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CRIMES OF THE ART It was surprising to read that the Burlington Department of Parks and Recreation has elected to pour money and people power into weekly cover-ups of graffiti on underpasses and buildings in lieu of investing in a sanctioned facility for this medium and the individuals who create in it [“City Struggles to Tag Elusive Graffiti Vandals,” August 23]. In times when we encourage young people to express themselves creatively and work through the issues surrounding growing up in today’s world without violence, painting over someone’s sprayed-on identity in the name of “community improvement” is the hypocritical equivalent of putting a Tarrant-sized lawn sign in an adolescent’s front yard that says, “You Don’t Matter” . . . I will agree with Mr. Pacy’s comment that parents need to be mindful of their children’s actions but we all know that this is like saying that the Bush Administration needs to be mindful of the war in Iraq — great on paper, sounds exactly like something that should be a mega priority, but who are we kidding? Is it really going to happen? Working parents, single parents and legal guardians can’t know where a young person is at every second of every day, but in a place as steeped in the “it takes a village” philosophy as Vermont, I would expect that we all take responsibility for the actions of our more impressionable citizens . . .
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ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR — AND SENATE RACES Have you heard about the latest scheme cooked up by the Vermont left? They are attempting to make sure that no one runs against Bernie Sanders in the November election. That’s right. The self-righteous lovers of democracy, caretakers of the poor, and knowers of what is best for everyone, want their golden boy, Bernie Sanders, to run for a six-year term in the United States Senate with no opposition. First, they organized to put Bernie on the Democratic Party primary ballot, so that no other person seeking the Democratic nomination would be able to oppose him. Bernie of course will then decline the nomination because he is after all an independent. Just disregard all that Democratic Party fundraising for him. Now the left is organizing a campaign to get people to vote in the Republican primary to write-in the deceased Fred Tuttle, eradicating any opposition from the Republican Party. This would leave Bernie on the ballot facing no major party candidate, ensuring an easy victory. This is what socialism is, folks, and this is why conservatives and libertarians fear it so. Socialists think they know what is best for mankind and therefore the end justifies the means. So what if there was no fair election? So what if there were no other candidates? Bernie knows what is best. He will represent the people. The end justifies the means. Posted Friday September 1 by Charity Tensel
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And so I propose a marriage of Parks and Rec’s weekly tithe to Home Depot for rollers, brushes and primer to a little bit of the concrete rotting away from the non-Circ Highway. May the fruit of their union be some paintable walls, a few lessons in why slapping a Krylon swastika on the side of a building is intensely inappropriate, and a meaningful way for our young people to contribute to something that they actually appreciate and can be proud of. Because graffiti is here to stay, it is in everyone’s best interest to figure out a way to give the kids who can’t find solace at home, in the school auditorium or on the playing field their rightful place to say, “This is who I am.” Kate La Rivière STARKSBORO
HELPING MOSS POINT Thank you for your article “African-American Activists Ask City to Redirect Moss Point Relief Efforts” [August 30]. Those of us working on the Gulf Coast welcome any and all offers of assistance or advice in helping communities recover from Hurricane Katrina. I have traveled to Mississippi and Louisiana several times over the last year and agree that race and class continue to be prominent factors in determining how and where resources are distributed. But I have also heard from residents there — including several African American leaders — that 4:31 PM
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the support of Burlington citizens and Vermonters to the Katrina recovery effort has been well used and fairly distributed. For our part, the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) is working with community organizers and leaders to make sure citizens in the poorest neighborhoods of Moss Point (who were hardest hit by the storm) are not left out of the recovery process. We are also strengthening local nonprofits, developing service-learning programs for youth, and working with city officials to open up their decision-making process. Our strategy was developed with the help of African-American leaders representing all the neighborhoods of Moss Point, and is designed to help city and the surrounding communities emerge more resilient, just and self-sufficient — and better prepared to withstand another hurricane. Our diverse team of trainers is led by Maurice Cox, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, a national expert on civic engagement. George Hamilton MONTPELIER
Hamilton is president of the Institute for Sustainable Communities. SMART SPENDING I just received a mailing from Rich Tarrant headlined, “Washington politicians have money to burn.” Pretty ironic, since we all know who’s been burning the money in Vermont trying to buy a Senate seat. And further so since the
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spending he mentions comes to only a tiny fraction of the cost of the occupation of Iraq begun under false pretenses by George Bush, whom Tarrant supported in both elections. What he disparages, though, is telling — “Micro-banks in Sri Lanka, Maui algae studies [and] screwworms in Mexico.” They shows how unready he is to handle the complicated job of representing his constituents in Congress. Rich, the first was part of our Tsunami relief to allow people to
replace things they needed to feed themselves. (You don’t just vote to send help; you have to decide how to help.) The second was a response to algal blooms in Hawaii which, according to the bill Tarrant disparages, “have destroyed corals and . . . severely impeded the recreational use of affected coastal areas.” It’s similar to the federal money Vermont gets to fight milfoil, zebra mussels and other environmental catastrophes. The final item is part of the work of a joint US-Mexican commission
to eradicate a scourge on both Mexican and American livestock. This is what Congress is supposed to do: take care of the country and help people in emergencies. Would-be Senator Tarrant ridicules these expenditures because he hasn’t a clue about what Congress does. Providing him onthe-job training is one federal expenditure we truly can’t afford. Robert Gershon CASTLETON
CATCHING AIR Air shows do not glorify war and violence. In a letter to the editor published on August 30, one Kate Lasko of Burlington expresses her dismay at the display of the “bullying strength” of our armed forces. Ms. Lasko, you have the right to your opinion . . . You have the right to have your opinion published in this or any other publication in the United States of America . . . because of people like the men and women flying those aircraft. You have the right to speak your mind without fear of being arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and killed because of our armed forces. An air show does not glorify war. It glorifies the men and women who serve and protect our nation in our armed forces. It may be an unabashed rallying point for recruiters, but I do not believe any of the aircraft I saw during the show were armed with even one single missile, bomb or rocket. Those aircraft demonstrated more the power of United States industry and technology and the skill and discipline of our armed forces than specific ability to kill. War is horrible. Very few members of our armed forces wish for war . . . Men and women of our nation sign up for these jobs knowing they are necessary. They
may enjoy the thrill of some of the activities they participate in (flying jets is fun!), but they rarely relish the thought of killing other human beings. In a dangerous world that seems to be growing more dangerous all the time, I’m elated that we had the chance to see aircraft of our military forces in a peaceful demonstration of technology and aviation skill instead of the common view we see on the evening news of aircraft like these firing missiles and dropping bombs. And to all the men and women of our armed forces and those who serve in civilian services, I express my support and appreciation for what you do for us. God bless you all. J. Haynes WINOOSKI
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VERMONT — Labor Day is the traditional kick-off of the political campaign season. But given the way the November Senate race has been going, most Vermonters with a landline telephone have already received at least one prerecorded message from a candidate. Thus far, cell phone users have largely escaped this minor annoyance. That’s because there is no directory of wireless phone numbers for political campaigns to consult, and FCC rules prohibit the use of automated dialers to knowingly call wireless numbers. But what’s a blessing for cell phone customers is a growing conundrum for political pollsters. As increasing numbers of
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As increasing numbers of Vermonters rely exclusively on cell phones, it’s becoming much more difficult for public research firms to get an accurate snapshot of public opinion.
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Vermonters rely exclusively on cell phones, it’s becoming much more difficult for public research firms to get an accurate snapshot of public opinion. As a result, political pollsters are struggling to find new ways to reach out and touch someone. “I don’t think our industry knows exactly what we’re going to do about it,” admits Anna Greenberg, a Washington, D.C., pollster who occasionally works for Vermont Democratic candidates. “At the moment, there are problems that are pretty insurmountable.” Consider the numbers. In 2004, just 6 percent of all likely voters had cell phones but not landlines. However, that number was twice as large among likely voters under 30. Today, it’s estimated that 34 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have cell phones only. They tend to be minorities,
potential cell phone numbers. Pollsters dial them randomly to find working numbers — a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. It’s also virtually impossible to get an accurate sample from a specific geographic area since mobile phones are, by definition, portable. Pollsters are tackling the problem in several ways. Zogby’s company is aggressively pursuing its online or “interactive” polling, he says. Zogby International still operates its call center, but since January, it’s been conducting more opinion polls online than by telephone. Zogby likens the shift to the one that occurred in the early 1970s, when polling firms switched from mostly face-to-face questionnaires to telephone surveys. Online polling is “a methodology that is 85 to 90 percent there,” Zogby says. “It’s suffi-
cient to say that not only is it the wave of the future, it’s the wave of the now.” also says he’s Zogby “intrigued” by other technologies such as text messaging. In 2004, Zogby International partnered with the cell phone manufacturer Motorola and the youth voter campaign “Rock the Vote” to send out text-message polls to 42,000 cell phone users between the ages of 18 and 34. The poll asked people whether they intended to vote and, if so, would they choose George Bush, John Kerry or Ralph Nader? That poll showed Kerry beating Bush by 14 percent — which, in fact, he did among 18- to 34-year olds in the general election. “Is that the broken clock that tells the right time twice a day,” Zogby asks, “or are we onto something?” Alas, the day is coming when Vermonters are polled on their cell phones as well, suggests James Dayton, senior vice president of the Burlington-based national public research firm, ORC Macro. Although the company doesn’t work for political candidates or conduct election polling per se, it does conduct telephone research on behalf of state and federal agencies, and occasionally asks questions of a political nature. According to Dayton, in the next few weeks ORC Macro plans to start calling wireless phone numbers at random to test participation rates. The pilot project, which is sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Health and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, aims to reach at least 400 people, which is considered a statistically reliable sample. But will people be willing to answer an opinion poll while they’re eating out, driving or sitting in a movie theater? And even if they are, how to factor in all the variables around cellphone use: Is the phone shared among several individuals? It is used for both home and business? Is it reserved for emergencies or outbound calls? Since federal law prohibits the use of predictive dialers — the automated dialing technology that causes that several-second delay between when you answer your phone and when the caller is connected — all cell phone polls have to be conducted manually. And the wireless customer has to pay for the incoming call. Ultimately, Dayton suggests, the full switch to cell-phone polling won’t happen until that changes. Greenberg predicts that telephone polling will remain the dominant mode of opinion gathering in 2006. As she points out, voters in off-year elections tend to be older, settled, and in the habit of voting regularly — the least likely group to own cell phones. Pollsters haven’t yet called an election wrong due to their inability to reach cell-phone users. But by 2008, when pollsters are stitching together their results from Internet, in-person and text-messaging polling, there could be a different result. m
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WINOOSKI — College students have finally arrived to occupy Spinner Place, the mammoth new $23.6 million, five-story brick building that surrounds the parking garage in downtown Winooski. The student housing complex is a cornerstone of the city’s downtown redevelopment, and after years of construction, local businesses have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of its residents. But occupancy hasn’t proceeded exactly as planned. For one thing, it’s happening later than expected. Developers at Hall Keen and the Braverman Company initially set the opening for last January. That got postponed until June. Over the summer, about 60 University of Vermont students trickled in to fill a fraction of the building’s 312 bedrooms. It wasn’t until Friday, August 25, that the first sizable group of students — 122 bodies — arrived. Despite that influx, nearly 10 months after the ribbon-cutting ceremony to inaugurate the downtown, Spinner Place is just a little more than half full. That could explain why nobody’s rented out the groundfloor retail space. Dale Arango, Champlain Mill manager and Winooski Falls neighborhood spokesperson, calls its lack of occupants “a chicken and egg situation.” “The retailers really need bodies to support their businesses,” she says. Another snag: though the development was created and mar-
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Foundation, which works with universities and developers to build student housing nationwide. The arrangement allows UVM and the City of Winooski to split the net revenues from the project for the next 30 years, at which time ownership of Spinner Place will go to the university.
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keted as housing solely for UVM students, all of the tenants who moved in on August 25 actually attend Champlain College. The smaller Burlington school has rented two entire floors of the building, and plans to use it as a dorm, staffed by residential assistants. On move-in day, Champlain College staff had affixed colorful nametags to their students’ doors. Were the developers surprised by the lack of interest from UVM students? “Absolutely,” says Ken Braverman, project manager for Hall Keen and CEO of the Braverman Company. Braverman says that prior to construction in 2004, market studies had identified a need for more UVM off-campus housing, and the school endorsed the idea of building it in Winooski. “UVM was a stakeholder in the project,” Braverman notes. In fact, 30 years from now, UVM will own the building. Spinner Place is currently the property of the Alabama-based nonprofit Collegiate Housing
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But Thomas Gustafson, UVM Vice President for Student and Campus Life, says the school “doesn’t really have any financial relationship with Spinner Place.” Gustafson points out that UVM has promoted the off-campus apartments to its juniors, seniors and transfer students, but it can’t require them to live there. Gustafson says UVM was “very clear” from the start that the project needed to be a “competitive, market-based option.” Students can rent the two-, three- and four-person suites at Spinner Place for between $620 and $760 per bedroom per month. That price includes heat, water, basic cable and wireless Internet access. It also includes furniture; each bedroom comes with a brandnew, dorm-style bed, dresser and desk. With its long, fluorescent-lit hallways and institutional furniture, Spinner Place doesn’t exactly qualify as quirky collegiate digs. But it’s clean, new, and in the center of downtown Winooski, within walking distance of several bars
and eateries, and the newly completed, scenic Riverwalk. There’s even a new express bus that started running last Monday, serving Fletcher Allen Hospital, Champlain College and General Dynamics. So what’s the hold-up? Part of the problem might be that, although UVM has posted record enrollment numbers this year, the school also just finished construction on its own 800-bed University Heights complex. It’s the kind of facility that would appeal to students who might otherwise seek a fully furnished off-campus living space, and it’s closer to their classes. “This is a unique moment, when supply is slightly outstripping demand,” Gustafson says. “The timing almost couldn’t be more challenging for Spinner Place. We have no wait list for students who want housing on campus this year. The beds have been added faster than the students.” He adds, “It’s a bit of a risk for students to try something new.” But Gustafson predicts that Spinner Place will eventually fill up with kids from UVM. He compares the complex to the Redstone Apartments, which are privately owned, but house UVM students. Redstone was “undersubscribed” for years, he notes, adding, “It was slow when it started out, and they’re doing great now.” Braverman is also cautiously optimistic. He remains confident that Spinner Place occupies “a healthy market niche,” and will eventually succeed. He’s just not sure how long the city will have to wait to see the building full. “It’s going to take some time for the pieces to come together,” Braverman says. “It’s going to take some time for the building to reach what we call stabilized occupancy.” m
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BURLINGTON — Politicians from opposite ends of the spectrum may be able to put differences aside to participate in an autism conference this weekend, but those with conflicting ideas about the best way to treat the condition apparently cannot. Rep. Bernie Sanders and Gov. Jim Douglas will both be keynote speakers at the three-day “miniDAN!” Conference at UVM. But while the gathering will be held at the Billings Student Center, UVM’s School of Medicine has chosen not to co-sponsor, or even endorse, the event. DAN! — the acronym stands for Defeat Autism Now! — is a nonprofit organization known for pursuing alternative, and sometimes controversial, treatments for autism, including nutritional supplements, dietary changes and detoxification. After UVM opted not to act as a co-sponsor, Autism Support Daily, a local nonprofit support group, booked the Billings Center anyway, some say in a back-door effort to lend scientific credibility to its cause. The symposium has exposed the animosity between parents who are understandably passionate about trying to help their children and a medical establishment seeking to adhere to standards of scientific proof so as to neither offer false hope nor do harm. Kevin Mulholland, a Bristol internist and father of four, has a 12-year-old son with autism. “These aren’t bad people,” he says of those who pursue nontraditional approaches. “They’re just desperate. What they believe is just not based in science.”
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That trend is reflected in the recent publication of the best-selling Evidence of Harm, a provocative study of the autism epidemic that takes on the thimerosal debate. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control, the American Academy of Pediatrics and Institute of Medicine have all concluded that there is no causal relationship between thimerosalcontaining vaccines and autism. Nonetheless, as a precautionary measure, thimerosal was removed from all routinely recommended vaccines for U.S. infants two years ago, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccines. Seven states have banned thimerosal completely. Tedeschi is convinced her son was harmed by vaccinations he received at 18 months. “He was not astonishing jewelry • sumptuous clothing • luxurious accessories born with autism,” she says of Jagger, now seven. “I 2x5-CBHB041206 4/10/06 2:08 PM Page 1 just know he was injured biologically.” 658-4050 • 115 college st, burlington • mon-fri 10-7, sat 10-6, sun 12-5 The DAN! stand against immunizations is precisely why UVM chose not to get involved in the event, according to Contompasis. Mainstream practitioners 8/21/06 1:48:59 PM worry not only about the risks associated with not 2x5-marilyns082306.indd 1 immunizing a child; many also fear that the bloodcleansing chelation therapy used by parents in an effort to rid their child’s body of mercury can be dangerous, even deadly. “Pediatricians need to balance supporting parents in their endeavors and assuring safety for the child,” says Contompasis. He recommends counseling families “to be careful not to burn out in their quest for a cure that takes them away from other successful or proven interventions or therapies.” Tedeschi has clearly not felt supported, judging
These aren’t bad people. They’re just desperate. What they believe is just not based in science. DR. KEVIN MULHOLLAND
Laurey Tedeschi has a very different view. The Burlington woman who founded Autism Support Daily claims people like Mulholland “haven’t read the studies and are taking their cues from the American Academy of Pediatrics and NIH,” she says. Tedeschi, like many who turn to DAN! for advice, believes that mainstream medicine has conspired to withhold information about the risks associated with thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative often used in vaccines. Many blame the substance for their children’s autism. More than 60 years after it was first described, autism now affects about one in 166 American children, double the frequency of just 10 years ago. Over the past eight years, the number of children in Vermont with autism-related disorders has grown an average of 20 percent per year, according to the Agency of Human Services. Yet the condition remains mysterious, with no known cure and endless theories about its cause. Experts even disagree on whether the increasing numbers point to an epidemic or simply reflect better, more inclusive criteria for diagnosis. The inability of conventional medicine to find a cure or, in some cases, an effective treatment, has sent some parents of children with autism scrambling for alternatives — and not just in response to the thimerosal controversy. Treatments of the gastrointestinal problems associated with autism and related disorders are also hotly debated. As many as 60 percent of affected children are using complementary and alternative medicines, according to current estimates. Steven Contompasis, a developmental pediatrician at UVM who studies autism, chose not to be formally interviewed for this story. However, he forwarded previous writings in which he acknowledges the struggle families face when dealing with autism and its related conditions and symptoms. “We think it is important for pediatricians and students to recognize this issue and remain in good dialogue with families,” writes Contompasis. “The desire to cure the child’s autism by finding the cause is certainly a strong motivator to parents of diagnosed children.”
from the ASD press release she sent out to announce the conference. “The claimed professional experts within the state of Vermont have... chosen to avoid, ignore, even dismiss questions and interest brought forth by parents regarding alternative-based biomedical approaches,” she writes — strong words from a conference organizer who recently courted the governor to be a keynote speaker. It’s unclear whether Gov. Douglas was aware of the release — and, if so, why he would choose to speak at an event sponsored by a group so openly critical of state experts. His office did not return calls for comment. Douglas met with Autism Support Daily members last summer. Yet Tedeschi admits the meeting didn’t go too smoothly. She says the governor became “perturbed” when he felt as if he was being personally accused of putting Vermont children at risk by allowing thimerosal to be used in vaccines. Sanders, on the other hand, has been openly supportive of ASD and its desire for more information about both thimerosal and alternative therapies in general. Last spring, he met with members of ASD, and last year he introduced two bills related specifically to increasing funding for autism education. Parents of children with autism who are not seeking alternative therapies seem satisfied with the help they have received from autism professionals throughout the state. “We’ve gotten everything we’ve ever needed,” says Mulholland, whose son has received 30 hours per week of occupational, speech and behavior therapy at no cost to the family. But for those still desperate for a cure that conventional medicine has yet to provide, the reluctance of the medical establishment to even consider alternative approaches is infuriating. “My main objective is to help Jag get well,” says Tedeschi. “There’s nothing more. It comes from my heart. I would give no less than every single ounce of myself to my son . . . I do believe I will recover Jag. I am certainly going to try. No physician is going to tell me I can’t.” m
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Sanders for U.S. Senate and Democrats Peter Welch for the U.S. House and Scudder Parker for governor. Incumbent, two-term Republican Gov. Jim Douglas did not show. Given his linein-the-sand opposition to commercial, utility-size wind energy development in Vermont, it wasn’t a big surprise. But Republican wannabes Richard Tarrant (U.S. Senate) and Martha Rainville (U.S. House) did attend and speak — gutsy moves. They also signed the pledge to support Sen. Jim Jeffords and cosponsor Patrick Leahy’s goal of a 20-percent renewable energy standard by 2020. “We have to keep partisanship out of this issue,” said Richie Rich. “I’m a good salesman,” he said. “I can make it happen.” Marvelous Martha was a surprise show, too, given her recent comments describing global warming as just a theory. A month ago she told us, “The questions [about global warming] are still out there and are the matter of some debate.” Her party leaders are no help. As Ol’ Bernardo remarked earlier, “We have a president who has the worst environmental record in the history of our country.” And the GOP chairman of the Senate’s environment committee, Bernie continued, “believes that global warming is one of the great hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people.” Martha has apparently changed her tune somewhat. She called for bipartisanship and ending complacency, and she didn’t duck the obvious smack dab in front of her eyes. “Looking out,” she said, “it’s great to see people involved with political stickers on, but I don’t see many Republican stickers. And if this is going to work, if we’re going to make the changes we have to make in this society, we have to find ways to bring people together so we can all work on it. No one can do it alone.” Hear that, Gov. Scissorhands?
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14,819 to 12,931. Her joy of victory was short-lived, however. Two months later, voters showed a clear (56 to 36 percent) preference for Doobie-Doo, the likable conservative, over Ma Rivers, the punchy progressive Democrat who couldn’t get beyond her party’s base. Of course, Rivers had a true Progressive Party candidate, State Rep. Steve Hingtgen (7 percent), nipping at her heels. And the Democrat running for governor, Peter Clavelle, didn’t exactly help, did he? Whew! At least, you’re thinking, the Vermont left won’t be stupid enough to repeat that 2004 train wreck, right? Wrong! The fiftysomething House Health Care King, Rep. John Tracy of Burlington, is in a hardfought primary battle with State Sen. Matt Dunne, the thirtysomething gonna-be-somebody-someday state senator from Hartland. Over the last 12 years, Tracy has undergone a remarkable and successful transformation from a house-husband, stay-at home-dad and evening bar manager at Nectar’s to a polished, articulate master of the political dialect in Montpeculiar. He can literally talk health care to death! We’ve never seen him sharper or better spoken than we have in the last month. Dunne is a well educated, liberal/progressive Democrat with a thirst for organizing and networking. Besides his recent senate duties, Matt earlier was the national director of AmeriCorpsVISTA. And prior to that, Ol’ Matt was a four-term state representative, first elected to the Vermont House at 22. Both candidates have the experience and qualifications. After all, the only duties of LiteGov in Vermont are to 1.) Preside over the state senate when it’s in session. 2.) Get elected to something better some day. Some succeed at #2; some don’t. So who wins this baby? Well, as we write this Tuesday, Tracy’s website — www.johnpatricktracy.com — hasn’t been updated in four days. Dunne’s website — mattdunne.com — looks much fresher. “Just one week left” is the headline on the home page this morning — one week before the primary. There’s also a candidate’s calendar for the week ahead, listing house parties and service projects such as a barn painting at a South Burlington youth home and a riverwalk cleanup in Bennington. Advantage Dunne. Also, John-John has a page on which he proudly posts the names of his supporters from under the Golden Dome. Tracy is a former leader of the House Democratic caucus. He lists the names of 35 members of that caucus as his supporters on Primary Day. He also lists four state senators, four Democrats who are not backing their fellow state senator in this one: Sens. Jim Condos, Jim Leddy, Ed Flanagan and John Campbell. The first three are from Chittenden County. Campbell, however, is, like Dunne, one of
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three senators from Windsor County. Peter Welch is the third. On his website, Young Dunne posts endorsements by 12 fellow senators, including Hinda Miller from Burlap and Peter Welch, his other seatmate. And, surprisingly, State Sen. Dunne out-polled State Rep. Tracy for endorsements from fellow Democrats in the House, with 40. “Inside Track” prediction: Matt Dunne. Where It Leads? — Winning the Democratic Lite-Gov primary will leave an uphill fight for Candidate Dunne. Recently Incumbent Brian Dubie distanced himself from Gov. Douglas, his running mate, by singing the praises of utility-sized, wind-power projects on Vermont ridgelines. That will make Dubie more likable, eh? On his other side, Dunne has Progressive Marvin Malek, M.D., snapping at his heels over America’s out-of-control healthcare costs — the most expensive on Planet Earth. Doobie-Doo remains the favorite for reelection in November. It’ll take a very big, anti-Republican wave to oust him. Kiss Press — Burlington’s Progressive Party Mayor Bob Kiss told “Inside Track” the other day he strongly supports selling over 199 acres of city land in the Intervale to the nonprofit Intervale Center for $200,000. A presentation to the city council was scheduled for Tuesday night after our deadline, with a vote likely in two weeks. Our sources indicate the city council looks to be 8 to 6 for adoption. That’ll sure make for a very lively debate, eh? Looks like the four Progs, the two Independents and two Democrats versus two Republicans and four Democrats! That’s with Ian Carleton, the Democratic city council president and state Democratic party chairman, backing rookie Mayor Bob Kiss on this one. Mayor Kiss said he considers the Intervale Center — www. intervale.org — the land’s “best steward.” He said the city and the Center have “a common vision” for the flood plain acres. “I don’t have any hesitation,” Kiss told us, “to making that commitment to using this land for agricultural and recreational purposes into the future.” Burlington’s soft-spoken mayor also responded to our noting his lack of press conferences. “Whether there are press conferences or not,” said Kiss, “I do think it’s important for the mayor to communicate with people so I did do one newsletter [called] From the Desk of the Mayor. Hey, one newsletter every five months — are you serious? Your predecessor Peter Clavelle pumped his “Friday Letters” out weekly. Everybody’s different. “I’ll continue to do newsletters,” continued Kiss. “I’ll continue to be on the “Charlie & Ernie Show” [on 620 WVMT-AM] and do “5:25 Live” [on Ch. 17]. It’s important, I think, for people to hear from the mayor. And there will be press conferences.” Hey, no rush. It’s a three-year
term, and right now you’ve got to get through what could be your first nasty public hissing match since becoming mayor. Good luck. P.S. Perhaps Mayor Kiss’ lower emphasis on media attention than his Prog forebearers, Bernie Sanders and Peter Clavelle, reflects a difference in career goals? So we asked him: Mayor Kiss doesn’t have any plans way back in the back of his head about running for president, does he? “That’s safe to say,” replied Mayor Bob. And Mayor Kiss does not have any plans to run for governor of Vermont? “That’s safe, too” he replied. Whew! A guy who just wants to be the best Burlington mayor he can be? No dreams of higher office than this. Cool. Correction — Last week, yours truly screwed up the 1980 Vermont governor’s race. It wasn’t Incumbent Republican Richard Snelling beating Democrat Ed Granai. That was 1978. In 1980, King Richard the Lionhearted trounced Jerry Diamond. And in 1982 he did likewise to Lt. Gov. Madeleine Kunin before taking 1984 off. But back to Ed Granai. He sent us an email alerting us to our 1980 mistake. (Veteran GOP state senate candidate Dennis Delaney called, too.) Sorry, guys. Granai, now 75, forwarded a 50-year remembrance he’d sent to his old college yearbook that’s worth a read: Ironically, my life’s vocational highlight was a losing political race in 1978. Having served as the Majority Whip in the Vermont House of Representatives, the Democratic Party nominated me to take on the incumbent Republican Governor. The Attorney General and the House Speaker, both higher Democrat office holders, had decided not to try to unseat the incumbent. Next in line for consideration as an electable candidate, I was confident that, not only could I win, but that I could make things better for my fellow Vermonters. I lost the campaign but gained an elevated view of humanity. In that six-month campaign I got to shake a lot of hands and talk with a lot of folks about things that mattered. It was an unforgettable and uplifting experience. It sealed my belief in the basic good will and intent of the average citizen. After his 1978 defeat, Ol’ Ed went on to serve in the Vermont Senate and as state party chairman and Democratic National Committee member. What’s he doing these days? “In the mornings I try to write for a couple of hours,” he replied, “then go to the Y to exercise. “In the afternoon, at age 75, I read, nap and look forward to my happy-hour martini!” Good man. m
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Welsh Indians? Dylan Thomas, Richard Burton and Cochise? Sorry, ain’t seeing it, and I have a hard time imagining anybody ever could. But some did. The MadocMandan yarn is one of many farfetched stories about European or even extraterrestrial origins for indigenous American culture, the idea evidently being that actual Native Americans were too backward to have come up with this stuff on their own. The Welsh angle is distinguished mainly by its persistence, having bubbled up like swamp gas for more than 400 years. I have no illusions about being able to stamp it out now. But it lacks any basis in fact. Owain Gwynedd, who died in 1170, was a real Welsh prince, but his putative son Madoc goes unmentioned in contemporary annals. Later a seafarer named Madoc, not necessarily related and possibly mythical, showed up in medieval Welsh literature. One story has him colonizing an island paradise, location unspecified. But overtly fantastic elements — he also visits a magnetic island — mark this as medieval fiction. In 1580 Welshman John Dee revived Madoc to counter Spain’s American claims, presenting Queen Elizabeth with “Title Royal” to Madoc’s American discoveries. Dee often let politically motivated conjecture trump rationality; he decried the intrusion of fiction into history but claimed Greenland for Britain because King Arthur had conquered it. Nonetheless, Dee-inspired travelers soon began reporting Welsh-speaking Indians everywhere. All told, 15 identifiable and at least 5 unidentified tribes, ranging from Peru to Canada, were equated with the Madogwys (Madoc’s people). The tribes generally lived in areas remote from white settlement, unknown except by reputation. Once they became familiar and their Welshness demonstrably absurd, the legend moved on. Some reports came from known hoaxers, but many were the product of delusion or ignorance. Eyewitness accounts are largely by nonspeakers who mistakenly thought they recognized Welsh. Slightly more credible is Welsh-born pastor Morgan Jones, who in 1686 said that years before he’d met Welsh-speaking Doeg Indians. Other sources, however, say the Doegs spoke an Algonquian language, like most of their neighbors. At best, Jones, who seems to have conflated elements of three distinct voyages, misremembered. At worst, he was his era’s Jim Bakker. His congregation upbraided him for “ill-life and conversation,” the dog. The legend first attached itself to the Mandan people of North Dakota around 1780. The Mandan were promising candidates because they were reputedly fair-skinned, rich and civilized, and because of a few linguistic coincidences. Hoping to prove the Madoc connection, Welshman John Evans wintered with the Mandan in 1796-’97. Upon returning he told supporters, “There is no such People as the Welsh Indians.” End of stor y? If only. Artist George Catlin, meeting them decades later — and apparently ignorant of Evans’s
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Dear Cecil, I would love to believe the legends about the Mandan Indians, reputed to have descended from an ill-fated colony of Welshmen who arrived in ships in the 1100s. Their leader was a prince named Madoc. Are you going to burst my bubble? Or is there something to this? Bill Morse, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
visit — kept the legend alive, writing that “a great many” Mandan were “as light as half breeds.” Nothing o d d t h e re — w h i t e m e n h a d b e e n p o o l i n g g e n e s w i t h Ma n d a n w o m e n f o r n e a r l y a c e n t u r y a t t h a t p o i n t . True, explorer La Vérendr ye had noted a “light-colored” minority on first encountering the tribe in the late 1 7 3 0 s . Bu t e v e n C a t l i n a d m i t t e d t h a t n o m o r e t h a n 2 0 p e r c e n t l o o k e d n o n - In d i a n , e a s i l y e x p l i c a b l e b y n o r m a l i n t e r - a n d i n t r a t r i b a l g e n e t i c v a r i a t i o n . O t h e r re p o r t s o f b l o n d - h a i r e d Ma n d a n s m a y h a v e b e e n m i s i n t e r p r e t a t i o n s o f a c h ro m o t r i c h i a — p re m a t u re h a i r w h i t e n i n g , w h i c h by Catlin’s estimate affected 10 percent of the Mandan p o p u l a t i o n , i n c l u d i n g c h i l d re n . The Mandans’ wealth — gained through trade — and their large walled towns weren’t exaggerated. But so what? If an agricultural people have impressive architecture, they must be from Europe? The Madogwys, who according to legend alighted in the New World at Mobile, Alabama, of all places, are sometimes associated with hilltop stone “forts” (possibly ceremonial) in and around Tennessee. However, archaeological evidence shows Indians built them 1,000 years before Madoc’s time. Believers cite Roman coins found nearby. Twelfth-centur y Welshmen carr ying second-centur y Roman change? Here’s a simpler e x p l a n a t i o n : Ro m a n c o i n s a r e c h e a p ( a f e w b u c k s o n e Ba y ) a n d o f t e n c o l l e c t e d — a n d l o s t — by c a re l e s s m o d e r n c h i l d re n . Not even believers claim the Mandan language is essentially Welsh – it’s too obviously Siouan. Catlin believed it had Welsh loanwords, giving ten examples in his book. He must have flunked Irony 101, because he proceeds to supply a table comparing Indian languages in which three of his “Welsh” words (and many other Mandan terms) have recognizable cognates in another Siouan language. Any two unrelated languages are likely to have a few matches by chance alone. O v e r t h e ye a r s m a n y h a ve w a n t e d t h i s o r t h a t American tribe, artifact, etc., to be Phoenician, Hebrew, Trojan, Greek, Roman or what have you. One bunch of Europeans is now generally conceded to have made a pre-Columbian foray into the new world: the Norse. The Welsh won’t be number two. CECIL ADAMS
Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil Adams can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Write Cecil Adams at the Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago, IL 60611, or email him at cecil@chireader.com.
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Curses, Foiled Again Maria Bergan, who is 23 and legally old enough to drink in Ohio, used a stolen driver’s license to prove her age at a bar in Westlake. The waitress she presented it to, Kathryn Mooney, 22, recognized it as hers. She reported it stolen three weeks earlier. Bergan grew suspicious when Mooney left to call police and fled, but her companion stayed behind and told officers where Bergan lived.
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Support Network Japanese officials arrested a 44-year-old Japanese man who made 37,760 silent calls to directory assistance so he could hear the “kind� voices of the female operators. “When I made a complaint call once, the operator dealt with it very kindly,� the man told Hiroshima police, “so I wanted to hear these women’s voices.� The newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported the calls, made between March and July this year, caused psychological distress to more
France-Presse news agency reported that eunuchs regularly barge in uninvited as “auspicious� visitors to Indian weddings and to bless the births of children, and they leave only after collecting money to spare further embarrassment of their hosts. Lured by the moneymaking prospects, many men are dressing up as women and are involved in small-time crime and use more aggressive tactics to collect cash. The newcomers demand up to 2000 rupees for an occasion and refuse to be deterred by lesser amounts, said Sanju Masi, a eunuch operating in Ahmedabad in western Gujarat state.
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mountâ€? into Welsh for a road sign between Penarth and Cardiff. After the sign was posted, officials learned that the Welsh phrase, “Llid y bledren dymchwelyd,â€? roughly translates as “bladder inflammation overturn.â€? “The root of the problem,â€? an official told the South Wales Echo newspaper, “ was seeking an online translation, and that’s where it went wrong.â€? • Hoping to stop tailgating, Washington transportation officials had road crews paint dots 80 feet apart on a 2-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in Thurston County and post signs telling drivers to stay at least two dots from the vehicle ahead. The distance was based on the traffic-safety principle of being at least two seconds behind another vehicle when going 60 mph. The day after the Two Dots to Safety program began, 2x4-AdamsBerry083006 8/28/06 2:46 by PMdrivers Page 1 however, traffic was snarled
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What’s a Mother For? Police charged Janine C. Lewis, 36, with driving her 13-year-old son around Stoughton, Wis., to help him look for someone to rob. The boy gave her up after he pulled a gun on a man at a car wash, but the man recognized it was only a BB gun, knocked it from the boy’s hand and held him for police. According to the police complaint, Lewis said she told her son that robbing people was something they could do together.
Sheriff ’s officials in Mahoning County, Ohio, cited Youngstown resident George Finnerty III, 58, for littering and backed up the charges with photos of cardboard boxes, broken furniture, tires and other trash piled around his house. For the past 11 years, Finnerty has been Youngstown’s litter control coordinator.
No Laughing Matter Women who were exposed to brief entertainment by clowns were successful at in-vitro fertilization at almost twice the rate of women who had not been exposed to clowns, according to Israeli researchers led by fertility specialist Dr. Shevach Friedler. Friedler, who attributed the difference to greater stress reduction, is also a trained mime.
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Knickers Away British police warned women going out drinking to “wear nice pants� in case they fall down drunk in the street. A Suffolk police safety campaign magazine shows pictures of young women slumped on the ground next to messages urging, “If you’ve got it, don’t flaunt it.� The magazine explained, “If you fall over or pass out, remember, your skirt or dress may ride up. You could show off more than you intended — for all our sakes, please make sure you’re wearing nice pants and that you’ve recently had a wax.�
Dashed Hopes Adam Sutton, 19, a firefighter in Rome, Ga., chartered a plane for himself and his girlfriend, Erika Brussee, 18, then asked family members on the ground to hold up a sign that read, “Will you marry me?� Brussee barely saw the sign before the plane, which was flying slowly at low altitude, stalled and crashed on the tarmac. The crash knocked the pilot unconscious, and Sutton lost the ring he planned to give Brussee, but the couple wasn’t seriously hurt. “I asked her, then we hit,� Sutton said. “All she had time to say was, ‘Oh, my God.’� m 10:45 AM
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The greatest “appeasers” of Hitler were not, as Rumsfeld would have it, a cowardly population, but the lords of industry and big business. Will you all wake up, or what will you do? You heard our President speaking: “They got a different tool to use,” and if you don’t stop them, they’re going to be running through our streets and, worse, our malls, blowing us into little pieces as if we were mere chattel from Baghdad. Just numbers on the AP wire — 45 today, 65 tomorrow, a leg here, a head there, a lot of blood on the altars of worship . . . damn, that’s not an American fate. I have this directly from the source, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who warned last week, in a speech that will be remembered for as long as human history is written, that Americans are dupes, and that those of us who oppose the Bush administration and its self-created “War on Terror” are not just fools and traitors but “appeasers,” likened to those nefarious Brits who, before World War II, preferred to go about their lives rather than stand up to Hitler and say, “Here, Adolf — take that!” I won’t dignify Rumsfeld by quoting again his repulsive remarks and his apparent ignorance about the causes and consequences of World War II. World War II presumes a World War I, which, before “World War II,” was called “The Great War” — “great” signifying not its nobility or just cause, but its utter size and disaster, the most useless and fruitless war ever fought for no reason among top-heavy “powers,” who just couldn’t get along in their greed to dominate the earth and its resources. And the greatest “appeasers” of Hitler were not, as Rumsfeld would have it, a cowardly population, but the lords of industry and big business: Ford, General Motors, oil companies, railroad magnates, Rockefellers, Bushes and the Chase Manhattan Bank, for whom even President Roosevelt, that “traitor to his class,” made special exceptions in a codicil to the “Trading With the Enemy Act” of December 1941, just after the attack on Pearl Harbor, in the knowledge that the entire “world economy” would collapse if he didn’t. Wow, that was a long sentence. But it
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Malian’s Song by Marge Bruchac, based on a story by Jeanne Brink. Vermont Folklife Center, 2005. 32 pages, $16.95.
rish poet Greg Delanty racked up some miles alongside environmental writer Bill McKibben last weekend on a five-day trek to call attention to the most pressing environmental issue of the day. “Everybody seems to be against global warming. Can you hear them honking?” he said midmarch on Sunday from the side of Route 7. Delanty called back later to read the message from a sign he wished he’d written: “The best time to stop global warming was 20 years ago; the second best is now.” It does have a nice ring to it. And Delanty — a politically active poet — has an ear for that sort of thing. Now that he’s walked the talk on global warming, he’s poised to talk the walk, by rounding up the state’s most eloquent wordsmiths to weigh in on the topic at three readings, in Burlington, Montpelier and Manchester. Not since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan has a common concern convened such a long list of Vermont bards. The first event — Sunday at Burlington City Hall — features Delanty along with Julia Alvarez, Antonello Borro, Anna Blackmer, David Cavanagh, John Engels, Adrie Kusserow, Daniel Lusk, Jay Parini, Angela Patten, Elizabeth Powell and Stephen Sandy. At the second reading, October 17 at Montpelier’s Christ Church, Delanty and Parini will go another round with David Budbill, Galway Kinnell, McKibben, Grace Paley and Ellen Bryant Voigt. Planning for the Manchester reading is still in process. Not a single poet said no to Delanty. “They were glad to do it because they all feel so worried about it,” he says of a threat so disarming that it breaks down “barriers between us, like political party, and class, and whether you’re a businessperson or not. We’re all part of the world around us. It sounds corny, but it’s true.” That’s not to say anyone will be waxing poetic on melting Antarctic icebergs or Vermont’s threatened maple sugar industry. Delanty expects the selections will be “appropriate” without being too “burdened with a message.” The only planned activism is scheduled for intermission, when attendees will be asked to write letters to Vermont’s congressional candidates — like the walk, the goal of the readings is to make global warming an issue in the upcoming elections. “Poets get beyond the sound bites to show life in new ways,” Delanty offers. Let’s hope that life continues to be blessed with healthy oceans, polar bears and Venice. History books recount Rogers’ Raid on the St. Francis Abenaki from the usual point of view: Rogers’. The British major claimed to have killed at least 200 Indians when he torched the Indian village of Odanak, north of Montréal, in 1759. Malian’s Song, a recent children’s book from the Vermont Folklife Center, chal-
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girl, the book suggests the Indians were actually warned of the attack by one of the major’s Mohican scouts, and many of them managed to escape. Grimm looks upbeat next to this vividly illustrated war story in which a little girl watches her community burn and her father disappear forever. Which is one reason the New York Times Book Review praised it last month — the Folklife Center’s first such citing — along with two other eye-opening children’s books. “These brilliant books are not feel-good, not melting-pot optimistic,” writes critic Simon Rodberg. “They are as difficult as the real histories they tell, and they insist not only on diversity, but on difference. They force parents and teachers to confront just how harsh a truth we can teach our children.” Like the morning newspaper, the book doesn’t offer much in the way of a warning. No “once-upon-a-time” or other white-kid-lit constructs soften the sharpness of the Indian storytelling style. “It’s assumed that your audience knows the background the story is coming from,” explains Dora Seale, a Burlington-based author of numerous books about Native representation in children’s books. “So there’s no need to interpolate textual information. The setting is indicated by the way the story is told, the interchanges between people and the action itself.” One moonlit night Malian’s father is teaching her how to fish with her hands; the next, he is carrying her, blankets and all, out of harm’s way. Marge Bruchac penned the story from Brink’s oral account as it was preserved by the Obomsawin and Msadoques families; at the back of the book she provides the historical facts on the raid. “It’s perfect for a unit on Native Americans,” says Kathleen Finn of the VFC, noting Abenaki history is part of the state’s educational standards, and “there just isn’t enough material; teachers are hungry for it.” Malian’s Song, the seventh children’s book published by the Folklife Center, is the first in the series to acknowledge Vermont’s original citizens. Could it be a coincidence that the state also “recognized” the Abenaki this year? m
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all it culture clash. Japanese games have a reputation for idiosyncratic weirdness. Sometimes it’s on purpose. For instance, “Seaman” had you raising a talking fish with a human face and bad attitude on the Dreamcast. Other times, it just feels like a Japanese import would make more sense if you’d spent 20 years growing up in the Land of the Rising Sun. And that’s where “Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth” fits. Play this game for an hour, and you will meet about a dozen characters, go to a sushi restaurant with a princess, meet Odin, the king of the Viking gods, argue with an artist about following your bliss, and desperately try to figure out what’s going on. For almost 60 minutes, all you do is click a button to make the story advance and sift through the goofball dialogue for clues about what you should be doing and whether or not you should just take the game back to the store. Little by little, it starts to make some sense, and you find your mind subtly shifting to what must be a more Asian way of thinking. While most Western games thrive on thrill-a-minute action and intrigue, “Valkyrie” chugs along with the lumbering narrative patience of a Kurosawa film. True to the Japanese role-playing-game genre, exploration happens against flat, painted sets that rarely allow much interaction beyond sprinting past the pretty pictures. And battles stick to turn-based attacks that politely let every warrior and monster have a round at hurting the other guy before anyone gets to go again. And if these game mechanics seem overly simple, it is also because they bear the legacy of the title’s origin as a 6-year-old PlayStation release. Shrunk down and spruced up with new animations, the game teeters right on the edge of an ambitious release for the portable platform and crusty nostalgia. “Valkyrie” is back because its unusually complex story line and somewhat novel approach to the genre made it a hit in the first place. Rather than simply building up an adventuring party and setting out to right some wrong, the goal in “Valkyrie” consists of waiting for people on Earth to die so you can recruit them into your stable of fighters for the upcoming end-of-theworld throw-down called Ragnarok. And with three different possible endings and a myriad of slightly different paths to those endings, the game still promises more than a one-time play-through. With more characters than a Dickens novel and a stupefying cultural mash-up of Norse mythology with cute, girly Japanese anime and style, the ultimate asset of “Valkyrie” remains its uniqueness. Whether you’ve come to love the unusual and exotic flavors of Japanese role-playing games or have simply grown tired of titles obsessed with big men and guns, the “Valkyrie” finally woos you with a charm far more subtle than Wagner’s metal-clad, opera-bellowing Amazons. As delicate and complex as a tea ceremony, games like “Valkyrie” teach Western gamers to slow down and smell the cherry blossoms.
Who It’s For: If the letters RPG stir your soul, then this portable version of a classic PlayStation role-playing game won’t disappoint. If You Like This, Try That: Japanese role2x9-FAHC090606 9/1/06 8:30 AM Page 1 playing games have started to trickle onto the PSP platform. “Blade Dancer” is a recent release that attempts to bottle the sweeping narrative of the RPG in a pocket- 2x3-queen090606.indd 1 8/31/06 sized platform. Best Part: Taking a princess to a sushi bar, where she complains about all the raw food and then passes out from a glass of sake is one of the first tastes of just how delightfully weird this game can get. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to attend. Scratch Guard: So you’ve scored that mintcondition original version of “Valkyrie Come learn about the science of medicine from the expert physicians Profile: Lenneth,” and now you want to play and scientists at your own academic health center. it. But before you pop your $100 collectible Classes are free and open to the public game into a PlayStation, think about snapping on a “d-skin.” This clear-plastic cover Every Tuesday evening, September 12 – October 24, protects CD-size games both in and outside from 6 – 7:00 PM, followed by a Q&A session the game machine. At about a buck apiece, this a little low-cost insurance for those Carpenter Auditorium, Given Building, UVM College of Medicine increasingly expensive games. Find out more Call 847-2886 or visit www.med.uvm.ed u/cms to r egister. at www.d-skin.com. m
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hen I was a kid, I loved to sit with a makeshift sewing basket, “working” on joining fabric scraps together. I imagined I had been born a century too late, and longed to get back to the horse-and-buggy era of Little House on the Prairie. So when some of my friends proposed eating only locally grown foods for a month, I jumped at the chance to sample a slice of pioneer life. The idea of eating locally coalesced into a participatory consumer movement last summer, after four women in the San Francisco area publicized their own “eat local” challenge. Since then similar groups have formed in Oregon, Maine and Vermont, among other states. There’s a reason the idea’s catching on: Contemporary comestibles travel an average of 1500 miles from farm to plate. In an age of rising fuel costs and environmental concerns about climate change, it makes sense to question this system, and to view issues of global supply and demand through the prism of your own kitchen. The Eat Local Challenge lets average folks do just that, with a built-in support network, for a focused period of time.
But while it was possible to eat very well without spending hours in the kitchen, I soon discovered that not having access to certain prepared foods made preparing others tricky. With lemons, citrus and commercial vinegars off my list, I had to figure out another way to make salad dressing. Experimenting with available fruits, I discovered that red currants mixed with salt, oil and herbs make a great “vinaigrette.” I planned a three-bean salad that required actual vinegar, though, so I made some from apple cider. It was surprisingly easy: cover cider with cheesecloth in a bowl, and wait a week and a half. Success with this encouraged other fermentation experiments — sourdough bread, sauerkraut made with fresh cabbage, and blueberry vinegar that went into a lemonade-like drink. Other time-intensive dishes included a tomatobean-eggplant ratatouille, baked slowly overnight in the oven, and potato gnocchi which took two hours to make from scratch. (Dinner was kind of late that night.) Some time-intensive dishes didn’t seem hard, partly because they were inspired by a string of themed potlucks organized by my
With just a lump of butter, honey and salt, I could speedily create caramel corn, caramel apples and a sort of toffee. Who says eating local can’t include junk food? I participated in the Eat Local Challenge for the duration of August — 31 days of consuming only food and drink made from ingredients grown within a 100-mile radius of Burlington, where I live. It might sound hard to go without coffee, tea, citrus or chocolate for a whole month, but I had lots of support: In addition to my core group of 10 or 12 friends, about 130 people stepped up to the challenge in the Burlington area, and more “localvores” joined regional groups throughout the state. August was the designated month for the Vermont challenge because that’s when fresh local produce is at its most bountiful. Blueberries, currants, raspberries and melons are in season, the first apples, potatoes, corn and carrots arrive, and tomatoes, green beans and lettuces are still available. After a quick trip to the Burlington farmers’ market on July 29, I hit the ground running. Some of my first meals involved grilled corn-on-the-cob and locally raised ground beef and ground turkey, with a side salad. This combination remained a tasty option all month long.
localvore posse. These gatherings turned out to be one of the highlights of my month. The people I knew who participated in the challenge gathered regularly at each other’s houses to eat our way through a list of dishes we wanted to try local-style. It was fun to rise to the occasion. Several barbecues revealed what could be done with locally produced tempeh and grilled veggies. A brunch blowout yielded currant jam and multigrain waffles made from flour that had been locally grown and milled. A midmonth, all-dessert potluck satisfied my sweet tooth with fresh fruit, homemade ice cream, cakes and custards. Every few nights, I got the chance to hear about, and taste, what my friends were concocting: cornmeal crackers, dill-and-garlic fridge pickles, Egyptian-style honey mead, blueberry buckle. Sometimes we cooked together. At the end of a dinner and granola-baking party, the pile of crunchy provender was divvied up into take-home bags for the next morning’s breakfasts. If each potluck felt like Thanksgiving, cooking for my husband and myself sometimes felt like a surprise party. I had never
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baked with honey before, and had dreaded messing up white sugar substitutions. But my carrot cupcakes didn’t turn out burned and gooey, as I’d feared; they were light and delicately sweet. A black bean ice cream experiment went interestingly awry when I burned a honey-bean mixture on the stove. Loath to waste all of those local ingredients, I poured boiling water over the whole thing, and sipped it. Voila! A surprisingly tasty coffee substitute, albeit one that would be a pain to reproduce. I had been trying to make ice cream for years with little success. During localvore August, I finally learned that it turns out less like frozen butter if you use a mixture of milk, custard and cream, not 100-percent heavy cream. My favorite find was honey caramel, from a recipe a friend provided midway through the month. With just a lump of butter, honey and salt, I could speedily create caramel corn, caramel apples and a sort of toffee. Who says eating local can’t include junk food? Of course, some surprises weren’t so welcome. My German apple pancake turned out so salty it had to be thrown away; I’m still unsure why. Our fridge broke down a week into the challenge, and I had to scramble to find temporary homes for all of our local-meat-and-dairy foodstuff finds. One batch of sourdough just wouldn’t rise, and I had to toss half of it before it ever became bread. The sauerkraut likewise met a salty fate when I discovered it had rotted instead of fermenting, and a batch of beans I was soaking for baking turned funny-tasting after I left them long enough to sprout green buds. By the end of the month, I had run out of steam. I knew what I could eat, and where I could buy the necessary ingredients, so I stopped inventing recipes on my own and stuck with what I knew worked. Scrambledegg sandwiches, beans, cheese and fresh produce became the order of the day; I didn’t really mind eating repetitive repasts. I was just glad to still be in step with the challenge: My friends gradually admitted to
straying from the guidelines, either by good-naturedly eating dishes offered at other people’s homes, or by leaving town on vacation and being unable to keep up with local eating where they were. I remained fairly strict with myself, knowing that waffling once would make me more likely to fall off the wagon. Blogging about the challenge kept me on the straight and narrow. Most of the time. I did “cheat” twice. I downed two pints of hard cider at a bar the night we had to put our cat to sleep, and shared a beer with my husband Gahlord the night before the challenge finished. Twenty-four hours later, at midnight on September 1, Gahlord made a pot of coffee to celebrate the fact that we could now drink it with clear consciences. It smelled so good that I had a cup. During the fitful sleep that followed, I considered what I had learned. • I don’t need caffeine as much as I thought, though I missed it more than I’d expected. • Hunger may be the best seasoning, but I can see why medieval households kept priceless spices under lock and key: cinnamon, curry and pepper can transform so-so ingredients into taste sensations. • Refined white sugar affects my mood: I feel healthier eating honey or maple syrup, or not eating anything sugary at all. • Convenience foods are antithetical to the localvore ethos if their ingredients are of unknown origin. So instead of my normal routine of buying lunch, I packed one for myself every morning. That became a favorite ritual that I plan to continue. • I don’t want to go completely frontier-style and give up fresh veggies this winter, but I do plan to buy more local potatoes, squash and cabbage. I aspire to eat as seasonally as I can, and to get to know the farmers and other producers who make the food that sustains me. And I hope to keep on swapping recipes and enjoying shared meals with friends. Cooking in camaraderie is nourishing in every sense of the word. m
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You may want to reflect on Ashlee Simpson if you’re skeptical about the thesis of Packaging Girlhood, a new parenting book by Saint Michael’s College professor Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown, a professor at Colby College in Maine. The two women’s argument is strong and simple: The media aren’t offering girls viable models of what it means to be a girl or grow into a woman. Instead, they offer “images.” “We’ve been told our world empowers girls by offering them anything they want,” Lamb and Brown write in the book’s preface. “In reality, it’s a world designed by media and marketing executives that targets children as consumers, channels girls’ desires, and entices them into predictable types: ‘pretty pink dolls,’ ‘cute little shoppers,’ and ‘hott teens.’” Those teens can also choose to go for an “alternative,” Hot Topic look, like premakeover Ashlee Simpson. But if they want to define themselves in more complex ways, they’ll need to do so outside the mall — maybe outside pop culture altogether. Analyzing kids’ TV, Lamb and Brown note that boy characters in cartoons “can be brainy, goofy, sensitive, tough, loyal, funny, mean, depressed, or bizarre.” Girls, by con-
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Cynical readers, including feminists, may ask, “What’s new about a book like this?� After all, marketing isn’t politically progressive. It has always drawn on stereotypes about male and female roles, and many of the stereotypes Lamb and Brown discuss are as old as the hills. Why should parents suddenly be more concerned now about what their daughters are watching, listening to and wearing? One common answer is that pop culture is becoming more openly sexual. Conservative and liberal parents alike aren’t apt to be overjoyed to discover their 10year-old daughters singing along with Fergie of the Black-Eyed Peas about how she wheedles diamonds from men with the power of her “lovely lady lumps.� Packaging Girlhood is addressed directly to parents, and it acknowledges their fears about the pervasiveness of MTV culture. “If you let your daughter watch TV and go to the movies,� Lamb and Brown warn, “you’re essentially enrolling her in a sex education course written primarily by boys and men, using traditionally sexy women as their teachers. Is this the curriculum you want?� In an interview near her home in Shelburne, 51-year-old Lamb, who has two sons, candidly acknowledges that Packaging Girlhood has itself been packaged as a “parental anxiety� book. That aspect was at the forefront when the authors appeared on CBS’ “The Early Show� in early August. They have since penned op-eds in The Christian Science Monitor and The Boston Globe. But, rather than sexy culture per se, the book attacks the commercialization of girl culture. “What really is new is the reaching down to a younger audience, repackaging it for preteens and younger,� says Lamb. She cites the example of the Bratz dolls with their “party limo and spas,� who are selling the Paris Hilton lifestyle to kids. Also new is “The idea of selling girl-power as a power to make choices to shop . . . to choose between different colors of iPod holders,� Lamb says wryly. Lamb and Brown don’t recommend that parents try to shelter their daughters or tune out pop culture. Their solution to the scary sex education offered by MTV is more thorough sex ed in school — i.e., not just abstinence promotion — coupled with open discussion in the home. Over and over, the book promotes a talking cure. “We have confidence that parents can talk to their kids and influence them,� Lamb explains. “They don’t have to be so scared of what’s in their world; they can be analyzing it.� “I had to convince Lyn of this early on, but my philosophy
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Lamb and Brown conducted a lengthy online survey on Girlzone.com, a Vermont-based site, to find out from girls “what’s in their world.” The next step was immersing themselves in it. For the chapter on music, for instance, Lamb compiled girls’ answers to the question “What’s the song that’s going through your head right now?” Then she asked her college students to download the songs and burn her a CD. Lamb soon learned that the respondents hadn’t censored their choices. “My kids are hearing me in my office listening to Jack Black’s ‘Fuck Her Gently.’ ‘Oh my God, Mom!’” she mockshrieks, imitating a teenager’s embarrassment. Lamb and Brown also conducted focus groups and surveyed school guidance counselors and parents. Then they started writing. “It was all done over email,” Lamb says of their interstate collaboration. “We’re very comfortable rewriting each other’s words. We no longer remember who said what.” The “reality-based” approach they decided to take wasn’t just a strategy for reaching the average American. “The other secret of
about a girl who gives everything up for a guy. Would you do that?” Or to the Pussycat Dolls’ “Don’t Cha” by asking, “Isn’t it boring that two girls are always in competition for a boy?” Will daughters take such questions seriously, given that the main appeal of such pop songs is in their infectious hooks and not their lyrics? Sometimes Packaging Girlhood feels overly earnest. Still, it’s hard not to admire Lamb and Brown for taking a page from Mary Wollstonecraft’s pioneering feminist tract, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In Wollstonecraft’s time, circa 1792, popular novels celebrated a romantic ideal of feminine sensitivity. Wollstonecraft begged mothers to consider that, while strong emotions were well and good, their daughters might get further on common sense. Call it “meat and potatoes” feminism. Lamb and Brown take a similar tack when they distance themselves from the many books that address issues of raising girls’ self-esteem and healing them from within. “We don’t buy into the view that low self-esteem is the biggest problem for girls today,” they state baldly in Packaging Girlhood’s introduc-
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The Whole Truth? Project Censored: 10 stories ignored last year by big media
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Last month, two news stories broke the same day, one meaty, one junky. In Detroit, U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that the Bush administration’s warrantless National Security Agency surveillance program was unconstitutional and must end. Meanwhile, somewhere in Thailand, a weirdo named John Mark Karr claimed he was with 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsay when she died in 1996. Predictably, the mainstream media devoted acres of newsprint and hours of airtime to the alleged beautyqueen killer, including stories on what he ate on the plane ride home, his desire for a sex change, his child-porn fixation and, when DNA tests proved Karr wasn’t the killer, why he confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. During that same time period, hardly a word was written or broadcast in the same outlets about Judge Diggs Taylor’s ruling and the questions it raises about Bush’s power-grabbing administration. The mainstream media’s fascination with unimportant news isn’t anything novel. Professor Carl Jensen, a disenchanted journalist who entered advertising only to walk away in disgust and become a sociologist, says the media’s preoccupation with “junk food news” inspired him, 30 years ago, to found a media-research project at Sonoma State in California. The purpose: to publicize the top 25 big stories the media had censored, ignored or underreported in the previous year. That was the beginning of Project Censored, the longest-running media-censorship project in the nation. “If anything, it’s gotten worse,” says the now retired Jensen, pointing to increased media monopolization. Acknowledging that some stories on this year’s Project
Censored list have already been published on the Internet, or in well-known magazines such as The New Yorker and Mother Jones, Jensen says, “What’s known to some isn’t known to everyone. Not everyone reads The New Yorker. And if a story is really important, I call it censored anyway.” Project Censored’s current director, Peter Phillips, says just because entertainment news is addictive is no excuse for the media to push it. “Massacres, celebrity gossip, we’re automatically attracted,” says Phillips. “It’s like selling drugs. But we don’t tolerate the drug dealer on the corner. For the democratic process to happen, we have to have information presented and made available. To just give people entertainment news is an abdication of the First Amendment.” Art Brodsky, a telecommunications expert at Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, says some of the problems with censorship are a product of journalistic laziness. The topic of “network neutrality,” for example — the number-one issue on this year’s Project Censored list — hasn’t received enough coverage, in part because it’s difficult to explain. “It’s one of those Washington issues that gets intense coverage in the field where it happens, but can be successfully muddied, and it’s technical,” says Brodsky. So a lot of editors and reporters throw their hands up in the air — a lot like senators,” Brodsky notes. “But it’s the job of reporters to act as translators and help people understand.” Read on, then, to find out what you’re missing: Project Censored’s top 10 ignored or underreported stories from the past year.
1. The feds and the media muddy the debate over Internet freedom In its relatively brief life, the Internet has been touted as the greatest tool of democracy ever invented by humankind. It’s given disillusioned Americans hope that there is a way to get out the truth, even if you don’t own airwaves, newspapers or satellite stations. It’s forced the mainstream media to talk about issues they previously ignored, such as the Downing Street memo and Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse. So, when the Supreme Court ruled that giant cable companies aren’t required to share their cables with other Internet service providers, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that the major media did little to explore whether this ruling would destroy Internet freedom. As Elliot Cohen reported in Buzzflash, the issue was misleadingly framed as an argument over regulation, when it’s really a case of the FCC and Congress talking about giving cable and telephone companies the freedom to control supply and content — a decision that could have them playing favorites and forcing consumers to pay extra to get information and services that currently are free. The good news? With the Senate still set to debate the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006, as the network-neutrality bill is called, it’s not too late to write congresspersons, alert friends and acquaintances, and join grassroots groups to protect Internet freedom and diversity.
Source: Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story” by Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D.
2. Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran Halliburton, the notorious U.S. energy company, sold key nuclear-reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent U.S. sanctions, journalist Jason Leopold reported on Global Research.ca, the website of a Canadian research group. He cited sources intimate with the business dealings of Halliburton and Kish. The story is particularly juicy because Vice President Dick Cheney, who now claims to want to stop Iran from getting nukes, was president of Halliburton in the mid-1990s, at which time he may have advocated business dealings with Iran, in violation of U.S. law. Leopold contended that the Halliburton-Kish deals have helped Iran become capable of enriching weapons-grade uranium. Leopold filed his report in 2005, when Iran’s new hardliner government was rounding up relatives and business associates of former Iranian president and defeated mullah presidential candidate Hashemi Rafsanjani, amid accusations of widespread corruption in Iran’s oil industry. Leopold also reported that, in 2004 and 2005, Halliburton had a close business relationship with Cyrus Nasseri, an Oriental Oil Kish official who the Iranian government subsequently accused of receiving up to $1 million from Halliburton for giving them Iran’s nuclear secrets.
Source: GlobalResearch.ca, August 5, 2005: “Halliburton Secretly Doing Business With Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team” by Jason Leopold
3. World oceans in extreme danger Rising sea levels. A melting Arctic. Governments denying global warming is happening as they rush to map the ocean floor in hopes of claiming rights to oil, gas, gold, diamonds, copper, zinc and the planet’s last pristine fishing grounds. This is the sobering picture author Julia Whitty painted in a beautifully crafted piece that makes the point, “There is only one ocean on Earth . . . a Mobiuslike ribbon winding through all the ocean basins, rising and falling, and stirring the waters of the world.” The problem is, if this world ocean — which encompasses 70.78 percent of our planet — is in peril, then we’re all screwed. As Whitty reported in Mother Jones magazine, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2005 found “the first clear evidence that the world ocean is growing warmer.” This included the discovery “that the top half-mile of the ocean has warmed dramatically in the past 40 years as the result of human-induced greenhouse gases.” But while a Scripps researcher recommended that “the Bush administration convene a Manhattan-style project” to see if mitigations are still possible, the U.S. government has yet to lift a finger to address the problem.
Source: Mother Jones, March/April 2006: “The Fate of the Ocean” by Julia Whitty
4. Hunger and homelessness increasing in the U.S. As hunger and homelessness rise in the United States, the Bush administration plans to get rid of a data source that confirms this embarrassing reality — a survey that’s been used to improve state and federal programs for retired and low-income Americans. President Bush’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2007 includes an effort to eliminate the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation. Founded in 1984, the survey tracks American families’ use of Social Security, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, child care and temporary assistance for needy families. With legislators and researchers trying to prevent the cut, author Abid Aslam argued that this isn’t just an isolated budget matter, but the Bush administration’s third attempt in as many years to remove funding from politically embarrassing research. In 2003, it tried to whack the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ mass-layoff statistics report; in 2004 and 2005 it attempted to drop the Bureau’s questions on the hiring and firing of women from its employment data.
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5. High-tech genocide in Congo If you believe the corporate media, the ongoing genocide in the Congo is all just a case of ugly tribal warfare. But that, according to stories published in Z Magazine and the Earth First! Journal, and heard on the “Taylor Report,” is a superficial, simplistic explanation. It fails to connect the dots between this terrible suffering and the immense fortunes that stand to be made from manufacturing cellphones, laptop computers and other high-tech equipment. These disturbing reports concluded that a meaningful analysis of Congolese geopolitics requires a knowledge and understanding of the organized crime perpetuated by multinationals. What’s really at stake in this bloodbath is control of natural resources such as diamonds, tin and copper, as well as cobalt, which is essential for the nuclear, chemical, aerospace and defense industries — and, most importantly for the high-tech industry, coltan and niobum.
Sources: “The Taylor Report,” March 28, 2005: “The World’s Most Neglected Emergency: Phil Taylor Talks to Keith Harmon Snow”; Earth First! Journal, August 2005: “HighTech Genocide” by Sprocket; Z Magazine, March 1, 2006: “Behind the Numbers: Untold Suffering in the Congo” by Keith Harmon Snow and David Barouski
8. Pentagon exempt from Freedom of Information Act In 2005, the Department of Defense pushed for and was granted exemption from Freedom of Information Act requests, a crucial law that allows journalists and watchdogs access to federal documents. The stated reason for this dramatic and dangerous move? The FOIA is a hindrance to protecting national security. The ruling could hamper the efforts of groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, which relied on FOIA to uncover more than 30,000 documents on the U.S. military’s torture of detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, including the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. (See Story #7). With ACLU lawyers predicting that the end result of this ruling is likely to be more abuse, and with Americans becoming increasingly concerned about the federal government’s illegal intelligence-gathering activities, Congress has imposed a two-year sunset on this FOIA exemption, ending December 2007. That’s cold comfort to anyone rotting in a U.S. overseas military facility, or a CIA secret prison, right now.
6. Federal whistleblower protection in jeopardy
Sources: New Standard, May 6, 2005: “Pentagon Seeks Greater Immunity from Freedom of Information” by Michelle Chen; Newspaper Association of America website, posted December 2005: “FOIA Exemption Granted to Federal Agency”
Though record numbers of federal workers have been sounding the alarm on waste, fraud and abuse since George W. Bush became president, the agency charged with defending government whistleblowers has reportedly been throwing out hundreds of cases — and advancing almost none. Statistics released at the end of 2005 by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility led to claims that Special Counsel Scott Bloch, who was appointed by Bush in 2004, is overseeing the systematic elimination of whistleblower rights. What makes this development particularly troubling is that, thanks to a decline in Congressional oversight and hard-hitting investigative journalism, the role of the Office of Special Counsel in advancing governmental transparency is more vital than ever. As a result, employees within the OSC have filed a whistleblower complaint against Bloch himself. Ironically, Bloch has now decided not to disclose the number of whistleblower complaints in which an employee obtained a favorable outcome, such as re-instatement or reversal of a disciplinary action, making it hard to tell who, if anyone, is being helped by the agency.
9. World Bank funds IsraelPalestine wall
Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility website: “Whistleblowers Get Help from Bush Administration,” December 5, 2005; “Long-Delayed Investigation of Special Counsel Finally Begins,” October 18, 2005; and “Back Door Rollback of Federal Whistleblower Protections,” September 22, 2005, by Jeff Ruch
In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that the wall Israel is building deep into Palestinian territory should be torn down. Instead, construction of this cement barrier, which annexes Israeli settlements and breaks the continuity of Palestinian territory, has accelerated. In the interim, the World Bank has come up with a framework for a Middle Eastern Free Trade Area, which would be financed by the World Bank and built on Palestinian land around the wall to encourage export-oriented economic development. But with Israel ineligible for World Bank loans, the plan seems to translate into Palestinians paying for the modernization of checkpoints around a wall they’ve always opposed, and that helps lock in and exploit their labor.
Sources: Left Turn, Issue #18: “Cementing Israeli Apartheid: The Role of World Bank” by Jamal Juma; Al-Jazeerah, March 9, 2005: “U.S. Free Trade Agreements Split Arab Opinion” by Linda Heard
7. U.S. operatives torture detainees to death in Afghanistan and Iraq Hooded. Gagged. Strangled. Asphyxiated. Beaten with blunt objects. Subjected to sleep deprivation and hot and cold environmental conditions. These are just some of the forms of torture that detainees held in U.S. facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan have been subjected to, according to an American Civil Liberties Union analysis of autopsy and death reports, made public in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. While reports of torture aren’t new, the documents are evidence of torture as a policy, begging a whole bunch of uncomfortable questions, such as: Who authorized such techniques? And why have the resulting deaths been covered up? Of the 44 death reports released under ACLU’s FOIA request, 21 were homicides, and eight appeared to have resulted as a result of these abusive torture techniques.
Sources: American Civil Liberties website, October 24, 2005: “U.S. Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq”; TomDispatch.com, March 5, 2006: “Tracing the Trail of Torture: Embedding Torture as Policy from Guantanamo to Iraq” by Dahr Jamail
10. Expanded air war in Iraq kills more civilians At the end of 2005, U.S. Central Command Air Force statistics showed an increase in American air missions, a trend that was accompanied by a rise in civilian deaths, from increased bombing of Iraqi cities. But with U.S. bombings and the killing of innocent civilians acting as a highly effective recruiting tool among Iraqi militants, the U.S. war on Iraq looks increasingly like the war on Vietnam. As Seymour Hersh reported in The New Yorker at the end of 2005, a key component in the federal government’s troopreduction plan was the replacement of departing U.S. troops with U.S. airpower. Meanwhile, Hersh’s sources within the military have expressed fears that if Iraqis are allowed to call in the targets of these aerial strikes, they could abuse that power to settle old scores. With Iraq devolving into a full-blown Sunni-Shiite civil war and the U.S. increasingly drawn into the sectarian violence, reporters such as Hersh and Dahr Jamail fear that the only way out for the U.S. is to increase the air power even more, as they pull out. This may cause the cycle of sectarian violence to escalate even further.
Sources: The New Yorker, December 2005: “Up in the Air” by Seymour M. Hersh; TomDispatch.com, December 2005: “An Increasingly Aerial Occupation” by Dahr Jamail
For the remainder of Project Censored’s top 25 stories, go to www.sfbg.com.
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The 41-year-old actor, who works by day at a child-care center, has gone to great spiritual lengths for her art before. In the theater program at SUNY Plattsburgh, she prepared for the title role in Agnes of God by reading texts for novice nuns, watching birthing videos and learning to sing Gregorian chant. “I try to do as much as I can with any role,” she says. But her evangelical prep work for The Bus has been far more extensive, causing both Lantz and Bus director Seth Jarvis to compare her to famed method acting devotee Robert DeNiro — Girdich studied the technique, too, at Circle in the Square in New York City in the 1980s. She says the immersion was necessary because she knew so little about evangelical Christianity, which is so central to her character. “I didn’t want her to be a stereotype,” Girdich explains. To an outsider, the world of evangelical Christianity seems uncomfortably, even irritatingly, black and white. You’re either with them, and accept the Holy Bible as your guide — and Jesus Christ as your personal savior — or you’re against them, and headed for hell. For Girdich, there are many more hues. The 41-year-old native of upstate New York moved to Vermont in 1988, and helped found Green Candle Theater — a drama troupe that used to stage plays at the former, queer-friendly 135 Pearl. As a “storyteller,” she says she’s studied a variety of creation myths and religions. “I have a lot of respect for the mystery in a lot of religions, but I can’t take it literally, or believe that
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her ever since. Girdich, a natural brunette, confides, “That’s why I cut my hair and dyed it blond.� The band — two drummers, a keyboardist and several onstage singers — kicks off the service a few minutes later, when the keyboardist exclaims, “Praise the Lord everybody! Ready to give Him praise?� The congregation responds by swaying, clapping and breaking into song. About 150 people have turned up this morning. There are a lot of empty seats, but many of them fill up within the hour. After the opening song, and a series of announcements about upcoming classes — one, about evangelizing to the unsaved, will feature a video series called “The Way of The Master,� starring “Growing Pains� alum Kirk Cameron — the pastor welcomes various congregants back to the church, mentioning them by name. Each person is greeted with applause. Girdich notes that the church is a kind of family. She says that during the second service she attended, she witnessed a dedication ceremony, in which a 3-
her love for and faith in him, and her faith in her church. Another turn-off for Girdich: “The services are so political,â€? she says. Her observation is hardly surprising considering the church dĂŠcor — behind the stage, on either side of the video screen that displays announcements and hymn lyrics, hang two enormous red, white and blue banners. One reads, “In God We Trust.â€? The other says, “One Nation Under God.â€? At another service Girdich attended, the pastor asked the congregants to hold hands and pray for Lebanon. “I thought we were praying for peace,â€? she says. “When the pastor started talking about God ‘raining down his justice’ and ‘raining down his bombs to crush the unbelievers,’ I got tears in my eyes.â€? On this Sunday morning, a woman reads a letter from a congregant in Lebanon, who used his church to shelter Muslim families during the recent Israeli attacks. He wrote about how his fellow missionaries prayed with the Muslims, and blessed them. After one
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year-old was welcomed into the church; children can’t be baptized until they’re 14. “It was just so beautiful and so loving,� she recalls. “I left feeling kind of sad. I thought, ‘God, I wish there was some kind of community like that that I belonged to.’� The family aspect of church life is something Girdich didn’t understand before she started coming to Maranatha. “The biggest thing that I picked up was the sense of wanting to have a connection,� she says. “Before I started doing this, I would have played Sarah more along the lines of moral righteousness instead of wanting to belong to a family.� She’s also gathered other essentials in her fieldwork. “I’ve studied some of the postures,� she says, “what it means to hold your hands high up and ask for blessing. And how to try to get to a place of blind faith, which is very hard for me.� But Girdich is blunt about what she considers the dark side of her character’s church. The first Sunday she attended, the sermon was about “backsliders,� a.k.a. homosexuals, fornicators and deviants. It’s an issue her character struggles with in the play. When she finds out her son is gay, she has to reconcile
service, he wrote, the Muslims were “begging for more Bibles.� “We thought we would never see this day,� says the gleeful woman at the lectern. “May it be a picture of the future.� Converting non-believers is central to the church’s mission. A “prayer map� of Vermont on the back wall shows most of the state colored a hard, rocky unsaved gray. Green blotches appear in several places, where like-minded churches have established beachheads. Church leaders would clearly like those green blotches to spread. In the morning’s sermon, entitled “Staying the Course,� Reverend Michael Milne relates a vision he had last spring, in which Jesus appeared to him, sharpening a sword. Milne produces a metal sword from beneath his lectern and pantomimes Jesus sharpening it. “He set aside Maranatha as a weapon,� he says. The worshippers, who at various times during the service have waved their arms and spontaneously uttered blessings to Jesus, sit in silent, rapt attention. In Lantz’s play, even devout Sarah winds up questioning her faith. It’s impossible to know for sure if that’s happening to anyone here. m
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Judge Cashman’s Exit Strategy Well, it sure would have been an interesting story to cover - District Court Judge Ed Cashman’s appearance at the Statehouse this coming winter to seek reappointment to another six-year term on the Vermont bench. But it ain’t gonna happen. Cash will retire after his next cycle on the bench - this time up in Newport.The A.P.’s Dave Gram reports in Saturday’s Vermont press. Ol’ Cash gave us the first big story of the year with a controversial sex-offender sentencing back on January 4 at the Judge Edward Costello Courthouse across from what’s now Macy’s in downtown Burlington. Because of that sentencing, yours truly ended up watching right-wing forked-tongue Bill O’Reilly on Fox for three whole weeks that month! Yuck! And we heard a lot of familiar names. We called it “Fox News Declares War on Vermont.”You remember, right? [read the rest online...]
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for advocates of affordable housing. On the downside, they may also represent a threat to the future of Vermont’s traditional building trades, as construction jobs are outsourced to modular-home factories elsewhere in the country. No one is more familiar with the pros and cons of this approach than entrepreneur Addison McKenzie, founder and coowner of Home Sweet Homes, a modular home company in South Burlington. At 24, the bearded and laid-back Barre native looks more like someone who should be debugging computer hard drives than selling half million-dollar homes on the back nine. At the moment, his biggest — maybe only — problem is convincing people that “modular” doesn’t mean “mobile.” Actually, modular homes are built to higher standards than trailers or mobile homes. They also use 20 percent more lumber than conventional, or “stick-built” homes, which enables them to withstand being transported on the road for long distances, McKenzie explains. They are typically less expensive, though, than those built on site — sometimes by as much as 25 percent, according to figures from the National Association of Home Builders. And they can be customized or expanded just as easily. As McKenzie puts it, “The modular homes we build are custom homes.” McKenzie cuts an unlikely figure as a real estate mogul. He wears his untucked, button-down shirt over baggy jeans and ratty sneakers. Yellow, mirrored Oakleys perch on his head. “I’m not into all that corporate shit and making tons of money,” McKenzie says. “I don’t have hobbies. I just love getting up in the
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“It’s at a crisis point,” he says. “It’s really sad to see the people who work here but are not able to afford to build a new house.” Home Sweet Homes was recently hired to build four new affordable homes in St. Albans with the Lake Champlain Housing Development Corp. — soon to be the Champlain Housing Trust when it merges next month with the Burlington Community Land Trust. Two of the houses are already built and two others are going up this week. Executive Director John
Modular homes, like the ones Home Sweet Homes sells, are produced in a factory in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, in a building large enough to accommodate 10 football fields. founded in 2003 and has been doing a robust business ever since. This year, the company will build 20 to 30 new homes in Vermont alone — and the company just opened a new office in Cape Coral, Florida. “We’re not sprinting,” McKenzie says modestly, “but we’re not crawling, either.” Without a doubt, modularhome sales are booming. There are no figures showing how many of the nearly 3000 building permits issued in Vermont last year were for modular homes — there’s not even a trade association for the modular-home industry yet. But between 1992 and 2002, modular-home production rose 48 percent nationwide, according to the National Association of Home Builders. The fastest region for growth was in the Northeast, where one in every 10 homes going up is now modular. In some respects, modularhome construction makes sense in Vermont. The construction season is short, making it preferable to do as much of the work indoors as possible. Modular homes, like the ones Home Sweet Homes sells, are produced in a factory in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, in a building large enough to accommodate 10 football fields. The materials are exposed to the elements for much shorter time periods, and can be assembled onsite in a matter of days. As a result, the construction loans for modular homes are also much shorter in duration — as little as three months, compared to a year or more for a stick-built house — resulting in lower interest payments for the owners. Modular homes can be as large as 10,000 square feet, in which case they arrive on site in 33 pieces. But McKenzie sees big opportunities in building small, affordable houses in Vermont.
Powell says it was his first experience with modular homes; he wanted to see how they’d measure up in terms of cost, construction time and efficiency. Overall, he says, he was impressed. “I was very pleased with the quality that came out of this manufacturer,” says Powell, who spent 30 years in the for-profit construction arena as owner of Flanders Lumber Company in Essex. The homes tested very energyefficient, and arrived in nearperfect condition. Powell notes that after being shipped hundreds of miles, the only defect was a minor crack in some sheetrock that took minutes to repair. Powell says that although he didn’t realize an enormous savings per se, the accelerated construction schedule is definitely a benefit: It enables his agency to get people into houses more quickly. Is that a good thing for everyone? At a time when economic-development specialists are working to bolster the building trades in Vermont, houses manufactured out of state take some jobs away from local contractors. Sure, modular homes still require local plumbers to hook up the furnace, local electricians to connect to the power source, and local excavation crews to dig a foundation and pour the cement. But it’s still the real-estate equivalent of a chain store. Affordability isn’t guaranteed, either. Spiraling fuel prices have driven up the cost of transporting modular homes by 25 percent in the last two years. McKenzie is still at an advantage, though, and with the shortage of Vermonters going into the trades, he’s banking on a bright future in modular homes. He predicts, “Modular homes will be the conventional building method of the future.” m
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The South End Art Hop is Vermont’s largest visual arts showcase, but it also provides the opportunity to sample local sounds. The celebration, which takes place on Friday and Saturday, features installations and exhibitions at various locations throughout the city’s South End, a few of which host live music. The official Art Hop street party gets underway at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Fresh Market parking lot at 400 Pine Street. Performers include African FATTIE B. drum and dance troupe Jeh Kulu, zany noiseniks Momster and a Queen City supergroup called Van Goghne & the Oily 8. That’s pronounced Van Gone, if the spelling confused you. Punny moniker aside, the band has a fine pedigree. Members hail from vaulted local acts Swale, the Lazybirds, Gua Gua, Spielpalast Orchestra, Shitcan Noisebelt and Hedwig & the Angry Inch. Word is, they’ll be playing revved-up funk, soul and rock classics. And if that’s not enough, at the end of their set, each player will hack off an ear. Just kidding about the last bit . . . I hope. Just down the road, 90.1 WRUV presents the Vermont Dub Matrix, a consortium of DJs from the local college radio station. They’ll “wax artistic� at Burlington Factory Studios, a new recording enclave at 208 Flynn Avenue. The G1 Studio Collective on 18 Howard Street hosts a who’s-who of Vermont’s indie and experimental scene performing on the site’s patio. Art Hoppers can expect sets from Greg Davis, Hammer & Saw, Oak featuring Tobi Aronson & Sara-Paule Koehler, Home Items, Ryan Power, Magic Sparkle, The Smittens, Party Star, The Cripples, Nest Material and The Cush. Should Mother Nature fail to cooperate, a scaled-back show will take place indoors. That’s more than enough music for one evening; just remember to peep some art while you’re getting down. For complete Art Hop info, visit www.seaba.com, call 859-9222, or pick up one of those handy yellow booklets you see all around town.
Several of Vermont’s female musicians come together in “Women Exposed in Folk, Fashion & Rock ’n’ Roll,� which takes place on Wednesday, September 13 at Burlington’s cozy 1/2 Lounge. The event follows up on two similarly themed gigs last winter, both of which were unqualified successes. The show features Gabrielle Douglas of the Cush, Caroline O’Connor of Caz, Sarah Dawn Albani and Leanna Inzalcl of The 78s, Peg Tassey and Jen Martin. The eclectic musicians will perform on instruments including guitar, keyboards, sax and accordion, with plenty of inspired vocalizing. Each will be given 20 to 30 minutes to play original tunes and the occasional cover. “It’s not a fashion show, but there will undoubtedly be some fun outfits,� says O’Connor of the series’ somewhat misleading name. Good thing she cleared it up. I was wondering how they were gonna fit a runway in there.
Central Vermont’s Michael Chorney is one of the Green Mountain’s most inventive musician-composers. From his days in lauded big-band viperHouse to his outstanding work with chamber-jazz explorers Magic City, Chorney rarely disappoints. Now he’s making his first forays into the singer-songwriter genre, with equally impressive results. “After playing, writing and recording music for nearly 30 years, I’ve finally made a ‘solo’ album,â€? Chorney writes in an email announcing the release of his new disc, Mother Tongue. “In many ways it’s a departure for me; in many ways it’s a return to what started me playing music.â€? The album favors bare-bones arrangements, with muted guitar lines supporting Chorney’s intimate vocals. Guests include Tassey, Bob Wolk, Miriam Bernardo and AnaĂŻs Mitchell, whose Hymns for the Exiled Chorney produced. “When I began collaborating with AnaĂŻs, it rekindled my interest in ‘song’ as a vehicle of expression,â€? Chorney says. Nice work, that. He celebrates MICHAEL the release with CHORNEY a low-key, nonclub performance on Friday at the Mill in Bristol. The show, which takes place at 8 p.m., also features sets from Tassey and Mitchell. On Wednesday, September 13, Chorney appears at Montpelier’s Langdon Street CafĂŠ as part of Mitchell’s “Transcontinental Revueâ€? series. Look for my full review of the CD soon. m
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DEPT. OF UNRELATED ACTIVITIES It occurs to me that sections of this week’s column aren’t directly about music. So you won’t mind if I throw in a TV show, then? Longtime viewers of Burlington’s cable access Channel 15 are likely familiar with one of the station’s most controversial programs, “Subterranean SINema.� Hosted by subversive media magnate Matt G. Paradise, the program specializes in selfstyled “video terrorism.� This includes, but is not limited to, clips of humanity at its most bizarre and disturbing. The show also highlights extreme music; hence the mention here. SubSIN, which went on hiatus in 2003, returns with allnew content this week. It airs Wednesday, September 13, at 12:30 a.m., with repeats the following Thursday at 2 a.m. and Saturday at midnight. The schedule was chosen so as not to offend those incapable of properly operating a remote control. “Many of the Queen City’s finest, prettiest and most popular citizens have voiced complaints about the topics this show explores,� states a recent press release. If that’s you, be sure not to check out www.purgingtalon.com/subsin for more info.
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:: central SKILLET (rock), Charlie O’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. SARA GRACE & LISA RATTIKIENEN (singer-songwriters), Langdon St. Café, 8 p.m. Donations. ROB WILLIAMS & FRIENDS (acoustic rock), Purple Moon Pub, 7 p.m. NC.
:: northern KIDS NIGHT, Rusty Nail, 5 p.m. NC. AA. OPEN MIKE WITH OUTCAST ORCHESTRA, Monopole, 9:30 p.m. NC. STOLEN MOMENTS (jazz, swing, bossa), Bee’s Knees, 7:30 p.m. NC.
THU.07 :: burlington area SHANE HARDIMAN GROUP (jazz), Radio Bean, 9 p.m. NC; ANTONY SANTOR TRIO (jazz), 10 p.m. NC. FRIENDS OF JOE WITH JOE MOORE (blues, jazz), Halvorson’s, 8 p.m. NC. ELLEN POWELL & FRIENDS (jazz), Leunig’s, 7 p.m. NC. ECLECTIC COLLECTIVE (funk, hip-hop), Rí Rá Irish Pub, 10 p.m. NC. A-DOG PRESENTS, Red Square, 10 p.m. NC. TOP HAT TRIVIA, Nectar’s, 7:30 p.m. NC, followed by THE BRIXTON GUNS, LOWELL THOMPSON BAND (rock, alt-country), 9:30 p.m. NC. ZEN TRICKSTERS, GREYSPOKE (jamrock), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. $5. TOP HAT ENTERTAINMENT DANCE PARTY (hip-hop, r&b DJs), Rasputin’s, 10 p.m. NC. DJS CRAIG MITCHELL & CRE8 (hiphop, dance), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC. DJ HECTOR (salsa, merengue), Wine Works, 10 p.m. NC. REGGAE, ROOTS & CULTURE WITH DJ BIG DOG & MATLOCK, Green Room, 10 p.m. NC. THE FLAMING LIPS (alt-rock), Patrick Gymnasium, UVM, 7 p.m. $30/20 with student ID. MOONSHINE JAZZ TRIO, Bangkok Bistro & Thai Steakhouse, 5:30 p.m. NC. MAIA SHARP, MIA ADAMS (singersongwriters), Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, 7:30 p.m. $12/14. AA. LIVE MUSIC, Backstage Pub, 7 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, Geno’s Karaoke Club, from 6 p.m. NC.
WCLX BLUES NIGHT WITH JENNI JOHNSON & FRIENDS, Lincoln Inn Tavern, 7 p.m. NC. BALANCE DJ & KARAOKE, Franny O’s, 9 p.m. NC.
:: champlain valley DR. HONEYWELL (funky covers), Two Brothers Tavern, 10 p.m. NC.
:: central TOM & DAVE (rock), Charlie O’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. ALAN GREENLEAF & THE DOCTOR (piano blues, folk), Langdon St. Café, 8 p.m. Donations. JEREMIAH MCLANE (eclectic bluegrass), Black Door Bar & Bistro, 8 p.m. NC. REGGAE DANCEHALL & HIP-HOP PARTY WITH SOUND SYNDICATE, Positive Pie 2, 10 p.m. NC. OPEN MIKE WITH BRUCE JONES, Purple Moon Pub, 7:30 p.m. NC.
:: northern MARK ABAIR & THE METROS (classic rock), Sami’s Harmony Pub, 9 p.m. NC. LADIES’ NIGHT WITH DJS ROBBY ROB & SKIPPY (hip-hop, r&b), Tabu Café & Nightclub, 9 p.m. NC. SVEN CURTH (rock), 10 p.m. NC. LAFFIN BONES (acoustic Grateful Dead covers), Bonz Smokehouse & Grill, 7 p.m. NC. REGGAE WITH VITAMIN P (DJ), Piecasso Pizzeria & Lounge, 9:30 p.m. NC. JAZZ DINNER, Rusty Nail, 6 p.m. NC. STEPH TAYLOR (piano, guitar singersongwriter), Bee’s Knees, 7:30 p.m. NC.
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SOUL SESSIONS, Radio Bean, 7 p.m. NC, followed by LIVE MUSIC, 9 p.m. NC. JOE DAVIDIAN PRESENTS: A TRIBUTE TO NAT KING COLE (jazz), Parima, 8 p.m. NC. WHITE RAAG (sitar & tabla), Dobrá Tea House, 8:30 p.m. NC. PO’ JAZZ (jazz, poetry), Halvorson’s, 8 p.m. $5. SUPERSOUNDS DJ, Rí Rá Irish Pub, 10 p.m. NC. PORTABLE SAWMILL A.K.A. JOHN HOLLAND (singer-songwriter; art opening), Red Square, 6 p.m. NC; DAVE GRIPPO FUNK BAND, 8 p.m. $3; NASTEE (hip-hop), midnight. $3. SETH YACOVONE (solo acoustic), Nectar’s, 7 p.m. NC, followed by LAMBSBREAD (reggae), 11 p.m. $3. THE BREAKFAST, BORIS GARCIA (jamrock), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $5. RED LIGHT AMERICA, THE F-BOMBS, PARIAH BEAT (punk-rock), 242 Main, 7 p.m. $6. TOP HAT DANCETERIA (DJs), Rasputin’s, 10 p.m. $3. FLAVA WITH DJS ROBBIE J. & THE HITMAN ROB JONZE (urban dance party), Second Floor, 11 p.m. $3/10. 18+. DJ BIG DOG (hip-hop, reggae), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC. DAVE HARRISON’S STARSTRUCK KARAOKE, JP’s Pub, 10 p.m. NC. BLUE VELVET BAND (bluegrass), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. NC. DJ CRE8 (hip-hop), Wine Works, 10 p.m. NC. HEAVY ROTATION (hip-hop), Green Room, 10 p.m. NC. 13 STRINGS JAZZ DUO, Euro Gourmet, 8 p.m. NC. ALL GOOD CHILDREN (folk-rock, Americana), Roque’s, 8 p.m. NC. STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS (honky-tonk, rockabilly), Breakwater Café, 6 p.m. NC. KARAOKE KAPERS (host Bob Bolyard), St. John’s Club, 7 p.m. NC. ROSE HILL DRIVE, GOSLING (rock), Higher Ground Ballroom, 8 p.m. $8/10. AA.
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LIVE MUSIC, Monkey House, 9:30 p.m. $4. KARAOKE WITH MR. DJ, Champlain Lanes Family Fun Center, 8:30 p.m. NC. AA. DAVE GRIPPO FUNK BAND, Lincoln Inn Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE WITH PETE, Backstage Pub, 9 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, Geno’s Karaoke Club, from 6 p.m. NC. NIGHT TRAIN (rock), Franny O’s, 9 p.m. NC.
:: champlain valley PIMP & HO PARTY WITH TOP HAT ENTERTAINMENT (DJ dance party; cash prizes), City Limits, 9 p.m. NC.
:: central HARD LUCK (rock), Charlie O’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. MARK LEGRAND & THE LOVESICK BANDITS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS ANA�S MITCHELL, BRETT HUGHES & MORE (honky-tonk; CD release party), Langdon St. CafÊ, 6 p.m. Donations. EKIS (worldbeat, rock), Black Door Bar & Bistro, 9:30 p.m. $3-5. HITS & OLDIES PARTY (DJ), Positive Pie 2, 10 p.m. NC. WILLIE EDWARDS BLUES BAND, Middle Earth, 8:30 p.m. $8.
:: northern HALLMARK JAZZ QUARTET, Chow! Bella, 7:30 p.m. NC. VIP LADIES’ NIGHT WITH DJ SKIPPY (top 40, r&b, reggae), Tabu CafÊ & Nightclub, 9 p.m. NC. 18+. THE ZEN TRICKSTERS (jam), Monopole, 10 p.m. NC. RESOULED (funk, soul, r&b), Matterhorn, 9:30 p.m. NC. DJ DANCE PARTY, Rusty Nail, 10 p.m. NC. ALAN GREENLEAF & THE DOCTOR (piano blues, folk), Bee’s Knees, 7:30 p.m. NC
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:: burlington area LIVE MUSIC, Radio Bean, from 7 p.m. NC. THE COMPLAINTS (rock), Rà Rå Irish Pub, 10 p.m. NC. JEN KEARNEY & THE LOST ONION (funk, soul), Red Square, 8 p.m. $3, followed by DJ A-DOG (hip-hop), midnight, $3. KIP MEAKER (blues), 1/2 Lounge, 7 p.m. NC, followed by DJ CRAIG MITCHELL (house), 10 p.m. NC. POOGIE BELL BAND, TABLE 45 (funk, jazz), Nectar’s, 9 p.m. $3. RETRONOME (’80s dance party), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $5. BOW TO NONE, BROTHER THROUGH GLASS, THE DENTON AFFAIR (punk, hardcore), 242 Main, 7 p.m. $7. MASSIVE (DJs), Rasputin’s, 10 p.m. $3. TRIPLE THREAT WITH DJS JON DEMUS, JAH RED & ROBBIE J. (hiphop, reggae, reggaeton), Second Floor, 9 p.m. $3/10. 18+. DJ C-LOW (hip-hop), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC. DAVE HARRISON’S STARSTRUCK KARAOKE, JP’s Pub, 10 p.m. NC. BLACK SEA QUARTET (Gypsy, klezmer), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. NC. MOVE & GROOVE WITH DJ BRIID.J. (hip-hop), Wine Works, 10 p.m. NC. ROCKSTEADY WITH DJ ZEEJAY (hiphop classics), Green Room, 10 p.m. NC. LATIN DANCE PARTY WITH DJ HECTOR (salsa, merengue), Plan B, 10 p.m. NC. SHAKEDOWN (classic rock), Breakwater CafÊ, 6 p.m. NC. VERMONT COMEDY DIVAS WITH JOSIE LEAVITT, SALLY STEVENS, MARTHA TORMEY, LISA NAGLE, Higher Ground Showcase Lounge, 7:30/10 p.m. $10/12. 18+. LIVE MUSIC, Monkey House, 10 p.m. $5. DADDY ROX & FRIENDS (rock), Lincoln Inn Tavern, 9 p.m. NC. LIVE MUSIC, Backstage Pub, 9:30 p.m. NC.
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Adrianas Up, 25 Church St., Burlington, 658-1323. Akes’ Place, 134 Church St., Burlington, 864-8111. American Flatbread, 115 St. Paul St., Burlington, 861-2999. Amigos Cantina, 4 Merchants Row, Middlebury, 388-3624. Ashley’s, Merchant’s Row, Randolph, 728-9182. Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., Essex Jct., 878-5494. Backstreet, 17 Hudson St., St. Albans, 527-2400. Bad Girls CafÊ, Main St., Johnson, 635-7025. Ball & Chain CafÊ, 16 Park St., Brandon, 247-0050. Banana Winds CafÊ & Pub 1 Towne Marketplace, Essex Jct., 879-0752. Bangkok Bistro & Thai Steakhouse, 2403 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 985-5577. Barre Opera House, 6 North Main St., Barre, 476-8188. Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Drive, Vergennes, 1-800-622-4000. Battery Park, Burlington, 865-7166. Bayside Pavilion, 13 Georgia Shore Rd., St. Albans, 524-0909. Bee’s Knees, 82 Lower Main St., Morrisville, 888-7889. Beyond Infinity Upstairs, 43 Center St., Brandon, 247-5100. Big Moose Pub at the Fire & Ice Restaurant, 28 Seymour St., Middlebury, 388-0361. Big Picture Theater & CafÊ, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8994. Black Bear Tavern & Grill, 205 Hastings Hill, St. Johnsbury, 748-1428. Black Door Bar & Bistro, 44 Main St., Montpelier, 223-7070. Blue Star CafÊ, 28 Main St., Winooski, 654-8700. The Bobcat CafÊ, 5 Main St., Bristol, 453-3311. Bolton Valley Resort, 4302 Bolton Access Rd., Bolton Valley, 434-3444. Bonz Smokehouse & Grill, 97 Portland St., Morrisville, 888-6283. Borders Books & Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865-2711. Breakwater CafÊ, 1 King St., Burlington, 658-6276. The Brewski, Rt. 108, Jeffersonville, 644-6366. B.U. Emporium, 163 Porters Point Rd., Colchester, 658-4292. Bundy Center for the Arts, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-4781. Buono’s Lounge, 3182 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2232. Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800. Carol’s Hungry Mind CafÊ, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury. 388-0101. Champlain Lanes Family Fun Center, 2630 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, 985-2576. Charlemont Restaurant, #116, Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-4242. Charlie B’s, 1746 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-7355. Charlie O’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820. Chow! Bella, 28 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-1405. City Limits, 14 Greene St., Vergennes, 877-6919. Club Metronome, 188 Main St., Burlington, 865-4563. Contois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall, 865-7166. Cuzzin’s Nightclub, 230 North Main St., Barre, 479-4344. Eclipse Theater, 48 Carroll Rd., Waitsfield, 496-8913. Euro Gourmet Market & CafÊ, 61 Main St., Burlington, 859-3467. Finkerman’s Riverside Bar-B-Q, 188 River St., Montpelier, 229-2295. Finnigan’s Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864-8209. Flynn Center/FlynnSpace, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863-5966. Foggy’s Notion, One Lawson Lane, Burlington, 862-4544. Franny O’s, 733 Queen City Pk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909. Geno’s Karaoke Club, 127 Porters Point Road, Colchester, 658-2160. Giovanni’s Trattoria, 15 Bridge St., Plattsburgh, 518-561-5856. Global Markets CafÊ, 325 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, 863-3210. Good Times CafÊ, Rt. 116, Hinesburg, 482-4444. Great Falls Club, Frog Hollow Alley, Middlebury, 388-0239. Green Room, 86 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-9669. Ground Round Restaurant, 1633 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-1122. Gusto’s, 28 Prospect St., Barre, 476-7919. Halvorson’s Upstreet CafÊ, 16 Church St., Burlington, 658-0278. Hardwick Town House, 127 Church St., Hardwick, 456-8966. Harper’s Restaurant, 1068 Williston Rd., South Burlington, 863-6363. Higher Ground, 1214 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 652-0777. The Hub, Airport Drive, Bristol, 453-3678. Inn at Baldwin Creek, 1868 N. Route 116, Bristol, 424-2432. JP’s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389. Jeff’s Maine Seafood, 65 N. Main St., St. Albans, 524-6135. Koffee Kat, 104 Margaret St., Plattsburgh, NY, 518-566-8433. La Brioche Bakery, 89 East Main St. Montpelier, 229-0443. Lakeview Inn & Restaurant, 295 Breezy Ave., Greensboro, 533-2291. Langdon St. CafÊ, 4 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-8667. Leunig’s, 115 Church St., Burlington, 863-3759. Lincoln Inn Tavern, 4 Park St., Essex Jct., 878-3309. Lion’s Den Pub, Mountain Road, Jeffersonville, 644-5567. Localfolk Smokehouse, Jct. Rt. 100 & 17, Waitsfield, 496-5623. Mad River Unplugged at Valley Players Theater, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8910. Main St. Grill, 118 Main St., Montpelier, 223-3188. Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 167 Main St., Burlington, 658-6776. Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198.
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(Self-released, CD) Central Vermont trio Mark LeGrand & the Lovesick Bandits have been the Friday night house band at Montpelier’s Langdon Street Café for some time. By all accounts, they’re local favorites; listening to Cold New England Town, it’s easy to see why. Leader LeGrand has been playing music in the Green Mountains since the late ’60s. Armed with his trusty acoustic guitar and affable voice, he channels the ghosts of country music’s past. Backing him are bassist Noah Hahn and lead guitarist/harmony man Dan Haley. The three create a vintage sound that calls to mind ghost towns and half-empty bottles of sour mash. While many Western-styled acts trade in up-tempo foot-stompers, the Lovesick Bandits favor moodier material. There’s a Southern Gothic vibe throughout the disc, with reverbed electric guitar and minor-key melodies trailing like smoke from an abandoned campfire. This kind of twang wouldn’t sound out of place in a David Lynch flick. Opener “Hillbilly Hollywood” sets the tone with ghostly, single-note pickin’ and a shady bass line. LeGrand sings of dashed dreams as silvery volume swells color the song’s periphery. “Shooting Star” is a compelling slice of cowboy noir. “I seen comets in the night / But this one boy, she’s a meteorite,” LeGrand sings of a self-destructive beauty. “In a hillbilly town on a Saturday night / She looks a little softer in the neon light / No one here’s gonna bring her no harm / She numbs ’em out through a hole in her arm,” he continues. Doubtful the gal makes her home in Montpelier. The mood shifts with “Lonesome Daddy Blues,” which chronicles a father’s sad disbelief at his daughter’s tawdry behavior. Its breezy musicality nicely contrasts with the record’s darker-sounding cuts. What would a country recording be without a quick dash across the border? No, I’m not talking about Québec. “Mexico” features all the hallmarks of a classic Southwestern ballad, from its tumbleweed bass line to the sun-baked guitar solos. The disc wraps up with “Let’s Go Downtown Tonight.” On it, LeGrand drawls like a brokenhearted Romeo for whom booze provides no remedy. “Trying to satisfy all our desires is like drying our clothes in the rain,” he balefully sings. Haley’s slide guitar solo makes a great companion to LeGrand’s weary yodel. Cold New England Town is a charming record through and through. The band celebrates its release at the Langdon Street Café on Friday, September 8. Expect special guest appearances by Anaïs Mitchell and Burlington twang-meister Brett Hughes. Should be a real hootenanny.
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Burlington may be a long haul from Bakersfield, but the warm twang and wine-fueled heartache of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and their fellow Okie pickers has long captured the souls of the local music community. On his first full-length disc, Lowell Thompson has assembled a crack group of old and new-school pickers, including Bill Mullins, Kirk Flanagan, Tyler Bolles, Russ Lawton, Steve Hadeka and Gordon Stone. With a band this hot, you could hand the mike to any stranger stumbling out of Esox and still sound Grand Ole Opry-ready. To his credit, Thompson proves himself more than capable as a front man. His gritty groan and steady-handed acoustic strums nicely complement Mullins’ slick pickin’ and the saunter of the rhythm section. Lyrically, Thompson sticks to tried-and-true country themes of love lost and barroom nights spent salting beer with tears. Yet he tosses in enough winking turns of phrase to avoid cliché. While many young male country-rockers — especially those with long locks and high cheekbones — get tagged with Gram Parsons comparisons, Thompson most resembles Ryan Adams, both in his depth of talent and trend of not quite fulfilling it. But on his best cuts — such as the one-two punch of swinging opener “Anna” and the ragged ballad “Crenshaw” — Thompson swaggers like an appropriately stoned rhinestone cowboy. Though not without its faults, Thompson’s record impresses more often than not. With more miles under his belt and the continued tutelage of elder players, chances are he’ll soon be breaking hearts by the hundreds.
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CALL TO ARTISTS THE DAILY PLANET restaurant is seeking artists for monthlong exhibits in its bar, dining room and greenhouse. Contact Michelle at 862-9647.
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R EXHIBIT “Exposed,” an annual outdoor show featuring 21 sculptures by local and national artists on the gallery lawn, along Main Street and on the Stowe Bike Path. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. Through October 1.
ARTWORK “Passageway #82,” by Bruce Hathaway
enaissance sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini sounded like a 20thcentury Dada artist when he wrote, “All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.” The notion that everything three-dimensional can be considered sculpture is hard to dispel. But a visit to the Helen Day Art Center’s annual “Exposed” show of outdoor sculpture highlights the distinction between art and environment. Art, nature and the human environment are separate entities that overlap each other in the best of outdoor sculpture. Site and context are essential considerations. This year’s “Exposed” show includes the works of 17 sculptors in a wide array of media. It seems a little more compact than in previous years, with fewer far-flung works along the Stowe Recreational Path and more clustered on the Helen Day’s grounds. The furthest afield is Kate Pond’s “Great Circle #2.” The work is a group of flat concrete slabs — circles, squares and rectangles — organized in a straight line, about 100 feet long, that spells out “Let Be” in Morse code. Her reference to “circle” in the title refers to the meridian lines of longitude and latitude geographers have circled around our planet. It’s interesting that several of this year’s artists thought in terms of maps and directions. Perhaps the confluence occurs from feeling that the country is going in the wrong direction? Brigid Vorce’s “Why Follow” directly addresses humans’ herd mentality. Like Pond’s plea in Morse code, the Massachusetts artist’s playful contribution to the show is made up of concrete stepping stones. Vorce arranged 14 arrows, each one about a
yard long, in a circuitous route on the Art Center’s lawn. Belvedere artist Kathryn Vigesaa constructed a weird optical instrument and dubbed the 12-foot, aluminum telescope-like object “Sight Line.” Viewers who peer into its eyepiece are treated to an array of ever changing videos. Vigesaa’s aim is to draw attention to the “details of our environment that are so often missed because we only focus on the big picture.” The videos present rivers, woods, a flock of winging geese and underwater scenes, in a continuous loop. Thea Alvin of Morrisville and Richmond’s Bruce Hathaway were
way that the viewer can connect chains or line flows as the work is seen from different angles.” The piece has very clear vertical movement regardless of your point of view; no one would think it’s burrowing instead of rising. “Bicycle Arch” by Thea Alvin of Morrisville has been constructed in close proximity to a bike rack beside the recreational path. The arch of junked bikes measures about 10 feet wide and six feet tall. Cellini might have smiled if he could have seen the juxtaposition. Few see more than functionality in a full bike rack; yet who can deny that an arch organized from a jumble of bikes is a strong
It’s interesting that several of this year’s artists thought in terms of maps and directions. Perhaps the confluence occurs from feeling that the country is going in the wrong direction? both inspired by architectural portals. Hathaway’s welded aluminum “Passageway #82” looks like a pair of saplings curving in a wind. They form half an arc, tilting to the right, and are made up of curved spindles, each about 40 inches long. In his artist statement, Hathaway notes, “The curved elements are offset in such a
and engaging piece of art? The design elements — bikes — of rack and arch are the same, but the sculptor’s vision reshuffled those elements into art. Another Alvin “Bicycle Arch” is appearing on Pine Street in Burlington as part of this weekend’s South End Art Hop.m
CALEB KENNA: "Brandon Reflections," photographs of landscapes, streetscapes and portraits." Briggs Carriage Bookstore, Ball & Chain Café, Brandon, 770-8700. Also, "Elements," abstract color prints from around the world. Watershed Tavern, Brandon, 770-8700. Reception at both venues September 6, 6-8 p.m. Both through October 1. ‘A BRUSH WITH THE EAST’: Nine regional artists capture the spirit of traditional Asian brush painting. Gallery at the Vault, Springfield, 885-7111. Reception September 8, 7-8:30 p.m. Through September 23. ROB GREENE: "Delicate Places," jewelry in gold and exotic gemstones; and SUSAN OSMOND: Oil paintings. Grannis Gallery, Burlington, 660-2032. Reception September 8, 5-8 p.m. Through September. GROUP SHOW: Photography, oil paintings and mixed media by Richard Harrington, Patricia Piatek, Carol Hinrichsen and Roland Belivea. Place Creative Company, Burlington, 660-2051. Reception September 8, 5 p.m. Through Art Hop. ROGER COLEMAN: New paintings and collages; and ANNA COLEMAN & BILL DAVIS: Paintings and drawings. 84 Charlotte St., Burlington, 658-1081. Reception September 8, 5-8 p.m. Through Art Hop. ALISON BECHDEL & PHRANC: "Paper Play," drawings and paper sculpture by the Vermont cartoonist and author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, and the L.A.-based punk singer and artist. Pine Street Art Works, Burlington, 863-8100. Reception September 8, 5-10 p.m. (Art Hop). Through October. NICK Z: "Neo-Neanderthal," mixed-media installation with found materials and a pop/punk sensibility. Sanctuary Artsite, 47 Maple St., Burlington, 864-5884. Reception September 8, 6-9 p.m. Through September 29. ‘JUDGES’ SELECT: WINNERS FROM 2005 LOCAL ARTIST SHOW’: Works in multiple media by Nina Gaby, Patricia Harrington, Lew Hartman, Kevin Harty, Lois Jackson, Jenn Jacques, Gene Parent, Sandra Pealer, Bruce Small and Arnie Spahn. Chandler Center for the Arts, Randolph, 276-3726. Reception September 8, 5:30-7 p.m. Through October 15. ‘ART PORTICO’: An array of works in multiple media by Vermont and Montreal artists, including Ric Kasini Kadour, Ira Cummings, Nina Gaby, and others. Red Concrete, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington, 264-4839. September 8 & 9 (Art Hop). CANDY BARR, AYN BALDWIN & GAIL SALZMAN: Figurative and abstract paintings. Limited Editions Woodworks, Burlington. September 8 & 9 (Art Hop).
OPENINGS >> 54A PLEASE NOTE: Exhibitions are written by Pamela Polston; spotlights written by Marc Awodey. Listings are restricted to exhibits in truly public places; exceptions may be made at the discretion of the editor. Submit art exhibitions at www.sevendaysvt.com/art or send via email by Thursday at 5 p.m., including info phone number, to galleries@sevendaysvt.com.
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OPENINGS << 53A E1 STUDIO COLLECTIVE MEMBERS SHOW: Works in multiple media by studio mates Terry Zigmund, Wylie Sofia Garcia, Christy Mitchell, Christina Conant, Elisa Freeman Smith, Eli Schwartz and Jake Rifken, as well as guest artists Peter Isles and Emily Anderson. E1 Studio Collective, Pine St. behind Speeder & Earl's, Burlington, 8600786. September 8 & 9 (Art Hop). SARA ALTIERI: Bold, electric paintings. The Body Center, 11 Kilburn St., Burlington, 859-0939. September 8 & 9 (Art Hop). ‘VERMONT CONTEMPORARY’: Works in multiple media by Warren Kimble, Joan Curtis, Patt Cavanagh, Fran Bull, Liza Meyers and Judith Reilly. Gallery in-theField, Brandon, 247-0125. Reception and artists' talk September 9, 2 p.m. Through October 8.
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WELL PAIRED Leafy, layered watercolors by Ayn Baldwin Riehle and playful figurative paintings with a water theme by Kate Donnelly grace the walls of 215 College Street Artists’ Collective in Burlington most of this month. Donnelly’s sculptural, spindly “toys” and shadow boxes bring an added dimension — the third one — to the show.
PALETTES OF VERMONT CAMBRIDGE: Local participants in this statewide arts project show their wares at a lunchtime gathering. Community Room, Second Congregational Church, Jeffersonville, 644-2233. September 7, noon. 14TH ANNUAL SOUTH END ART HOP: The biggest local art celebration of the year features 300 Vermont and regional artists in group and juried shows, 90 open-studio and business venues, 20 outdoor sculptures, 26 demonstrations and artmaking workshops, a fashion show, and a party with performances by Jeh Kulu Dance & Drum Theater, Momster and Van Goghne & the Oily 8, as well as food and drink. Presented by SEABA, Burlington, 8599222. September 8, 5 p.m. to midnight; party 7 p.m. at Great Harvest/Fresh Market parking lot, Pine Street, Juried Show and more at Specialty Filaments building, 1 Howard Street; September 9, open studios and demonstrations 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Maps available at participating locations.
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ETHAN MURROW: "The Pinto Brothers," large-scale graphite figurative drawings and filmed performances depicting the lives of fictitious explorers. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 865-7165. Through October 1. ‘FARMING IN MONKTON’: Works in multiple media by the gallery's artists, inspired by the writings of Monkton Elementary 3rd- to 6th-graders on the agrarian life. Frog Hollow Craft Center, Burlington, 863-6458. Through September. NEIL E. CALLAHAN: "Rock 'n' Roll Retrospective," 25 black-and-white photographs of influential musicians from the last 40 years. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 865-7200. Through September. BETH LEGRAND: Mixed media, Dining Room; and C. BUKER: "Sunflowers and Such," paintings, Green House; and MICHAEL WELSH: Oil and acrylic paintings, Bar. Daily Planet, Burlington, 8629647. Through September. KATE HARTLEY & DAVID UTIGER: Pear portraits and fantastical pointillist landscape paintings, respectively. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 985-3848. Through September 26. PAIGE RUSSELL, JEREMY AYERS & LUCINDA MASON: Paintings and functional forms. Studio STK, Burlington, 657-3333. Through September 23. AYN BALDWIN RIEHLE & KATE DONNELLY: "Deep Woods" & "New Work": Complex watercolors, and paintings, shadow boxes and toys, respectively. 215 College Street Artists' Collective, Burlington, 863-3662. Through September 17. GROUP SHOW: Paintings by Candy Barr, Vilu Niiler, Barbara Scotch and Suzanne Rexford Winston. Artpath Gallery, Wing Building, Burlington, 563-2273. Through October. KAREN BUNCH: "Vermont Plates," paintings. The Wine Bar, Burlington, 4537452. Through September 25. JUDITH MCMANIS: Liturgical paintings. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Burlington, 864-0471. Through September. MAGGIE STANDLEY: "Underlying Forces," large-scale, mixed-media paintings; and VALERIE UGRO: "Vermont Watercolors," original paintings; and MARINA EPSTEIN: Abstract oil and tempera paintings with mythological themes. Burlington International Airport, 8657166. Through September. ‘SPIRIT OF THE BOOK’: A juried exhibition of artists' books by members of the
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:: central DON & ROBIN LAHUE: Vermont nature photographs, and watercolor and abstract paintings, respectively. Vermont Chocolatiers, Northfield, 485-7770. Through September. LORI STROUTSOS: "Fog and Flora," photography. The Shoe Horn, Montpelier, 2235454. Through September. JANET VAN FLEET & LEE GARRISON: "Buttons and Blooms," mixed-media sculptural works with buttons and spheres, and botanical paintings, respectively. Cooler Gallery & Shop, White River Junction, 2958087. Through September 29. SHERI TOMEK: "Colour, Pattern, Form," prints. Two Rivers Printmaking Studio, White River Junction, 295-5901. Through September 27. SCULPTURE FEST 2006: An outdoor sculpture exhibit featuring the works in mixed media by more than 30 regional artists. Charlet Davenport residence, Prosper Rd., Woodstock, 457-1178. Through October. HECTOR SANTOS: Multimedia stone wall sculptures with satirical commentary on politics and media coverage. Sculpture Fest 2006, Woodstock, 484-9990. Through October. ‘MONTPELIER 2 THAILAND 2’: Montpelier High School students who visited Ban Sa Som show their photographs and journal essays. Green Bean Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds, Montpelier, artwhirled23@ yahoo.com. Through October 7. ‘PALETTES OF VERMONT SUMMER SAMPLER’: An eclectic selection of works from the statewide community arts project. Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, 828-3293. Through September 22. RICHARD WILSON: Abstracted photographs exploring the dynamics of light and the human relationship with this energy form. Vermont Supreme Court Lobby, Montpelier, 828-4784. September 4 October 27.
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ALENA SCHNARR & TIMOTHY DUNGANLEVANT: Photographs of landscapes, cityscapes and ephemeral moments in Vermont and elsewhere. Rhapsody Cafe, Montpelier, 229-6112. Through September. JESSICA STEFFENS: Paintings that interpret spirituality. Salaam Boutique, Montpelier, 563-2497. Through September. BENJAMIN DAVIS & MARINA EPSTEIN: "Contemporary Art Survey," sculptures and paintings. The Hermitage Gallery, Worcester, 229-6297. Through September 13. ‘HAIR’: A show of art made from, or inspired by, hair or animal fur, Main Gallery; and "T-SHIRT," different takes on the American icon, Second Floor Gallery; and "SMALL POINT ARTISTS," works by Candy Barr, Karen Becker, Alexandra Bottinelli, Ayn Baldwin Riehle, Gail Salzman and Janet Van Fleet, Third Floor Gallery. Studio Place Arts, Barre, 479-7069. Through September 23. ‘NEW EXHIBITIONS’: "Et l'eau repondit," a conversation between Vermont painter Janet Fredericks and Canadian poet Guy Jean, Main Gallery; Ellis Jacobsen paintings, South Gallery; and work from the permanent collection, Wood Room. T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier, 828-8743. Through September 24. FEATURED ARTIST EXHIBIT: Works by Robert Hooker, Isaac Graham, Lali, Kathryn Palmer Wiegers, Evearad Stelfox and the Killington Arts Guild. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 775-0356. Through September 24. HUGH TOWNLEY: Wood relief and sculpture. Big Town Gallery, Rochester, 7679670. Through September 24.
FRANCIS MORAN: "Mostly People: A Collected Works Sampler," photographs. Montpelier City Hall, 583-3344. Through September. ‘COVERED BRIDGES: SPANNING THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE’: A touring exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution includes photographs, architectural and engineering drawings, models and artifacts celebrating this historic structure. Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, 649-2200. Through October 15. LEONARD RACHITA & WILLIAM NUTT: New "Photograms and Phototrams" by the Romania-born, Paris-based photographer; and carved-stone works by the Vermont sculptor, respectively. Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, West Rutland, 4382097. Through September 22. HUGH TOWNLEY: Relief and free-standing wood sculptures by the Bethel, Vermont, artist. Governor's Office, Pavilion Building, Montpelier, 828-0749. Through September 27. ANNA DIBBLE: "Dog Days," oil paintings, pastels and multimedia sculptures dedicated to the joyful spirit of dogs. The Lazy Pear Gallery, Montpelier, 223-7680. Through September 15. ‘EASY BREEZY’: A lighthearted collection of art, craft and photography by 14 area artists. Nina Gaby Studio & Gallery, Brookfield, 276-3726. Through October 15.
:: northern RICHARD W. BROWN: "Echoes of the Past: The Last of the Hill Farms," black-andwhite photographs of rural Vermont. Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, 7482372. Through October 29.
JEMIMA BURRILL: "At Home," recent work by the London-based artist. Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, 635-1469. Through September 17. ‘LIGHT SERIOUS PLAY’: Paintings by Bradley Fox, Jen Burton and S.B. Sowbel and sculptures by Margaret Blanchard. The Painted Caravan Gallery, Johnson, 635-1700. Through October 5. IMMI STORRS & PAUL AHO: Contemporary sculpture and paintings, respectively. Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 253-7116. Through October 1. ‘NEW ARTISTS/NEW WORK’: Recent artworks in multiple media by regularly exhibiting artists along with a few new ones. West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park, Stowe, 253-8943. Through September. ‘LAND AND LIGHT’: An annual invitational group exhibit of works in multiple media by regional artists, West Gallery, through December 17; and "WATERSCAPES": a juried water-theme group show, East Gallery, through September 10. Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, 6445100. DOROTHY MARTINEZ: "The Language of Boats," new abstract paintings. Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery, Stowe, 2531818. Through September. ‘EXPOSED!’: An annual outdoor show featuring 21 sculptures by local and national artists on the gallery lawn, along Main Street and the recreation path. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358. Through October 14.
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n a phenomenon that occurs every year in the week before Labor Day, national columnists across America file pointless, content-free “filler” columns, enabling the lazy scribes to hit the beach earlier, according to observers who have been following this trend. The “filler” columns are churned out in a matter of minutes, with no loftier goal than meeting a deadline and filling up space — meaning that columnists will often resort to using the same words or phrase again and again and again and again and again. And rather than doing any original writing, the slothful columnists will rely on so-called “experts” to supply them with quotes to fill up space, experts say. “They’ll often quote people you’ve never heard of,” says Harold Crimmins, an expert in the field of filler columns. “It’s pretty shameless.”
The typical “filler” column is often a reprint of a previously published column, but the writer will later plug in one cursory reference to current events, such as the arrest of polygamist Warren
There are other telltale signs a reader can look for in order to determine whether a writer has, in fact, filed a so-called “filler” column, according to Crimmins. One of these is a tendency
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Jeffs, to disguise this fact. And in order to fill up space even faster, Crimmins says, the lazy beach-bound columnist will compose his summer “filler” columns with short paragraphs. Many of these paragraphs will be as short as one sentence, he says. “Or shorter,” he adds.
to repeat information that the reader has already read earlier in the article, with columnists even stooping to using the same quote twice. “They’ll often quote people you’ve never heard of,” Crimmins says. Another tip-off is if the column ends abruptly. m
Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of the new book The Republican Playbook, to be published October 2006. To find out more about Andy Borowitz and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
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PREVIEWS THE PROTECTOR: International martial-arts superstar Tony Jaa stars in this actionadventure about a young Thai fighter who defends his people against outsiders threatening to compromise their sacred traditions. Petchthai Wongkamlao costars. Prachya Pinkaew directs. (84 min, NR) HOLLYWOODLAND: Ben Affleck trades his Daredevil outfit in for a Superman costume in Allen Coulter’s look back at the life and career of TV Man of Steel George Reeves and the curious circumstances surrounding his death. With Diane Lane and Adrien Brody. (126 min, R) THE COVENANT: Renny Harlin does the graphic-novel-to-big-screen thing with the supernatural saga of four teen warlocks who unloose — you guessed it — an evil force upon the Earth. Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Toby Hemingway and Chace Crawford star. (92 min, PG-13) WASSUP ROCKERS: From photographerturned-filmmaker Larry (Kids) Clark comes this portrait of life on the streets of South Central L.A. for a group of skateboarding Latino teens. Starring Jonathan Velasquez, Chris Neville and Laura Cellner. (99 min, R)
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I STUNT MAN Giamatti has a tricky time trying to unlock the secret of Norton’s art in the new film from Neil Burger.
n writer-director Neil Burger’s spellbinding adaptation of the Steven Millhauser story “Eisenheim the Illusionist,” Edward Norton plays a conjurer whose most elaborate trick is performed offstage. Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, the picture tells the story of a cabinetmaker’s son who falls in love with magic and a young duchess at about the same time. When their relationship is discovered, he’s forced to leave home. After 15 years of roaming Russia, Asia Minor and the Orient, he makes a triumphant return with a new name and an act that instantly makes him the toast of the city. Shooting in Prague, the director pulls a meticulous evocation of time and place out of the hat. Accompanied by one of Philip Glass’ most transfixing movie scores to date, the film is a visually spectacular period piece in which centuries-old architecture and state-of-the-art CGIs are blended to mesmerizing effect. Norton gives one of his finest performances so far in the role of the enigmatic showman. It’s no accident that Burger opens with him in mid-performance and cuts between Eisenheim and members of his audience. Burger zooms in on their faces. Each is full of wonder, curiosity and expectation. Clearly each ticket buyer is thinking the same thing: How does he do it? What will happen next? I happened to glance right then at the faces around me. Each face in the theater displayed the same look. He had us at presto. In the course of Burger’s script, which modifies the source material liberally, Norton’s character puts on two varieties of show. In the first, he toys with conundrums of space and time, slowing the descent of a dropped ball and summoning an orange tree to sprout from a seed in mere minutes. In addition to drawing ever-larger crowds, his act also attracts the attention of two individuals who will complicate his life enormously. The first is Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), a pouty potentate with a brutal streak. The second is Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti), an amateur magician whose professional fortunes rely upon his remaining in the royal lout’s good graces. As fate would have it, the beauty to whom Leopold is about to become betrothed is the same duchess Eisenheim loved as a boy. Jessica Biel plays her as an aristocratic pawn. In submitting to the marriage, she is bowing to the will of her family and to behind-the-scenes considerations of politics and power. With her childhood sweetheart back in town, however, she begins to wish someone would make all that disappear.
SHORTS The prince decides to see for himself what all the fuss is about and attends one of Eisenheim’s performances. He volunteers the duchess for one of the magician’s illusions, a move that sets in motion an intriguing battle of wits and wills. Leopold is spoiled brat enough to believe that his brand of power is the only one his people — and certainly his bride-to-be — should regard with awe. The greater the magician’s hold on the public, the more charismatic he becomes in the eyes of the duchess and the more determined the prince becomes to bring him down. For Chief Inspector Giamatti, that means it is necessary for him to find an excuse to close the show. The actor does a marvelous job in the role, spryly walking the line between blushing admirer and unshakable adversary. Clearly, he has tremendous respect and, eventually, even great fondness for the man whose ruin he has been ordered to orchestrate. It’s equally apparent that he means to ride Leopold’s coattails to the very top of Viennese society, and is willing to compromise his principles — if only to a point. Eisenheim’s most masterful achievement is manipulating events so as to push the inspector right up to that point, and then beyond it. A tragedy occurs — or appears to — roughly midway through the movie, and this changes a number of key elements in the central dynamic. It also leads to a revamping of the performer’s show. A darker, more mysterious mood pervades the hall as Norton conducts this second type of exhibition, in which he demonstrates the ability to summon to his stage hologramlike manifestations of the departed. Seriously creepy in their utter non-creepiness, these phantoms seem to materialize in response to a tremendous exertion of the conjurer’s will. They then respond to questions shouted to them by the audience, proving they’re not some sort of prerecorded projection. Suffice it to say that events are brought to a head when one such specter turns out to be the duchess, and the public accuses Leopold of causing her death. The Illusionist is handsomely shot, superbly acted and written with exceptional cleverness. Too many movies today rely on the surprise twist. Burger’s provides the perfect occasion for using the device, and the director supplies a last-minute, now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t moment other movies will be hard-pressed to match between now and award season. This is one of the summer’s most original creations, a display of imagination, wit and style guaranteed to leave audiences wondering what other marvels this filmmaker has up his sleeve. m
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANIONHHHH Robert Altman imagines the legendary radio show’s final broadcast, along with some of the backstage and behind-thescenes events leading up to it. Featuring Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Lily Tomlin and Lindsey Lohan, among others. (105 min, PG-13) A SCANNER DARKLYHHH1/2 From Richard Linklater comes this visually adventurous adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel offering dual cautions about the dangers of drug abuse and the government’s capacity to abuse its power. With Keanu Reeves, Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Robert Downey. (100 min, R) ACCEPTED HH1/2 Justin Long, Blake Lively, Mark Derwin and Columbus Short enroll in director Steve Pink’s comedy about a group of high school seniors who get rejected by so many colleges they decide to make one of their own. (93 min, PG-13) AN INCONVENIENT TRUTHHHH1/2 In Davis Guggenheim’s documentary, Al Gore explains the truth about global warming and the threat it poses to the planet. (100 min, PG) BARNYARD: THE ORIGINAL PARTY ANIMALSHH Kevin James, Courteney Cox, Earthquake and Danny Glover are among the voice cast in Steve Oedekerk’s animated comedy about a group of animals that go a little too wild when their owner leaves town on a trip. (90 min, PG) BEERFESTHH1/2 Paul Soter, Steve Lemme and Kevin Heffernan play Americans traveling in Germany, where they stumble upon a secret, centuries-old drinking competition. And then drink a lot. Donald Sutherland costars. Jay Chandrasekhar directs. (112 min, R)
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H = refund, please HH = could’ve been worse, but not a lot HHH = has its moments; so-so HHHH = smarter than the average bear HHHHH = as good as it gets Ratings assigned to movies not reviewed by Rick Kisonak are courtesy of Metacritic.com, which averages scores given by the country’s most widely read reviewers (Rick included).
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nists, antagonists and mounting pressure,” but Abelson acknowledges that the finished product is unabashedly profane: “If we were pushing the envelope in any way, it was with excessive swearing.” As Shakespeare once penned, “O! Thou hast damnable iteration.” The Bard happens to be a literary inspiration for Abelson, who is currently adapting one of the playwright’s great tragedies. Although he declines to specify the title, his script will be set in Vermont rather than Europe. With any luck, his work will endure “to the last syllable of recorded time.” When Barbara McGrew and Daniel Fivel head to Canada this week, the Queen City couple will take in 20 of the Toronto International Film Festival’s 352 motion pictures from 61 countries. Thailand, Turkey, Poland, Paraguay, Belgium and the Czech Republic are just a few of the places they’ll visit vicariously during the event, which runs from September 7 through 16. McGrew is on the board of the Vermont International Film Festival, a mid-October gathering that addresses issues such as war, human rights and the environment. That may be why so many of their Toronto selections have social significance. At My Colonel, the pair can immerse themselves in France’s unwinnable war against Algerian insurgents half a century ago. The Wind That Shakes the Barley, about an Irish popular uprising of the 1920s, is another must-see. McGrew and Fivel
intend to catch Catch a Fire, a political thriller set in apartheid-era South Africa. Chronicle of an Escape concerns men fleeing a detention camp after Argentina’s mid-1970s military coup. McGrew hopes a documentary on her Toronto list — Barbara Kopple’s Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, about the ensuing brouhaha when the trio lambasted a fellow Texan dubbed Dubya — will provide a golden opportunity. “I’d like to invite her to Burlington for our festival,” she says. Kopple is best known for the Oscarwinning docs Harlan County, U.S.A, (1976), a treatise on Kentucky coal miners, and American Dream (1990), about employees at a Minnesota meatpacking plant. The idea of spending so many early fall days in a dark movie theater seems like heaven to the Brooklyn-born McGrew, 59. She met her first husband, fellow student David Bordwell, in a cin-
ema class at SUNY-Albany. “Jules and Jim brought us together,” McGrew recalls. He went on to become a “preeminent American film scholar, and I worked as an organizer for the National Education Association,” she says. “We would watch 30 or 40 films a month.” McGrew and her current spouse, a retired physics professor, moved from D.C., to Vermont after 9/11. She offered a Marx Brothers workshop at Burlington College in 2004, and is teaching a film noir class at the school this semester. Although interested in topical fare, McGrew will have to skip two controversial films at the Toronto fest: From Germany, The Prisoner, or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair interviews a real-life Iraqi man tortured by both Saddam Hussein and U.S. troops at Abu Ghraib. Death of a President is a British mockumentary about the 2007 assassination of George W. Bush. Can’t blame that on the Dixie
“Flick Chick” is a weekly column that can also be read on www.sevendaysvt.com. To reach Susan Green, email flickchick@sevendaysvt.com.
fickle fannie BY DAVID DIEFENDORF
READ THIS FIRST:
This week, as always, the things Fannie likes (shown in CAPITAL letters) all follow a secret rule. Can you figure out what it is? NOTE: Fickle Fannie likes words. But each week she likes something different about them — how they’re spelled, how they sound, how they look, what they mean, or what’s inside them.
They call it POUND CAKE because it puts on lots of pounds. DOLLARS TO DOUGHNUTS, the reptilian shape-shifters are fiction. Sherlock and coke don’t mix in the Seven PERCENT SOLUTION. Brenda Starr, STAR REPORTER, is a long-lost relic from radio land. Lane Bryant of Lithuania was the doyenne of PLUS SIZES. “SLASH AND BURN” applies to agriculture, not Attila the Hun. In the mysterious folds of space-time, two and two EQUALS FIVE. “Cogito ergo sum, and you can QUOTE ME,” said Descartes. It’s best to BRACKET OFF the chores you can actually accomplish. A good COLON CLEANSER should put the blocked-up at ease. E me with your Qs or comments (dd44art@aol.com). Difficulty rating for this puzzle: HARD AS PLASTIC. If you’re stuck, see the HINT on this page. If you cave, see the ANSWER on page 63A. So much for Fickle Fannie’s tastes this week. Next week she’ll have a whole new set of likes and dislikes.
FICKLE FANNIE HINT: There are several keys to this puzzle.
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grassroots endeavor about grass, Stash is an action-comedy Adam Abelson wrote, directed and produced for his Burlington College degree project. The May 2006 graduate describes this feature debut, shot primarily in Chittenden County, as “a satirical bastardization of the caper genre.” A free 7:15 p.m. Club Metronome premiere on Tuesday, September 12, will include live music. Abelson’s pot plot follows four young people who unwittingly transport marijuana in their car, as they run afoul of drug dealers and undercover narcs. “These three groups play off each other,” he explains. The 86-minute Stash boasts songs from some 15 area bands, as well as an original instrumental score by Lobot. The rock group — drummer Dave Wendell is the film’s cinematographer and co-editor — will play at the Metronome screening. Ditto for 2nd Agenda, a folk metal ensemble. Another act, Nose Bleed Island, consists of “one guy with a guitar and a cardboard robot,” Abelson says. On a budget of under $10,000, he recruited a local crew and cast. Some in the latter category were new to the art form; others, such as Grace Kiley and Rene Kirby, have professional credentials. “We needed people for a dozen large speaking roles and another dozen secondary parts,” says Abelson, a Massachusetts native who plans to submit the finished film to festivals that opt for edgier stuff. His screenplay has “the basic elements of storytelling, with protago-
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BIJOU CINEPLEX 1-2-3-4 Rt. 100, Morrisville, 888-3293. wednesday 6 — thursday 7 Step Up 6:40. Material Girls 6:50. Accepted 7. Barnyard 6:30.
friday 8 — thursday 14 *The Covenant 1:35, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40. *The Protector 1:05, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25. Little Miss Sunshine 1, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20. Crank 1:45, 4:25, 7:20, 9:45. How to Eat Fried Worms 1:20, 3:45. Invincible 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30. The Wicker Man 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:35. Talladega Nights 1:15, 4, 6:30, 9:10. Step Up 6:55, 9:15. Accepted 1:40, 7:15. World Trade Center 3:40, 6:20, 9:05. Beerfest 4:20, 9:35. Barnyard 1:30. Times subject to change. See http://www.majestic10.com.
friday 8 — thursday 14 *Hollywoodland 10:30 (Thu), 1, 2, 3:45, 6, 6:45, 8:45, 9:25. Little Miss Sunshine 12:45, 2:20, 3:15, 4:40, 6:15, 7, 8:30, 9:20. The Illusionist 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:10. Invincible 12:50, 3:35, 6:40, 9:05. Talladega Nights 1:15, 3:50, 7:10, 9:35. Barnyard 10:30 (Thu), 12:25. The Wicker Man 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 9:30. World Trade Center 12:35, 3:25, 6:25, 9:15. Times subject to change.
wednesday 6 — thursday 14 Barnyard 1:30 & 3:15 (Sat & Sun). World Trade Center 6:45, 9:10. Little Miss Sunshine 2 (Sat & Sun), 7, 9.
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MARQUIS THEATER Main St., Middlebury, 388-4841.
wednesday 6 — thursday 14 Little Miss Sunshine 1:30 (SatMon), 6:30, 8:30.
Rte 7 North, I-89 Exit 20, St. Albans, 524-2468. friday 8 - saturday 9 Beerfest & Talladega Nights.
MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMA College Street, Burlington, 864-3456.
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wednesday 6 — thursday 7 Accepted 1:30, 6:50. Beerfest 4:10, 9:25. Crank 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:25. Invincible 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:35. Little Miss Sunshine 1:10, 4:10, 7, 9:20. Pirates of the Caribbean 1:10, 4:30, 8. Talladega Nights 1, 4, 7, 9:30. The Wicker Man 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35. World Trade Center 1, 4, 6:45, 9:20.
wednesday 6 — thursday 7 Quinceanera 1, 3, 5, 7:20, 9:20. Trust the Man 1:10, 3:30, 7, 9:15. The Wicker Man 1:15, 3:40, 7:10, 9:25. Scoop 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:15, 9:10. An Inconvenient Truth 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9:05. The War Tapes 1:25, 6:30. A Scanner Darkly 4, 8:45.
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friday 8 — thursday 14 *The Protector 2:10, 4:30, 7:30, 9:35. *Wassup Rockers 1:45, 6:40. Quinceanera 2, 4:20, 7:20, 9:25. The Wicker Man 1:30, 4:10, 7, 9:30. An Inconvenient Truth 1:35, 4, 7:10, 6:50, 9:20. Scoop 1:40, 6:50. Trust the Man 3:50, 9:15. A Scanner Darkly 4:05, 8:45.
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PALACE CINEMA 9 MAJESTIC 10 Maple Tree Place, Taft Corners, Williston, 878-2010. wednesday 6 — thursday 7 Crank 1, 3, 5, 7:20, 9:45. The Wicker Man 1:25, 4:10, 7, 9:35. Invincible 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30. Little Miss Sunshine 1:05, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20. How to Eat Fried Worms 12:50, 2:55, 4:55, 7:15. Beerfest 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40. Talladega Nights 1:15, 4, 6:30, 9:10. World Trade Center 12:55, 3:40, 6:20, 9:05. Accepted 12:45, 7:10, 9:30. Barnyard 2:50, 4:50. Material Girls 1:20, 4:30. Step Up 6:55, 9:15. Snakes on a Plane 9:25.
Fayette Road, South Burlington, 864-5610. wednesday 6 — thursday 7 Little Miss Sunshine 10:30 (Thu), 1, 2:20, 3:30, 4:40, 6:20, 7:05, 8:40, 9:25. The Illusionist 10:30 (Thu), 1:05, 3:45, 6:50, 9:15. The Groomsmen 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30. The Quiet 12:30, 2:40, 4:45, 6:55, 9:10. The Wicker Man 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35. Talladega Nights 1:10, 3:50, 7, 9:35. Invincible 12:50, 3:35, 6:50, 9:20. Barnyard 12:10. Accepted 12. World Trade Center 12:35, 3:25, 6:25, 9:15.
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SAX APPEAL If you’re looking for paragons of American jazz, you don’t have to stray far from the Marsalis family. Four of pianist Ellis Marsalis’ six sons are musicians, trumpeter Wynton among them. Branford Marsalis, the oldest offspring, started his career playing tenor and soprano sax for Art Blakely, Miles Davis and Sting, and led “The Tonight Show” band for three years. Now a record producer and composer focused on bringing jazz to school classrooms and affordable housing to fellow native New Orleanian musicians in the wake of Katrina, Marsalis also performs classically in symphony recitals and still tours with his jazz quartet. They play Rutland’s Paramount Theatre this weekend.
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dance ‘SALSALINA’ PRACTICE: Work on your sensuous nightclub routines at this weekly Latin dance session. Salsalina Studio, Burlington, nonmembers 6 p.m., members 7 p.m. $12. Info, 598-1077.
DROP-IN IMPROV: Actors create characters and hone storytelling skills in a fun stage workshop. Waterfront Theatre, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $5. Info, 310-3985. ‘MOON OVER BUFFALO’ AUDITIONS: Actors try out for the Shelburne Players’ lunar-themed fall production. Shelburne Town Center, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2225 or www.shelburneplayers.com. AUDITIONS FOR ‘NIGHT FIRES’: Singers, musicians, dancers and actors ages 13 to adult line up to participate in a community-wide winter solstice celebration. Bridge School, Middlebury, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 453-2960. 8/21/06
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POETRY OPEN MIKE: Bards take turns reading original verse, selections from favorite authors or folk ballads sans instruments at this multilingual mĂŠlange. Euro Gourmet Market & CafĂŠ, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 859-3467. CHARLES FISH: The native Vermonter and nature writer reads from In the Land of the Wild Onion, his chronicle of canoeing the Winooski River. Room 203, Bentley Hall, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1325.
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kids ANIMAL FEEDING: Watch critters do dinner with help from the animal-care staff at the ECHO Center, Burlington, 10:30 a.m., 12:30 & 3 p.m. $7-9. Info, 864-1848. BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIME: Readings of family faves provide morning fun for toddlers at Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. WILLISTON STORY HOUR: Crafts and books fuel the imaginations of kids ages 3-5. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 878-4918. WESTFORD PLAYGROUP: Children gather for games, songs and stories at the Westford Library, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639.
BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: Activists stand together in opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Top of Church Street, Burlington, 55:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS: Marx-minded activists strategize about how to resurrect the American Dream. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Child care and info, 318-3453.
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pollution by recycling old gas-powered grass cutters for discounts on new cordless electric models. Drop-off centers for Addison, Chittenden, Central Vermont, Northeast Kingdom and Northwest Vermont solid waste districts, call for drop-off center hours. Free. Info, 865-7375. LIBRARY COMMISSION MEETING: Warren residents discuss possible plans to revamp the town’s litlending facility. Warren Library, 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 496-3913. SMOKING CESSATION COURSE: Quitters gain tips and tools to break the habit. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 864-6309, ext. 191. ‘EMBRACING DIVERSITY’ DINNER: Citizens celebrate the Green Mountain State’s growing multiculturalism over an evening meal. Wyndham Hotel, Burlington, 6 p.m. $30. Registration and info, 657-4219.
THU.07 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. THE FLAMING LIPS: The post-punk indie rockers who got their start in Oklahoma City turn up the heat in Patrick Gymnasium, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. $30. Info, 656-4410. JSC COFFEEHOUSE: Philadelphia-based folk rockers Dan Smith and Lauren Brown administer acoustic harmonies. Base Lodge, Johnson State College, 810:30 p.m. Free. Info, 635-2356. BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND REHEARSAL: Community musicians of all ages prep marches for outdoor summer performances. Burlington High School Band Room, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 578-3467.
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‘MOON OVER BUFFALO’ AUDITIONS: See September 6. ‘BONE SONGS’: Actor and writer Andre Gregory, of My Dinner With Andre fame, premieres a dramatic tribute to his late wife, to whom he was married for 33 years. Pendragon Theatre, Saranac Lake, N.Y., 8 p.m. $15. 518-891-1854.
ANIMAL FEEDING: See September 6. WESTFORD STORYTIME: Kids ponder picture books and create crafts at the Westford Library, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-5639. DADS’ PLAYGROUP: Fathers and their offspring bond through fun and games. Family Center, Montpelier, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 828-8765. KIDS’ GARDEN TOUR: Young ones explore the world of plants on a walk around the Four Seasons Garden Center, Williston, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. ‘LITTLE ROOTS’ STORYTIME: Kids gather in the garden to hear tales about plants, flowers and bugs. Four Seasons Garden Center, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-2433. BABY TIME: Little ones up to age 2 meet each other at the Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. MUSIC TIME: Growing listeners under age 5 contemplate chords and bounce to rhythms. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. TEEN ADVISORY BOARD: Young people ages 12 to 18 plan fall events for fellow middle and high school students. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. MUSIC-MAKING SESSIONS: Tots up to age 5 and their parents explore garden-harvest themes through songs, movement and instrument play. Essex Alliance Church, 10 & 11 a.m. Free. Info, 760-9207.
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art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. QUILT EXHIBITION: See September 6. GRANTSEEKER WORKSHOP: See September 6, Main Street Arts, Saxtons River. DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: Design educator Sam Krotinger shows shutterbugs how to get the most out of pixel-capturing cameras. Warren Library, 7 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 496-3913. COMMUNITY DARKROOM: Photo snappers develop film and print pictures at the Center for Photographic Studies, Barre, 6-9 p.m. $8 per hour. Reservations and info, 479-4127. ESSEX ART LEAGUE: Watercolorist Kathy Bergeron demos her technique for amateur painters. Congregational Church, Essex Junction, meeting 9 a.m., talk 10 a.m. Free. Info, 899-4151.
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etc ‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See September 6. ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See September 6. CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See September 6. CHARITY BINGO: See September 6. FARMERS’ MARKETS: See September 6, Rusty Parker Memorial Park, Waterbury, 3-6 p.m. Free. Info, 888-7279. Champlain Mill, Winooski, 3:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-6410. THE GREAT VERMONT CORN MAZE: See September 6. LAWN MOWER EXCHANGE: See September 6. VERMONT CHESS CLUB: Pawn pushers strategize to better their games. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 879-0198. 3x7.5-Hopkins090606 9/1/06 8:46 AM
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Forget old-time rock n’ roll. Let’s talk Old Testament. Or how about both? Merging classic rock tunes with silly-but-educational lyrics about Jewish culture and religion is the raison d’être of Shlock Rock, a 20-yearold band based in New York City and Israel. The aptly named aggregate of world-touring pick-up musicians bangs out tongue-incheek titles such as “Bring Back That Shabbos Feelingâ€? and “Chanukah Nights Alright for Lighting.â€? Four members play at Shlock Rock’s Vermont debut this Sunday to instill Jewish pride and promote diversity awareness. The band’s latest album, ReJewVenated, has more in common with Matchbox 20 than the Everly Brothers, and offers a tip of the yarmulke to Weird Al Yankovic.
SAT.09 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS: The Vermont vocalist sings original songs and plays the Hammond B-3 organ with her three-man band. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. $30. Info, 635-1476. OLD-TIME JAM: Musicians share traditional tunes from southern Appalachia at the Bad Girls CafĂŠ, Johnson, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 635-7423.
dance BALLROOM DANCE SOCIAL: See September 8. WORLD GROOVES DANCE JAM: Drums and didgeridoos put some dance in your pants at this familyfriendly fiesta. Bridge School, Middlebury, 7-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 545-2223. SECOND SATURDAY DANCE: Caller David Millstone grinds out dance directions to not-so-secret tunes by Northern Spy. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 785-4607. TANGO WORKSHOP: Three lessons in Argentina’s national dance precede a guided practice session. Champlain Club, Burlington, 4-11 p.m. $15-25 per lesson, practicum is free. Registration and info, 660-2099.
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art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. QUILT EXHIBITION: See September 6. SOUTH END ART HOP: See September 8, 9 a.m. 4 p.m. LIFE DRAWING: Artists sketch a live model in various poses, using a medium of their choice. Bring materials to Studio STK, Burlington, noon - 2 p.m. $10. Info, 657-3333. ARTIST MARKET: Local artists show their stuff and offer original works for sale. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts Plaza, Burlington, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5356.
words BOOK READING: Local author Kimberly Jones shares excerpts from Sand Dollar Summer, her book for young adults about a family recovering from an accident. Borders, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. KATHERINE PATERSON: The award-winning Vermont author serves up Bread and Roses, Too, her recent historical novel for young adults based on a 1912 millworkers’ strike. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. TIM TRAVER: The New England nature writer reads from Sippewissett, his book-length essay recounting boyhood summers spent in a Cape Cod salt marsh. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See September 6. ‘SATURDAY STORIES’: Librarians read from popular picture books at the Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 878-0313. BORDERS STORYTIME: Little bookworms listen to stories at Borders, Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 865-2711. CHILDREN’S STORYTIME: Youngsters take in their favorite tales at the Book Rack & Children’s Pages, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 872-2627. BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIME: Kids ages 4 and up settle down for stories at Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.
KIDS’ CREATIVE THERAPY: Art and motion go hand-in-hand at three separate workshops for youngsters ages 3 to 12. Evolution Physical Therapy and Yoga, Burlington, ages 3 to 4, 1-1:35 p.m.; ages 5 to 7, 2-2:45 p.m.; ages 8 to 12, 3-4 p.m. Free. Info, 864-9642. FLINT KNAPPING: A hands-on workshop demos how Native Americans shaped stone into projectile points for spears and arrows. ECHO Center, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. $7-9. Info, 864-1848.
sport 9-11 MEMORIAL HIKE: Serious trekkers make a difficult, 9-mile climb up Mt. Moriah in the White Mountains as part of a statewide, 48-peak endeavor to fly summit flags in remembrance of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Call for meeting location and time. Free. Info, 476-7987. CAMEL’S HUMP: Hikers traverse 12.5 miles from Bamforth Ridge to the summit of the Green Mountain French explorers likened to a reclining lion. Call for meeting location and time. Free. Info, 878-6828. NEW MOTHERS’ HIKE: Moms socialize and stretch their legs on an active, kid-friendly outing. Meet at the base of Spruce Mountain, Plainfield, call for time. $5. Registration and info, 244-7037 or www.greenmountainclub.org. SALISBURY MILLS HIKE: Local historian Max Petersen leads a tour of a conserved 19th-century industrial site along the Leicester River. It includes an old iron forge, a spool company and a former wood-pulp plant. Meet at the “old antique store” parking lot, Salisbury Village, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 388-1007. VERMONT WAKEBOARD & WAKESKATE OPEN: Athletes spin arcs over boat trails to tally points. North Beach, Burlington, 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. $30 to participate, free to watch. Info, 578-2869. ARCHIE POST 5-MILER: Cross-country striders strut their stuff in the state’s oldest off-road running race. Meet at Gutterson Field House, UVM, Burlington, 9 a.m. $5-8. Registration and info, 434-5311. MIGRATION WALK: Songbird spotters bring binoculars to see warblers, vireos and thrushes heading south with waterfowl. Meet at the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters, Swanton, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 879-4490.
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FARMERS’ MARKETS: See September 6, 60 State Street, Montpelier, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 685-4360. Burlington City Hall Park, 8:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 888-889-8188. Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9380. Marbleworks by the Falls, Middlebury, 9 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 897-5448. St. Joseph’s Church, Grand Isle, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 372-6668. THE GREAT VERMONT CORN MAZE: See September 6. LAWN MOWER EXCHANGE: See September 6. ‘WAYS OF THE WOODS’: See September 8. ‘NATURALIST’S CHOICE’: An on-site outdoor guide talks about the environmental impact of any one of these Vermont fauna: coyotes, bats, bears, loons, turkeys and moose. VINS Nature Center, Quechee, 12:30 p.m. $8. Info, 359-5000. GONDOLA RIDES: Cable-car passengers take in the view atop southern Vermont’s highest peak. Stratton Mountain, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. $10. Info, 800-787-2886. ‘EXTERIORS & INTERIORS’: A 2-hour guided tour shows off a historic mansion’s seldom-seen spaces, including attics and bomb shelters. Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 10:30 a.m. $6. Reservations and info, 457-3368, ext. 22. TRADITIONAL CRAFT SATURDAY: Members of a stitchers’ guild ply needles to bind handmade bed coverings at an old-fashioned quilting bee. Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $10. Info, 457-2355. MARKETFEST CRAFT FAIR: Artisans display wares from wool sweaters to fused-glass plates in front of the Burlington Town Square Mall, Church Street, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7253. USED INSTRUMENT SALE: Sell your clarinet or get a great deal on a glockenspiel. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2163. REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENT: Redcoat reenactors stage historical skirmishes with colonial and Native American forces. Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y., 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., military tactics at 2 p.m. $12. Info, 518-585-2821. CHOCOLATE-MAKING DEMO: Truffle lovers see a professional chocolatier create, sculpt and decorate cocoa confections. Lake Champlain Chocolates, Pine Street, Burlington, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 864-1807. BEAN HOLE SUPPER: Buffet browsers dig into beans with all the fixings, then enjoy music from the Green Mountain Banjos. Baptist Building, Fairfax, 5 p.m. $8. Info, 849-6201. HAVDALLAH GATHERING: At this Hillel-sponsored event, grad students and young professionals establish friendships over coffee and desserts. Euro Gourmet Market & Café, Burlington, 9-11 p.m. Free. Info, 973-951-9378.
COMMUNITY RIVER CLEANUP: Public stewards tidy up along the banks of the Winooski River. Call for downtown Montpelier meeting location, 9 a.m. - noon. Free. Info, 223-7329. CIVIL WAR WEEKEND: Mock battles, reenactments and demos give glimpses into the lives of 1860s Union and Confederate soldiers. Brookside Stock Farm, Orwell, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., battle at 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 879-3490. BURLINGTON DOWSERS: Pendulum swingers and divining-rod holders convene for a monthly open meeting. Room 102, Wick Hall, Champlain College, Burlington, practice 9:30 a.m., meeting 10 a.m. Free. Info, 310-5363. DOG WASH & PET RABIES CLINIC: Canines come clean, then pups and cats both get their shots. Humane Society of Chittenden County, South Burlington, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. $5-7 per pet. Info, 862-0135, ext. 106. DEBTORS ANONYMOUS MEETING: Recovering overspenders gather for activities and a barbecue at the Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 10 a.m. Donations. Info, 863-0158. BARRE GRANITE FESTIVAL: Hard rock fans learn about the immigrants who built Barre, take tours of area cemetery monuments, and try their hand at stone-carving. Vermont Granite Museum and various other locations, Barre, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4605 or www.granitemuseum.com. IRON DOG COMPETITION: State police and “civilian” pooches demonstrate discipline and endurance on a 1.5-mile obstacle course. Starts at the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant, Colchester, registration 8 a.m., race 9 a.m. $30, free to watch. Info, 655-3054.
SUN.10 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. BRANFORD MARSALIS: The saxophonist, composer and producer joins his quartet for jazz exploration. See calendar spotlight. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 7 p.m. $25-32. Info, 775-0903. BURLINGTON CONCERT BAND: Community musicians of all ages perform marches and medleys for bandstand connoisseurs. Battery Park, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 578-3467. BENEFIT SHOW: Vermont-based bluesman Seth Yacovone and musical guests enliven a party with free food that supports the Walk for Diabetes. Club Metronome, Burlington, 6-9 p.m. Donations. Info, 654-7716, ext. 3649. SHLOCK ROCK: A band of four rock-and-rollers cranks out Jewish-themed parodies of genre classics. See calendar spotlight. North Lounge, Billings Student Center, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5125.
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drama ‘BONE SONGS’: See September 7, 2 p.m. AUDITIONS FOR CHRISTMAS REVELS: Skilled teens and adults try out for dancing, acting and singing roles in an Appalachian-themed seasonal show. Parish Hall, Norwich Congregational Church, 3-7 p.m., call for appointment. Free. Info, 649-1528.
film ‘WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?’: See September 8. ‘THE TRUTH OF 9/11?’: Doubters discuss alternate timeframes after watching an hour-long, awardwinning special on the subject by the PBS program “Nova.� Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862, 5630, ext. 24.
art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. QUILT EXHIBITION: See September 6. HUNTINGTON VALLEY ARTS FESTIVAL: More than 40 artisans showcase pottery, weaving and blacksmithing to live music by The Willoughbys and others. Jubilee Farm, Huntington, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. $2-5. Info, 434-4563.
words ‘MAKING GLOBAL WARMING A POLITICAL ISSUE’ POETRY READING: Twelve local literary heavyweights open their oeuvres to call attention to rising temps. See “State of the Arts,� this issue. Burlington City Hall Auditorium, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 862-1259.
talks ‘ETHICS & THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM’: Aine Donovan, executive director of the Dartmouth College Ethics Institute, outlines the political and social effects of recent changes in U.S. military policy. Beth El Synagogue, St. Johnsbury, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 751-8374.
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kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See September 6. MUSIC-MAKING SESSION: See September 7, Viva Espresso, Burlington, 4 p.m. BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIME: See September 9, 2 p.m. MARKIDFEST: Tykes take in a treasure hunt, a dance performance and two magicians, among other entertainments. Church Street, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., treasure hunt starts at 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7253. CERAMIC WORKSHOP: Pint-sized potters learn how Native Americans made coiled-clay bowls, then create their own small vessels to take home. ECHO Center, Burlington, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. $7-9. Info, 864-1848. KIDS KAN TOO: Small athletes ages 5 to 12 get hooked on the joys of jogging in a 1-mile race. Starts at Topnotch Meadow, Stowe, 9:15 a.m. $15, free to watch. Info, 888-8301 or www.stowemarathon.com.
sport VERMONT WAKEBOARD & WAKESKATE OPEN: See September 9, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. NATURE WALK: Wildlife enthusiasts explore the woods around the Birds of Vermont Museum, Huntington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 434-2167. CENTRAL VERMONT HIKE: Day trippers take in a moderate, 6-mile route up Mount Hunger, returning via White Rocks for an easier route home. Call for meeting location and time. Free. Info, 863-2433. ‘SIDE TO SIDE’ SERIES: A challenging, 11-mile hike through Ripton explores routes that connect to the Long Trail. Call for meeting location and time. Free. Info, 496-7650. ‘ALMOST TO CANADA’ CYCLE: Riders push pedals on either a 30-mile or 60-mile route through northwestern Vermont. Meet at Missisquoi Valley Union High School, Swanton, 9:15 a.m. Free. Info, 413-427-2177. STOWE MARATHON: Runners cover miles of rolling terrain within sight of Mt. Mansfield on full- and half-marathon routes and relay team races. Starts at Topnotch Meadow, Stowe, 8:15 a.m. $40-65, free to watch. Info, 888-8301 or www.stowe marathon.com. HAWK WATCH: Avian enthusiasts keep an eagle eye out for winged predators on a Buck Mountain hike. Meet at Colonial Deli & General Store, Waltham, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4132.
etc ‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See September 6. ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See September 6. CHARITY BINGO: See September 6, 2 & 7 p.m. FARMERS’ MARKET: See September 6, Route 108, Stowe, 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 472-8566. THE GREAT VERMONT CORN MAZE: See September 6. LAWN MOWER EXCHANGE: See September 6. ‘WAYS OF THE WOODS’: See September 8. ‘NATURALIST’S CHOICE’: See September 9. GONDOLA RIDES: See September 9, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENCAMPMENT: See September 9. CIVIL WAR WEEKEND: See September 9, battle at 1:30 p.m.
<calendar > ‘CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES’: Visitors visit Woodstock-area landmarks with Civil War-era significance on a 2-hour walking tour. MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock, 2:30 p.m. $6. Reservations and info, 457-3368, ext. 22. HANDS-ON HISTORY: Relive the past with ancient stone-tool exhibitions and old-time games. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison, 2-4 p.m. $3. Info, 759-2412. BURLINGTON AREA SCRABBLE CLUB: Letter wranglers make every word count in a tournament-style competition. Bring your board to the McClure MultiGenerational Center, Burlington, 2-6 p.m. Free. Info, 862-6717. VERMONT SMALL FARMS FOOD FEST: Apple pickers listen to live music and sample specialty edibles prepared by local vendors. See calendar spotlight. Shelburne Orchards, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2753. WILD MUSHROOM HUNT: Fungi foragers learn which species are safe to eat from mycologist Faith Hunt, then sample their cooked findings. Call for Strafford-area meeting location, 1-4 p.m. $25. Registration and info, 765-4129. FLORAL DESIGN WORKSHOP: Horticulturist Lucinda Rooney shares a passion for flowers developed at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England. A wineand-cheese reception follows. Call for Cornwall-area location, 4 p.m. $25. Info, 382-9222. CHICKEN BARBECUE: Baked beans, rolls and seven different fresh salads bring out the flavor of slow-roasted birds. Brewster-Pierce School, Huntington Center, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. $8.50. Reservations and info, 434-3329. ICE CREAM SOCIAL: Hard work turns local milk into delectable dessert at a farm-focused gathering sponsored by Rural Vermont. Raw Milk Theater Barn, Flack Family Farm, Enosburg, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 223-7222.
MON.11 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. POJAZZ: Local poets and jazz musicians jam in a free-form concert of story-centered experimental sounds. Lake House, Grand Isle, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 372-4677. SAMBATUCADA! REHEARSAL: Percussive people pound out carnival rhythms at an open meeting of this Brazilian-style community drumming troupe. New members are welcome at the Switchback Brewery, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 860-1338. OPEN EURO SESSION: Instrumentalists try out Eastern-European improvisations at the Euro Gourmet Market & Café, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 859-3467.
film ‘THE GREAT WARMING’: See September 6. ‘WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?’: See September 8. ‘9/11 REVISITED’: On the 5-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, doubters take in an alternative account which argues that the World Trade Center towers were brought down by controlled demolition. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-5630, ext. 24.
art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. QUILT EXHIBITION: See September 6. COMMUNITY DARKROOM: See September 7.
talks MILITARY HISTORY: Author and retired army officer Colonel Fitz-Enz relates details of the British naval ambush on Lake Champlain that resulted in the largest and most decisive battle of the War of 1812. The School House, Grand Isle, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 372-9994. COLOR THERAPY: Carol McKnight, a co-author of The Aura-Soma Sourcebook, explains how certain hue combos can prevent the blues. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. ‘HOLLYWOOD GOES TO THE OPERA’: Genre expert Giuseppe Albanese connects famous cinematic scenes with their dramatic soundtracks. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 1:30 p.m. $5. Info, 863-5980.
kids WATERBURY STORYTIME: See September 6, for children ages 2-3. PRESCHOOL PROGRAM: See September 6, 2-3:30 p.m. Small stitchers hear Reuben and the Quilt by Merle Good, then fabricate their own patterns. MUSIC TIME: See September 7. SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: See September 8, for babies and non-walkers. FAMILY SING-ALONG: Parents and kids belt out fun, familiar favorites at the Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. Also at the Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 985-5124. BUBBIES, BABIES & BAGELS: A Jewish-themed playgroup for families of all backgrounds features intergenerational schmoozing and noshing. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 864-0218, ext. 26. HOMESCHOOL ADVENTURES: At-home students ages 7 to 9 participate in library projects with parent-teachers and their peers. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 865-7216.
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SENIOR EXERCISE: See September 6, 10 a.m.
AUDITIONS FOR CHRISTMAS REVELS: See September 10, 4-8 p.m. 9/11 ANNIVERSARY: Students, staff and faculty members share poetry, song, drama, video, visual art and dance pieces in reaction to the fifth anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Alumni Auditorium, Champlain College, Burlington, 5-6 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700.
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etc CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See September 6. ‘PEDALS FOR PROGRESS’ COLLECTION: See September 6. THE GREAT VERMONT CORN MAZE: See September 6. LAWN MOWER EXCHANGE: See September 6. SPANISH POTLUCK: Español-speaking gourmets meet for food and conversation. All levels of ability are welcome. Call for Burlington location, 6:30 p.m. Free, bring ingredients or dishes to share. Info, 862-1930. SMALL BUSINESS NETWORKING: Entrepreneurs bring brochures, business cards and brown-bag lunches to a presentation on how to cultivate passion for one’s career. Woodbury College, Montpelier, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 229-2181. CARPEL TUNNEL WORKSHOP: Tight-wristed typists and members of other professions requiring repetitive hand motions hear how to correct ergonomic problems without painkillers or surgery. Discover Chiropractic & Wellness Center, Burlington, 6:15 p.m. Free. Info, 951-5700. LANGUAGE DISCUSSION SERIES: Area residents keep up with a foreign tongue they’ve learned, at casual monthly meetings. Cornell Pavilion, Champlain College, Burlington, French, noon; Spanish, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-4903. BLOOD DRAWING: Donors part with pints at the American Legion Hall, St. Albans, noon - 5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 524-1492.
TUE.12 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. GREEN MOUNTAIN CHORUS: Male music-makers rehearse barbershop singing and quartetting at St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski, 7-9:30 p.m. Free. Info, 655-2949. AMATEUR MUSICIANS ORCHESTRA: Community players of all abilities and levels of experience practice pieces and welcome new members. South Burlington High School, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $6. Info, 877-6962.
dance SWING DANCING: Quick-footed folks learn and practice hep-cat rock steps at the Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $3. Info, 860-7501. SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING: Soft-shoed folk appreciators step out in traditional Lowland formations. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 79 p.m. $4-6. Info, 879-7618.
BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See September 6. STATE ELECTION FORUM: Vermont Secretary of State candidates Deb Markowitz (D) and Cheryl Moomey (R) pitch their positions and answer voters’ questions at the Johnson State College Library, 4:30-6 p.m.2x4-CCTAgoingplaces121405 Free. Info, 223-3627.
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‘THE BUS’: Community tensions caused by a conservative church and small-town homophobia power this original drama by Vermont playwright James Lantz. See story, this issue. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 8 p.m. $15. Info, 863-5966.
BURLINGTON RUGBY CLUB: See September 7. COMMUNITY YOGA CLASS: Beginner to intermediate stretchers strike poses for spine alignment with Anusara-inspired instruction. Healing in Common Lobby, Network Chiropractic of Vermont, Shelburne, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-9850.
‘WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?’: See September 8.
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BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See September 6. WILPF MEETING: Activists review world events at this gathering of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Peace & Justice Center, Burlington, 5-7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-4929. VPT COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING: TV watchers offer opinions on Vermont’s publicchannel programming. Vermont Public Television Studio, Colchester, noon - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 655-8059.
POETRY OPEN MIKE: See September 6. JUDITH LEVINE: The Seven Days columnist and author of Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping reads from her book and considers consumer spending. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6955. SHARON LAMB: The St. Mike’s professor and author of The Secret Life of Girls discusses her new book, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes. See story, this issue. Barnes & Noble, South Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001. BOOK DISCUSSION: Writer and retired naval officer Thomas Corcoran leads a reader review of George Packer’s book The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7211.
film ‘WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?’: See September 8.
art Also, see exhibitions in Section A. QUILT EXHIBITION: See September 6.
words ‘POETICA HAHA!’ AUDITIONS: Area scribes and performance artists try out for an improvisational poetry circus slated to ring in 2007 as part of Burlington’s First Night. Community Room, Burlington College, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-0157. BURLINGTON WRITERS’ GROUP: Bring pencil, paper and the will to be inspired to the Daily Planet, Burlington, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 758-2287. BACKYARD AQUATICS: Thetford-based author, photographer and field-pond-building expert Tim Matson shares his new how-to tome, Landscaping Earth Ponds: The Complete Guide. Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-0774. JEFF DANZIGER: The New York-based cartoonist presents images and commentary from his new book Blood, Debt and Fears: Cartoons of the First Half of the Last Half of the Bush Administration. Old Labor Hall, Barre, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-8777.
talks COMMUNITY MEDICAL SCHOOL: Professors of psychiatry and psychology shed light on the causes and treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Carpenter Auditorium, Given Building, UVM, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 847-2886.
kids ANIMAL FEEDING: See September 6. WILLISTON STORY HOUR: See September 6, 11 a.m. PRESCHOOL PROGRAM: See September 6. Small stitchers hear Reuben and the Quilt by Merle Good, then fabricate their own patterns. SOUTH BURLINGTON LIBRARY STORYTIME: See September 8, for walkers up to age 3. ‘MUSIC WITH ROBERT AND GIGI’: See September 8. ECHO STORYTIME: Young explorers discover the wonders of the natural world through books and imaginative play. ECHO Center, Burlington, 11 a.m. $7-9. Info, 864-1848. LIBRARY DOG LISTENERS: Budding book handlers gain confidence by reading aloud to trained canines. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Registration and info, 878-4918.
etc CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See September 6. CHARITY BINGO: See September 6. FARMERS’ MARKET: See September 6, Depot Park, Rutland, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 773-9380. THE GREAT VERMONT CORN MAZE: See September 6. LAWN MOWER EXCHANGE: See September 6. PARENTAL CARE SEMINAR: See September 7, Charlotte Senior Center. PAUSE CAFE: Novice and fluent French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Borders CafÊ, Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 655-1346. VERMONT EARTH INSTITUTE WORKSHOP: Participants gain a sense of place by studying the bioregion in which they live. KelloggHubbard Library, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338.
WED.13 music Also, see clubdates in Section A. ST. ANDREWS PIPES & DRUMS: See September 6. OPEN MIKE COFFEEHOUSE: See September 6. AFTERNOON CONCERT: Patricia and Ray Harwick play folk tunes on dulcimer and hammered harp. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 1 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918.
dance ‘SALSALINA’ PRACTICE: See September 6.
drama DROP-IN IMPROV: See September 6. ‘THE BUS’: See September 12. ‘BIZARRE MAGIC’: Comedian and prestidigitator Brian Brushwood blends jokes with fire-eating and formation of “the human crazy straw.� Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 635-1476.
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CHARITY BINGO: See September 6. ‘PEDALS FOR PROGRESS’ COLLECTION: See September 6. FARMERS’ MARKET: See September 6. FAMILY GAME NIGHT: See September 6. THE GREAT VERMONT CORN MAZE: See September 6. LAWN MOWER EXCHANGE: See September 6. HOMEBUYER ORIENTATION: Before shopping, potential house hunters determine whether homeownership fits their needs. Central Vermont Community Land Trust, Barre, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 476-4493, ext. 211. VENDOR INTERVIEWS: Greg Sharrow of the Vermont Folklife Center records descriptions of Addison County farm history and farmers’-market livelihoods. Special Events Tent, Marble Works by the Falls, Middlebury, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 897-5448. CHAMPLAIN VALLEY PERMACULTURE WALK: Andrew Faust of the Center for Bioregional Living and Erik Kilgren of Leaveners Community Foundation explore the possibilities of community-based sustainable land use. Old Essex County Home, Essex, N.Y., 6:30 p.m. Free. Reservations and info, 785-841-6686. NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING ASSEMBLY: Residents of Burlington’s Ward 1 swap community-based information with city government. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7172.m
ANIMAL FEEDING: See September 6. BARNES & NOBLE STORYTIME: See September 6. WILLISTON STORY HOUR: See September 6. WESTFORD PLAYGROUP: See September 6. HINESBURG PLAY GROUP: See September 6. WATERBURY STORYTIME: See September 6. ‘MOVING & GROOVING’: See September 6. PRESCHOOL PROGRAM: See September 6. Small stitchers hear Reuben and the Quilt by Merle Good, then fabricate their own patterns.
sport SENIOR EXERCISE: See September 6. GOLF TOURNAMENT: Fore! Swingers support a championship training scholarship fund for local skiers and snowboarders. Stowe Country Club, call for start time. $150. Registration and info, 253-7704, ext. 21.
activism BURLINGTON PEACE VIGIL: See September 6. INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS: See September 6. DRAFT MASTER PLAN PREVIEW: Members of the public get an overview of Champlain College’s long-term development guidelines, then submit comments. Hauke Family Campus Center, Champlain College, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 860-2700. ‘BLOW THE WHISTLE ON RAPE’: Advocates for women’s safety kick off a public awareness campaign in front of Burlington City Hall, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-0555.
etc ‘RAPTOR RESCUE’: See September 6. ‘RAPTORS UP CLOSE’: See September 6. CHOCOLATE-DIPPING DEMO: See September 6. ESL GROUP: See September 6. CHESS GROUP: See September 6. KNITTING POSSE: See September 6. VETERANS JOB NETWORKING: See September 6.
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ARIES
(March 21-April 19): Five years ago, I began making daily bike rides all over creation, through neighborhoods and wild spaces alike. Early on, I realized I’d regularly have to deal with loose dogs running toward me with the intent to bite. For protection, I armed myself with pepper spray and yummy treats. In all that time, I’m happy to report, I’ve squirted just one dog in the face. On the other hand, I’ve doled out hundreds of dollars’ worth of canine snacks. Here’s how this relates to your imminent future, Aries: When a beastly influence shows up, you may think you should bring out your equivalent of pepper spray. But I bet that offering treats will serve you better.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Many critics consider Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) to be one of the 20th century’s best composers. He is most famous for Bolero, an orchestral piece that was originally written as the accompaniment for a ballet. The stimulus that served as Ravel’s major inspiration for Bolero was a visit to a cacophonous steel mill. He’s your role model for the coming week, Taurus. I foresee you drawing creative excitement from events that are rife with noise and commotion. May your messy encounters lead you to produce great work, interesting surprises, or both.
GEMINI
(May 21-June 20): This week I highly recommend that you not sit on a photocopier to create images of your buttocks. For reasons too complex to go into here, doing so would put you out of alignment with the cosmic flow. However, now is an excellent time for you to make other strong statements that involve your backside, at least metaphorically. For instance, you will attract fate’s favors whenever you get your ass in gear to get to the bottom of things. Luck will also flow your way in direct proportion to how earnestly and rigorously you kick your own butt.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some studies report that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol regularly is good for your heart. Other research says that’s not true at all. Similarly, the frequent use of cell
phones either raises the risk for brain cancer or it doesn’t; prayer done on behalf of sick people either helps them or it doesn’t. Different scientists have come to opposite conclusions on both issues. In fact, contradictory opinions about a wide range of health concerns are now routine. That’s just one of several good reasons why you should tune out experts as you tune into your own body, Cancerian. Go in quest of insights about how to promote your physical wellbeing by trusting your still, small inner voice, not loud, confident authorities.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may soon have a dream of beating up the person you were five years ago. This would be a good omen. It means you’re ready to wean yourself completely from a stale old self-image. If you dream of feeding caviar and champagne to a donkey, it’s also a positive sign. It means you’re beginning to recognize that the hard-working beast in you needs to be treated more luxuriously. And if you dream of yelling at a bunch of kids to go clean up their messy bedrooms, Leo, that’s an auspicious portent as well. It signifies your readiness to discipline the irresponsible habits and organize the unruly impulses of your inner child.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing,” said motivational author Dale Carnegie. Those should be your words to live by for the rest of 2006. It’s time for you to become almost ruthless in your intention to enjoy yourself as you carry out your life’s work. I’m tempted to go so far as to say that you should disentangle yourself from any commitment in which duty overshadows pleasure. Your drive to do good deeds and be of use to people will ultimately fall short unless you love what you do.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ve slipped into the Anything-Goes Zone. It has resemblances to a duty-free store in an international airport, a speakeasy during the Prohibition Era, and the more benign areas
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of the Twilight Zone. There you may very well experience events that seem to happen off the record and days that take place outside of time. You could feel like you’re in a buffer zone or waiting room — a nervewracking sanctuary where you’re safe and yet filled with doubts and pregnant questions. At least half the cards will be wild. Exceptions to the rules will be the rule. My advice? Experiment ingeniously.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Recently, less than 5 percent of the world’s astronomers voted to demote Pluto from a planet to a “dwarf planet.” Some Scorpios were alarmed, since Pluto is the heavenly body that traditionally rules your sign. My opinion? Don’t worry. I agree with mythologist Roxanna Bikadoroff, who says there’s poetic justice in calling Pluto a dwarf planet. In fairy tales, dwarves are often magicians who possess hidden storehouses of riches and act as agents of creative transformation. They typically live beneath bridges, which are symbols of transitional thresholds, and are masters of in-between states. They bestow blessings on anyone who is able to pass their demanding tests. This is an apt symbolic description of you at your most potent, which I expect you to be during the coming weeks.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): An adventurer named Brian Walker has plans to climb aboard a homemade missile and launch himself 20 miles into the sky using a giant crossbow. According to *Wired* magazine, he has figured out all the angles, including how to descend, and will probably pull off the feat without killing himself. It so happens that you also have the potential to propel yourself higher, farther, and faster than maybe you’ve ever gone, though in a safer and more metaphorical way. What’s the closest symbolic analogue you have to a giant crossbow?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Help! Pluto’s not a planet any more! Won’t that disastrously tweak astrological theory?
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Actually, no. Nothing whatsoever has changed about Pluto in its role as a revealer of cosmic portents. All that has shifted are the ideas about Pluto that reside in the minds of 424 astronomers who were at the International Astronomical Union’s conference in Prague. (“I’m embarrassed for astronomy,” said Alan Stearn, science chief of NASA’s mission to Pluto. “Less than 5 percent of the world’s astronomers voted on the change.”) Still, it’s important to note how many millions of people take this tiny group’s delusions seriously. Let this be a reminder for you to be very discriminating about whose definitions you choose to believe. Use it as a prod to be more aggressive in giving your own names and frames to life’s mysteries.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You don’t need any special climbing skills to reach the top of Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro. It’s the highest walkable mountain in the world. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy conquest. You’ve got to be in good physical shape. To avoid altitude sickness, you must ascend gradually enough to acclimatize yourself to steadily decreasing levels of oxygen. This happens to be an apt metaphor for the current state of your fate, Aquarius. You have a chance to begin a project that could lead you to a summit with inspiring vistas. You don’t need to master any exotic new skills to do it, and can pull it off as long as you’re patient, take good care of yourself, and are willing to both respect your limits and push yourself harder than usual.
PISCES
(Feb. 19-March 20): “There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept,” said photographer Ansel Adams. That advice should be uppermost in your mind as you follow your bliss to the next fork in the road. Although you’ve got good intuitions about the hopeful scenario that’s fueling you, the fantasy still needs to be fleshed out a lot more. Unless you make it more specific and detailed, it will eventually fizzle. Here’s your assignment: By the equinox, create a vivid image of a well-crafted, intricately imagined goal.
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<helpyourself> //classes acting ACTING: Acting, improvisation, scene study, standup comedy, creative drama for kids, musical theater for teens, Alexander Technique, physical theater, and much more! These are just some of the classes and workshops available through FlynnArts this fall. Children, teens, and adults of all skill levels can pursue or develop a passion in our studios and performance spaces. Sign up now, as many classes fill fast! Info, email flynnarts@flynncenter. org or call 802-652-4548, ext. 4, or visit www.flynncenter.org.
art ART CLASSES AT WINGSPAN PAINTING STUDIO: Creative Plein-Air Painting, Wednesdays, September 20 - October 11, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. $150. Learn how to paint in beautiful sites around Burlington in the great outdoors. All levels. Painting Expression, Mondays, September 25 - November 6, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. $240. An in-depth inspiring class covering art creation, creativity, art history and more! All levels. Info, call 802-233-7676 or email maggiestand ley@yahoo.com. Come and create in the beautiful working studio of Maggie Standley, Wingspan Painting Studio in Burlington. Maggie has 14 years of teaching experience and was recently an Artist-in-Residence at The Shelburne Museum. ART CLASSES: Private or small group. September to June. Info, 215-8500848. Experienced Vermont-certified art teacher available to give private or small group lessons to children ages 4-14 in your home, days or evenings, home school or extracurricular. References available. BOOKMAKING FOR EVERYONE: Shelburne Art Center. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Five weeks, September 27 - October 25. Members $120, nonmembers $135. Info, 985-3648 or www. shelburneartcenter.org. Come explore the fusion of art and book with the making of artist books. We will begin by creating beautiful textured paste papers. Then using these papers we will build a gallery of books using traditional and nontraditional book structures. Books will vary from elegant books with sewn bindings to exciting sculptural books that open to become three-dimensional pieces of art. No previous bookmaking experience needed, only an open mind to expand the concept of the book. PHOTOGRAPHERS/ARTISTS: Brickhouse Studios is now reviewing artist submissions/portfolios for commercial international licensing and representation. The highest quality fine art and conceptual imagery encouraged. Info, 802-899-2200 or email info@brickhouse studios.com.
clay CLAY CLASSES AT SHELBURNE ART CENTER: Ten-week clay classes: Introduction to Throwing, Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., September 19 - November 21. Advanced Throwing & Glazing, Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., September 20 - November 29 (no class Nov. 22). Mixed Level Pottery, Thursdays, 10 a.m. 1 p.m., September 21 - November 30 (no class Nov. 23). Members $198, nonmembers $220, materials and firing $50. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburneartcenter.org.
climbing CO-ED I CLIMBING CLINIC: September 12 - October 17, October 31 - December 5, Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m. Petra Cliffs Climbing Center. $165 plus tax. Info, 802-65PETRA, visit www.petracliffs.com or email info@petracliffs.com. This introduction to rock climbing clinic covers the basics of climbing while developing balance, flexibility and strength. Learn how to read routes, belay, boulder and more.
CO-ED II CLIMBING CLINIC: October 30 - December 4, Mondays, 6-8 p.m. Petra Cliffs Climbing Center. $165 plus tax. Info, 802-65-PETRA, visit www. petracliffs.com or email info@petracilffs. com. Building off of the skills learned in the Co-Ed I clinic, this course teaches intermediate and advanced climbing techniques to build strength and skill in a fun, noncompetitive environment.
dance AFRICAN DANCE WITH SORIBA SIMBO CAMARA, TRADITIONAL DANCES FROM GUINEA, WEST AFRICA: Weekly classes, Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. and Fridays, 5:306:45 p.m. Williston Sports and Fitness Edge. $12 per class or $60 for six classes. Info, 802-540-0035. All levels welcome to both classes, emphasis on beginner instruction on Fridays. Dance to live drumming, have fun and smile while sweating! Join Simbo in experiencing fun, high-energy dances from Guinea. Simbo recently relocated to Burlington from Conakry, Guinea, where he was a member of the acclaimed Les Ballets Africains. He has extensive teaching experience and wants to share his culture with you! AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: TRADITIONAL DANCES FROM CUBA AND HAITI: Weekly classes: Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. - noon, Capitol City Grange, Montpelier. Fridays, 5:30-7 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington. Info, 985-3665. Dance to the rhythms of Cuban and Haitian music. Dance class led by Carla Kevorkian. Live drumming led by Stuart Paton. Monthly master classes with visiting instructors. Beginners welcome! ARGENTINE TANGO WORKSHOP AND LESSONS WITH SIMON: September 9, 4 p.m., Champlain Club, 20 Crowley Street, Burlington. $15-$25. Info, 802-660-2099 or email briandalmer@verizon.net. No partner necessary. Saturday, 4-5:30 p.m., Tango Basic Refresher for Beginners. $15. 6–7:30 p.m., Tango Review & New Patterns. $15. 7:30–9 p.m., Lead & Balance Workshop. $20. 9–11 p.m., Guided Practica, free. Rates for the lessons are $5 more if you do not reserve your place before the day of the lesson or workshop. BALLROOM DANCE CLASSES WITH FIRST STEP DANCE: Begin the first week of each month, four weeks, Tuesday evenings, St. Albans, Thursday evenings, Burlington. $50 per person. Info, email Kevin@FirstStepDance.com, call 802-5986757 or visit www.FirstStepDance.com. Are you interested in learning Ballroom dance? Beginning and intermediate classes are offered each month; the beginning classes are the same each month while the intermediate classes vary each month. We also offer beginning lessons before our monthly dances in both Burlington and St. Albans. No partner required for classes or dances, so come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! BELLY DANCE WITH MYSTIQUE!: Ongoing, Tuesdays, 6:45-8:15 p.m., Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m., Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m. $12 for drop-ins, $40 for any four classes. Info, 802-989-1047 or email mystiquebellydance@yahoo.com. Tuesdays at the Capitol City Grange in Montpelier, Wednesdays at The Edmunds School in Burlington, Thursdays at the Shelburne Athletic Club in Shelburne. Belly Dance is a total workout for your body, mind, and soul! Strengthen muscle, increase flexibility, improve cardiovascular health, and de-stress! You may start anytime and join us as often as you like. BELLY DANCING CLASSES WITH LAYLA: Sundays, beginning September 10, 2-3 p.m., and Tuesdays, beginning September 12, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Sundays at The Plainfield Community Center, Tuesdays at the Ladies Workout Express, Northfield. $11/class or $32/4 weeks for the Plainfield class, $15/class or $60/6 weeks for Northfield class. Morning belly dancing classes in Montpelier, beginning October 6. Fridays, 8-9:15 a.m. Yoga Mountain, Montpelier. $12 per class, or $80/8 weeks. $72 if registered before 10/6. No class 11/24. Info, 802-4541325 or email mountainholistic@aol. com. Sensual and spiritual, aerobic and relaxing, this dance is appropriate for
women of all ages and abilities. Learn the moves in a friendly, supportive environment. All levels of experience are welcome. DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Salsa classes: Nightclub-style, group and private, four levels. Mondays, Wednesdays (walk-in on Wednesdays only at 6 p.m.) and Saturdays (children’s lessons, pre-registration required). Argentinean Tango every Friday, 7:30 p.m., walk-ins welcome. Social dancing with DJ Raul, once a month, call for date. Monthly membership, $40 or $65, $12 for individual classes, $5 for socials. 266 Pine St., Burlington. Info, contact Victoria, 598-1077 or info@salsalina.com. No dance experience or partner necessary, just the desire to have fun! You can drop in at any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! DANCE: Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip-Hop, Dance for Fitness, Choreography, Creative Movement, Indian Dance, Alexander Technique, Storytelling through Dance, and much more! These are just some of the classes and workshops available through FlynnArts this fall. Children, teens and adults of all skill levels can pursue or develop a passion in our studios and performance spaces. Sign up now as many classes fill fast! Info, email flynnarts@ flynncenter.org, call 802-652-4548, ext 4, or visit www.flynncenter.org. SHELLY ISMAIL WILL TEACH A DANCE CLASS FOR ADULTS: Incorporating yoga, Pilates, ballet barre and movement to music. Beginning September 5, 7:15 p.m. The Movement Center, Essex. Info, 802878-4213. All levels welcome.
dreams DREAM THEATRE: September 16, 9 a.m. - noon. 130 Church St., Burlington. $25. Info, 802-862-0836 ext. 4 or visit www. vermontplaybacktheatre.org. We often learn most about ourselves and make sense of the world around us, through our dreams and the archetypes that present themselves during the dreamtime. Our daily experiences and feelings of our world around us often will be worked through our dreams. During this 3-hour interactive dream workshop, we will explore and examine our dreams through dream sharing, journaling and simple theatre improv, some of the meanings and processes of our dreams. Please bring a journal to write/draw in. DREAMING INTO AUTUMN: Six Monday evenings, beginning in October, 7:30-9 p.m. Downtown Burlington. $150. Info, Michael Watson, LCMHC, 802-860-6203. Discovering the dreaming that forms our lives. Participants in this group will utilize journeywork, dreaming, gratitude, and moments of joy to explore the challenges and demands of the World Dream, just as it is. EXPRESSIVE DREAMWORK FOR WOMEN: Wednesdays, September 13 - November 1, 8-9:30 a.m. Chace Mill. $160. Info, 802-863-9775 ext. 2. Dreams are the portal to our unconscious, and a guide for integrating its deep wisdom into our lives. Using words, movement and art within a Jungian framework, participants will learn the language of dreams and the interpretive process. Recommended reading: Robert Johnson’s Inner Work. INTRODUCTION TO JUNG: 9/14, 21, 28, 10/05, 7-9 p.m. $50. 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury, VT. Info, call Sue, 802-2447909. Get a basic overview of Jung, his thought and legacy, along with hands-on work; learn your type, your unique set of activated archetypes and more. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DREAMING: Wednesdays, 9/13, 20, 27, 10/4, 11, 18, 25, 11/1, 8, 7-9 p.m. $100. 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury, VT. Info, call Sue, 802244-7909. Learn the historical, cultural and theoretical underpinnings of dreams along with dream interpretation techniques. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.
drumming BURLINGTON FALL SESSION I TAIKO CLASSES: Kids Beginners’ Class, Tuesdays 4:30-5:20 p.m. Six-week session begins 9/12. $47. Kids Advanced Beginners’
Class, Mondays 3:15-4 p.m. Six-week session begins 9/11. $47. Adult Beginners’ Class, Tuesdays, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Six-week session begins 9/12. $53. Adult Advanced Beginners’ Class, Mondays, 5:30-7 p.m. Seven-week session begins 9/11. $53. Review Class, Tuesday, 10/24, 4:30-5:20 p.m., kids, $8, 5:30-6:20 p.m., adults, $10. All classes held at Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Avenue, Burlington. Adult walk-in price, $10 per class. Info, 802-658-0658, email class es@burlingtontaiko.org or visit www. burlingtontaiko.org. Walk-ins welcome! Gift certificates available! FALL HAND DRUMMING CLASSES: Beginners’ Conga Class, Wednesdays, 5:30-6:50. Six-week session begins 9/13. $60. Three-week session begins 10/25. $30. Two-week session begins 11/29. $20. Walk-in price, $12. Beginners’ Djembe Class: Wednesdays, 7-8 p.m. Six-week session begins 9/13. $60. Three-week session begins 10/25. $30. Two-week session begins 11/29. $20. Walk-in price, $12. Classes held at Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Avenue, Burlington. Info, 802-658-0658, email classes@burlingtontaiko.org or visit www.burlingtontaiko.org. Walk-ins welcome! Gift certificates available! RICHMOND FALL SESSION I TAIKO CLASSES: Kids and Parents Beginners’ Class, Richmond Free Library Community Meeting Room, Thursdays, 5:30-6:20 p.m. Six-week session begins 9/14. $95/ pair. Adult Beginners’ Class, Richmond Free Library Community Meeting Room, Thursdays, 6:30-7:20 p.m. Six-week session begins 9/14. $59. Optional student recital Thursday, 10/26, 6 p.m. Special Richmond Review Day, Richmond Free Library Community Meeting Room, Saturday 10/21 2-6:10 p.m. Paid pre-registration is required, and there is a 10-person minimum for each class. Info, 802-6580658, email classes@burlingtontaiko. org or visit www.burlingtontaiko.org. Gift certificates available! TABLA CLASSES: Mondays, starting September 25, 6-7:30 p.m. $25 per class, Tabla rental $10 per week. Preregistration required. The Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, Williston. Info, 802-872-8898 or visit www.tabla-vermont.com. Study the drumming of North India. Beginning level class. With over 10 years of experience in the US and India, Gabe Halberg is a founding member of the world-fusion group 35th Parallel. WEST AFRICAN DRUM CLASS: Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. $13 per class or 10 classes for $100. Community barn space at The Intervale. Info, 802-859-0276 or visit http://pichancho77@yahoo.com. Ongoing West African drum classes focusing on the traditional rhythms and songs of Guinea, West Africa. All levels and ages welcome. Some drums available. Don’t be a bum, come bang a drum!
empowerment AVATAR: CREATE WHAT YOU PREFER! Free introductory sessions, Tuesdays, 7-9:30 p.m. and Sundays, 4:30-7 p.m. Info, call Jen at 802-233-8829 or visit www.avatarepc.com. Avatar is a powerful self-development course that explores the relationships between your beliefs and experiences and that teaches the art of living deliberately. Through a series of simple, experiential exercises you learn how to create what you prefer and how to live from a more expansive, compassionate and aware place.
fine arts FINE ARTS CLASSES AT SHELBURNE ART CENTER: Painting with Acrylics, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m., September 19 - November 7 (8 weeks). Level II Watercolor, Thursdays, 2-4:30 p.m., September 21 - October 26 (6 weeks). Level I Watercolor, Thursdays, 2-4 p.m. November 2 – December 14 (6 weeks). Moving Forward in Oil Painting, Wednesdays 1-4 p.m., September 20 - November 8 (8 weeks). Portrait Drawing Workshop, Saturday & Sunday, November 11 & 12, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Info, 985-3648 or www. shelburneartcenter.org.
herbs ORIENTAL HERBAL MEDICINE PROGRAM: Begins September 2006, one weekend a month, 150-hour program. Elements of Healing, 62 Pearl St., Essex Jct. Info, visit www.elementsofhealing. net or 802-288-8160. This class will give students a strong foundation in the use of Chinese and Japanese herbs to treat numerous disharmonies. Students will learn the fundamentals of Oriental theory and diagnosis incorporating yin yang, 5 element, 8 principle, and Oriental internal medicine theory. This class will be appropriate for all body-workers and health-care providers, as well as those seeking to begin studies in alternative therapies. VSAC grants are available to those who qualify.
jewelry JEWELRY CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS AT SHELBURNE ART CENTER: Jewelry I, Thursdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., 10 weeks, September 21 - November 30 (no class Nov. 23). Casting, Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., 10 weeks, September 20 – November 29 (no class November 22). Enameling Workshop, Saturday and Sunday, October 7 and 8, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburneartcenter.org.
kids ART ADVENTURES: Ages 6-8, September 6 - October 11, ages 9-11, October 18 - November 29. Wednesdays, 3:30-8:30 p.m. Fleming Museum. $35 for members, $45 for general public. Info, 802-6568056. Robert Hull Fleming Museum presents “Art Adventures,” an exciting multi-week program for children, ages 6-11, to explore the visual arts in a fun environment with professional instruction. Whether your child loves art or is just curious to try something new, these classes offer individualized attention and the chance to experiment in a variety of mediums, such as painting, drawing, sculpture and collage. Under the supervision of University of Vermont instructor Lisa Brunini, M.Ed., UVM art education students teach the classes for two separate age groupings, ages 6-8 and 9-11. FREE CLASSES IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE FLYNN CENTER: Sign your child up for the FlynnArts Saturday Sampler on Saturday, September 9, to tour the Flynn studios and try out different art forms. Fun and open to anyone, classes will be taught by FlynnArts teaching artists who can answer questions about programs and help with class placement. Some classes fill quickly. Info, call 802652-4548, ext. 4, to pre-register. It will also be possible to drop in on a spaceavailable basis. GREEN MOUNTAIN VT MUSIC TOGETHER: September 12 - November 28. Various times. Burlington, Essex Jct., Richmond, Shelburne, Stowe. Each child $165 for 10-weeks, $191 for 12-weeks, sibling discounts, $15 registration. Info, 802-760-9207 or visit http://www. greenmountainmusictogether.com. Also, classes in Montpelier at AllTogetherNow!, 802-223-1242. Help your child grow musically! Our mixed-age, family music-making classes are 45 minutes in length and include songs, rhythmic rhymes, movement, and instrument play. These activities are presented as informal, non-performanceoriented musical experiences-developmentally appropriate for children ages 0-5+ and easy for parents and caregivers-regardless of their own musical ability. Free demos this week. JR. CLIMBING CLUB: September 13 - December 13, 6-9 years old, 4-6 p.m., 10 and up, 6-8 p.m. Petra Cliffs. $385 plus tax or $35 per session. Info, 80265-PETRA, visit www.petracliffs.com or email info@petracliffs.com. This is a great opportunity for kids to improve their climbing skills in a fun, non-competitive atmosphere, while developing and strengthening bonds with other youth in the community.
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kitesurfing/ windsurfing KITESURFING AND WINDSURFING: Summer-Fall weekdays and weekends. Lessons by apt. Lake Champlain. Kitesurfing starts at $75, windsurfing at $60, see website for full package rates. Info, 802951-2586, email rachael@stormboarding. com or visit http://www.stormboarding. com. Get in on adrenaline wind sports on Lake Champlain. Certified, insured, professional and fun instruction. All sailing/riding equipment provided. Private and group instruction available and once you are hooked, you get a discount on excellent equipment for both sports.
knitting KNITTING: Our fall classes have been posted! Call or stop in now to sign up for all levels of knitting classes at Vermont’s best yarn shop. Our classes fill up quickly so don’t delay! Info, call 802-288-9200 or visit www.kyarns.com. Kaleidoscope Yarns, 15 Pearl Street, Essex Junction.
language BONJOUR! FRENCH LESSONS: Info, 233-7676 or maggiestandley@yahoo. com. Private lessons and tutoring for individuals and groups in the Burlington area. Experienced instructor Maggie Standley has lived and worked in France and francophone Africa. She understands the joys and frustrations of learning a foreign language. She can help you conquer verb tenses, work on your accent, prepare for world travel and grasp business, culinary and artistic lingo. ENGLISH LANGUAGE TUTORING: Ongoing, 6-8 p.m. $30/hour. Info, 802-8653769. MA in Teaching English (ESL) from St. Mike’s. Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced lessons and tutoring in reading, writing and oral skills. JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASSES: The Japan-America Society of Vermont is again offering Japanese Language lessons. Beginner classes, Fridays, beginning September 22, 10 weeks, 6-7:30 p.m. Intermediate classes, Thursdays, beginning September 21, 10 weeks, 6:30-8 p.m. $75 per student, plus textbook. St. Michael’s College, Colchester. Info, David Morgan, 518-946-7078 or email language@jasv. org. Classes are limited. Registration must be completed by first class. SPANISH/FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE CLASSES: Mondays-Fridays, 5-8 p.m. $140 for eight weeks. Info, 917-3643123, visit http://www.123spanishnow. com or email constanciag@123spanish now.com. Spanish, French and Portuguese classes for adults, teens and kids! Language classes with native speakers, designed for beginner through advanced levels. Students will learn basic grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation in a fun and positive learning environment. Starting in September. Located in Waitsfield, Montpelier and Burlington. Handouts and study materials provided. Looking for teachers of Spanish, French and more.
martial arts AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY: Adult introductory classes begin on Tuesday, October 3, 5:30 p.m. Please watch a class before enrolling. Adult classes meet Monday-Friday, 5:30-6:30 and 6:35-8 p.m., Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m., Saturdays, 10:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. and Sundays, 10-11 a.m. Children’s classes, ages 7-12, meet on Wednesdays, 4-5 p.m. and Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Muso Shinden Ryu laido (the traditional art of sword drawing), Tuesdays, 4-5 p.m. and Saturdays, 11:45 a.m, - 1 p.m. Zazen (Zen meditation), Tuesdays, 8-8:45 p.m. Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine Street, Burlington. Info, 802-951-8900 or www.aikidovt. org. This traditional Japanese martial art emphasizes circular, flowing movements and pinning and throwing techniques. Visitors are always welcome to watch Aikido classes. Gift certificates available. We now have a children’s play space for training parents. Classes are taught by Benjamin
Pincus Sensei, 5th degree black belt and Burlington’s only fully certified (shidoin) Aikido instructor. BAO TAK FAI TAI CHI INSTITUTE, SNAKE STYLE TAI CHI CHUAN: For an appointment to view a class, Saturday, 11 a.m., Wednesday, 7 p.m., call 802864-7902 or visit www.iptaichi.org. 100 Church Street, Burlington. The snake style is the original martial version of Yang Tai Chi and was taught only to family and disciples for five generations. The snake style develops flexibility of the spine, hips, and rib cartilage and stretches and strengthens the internal muscles of the hips, abdomen, thoracic ribs and deep layers of the back. The snake style uses core muscles to move from posture to posture in a rhythmic and seamless pattern, generating powerful jin energy for martial skill and power. The snake style uses suppleness and subtlety to overcome brute force. Robust health, deep relaxation, emotional harmony, touch sensitivity and intuitive power are the rewards of studying this masterful martial art. The snake style is taught by Bao Tak Fai (Bob Boyd), Disciple of the late Grandmaster Ip Tai Tak and sixth generation lineage teacher of the Yang style. GREEN MOUNTAIN TAIJI QUAN ACADEMY: Ongoing on Thursday nights, beginning 9/14, 7:30-9 p.m. $50 per month or $15 per class. Yoga Vermont, Studio A. Info, 802-453-2714 or email cloudhandy@yahoo.com. This is an entry level class, beginning at the beginning. We will study and practice taiji as an internal martial art and a natural science of living. If you feel a rift between your mind and your body, your war and your peace, then you simply must come. MARTIAL WAY SELF-DEFENSE CENTER: Day and evening classes for adults. Afternoon and Saturday classes for children. Group and private lessons. Colchester. Free introductory class. Info, 893-8893. Kempo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Arnis and Wing Chun Kung Fu. One minute off I-89 at Exit 17. MOY YAT KUNG FU: For info on classes in Burlington, call 324-7702 or visit www.kungfuvt.com. The Ving Tsun style was founded by a Buddhist nun and made famous by Bruce Lee. Ving Tsun, pronounced wing chun, is based in relaxation but is best known for being a highly effective system of self-defense. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Monday through Friday, 6-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. The “Punch Line” Boxing Class, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6-7 p.m. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 4 Howard St., A-8, Burlington. First class free. Info, 660-4072 or visit www.bjjusa.com. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a complete martial arts system based on leverage (provides a greater advantage and effect on a much larger opponent) and technique (fundamentals of dominant body position to use the technique to overcome size and strength). Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances balance, flexibility, strength, cardio-respiratory fitness and builds personal courage and self-confidence. Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu offers Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Self-Defense classes (all levels), Boxing and NHB programs available. Brazilian Head Instructor with over 30 years of experience (5-Time Brazilian Champion - Rio de Janeiro), certified under Carlson Gracie. Positive and safe environment. Effective and easy-to-learn techniques that could save your life. Accept no imitations.
massage 40-HOUR SWEDISH-ESALEN STYLE MASSAGE TRAINING: Begins September 14, then each Thursday for 13 weeks, 6-9 p.m. Westford Wellness Center. $585 paid over time. Info, 802-879-0670. Instructor Eva Paquin is a MT with 18 years experience. Learn to give a full spa style massage as a first career step or for personal growth. CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR CERTIFIED MASSAGE THERAPISTS: Wellness Massage Center & Institute. Info, 802527-1601. September 2-3, Deep Tissue Techniques for Hips & Legs, September 23-24, Deep Tissue Techniques for Neck, Pectorals, Arms & Back, September 29 October 1, Pregnancy Massage, October
7, Reiki I, October 19-22, Thai Massage, November 4-5, Deep Tissue for Shoulders & Back, December 2-3, Introduction to Shiatsu. MASTER CLASSES FOR BODYWORKERS: 4-week classes, begins Wednesday, September 6, 6-9 p.m. Pain Mechanisms of the Lower Back-Level 1, September 6-27. Pain Mechanisms of the ShoulderLevel 1, October 4-25. Pain Mechanisms of the Neck-Level 1, November 1-15 and November 29. $225 per class includes workbook. Class package discount $575 register and pay for all three classes by September 6. Touchstone Healing Arts, 205 Dorset Street, So. Burlington. Info, 802-658-7715 or visit www.touch stonehealingarts.com. These classes are designed for therapists and body workers who desire to increase their hands-on and evaluative skills toward the goal of being able to treat more complex chronic pain problems. Students will acquire advanced techniques and skills to greatly improve the effectiveness of their existing massage routines.
meditation INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION: Tuesdays, 9/12, 19, 26, 10/3, 7-9 p.m. $50. 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury, VT. Info, call Sue, 802-244-7909. Get a basic orientation to an essential practice of the spiritual journey. Learn over a dozen techniques in this workshop that is more experiential than intellectual. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Monday through Thursdays, 6-7 p.m. and Sundays, 9 a.m. - noon. Free. Burlington Shambhala Center. Info, 802-658-6795 or visit http://www.burlingtonshambhalactr. org. The question-is it real? is very tricky. Actually, you know, it is even difficult to say whether you are real or I am real, whether what we are doing here is real. So the question of reality is just a matter of speculation. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom. Meditation instruction available on Sunday mornings or by appointment. The Shambhala Cafe meets the first Saturday of each month, September 2, for meditation and discussions, 9-11:30 a.m. THE ART OF BEING HUMAN: Tuesdays, September 19, 26, October 3 and Saturday, September 30. Burlington Shambhala Center. $70. Info, 802-658-6795 or visit http://www.burlingtonshambhalactr.org. The Shambhala teachings provide a strong foundation in mindfulness-awareness meditation practice, emphasizing the development of genuine confidence, humor, and personal dignity within the complexity of daily life. Program includes meditation instruction, individual guidance, group discussion, and talks given by master meditation teacher Sharon Keegan.
metal/stained glass STAINED GLASS CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS AT SHELBURNE ART CENTER: Comprehensive Stained Glass, Mondays, 6–8:30 p.m., September 18 – November 20 (10 weeks). One-Day Lead Came Workshop, Saturday, September 30, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. One-Day Copper Foil Workshop, Saturday, October 28, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburneartcen ter.org.
movement EXPRESSIVE MOVEMENT: Wednesdays, September 13 - November 1, 5:30-7 p.m. Chace Mill. $160. Info, 802-863-9775 ext. 2. Through a variety of movement and dance activities, we will connect sensing, feeling and action to integrate mind and body, freeing your authentic expressive self. Taught by Dance-Movement therapist Luanne Sberna.
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MUSIC: Voice Lessons for kids and adults, Jazz Improvisation for grades 5-12, Guitar lessons for grades 11-adult, Laptop music composition, and much more! These are just some of the classes and workshops available through FlynnArts this fall. Children, teens, and adults of all skill levels can pursue or develop a passion in our studios and performance spaces. Sign up now as many classes fill fast! Info, email flynnarts@flynncenter. org, call 802-652-4548, ext. 4, or visit www.flynncenter.org.
SHEN GONG NUI GUNG QI GONG WITH MASTER SHARE K. LEW: September 9 and 10, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Elements of Healing, Essex Junction. 802-288-8160 or visit www.elementsofhealing.net. Class size is limited so please enroll early. Please bring a pillow or cushion for comfort during the seated part of the set. Shen Gong Nui Qi Gong, the exercises that Master Lew teaches, are part of the internal system of self healing. These exercises strengthen the circulation of Chi (vital energy) through the internal organs and increases vital health and sensory perception. The primary purpose of this qi gong form is self healing. In addition they can develop concentration, increase visual and auditory acuity and enhance sensitivity to oneself and others.
HEALTHY WEIGHT-MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS: Offering individual and small group classes. Morning and evening sessions available. Info, call 658-6597 or visit www.healthylifestylesvt.com. Here you will find the compassionate support, structure and accountability that you have been seeking to help you develop, and remain committed to, a weight-management plan.
photography ARTISTS/PHOTOGRAPHERS/EDUCATORS: Affordable, individual Photoshop instruction in a working artist’s studio. Work with Frog Hollow artist John Churchman, a highly skilled master Photoshop artist who will guide you in translating your artistic ideas while expanding your personal Photoshop mastery/archival print making. Flexible scheduling available. Please call 899-2200.
pilates ABSOLUTE PILATES: Tone, stretch, strengthen, energize! at a Pilates workout studio designed for men and women serious about getting into shape. At Absolute Pilates, Lynne Martens teaches the original, historical method of body conditioning created by powerful fitness guru Joseph Pilates. Absolute Pilates offers equipment-based private sessions (free 1/2 hour intros available) and group mat classes in an attractive, welcoming locale. 12 Gregory Drive, Suite One, South Burlington. Info, please call 802-3102614 or email lynnemartens@ msn.com. Lynne was certified by the Pilates Studio, NYC, in March 2000 after 600 hours of rigorous instruction and testing by Pilates elder Romana Kryzanowska and master teacher Bob Liekens. Lynne teaches Pilates in Burlington and Shelburne and at the University of Vermont. CORE STUDIO: Burlington’s premier Pilates studio, conveniently located on the Waterfront in Downtown Burlington. We offer a variety of core strengthening and other well-being related programs, specializing in ultra-personalized-by-appointment sessions. Our Pilates options include Mat and Reformer private sessions, small group sessions and group classes. Our professional and passionate staff is trained and certified in a wide variety of Pilates styles, including classical, contemporary and modern. Hybrid Spinning/Pilates and Yoga classes are also offered. Visit our open, welcoming “green” studio, and enjoy whole body and mind wellness with: The Rolfing Studio for structural reintegration, The Saranagati Space for Ayurvedic-inspired bodywork and Tor Horvind Massage Therapy, specializing in deep-tissue sports massage. Your first consultation and first mat class is always free! Call 802-862-8686 or visit www. corestudioburlington.com for a complete class schedule and to learn more about how you can thrive with Pilates. PILATES SPACE, A SPACE FOR INTELLIGENT MOVEMENT: Come experience our beautiful, light-filled studio, expert teachers and welcoming atmosphere. We offer Pilates, Anusara-inspired Yoga, Physical Therapy and Gyrotonic to people of all ages and levels of fitness who want to look good, feel good, and experience the freedom of a healthy body. Conveniently located in Burlington at 208 Flynn Ave. (across from the antique shops, near Oakledge Park). Want to learn more about Pilates? Call to sign up for a free introduction. We offer info sessions Saturdays, 10:30 a.m., or we can arrange a time to fit your schedule. Info, 802-863-9900 or visit www.pilatesspace.net. Member of the Pilates Method Alliance, an organization dedicated to establishing certification requirements and continuing education standards for Pilates professionals.
reiki REIKI: Please join me for one of my Reiki parties on the first Saturday of every month. Ray of Light, Finnegan’s Barn, 973 VT Rt. 15 W, Hyde Park. Info, email sukhada@mac.com or 802-636-1728 or 802-888-5254. Please contact me if you need directions. Please RSVP. You will have the opportunity to experience a free Reiki session and learn more about Reiki. A brief description of Reiki is Energy Work. Reiki encourages health and balance of body, mind and spirit. Dates to add to your calendar: September 2, October 7, November 4, December 2.
shamanism SHAMANIC PATHS TO HEALING EMOTIONAL SUFFERING AND TRAUMA: September 25, 7:30-9 p.m. Downtown Burlington. Led by Michael Watson, LCMHC. Info, 802-860-6203. An introduction to the use of journeywork, ritual, energywork, joy and compassion in the healing of emotional pain. The evening will include discussion of the different worldviews held by Western psychotherapy and shamanic practitioners, and ways shamanic practices may support psychotherapeutic change. THE MAGICAL PATH INTRODUCTORY SHAMANIC WORKSHOP SERIES: September 23, Exploring the World of Nature Spirits, October 14, Exploring the Celestial Realms, November 14, Healing Journeys for the Evolving Soul. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Yoga Mountain Center in Montpelier. $80/ class or $200 for all three, includes lunch. Info, 802-485-5552 or visit http://www. lucidpath.com. Shamanic journeywork is an ancient, easy-to-learn practice used to access power, knowledge and wisdom for the purpose of problem solving and healing.
tai chi HWA YU STYLE T’AI CHI: Monday, September 11 - Monday, December 4, 5-6:30 p.m. 12-week semester: $120 or pay by the month, $44. 64 Main St., 3rd floor, Montpelier. Info, 802-479-4248 or email grhayes@vtlink.net. Instructor Ellie Hayes has been practicing and teaching Hwa Yu Style Tai Chi since 1974. This style features circular movement, deep relaxation, significant health benefits. Register by Sunday, September 10.
travel UVM FAIR TRADE COFFEE TOUR: January 17-24, 2007. Daily tour hours vary according to schedule. Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico. Info, 802-656-2085 or visit http://www.uvm.edu/~advnturs/. Ever wonder about the origin of your morning cup of coffee? Now you can explore this mystery by joining UVM’s Fair Trade Coffee Tour, a working adventure-vacation-immersed on a coffee cooperative. Meet with organizations that support fair trade coffee growers and lend a hand by working alongside farmers to bring in the coffee harvest. Participate in Java University where coffee experts teach you the art of evaluating the smell, taste and quality of coffee.
well-being MAYAN SACRED GEOMETRY WEEKEND, NH: October 20-22, 3 p.m. Friday until 12 p.m., Sunday. Pyramids are Healing Machines. Blue Water Farm, Andover, NH. All organic food and dorm lodging/seminar, $400. Info, 603-456-2229 or visit http://www.earthspiritmedicine. org. Mayan Scientist and Archeoastronomer Alberto Hagar from the Yucatan/Seminar/ Interactive with Workbook. PSYCHODRAMA AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS: Saturday, September 30, 12-4 p.m. 64 Main St., 3rd floor, Montpelier. $50. Info, call Herb, 802-2236822. Explore your personal connections to archetypes and discover how they can inform and enrich your life. Led by Dr. Herb Propper, certified psychodrama trainer and therapist. VISIONEERING: 9/18, 10/16, 11/13 and 1/08/07, 6:30-9 p.m. $90. 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury, VT. Info, call Sue, 802244-7909. Learn a scientifically based technology to harness the power of vision that allows you to create the future out of the future and move your life ahead. Led by Dr. Sue Mehrtens, teacher and author. WELLNESS WEEKEND: September 8-10. Friday, 4 p.m. to Sunday, 12 p.m. $100 full weekend includes camping, $50 per day. Brewster River Campground, Jeffersonville. Info, 802-644-2433. Introductory classes by qualified instructors in massage, yoga, tai chi, meditation, art therapy, and other aspects of wellness. Relax, learn, and share in the peaceful setting of the riverside campground near Smugglers’ Notch. Advance registration required.
women WOMEN’S I CLIMBING CLINIC: September 14 - October 19, November 2 - December 16, Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. Petra Cliffs. $165 plus tax. Info, 802-65-PETRA, visit www.petracliffs.com or email info@ petracliffs.com. Taught by women for women, this class covers the basics of climbing while developing balance, flexibility and strength. Learn how to read routes, belay, boulder and more. WOMEN’S II CLIMBING CLINIC: November 1 - December 12, Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. $165 plus tax. Info, 802-65-PETRA, visit www.petracliffs.com or email info@ petracliffs.com. This clinic is for women and taught by women. Building off of the basic skills and techniques learned in the Women’s I Clinic, ladies will learn intermediate and advanced climbing skills ultimately working towards lead climbing.
wood THE COMMUNITY WOODWORKERS SHOP: Introduction to Basic Woodworking, September 6, 25, October 7, accelerated class, 5 weeks. Basic Woodworking II, September 12, November 15. Finishing Techniques, September 5, 30, October 13 and November 2. Wooden pen turning, August 28, September 8 and October 26. Bowl Turning, September 15, October 19, November 9. Router Class, August 25, September 18, November 20. The Art of Cutting Dovetail Joints, September 16, 29, November 11. Sharpening Hand Tools, September 11, 22, October 27 and November 25. 382 Hercules Drive, Colchester. Info, 802-655-4201 or visit http://mysite. verizon.net/stevensturgis/cwss. WOOD CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS AT SHELBURNE ART CENTER: Ten-week classes for all levels: Fine Woodworking—Beginning, Mondays, September 18 - November 20, 6:30–9:30 p.m. Fine Woodworking—Intermediate/Advanced, Tuesdays, September 19 - November 21,
9 a.m. - 12 p.m., or Tuesdays, September 19 - November 21, 6:30–9:30 p.m., or Wednesdays, September 20 - November 29 (no class Nov. 22), 6:30–9:30 p.m. Workshops: Weekend Windsor Stool Class, Saturday & Sunday, October 14 & 15, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Dovetails, Saturday and Sunday, November 11 and 12, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Info, 985-3648 or www.shelburneart center.org.
writing CREATIVE WRITING WITH SOUL: Four Thursdays, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28 and 10/5, 6:15-9:15 p.m. Chittenden Room, Burlington College, 95 North Ave., Burlington. $25 per class, 4 classes for $75, Info, call Janet, 802-658-4991. An interactive course for seekers of inner awareness and creative expression. Led by Janet Schneider, published poet. Limited to 20 students. No prior writing experience required.
yoga ANATOMY AND YOGASANA: September 16 and 17, Waitsfield. $200. Info, 802-272-4243, email info@yogamudra. com or visit www.yogamudra.com. Study anatomical terms and landmarks for major bones, joints and muscles in yogasana. Deepen understanding of prime movers, synergysts and antagonists and how they work together to create balance in a pose. This workshop is for yoga teachers, serious students and bodyworkers. CEC recognized. Leigh Milne RMT, RYT, PFT is certified in the Iyengar method, she has traveled twice to India to study with the Iyengar family. BEECHER HILL YOGA: Yoga for people at all levels of fitness, experience and ability. Info, visit beecherhillyoga.com or call 802-482-3191. BRISTOL YOGA: Daily Astanga Yoga classes for all levels. Special workshops and classes for beginners, intermediate, series and meditation. Private individual and group classes available by appointment. Old High School, Bristol. $12 dropin, $100 for ten classes, or $100 monthly pass. Info, 482-5547 or www.bristolyoga. com. This classical form of yoga incorporates balance, strength and flexibility to steady the mind, strengthen the body and free the soul. BURLINGTON YOGA: Daily classes offered 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Burlington Yoga, 156 St. Paul St., Burlington. $12/hour, $14 for 90 minutes, $160 for unlimited monthly membership, $60 for a private lesson. Info, 658-9642 (yoga) or info@burlingtonyoga.com. Beginner, Flow, Iyengar style, Kid’s, Kripalu, Kundalini, Men’s, Mid-life, Naam, Prenatal, Restorative. There is a powerful cumulative effect achieved by practicing postures in varied sequences. STHIRA SUKHAM ASANAM Sthira=steady; Sukham=comfort; Asanam= posture. Asana is a steady comfortable
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posture. “True asana is that in which the thought of Brahma flows effortlessly through the mind.” BKS Iyengar. JOHNSON YOGA STUDIO: New Fall schedule. $10 class. 36 School Street, Johnson. Info, 802 635 2733 or visit http://vermontstudiocenter.org/yoga. html. Johnson Yoga Studio offers classes in Anusara, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Kripalu, Hatha Flow and Sivananda yoga. 2nd Sunday of the month Iyengar Workshops: Yoga for Back Health, September 10, Yoga for Women’s Health, October 12, Restorative Yoga, November 12, Yoga for Skiers, December 10. Third Sunday of the month Anusara-Inspired: September 17, Ground yourself: Set your foundation and find freedom in standing poses; October 21, Open to Grace: Unwind your heart, open your shoulders, and get ready for backbending; November 19, Engage with strength: Draw into your core and lift with ease into arm balances; December 17, Create a joyful light: Celebrate the holiday season with a fun mixed practice. SHELBURNE HEALTH AND FITNESS: Gentle Yoga, Yoga Flow and Astanga Yoga, Sunday thru Friday. Shelburne Health & Fitness, 4068 Shelburne Road, Shelburne. $12 drop-in, $100/10 classes, or unlimited monthly ($40-$75). Info, visit www.shelburnehealthandfitness.com, call 985-3141 or email info@shelburne healthandfitness.com. Shelburne Health & Fitness provides a warm, welcoming, nurturing atmosphere. YOGA FOR A HEALTHY BACK: September 16, 10-11:30 a.m. Cool Moon Yoga. $15. Info, 802-343-0165 or visit http:// www.coolmoonyoga.com. Join us for an invigorating and informative workshop where you will learn specific Hatha Yoga exercises designed to keep your lower back healthy and free from tension. A small group setting provides a supportive atmosphere with plenty of individual attention. No previous yoga experience necessary. 85 Prim Rd., Suite 401, Malletts Bay (Colchester), VT. Harborside Professional Building, third floor. YOGA VERMONT: Daily classes, open to all levels. Astanga, Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Kripalu, Restorative, Prenatal, Kids and Senior Classes. Register for our six-week Introduction to Astanga Yoga, Tuesdays 7:30 p.m., September 19 - October 24, six-week Introduction to Kripalu Yoga, Mondays 7:30 p.m., September 25 - October 30, Toddler 1&2, Mondays, September 11 - October 16, Kids' Yoga, Wednesday, September 13 - October 18. Monthly Sunday restorative sessions, September 24 and October 22. YVT 200-hour instructor training begins October 20. Chace Mill, Burlington. $13 drop-in, 10 classes/$100. Month pass $120. Info, 660-9718 or visit www.yogavermont.com. Explore a variety of yoga styles with experienced and passionate instructors in three beautiful, spacious studios on the Winooski River. Classes seven days a week. m
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Full Darkroom Set-up Enlarger, trays, safe-lights, everything you need to set up a black-andwhite photo-shop from processing film to developing, $500/OBO. Moving must sell. 802-454-1169. G.E. Electric Cooktop Almondcolored. Spotless, like new. $85. 802-899-2305. GAS FIREPLACE INSERT Xtrordinair 34 DVL fireplace insert. 40,000 BTU LP or natural gas. Dims 24 3/4”H X 32 1/4”W X 16”D arched face. $850. 802-879-8811.
Antiques/ Collectibles 30s-40s Mahogany furniture Dining room set w/6 chairs. Beautiful sideboard, $600 (together). New clothes dryer. $100. Bed, king size w/ futon frame, $75. Lots more. 377-8086, evenings. Antique China Cabinet Mahogany stained china cabinet. 37”L x 67”H x 14 1/2”D. Glass door with key, two shelves, linen drawer. $225 OBO. See online photo. 879-9501. Blue Flower Minton China Set of Minton china. 4 teacups, 11 saucers, 4 small plates, 4 med. plates, 4 bowls. Blue flower pattern. 802-578-9045. Bouncing 40 Horse Hedstrom Moonlight? 60s collector item or great toy for kids. Contact 4826632 or email quarkvt@yahoo. com. Elegant Louis XV Armoire Exceptional, c. 1890, Walnut. Clear original bevelled-mirrored doors, fine condition, stable. 100”Hx51”Wx19”D. Deep detailed carving. Herringbone pattern. Easily disassembles. Moving! $1500, firm. 802-238-5718. Victorian Lingerie Hamper Very unusual. Renaissance Revival style. c 1930s. Walnut. Contains frame inset for lingerie bag. Useful as side table too! 24”high x12”x12”. $300/OBO. 802-238-5718.
Appliances/ Tools/Parts 03 Kia Sedona Van Equipped w/handicap accommodation, keyless entry and auto hatch opener. Excellent condition. 15 K. Price reduced $12 K OBO. Please call 802-482-6632. 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan In good condition, approx. 70 K. $6500/OBO. Looking for a quick sale! 802-318-3957. 4 snow tires with rims 4 almost new Bridgestone Blizzak WS-50 215/60R16 snow tires w/ rims. $400. 802-862-1642.
Glass 8 tempered glass sheets 42”X53”. The thickness is 3/16”. Could make nice table tops, windows, coldframes, etc. Valued at $100/sheet, will sell for $40/ sheet. 802-454-1169. Hot Water Heater Reliance Electric 501, used 2 years, 56G. $100. 802-264-4878. Iron + ironing board: $15 Steam Iron with tabletop ironing board: $15. (802) 355-8773. Refrigerator 36” side-by-side, bisque - GE. $175. Call 862-4470, leave message or 644-8977 after 9 a.m. RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT 3 part sink, sandwich prep station, meat slicer, many other items. Call 860-1501. Sears Car Topper x-large, locking, like new, fits van or wagon, comes with old-style rain gutter racks. $75/OBO. 802-864-7740. Studded Snows 195/60 R15 studded snow tires had one season of light use. I’m moving to Hawaii and must sell. $200 and you’re ready for winter. 802-454-1169. Super Swamper Tires 33’’ x 12.5’’ Super Swamper Thornbirds mounted on 15’’ x 12’’ Hellcat wheels, $400. Call Ryan at 2441535 or email Jen at jbeaudin@ srs.state.vt.us. Thule roof rack and luggage rack, off of minivan. Aprox. $500 new, asking $150. Bill, 482-2714. Toyota Truck rims, 15”, 6 lug, silver/gray, great shape, $125/ OBO. Rear pickup work rack, came off GMC Sonoma. Needs a little work. $100/OBO. 802-326-2160. TRUE refrigerator True Manufacturing commercial refrigerator, all stainless, worktop, casters, used only months. Like new $750. Great for restaurants/lofts. http://www.truemfg.com, model TWT-27. 802-859-9841 evenings. Pick up in Burlington, deliver locally. Woodstove - Near New Jotul Jotul 118, black matte w/bear. Meets EPA standards without catalytic converter. Used less than one season. Cost $1375 new, yours for $900. Call 425-2854.
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Electronics Microsoft X-Box System Complete system w/box, manual and 5 controllers, plus 10 games including Halo 1&2 and Godfather, plus remote for DVD. $150. 802-2291047 or email jihley@adelphia. net. monitors & printers and other misc. computer items. Starting as low as $5 and no higher than $50. Call 655-9000. 3 CD Home Stereo System Incls. turntable, AM/FM stereo, dual recordable cassette, 3 CD changer and speakers. Used but in great condition. $30 or make me an offer. Call 338-9225. AM/FM Radio Alarm Clock $4. 802-355-8773. Apple Computer Package Macintosh IIci computer, Radius Pivot monitor with software and manuals, Laser Writer IIf with 32246 impressions, new toner cartridge M6002. Cables included. Best offer. 802-658-0497. Apple Laptop Computer Ibook G3, 800 mhz, 364 RAM, 30 gb, OS X Tiger, MS Office, Airport wireless card, and Apple pro mouse, great condition. $475. Call 355-4065.
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Area Rug for Sale Persianstyle rug in very good condition. Multi-colored w/forest green as dominant color. Approx. 11’ x 7.5’. $65/OBO. Call 310-2117. Armoire Solid wood. Natural finish, 6 ft. high, 18” deep, x 38” across. Cabinet top half, 3 Big drawers in the bottom. $100. Asian Seas Table Lamp Asian inspired shade and seashell finial atop 1950s ceramic base w/raised sea-life design. Beautiful turquoise to green gradiated color. 22”. Pic online. $40/OBO. 802-238-5718. Audio/Video Custom Cabinet The size is 47”H/34”W/19.5”D, it has 3 adj and 2 fixed shelves. Solid cherry, holds 160 CDs $499. Contact Milo, 802-229-1047 or ji hley@adelphia.net Bamboo Screen for Door Bamboo screen/blind for door or window. 24 inches wide by 72 inches long. $10 OBO. (802) 355-8773. Bentwood Rocking Chair Pressed cane back and Seat. $25. 802-660-8527.
Glass Mahogany Coffeetable Oval Mahogany glasstop coffeetable bought from Filenes for just under $600. Will sell for $180/ OBO. 802-355-8773. Italian leather sofa set Cream-colored sofa and loveseat, paid $4000 three years ago. Moving and can’t keep. Must see! Asking $800/OBO. Call Mary 802-238-8147. Multi-tiered plant terrace Reduced! Display potted plants indoors or out. Vinyl-coated steel (dark green). 39”Wx27”Hx24”D, each shelf 8”D; 12”H between shelves. Easily assembled w/out tools. $20/OBO. 802-238-5718. new microfiber couch $350 Less than year old. Light tan, stain resistant. Want to get rid of this week. Bought for $800. Please call 802-881-8557 or email dbradley@uvm.edu. Oak Cheval Mirror 20 x 15 1/4 x 56 - New in box, great condition, asking $30 OBO. Call 338-9225.
Bookcase - Wooden Robust, 3 shelves, 45x12x46. $60. Call 802-264-4878.
OAK-FRAMED CHAIR Box-like solid oak-framed chair w/blue nylon-covered thick foam seat- and back-cushions. Oak frame is one inch thick. Clean, very nice condition. $50. 802-899-2305.
Brass Lamp Here’s a wonderful brass lamp which gives off a lovely glow; almost as if it was a candle. 14” high. Pic is online. $35/OBO. 802-238-5718.
Queen bed set Queen mattress, box and frame. Double-sided orthopedic pillowtop. All new, never used. Cost $800, sell $375. Call 802-734-0788.
Bunk Bed Handmade, dark wood, very sturdy, comes w/2 single mattress/boxspring sets in fair cond. Built-in ladder. $60. OBO. 802-864-7740
Recliner Dark purple multicolor tweed, in good shape. $25. 802-899-2751.
Bunk Bed handmade, dark wood, very sturdy, comes w/2 single mattress/boxspring sets in fair cond. Built-in ladder. $60. OBO. 802-864-7740 Couch Cover Land’s End, dark blue, T-shaped couch cover for large couch, $25, white floor lamp, $10, glass chess set, $10, 229-4008. Couch Dual Recliner green, excellent condition, $200/OBO. 879-3790. Emmaljunga Swedish pram style baby stroller. Excellent condition. Forward or rear facing. $100. 802-899-3441. Entertainment Center Solid oak. In great condition. Large opening for TV; glass doors on section for audio equipment. 54”W, 42”H, 16.5”D. $125 OBO. Call 310-2117.
Rocking Chair Hardwood, darkcolored. Clean, excellent condition. $50. 802-899-2305. Sidetables and lamps White square 16” X 16” sidetable, wooden sidetables, retro red & yellow metal sidetables, floor and desk lamps also available from $5 up. 802-355-8773. Snooze & Cruise Toddler Bed Bed in the shape of a “beetlebug” car. Comes w/standard cribsized mattress. Currently disassembled in our garage. $100/OBO. Call 655-9479 or email sikter@ gmail.com. Sofa bed Jennifer sofa bed (twin) loveseat, good shape and clean, 72”, cream colored w/floral pillows. $100. 802-899-2751.
SEVEN DAYS | september 06-13, 2006 | classifieds 21B
Show and tell. View and post up to 6 photos per ad online. Solid oak wood desk Large 30”x60” solid oak desk. 4 drawers, pullout stand for typewriter. Brass sleeves on base of legs. Exc. buy $135. Picture likeness only. 849-2244. Solid wood rocking chair Excellent condition, exceedingly strong, no creaks or cracks. $150/ OBO. 802-355-8773. Thonet Bentwood Chairs Set of 4. Honey colored; seat upholstered w/dark red ribbed fabric (easy to recover); Sturdy. Great condition. See pic online. $80/ OBO. 802-238-5718. Twin Bed: Exc. condition Unique slim Scandinavian design, can be used as decorative settees when not in use. Matching yellow and red round retro tables. 802-355-8773. Wheelchairs Manual and power. Used very little, very good condition. Call 482-6632 or email quarkvt@yahoo.com.
Garage/Estate Sales Furniture (Lots of it!) Often most sunny days, August and September. 159 West St., Essex Jct. Housey stuff for Sale Office chair, toaster (4 slot), iron/ironboard, 2 clock radios, Xmas tree (used 1 season), 2 touch lamps, 2 small coffee tables, items priced from $3-15. 802-865-8083. Moving Sale Furniture, sidetables, lamps, beds, household & kitchen stuff, appliances, odds and ends... Off the end of North Avenue at Northshore Village. Any questions, call 802-355-8773. Moving Sale Moving out of VT. Queen-size futon bed. Dining table w/6 chairs. Dark blue upholstery sofa/loveseat/chair/coffee table, side tables and lamps. 802-872-1550. MOVING SALE Miscellaneous house items include couches, tables, bedframe and dresser sets, tires, Honda parts, 32”TV, mountain bike and drum set. 802-363-1601. MOVING SALE Sat 9/9 10-4! Valley Ridge off Patchen mile N of Williston Rd. Chairs, pottery, metal sculptures. Gardening supplies, tools, hardware. Home decor, bedding, fabric, pillows. Ceiling light, lamps.
Siamese/Tiger Needs Home Beautiful sand-color siamese/ tiger needs loving home. Very clean, smart, gentle, 8 lbs., 2 yrs. Not good w/cats, only gentle dogs. 802-318-6489 or snow feather336@gmail.com.
Canoe Paddles 2 paddles, rarely used, wooden, excellent cond. $120/each when new. $60/each. 264-4878. Great Treadmill! Many features; space-saving; great condition. Was $1000 new. You move it and it’s yours for $100 or best offer. Men’s Hockey Skates Brand: Elite, type: leather, size: 9. Rarely used. $50. 264-4878. Mini Stepper w/digital timer and calorie counter. Great for keeping in shape and travel. Small and compact. $10. 802-355-8773. Roof Rack Thule roof rack plus three upright bicycle carriers. Three different fit kits included, fits wide variety of cars and SUVs. $125. 434-3640. Set of men’s golf clubs Set of Wilson Staff irons, Wilson Staff woods & Dunlop woods in golf club bag. $25/OBO. 802-355-8773. ski exercise machine Gazelle Power Plus Nordic ski machine. Good condition. $50. 802-846-7483. Stair stepper machine Folds flat! Adjustable tension, works arms too. Computer timer/step counter/calorie counter. $20. 578-9045. Winter tires and rims 195/65/15 brand new tires on rims. Asking $250 OBO.
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AKC Female Black Lab Puppy Ready to go. All shots and worming. Claws removed. $500. 802875-2442 or crawford431@hotmail.com.
Canoe Roof Rack Car roof rack to be used for a canoe wanted. Something to fit a small older Subaru station wagon. Call 324-3113.
Birdcage comes w/accessories. $25. 802-899-3441. Ferrets FREE to good home Hard to part w/3 friendly ferrets. Must find good home. If not all 3, must take 2. Possible outside cage avail. Mike, 802-363-2051. Horse Trailer For Sale 1999 Thorospirit. 2-horse, straightload, bumper pull w/dressing room. Steel frame/aluminum skin. Fully padded, screened windows, vents. Well-maintained. One owner. Good condition. $6000/neg. Call 802-598-8727. OUR BARN IS FULL! Wonderful fiber quality alpacas need new homes before snow flies. Several to choose from, ranging from $300 - $500. Call Vermont Alpaca Company, 802-765-9639.
Dryer and washer needed! Potty training my toddler! I live in Colchester area. PLEASE give me a call if you have either. (c) 324-4204, 846-7406. High Top Table w/Chairs Restaurant-style high top table w/ two chairs. Call 324-3113. Slide Projector - Buy/Rent Looking for a slide projector in good working condition. Prefer to purchase but will consider a feasible rental agreement. 802-238-5718.
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Bike Trainer For Sale Ride your bike indoors all winter! CycleOps wind trainer for sale. Barely used. $140 new, will sell for $70 OBO. Call 310-2117.
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SUNBEAM-STEWART CLIPPER Heavy-duty, model 510 clipmaster. Excellent condition. $85. 802-899-2305.
2003 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SLAYER 27 Speed full suspension mountain bike in great shape for sale with disc brakes. $2400 new but I’m asking $950 OBO. Ryan@ 363-1601.
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Child Care BABYSITTER NEEDED for weekend daytimes, in 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. timeframe. Could be Saturday and/or Sunday. In Charlotte. Toddler experience strongly preferred. Babysitter references required. Laura 425-2109 or LCIsearch@ aol.com. Child Care in Starksboro Friendly reliable person to take care of our three kids on Sundays from 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. and occational other days. Please call Emily or Bill at 802-453-2502. CHILD CARE NEEDED In Stowe Village home, nights and weekends. Schedule varies weekly, 2 children. Must be reliable, honest, responsible. Call (206) 272-0679 or email danambrock@comcast.net Child-care Provider Looking for a creative, active and caring child-care provider in our Hinesburg home, Thursdays and Fridays from 7-4. Toddler experience preferred. Must have child care refs. 482-6884. Colchester Daycare Opening Registered home has openings for ages 2 and up and afterschool, kindergarten care. Porters Point bus route. Meals and snacks provided. Two full time caregivers. Call 655-9071. IN-HOME CHILD-CARE provider needed for toddler in Charlotte. Monday and Tuesday 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Possible weekend days, too. Looking for active, calm, experienced, reliable babysitter. Toddler experience preferred. Child care references required. Minimum 3-month commitment. Nice family. Happy to help with gas money. Laura 425-2109 or LCIsearch@aol.com. Need Child Care? Experienced child-care provider/elementary education major looking for childcare position. Can work after 5 p.m. M-Th, all day Friday, possible weekends/mornings. Have transportation/multiple references. Call Courtney, 978-758-9927.
Sallie West, M.A., M.F.T Individuals and couples counseling. Specializing in relationships and spiritual/personal growth, depression, anxiety and life transitions. Burlington and Waitsfield. 496-7135.
Creative Candie’s Entertainment www. w e b s p a w n e r.c o m / u s e r s / j e w eldnce/index.html Bachelor parties, private parties, escorts. 802-236-9957.
Education French Teacher Wanted Qualified French teacher wanted to help 3 high-schoolers improve their language skills. Can be at your or our home. Flexible timing but likely to be one evening per week after 7 p.m. South Burlington. Call Phil at 310-0114 if interested.
Financial/Legal ****$500 - $75,000++ Free cash grants! **2006!** Never repay! Personal/medical bills, school, new business/home etc., Live operators! Avoid deadlines! Listings, Call 1-800-270-1213 Ext. 232 (AAN CAN)
Health/Wellness Acupuncture Safe, effective and surprisingly enjoyable. Sliding scale available. For more information, please visit my web page at http://web.mac.com/spiritseal or call 802-598-5592. Colonic HydROtherapy Digestive wellness. 20 years experience in holistic therapies. “Wellness begins from within.” Call for appt., 660-0779. Danu Therapeutic Massage Located in the historical Woolen Mill, Winooski. Begin the school year restored and renewed! September discounts for students and teachers. Call Vicky, NCTMB (802)999-0610. http://danu. abmp.com.
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E.S. Massage Therapy Swedish, therapeutic, aromatherapy, deep tissue. CMT. 802-760-7845. Across from Ann Taylor window, 125 Bank Street, #2, Burlington.
Computer Repair & Upgrade Virus, Spyware, and Malware removal. Wireless Network Configuration. 802-236-3438. Home user special flat rate, $70. Business rate $50 hourly. Free pickup and delivery. 802-236-3438.
Emerge Massage Studio Grand opening special: Three 1-hour massages for $99! Offer expires 9/31. Coupons redeemable through 12/15. At the Woolen Mill, Winooski. Hanna Howard, CMT: 802-752-7013. www.Emerge massage.com.
Online Store Management Let me manage your online store. Answer emails. Update products. Optimize search results. Over 2 decades experience as a computer geek, programmer, graphic designer. elimadden@gmail.com.
Feng Shui Vermont Consultations for homes, businesses, schools. Space clearing, personal clearing, presentations, workshops. Certified Feng Shui Practitioner Carol C. Wheelock, M.Ed. 802-496-2306, cwheelock@ fengshuivermont.com, www. fengshuivermont.com.
Hands of Steele Specializing in properly applied deep pressure massage. Modified treatments for athletes, scholars, or laborers. Excellent results, guaranteed. Steele Taylor, Vermont Institute of Massage Therapy, South Burlington. 802-373-2475. Massage Therapy and P.T. Therapeutic massage with Ann Taylor, P.T., UVM graduate, 2002 winter Olympic coach, with 31 years experience in manual therapy, acupressure, neuromuscular, myofascial release, Swedish, craniosacral, and sports massage techniques. Or, if you prefer: physical therapy evaluation and treatment. Find a solution for your muscle, joint, and/or pain problems. Introductory Special: One session is $45. Three sessions: $35 each. 802-233-0932. Massage-Acupressure-Reiki New clients and morning appointments—15% off. Massage, Acupressure and Reiki combine to soothe, relax and revitalize your tense and achey body. Conveniently at your location. $50/hr. $65/1.5hrs. Pete Bellini 802-371-8589. Metta Touch Are you stressedout or sore from working out? Treat yourself to a wonderful Thai massage, customized just for you! Call today for an appointment, 862-2212. Blythe Kent, CMT. Located at 182 Main St., Burlington, 2nd-floor. Shamanism Buddhist Tara Ceremony, Meditations, Meditational Dancing, Teachings of the Divine Feminine Mysteries guided by GrandMother Singing Wolf. Women Only, Monthly, email: singingwolf@wolvessingingheyokah.com
Home/Garden Carpentry / landscaping Decks, walkways, roofing, siding, replacement windows, roto-tilling, tractor work and fall garden cleanups. Interior remodeling projects. A professional service for all your home needs. Call John at 802-434-2691. Professional Housecleaner Available from 6 a.m. - 6 p.m. Many years experience cleaning fine homes and inns. Efficient, reliable and thorough. For more Info., Mariah 802-355-8848.
Moving/Hauling Drivers w/late model vehicles possessing entertainment and MC qualities wanted to host shows with exotic dancers. 802-658-1464.
Biz Opps $5000-$100,000++ Free cash grants-2006! Personal bills, school, business/housing. Approx. $49 billion unclaimed 2005! Almost everyone qualifies! Live operators! Listings call 1-800274-5086 Ext. 233. (AAN CAN) $500-$100,000 FREE CASH GRANTS-2006! Personal bills, School, Business/Housing. Approx. $49 billion unclaimed 2005! Almost Everyone Qualifies! Live Operators! Listings call 1-800592-0362 Ext. 235. (AAN CAN) 1000 envelopes = $5000 Receive $5 for every envelope stuffed with our sales material. Guaranteed! Free information: 24 hour recording 1-800-785-7076. (AAN CAN) Curves in Colchester For sale. Fun fitness center for women with enthusiastic membership. Great opportunity for owner-operator. Ready to go! Reply to: vt curves@towen.us EARN $3500 WEEKLY! Data entry workers needed online immediately! Work from home! Guaranteed income! No experience necessary. Register online today! http://www.DataEntryCash.com. (AAN CAN). Home refund jobs! Earn $3500 - $5000 weekly processing company refunds online! Guaranteed paychecks! No experience needed! Positions available today! Register online now! http://www. PaidRefundJobs.com. (AAN CAN) HOME TYPISTS NEEDED! Earn $3500-$5000 weekly! Typing from home! Guaranteed paychecks! No experience needed! Positions available today! Register online now! http://www.Type4Cash.com. (AAN CAN) Movie extras, actors, models! Make $100-$300/day. No Exp. Req., FT/PT All looks needed! 1800-799-6215. (AAN CAN) NEED NEW COMPUTER Bad Credit - No Problem! Buy a new computer now and pay for it later. New computers and laptops from $20/ month. Call now 1-800-311-1542. (AAN CAN) NOW HIRING FOR 2006 postal jobs. $18/hour Starting, Avg. Pay $57K/year. Federal Benefits, Paid Training, and Vacations. No Experience Needed! 1-800-584-1775 Ref#P4401 (VOID IN WI) (AAN CAN) STAY HOME! Earn extra cash weekly! Mailing letters from home! Easy work! No experience required! Free information package! Call 24/hrs. 1-800-242-0363 ext. 5135. (AAN CAN).
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22B | september 06-13, 2006 | SEVEN DAYS
HOHNER ACCORDION full-size w/ case. Case is rough, but accordion is in very good condition. Call Matt at 238-0470 if interested. Asking $100.
SAAB 9-5, GREAT BUY Great deal. Auto, winter package, 143 K, heated seats, sun roof, leather, CD/cassette, loaded and runs good. $4700 as is. Call 655-9479 or 355-1025 (cell).
« On the road 02 VW JETTA WAGON GLS 40 K, heated seats, sun roof, Thule bars, 30+ mpg, excellent condition. $11,900. 603-616-2063. 03 KIA SEDONA VAN Equipped w/handicap accommodation, keyless entry and auto hatch opener. Excellent condition. 15,000 mi. PRICE REDUCED $12,900. Please call 802 482-6632. 05 SUBARU FORESTER XS 2.5 16,500 miles. Gray, 5-speed, leather interior, moon roof, loaded w/ options. 999-1423. 1966 CORVETTE Excellent condition. Call 802-8963-6342 for details. 1974 SUPER BEETLE Bright yellow, good condition, low mileage, no winters, wants happy home. It’s a must see. $2995 OBO. 363-9723. 1984 CAVALIER CONVERTIBLE Needs some TLC but runs, inspected til 4/2007. Fun little car. Best offer. 802-349-9563. 1988 HONDA ACCORD Runs well. Recent new exhaust and front brakes. Comes w/4 all-season tires plus 4 Hakkapeliitta snows. $600/OBO. 802-343-3548. 1991 TOYOTA COROLLA DX 140 K. New exhaust, new battery. Oil changes every 3 K. Snow tires, inspected till 2/07. Mechanic owned! Salvage title. Asking $1200. 802-310-9031. Leave message. 1993 CADILLAC DEVILLE 160 K highway miles, great condition. Runs well. Leather, AM/FM, cassette. Asking $3225/OBO. Call 355-2241 or 862-5577. 1994 BUICK ROADMASTER 5.7 v8, runs strong, body good, needs brake and exhaust work. 160 K. $350/OBO. Leave message. 893-0469. 1995 VW JETTA III $1800/OBO. Black, 5-speed, 143 K, runs well. Call 802-318-7237. 1997 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE V8 towing package, 145 K, very well maintained miles, leather interior, very clean. Asking $4800/ OBO. 985-8637 or 238-2133. 1998 FORD ESCORT $2100 5speed, 112 K, black 4-door wagon. Cruise/tilt/AC. Reliable and well kept w/documentation. Call Drew 802-316-1124. 1998 FORD EXPLORER SPORT Runs great, clean, good condition, fully loaded, leather, air, CD, moon roof, 4WD, V6, green (color). $4000/OBO. 655-4224. 1998 FORD EXPLORER XLT Only 67 K. Great condition. 4-door power dr/st/wd. Auto trans. AC, AM/FM/CD, 4 NHP tires. Auto car starter. Inspected thru 08/07. $6000. 802-882-2133. 1999 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 95 K, 7-passenger, all extras. Asking $3900. 802-864-4103. 1999 VOLVO S70 AWD, loaded and Thule rack, brand new tires. $5000. 802-527-5155. 2000 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 LS, 2WD. Extended cab pickup. Loaded w/all accessories, 6.0 liter, 4-speed, auto transmission, 43 K. Carfax certified. $14,900. Geoff, 802-863-4366. 2000 LEGACY OUTBACK No rust, southern car, tinted, new timing belt, clutch, F.struts, tires, headgasket, cat, tow pack., belts, CD, well maintained on fluids. Nice car. Roof rack. Asking $10,500/ OBO. Skye, 717-572-2558.
2001 VOLVO XC70 Beautiful car w/many extras, including sunroof, CD player, dual climate control, heated leather seats & cargo net for pets. 70K miles. Asking $15,500. 802-434-5225 2002 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE Sun and sound package, excellent condition, silver, 5-speed. One meticulous owner!!! Nokian winter tires. 66 K. $11,200/OBO. 802-793-9449. 2003 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER 30K miles, 7 pax seating, many extras including tow package, CD player & roof rack. Salvage title. Runs great - must sell. $14,000. 802-434-5225 2005 NISAN PATHFINDER 14 K miles, LE, 4WD, heated leather, moon roof, Bose stereo, 3rd row seat, bike rack. Beautiful! 233-0892. 93 FORD RANGER XLT - $1500 2 wheel drive, 4 cylinder, 5speed. Solid body, little rust, runs great! High mileage. Please call Randy, 802-893-4133 after 6. $1500/OBO. 94 NISSAN SENTRA LE 35 MPG Great condition, well maintained, must sell because I am moving! Bright red, no rust, winter tires. Contact 802-238-3228 for more info/test drive. Thanks! ALL NEW WINTER TIRES (2) All new Bridgestone Winterforce Winter (2)Tires, P205-85-13, 200 miles on, brand new 2006 tires. Excellent condition, traded car following purchase of tires last winter. 802-324-3113. AUDI A6 QUATTRO 1996 Auto, 2.8L, 4-door sedan, 88 K, moon roof, auto memory seats, leather, 4 mounted Hakkapeliitta snow tires, many options, excellent condition, $7600. 658-2793. AUDI QUATTRO AWD 1996 Auto, 4-door sedan, excellent condition, Bose sound system, leather/ heated seats, 4 new winter tires. Meticulously maintained. Very clean inside & out. Below Nada Book, $3800/OBO. 862-3999. CHEVY SILVERADO 1500 LTEXT 5.3L, V8, Z71 4x4, auto, plow, cap, bedliner, running boards, leather, CD stereo, auto start, power windows & seats, cruise, AC, 77 K. 434-5311. CHEVY SILVERADO 2500HD 2003 white Chevrolet Silverado, 2500HD extended cab LS. 44 K. Auto, 4WD, V8, tow package and extras. Good condition. Duraliner. No Vermont winters! Call 802-598-8727. LEXUS 1992 ES300 RELIABLE 1992, well-maintained southern car. Has never seen the snow. 206 K. New steering, transmission, belts, tires. Good reliable daily driver. Reply to illastraiter@ya hoo.com. NISSAN 300ZX Nissan 300ZX, 2+2, MT, T-tops, veilside body kit, extras, 145 K. Best offer. 802-345-3786. NISSAN ALLOY RIMS Rims in good shape. Great for your winter tires. $55/each or all 4/$200. 802-860-1544. ONE ALL SEASON TIRE! Tire for sale! Excellent condition! Hardly used! One P205-70-15. Call 324-3113. PICK-UP CAP Jeraco Standard Deluxe cap for 6’ bed, sealed front window, bonded rear door, sliding windows on sides, two skylights in front, forest green, great condition - for pics go to http://www. nbraasch.com/cap.
I NEED A SAX I need a tenor sax for under $600 - if you can help, please contact Zoe at 802498-4533 or abstractlyrandom@ gmail.com. Thank you!
SILVER SAAB 1996 900s, 5-door, 5-speed, solid and clean, original owner, $2800, call 310-0904. SUBARU LEGACY WAGON, 1996 Auto, PL, PW, sun roof, good condition, new tires, remote start, 168 K. $2850. Ellen, 899-2125. TOYOTA 4-RUNNER Only 92 K, 1 VT Winter, great cond., incl. 4 snow tires, power, sun roof, tow package, A/C, 1995, $6000. 802-498-5606. VW PASSAT GLS 2002 VW Passat GLS, 4 cylinder, auto, transmission, loaded, excellent condition, only 23 K. $13,400. Call 802-878-0814.
Motorcycles 1994 KAWASAKI NINJA 500 Great starter bike but big enough to keep up w/the pack. $1800. 802-533-2625.
On the Water BOAT TRAILER Karavan KKBT4100 boat trailer. Suitable for 19’22’ boats, up to 84.5” wide, and up to 4100 pounds. $1150/OBO. 658-5017. POWER BOAT, READY TO GO! 1986 Sting Ray, w/trailer, in/outboard, FREE WINTER STORAGE, 230 HP Merc-cruiser, 19’, open bow, seats 9, red/white. $4400/OBO. Call 324-3113.
Recreational Vehicles 2002 POLARIS 600-CLASSIC M10 after market suspension, electric start, mirrors, reverse, tall windshield, studded, dual carbides, backrest and map bag. Very clean, stored inside, serviced and ready to ride. NADA $4210, priced to sell $3000. 5000 miles. Contact Robbie, 803-899-2751. 2003 POLARIS RMK 600 Rocky Mountain King Long Track 144” w/1.25” lugs. Mirrors, reverse, tall windshield, spare belt. Very clean-kept inside. Serviced and ready to ride. NADA $4230, priced to sell, $3200. 5000 miles. Contact Robbie, 802-899-2751. CONDOMINIUM ON WHEELS Owner: Larry White, email yogiwhite@ adelphia.net, 802-238-2962, 802524-1465. Located in St. Albans Bay, VT. Make: Holiday Rambler, Model: Endeavor -diesel pusher. Mileage: 49,000. Engine manufacturer/model: Cummins/330 HP ISC.
Bands/ Musicians DRUMMER Experienced drummer looking to join band or to start one. Have equipment to include complete PA, lighting, etc. Will play everthing from country, clasic rock, to R&B also have a great place to practice in central VT. 244-7683 eve., taper2@ pshift.com. GUITARIST & BASSIST NEEDED Looking for serious and interested musicians to fill positions in original band. Must have own equipment and transportation. Burlington area. 518-570-5611. I NEED A TENOR SAX for under $600! Zoe at 802-498-4533 or abstractlyrandom@gmail.com. If you can help...please do... I’ve looked everywhere. LOCAL EXPERIMENTAL alternative rock band Then Silence, seeking bassist and drummer. Influences are The Cure, Perfect Circle, The Pixies and the 80s. Call Dux, 578-2670.
For Sale 4 PIECE TAMA DRUM KIT maple, paiste cymbals, new dw 6000 series stands and more. good condition, $275 OBO. 802-324-6706. AMPS, KEYBD, FOSTEX Peavey Classic 212, 120 watt combo amp, $500/OBO. Yamaha PSR530 synthesizer, $300/OBO. Fostex R8 $300/OBO. Much more here: h t t p : // m y s i t e .v e r i z o n . n e t / vze26d7g, Mike 802-872-7062. CLARINET Excellent condition. $300. Call Vanessa, 802-793-8834. FENDER HOT ROD DELUXE Amp, Ltd edition, brown tolex, Jensen C12, new cond, bought a vibro, this is the real deal! $595. FIRM 802-864-7740. FLUTE - YAMAHA 461 Sterling Silver, open hole, offset G, B foot, gizmo key, intermediate flute, beautiful tone, nearly new, excellent condition, $1300, 893-1398, leave message. FRENCH HORN, KING IN F Single valve. 1970’s serial #. Excellent student instrument. VGC. Plays well. Hard case, marching stand and Conn mouthpiece incl. $750 or BO. 899-2136. GIBSON JOHNNY A W/BIGSBY Serial #87. Maple Top, Bigsby tremolo, black crocodile hardshell case, certificate of authenticity signed by Johnny. Great condition! $3200. 802-238-5379. HANDMADE ACOUSTIC GUITAR Made by Vermont Luthier. Hi figured quilted maple. Cost $2000. Asking $1250. Trade for guitars, amps, old parts working or not! 802-860-1544. HARPTONE ACOUSTIC 12-STRING Circa 1968. George Harrison used this brand. I’m the second owner for over 30 years! Easy neck to play on. Double truss rod. $850.
KRAMER STRAT TYPE GUITAR Funky Strat style Kramer w/Duncan pickups Floyde Rose vibrato. 20 years old. Trade for guitars, amps, old parts, pedals. Working or not! Asking $325! 802-860-1544. MARSHALL 3 STAGE PREAMP 9001 Rack mount tube w/3 channel foot switch, $150. Trade for guitars, amps, pedals, old parts working or not! 802-860-1544. STUDIO BLOWOUT Fender UltraChorus Amp $250, Crumar Organ w/Leslie $200, Fostex B-16 recorder $450, Sony Dat $200, Emax keyboard $350, Lexicon LXP-1 delay $50, Alesis sequencer $45, Tama Hi-hat w/Zildjians $50. ALL OBO. 802-864-7740. WASHBURN ACOUSTIC 6-STRING Malakite green w/fancy wood grain. Just serviced w/neck ajustment and new strings. Approx 10 years old, sounds great. $325/ OBO. 802-860-1544. YAMAHA POWERED MONITORS $360/OBO. MSP5 bi-amplified monitors in mint condition (pair). Used very little. Call 802-6559479 or email sikter@gmail.com.
Instruction ANDY’S MOUNTAIN MUSIC Private and group instruction in banjo, mandolin, guitar, voice, songwriting and “Bluegrass 101” workshops. References, very affordable rates. Andy Greene, 802658-2462, guitboy75@hotmail. com. www.andysmountainmusic. com. DRUM LESSONS Energetic, professional drummer seeks students of all abilities for drum lessons. About me: 27 yrs. old, 19 yrs. playing experience, Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz/Commercial Music, extensive touring experience in US and Europe. A real working drummer offering a customized curriculum, competitive rates and real results! I’ll even come to you, so can learn on your own drums. Refs. avail. Contact steve@ stevehadeka.com or call anytime 802-658-6205. GUITAR INSTRUCTION Berklee graduate with classical background offers lessons in guitar, theory, and ear training. Individualized, step-by-step approach. I enjoy teaching all ages/styles/ levels. Rick Belford 864-7195, rickbelf@verizon.net. GUITAR INSTRUCTION All styles/ levels. Emphasis on developing strong technique, thorough musicianship, personal style. Paul Asbell (Unknown Blues Band, Kilimanjaro, UVM and Middlbury College Facutly) 862-7696, www. paulasbell.com. GUITAR LESSONS have fun while learning guitar! $12/hour. Will teach music theory and ear training. Beginner to intermediate. 12 years experience. Pete Meyers, 518-570-5611. Burlington area. LEARN TO READ MUSIC and understand rhythm-anyone can in 2 months whether you play an instrument or not. Learning the tin whistle or recorder is a great way to get started. $25/hour. Call Mara, 862-3581.
Auditions/ Casting DANCERS WANTED: to perform at bachelor parties, birthdays and private parties. Work available. Make full-time money with parttime hours. No experience necessary. 802-363-0229. MODELS WANTED Female models for various fashion projects. Get free portfolio, experience. Contact David Russell Photography - 373-1912 or email dave@daverussell.org. Website http://www. daverussell.org. SEXUALLY ACTIVE? We’d like to hear about your experiences. Documentary in progress on the modern dating scene. Please email freshgrassdocumentary@yahoo. com if you’d be willing to talk.
For Sale AMY WHITE GARDEN FRAME Whimsical 3-D screen art of purple iris and daisy. Hang it indoors or out! Signed. 15 1/2” x 25 1/2”. Pic is online. $75/OBO. 802-238-5718
Openings/ Shows MATTHEW THORSEN Photographs, paintings and collages. Full Tank Glass Gallery, Church Street, Burlington. Through August.
Legals NOTICE FORMER YORK CAPACITOR EMPLOYEES: Looking for the following former employees. They may be entitled to pension benefits. Phylis Bluto, Ian Niculae, Holly Olmstead, CamTran, Barry Wilbur, Tammy Call Linda Mongeon. Information call Dennis Getty, 802-655-2551. STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. DOCKET NO. S0720-06 CnC Wells Fargo Bank, NA, successor by merger to Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. f/k/a Norwest Mortgage, Inc.., Plaintiff v. Lawrence Carter Agee, John Mehl, Colette Dumont And Occupants residing at 87 Westall Drive f/k/a 7 Westall Drive, Richmond, Vermont, Defendants SUMMONS & ORDER FOR PUBLICATION TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: Lawrence C. Agee You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon Corey J. Fortin, Esq., plaintiff’s attorney, whose
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Show and tell. View and post up to 6 photos per ad online. address is P.O. Box 4493, 35 King Street, Burlington, Vermont 05406, an Answer to plaintiff’s Complaint in the above entitled action within forty-one (41) days after the date of the first publication of this Summons, which is September 6, 2006. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Your Answer must also be filed with the Court. Unless otherwise provided in Rule 13(a). Your Answer must state as a Counterclaim any related claim which you may have against the plaintiff, or you will thereafter be barred from making such claim in any other action. YOUR ANSWER MUST STATE SUCH A COUNTERCLAIM WHETHER OR NOT THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE COMPLAINT IS FOR DAMAGE COVERED BY A LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICY UNDER WHICH THE INSURER HAS THE RIGHT OR OBLIGATION TO CONDUCT THE DEFENSE. If you believe that the plaintiff is not entitled to all or part of the claim set forth in the Complaint, or if you believe that you have a Counterclaim against the plaintiff, you may wish to consult an attorney. If you feel that you cannot afford to pay an attorney’s fee, you may ask the clerk of the Court for information about places where you may seek legal assistance. Plaintiff’s action is a Complaint in Foreclosure which alleges that you have breached the terms of a Promissory Note and Mortgage Deed dated January 8, 1999. Plaintiff’s action may effect your interest in the property described in the Land Records of the Town of Richmond at Volume 109, Page 209. The Complaint also seeks relief on the Promissory Note executed by you. A copy of the Complaint is on file and may be obtained at the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Chittenden, State of Vermont. It appearing from Affidavit duly filed in the above entitled action that service cannot be made with due diligence by any of the methods prescribed in V.R.C.P. 4(d) through (f) inclusive, it is hereby ORDERED that service of the above process shall be made upon defendant, Lawrence C. Agee, by publication pursuant to V.R.C.P. 4(g). This Order shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks on September 6, 2006, September 13, 2006 and September 20, 2006 in the Seven Days. A copy of this Order shall be mailed to defendant at his address if his address is known. Dated at Burlington, Vermont this 29th day of August, 2006. _______/s/ Ben W. Joseph_______Hon. Ben W. Joseph Presiding Judge Chittenden Superior Court STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN SUPERIOR COURT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. DOCKET NO. S0793-06 CnC Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff v. Lawrence Carter Agee, Don Weston Excavating, Inc., Nu-View Construction, Inc. And Occupants residing at 414 Butternut Road, Williston, Vermont, Defendants SUMMONS & ORDER FOR PUBLICATION TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: Lawrence C. Agee You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon Corey J. Fortin, Esq., plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is P.O. Box 4493, 35 King Street, Burlington, Vermont 05406, an Answer to plaintiff’s Complaint in the above entitled action within forty-one (41) days after the date of the first publication of this Summons, which is September 6, 2006. If you fail to do so, judgment by default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Your Answer must also be filed with the Court. Unless otherwise provided in Rule 13(a). Your Answer must state as a Counterclaim any related claim which you may have against the plaintiff, or you will thereafter be barred from making such claim in any other action.
YOUR ANSWER MUST STATE SUCH A COUNTERCLAIM WHETHER OR NOT THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE COMPLAINT IS FOR DAMAGE COVERED BY A LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICY UNDER WHICH THE INSURER HAS THE RIGHT OR OBLIGATION TO CONDUCT THE DEFENSE. If you believe that the plaintiff is not entitled to all or part of the claim set forth in the Complaint, or if you believe that you have a Counterclaim against the plaintiff, you may wish to consult an attorney. If you feel that you cannot afford to pay an attorney’s fee, you may ask the clerk of the Court for information about places where you may seek legal assistance. Plaintiff’s action is a Complaint in Foreclosure which alleges that you have breached the terms of a Promissory Note and Mortgage Deed dated June 10, 1999. Plaintiff’s action may effect your interest in the property described in the Land Records of the Town of Williston at Volume 271, Page 126. The Complaint also seeks relief on the Promissory Note executed by you. A copy of the Complaint is on file and may be obtained at the Office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Chittenden, State of Vermont. It appearing from Affidavit duly filed in the above entitled action that service cannot be made with due diligence by any of the methods prescribed in V.R.C.P. 4(d) through (f) inclusive, it is hereby ORDERED that service of the above process shall be made upon defendant, Lawrence C. Agee, by publication pursuant to V.R.C.P. 4(g). This Order shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks on September 6, 2006, September 13, 2006 and September 20, 2006 in the Seven Days. A copy of this Order shall be mailed to defendant at his address if his address is known. Dated at Burlington, Vermont this 29th day of August, 2006. __/s/ Ben W. Joseph____________ Hon. Ben W. Joseph Presiding Judge Chittenden Superior Court STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. IN RE: I.B. Vermont Family Court Chittenden County Docket No. 207-4-06 CnJv ORDER FOR SERVICE FOR PUBLICATION Based upon the motion filed by the State’s Attorney’s Office dated August 18, 2006, and the accompanying Affidavit and arrest warrants, the Court finds that service of process cannot, with due diligence, be made upon Katie Labounty and Joshua Brunelle other than by publication. It is therefore, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that notice of a disposition hearing on the parental fitness of Katie Labounty, mother of I.B., and Joshua Brunelle, father of I.B., to be held on Wednesday, October 11, 2006, at 9:00 a.m. at the Family Court of Vermont, Costello Courthouse, 32 Cherry St., Burlington, Vermont, shall be published for two (2) consecutive weeks in Seven Days, a newspaper of general circulation reasonably calculated to give notice to Katie Labounty and Joshua Brunelle. A copy of this order shall be mailed to Katie Labounty and Joshua Brunelle if their address can ever be determined. Hon. Brian J. Grearson Family Court Judge 8-21-06 STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN COUNTY, SS. IN RE: I.B. Vermont Family Court Chittenden County Docket No. 207-4-06 CnJv NOTICE OF HEARING TO: Katie Labounty, mother of I.B., and Joshua Brunelle, father of I.B. You are hereby notified that a disposition hearing to consider your parental fitness to parent I.B. will be held on October 11, 2006 at 9:00 a.m. at the Family Court
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Support Groups DON’T SEE A SUPPORT group here that meets your needs? Call Vermont 2-1-1, a program of United Way of Vermont. Within Vermont, dial 2-1-1 or 866-652-4636 (tollfree) or from outside of Vermont, 802-652-4636. Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. MEN’S GROUP FORMING: Based on the work of David Deida, Core Energetics, and other awareness practices. The intention of the group is to serve members into being the most extraordinary men that they can be. It is for men who are who are dying to penetrate every bit of the world with their courage, their presence, their unbridled passion and relentless love, and their deepest burning, bubbling, brilliant desire. The group will function as a means for men to support each other and serve the greater good. We will be working with spiritual practices, the mind and body, and taking on our lives with the utmost integrity, impeccability and openness. The group is not a new age group, nor is it a group dedicated to therapy. Info, email zach@handelgroup.com or call 917-887-1276. SMART RECOVERY a cognitive behavioral “recovery” program directed at various forms of “addiction” which may be either behavioral or substance based. Meeting on WEDNESDAY, 6 p.m., 82 South Winooski Avenue (above the City Market), Burlington, Vt. For information call Bob at 425-4058 or email BobC2me@ msn.com. SENSORY SUPPORT GROUP SPEAKER SERIES: Wednesday, 9/20, Molly Fleming, Naturopathic Physician and Licensed Acupuncturist. For information, call Laurie at 864-6007. SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE (SOS): Have you experienced the impact of a loved one’s suicide? Please consider joining us. The Burlington support group meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 152 Pearl St. Burlington. The meeting will be in the Susan B. Anthony Room, which is on the second floor at the back end of the building. This is not a therapy group; this is a support group. There is no fee. Please contact Cory Goud, M.A., Psychologist-Master, 802223-4111. GIRL’S NIGHT OUT: Fun support group for single women, discussions, weekly activities (cooking, dancing, rock climbing...), childcare solutions. A great alternative to dating! Email horizons4u@hotmail.com. DEBTORS ANON: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with money and debt? We can help. Mondays, 6-7:15 p.m. First Methodist Church. Contact Valerie, 233-8808.
OVEREATERS ANON: 12-step recovery group. Is what you’re eating, eating you? Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. First Congregational Church, Rt. 15, Essex Jct. Contact 8632655 for more info. DIVORCED MEN’S GROUP: Meet one Saturday night each month in greater Burlington area to play cards, order pizza and shoot the breeze. Drop in as you please. Call 879-0231. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: A group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to be a member. The only requirement is a desire to stop using. For meeting info, call 802-862-4516 or visit www. together.net/cvana. SUPPORT GROUP for Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses. A group for people who have left or are thinking about leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses, you’re not alone. Angela, 598-2469. FIBROMYALGIA: Do you experience it? Would you like to be part of a support group? Contact: tobias25vt@yahoo.com or call 864-2613 box 423 to leave message. 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 4768345 or Denise at 223-257. SUPPORT GROUP FOR PARENTS of children with sensory challenges. Every other Friday beginning May 5th, 7 to 9 p.m., in Williston. For information, call Laurie at 864-6007. FATIGUE AND CHRONIC FATIGUE: Share your experiences and information, learn about effective protocols. John, 802-343-8161. THIRTEEN - WEEK SUPPORT GROUPS for women who are survivors of adult and or childhood sexual assault. Group will include a yoga component. Please contact Meg at 864-0555. 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. CONCERNED UNITED BIRTHPARENTS: A group offering support if you have lost a child to adoption or are in reunion or have yet to begin your search. 802-8492244. 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. HEPATITIS C SUPPORT GROUP: Second Wednesday of the month from 6-7:30. Community Health Center, second floor, 617 Riverside Ave., Burlington 802-3558936. SAVINGS SUPPORT GROUP for all low to moderate-income Vermonters who wish to have support around saving, budgeting, managing or investing money. Call Diane at 802-860-1417 x104 for information. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, Big book text, Mondays, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Overeaters Anonymous, Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Suvivors of Incest Anonymous, Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Al-Anon Family Group, Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 p.m. “I Love Me”, an educational support group on self care for suvivors of domestic and/or sexual violence. Mondays, 5:30-7 p.m. Call AWARE, 802-472-6463, 88 High Street, Hardwick.
AUTISM SUPPORT DAILY: Free support group for parents of children with autism. 600 Blair Park Road, Suite 240, Williston. 1st Monday of each month, 7-9 p.m. Call Lynn, 802-660-7240, or visit us at http://www.AutismSupportDaily.com for more info. ARE YOU A CLOSET SINGER? Do you have a good voice (haven’t made the dogs howl) but are afraid of fainting in public while performing? Join a group to support, sing and perform in an intimate setting. 802-893-1819. 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. Call helpline at 1-877-856-1772. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: 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. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: St. Albans evening support group meets the second Monday of each month at Northwestern Medical Center, 133 Fairfield Street from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Call our helpline at 1-877856-1772. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: Bennington day support group meets the first Friday of the month at Second Congregational Church, Hillside Street from 1-2 p.m. Call helpline at 1877-856-1772. OCD SUPPORT GROUP/THERAPY GROUP: Come share your experience, get support from those who have been there, learn about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and how to reduce its symptoms. Therapist facilitated. Weekly meetings, 802-343-8114. NW VT GAY AND LESBIAN Foster and Adoptive Parent Support Group: 6-8 p.m. The third Thursday of each month, starting October 20 through May, 2006. Casey Family Services, 46 Main St., Winooski. AUTISM: Free support group for parents and caregivers of children with ASD. Montpelier, 2nd Sunday of the month, 3-5 p.m. at the Family Center. Call Jessica, 249-7961 for child care inquires. More info, www.aaware.org. SUPPORT GROUP FOR MOTHERS OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE SURVIVED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: The Women’s Rape Crisis Center in conjunction with Family Connection Center offers a free, confidential, ten-week support group. Info, 802-864-0555. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE and Dementia support group. Held the last Tuesday of every month at Birchwood Terrace, Burlington. Info, contact Stefanie Catella, 863-6384. WEEKLY SMOKING CESSATION support group: Small groups. Caring atmosphere. Stop smoking in just 21 days using natural, proven, safe methods. No unhealthy drugs. Call 264-1924. WEEKLY WEIGHT-LOSS support group: Small groups. Caring atmosphere. Get great results using natural, proven, safe methods. No unhealthy dieting. Call 2641924. 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 6581996. PARENTING GROUP: 6-week group for people parenting children of all ages now forming. Please call River Valley Associates for more information. 651-7520.
HAIR PULLERS SUPPORT GROUP: The Vermont TTM Support Group is a new support group for adult pullers (18+) affected by trichotillomania (chronic hair pulling) as well as parents of pullers. This will be a supportive, safe, comfortable and confidential environment. Meets on the 4th Monday of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Society, 152 Pearl St., Burlington. Info, 453-3688 or vermont_ttmout reach@yahoo.com. DEPERSONALIZATION AND DEREALIZATION: If you suffer from either of these trance states, please call Todd, 864-4285. THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EAST CHAPTER of the Compassionate Friends meets on the third Tuesday of each month, 7-9 p.m. at the Christ Church Presbyterian, 400 Redstone Campus, UVM. Info, 482-5319. The meetings are for parents, grandparents and adult siblings who have experienced the death of a child at any age from any cause. DIABETES EDUCATION and Support Group of Chittenden County meets the third Thursday of every month at the Williston Federated Church, 6:30-8 p.m. We often have guest speakers. Info, 8472278. CHADD is a support organization for children and adults with AD/HD. Every second Wednesday of the month. Champlain College, Global Technology Building, Maple St., Room 217, Burlington, VT. MOOD DISORDER SUPPORT GROUP: Every Monday, 4:30-6 p.m. Pastor United Church. Info, contact Lorraine, 485-4934. WOMEN HELPING BATTERED WOMEN offers free, confidential educational support groups for women who have fled, are fleeing or are still living in a world where intimate partner violence is present. WHBW offers a variety of groups to meet the diverse needs of women and children in this community. Info, 658-1996. VT PARENTS OF FOOD ALLERGY CHILDREN EMAIL SUPPORT TEAM: Info, contact MaryKay Hill, www.VTPFAC.com or call 802-373-0351. MIXED GENDER COMING OUT SUPPORT GROUP: Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Co-facilitated by supportive peers and mental-health professionals and open to all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning adults age 23 and up. Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2?. TRANS SOCIAL AND SUPPORT GROUP: First Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Looking for peer support among other transgendered folks? Need a safe space to relax and be yourself? Check out this group meeting at R.U.1.2? TOPS (Taking Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter meeting, St. Francis Xavier School, Winooski. Sundays, 6 p.m. weigh-in, 6:30-7:30 p.m. meeting. Info, call Fred or Bennye, 655-3317 or Patricia, 658-6904. INTERESTED IN WRITING for children? Support and critique group meets monthly. Call Anne, 861-6000 or anne@booksbyme. us. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS is a group of recovering addicts who live without the use of drugs. It costs nothing to join. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using. Info, 8624516, or visit www.together. net/~cvana. Held in Burlington, South Burlington and Colchester. For more information, call 8608388 or toll-free, 1-866-9725266.
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« support groups SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE: Support group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Holiday Inn in South Burlington, (1068 Williston Rd.), from 67:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Cory Gould, 2234111 or cgould1136@earthlink. net. Sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention-VT. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS ANONYMOUS: 12-step recovery group. Do you have a problem with sex or relationships? We can help. Sunday meetings, 7-8:30 p.m. Men call Sandy, 863-5708. Women call Chris (F), 802-793-1774. SMOKING CESSATION GROUP: Willing to kick the habit? This free, five-week program helps quitters to follow through. Community Health Center of Burlington, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6309. DOES YOUR PARTNER/SPOUSE HAVE AD/HD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder)? Support group meets every other week in Burlington to share experiences, challenges, laughs, resources. Want more information? Write addpartner@yahoo.com. WEDNESDAYS CIRCLE: A Transpersonal support group, every Wed., 6 p.m., Innerharmony Community Wellness Center, Rt. 100N, Rochester, VT. 767-6092. A sharing circle focusing on personal growth, transformation, spirituality and healing, led by Jim Dodds. DECLUTTER’S SUPPORT GROUP: Are you ready to make improvements but find it overwhelming? Maybe 2 or 3 of us can get together to help each simplify. 453-3612. PARENTS TOGETHER: Support group will be meeting in Rutland on Monday evenings. Snacks and child care provided. All groups are free and confidential. Please call 1-800-CHILDREN for more information. WOMEN CHANGING: A continuous educational support group for women who are interested in changing patterns in their lives. Wednesdays-ongoing. 12:302 p.m. Call Angie at AWARE in Hardwick, 472-6463. SUPPORT GROUP FOR WOMEN who have experienced intimate partner abuse, facilitated by Battered Women’s Services and Shelter of Washington County. Please call 1-877-543-9498 for more info.
AHOY BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Join our support group where the focus is on living, not on the disease. We are a team of dragon boaters. Learn all about this paddle sport and its healthgiving, life-affirming qualities. Any age. No athletic experience needed. Call Linda at 802-4344423 or email: dragonheartvermont@gmavt.net or go to: www. dragonheartvermont.org. NAKED IN VERMONT: The premier Nudist/Skinnydipper organization in Vermont offering information library, message board, chat room, yahoo group, and more. (ALL FREE) Visit www.nakedinvermont.com. SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION New England: Info, Blythe Leonard, 878-0732 or atblythel@aol. com. OLDER WOMEN EXERCISING TOGETHER: For motivation to do what’s necessary. Call Anne, 8616000. ALS (LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE) monthly support group: For patients, caregivers and loved ones who are living or have lived with ALS. Third Thursday of the month, 1-3 p.m. Jim’s House, 1266 Creamery Rd., Williston. Info and directions, 802-862-8882 or vt@ alsanne.org. AL-ANON: Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the AWARE office, 88 High St., Hardwick. Info, 472-6463. BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION of Vermont: Daytime support group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Fanny Allen Hospital in Colchester, from 12-2 p.m. For more info, contact Polly Erickson at 847-6941. METHADONE ANONYMOUS: A medication-assisted recovery support group. Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. The Alano Club. Directions: Rt. 15 Fort Ethan Allen entrance, Barnes Ave., third right on to Hegeman Ave., #74 on left. All are welcome. TRANS PARTNERS support group: Meet and talk w/other partners of transgendered/transsexual people. The second Friday of every month. R.U.1.2? Community Center, 6 p.m. 860-RU12. HARD-OF-HEARING support group: I’m starting a support group for adults who have a hearing loss that affects the quality of their work/family/social life. Let’s share personal experiences and knowledge of hearing-aid technology. Marlene, 999-8005. SKINNYDIPPERS UNITE! Visit Vermont Au Naturel. Join other naturists and like-minded people for support, discussions and more! www.vermontaunaturel. com.
PARENTS TOGETHER support groups: Would you like to talk and share ideas with other parents about the joys and challenges of children? Support groups for all parents. Desireah, 796-3119. MENTAL ILLNESSES: The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill holds support meetings for the families and friends of the mentally ill at Howard Center, corner of Flynn and Pine. Second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at 7 p.m. Park in Pine St. lot and walk down ramp. 862-6683 for info. NONCUSTODIAL SUPPORT group for parents. Contact Bill Bagdon, 434-6495. ARE YOU UNABLE TO get out of debt? Do you spend more than you earn? Is it a problem for you? Get help at Debtor’s Anonymous. Mondays, 6-7:15 p.m. First United Methodist Church, North Winooski Ave., Burlington. Contact Valerie P. at 233-8808. BRAIN INJURY: Open to people who sustained a brain injury, their caregivers and family. Expert speakers often scheduled. 1st Wed. of every month, 6-8 p.m. Fanny Allen Campus, Colchester. Call Barb Winters, 434-7244. LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, Transgender, Queer and Questioning: Support groups for survivors of partner violence, sexual violence and bias/hate crimes. Free and confidential. SafeSpace, 8630003 or 866-869-7341 (tollfree). FAMILY/FRIENDS OF THOSE suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: second Monday of the month, 4-5 p.m. The Arbors. 985-8600. “HELLENBACH” CANCER support: Every other Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. Middlebury. Call to verify meeting place. Info, 388-6107. People living with cancer and their caretakers convene for support. DEBTORS SUPPORT GROUP: Mondays, 6-7:15 p.m. united Methodist Church, 21 Buell St., Burlington. Wednesdays 7-8 a.m. Turning Point Recovery, 61 Main St., Burlington. Info, call Brenda 893-7752. BURLINGTON MEN’S GROUP: Ongoing Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 877-3742. Area men are invited to join this weekly group for varied discussions and drumming. PROSTATE CANCER: The second Tuesday of the month, 5- 7p.m. Board Room of Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester. Info, 800-6391888. This “man-to-man” support group deals with disease. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 863-2655. Overeaters get support in addressing their problem.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: Daily meetings in various locations. Free. Info, 860-8382. Want to overcome a drinking problem? Take the first step of 12 and join a group in your area. AL-ANON: Ongoing Wednesdays, 8 p.m. First Congregational Church, N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. Free. Info, 655-6512. Seven other locations also. Info, 860-8388. Do you have a friend or relative with an alcohol problem? Al-Anon can help. DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL violence: WomenSafe offers free, confidential support groups in Addison County for women who have experienced domestic or sexual violence. Info, 388-4205. SEX AND LOVE ADDICTS Anonymous: Sundays, 7 p.m. Free. Info, write to P.O. Box 5843, Burlington, VT 05402. Get help through this weekly 12-step program. HEROIN 101: Educational and informational support group. Free. First Wednesday of every month, 5:30-7:30 p.m. GMNC. 275 College St. Info, 860-3567. ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS: Burlington, meets at Birchwood Terrace, 2nd & 4th Wed., at 1:30 p.m. Colchester, meets at FAHC, Fanny Allen Campus, 1st Thurs. of month at 3 and 7 p.m. Shelburne, meets at The Arbors, 2nd Tues. of month at 10 a.m. DEMENTIA & ALZHEIMER’S disease support group for the caregivers: Barre, meets at Rowan Ct., 4th Wed. of month at 3 p.m. Montpelier, 338 River St., 2nd Wed. of month at 7 p.m. PARKINSON’S DISEASE: meets 1st Tues. of each month at the Heineburg Sr. Ctr., Heineburg Ave., Burlington. Lunch is avail. by calling 863-3982 in advance. WOMEN’S CANCER SUPPORT group: UHC campus, 1 South Prospect St., Arnold 2 Resource Rm. Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 56:30 p.m. Info, 847-4848
Picturesque building sites in Plainfield. 20 mins. to Montpelier, secluded, streams, road frontage, views, state permit and design for in-ground septic for 4-bedroom houses. 8.84 +/acres, $139,00. 12.79 +/- acres, $189,000. 802-454-1314. Picturesque Malletts Bay 3bedroom, 1-bath on Sunset Dr., Colchester. Updated kitchen, open dining area, large deck w/canopy. Basement-level playroom, workshop & storage. $249,900. 802658-7400 ext. 17.
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For Sale Brickyard Townhouse Sunny three-level, 2-bedroom, 1.5-bath end-unit townhouse. 1024 sq. ft. above grade, 512 below grade w/ full basement. $167,900. Contact Laura at 288-1065. Bristol Home FSBO $269,900, great mountain & pond views, convenient location, 11+ acres, 3-bedroom, 1.5-bath, large kitchen, large south-facing windows, perennial & vegetable gardens, Web: www.sover.net/~vim/House, 802-453-2076. Burlington North Shore Village. 2-bedroom townhouse w/view of lake, fireplace, D/W, W/D, deck, garage, pool, tennis and bike path. Immed. occupancy. $299,000 or rent w/option. 802-373-3105. Condo in a Country Setting 2-bedroom condo w/basement at Brook Meadows. Large yard along the bike path; close to amenities. Offering $2000 towards closing costs. 802-658-7400 ext. 17. Lincoln, 3 Bedrm & Barn $229,000, .40 acre unique property incls. 30’ waterfall. Pine floors, fireplace, hewn beams, early 1800s w/modern amenities. Barn w/studio. Walk to Long Trail, close to ski areas, 8 min. to the bustling town of Bristol, 45 min. Burlington. 802-453-3356. NORTHFIELD 2.5beds 1.75ba $182,000 - For Sale by Owner - Excellent alternative to more pricey housing markets. Call: 802225-1326 or see it on the web at: http://dryfoos.notlong.com Perfect Starter Home South Burlington; Grandview 2-bedroom, 1-bath townhouse condo. Well maintained, just painted for immediate occupancy. Six closets. Convenient location near Kennedy and Dorset St. W/D, D/W. $154,900 or rent w/option to buy. 802-864-7126. Do not miss this opportunity.
Vermont Inn 16-bedrooms, 30,000 cars per day, by St. Mike’s College and hospitals. $625,000. Best deal in Burlington. Owner/ broker. 802-324-3291, IvanLand@ aol.com. WILLISTON This 4-bedroom home shouts upgrades and custom! The custom features make this home exude emotion. Texture paint, gold leaf arches, Tuscany decor Kitchen, tile with inlay mosaics, etc. Upgrades; expanded garage with basement access, additional windows, level backyard, Huge deck and stone patio with privacy landscaping, from steel beams to built-in shelves and Butler’s Pantry this home has so many extras. Enjoy the sunsets from the deck, entertaining is a must, the neighborhood bike path to schools and shopping, pool, tennis, park playground, baseball, what more could you ask for? A must-see home. $544,500. 802-879-0466. Winding Brook Condo, FSBO South Burlington, Winding Brook, condo. 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath, corner unit = more light and space. 1525 sq. ft., freshly painted, clean, move in condition. Close to everything, yet quiet. $220,000. 862-4868. Winooski $190,000 Cute & cozy home on quiet street; 988 sq. ft, 2-bedroom, 1-bath, 2 story cape. 2 enclosed porches, lots of sunlight; garage. Large, peaceful yard. 5 min. walk to downtown Winooski. New roof and furnace. 802-655-3463.
For Rent Great 1 bedroom Winooski Plus office or dining area in owner occupied multifamily. Newly finished hdwd floors, W/D and parking. NS/pets. Credit check and refs. req. $800/mo. + utils. Call 802-338-5511. *Stop renting*! Buy a 3-bedroom, 2-bath foreclosure only $72,425! For listings call 800749-8106 ext. G808.
KITTY: Hello. I'm Kitty and I am pleased to make your acquaintance. I am here today to speak on behalf of myself and all of the older pets looking for new homes at HSCC. We make wonderful companions and have lots of love to give, but are often overlooked. Being more mature than our younger counterparts, it is easier for you to get a sense of our qualities and personalities, there are no middle of the night feedings or potty breaks, and we are generally calmer. Me, I am a beautiful 8-year-old long haired tiger and white spayed female kitty. I am sweet and get along with other cats as long as they respect my space. You will find me to be extremely affectionate. I prefer the quiet moments in life like lounging in the window or curling up next to you while you enjoy a good book or movie. I love to give head rubs and have a really sweet purr.&nbs! p; My human friends also get treated to little love licks on the face and hands! Like me, there are other older ladies and gentlemen like my feline friends Sebastion, Matadora, Grafton, Ruby, and Rose, or my canine friends, Zaida and Duke, who might be the perfect companion for your family. Remember, we're still beautiful and were once babies too. Adopt an older pet and show us how to love again.
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1 BRM Jeffersonville Newly renovated, incls. heat, water, trash, plowing. Off-street parking. Sec. dep. 1 year lease. $550/ mo. + elec. Avail. 9/15. 802-6445523, decorate@surfglobal.net. 2, 3, 4 bed apts for rent. 1820 Ward Street, 2-bedroom, $950/ mo. +, 3-bedroom, $1200/mo. +, 4-bedroom, $1700/mo. +. Incls. garbage, snow removal. Newly renovated. 802-238-4840 or 802985-9558, tomkirkvt@hotmail. com. 2-Bedroom near Hinesburg w/laundry room, dining room and woodstove. This apt. is in a separate wing of a large home on a secluded four acre lot. D/ W. Separate entrance. Enclosed porch. Garden avail. Pets neg. Garage neg. $950/mo. + utils. Avail. immed. Monthly or lease. 802-989-3492. 3 bedrm + barn art studio Cozy cottage w/stream/waterfall in Lincoln close to village. 3-bedroom, full bath, D/W, W/D. Partially furnished w/beds. Also incld.; barn studio for artist or home office. $1200/mo. + utils. Require refs., 1 mo. sec. dep. Will consider pets. 802-453-3356. Barre City - 1BR Apt. All utils., laundry hook-up, and off-street parking included. $700/mo. + dep. Well maintained, owner-occupied buidling. NS/pets. Contact Nicole or Benny at 802-476-8797. Bristol 1000 sq. ft., 3-bedroom, office, kitchen, living room, 2bath, screened porch. Large back yard, very sweet and comfortable. $1000/mo. Call Shelly, 802-4535027 or David, 802-453-4577. Burlington Great South End location. First floor, 1-bedroom + den, W/D, wonderful covered porch, yard and parking. Walk to downtown, parks and lakes. 5 min. drive to UVM/FAHC. $975/ mo. + gas heat + utils. Credit + refs. req. NS. 38 Hayward St. 802-879-0466. burlington 127 Plattsburg Ave. Avail. now. 3-bedroom, 1bath, basement with W/D hookups, parking, pets considered, $1275/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley 864-5200 ext. 229. Burlington 272 Plattsburg Ave. Avail. 9/01. 3-bedroom, 1-bath, W/D hookups, parking, porch, close to River Access and downtown Burlington, no pets. $1095/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley 864-5200 ext. 229. Burlington South End, 2-bedroom, gas heat, coin-op, porch, near parks, bike path, no pets. $725/mo + utils. 802-343-0671. burlington Renovated 2-bedroom, first floor, laundry, parking, great location. First mo. and sec. req. Avail. now. No pets. $875/ mo. 802-434-5757. Burlington Riverwatch Condo, 2-bedroom flat, W/D, underground parking, pool, deck, walking distance to UVM and Fletcher Allen, trash and heat incl. Asking $1100/mo. Avail 10/01. Call 802-524-7627. Burlington Spacious bottom floor of raised ranch. Unfurnished, 1-bedroom, living room, W/D, full bath, private entrance, garage storage and shared kitchen. $750/ mo. + utils. 802-922-0392. Burlington Large 2-bedroom apt., first floor, close to downtown/water front, off-street winter parking, W/D onsite. NS/pets neg. $1000/mo. + utils. 802-658-2855. Burlington Avail. 10/01. South End, first floor duplex. Sunny 2bedroom, hdwd, porch, W/D, D/W, storage. Incl. heat/garage. NS/ dogs. $1200/mo. 802-865-7836.
Burlington Very nice second floor apt. 526 South Union St. 2-bedroom, lovely screened-in porch, carport. $850/mo. including heat, water and rubbish removal. 802-862-1418 or 863-5802. Burlington 2-bedroom condo 47 S. Williams, across from UVM, perfect shape, hdwd floors, tile, parking, balcony, wainscotting, new paint, D/W, coin-op W/D. $1400/mo. Avail. now. 802-355-1841. Burlington waterfront condo, beautiful top floor west facing condominium on Burlington’s Waterfront. Gorgeous views of Lake Champlain & Adirondack Mts. state-of-the-art design and appliances, free parking, security, elevator service, one of a kind. 2-bedroom, 2-bath, W/D. Avail. 8/15. $2300/mo. incls. heat & air. By appointment only. Call Melinda Moulton @ Main Street Landing, 802-864-7999 or melinda@main streetlanding.com. Burlington, Shelburne St Avail. 10/1. 1-bedroom. $725/ mo. 1st floor. Parking. No pets. Neville Companies, Inc. 802660-3481 x 1021, www.nevilleco. com/residence. Burlington: 2-Level Apt. Shelburne Rd. 2-bedroom, beautiful Victorian. 1661 sq. ft., crystal chandeliers, sun room, W/D, hdwd, vaulted ceilings. NS/pets. Incls. heat/water/snow/lawn. Avail. 9/01. $1325/mo. 802-8469568, www.HickokandBoardman. com. Burlington: Appletree Bay 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath, cathedral ceiling, stainless steel appliances, W/D, walk-in closets, marble floors. 1 pet neg. $1525/mo. Avail. now. 802-846-9568, www. HickokandBoardman.com. Burlington: Lakefront Just refinished! 2-bedroom, 2-bath, new carpet, fresh paint, W/D, beautiful porch overlooking Lake Champlain. Close to bike path. $1200/mo. 802-846-9568. www. HickokandBoardman.com. Charlotte paradise 3-bedroom house on 10 acres in idyllic country setting. Lots of privacy, views. Sunny open floor plan w/ radiant floor heat. Avail. 10/014/01. 802-879-1615 or cathunt er101@hotmail.com. colchester Crooked Creek-ShortTerm Lease 9/1-5/31- Secluded Lakefront House with 2 bedrooms, study, 1 bath, W/D, no pets or smoking, $1500/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley 864-5200 ext. 229. Colchester (MalletTs Bay) Beautiful, large, 2-bedroom ranch. Large yard, very private. 2 mins. to Burlington, bike path and boat access. NS/pets. Avail. 10/01. $1490/mo. + utils. + dep. 802-862-9554. Colchester 2 Bdrm. Apt. Clean 2-bedroom apt. in duplex w/garage for storage space. Located in country setting w/large yard. Newly remodeled kitchen, new energy star windows. 7 mins. to Burlington. 1 year lease. NS. Cat OK. $850/mo + utils. Avail. now! 802-309-5544. Colchester: Malletts Bay 75 acres of tranquility surround this 3-bedroom + office, 5-bath, furnished house. Lake frontage/access, W/D, deck, skylights, dogs neg. NS. 9/15-6/15. $1650/mo. 802-846-9568, www.hickokandboardman.com. Colchester: Malletts Bay 2bedroom house, beach access, large yard, W/D hook-ups, NS, pets considered. $1150/mo. + utils. & dep. 658-6855.
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www.sevendaysvt.com [click on classifieds] Colchester: Over 2,400 SF! Bright 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home. Granite countertops, stainless steel appliances. Jetted tub in master bath. Partial finished basement. Fenced yard. 10/01. $2200/mo. 802-846-9568. www. HickokandBoardman.com. Downtown Burlington Condo 2-bedroom, 1-bath condo w/beautiful lake views of the waterfront. Offstreet garage parking. 600 square feet. No pets. 802-734-3866. Essex House for Rent Ranch house, 2-bedroom, 1-bath on three acres. NS/pets. $1200/mo. First & damage. Call 879-7073. Essex Jct., 3-bedroom apt Near downtown, gas heat/hot water incl. Laundry hookups and storage avail. Excellent refs./credit a must. No pets. $1000/mo. + dep. Call Paul, 802-879-3117. Essex Jct: Cape with Space 3-bedroom + bonus rooms, 2.5bath, 2003 built master suite incls. 3/4 bath, 1 of 2 W/Ds, huge walk-in. Avail. 8/21. $1500. 802846-9568, www.HickokandBoardman.com. Essex Jct: GET COOKING! Fabulous kitchen: brand new appliances, two sinks, pantry, island. 4bedroom, 2000 sq. ft., 2.5-bath, vaulted ceilings. Dogs. NS. Avail. now. $1550/mo. 802-846-9568, www.HickokandBoardman.com. Essex Jct: Poplar Court 3bedroom, 2.5-bath, 1900 sq. ft. Cape, .5 miles to IBM. On cul-desac, 2-car garage, large kitchen, W/D. Avail. now. $1600/mo. 802846-9568. www.HickokandBoardman.com. Fabulous Townhouse 2-bedroom, 1.5-bath townhouse. Incls. W/D, D/W, cable access, pool, tennis, trash and snow removal, parking. Walk to Oakledge Park. Avail. 10/01. $1250/mo. + utils. 355-7914. Hinesburg, Rt 116 Avail. 9/01. Extremely large 3-bedroom. $1145/mo. 1st floor. Hdwd. Enclosed porch. Parking. Laundry. No dogs. Neville Companies, Inc., 802-660-3481 x. 1021, www.nev illeco.com/residence. LAKEFRONT HOME FOR RENT MILTON: Unfurnished home with 3-bedroom, 2-full baths. Beach access. NS/pets. Year-round tenant preferred. $1750/mo. + utils. 802-865-3141. Large 1 bdrm. Efficiency In beautiful Victorian home, hill section of Saint Albans. NS/dogs. Private upstairs deck. $675/mo. utils. incl. 802-524-1383. Milton: 1-bedroom apt. $700/ mo. Newly remodeled. D/W, deck, private location. NS. 343-7127. Montpelier 1-bedroom apt., first-floor, Pergo flooring, W/D, sunny and bright. Walking distance to downtown, off-street parking. Avail. 9/25. $710/mo. + utils. 310-4205. Renovated Large 3-bedroom Quiet neighborhood. Large kitchen w/new flooring, D/W. Living rooms & bedrooms have new Berber. W/D, carport, storage, gas heat. NS. Some pets OK. $1295/ mo. +. 802-864-5424. Rent with Option to Buy South Burlington; 2-bedroom, 1-bath townhouse condo. Very clean and just painted for immediate occupancy. Generous closets. Convenient location. Parking, W/D, D/W. Gas heat. 802-864-7126. Richmond 2-bedroom apt., 1bath, country Victorian, across from corn fields. Nice yard. Cats OK. 4 miles from I-89. Avail now. $885/mo. 802-233-2563.
Rooms For Rent Behind Waterman Hall, UVM $525/mth. Includes all utilities and parking. Incredible location. Sedate environment! cjcc@vt18.com
Winooski Duplex upstairs, large living room and kitchen. 3-bedroom, heat/hot water incl. Located on 20 North St. $995/mo. Call John, 655-7030.
South burlington Juniper Drive. Avail. 9/01, 2-bedroom townhouse, 1 _ baths, semi-finished basement with W/D, decks, gardens, no pets $1550/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley, 864-5200 ext. 229.
Winooski Great room for rent. T.V., wireless, bus rt., kitchen, by St. Mike’s College. $175/per week, $24/per day. 802-324-3291. IvanLand@aol.com.
South Burlington 1 bdrm Avail. 10/01. Spacious, parking, pool, laundry, satelite TV. NS/pets. $650/mo. + utils. 660-8716. South Hero Cape Near lake Two year old cape w/beach access, views, 3+ bedrooms, 2 full baths, finished basement, wood stove, beautiful area, walkout patio, energy effficient, quiet! 802-879-8604. Stowe - House for Rent 3bedroom, 2-bath house in Stowe. Great location. Fireplace, W/D. $1600/mo. + utils. & sec. Call 985-4089, email massonw@ hotmail.com. Pets OK w/additional dep. NS. Sunny 1 bedroom for rent Sunny 1-bedroom apt. Recently remodeled 1st floor unit w/efficient gas monitor heat. No offstreet parking. Pets neg. $750/ mo. + util. Avail. ASAP. 802-5981444 (cell). Town House Duplex Colchester, 2-bedroom, 1.5-bath. Gas heat, quiet street. Large yard and deck. NS/pets. $950/mo. + utils. + dep. 802-863-5887. Underhill Center Cozy, 1300 sq. ft. 3-bedroom, 2-bath, home. Newly renovated, very attractive living space. W/D. Country location. $1200/mo. (heat incl.!) Quiet spot, close to mountain trails. Refs. req. Please call Tom or Pat at 899-4488. Vergennes Apartment Vergennes, quiet 2-bedroom, incls. heat and water, W/D hookup, offstreet parking. No dogs. $795/ mo. + $1000 dep. Avail. 9/01. Call Shelly, 802-655-1474. Vintage So. Hero Ranch Private beach, sunsets, Adirondack views. 3-bedroom, 1-bath, oak floors, new furnace, energy efficient, basement storage, spacious lawns. great running, biking, windsurfing. $1100/mo. 879-8604. Williston Chelsea Place. 2bedroom townhouse, finished basement w/W/D, garage, pool and playground on-site, no pets, $1400/mo. Call Coburn & Feeley, 864-5200 ext. 229. Williston: Morgan Pkwy Super clean house! 3-bedroom, 1 3/4 baths. 1672 sq. ft., .46 acre lot, large yard. Fireplace, deck, WD, partially finished basement. 10/01. $1600/mo. 802-846-9568. www.HickokandBoardman.com. Winooski 3-bedroom, 1-bath, “mint condition”, W/D, D/W. New cabinets, new carpeting, air, fireplace, hdwd, balcony, 2 offstreet parking spaces. Avail. now. $1100/mo. 802-846-9568, www. hickokandboardman.com. Winooski 4-bedroom, 1-bath, porch, coin-op laundry, off-street parking. $1250/mo. + dep., refs. Nice location, good size bedrooms. Gas heat, garbage, snow removal incl. 802-922-3514, leave message. Winooski 3-bedroom apt. 12 blocks from hospital. Quiet, side st. $1300/mo. utils. incl. 802862-1850. Avail. now.
Winooski 2-Bedroom Heat/hot water incl. Parking, laundry in building, full bath w/tub/shower. Clean. NS/pets. $895/mo. 802-233-1150.
Housemates 15 min. from Burlington Unique individual to share my 10 acre Jericho home w/3 dogs and cat. Trustworthy animal lover willing to exhange partial rent for petsitting. $550/mo. + utils. Emylie, 899-5516. 3 Fabulous NonSmoking Cats Seek prof. or grad student by 10/1 to share cute, quiet 2-bedroom close to Church St., W/D, D/W, large closets, off-street parking, hdwd. 922-1349. Beautiful 1927 3Bdr. Home 2-bedrooms avail. in 3-bedroom house. Quiet/upscale neighborhood, 2 blocks to UVM. Oak/maple hdwd foyer, living/dining/kitchen, W/D, D/W, parking, 2 porches, extensive gardens, non-party, NS, drugfree, seeking clean/friendly/ environmentally-conscious grad. student or young prof. No pets. $650/mo. utils. incl. 1 year. 483 North Street. Contact Justin, jshe perd@uvm.edu, 802-363-9641. Burlington Looking for a responsible prof./grad student to share beautiful 3-bedroom, 1.5bath townhouse w/one other person. Located between Red Rocks/ Oakledge Parks. Large rooms, finished basement, back/front porches. NS/pets. $625/mo. + utils. 802-862-9730.
Room for Rent House to share w/your own bedroom, living room and entrance. $500/mo. + heat. Shelburne Village. Public transportation readily avail. Call 9851445. eugenie1@verizon.net. roomate needed now $550/mo. all incl. Off-street parking, dry storage, pets OK, close to UVM. Please call 863-5347. ROOMATE WANTED Downtown Burlington. On Bank St, just off Church St. Cozy apt. to share w/ a working student. Must be neat and quiet. $400/mo. total. Call 802-578-7057. South Burlington Clean, mature, dependable person needed to share 3-bedroom farmhouse. W/D. $400/mo. incl. utils. Avail. 10/01. Call Sean, 864-9614. St. Paul St., B-Town Share carpeted 2-bedroom apt. in nice location, close to downtown w/ male prof. $387.50/mo., utils. More info/recommendations call or email Fil at 802-324-0285, fgreenyer@excite.com. Students 2 housemates wanted. Close to Johnson State Col. Pets ok. $400/mo. 802-644-5160. Williston Tafts Corner Share townhouse with f, two kids. $575/ mo. + for large furnished bedroom, private bath, shared living room, wireless, cable, shared kitchen, pool. Responsible, neat, no D/D. 310-2153. 802-879-6962. Winooski 1 roommate, M/F for 3bedroom apt., off-street parking, pool, gym and laundry. $467/mo. + 1/3 utils. Call Dan at 655-5701 or email deb74vt@hotmail.com. Winooski Great location, 1-bedroom avail. in 3-bedroom apt. w/2 clean, efficient males. M/F welcome. NS/pets. $300/mo. Call 802-343-4888.
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Burlington Large, private 1-bedroom in 2-bedroom apt. South End. Seeking young, prof./ grad. student. $650/mo. Avail. 10/01. Close to downtown/UVM. 802-233-9157.
Room available By the night, week. Suitable for visiting friends, family, personal retreat (kitchen use). Downtown Burlington residence. Reasonable rates. Mira, 802-999-8259.
Charlotte Mature interesting person to share large country home w/couple in a beautiful landscape. NS/pets. $410/mo. + 1/3 utilis. 425-3301 or 425-3355.
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Condo Share! Laid-back male has clean, cozy condo to share. Near Malletts Bay/bikepath. Separate BR & shared common areas. $400/ mo. + dep. incls. heat/electric. Call Mike 343-7471. Avail. 9/04. Essex 1-room avail. in 6-bedroom, 3-bath, shared common spaces in carriage barn. Large kitchen, hdwd, exposed beams, horseshoes, barbecue, 420-friendly, young prof., laid-back, queerfriendly. W/D, off-street. $420/ mo. utils. incl. 802-578-6399. Essex Jct. Charming country farmhouse. Medium-sized room avail. now. W/D, parking. New paint. Tidy individual, please. NS/ dogs. $425/mo., first 3 months $390/mo. Elec./gas incl. 3438073, leave message. Hinesburg Farmhouse, beautiful country location. Clean, neat housemates looking for same. DSL, W/D. $295/mo. small room, $395/mo., large room, + 1/4 utils. 802-578-2795. Northfield/Moretown Seeking housemate to share country home on beautiful 20 acres. Quiet, semi-rural location. A fondness for horses and dogs appreciated. $500/mo. Avail. 9/01. 802-272-0104.
Bank FORECLOSURES! Homes from $10,000! 1-3 bedroom available! HUD, Repos, REO, etc. These homes must sell! For listings call 1-800-425-1620 ext. H107. (AAN CAN).
Office/ Commercial Burlington Waterfront. Distinctive and unique office/retail space. Environmentally friendly and affordable. Main Street Landing, Melinda Moulton, 802-8647999. www.mainstreetlanding. com. Office Space for Lease Burlington-Main St. Office space. Private parking lot, good exposure, ideal for practitioners. Aprox. 700 sq.ft. $925/mo. + utils. Call 7930179 or 223-9954.
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Each unit features three bedrooms, an open floorplan, and a large back yard. Solid rental history makes this Duplex very attractive. This unit can be owner occupied. Call now for more details. $264,900
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ACTIVE OUTDOORSY MOUNTAIN WOMAN I love to spend my time outside; mountain biking, telemark skiing, hiking, running, or playing capture the flag. I can’t stand watching television and I’m only moderately interested in organized sports. I like to cook and eat good food. I love an intellectual challenge. I’m looking for a playmate and soulmate, if there is such a thing. Mountaingirl, 34, l, #101873
SMART, DRIVEN, FUN, INDEPENDENT I love learning new things and having fun. I’m anxious to meet another professional who shares that. I enjoy dining out, dancing, reading, movies, lazy days at the beach, shopping, and spending time with my family. I’d like to explore life with someone who can hold up their end of a conversaton and will allow their true self to show. HereIGo44, 44, u, #101741
DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD... I still haven’t found what I’m looking for either. I’m a girly girl who likes action movies and going out for beer. Maybe I’m a mixed message? Whatever I am, I’d like to meet somebody else who is also comfortable with whatever they are and can laugh at whatever life throws at them. Cheers! look2thelady, 30, u, l, #101870
PLANNING MY ESCAPE I’m kind of new at this but here goes. Basically, I’m an easy-going girl who tends to care a little too much. Animals are my passion and I will always have them. I’m looking for someone who I can talk to, someone who makes me laugh. Someone who can introduce me to new things. I’m far from shy so say hello. PawsitivelyPooches, 22, l, #101743
PICTURE COMING...HOLD YOUR HORSES... Looking for a tall, fun (maybe goofy?), spontaneous guy. Let’s hit the hills together and braid wildflower wreaths for our hair... Not! Ok, maybe listen to some music or go hiking for a start. I am a very fun, confident, voluptuous lady. If you like someone that is sweet and adorable...oh yeah, and tall...then I’m your chick. justlookin, 35, u, #101861
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OUTGOING, INTERESTING AND FUNNY I’m basically looking for someone who gets me. I wanna find someone that I can have a good time with around others and just by ourselves. I love meeting new people. So maybe I can meet you. Lisabella, 18, l, #101877 BI-CURIOUS I’m looking for a woman for company as friends first, then we’ll see what happens. I love the outdoors and exercising or sports. I have a boyfriend but works out of town. I need someone to spend time with and whatever happens. natureatnight, 34, l, #101875
HONEST, CARING, KIND, READY4YOU Ladies: Simple life: work/school. Missing that spark in my life. Took a year away from relationships. Have no baggage/clear mind. Ready to settle down with the lucky woman who finds me. Am very loving, caring, compassionate, considerate, and honest. Not looking for one nighter or CU. Very serious to settle for nothing less than a woman who is worthy of me and the love I have to give. Always keeping in mind how precious and short life is. like2knowmore, 33, u, l, #101859 LOOKIN’ FOR REAL PEEPS I am very much a friends-first kind of girl, though my long term thoughts have me seeking the right soft centered chocolate… I’m not interested in mind gamers and I’m not looking for a ‘quick fix’, I’m just looking to hang out and laugh, to add friendly glbtq faces to my repertoire. Must be respectful and honest, must like children. justmeinvt, 28, l, #101853
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FREAKS WELCOME My motivation here is simple. I want to socialize and maybe hook up if it works out. Of course, finding that special someone would be a nice bonus. I am keen on finding myself a good wife that’ll take care of me and our kin. violentlyhappy, 30, l, #101503 SHYDYKE SEEKS FEMME I’m 29 YO and a single mom. I love dogs. I like just chillin’ at home, watching movies or sitting on Church St. I also enjoy traveling and swimming! I’m laid back and honest. Looking for someone who has humor and is honest and likes kids and animals! Who knows how to sit back and enjoy life! bigdimples76, 30, l, #101098
MEN seeking WOMEN THINK SAY LOVE WRITE I am a poet. I have unique insight on life and the things that go on around me. I like to take these bits of insight that I have and use it in my writting. This whole process is fairly new to me but I would like to find someone to share it with. Maybe you will inspire my next piece. thinksaylovewrite, 28, l, #101893 WHO WANTS TO HAVE FUN? Hi, I’m 29, reasonably fit and secure in my environment. I like to ski, hike, fly, snowmobile, swim...I’m sure I haven’t tried something yet. Maybe you can show me something new! Your turn! Toque, 29, l, #101866 LAKE CAPTAIN SEEKS CREW! Funny (personal opinion at least), occasionally sarcastic (OK, moderately occasionally) & adventuresome. If it’s a nice day out I almost feel guilty if I don’t go out to enjoy it somehow! And there are so many ways! As to the rest, I guess you’ll just have to meet me, most of these ads probably sound about the same anyway. WaywardGull, 29, u, l, #101857 CREATIVE-TYPE SEEKS ? I’m a smart, loyal, compassionate coder who loves cats. I’m looking for somebody interesting who’s interested in conversation, urban/suburban exploration, good times, laughs, and creating things. Oh yeah, my ideal match probably has pets, too. ac00perw, 35, l, #101796
A CUP OF COFFEE! Looking for a woman with gentleness who likes cats, gardening, nature, reading, cooking! Enjoys relaxing outside in the evening, talking or listening to the evening sounds! Cooking up a nice meal together! I enjoy what’s inside of a woman also: personality, heart, intelligence and similar interests. humblesoul4you, 46, l, #101697 FUN. ACTIVE. A DOER. I am an independent musician and teacher with many interests. I am honest and forthright, a good listener, and can be equally comfortable in city or country, out or at home. I like to go places. I like to see music, movies, sunsets, and deer in the field. I have two kayaks, but one is empty right now. biff, 50, l, #101658
RETURNEE TO THE GREENS I have returned to Vermont after being away for about 6 years. Even though I wasn’t born here I feel a great connection with this place and the people. PastryGirl, 42, #101764 YOU MAY THINK YOU KNOW Smart, quirky, and outgoing woman looking for a friend in the area to help me get a little more pizzaz in my life. Love to exercise, dine out or dine in, and shower my women like queens. Want someone to walk, talk and laugh with. Must be open minded and willing to explore the world. avetts, 21, #101580
THE TROPHY. 26 YO, SM, middle of the road, meat-eating vegetarian, blue-eyed devil. Sam Kinison, Steven Wright, Bob Marley. Cook without recipes, speak without inhibitions. Live loud. djk, 26, l, #101695
ORGANIC GARDENER-ARTIST Live on mountaintop half a year in Orange Co., Vt. with solar panels. Other in Gainesville, Fl. My two properties are nature sanctuaries. ecovt, 49, u, l, #101676
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HONEST GIVE AND TAKE ENERGETIC I like to be naked as much as possible or scantly dressed watching the Cowboys beat the s*** out of the Giants. Making $ and having more than others with plans that I need help developing. Retiring at 45-50 YO and taking life the way we want it! nailbanger, 36, u, l, #101761 LOVES TO TRAVEL I am romantic, funny and I’m always looking for what makes people feel inspired. mattija, 40, l, #101576 ADVENTUROUS WELL-TRAVELED NATIVE VERMONTER After living overseas for nearly five years, I recently returned home and accepted a teaching position in the Northeast Kingdom. It’s beautiful out here but a bit isolated. I’m looking for someone who’s interested in exploring Northern Vermont/NH with me. Northeast_24, 31, l, #101737 LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL ONE I’m looking for that special lady to fulfill my life and to be there for me as much as I will be there for her. The personality is the most impotant thing for me—no personality, just can’t do it. But I will let you know. mrfriendly30, 35, l, #101729 SACREDNESS DOES EXIST. Just looking for someone to spend some time with and see what develops. I’m interested in people concerned with living life to its fullest, exploring this realm of existence, learning, growing, and becoming their own inner truth. cosmicconnection, 24, l, #101722 THE REAL DEAL!!! I’m an easy-going guy who is looking to have fun with someone who likes to laugh. I am not Ken, but not a bad catch either and you do not have to be Barbie either. Putting chemistry into words is pretty challenging... but I’m looking for a woman who’s sweet, fun, loving, fun-loving, light hearted and gorgeous. vander, 34, l, #101589
LIFE TAKES COURAGE I am complex and simple (emphasis on simple). I am easily amused by the basics of life (see above). I work hard and play like it is the last time I will ever get to. I take life as it comes, make my plans and roll with the waves. I nose that I is not that smart. Life takes courage. Kilo4ty, 48, l, #101662
MEN seeking MEN LOOKING TO HOOK Hey, in-shape Asian guy here... looking to hook up with an in-shape, good-looking guy in the Southern VT area. A pic is a must. Get back. tnkontrol, 25, #101834 GUY IN VT I enjoy drinking cheap beer and watching football (Go Patriots!) and yet love drinking good brandy and listening to piano concertos (Go Mozart!). Sometimes I just veg out on a Sunday afternoon, turn on my Xbox and spend 9 hours pretending I’m a 13th century samurai warrior, while eating a big plate of nachos. Other days I’d like to go skydiving. And you? GinVT, 31, #101825 FUN, OUTGOING GUY SEEKS SAME I am looking for guys between 18-35 to hang out with. Imagine fun days/evenings full of dining out, enjoying outdoor activities, watching movies, or conversation over a cup of coffee. If you would enjoy these activities and much more, hit me up sometime! me2181, 25, #101686 TEACH ME I’M NEW I’m a great guy, I just want to be treated nice and looking for something different in life and I want you to teach me! I have a lot of training that I need in order to do this. I need someone to be patient with me when trying to teach. yescash, 37, #101678 FUN ENERGETIC LOVABLE Lovable, fun, 35 YO GWM. I enjoy long walks movies, dining out, hanging with friends and quiet nights for 2. Looking for someone 25-50 YO with similar interests for friendship that hopefully develops to more. Drama queens and players not welcome, please skip right by. Jayj71, 35, u, #101547 ROCKING GUY WITH A LIFE Living in B-Town, looking for normal and cool people to make life interesting. I’m interested in language, cooking, travel, fitness and nutrition, music, reading, socializing, and exploring life... In a guy, his sexuality shouldn’t be his one overwhelming quality. Just be original and interesting! Oh, and I’m in a wheelchair from a right knee injury when I was a kid. danny81381, 25, l, #101017
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SIDEWINDING RED-HEADED FOOL You were flying up Dorset Street on your red bike with a cold booger sticker on it. You have been pedaling through my dreams for a long time. Let’s get together Sidewinder, I will be your lady in the yellow dress! When: Friday, August 25, 2006. Where: Dorset Street. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900400 FIRST FOOZBALL, THEN PERFECTION Those kids must think you rock! You often shop at the last minute, but are always respectful of the time, and I appreciate that. I’m far too shy to ask, but you intrigue me and I’d love to buy you coffee (or something) sometime. No pressure, I’m very much a friends first person anyhow... When: Saturday, August 26, 2006. Where: Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900399 EVENING @ RIVERSIDE DRIVE CARWASH 8/21 Loved the tangerine metallic of your just-washed Honda Element. After threatening to camp there to keep it clean, you opened doors to show me its interior. I wish I had looked inside. With clock ticking, I went to wash my car, turned around, and you were gone. Let’s meet again and I will help you dry that beauty. When: Monday, August 21, 2006. Where: Riverside Carwash. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900398 MOM AT THE PLAYGROUND You are a swimming, knitting, tall mom of two very cute girls (R. & L.) playing at the playground on Thurs. 8/17. I am a dad of two of similar ages. We missed you this past week. Come back and join us for a playdate for a few more underdogs. When: Thursday, August 17, 2006. Where: Playground. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900397 AREN’T YOU PREC? Please don’t leave me again. Following your heart to the woods made my heart droop until your return. This time let’s leave together, you are mine for at least a year... and happily ever after. When: Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Where: on to the plane while I slept. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900396 FLOUR-FLINGING SYRUP-POURING RIRA WAITSTAFF You are my surrogate Burlington family. I can’t imagine what my time in Vermont would have been without you. We have been through all walks of life together - laughing, crying and above all, debauchery - There are no people I would have rather been through everything with. Much love and you are all welcome to rock it in Boston. When: Saturday, August 26, 2006. Where: RiRa. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #900395 DEEPSENO Saw your ad and could not believe there is someone out there who loves Millay as much as I do! “For wonder leaps upon me still, and makes me dizzy makes me ill, but never frightened for I know, not where but in whose hands I go: the lovely fingers of Delight have hold of me and hold me tight.” When: Saturday, August 26, 2006. Where: on Two 2 Tango. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900394 AIR SHOW-BURLINGTON WATERFRONT I spy a very special person. This isn’t the first time I spied you. I can always sense your presence. Wish we could be friends:( When: Saturday, August 19, 2006. Where: Air Show -Burlington Waterfront. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900392 BENOIT ELECTRIC AT UVM You were working at UVM on 8/25. You had a red shirt and a beard. We made eye contact a few times, would be cool to say hey. When: Friday, August 25, 2006. Where: UVM. You: Man. Me: Man. #900391 STARBUCKS GOD By the beard of Zeus you are a handsome man. Chestnut brown hair, heavenly beard, tall and dark. From the moment I heard you say, “Hey, how you doin?” I knew you were special. The way you make frappuccinos can only be described as masterful. I’ll miss you when you switch stores... you are fraptastic. When: Friday, August 25, 2006. Where: S-bucks SB-town. You: Man. Me: Man. #900390
STAYING OUT OF TROUBLE? Hottie boom body in the white cav me in the maroon jeep on Williston Road. Chatted while stuck in traffic. Love to see if we can get things moving. When: Friday, August 25, 2006. Where: Williston Road. You: Man. Me: Man. #900389 CUPCAKES Thanks for being the most wonderfully intelligent, kind, gentle, fun, understanding, adventurous, and outrageously gorgeous partner in crime that I could ever have hoped to spend my time with. Thanks. Your smile inspires me daily! Perhaps another moonlit walk up on a mountain side? When: Friday, August 25, 2006. Where: Vermont. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900388 PETER’S UNIT It’s clear that the universe has spun off its axis because of this. Did you see the news? What’ve we done pequeno pescado? Do you remember them speaking to us from the closet? Objects dancing across the kitchen table? No more Tickies for you? No more driving through the night w/Ellis D? No redemption? ‘98-’02? 2003?????? ‘04-06? You are beautiful. When: Saturday, September 17, 2005. Where: Standing on the Moon. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900387 BEFORE LUNCH YESTERDAY I spied a little shopper who was looking pretty darn good in those shades and that tight pair of jeans. What if...we just meet... without saying a word...stared into each other’s eyes and kissed- would there be any need for explanation? Then we could take that 1.2 mile trek and see just how good simultaneously reaching our destination can be. When: Thursday, August 24, 2006. Where: corner of Church and Bank. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900386 METRONOME, SATURDAY 8/19 We caught each other’s eyes a couple times, but I hesitated cuz you didn’t smile back. Before I let you walk away, I told you you you were a beautiful girl and should smile more. You said that lot’s of people tell you that. Give me a chance to warm you up to the idea. When: Saturday, August 19, 2006. Where: Metronome. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900385 CITY MARKET WEDNESDAY MORNINGS I’ve seen you at City Market early Wednesday mornings when I stop in before work. You are the black man stocking shelves. We said good morning 8/16. Wonder if you’re single and interested in meeting? I am the woman with short blondish hair and light blue eyes wearing a long, black dress. I’d like to learn more about you. When: Wednesday, August 16, 2006. Where: City Market. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #900384 WHY SAY, “HI!” ...when you can just I Spy? 2 p.m., 8/23, in front of Old Navy. You: Plaid shirt, shorts, sandals, light brown hair, black messenger bag, looking like a pleasant and breezy guy. Me: Black shirt, blond hair, sunglasses. Both: Stopping for a moment to take in some uncommonly good music on the street. You’ve got a friend? When: Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Where: Church St.. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #900383 BROWN HAIR, SUNGLASSES, LEGS, HEELS You got into car next to me at cleaners next to Bagel Place near Susie Wilson Rd. Tues. 8-22. You: Short brown hair, sunglasses, great legs, nice smile. Me: In red car pulled in as you were leaving. Want to meet for coffee????? When: Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Where: parked at cleaners near Bagel Place near Susie Wilson Rd. in Essex. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #900382 OUTDOORSY MAN AT WILLISTON EXXON You: Handsome man with light brown hair and great smile in t-shirt, shorts, visor and Crocs(?) with maroon truck w/cap. Me: The cute blonde with style in line behind you at the Williston Exxon Tues. 8/22, 5:50 p.m. We smiled, both had to go back for the 2 for 2. You left, headed toward Williston Village before I could catch you. When: Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Where: Exxon in Williston. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900381 HIGHER GROUND AUGUST 17TH To the young men whose poster I ripped apart as well as them (Urgency) I am sorry about that. I must watch the intake of vodka and remeber no matter what I think about something it is not OK to destroy another’s property. I hope you can find a new poster. When: Thursday, August 17, 2006. Where: Higher Ground. Rythm Devils/Urgency. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900380
LINCOLN INN WED NIGHT You: Blond in black top, with beautiful eyes...you were with the guy with Air Guard t-shirt on. You smiled at me all night, blond, blue eyes, green shirt. Loved your smile... would love to know you. When: Thursday, August 24, 2006. Where: Lincoln Inn. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900379 LONESOME DOVE Double B, Grady called & is saving a place for you. Tio Julio says hi & hopes to see you soon. mmm... pumpkin seeds & kiwis mate! When: Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Where: lakeside. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900378 DOG PARK I saw you at the dog park weeks ago on a Sunday morning. I’m new to town— don’t know many people. You have a dog named sophie? My dog is Sam. Wanna get together sometime? When: Monday, July 31, 2006. Where: Waterfront Dog Park. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900377 C(K)ATHY AND COMPANY It was great seeing you again, and thanks for the dinner invite, although I am not sure it was your idea or your little one’s...I would love to take you up on that offer sometime though. When: Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Where: Milton Hannafords. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900376 BLONDE IN THE ISLANDS You had a companion for the night...then you were alone for the day....i was jealous... as gorgeous as i have ever seen....5’7” blonde, blue, white suv/van at Inn in the islands....wow... When: Sunday, August 20, 2006. Where: Island resort. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900375 GORGEOUS BLONDE IN HANNAFORD’S MILTON....WOW You bought parth mixers and ice cream... Tall gorgeous blone with lovely eyes...red porsche....and legs to die for.....loved your smile...please find this....i never take this leap...but you are sure worth the leap... When: Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Where: hannafords milton. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900374 THICK AND CURLY SPEEDER’S REGULAR you know who you are, your spirit blues make mine soar... let me sow a land of milk and honey in your mind When: Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Where: speeder’s on church. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900373 BURLINGTON-BIKE TRAILER IN CEILING Steve, you introduced yourself after you dislodged my bike trailer from the bank’s drive-thru ceiling- I was distracted and as you can imagine a little flustered- I don’t think I thanked you properly- can I buy you a coffee?tea?drink? When: Monday, August 21, 2006. Where: VT Federal Credit Union Drive Thru. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #900372 KIND SOUL, WARM SMILE You, attractive guy in Carhartt shorts in the parking lot at Hunger Mt. COOP. You offered to take my cart back for me with a big warm smile. Me, woman in a green sun dress smiling back and thinking of you still. Let’s meet for an iced chai some day - maybe we could be friends! When: Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Where: Hunger Mt. COOP. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900371 SULTRY GREEN EYED, DREADY VIRGO Your steamy energy tells me that your birthday will be on Monday, August 28. Happy 25th Birthday!! I’ve seen your beautiful girlfriend shopping for you constantly. You owe her lots of love even though it’s YOUR big DAY! Enjoy your big day, full of laughs, something I see you do quite often! Did I tell you that I love you! When: Monday, August 21, 2006. Where: North Avenue. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900370 SUV DRIVING DIVA Thanks for offering me your parking space and starting my day with a smile. Would love to talk about parking, messages, packs made for two and so many other things. Let me know if you would like to continue our conversation. When: Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Where: Outside of Vitamin Connection. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #900369 SATURDAY NIGHT CHURCH STREET PARADE I spy a loony cast of characters parading down Church Street Saturday night - you guys are awesome! Thanks for doing your part to keep Burlington loony! When: Saturday, August 19, 2006. Where: Church Street. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #900368
CLARK KENT To the man with clear glasses who wears sweaters in August- I think you are fantastic... I am sorry for the awkwardness. Sianora! When: Sunday, August 20, 2006. Where: OP. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900367 WOULD YOU RATHER... I saw you in that bikini on that exotic island, as you hung those rocks. i scratched that chaffing on your inner thigh. “Chub Rub” you may call it, but i know it was just the black lacy thong. when can i see your contorted face again, hopefully not on animal planet, my little meekrat meerkat. whisper sultry crisp epitathphts When: Wednesday, August 16, 2006. Where: GREECE. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #900366 TRAFFIC MOMENT I was blaring the Beastie Boys from my silver suburu when I heard you honk from your grey SUV. Your door was open. You waved. I waved. Great smile. When: Monday, August 21, 2006. Where: Main Street, near UVM, Burlington. You: Man. Me: Woman. u #900365 CHEESE TRADERS, MONDAY NIGHT We reached for the same Wasa multi grain crackers. It looked like you had just gotten out of work, you had the pants to suggest that. I turned around as I walked out the door with my box of food and we locked eyes again. I dont usually do this, but maybe we have more in common than just crackers? When: Monday, August 21, 2006. Where: cheese traders. You: Man. Me: Woman. #900364 HMMM.... Monday... lunch time. You were wearing a cap and checking out. I was wearing a red t-shirt and Carhartts. I umm... well, I was wondering if you might want to meet for coffee or something? When: Monday, August 21, 2006. Where: Gregory Building Supply. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900363 A GORGEOUS MODEL. You cruised the streets with a flashy, hot attitude and got everyone’s attention. Your UVM logo made it clear that SMART IS SEXY. Heard you’re at the Champlain Valley Fair this weekend- meet up for a ride and get our engines started? WHERE: Champlain Valley Fair. YOU: Scion. ME: Lifelong learner. When: Monday, August 21, 2006. Where: Vermont. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900362 TOO PLAYED OUT... Thanks for serving me a drink Sat. afternoon. Do u still have my ring from PuertoRico or did u toss it? Anyways I would stop being a nuisance if you spoke to me but I guess I won’t hold my breath. C ya J, in forever and a day, thanks for the good times. Truly yours S. When: Saturday, August 19, 2006. Where: Bottom of Church St.. You: Woman. Me: Woman. u #900361 1977 BIRTHDAY GAL IN WINOOSKI To my sweetness: no, you’re not a strumpet. you are a wonderful woman turning 29, and freakin’ hot to boot. Happy Birthday! I love you - your personal nurse When: Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Where: Every day, at work, at your home, at my home. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900360 BOOTH#1 KEN’S PIZZA It was a soggy sunday afternoon, I was dressed in blue, till I saw you, the alluring blond. Wishing I could join, I sit outside and consume my food, wondering if I should buy another slice just for the view. The captivating nod gooodby left me with only one thing to do..I Spy You. When: Sunday, August 20, 2006. Where: kens pizza. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900359 RIRA- SATURDAY, AUG 20 Saw you with your two friends, one of which was screaming her lungs out for no apparent reason. I wanted to talk to you but your friend was annoying the hell out of me. Id like to get you alone to talk for coffee sometime since your smile was refreshing in such a cold pub. When: Sunday, August 20, 2006. Where: Ri Ra. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900358 WRENCHED AT RETRONOME Janna, when we danced, I tweaked my knee and you tweaked my heart. Let me steal another kiss from you? When: Saturday, August 19, 2006. Where: Retronome. You: Woman. Me: Man. u #900357 BEAUTIFUL GIRL SPOTTED... Metronome, Saturday 8/20, short strawberry blonde hair w/jeans + black & white top... You are beautiful. Just thought you should know that. When: Sunday, August 20, 2006. Where: Metronome 80s Night. You: Woman. Me: Man. #900356
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Systems Installation and Technical Support Job duties include installation of computer microscopy systems at customer sites, as well as training customers in the use of the hardware and software components of the system. You will need teaching skills and an understanding of scientific research questions. You will also provide technical support and in-house training, testing of software in development, and assist developers in software design based on customer feedback. Travel is required for this position (60%). Job Requirements: Neurolucida and Stereo Investigator experience is necessary, a minimum of 5 years experience working with microscopes and other scientific equipment (specifically with laser confocal microscopes and structured illumination systems), understanding of histological preparation process, demonstrated ability to diagnose microscope and computer system problems, excellent interpersonal skills. Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences.
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“JOB OPPORTUNITIES” Community Integration Specialist: Provide 1:1 support to two charming men with developmental disabilities. Join a dynamic team focusing on consumer choice, communications and consistency. Best match is physically fit person who is comfortable setting limits and enjoys the outdoors. Experience supporting this population ideal. Some assistance with personal care required. HS diploma or equivalent, valid driver’s license/reliable vehicle required. Thorough/ongoing paid training guaranteed. Comprehensive benefits package; 32.5 hr/wk. Consumer Advocate: To encourage the consumer voice and promote consumer involvement by facilitating consumer teams, overseeing publications, helping develop community outreach and educational programs to increase public awareness. Contracted 10-month position/8 hours per week. Candidate must be current or past recipient of mental health or developmental services, or a primary caregiver for a family member with a serious mental illness, emotional disturbance, or developmental disabilities. Emergency Team Clinician (PT): Seeking an energetic, flexible, Master’s level mental health clinician to provide phone and face-to-face crisis intervention. Requires excellent assessment skills, sound clinical judgment, a strong team orientation, and commitment to community mental health. Must live within thirty minutes of Middlebury. Excellent orientation, supervision and support provided. 24.5 hours (Mon. & Tues. day shifts, Wed a.m. mtg.) additional substitute hours may be available for weekends, vacation coverage, etc.
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Life Skills Coach: wanted for 27-year-old brain injury survivor. Male preferred for this great, active position. Applicant should enjoy fishing and other outdoor activities as well as watching movies. Applicant must also be willing to assist individual in working towards GED. Good driving record & reliable vehicle required. 40 hr/wk., eligible for benefits.
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BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK VERMONT DIRECTOR Behavioral Health Network of Vermont, Inc. (BHN-VT) is a nonprofit, membership organization of community mental health agencies and providers throughout the state of Vermont seeking a Director with skills and experience in organizational development and fundraising to assist the organization in the development of its goals and objectives. Position requires a self-starter, strong organizational skills and developmental experience. Familiarity with community mental health system and human services is recommended. Strong ability to deal with multiple stakeholders is essential. This is a part-time position. Hours and compensation will be negotiated and location is flexible. BA required, MA degree preferred. If interested, please send resume and letter of interest to:
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RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT CLINICIAN Full-time position available to work with persons with psychiatric disabilities and co-occurring disorders who are living in our transitional residential programs. Work as part of a team providing creative problem solving, advocacy, placement resource development, case management, counseling and crisis support. BA or Master’s degree in human services field and experience preferred.
SUBSTITUTE RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS On the job training. If you are responsible and compassionate we need you to work in our residential programs with adults who are considered to have mental illness and substance use disorders. Flexible shifts – day, evening, sleep and awake overnights.
Send resumes by September 15 to: Lis Mickenberg HCHS, 300 Flynn Ave. Burlington, VT 05401 or email LisM@HowardCenter.org.
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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY HEAD START PRESCHOOL TEACHERS and EARLY CARE ADVOCATES
Provide developmentally appropriate environment and experiences for preschool children in a Head Start classroom, and monthly home visits for families. Assist families in accessing medical and dental care for preschool children. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree (for Teachers) or Associate’s degree (for ECAs) in Early Childhood Education or related education field, and classroom experience required. Experience in curriculum planning and implementation, child outcome assessment, and working with children with special needs. Starting wage — Teachers: $14.44-15.67/hour, ECAs: $11.72-13.28/hour. Excellent benefits. • Teacher - Swanton Elementary: 40 hours/week, 41 weeks/year • Teacher - Richford Elementary: 40 hours/week, 41 weeks/year • ECA - Burlington (Trinity College Childcare): 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year • ECA - Middlebury (VT Adult Learning): 30 hours/week, 41 weeks/year
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Responsibilities include development, management and tracking of: family partnership systems including family goal setting, and support and follow-up around community services and resources; partnerships with community and state agencies providing services relevant to Head Start or its program participants, including transportation services and services for English Language Learners; child abuse and neglect prevention, identification and reporting systems; volunteer and internship systems; parent involvement in program and community functions and services; and parent education and family literacy initiatives. Participation in regional and state-based committee work. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in social work, human services or related field, and 5 to 7 years of relevant work experience. 40 hrs/week, full year. Annual salary $39,200. Excellent benefits. Successful applicants for all positions must have excellent verbal and written communication skills; skills in documentation and record-keeping; proficiency in MS Word, email and Internet; exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Must be energetic, positive, mature, professional, diplomatic, motivated, and have a can-do, extra-mile attitude. A commitment to social justice and to working with families with limited financial resources is necessary. Clean driving record and access to reliable transportation required. Must demonstrate physical ability to carry out required tasks. People of color, and from diverse cultural groups, especially encouraged to apply. EOE. Please submit resume and cover letter with three work references. No phone calls, please. Please specify position and location. Applications should be sent by email to: pbehrman@cvoeo.org.
employment@sevendaysvt.com | SEVEN DAYS | september 6-13, 2006 | 7D Classifieds 35B
EMPLOYMENT Electrical Engineering Design Technician
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NRG Systems, Inc., is seeking a self-directed technician who will support our research and development engineering team through new product design, prototyping, and testing.
NRG Systems, Inc. is seeking a qualified Sales Manager to lead the development and implementation of our global sales strategy through effective customer negotiations, management of the sales department, and interdepartmental collaboration on new product releases.
Qualified candidates must have a minimum of a two-year technical degree in electrical engineering, plus experience with analog and digital electronics, PCB design tools, CAD tools, soldering and machining tools, and electrical assembly and test equipment. Experience with SolidWorks, Eagle and Visual Basic programs is preferred. See www.nrgsystems.com for more details.
Primary responsibilities span a wide range of sales, customer and product-related activities. Qualified candidates must have a college degree in business or a related field, plus experience as a successful leader in sales, preferably in an international business setting. See www.nrgsystems.com for more details.
Submit your resume and salary history to: Human Resources • NRG Systems, Inc. • P.O. Box 509, Hinesburg, VT 05461 Or email us at hr@nrgsystems.com. No calls please.
Submit your resume and salary history to: Human Resources • NRG Systems, Inc. • P.O. Box 509, Hinesburg, VT 05461 Or email us at hr@nrgsystems.com. No calls please.
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Medical Front Desk Staff Join CHCB’s patient services team! Full-time & part-time front desk positions available for outgoing, friendly professionals. Requires excellent computer & customer service skills; medical office experience preferred.
Referrals Specialist Motivated self-starter needed to generate medical referrals. Requires knowledge of medical office procedures, medical terminology, computers & customer service. Full-time position. Send resume & cover letter to:
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The IT Team at the Department of Education is seeking a Business Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate will be well organized, technically savvy and be knowledgeable about the principles of project management. Job Duties include: • Develop Project Scope and Plans • Develop Business Rules based on Data Requirements • Coordinate Activity of Project Resources • Develop Test Plans • Coordinate Software Testing Previous experience in data management, analysis and reporting is required. Candidate must be a team player, superior communicator and critical thinker who is interested in working in a dynamic environment. For more information contact Betty Frederick at: 802-828-0584 or bettyfrederick@education.state.vt.us Montpelier, Full-Time, Open Until Filled The State of Vermont offers an excellent total compensation package. To apply, interested candidates should use the online job application at www.vtstatejobs.info - reference 22459 or contact the Department of Human Resources, Employment Services at 800-640-1657 (voice) or 800-253-0191 (TTY/Relay Service). The State of Vermont is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, individuals with disabilities, veterans and people from diverse cultural backdiverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged. grounds are encouraged.
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Home Care Provider Washington County Mental Health is looking for a home care provider for a middle-aged woman with special needs. She likes animals and socializing. She accesses transportation on her own during the day to engage in a variety of programs and activities. The ideal home care provider would be patient and forgiving, with a relatively quiet home environment. Ongoing support and generous monthly stipend provided.
If interested, please contact Amos at 802-223-6328.
Child and Adult Psychotherapist Mental health clinician needed to provide clinical services to children, adults, and families in a community mental health center Outpatient Program. A Master’s degree, license eligible, a collaborative approach, and one year experience providing psychotherapy required for this half-time position. WCMHS provides a stimulating and supportive working environment, and many opportunities for professional growth.
Personnel Department, Washington County Mental Health Services P.O. Box 647, Montpelier, VT 05601
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7D CLASSIFIEDSEMPLOYMENT Payroll and Accounting Specialist
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Chittenden Central Supervisory Union (serving the Essex Junction School District, Essex High School and Center for Technology, and Westford School District) is seeking an individual to coordinate and carry out all payroll functions for assigned school districts, and to perform a variety of clerical and technical bookkeeping and accounting tasks related to maintenance of district accounts payable and receivable functions. Associate’s degree in Accounting or other appropriate discipline, plus 3 to 4 years of relevant payroll/accounting/ bookkeeping experience (or equivalent training and experience) required. Previous governmental accounting experience desirable. Position pays $14.13/hour with excellent benefits including family medical and dental insurance; life insurance; retirement plan with up to 200% employer match; tuition reimbursement; and paid leaves.
Do you have a passion for teamwork? Do you excel in a fun, fast paced environment? Assist in unloading trucks, counting, stocking merchandise and moving product to various locations, all within a customary set-up. Must be self-directed, customer service oriented, able to organize goods and multi-task all while paying close attention to detail. Physical work and heavy lifting (up to 80lbs) required. Must have ability to operate basic warehouse equipment (pallet jack, dolly and rolling carts). Good math skills required.
For additional information and application requirements, please visit our website at www.ejhs.k12.vt.us (click on Job Opportunities). Applications only accepted electronically through www.schoolspring.com. EOE
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Experienced search-engine optimizer wanted to lead SEO strategy and implementation. Join a fast-paced team that is dedicated to SEO and ready to take it to the next level. The successful candidate will have: • success in achieving top rankings for commercial keywords on the major search engines; • strong keyword research and analytical skills; • commitment to ethical, white-hat SEO practices. Qualifications include HTML hand-coding skills, linking strategies, experience with Dreamwever and browser-based e-commerce platforms. Some familiarity with CPC search-engine ad platforms, search-engine spider technology, CSS and scripting languages are pluses.
You will be responsible for daily billing and invoicing of product shipping to our wholesale customers as well as purchase order receiving of product through our wholesale apparel software. This position will also be responsible for general office support and as a back-up to our accounting department’s A/P and A/R activities. The ideal candidate must have a background in accounting and/or bookkeeping, very detail oriented, have the ability and enjoy managing multiple priorities and deadlines, and strong computer skills. This position is full-time and offers an excellent benefits package and a competitive wage based upon experience. If you are interested in joining our dynamic team, SEND A RESUME AND LETTER OF INTEREST to:
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POSITION SUMMARY: to set up, maintain, troubleshoot, do minor repairs of computers and computer networks in the school, and to support the Network Administrator in the areas of infrastructure and user management. RESPONSIBILITIES: A) Computer set-up, maintenance & inventory. Install, connect and test computer workstations, printers, PDAs and other peripherals. Install, configure and troubleshoot XP operating system, updates, and related software for the school network. Diagnose hardware problems; work with vendor tech support. Maintain inventory of all hardware and equipment. Resolve tickets posted to the CSSU Help Desk. Install and maintain machine level software. Support school students, faculty and staff on technical issues. Participate on school-level and CSSU-level committees as required. B) Support the Network Administrator in management of the school network, including switches, printers, and network connectivity and user accounts. C) Other duties as assigned.
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Immediate 50% opening (with potential for increased time in the future) for an experienced IT Coordinator. Duties include network management, hardware and software maintenance, technology training and support of users, database oversight, organization-wide technology planning and data storage, backup and retrieval management. Qualifications: BS degree in related field, 3+ years of relevant experience, demonstrated technology competence, ability to work independently and interface comfortably with users. A+ Certification preferred.
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CHAMPLAIN WATER DISTRICT Dedicated to Quality Water & Service. First in the Nation ~ Excellence in Water Treatment, Partnership for Safe Water.
JOB OPPORTUNITY Water Quality Position The Champlain Water District, an award-winning regional water provider having the distinction of receiving the “First in the Nation Excellence in Water Treatment Award� from the Partnership for Safe Water, announces a position opening within its existing Department that assures high quality drinking water throughout Chittenden County. This position operates, maintains and monitors a sophisticated, state-of-the-art 23 MGD water treatment facility, and transmission system serving a population of 68,000 located in 12 served municipal water distribution systems. Candidate must have a minimum of an Associate’s degree in a water-related science and be capable of obtaining certification as a Vermont Class 4C Water Treatment Plant Operator. Excellent salary and benefit package. Written applications only, with resume, to:
Human Resource Administrator 403 Queen City Park Road, S. Burlington, VT 05403
Great Full and Part-Time Dining Services Jobs Available! Vermont’s only Life Care Retirement Community seeks both full and part-time Servers for our dining rooms starting at $9.70 an hour and part-time Kitchen Assistants/ Dishwashers for our kitchen, starting at $8.75 an hour. Starting rates may be even higher based on experience. If regular full-time (24 hours or more a week) you can add our complete outstanding benefits package. Training is provided and schedules are flexible with no late night hours. Reply ASAP! Apply at our Community Center, 200 Wake Robin Drive, Shelburne, VT 05482 or fax a resume with position desired to: HR, 802-264-5146. EOE
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Youth Activities Coordinator Milton Family Community Center has a full-time vacancy for a Youth Activities Coordinator in its teen programs. The position is full-time (40 hours/week) and includes benefits. Hourly wage $10/hr to $13/hr depending on education & experience. Requirements: Positive energy, active, creative, and team-oriented individuals with experience working directly with adolescents. Ideal candidates will have formal training in substance abuse, adolescent sexual development, crisis management, and anger management. Must be motivated and comfortable teaching in a classroom environment, working with the community, and facilitating after-school open teen time. Please send letter of interest, resume, and three written references to: Attn. MFCC Teen Program Search Committee Milton Family Community Center P.O. Box 619, Milton, VT 05468 Please visit our website at: www.miltonfamilycenter.org to learn more about our mission and program goals. EOE
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Northern Adirondack Planned Parenthood seeks a Fulltime Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant for Franklin County. Reproductive health care experience preferred but will train the right individual. The candidate must possess a current NYS license. A competitive salary and benefits package offered. For immediate consideration, send cover letter and resume by 09/15/06 to:
Our increasing sales are expanding your earning potential. Experienced applicants preferred. • Flexible hours for scheduling • 401-K • Health & Dental Insurance plan • Vacation and Sick pay
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The Alpine Shop, Chittenden County’s premier ski, snowboard, bike and outdoor lifestyle store, is looking for you! We have openings in our clothing and ski and snowboard departments for high energy individuals with strong sales and customer service skills.
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Vermont is seeking to employ a full-time civil/agricultural engineer to provide technical assistance to private landowners for conservation programs. The majority of work will include the design and construction inspection of manure storage and handling systems on dairy operations. For more information go to:
The ideal candidate will be someone who enjoys helping others, loves to ski or snowboard and has retail experience. Position includes some weekend and evening shifts. Enjoy great gear deals for yourself, with benefits available for full-timers. Please forward your resume to:
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Peg Rieley The Alpine Shop Inc. 1184 Williston Road South Burlington, VT 05403. or email to: peg@alpineshopvt.com.
Announcement closes 09/22/06. Contact Human Resources at 207-990-9501 for additional information about this position. USDA is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer.
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EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR The Vermont Community Foundation, a growing philanthropic organization with assets of over $130 million, seeks an Executive Coordinator to assist the President & CEO, to support the VCF Board, and to oversee the physical office of the VCF. Superior customer service skills, high-degree of professionalism and considerable experience in a networked Microsoft Office environment needed. Previous executive office and personnel management experience desired.
See full job description at www.vermontcf.org. Send resume and letter to:
The VCF, P.O. Box 30, Middlebury, VT 05753
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Librarian/Technology Integration Specialist 2006-2007 Openings Washington Village School seeks a .60 FTE librarian/technology integration specialist and a .40 FTE paraprofessional to assist in the library/ technology integration program for the 20062007 school year. The successful candidates must be highly qualified team players, with enthusiasm, and have a passion for pre-K to 8 education. Send cover letter, resume, three letters of reference, transcripts, and certification documents to: Jeff Lindgren, Principal C/o Orange North Supervisory Union 111B Brush Hill Road Williamstown, VT 05679 Position open until filled. EOE
RESIDENTIAL TEAM LEAD POSITION at the Pine Street Residential Program for emotionally and behaviorally challenged children. Responsibilities include maintaining house budget, scheduling of staff, staff supervision, insuring compliance of staff with Agency policies and procedures, preparing required reports, providing staff and parent training as needed. Bachelors’ degree in human services required. Please send cover letter and resume to: Carly Baker LICSW Director of Residential Services 1138 Pine Street Burlington, VT 05401 EOE/TTY Individuals with disabilities encouraged to apply.
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LEGISLATIVE/REGULATORY ANALYST Track, monitor and analyze state legislative and regulatory measures. Conduct research and write detailed, substantive weekly reports. Superb organization, writing and analytical skills required. A strong work ethic, high energy and proficiency in MS Office applications are a must. If you are interested in an ENTRY-LEVEL, full-time, challenging position, and are willing to learn and grow, this job is right for you. We offer competitive salary and excellent benefits. Please send resume on or before September 14th via email only to:
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Full-time permanent position located in Burlington, assisting motorists in complying with terms of judgment in traffic cases including, collection of fines and helping litigants with reinstatement of driving privileges. Duties will involve frequent interaction by phone or in person with litigants and other agencies. Excellent state benefits, minimum $16.15 per hour. Job description available from Office of the Court Administrator or www.vermontjudiciary.org Due Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at: Office of Court Administrator 109 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05609-0701 802-828-3278 • TTY 802-828-3234 EOE
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EMPLOYMENT The Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger
Good things are happening at Bourne’s!
Join an energetic, results-oriented statewide organization building sustainable solutions to hunger.
We just promoted Kathy and now we need to fill her position in Customer Service. Do you communicate well and like to help people? Can you manage your time wisely while multitasking? Work well on your own? Use computers proficiently?
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Are you an experienced nursing assistant? Have you worked with seniors with memory loss?
12-month full-time placement available for emerging leader to gain significant experience in a dynamic, highly effective statewide anti-hunger nonprofit org. Bachelor’s degree, previous involvement with social justice/human rights issues, & demonstrated leadership potential required. Interviews in process but resumes are accepted through 9/18.
We have full-time and part-time positions for Nursing Assistants in our beautiful special care Gardenview Unit. Enjoy the wonders of working with seniors in an environment that is welcoming and warm.
If so, we want you to join our Morrisville team! Our employees enjoy a casual, yet results-oriented, fast-paced environment where we enjoy creativity and teamwork. Send resumes to:
Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger 180 Flynn Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401 EWexler@vtnohunger.org
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ION Science (Americas) LLC is growing! We are looking for an entry-level Technical Support Assistant with at least an Associate’s degree in Electronics or Environmental Science to assist in our small customer service department. Duties include service and trouble Need shooting to our hand-held environmental instruments, customer interface, training and field support. Computer savvy. Some travel. Competitive salary, 401-K, health insurance, non-smoking office, Main Street location in Waterbury. Send resume by email only to:
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7D CLASSIFIEDSEMPLOYMENT The Women’s Source for Sports is looking for women who enjoy active lifestyles to join our management team and sales staff.
340 Dorset St So. Burlington 863-3233
Full-time Assistant Manager Part-time Sales Associate Positions include some weekends. Store hours: M-F, 10-6, Sat., 10-5, Sun., 12 -5. Apply Within.
Enthusiastic & experienced people wanted for the following positions:
Baker Distributing Corp. Full-time – Merchandiser with mileage allowance, benefits and advancements. No phone calls. Please apply in person at:
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Baker Distributing Corp. 130 Orion Drive, Colchester, VT 05446
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Need to plac Vermont Soup Company Restaurant Food Servers Flexibility & daytime hours a plus.
Dishwashers/Prep Casual, laid-back atmosphere. Meals included. Ask for Alex.
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Lamoille North Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition c/o LNSU SSHS Project 95 Cricket Hill Road, Hyde Park, VT 05655
Kalkreuth Roofing company seeking to fill the following positions: Warehouse employee/Truck Driver Requirements: • Clean Driving Record • Dependable • Able to lift 75 lbs. • Able to pass Drug Screen & Physical • Forklift experience helpful
roofers Experienced roofing laborers: flat roofs, standing metal seams, shingle. fax resume to 802-865-5100. Questions call 802-865-9200. We are an eeoc employer.
Part-Time Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Trainer Prevent Child Abuse Vermont is seeking a part-time Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Trainer. We’re looking for an experienced trainer with excellent oral/written communication skills; ability to work well with parents, health and human services providers and educators. Excellent organizational and computer skills a must. Reliable transportation needed. B.A. required. Send cover letter, resume and three references to:
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Seeking a Religious Education leader, 20 hrs./wk. Responsible for implementing Sunday children’s programs. Duties include: program planning; collaborating with families, teachers, minister, RE committee; recruiting and supporting teachers; managing enrollment and materials. Must have experience with children, familiarity with Unitarian Universalism, and speaking skills. Starts immediately. Job e open until filled.
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ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLER Ascension Technology Corporation, located in Milton, Vermont, seeks an experienced full-time Electronics Assembler to support our manufacturing staff. Build, inspect and test a variety of electronic and electromechanical assemblies, including PCB assemblies, cable assemblies and others. Experience with soldering fine pitch SMT components a must.
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VCIL is hiring part-time person to work with a staff member in Montpelier office. Valid Vermont driver’s license required. Duties include driving, reading typing, filing and research. A high comfort level with computers is required. Data base experience is helpful but not necessary. Person must have good organizational and written and oral English language skills. 14 hours per week. Send cover letter and resume by September 8 to:
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Now accepting applications for all positions. Great for college students, flexible hours available. Apply within: 3 miles south of University Mall So. Burlington. Contact Bob or Donna at 862-4602.
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