Colchester evening support group meets the first Wednesday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital in the ground floor boardroom from 6-8 p.m. Middlebury support group on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Call our helpline at 1-877-856-1772. FORMING A NEW GROUP focused on recovery/ management of addictions, compulsions and their resulting imbalances on our lives. Alternative or supplement to traditional 12-step programs. Are you having trouble moderating

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alcohol? Work? Sex? Television? Food? Drugs? Computer games? Requires a commitment to improving your health and the ability to maintain a nonjudgmental atmosphere. Let’s discover how our struggles relate and help each other work on strategies to find balance. Contact Michelle at 802-399-6575 or recoveryourbalance@ gmail.com. LAKE CHAMPLAIN MEN’S RESOURCE CENTER MEN’S DROP-IN SUPPORT GROUP All men welcome, weekly group w/cofacilitators. Open discussion format. Varied topics including: relationships, work, parenting, personal growth, healing. Confidential, nonjudgmental. Open to all ethnicities, religions and sexual orientations. Joseph’s House, 113 Elmwood Ave. Every Thursday, 7-9 p.m. More info: call Chris 434-4830. LYME DISEASE Are you interested in forming a group? Please call Susan at 899-2713.

HIV SUPPORT GROUP This is a facilitated HIV/ AIDS support group that aims to foster a greater sense of community, self-acceptance and personal growth. We are a group of survivors and, with all of our experience, will help you understand and enjoy what positive living has to offer. Friday @ 7 p.m. in the white building behind the Universal Unitarian Church. For more info call Alton @ 310-6094. SHOPLIFTERS SUPPORT GROUP Self-help support group now forming in the capital area for persons who would like to meet regularly for mutual support. This new group would meet biweekly at a time and place to be decided to discuss our issues, struggles and ways of staying out of trouble. We’ll likely use some of Terry Shulman’s work as a focus for some of our discussions. Please call Tina at 802-763-8800 or email at Tmarie267201968@cs.com

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EATING DISORDERS PARENTAL SUPPORT GROUP for parents of children with or at risk of anorexia or bulimia. Meetings 7-9 p.m., third Wednesday of each month at the Covenant Community Church, Rt. 15, Essex Center. We focus on being a resource and providing reference points for old and new ED parents. More information, call Peter at 802-899-2554.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter Meeting. Bethany Church, 115 Main Street, Montpelier. Wednesdays, 5:15-6:15 p.m. For info call Linda at 476-8345.

ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington. Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 8636384.

BEREAVED PARENT SUPPORT GROUP Every first Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in Enosburg Falls, 10 Market Place, Main St. Parents, grandparents and adult siblings are welcomed. The hope is to begin a Compassionate Friends Chapter in the area. Info, please call Priscilla at 933-7749.

FAMILY AND FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP If someone in your family or one of your friends is in an abusive relationship, this new support group is designed especially for you. Info, call Women Helping Battered Women, 658-1996. WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support

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groups for women who have fled, are fleeing, or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present. WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women and children in this community. Info, 658-1996. VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM Info, contact MaryKay Hill, 802-373-0351. TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. weigh-in, 7-8 p.m. meeting. Info, call Fred or Bennye, 655-3317, or Patricia, 658-6904. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 862-4516, or visit www.cvana.org. Held in Burlington.

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Chief Operating Officer. The APF is headquartered in Baltimore, Md., but its management team works virtually from all parts of the country. The position requires significant nonprofit financial management skills, program quality improvement understanding and skills, ability to manage a team of top-flight managers, and an evident passion for the mission of the organization. Please submit a letter of interest and resume electronically to Bonnie Weissfeld, assistant to the CEO, at bweissfeld@painfoundation.org. Deadline for submission is October 30, 2010.

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SSTA, a local not-for-profit, is looking to add more dynamos to our team. We are currently looking to hire a full-time dispatcher, full-time customer service rep and full- and parttime drivers. For more information regarding these positions and to download an application, go to our website, www.sstarides.org.

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Part time—30 hours per week

Vermont Adult Learning, a nonprofit statewide provider of adult education and literacy services, seeks an organized and outgoing individual to provide administrative assistance at the Learning Center located in Rutland, Vt. This part-time position offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, long-term disability, life insurance and generous, flexible paid time off. Equal Opportunity Employer Visit our website, www.vtadultlearning.org, for more information.

Resume deadline: October 25, 2010. Candidates must be willing to submit to criminal background checks and drug and alcohol testing. Any offer 2:57:41 PMof employment is contingent 4t-VtAdultLearning-101310.indd 1 upon the satisfactory results of these checks.

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Engage, cultivate, solicit and steward alumni, parents and friends to ensure a strong base of ongoing financial support through deferred3v-SSTA-dispatcher101310.indd gifts. The Director will serve as the liaison to the University’s older constituency base, the Old Guard, and coordinates all 50th and Old Guard reunion initiatives and organizes its fundraising program.

UNIFORMED NIGHT BARRACKS AND RESIDENCE LIFE SUPERVISOR

Provide night / weekend monitoring and walking supervision of an array of 10 barracks and residence halls housing approximately 1800 students. Work with Corps of Cadets and Residence Life student leaders in providing a safe and respectful environment for cadets and residential, traditional students.

CLIENT SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE Seeking full-time, outgoing, personable and organized person for busy, fast-paced financial aid office for customer service, reception, general office support, data entry, file maintenance and state grant processing. Please visit our website, www.norwich.edu/jobs, for further information and details on how to apply for these and other great jobs. Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer offering a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, group life and long-term disability insurance, flexible-spending accounts for health and dependent care, retirement annuity plan, and tuition scholarships for eligible employees and their family members.

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Experience the independence and satisfaction of one-to-one patient care in a supportive, flexible and professional environment. Work individually with patients in their homes providing them with skills that will help to maintain their lifestyle. These positions offer a personally and professionally rewarding way to share your knowledge and have a direct hand in a patient’s quality of life at home!

Qualifications include a current Vermont Physical Therapy license and a minimum of two years of experience preferably within a rehabilitation program.

Vermont Commons School seeks an experienced Development Director to oversee various campaigns, including the Annual Fund and Capital Giving drives, locate sources of funding, develop relationships with potential donors, as well as steward and soliciting major contributors. Must have experience managing a capital campaign and strong written and verbal communication skills. No phone calls, please; email allison@ vermontcommons.org for further information.

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CLINICAL OPPORTUNITIES

Full-time Physical Therapist

Development Director

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Full-time Community Health RN Qualifications include prior experience in a medical-surgical environment and a current Vermont license.

Full-time Hospice RN Hospice and/or palliative care is strongly preferred. VT RN license with two years of nursing experience.

Please visit our website at www.achhh.org and apply directly online. Or, please send your resume to cpaquette@achhh.org or to ACHHH, Human Resources; PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753. Fax your resume to (802) 388-6126 or drop by for an application and interview. We look forward to hearing from you!

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LIBRARY DIRECTOR TOWN OF STOWE, VT Stowe is a premier four-season resort community in Vermont that is the proud home of the Stowe Free Library. It is a municipal library that has a collection of 35,000 and annual visits of 140,000. Stowe has 5,000 year-round residents, but the library also services a robust second home and tourist population. The Library Director is responsible for collection and program development, personnel management of six library employees, policy development and implementation, and administration of an annual operating budget of $500,000. This position involves considerable interaction with the Library Board of Trustees, Town Manager, library employees and the public.

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needed immediately for busy independent auto dealership specializing in foreign vehicles. Preference of someone with a background in Saab or Volvo; excellent pay and benefits include paid holidays, personal/sick days, health insurance, dental insurance and retirement plan.

is seeking to fill several positions at our Second Spring Community Recovery Residence located in Williamstown, Vt.

Evening Nurse ~ one full-time evening nursing position to provide professional nursing services to residents who would generally receive services in a hospital environment, including providing direct nursing services as needed, overseeing provision of care in line with treatment plans, administering medications as prescribed and providing appropriate documentation. The shift for this position is from 3 – 11 p.m. Mon. – Fri. Our Nurses also provide clinical and administrative 1:26supervision PM Page 1to Community Recovery Residence staff. Per diem opportunities for all shifts are also available. Candidates should have an RN with current Vermont license and a minimum of two years experience as a Registered Nurse with current psychiatric and medical experience.

AnExec extremely low turnover VOH Dir ad:Layout 1 7/30/07 dealership, we are looking to A master’s degree in library sciences and three years exreplace a retiring technician. perience in library operations, budgeting and employee supervision is required, but additional experience may be Please contact substituted for education requirements. Applicants should service@snowfireauto.com. VERGENNES OPERA HOUSE possess excellent interpersonal and technical skills, a strong We’re seeking a full-time Executive Director ClinicaltoCase Manager ~ one full-time position available background in personnel management, and knowledge of continue our 10 year mission as the premiere arts responsible for providing individual and group for a person library computer systems. This is a full-time position with counseling, venue in Addison County.The successful candidate will and rehabilitative and social work services Part-time1 excellent benefits. Starting salary range of $49,355 - $57,133, 2v-Snowfire-100610.indd 10/4/10 4:10:37 PM to persons with serious and persistent mental illness in a be an enthusiastic leader, with boot-strapping dependent upon qualifications and experience. EOE and trauma-sensitive environment. Position is resourcefulness and jack-of-all-trades skills, recovery-based including: responsible for coordination of services with community mental A job description and application can be obtained on our planning/budgeting, fundraising, arts The Friends of the health providers, psychiatric providers and other community website: www.townofstowevt.org. Send letter of interest programming, advertising, hall rentals, Vergennes Opera agencies. Master’s degree in social work, psychology or and resume to Town of Stowe, Attn: Susanne Gann, community relations, computer savvy, with a minimum of three years experience working House seek an counseling HR Coordinator, PO Box 730, Stowe, VT 05672, and more-than-occasional adept multitasker withelbow individuals with serious and persistent mental illness. or email recruit@townofstowevermont.org. grease. Salary to fill a new part- commensurate with time position experience.Email letter of interest and / OT Coordinator ~ one full-time position Vocational Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but we managing to: events resume vergennesoperahouse open for an energetic, recovery-oriented individual to will begin scheduling interviews no later than November 8, 2010. and helping to No phone calls provide vocational assessment, training and development in @yahoo.com. or dropexpand and coordination with clinical and direct care staff. Candidates in visits use please. enjoyment of our should have excellent communication and computer skills 5v-TownOfStowe-library-101310.indd 1 10/11/10 3:58:14 PM historic theatre. Great opportunity and the ability to work as a team player. This position requires for growth within the position. Job a master’s degree and two years experience; bachelor’s is 20 hours/week, $14/hour, mainly degree and three years experience; or a combination of evenings and weekends. Dedicated, experienced education and relevant experience and/ or an occupational therapist degree may be considered. For full description, visit our website, cook for assisted www.vergennesoperahouse.org. living facility. Valid driver’s license, excellent driving record and safe, To apply, send resume and cover letter We are looking for insured vehicle also required. All positions offer competitive to hr@vergennesoperahouse.org. someone with a passion wages ~ benefit eligible positions offer a flexible benefits and Open until filled. for food who takes pride time-off package. If desired, flexible benefit dollars may be in their work. Must have solid , converted to additional compensation. knowledge of kitchen with the ability to lead, train and work with others in the kitchen Part-time Applications may be made to: serving over 60 residents three meals a day, working under the Food Service2v-VergennesOpera-101310.indd 1 10/11/10 4:21:01 PM Lori Schober, Second Spring Manager. Must be patient and respectful to an elderly population. Year118 Clark Rd. round, full-time position with benefits. Four-day workweek with some Williamstown, VT 05679 weekends. Competitive salary and good opportunity for the right person. needed for local RequiRements: Must pass background record checks. Must pass preOr via email to distribution company. employment physical. Good personal hygiene and good physical health. Lori Schober at: The ideal candidate will loris@cscorp.org

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Events Manager

Cook

Merchandiser

Prep Cook /Dishwasher

Looking for a reliable, fun, person to work long, hard hours standing in a kitchen preparing our meals with our chef, assisting our dishwasher. Prep of salads, prep of upcoming meal, washing dishes, assisting chief and other facilities as needed. RequiRments: reliablity, reliable transportation, ability to work well independently as well as with others, ability to take direction from others. Standing during entire shift, good physical health. Shift hours will vary from day to day, weekends and holidays will be required. If you are hired, you will be required to wait for background checks to clear. PI L LSbu rY M a nor , 20 Harborview rd., So. burlington, VT 05403, jzeno@pillsburymanor.com

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have some previous sales and/or customer service experience.

Early morning hours are required. Ability to work independently is a must. Good driving history and people skills are critical. Approximately 20 hours a week.

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We are expanding our So. Burlington office. Top producers deserve top pay. $11/hour guaranteed after training. $15-$20/hour realistic with weekly bonus program.

VENDING ROUTE DRIVERS

CONCERT TICKET SALES,

ionwide fundraising If you want to becomrewarded for your hard pany, is seeking work, is where you belong! viduals to staffthen ourthis South Burlington, VT office. The best part of sales is that you have the ability to give your-

selfWe a raise based on how hard you work. We offer an excellent offer: income potential with a weekly bonus structure.

and part-time positions National fundraising company needs two individuals to join 2-9 pm, NO WEEKENDS our sales team. These are permanent positions, not seasonal. per week after training + bonus program Established customer roducers -making $600-$850 perbase week Paid vacation after one ompany benefits including 401K,year - Group life, vision and dental plans available al & dental Management advancement for achievers perience -necessary Monday-Friday, noon-9 p.m. Occasional Sundays. We are gement opportunity

looking for two highly motivated, career-minded people with

good communication skills. Experience helpful but will train oking for highly motivated, the right candidates. er-oriented people with good Part-time shifts available, too. unication skills. For interview, Call 802-652-9629 to schedule an interview.

EAT, DRINK AND WRITE ALL ABOUT IT We are looking for motivated, responsible individuals. Must be able to work independently, possess a positive attitude, be capable of lifting up to 50 lbs. and have a clean driving record. We offer a competitive wage along with excellent benefits. Apply in person or online at: Farrell Vending Services, Inc.

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Seven Days is looking for a staff food writer with proven journalistic experience, creative flair and extensive knowledge of the Vermont food industry — restaurants, producers and agriculture issues. The position involves originating, writing and assigning food features and reviews; contributing to a weekly food-news column and blog; planning and writing the editorial content of 7 Nights, the dining and nightlife guide; and planning/ coordinating Seven Days’ annual Vermont Restaurant Week and other food events. Send writing samples and a cover letter via email to foodwriter@ sevendaysvt.com, or snail mail to Food Writer, Seven Days, P.O. Box 1164, Burlington, VT 05402. No phone calls, please.

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Dental Assistant

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CALL CENTER: Customer Sales & Service 128 Intervale Road Burlington, VT 05401 For more info, call 660-4611 Wednesdays, October 13 & 20

Are you interested in expanding your horizons in the dentistry field? Are you a team player with a great attitude? Do you thrive in a diverse, fast-paced environment with an emphasis on excellent patient care? Then our office is for you.

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Autism Specialist

Sou t h Bu r li ngton high School Seeking an experienced Autism Specialist with excellent communication skills to lead a team at South Burlington High School. This licensed special educator must have training and experience with evidence-based practices to support students with significant autism at the high school level. This is a dynamic team in need of an organized, skilled and collaborative leader. Please send questions to: Joanne Godek at jgodek@sbschools.net.

Director of Facilities

Sou t h Bu r li ngton School DiSt r ic t Qualified candidates will have demonstrated knowledge of current cleaning and building maintenance; effective organizational, interpersonal and communication skills; three to five years of supervisory experience; and demonstrated experience in building operations. Interested applicants may forward their resume and three current references to: Diane Kinnon, Human Resource Department, South Burlington School District, 550 Dorset St., So. Burlington, VT 05403, or apply at www.sbschools.net. E O E

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Teachers needed at our Essex location. Must have experience, education and a sense of humor. Starting pay $12/hour (based on experience and education). Contact Krista at Leaps & Bounds, 802-879-2021 or kristalacroix@yahoo.com.

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Addison Central Supervisory Union/ Middlebury Union Middle School

Help Desk Position Do you enjoy helping people with computer issues? Do you have a solid understanding of Macs and Computer Networks? Are you able to be proactive at addressing user needs? Middlebury Union Middle School and ACSU has a help desk position for 20 hours a week to support staff and students in the use of technology in the classroom. We are looking for a dedicated, self-motivated Mac expert with good communication skills. The primary job responsibility will be addressing help tickets within the school - i.e. trouble with a printer, wireless connection issues, misplaced files, etc. Additionally, the person would be a go-to support person for teachers running technology-intense lessons. While the schedule would be fixed, we are flexible around the scheduling needs of the right candidate. The job will be 20 hours per full school week, from the date of hire to mid-June at $20 per hour. Hours would be reduced on weeks with a school vacation. Benefits are not included. Apply by sending a letter of interest, resume and three current reference letters to: Wm. Lee Sease, Superintendent Addison Central Supervisory Union 49 Charles Avenue, Middlebury, Vermont 05753. EOE Position open until filled.

We are a high-volume, fast-paced, community-oriented restaurant searching for an energetic, upbeat, detail-oriented and experienced Front of House Manager. A candidate for this job must be able to lead, motivate and communicate firmly and fairly with our staff. Sincere interactions with our guests leading to the delivery of excellent customer service are a major part of this job. Professionalism and solid judgment paired with an honest sense of fun and goodwill are key. Ability to maintain high standards and even temperament under pressure is a must. In addition to management of lunch and dinner shifts, responsibilities include end-of-shift cash-outs and nightly closing duties. The position includes nights and weekends. Benefits include health insurance and paid vacation time. If you have relevant restaurant experience and the personality traits listed above, please forward your resumes and references to: tracy@flatbreadhearth.com. No phone calls, please.

Full-time Publicity Professional

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#033823 The University of Vermont’s Learning Cooperative seeks a full-time Tutor Coordinator to fill a 10-month position. This position coordinates the Subject-area Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction programs. Hires, trains and supervisors over 150 peer tutors. Manages payroll and scheduling systems. Responsible for collaborating on the creation of cooperative and group learning opportunities. The individual in this position must demonstrate a commitment to multiculturalism and inclusion. Some evening and weekend hours are required. The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the institution. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. Please apply online at www.uvmjobs.com.

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Write, post, tweet, research and hustle for exciting clients. From industries like book publishing and renewable energy firms to nonprofits and political campaigns, we want a multitasking, super-organized, articulate hard worker who can work as part of a team. MS Office Applications and/or MAC skills a must. This is a full-time, just above entry-level position, not for the faint of heart. We are a fast-paced, supportive environment with a “getit-done” attitude. Qualifications: College graduate, three to five years experience in one or more of the following areas: communications, writing, campaigning, advocacy, promotion. Well-read, creative person who follows political issues, can roll with the office punches and can keep the pace in a fast-moving campaign environment. Competitive salary and benefits. Please send resume immediately to:

Kevin Ellis, Kimbell Sherman Ellis resumes@ksefocus.com

Part-time Legislative/Regulatory Analyst Support Our 50-state legislative and regulatory analysts need help. This is a part-time government affairs

research position. Superb organization, writing, analytical and people skills required. A strong work ethic and proficiency in MS Office applications are a must.

If you are interested in government affairs, can work up to 20 hours a week, and are willing to learn and grow, this job could be right for you. The position could become full time. Please send resume by October 22, 2010 to:

Jennifer Estivill, Kimbell Sherman Ellis resumes@ksefocus.com Please – no phone calls. EOE

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Church Caretaker Part time

PRODUCT PLANNING & PURCHASING COORDINATOR.

Well-organized analytical individual with outstanding spreadsheet Two evening and/or skills will be responsible for developing product sales forecasts weekend shifts per week. michelle@sevendaysvt.com to integrate with on-hand inventory and recommend seasonal purchase quantities. Monitors sell through and recommends Duties include cleaning, product for promotions and “push lists” in both the catalog/web event setup and greeting and wholesale channels. Also responsible for negotiating pricing NEWSPAPER and purchasing of all inventoried items, NY017105B 10/13 including follow up such the public. SEVEN Must DAYS be able to as order conﬁrmations, on-time delivery of goods, invoice approvals, MAMILLER 3.83 x 7” shovel snow from steps, returns to and credits from suppliers. Two years in supply analysis jb/rv 2 ACCHRS0 and planning required. 1t-KidsontheBlock-101310.indd 1 10/11/10 10:19:58 1x1e-recruiting.indd AM 1 10/12/09 5:54:50 PMmove tables and take charge in an emergency. Addison Central Supervisory Union Please see our website for Middlebury Union High School a complete job description: Terry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please submit resume and cover letter to: www.uusociety.org. Human Resources Network Manager Send resumes to: Terry Precision Cycling 47 Maple Street, Burlington, VT 05401 david@uusociety.org. OR email: hr@terrybicycles.com Addison Central Supervisory Union is seeking a network manager to maintain the computers for Middlebury Union High School. The qualifying candidate will need to be self-motivated and 2v-FirstU-101310.indd 1 4t-Terrycycling101310.indd 1 10/11/10 12:37:18 PM 10/11/10 4:20:46 PM organized, able to support students and staff in the use of technology as an aid to learning and communication.

Send cover letter, resume and three references to: Deb@KidsontheBlockVermont.org.

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The candidate will be responsible for 10 servers and 250 desktops. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly respond to requests for the repair of individual machines, and the installation and configuration of software that directly meets staff needs. The candidate must have both interpersonal communication skills and patience working with staff and students to meet their technology needs. Applicants must possess: • Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related field • One or more related Microsoft Certifications • High degree of experience using Windows XP and 7 in a Windows • 2003/2008 Server environment • Experience with Active Directory, Group Policy, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Imaging • Experience working within a high school setting • Experience repairing, maintaining and building images for PCs • Experience mentoring users in software usage • Ability to carry up to 50 pounds Apply by sending a letter of interest, resume and three current reference letters to: Wm. Lee Sease, Superintendent Addison Central Supervisory Union 49 Charles Avenue, Middlebury, Vermont 05753

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Our Artifactory is seeking dependable, creative, outgoing persons with an affinity for exquisite elixirs and an aptitude for pleasing the populace to occupy two some-time positions throughout the winter months that will develop into more extensive hours during the summer. Duties include: guiding tours, general retail functions, serving samples and educating about elixirs. Availability on weekends, holidays and evenings is an inescapable imperative, as is an achievement of at least 21 years of life experience. Desperately seeking individuals who have previous beer-serving experience and general beer knowledge and/or public speaking/acting experience. Send resume and cover letter to vtjobs@ independentbrewers.com.

EOE Position open until filled.

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Unilever works to create a better future every day. We help people feel good, look good and get more out of life with brands and services that are good for them and good for others. We are currently seeking the following position for our St. Albans, VT location:

Maintenance Supervisor/ Ammonia Refrigeration Qualified Candidates must posses: • B.S. in Engineering (Mechanical/Chemical Engineering preferred) and at least 3 years supervisory experience • AAS in an Engineering/ Maintenance field and 7 years supervisory experience • At least 3 years Manufacturing experience (preferable in food/dairy/frozen foods/ice cream) • At least 5 years ammonia refrigeration experience and demonstrated knowledge of IIAR standards • Knowledge of regulatory codes sufficient to ensure compliance with industry and company standards. Employment is subject to verification of pre-employment drug-screening results, and background investigation. To apply, log on to www.unileverusa-careers.com or call 1-888-775-0389 and reference Req. #29068. Unilever is an EEO/AA Employer.

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

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Closet Crafters, Inc. has an immediate opening for a part-time installer/ technician. Good pay, great work environment, will lead to full time for the right individual. Carpentry background helpful. Please send a resume to closetcrafters@comcast.net or mail to 446 Shunpike Rd., Williston, VT 05495.

DIRECTOR OF NURSING SERVICES

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DNS needed for newest 64bed skilled-nursing facility in Vermont. Franklin County Rehab has a 20-private-room rehab unit and 44 long-term-care beds. RN-BSN plus five years nursing experience, two years supervisory experience. Work experience in medical rehab a plus. Please send resume to Franklin County Rehab Center, 110 Fairfax Rd., Saint Albans, VT 05478, or email kgladden@ franklincountyrehab.com. www.franklincountyrehab.com

Staff Accountant Addison County Home Health and Hospice, a not-for-profit home health care agency, is seeking a full-time staff accountant to work 32-40 hours per week. Responsibilities include account reconciliations, monthly journal entries, grant reporting, financial analyses and accounts payable processing. The role also assists the CFO with the annual budget, financial audit work, and other projects as assigned. Qualified candidates should possess a degree in accounting and at least two years of experience.

Quality Assurance Assistant/ Mechanical Audit This position is responsible for auditing all documentation submitted by clinicians, particularly visit sheets and flow sheets, completing a mechanical audit on all patient records at the time of each service discharge. Team player needed due to interaction with staff on a consistent basis to assure that deficiencies in audits are addressed effectively and efficiently, as well locating clinical documentation that coincides with billing records. Associate’s degree preferred with a familiarity of home health care systems. Experience with quality assurance a plus.

We are Vermont’s leading furniture retailer, and we have an opening for a sales professional in two of our locations. You must be a team player and have a customer-first attitude. Attention to detail is a must, with weekend hours involved. Our top salespeople are making $50,000+ in a tough economy, and our business is growing. If you are interested in joining a professional sales team, and we do mean team, email your resume to: dwhitaker@furniturevt. com, or mail to Julie Lusignan, 320 Pioneer Dr., Williston, VT 05495.

Please visit our website at www.achhh.org and apply directly online. Or, please send your resume to ssherman@achhh.org or to ACHHH, Human Resources; PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.

Part-time Night Auditor Quality Inn in Shelburne is hiring. Competitive pay, experience required. Please apply in person at Quality Inn, 2572 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, and bring references.

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Tobacco Program Chief Vermont Department of Health

Be a Leader in One of the Top “Winnable Battles” in Public Health! The Tobacco Chief is the primary leader of Vermont’s comprehensive Tobacco Control efforts. The Tobacco Control Program is tasked with preventing youth smoking: reducing adult smoking; reducing secondhand smoke exposure; media counter marketing; and enforcement efforts. The of Health program seeks toDepartment reach special populations that are Division of Mental Health disproportionately affected by tobacco. The Division of Mental Health is currently seeking dynamic individuals to fill exciting opportunities in a transforming mental health system.

The Tobacco Control Chief works with a highly knowledgeable staff, the Tobacco Review Board, community partners, nonproﬁt organizations and leaders within the Agency of Human Services to achieve program goals. The position manages multi-millionMENTAL HEALTH ACUTE CARE MANAGER contracts grants toof adults over organizations; Youdollar will coordinate admissions andand continued-stay reviews with 20 serious mental health conditions, as well as children and adolescents admitted to acute mental health inpatient settings. Provide case consultation funding from the Centers for Disease Control; and a staff and care review of clients admitted to acute mental health inpatient settings (and Medicaid reimbursed clients in general hospitals), including consultation and coordination with Vermont State Hospital and general of six; and is part of the Division of Health Promotion hospitals, designated agency emergency services, and adult and/or children's services treatment teams. Prefer master's degree in aPrevention mental health relatedManagement field, and currently licensed as a mental health professional. and Disease Team. Reference posting #22811. Burlington – Full-Time. Open until filled.

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This is a full-time position located in downtown Burlington, with routine travel to Waterbury, Williston and other Vermont locations. Some out-of-state travel may be required.

DATA ANALYST AND INFORMATION COORDINATOR You will provide program level support for all DMH information and business reporting needs. Work with stakeholders to ensure data integrity, and develop and manage ad hoc reports using a variety of reporting and analysis tools. You will design software programs (i.e. ACCESS) capable of organizing and analyzing monthly service information and generate ad hoc evaluative reports from multiple sources. You should have sound statistical, analytical, and computer skills, as well as good communication skills, and a sense of humor. Reference posting #22859. Burlington – Full-Time. Open until filled.

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Then there are the restaurant rating sites, which allow everybody to play Craig Claiborne for a day. Did you think the tuna was overcooked or the filet underseasoned? You can dish and hundreds, even millions, of people will eat it up. But without the transparency of newspaper critics, who are bound by journalistic ethics to pay for their own meals and use their real names on stories, online commentators can be cruel under a veil of anonymity. They can also be “sock puppets,” posting glowing reviews because they’re on a restaurant’s payroll. Do amateur critics spell the end of traditional restaurant reviewing? Tony O’Rourke, a local food lover who regularly posts reviews on the 7 Nights site as well as on Chowhound, doesn’t think so. He believes “the web complements traditional food journalism. The upside of the web is … the ease of obtaining specific details.” When O’Rourke travels to new cities, for example, Chowhound has helped him to discover some “real gems” he wouldn’t otherwise have visited.

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Cutting Loose Serious scholars of silent film have undoubtedly marveled at the sweeping skyscrapers, workers’ underworld and ancient catacombs of Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis.. But it’s nothing compared to this year’s restored version by the FriedrichWilhelm-Murnau-Foundation, which pieces together the German Expressionist milestone that was drastically shortened for commercial potential after its debut. The 2008 discovery of an early print in a private Argentinean collection supplies another 25 minutes that sometimes “comprise whole subplots that were lopped off in their entirety,” according to an essay in the 2010 TCM Classic Film Festival catalogue. With this painstaking revival, “Metropolis can finally be seen as Lang originally intended it,” says the Wall Street Journal.. The Alloy Orchestra (pictured), an acclaimed three-piece ensemble formed in 1990, provide custom accompaniment at a special Hop screening.

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Saturday, October 16, 7 p.m., at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. $5-12. Info, 603-646-2422. hop.dartmouth.edu

Gone With the Wind Coming across a mole or a rat in your basement is one thing; on the stage is a different matter. The anthropomorphic characters of Scottish writer Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, Willows published in 1908, have lasting appeal: “We can sort of see ourselves in each of these characters,” explains director Eileen Corcoran. She was inspired to piece together the Little City Players’ original adaptation after hearing the tag line for Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Small Boat Festival — “Messing About in Boats,” a phrase taken from Grahame’s novel. The LCP production sticks to the tale’s classic feel, with a storybook-style set design that features an actual rowboat crossing the stage, and costumes with subtle animal traits. (Badger, for example, sports a tweed jacket and gray-striped hair.) Revisit these childhood friends at the Vergennes Opera House this week.

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Thursday, October 14, through Saturday, October 16, 8 p.m., and Sunday, October 17, 2 p.m., at Vergennes Opera House. View website for future dates through October 24. $6-12. Info, 877-6737. www.littlecityplayers.org

Be Quiet When British proofreader Charlie Baker takes a weekend getaway to a fishing lodge in rural Georgia, less sightseeing ensues than fullon hilarity. In the Marble Valley Players’ production of American playwright Larry Shue’s The Foreigner,, the introverted protagonist masquerades as an exotic, non-English-speaking stranger to avoid talking to anyone — only to become the confidante of everyone from a spoiled heiress to a scheming county property inspector. Director Gary Thompson, who’s been involved with MVP productions for 25 years, was attracted to the romp because “There’s enough sad stuff going on in the world,” he explains, noting the play is sure to bring on the belly laughs. “It just gets funnier and funnier as we go along” in rehearsals, he says. Take a seat and learn what it means to be a good listener.

‘THE FOREIGNER’ Friday, October 15, through Saturday, October 16, 8 p.m., and Sunday, October 17, 2 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in West Rutland. View website for future dates through October 23. $12. Info, 775-0903. www.marblevalleyplayersvt.org

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rayola may look at the drawings of Harold and the Purple Crayon’s kid protagonist and see only the color — “purple pizzazz,” they’d identify it — but audience members are more apt to get lost in the story. It’s not hard to; the plot, based on the picture books of children’s author Crockett Johnson, follows an imaginative young boy as he draws himself into an enchanted garden, a circus tent and more. Harold’s journeys — composed of “simple lines to illustrate sweet stories,” notes NPR — get an extra dose of magic from traveling nonprofit arts organization Enchantment Theatre Company. Life-sized puppets, masked actors and large-scale digital animation translate the tales from the page to the stage. And you don’t still have to play with crayons to go. ETC’s productions “mix mime and dance into a stylized ballet of color and sound that entrances both the kids and their adult companions,” says Philadelphia Weekly.

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Burlington Business & Professional Women Dinner Meeting: Paul Thabault, a manager of the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, Lois McClure-Bee Tabakin building, presents over an evening meal. Best Western Windjammer Inn & Conference Center, South Burlington, 5:30-8 p.m. $25. Info, 238-6110, burlingtonbpw@gmail.com.

Sunday, October 17, 3 p.m., at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $15-19. Info, 863-5966. www.flynntix.org

Networking Luncheon for Vermont Healers: Area herbalists, health practitioners, educators and others receive advice from Mindful Business Development’s Jason Pugliese on defining their business vision. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 598-9206.

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‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’: Flynn Student Matinée Sunday, October 18, 9:30 a.m., and noon, at Flynn MainStage in Burlington. $8.50. Info, 652-4548.

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Winooski Coalition for a Safe and Peaceful Community: Neighbors and local businesses help create a thriving Onion City by planning community events, sharing resources, networking and more. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, 3:30-4:45 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1392, ext.10.

dance Classic Jazz Dance: Choreographer Danny Buraczeski helps intermediate and advanced dancers move to the pulse of great jazz rhythms and lines. Space is limited; preregister. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 6 p.m. $20. Info, 863-5966. Rhythm of the Dance: Acclaimed Irish dancers, musicians and singers share the culture of their country in this world-traveling show featuring a live band. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $22. 50-29.50. Info, 775-0903.

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

film Festival du Nouveau Cinéma: A longstanding big-screen affair boasts a lineup of independent flicks from around the world. Various locations, Montréal, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Various prices. Info, 514-282-0004, infolettre@nouveaucinema.ca. ‘Flipped’: Rob Reiner’s 2010 romantic comedy proves opposites attract as two drastically different eighth graders deal with their feelings. Cinema 1, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. LGBTQ Immigration Movie Night: Film buffs view Lisa Bell’s “Excluded” before discussing the LGBTQ experience in countries outside of the United States. R.U.1.2? Community Center, Winooski, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812. ‘North by Northwest’: The Reel to Reel Series continues with a screening of Hitchcock’s 1959 suspense flick about mistaken identity. Amnesty Room, Angell College Center, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-565-0145. ‘Sin Nombre’: A young Honduran teen comes up against unexpected roadblocks as she tries to make her way to the U.S. in Cary Fukunaga’s 2009 drama. Part of the Violence in Latin America Film Series. Yokum Lecture Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. Free. Info, 518-565-0145. ‘The Extra Man’: A dreamer moves to New York City to catch his big break as a writer, but forges an unlikely bond with his much older escort roommate instead in this offbeat comedy by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Cinema 2, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 748-2600. ‘Tokyo!’: A trio of directors contributed to this three-part drama of Tokyo-set tales that explore isolation and transformation. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 603-646-2422.

food & drink Apple Butter & Canning: Plump up your pantry by adding jars of preserved fruits made in this how-to workshop. Preregister. The Chubby Muffin, Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 861-9700.

Knit Night: Crafty needleworkers (crocheters, too) share their talents and company as they give yarn a makeover. Phoenix Books, Essex, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-7111.

Enosburg Falls Farmers Market: A morethan-20-year-old bazaar offers herbs, jellies, vegetables and just-baked goodies in the heart of the village. Lincoln Park, Enosburg Falls, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 933-4503 or 933-6623.

fairs & festivals Monkton Creates: Exhibitions, film screenings, pie contests, live music, dance events and arts celebrations raise funds for the East Monkton Church Association and the Monkton Boro Schoolhouse restoration project. Various locations, Monkton, 7-9 p.m. Info, 453-3795, monkton.talk@gmail.com.

Lamoille Valley Year-Round Farmers Artisan Market: Farmers and food producers fill Vermonters’ totes with local and organic dining options, including eggs, cider, seeds and cow cheeses. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 3-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-1261.

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Middlebury Farmers Market: Crafts, cheeses, breads and veggies vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. The Marbleworks, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 388-0178, middleburyfm@yahoo.com. Sun to Cheese Tours: Visitors take a behindthe-scenes look at dairy farming and cheesemaking as they observe raw milk turning into farmhouse cheddar. Preregister. Shelburne Farms, 2-4 p.m. $15 includes a block of cheese. Info, 985-8686.

health & fitness Community Clinic: A holistic health center’s naturopathic physicians and therapists offer a wide range of services at no cost. Vermont Integrative Medicine, Montpelier, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 229-2635.

kids Babytime: Crawling tots and their parents gather for playtime and sharing. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m.-noon Free. Info, 6583659. ‘Bird Is the Word’: Kids connect with nature in this science café about everything avian held by North Branch Nature Center’s youth birding program coordinator Larry Clarfeld. Black Door Bar & Bistro, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 828-0196. Homeschool Wednesdays: Out-ofclassroom learners ages 6 to 12 explore museum exhibits while learning about Vermont’s early inhabitants, the Abenaki. Preregister. Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, 1-3 p.m. Regular museum admission, $3-5; free for children under 5. Info, 828-2180. Peter the Music Man: Educator Peter Alsen lets preschoolers try out various instruments at a fun intro to music theory. Colchester Meeting House, 12:30-1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. Power Play Demonstration: Bright students learn about electricity, wind turbines and energy choices with an educator. ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center/Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Regular admission, $8.5010.50; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 877-324-6386.

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Preschool Discovery Program: In “Bugged by the Cold,” kids ages 3 to 5 figure out where insects go after the first frost. North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 10-11:30 a.m. $5. Info, 229-6206.

music Hinesburg Community Band Rehearsals: New members are welcome as the community group polishes its pieces. Room 163, Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 7:15-9 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3010, rufpat@yahoo.com. Phineas Gage: A local foursome busts out “music for happy brains.” Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. $5 suggested cover. Info, 496-8994.

outdoors Corn Maze: Walkers navigate a labyrinth of 12 acres of organic corn. Boyden Farm, Cambridge, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. $5-7; free for kids 2 and under. Info, 644-5974. Mystery in the Corn Maze: Sleuths play “Farm Scene Investigation” as they wander between 10-foot-tall stalks searching for clues to solve a whodunit. Sam Mazza’s Family Farm, Colchester, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $5-7; $20 per family of four. Info, 655-3440. The Great Vermont Corn Maze: Weather permitting, an 8.5-acre maze of maize lures labyrinth lovers outstanding in their field. Last person will be admitted at 3 p.m. Boudreau Farm, Danville, 10 a.m. $9-12; free for ages 4 and under. Info, 748-1399, info@vermontcornmaze.com.

politics People’s Forum: Incumbents and candidates discuss their plans for health care, children and the

economy. Rutland Free Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 522-2230. Vermont House Debate: Democratic challenger Sarah Buxton and Republican incumbent David Ainsworth reflect on the issues at stake in the general election race for the Vermont House seat representing Royalton and Tunbridge. Chase Community Center, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, 12:45-2 p.m. Free. Info, 831-1333, sjefferson@vermontlaw.edu.

talks Alyssa Nathanson: The Vermont coordinator of the Healthy Food in Health Care initiative presents a plan for linking hospitals with nutritious, local eats. Noble Lounge, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 1 p.m. $20-40 membership to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute programs, or $5 donation. Info, 454-4675, ataplow@vtlink.net. Helene Lang: Whodunit? British author Agatha Christie offers insight into her famous detective novels in this living-history presentation by a retired UVM professor of literature and literacy. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 398-2019. Jimmy Chin: As part of the 2010 Never Stop Exploring Speak Series, a renowned climber and adventure photographer revisits an 18-day ascent up Mount Meru before a Q&A. VIP reception benefiting the UVM Outing Club, 6 p.m. Higher Ground, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free on firstcome, first-served basis; $8 for guaranteed seats; $20 for VIP reception. Info, 970-259-3555. Mark Stoler: A military historian and UVM professor emeritus sparks a conversation about “The Dual System: Militias to Armies.” Community Room, Burlington College, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 862-9616. Osher Lifelong Learning Lecture: A slideshow lecture, “From Whistler to Warhol,” by artist and art historian Bob Manning is a visual romp through impressionism, cubism, surrealism, pop art and more. Town & Country Resort, Stowe, 1:30-3 p.m. $5. Info, 253-9011. ‘The Alchemy of the Rosicrucians: Summary’: A PowerPoint show illuminates the Gnostic perspective on the “Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross.” 6 Fairfield Hill Road, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 524-9706, vermont@ goldenrosycross.org.

theater ‘Amadeus’: Northern Stage presents this Tony Award-winning thriller about the rivalry between young musical genius Mozart and composer Antonio Salieri. Briggs Opera House, White River Junction, 7:30 p.m. $10-58. Info, 291-9009, ext. 13. ‘The Glass Menagerie’: Vermont Stage Company returns to its inaugural show (produced in 1994), Tennessee Williams’ memory piece about family promises and loyalty. See review, this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $24.30-32.50. Info, 863-5966.

words Book Discussion Series: ‘Never-Setting Sun’: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart inspires bookworms to consider the complexities of colonialism. South Hero Community Library, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6209. ‘How Writers Do It: A Fiction Workshop’: Wordsmiths analyze passages of fiction from different eras before experimenting with point of view, voice and structure. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7217. Laurie Levinger: The author of What War? shares testimonies about the Guatemalan Civil War before a Q&A session. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. ‘Prophetic Odyssey’: What happened after Moses died? A study group peruses the prophetic

writings to quench its thirst for knowledge. Temple Sinai, South Burlington, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5125. ‘You Come, Too’: Spend fall lingering on the cultivated lines of selected British poets through readings and discussion. Vermont Humanities Council, Montpelier, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 262-2626, ext. 304.

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Vermont Consultants Network Meeting: Biz kids swap marketing tips and tricks relating to “the big pitch” in a presentation by Fifth Element Associates’ Joe Candido. Network Performance, South Burlington, 8 a.m. Free if it’s your first time, $15 for nonmembers. Info, 373-8379. Vermont Venture Network: Presentations by Butternut Mountain Farm’s David Marvin and Super Sized Cycles’ Joan Denizot kick off a networking meeting. Hilton Hotel, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15 for nonmembers. Info, 658-7830.

etc. AARP Safe Driver Course: Motor vehicle operators ages 50 and up take a quick trip to the classroom — with no tests and no grades! — for a how-to refresher. Preregister. Trinity Episcopal Church, Shelburne, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $12-14. Info, 372-8511. Chess Club: Checkmate! Board-game players try to attack the king with sly strategies. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. $2-3. Info, 363-5803. Historic Tours: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Retirement Track Series: An interactive, three-part series caters to workers who’ll be retiring in the next 10 to 15 years, covering topics such as finances and Social Security. New England Federal Credit Union, Williston, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8790.

fairs & festivals Monkton Creates: See WED.13, 7-9 p.m.

film ‘Caramel’: Cinephiles screen Nadine Labaki’s 2007 romantic comedy about females living in Beirut as part of the Gender and Women’s Studies Film Series. Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, SUNY Plattsburgh, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 518-564-3002. Festival du Nouveau Cinéma: See WED.13, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. ‘Flipped’: See WED.13, 7 p.m.

food & drink Lake Willoughby Farmers & Artisan Market: Performances by local musicians join produce, eggs, lemonade, gemstone jewelry, sun catchers and more to lure buyers throughout the warm months. Long Pond Road, Westmore, 3-7 p.m. Free. Info, 525-8842. Winooski Farmers Market: Area growers and bakers offer their soil-grown and homemade wealth for shoppers to bring home. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 3:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 734-6175, wfm@ winooskidowntown.com.

health & fitness Ujjayi Pranayama: Yogis concentrate on breathing in a healing exercise led by Rob Gold of River’s Grace Yoga. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-8004, ext. 202, info@ hungermountain.com.

kids Homeschool Science Program: Independent learners ages 8 and up are full of hot air in this hands-on workshop about hot-air balloons. Preregister. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Lego Club: Future engineers, urban planners and pirates sharpen their skills with a big bucket of building blocks. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338. Lightbulb Lab: Bright thinkers ages 2 to 8 sharpen their skills with problem-solving and math activities. Preregister. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Music With Peter: Preschoolers up to age 5 bust out song and dance moves. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Preschool Story Hour: Picture books and crafts captivate early bookworms. Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 453-2366.

music ‘Guitar Masters’: Acclaimed musicians Eric Johnson, Andy McKee and Peppino D’Agostino play it up solo, and then as a trio for the first time. Lebanon Opera House, N.H., 7:30 p.m. $28-38. Info, 603-448-0400.

outdoors Corn Maze: See WED.13, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Mystery in the Corn Maze: See WED.13, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. The Great Vermont Corn Maze: See WED.13, 10 a.m.

politics People’s Forum: WED.13, Brattleboro Union High School, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 522-2230.

talks Forrest Holzapfel: A Marlboro-based photographer and historian dishes on the role of the village photographer in 19th-century Vermont — and how to continue the tradition. Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 257-9293. Lunch & Learn Series: Vermont Information Center’s Penny Libercent maps out a route to Vermont’s state parks and greatest attractions. O’Brien Community Center, Winooski, noon-1 p.m. Free; lunch is included. Info, 655-1392. Simone Schweber: Sen. Bernie Sanders offers opening remarks before the University of Wisconsin-Madison professor examines “Controversies and Consistencies in Holocaust Education: A Review of Research on Teaching.” Livak Room, Davis Center, UVM, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3131.

theater ‘A Disappearing Number’: Catamount Arts Center: Add it up: The Complicite company’s groundbreaking work explores the universality of math in a live broadcast from England’s National Theatre. Theater 2, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $10-23. Info, 748-2600. ‘A Disappearing Number’: Loew Auditorium: See above listing. Loew Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 7 p.m. $10-20. Info, 603-646-2422. ‘Amadeus’: See WED.13, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘No Exit/Huis Clos’: Theatre Mosaic Mond presents Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist work about human relationships and hell. Performances rotate between English and the original French dialogue; check website for schedule. Off Center for the Dramatic Arts, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $13-18 for

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‘The peRMiT’: The Middlebury Community Players revive Dutton Smith Sr. and Ernie Stires’ 1972 Middlebury-set musical about a new town bridge, just in time for the opening of the town’s Cross Street Bridge. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 8 p.m. $17. Info, 382-9222.

‘MuRdeR MySTeRieS Live!’: Part dinner theater, part scavenger hunt, this realistic whodunit transforms guests into detectives. Wilson Castle, Proctor, 6:30-10:30 p.m. $30; must be 18 or older. Info, 773-3284.

‘The Wind in The WiLLoWS’: Kenneth Grahame’s children’s lit lights up the stage as Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad embark on adventures in this production by the Little City Players. See calendar spotlight. Vergennes Opera House, 8 p.m. $6-12. Info, 877-6737. ‘TWeLve anGRy JuRoRS’: The Valley Players examine the nature of democracy and the duties of American citizenship in this courtroom drama. Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, 8 p.m. $12. Info, 583-1674.

words aRcheR MayoR: The author of a Vermont-based mystery series starring detective Joe Gunther previews his latest novel, Red Herring. Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Brandon, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 247-0050. Book diScuSSion: In the “New England Uncovered” reading series, bookworms delve into Russell Banks’ Affliction. Fairfax Community Library, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. JaMeS TaBoR: The author of Blind Descent, a story about finding the deepest cave on Earth, briefs listeners on its plot in a slide-show presentation. Big Picture Theater & Café, Waitsfield, 7 p.m. Donations accepted. Info, 496-8994. kevin MacneiL BRoWn: New England’s landscapes come alive in the author’s Thomas Dedman’s Northern Journey, which he shares in a reading and book discussion. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7-8 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.

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

etc. FiLM pRevieW & BeneFiT conceRT: The producers of the forthcoming film Green Blooded:

‘paRTy FoR The cuRe’: A raffle and bake sale round out a dance soirée benefiting Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Eagles Club, South Burlington, 7-11 p.m. $5-10; free for children 5 and under; cash bar. Info, 334-2277.

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slamthehockeyrockopera.com 802.249.0414 $15 students/seniors • $20 Adults

TeacheR appRenTiceShip pRoGRaM aLuMni MixeR: Folks interested in pursuing careers in education learn about the Vermont Department of Education-approved program through a speech, food and mingling. Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, 5-8 p.m. Free. Info, 734-5344, mrsjoannascott@ yahoo.com.

Reserved: Adults $30, Students and Seniors $25 Media Sponsor:

TeRTuLia LaTina: Latino Americanos and other fluent Spanish speakers converse en español. Radio Bean, Burlington, 5:30-7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-3440.

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