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Students are joining professional actors on stage at Bread Loaf this week. See Arts + Leisure.

Many Champs and Marlins excelled at the CVSL championship meet. See Sports, Page 1B.

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Bristol Stampede hits $2M milestone CF fundraiser enjoys huge weekend

VISITORS TO KAYHART Brothers Dairy query employees who are preparing cows for milking in the West Addison dairy’s new, state-of-theart parlor, while event volunteers answer visitors’ questions during Saturday’s Breakfast on the Farm event.

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Dairy farming takes center stage

More than 2,000 flock to Kayhart Brothers Farm for breakfast, education By CHRISTOPHER ROSS WEST ADDISON — As the last visitor departed from Saturday’s Breakfast on the Farm event, hosts Steve and Tim Kayhart of Kayhart Brothers Dairy in West Addison were walking on clouds. “It was great for us, of course, but it was also great for the dairy industry as a whole,” Steve said. The next day, however, he found himself in a funk. “It was a little bit like postvacation depression,” Steve said. “Like going back to work. There was all that planning for the event, then suddenly it was over.” The feeling, he discovered, has a name: “Breakfast on the Farm hangover.” Spirits were of course not among the offerings at Breakfast on the Farm, which drew 2,020 people from Addison County and beyond — unless you count the spirits of community, cooperation and education. Vermont Breakfast on the Farm is held annually around the state to encourage the public to visit local farms and learn how their

By the way Addison County Transit Resources and Champlain Valley Equipment are partnering again to provide “Fare-Free to the (See By the way, Page 14A)

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food is produced. Free breakfasts are served — pancakes, maple syrup, sausage, blueberries, Cabot cheddar, Green Mountain Creamery yogurt, plus plenty of coffee and milk — followed by self-guided

TEN-YEAR-OLD 4-H member Calvin Almeida of West Addison helps out in a nearby dairy farm.

farm tours. Vermonters who don’t live on farms can visit educational stations focusing on subjects like animal care, water quality and new technologies. The events are funded with grants from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets, and by several sponsors from the agricultural business community. “Farmers need to do a better job of telling their story,” Tim told “Vermont Fences” earlier this year. “We’re always too busy doing the work. It’s very important that people understand why we do what we do.” Rene Thibault of the New England Dairy Promotion Board, one of Breakfast on the Farm’s sponsors, agreed. “It’s a chance for people with concerns, or those who have questions, to come and get the facts straight from the source, the experts — dairy farmers. They are the ones who live on the land and work with it and their animals every single day.” Organizers are hoping such events will help clear up misconceptions about dairy farming, especially where animal care and environmental stewardship

are concerned, Thibault said: “Some people think dairy farmers don’t care for, or mistreat, their animals, and that’s just not the case. Each and every cow on the farm represents the livelihood of the dairy farming family. And most dairy farms wouldn’t have what they do without healthy soils and clean water.” The opportunity to bust some myths was one of the reasons that Rob Hunt of Bonapecta Holsteins in West Addison volunteered to help with Breakfast on the Farm. “So many people get their info from, say, their yoga teachers,” he said at his station in the milking parlor. “It’s important for people to know what’s really going on on a dairy farm.” Hunt described an image that had gone “viral” on Facebook — a cow comfortably secured in a specially designed hoof-trimming chute, which someone had labeled a “Cow Crusher” as part of a larger rant about animal cruelty. “I mean, why would we want to do that?” Hunt said, incredulous. (See Dairy farmers, Page 13A)

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS neighborhood of 2 o’clock Friday BRISTOL — More than 20 years afternoon,” said Stampede coago, when Sheri Bedard Bannister organizer Bonita Bedard. designed a logo for her family’s No one jumped out of a cake or annual fundraiser, the Three Day set off fireworks. Local radio station Stampede Toward a Cure for Cystic WOKO, one of the Stampede’s most Fibrosis, she had no idea that dozens steadfast supporters, didn’t interrupt of people in her community would its broadcast with announcements one day get it tattooed or fanfare. A plaque on their bodies. and a few photographs “I never It has come to commemorate the be known as the thought I’d be day, but for the most “Stampede Man,” someone to get part the 150 dedicated though it’s neither man a tattoo. But the volunteers spread out nor woman. Inspired Stampede Man across Mount Abraham by Japanese writing’s and everything Union High School’s gentle curves, a lithe fields kept right it stands for has athletic human figure seems on working. to hold the sun above become such a $2,000,000 became its head. Or make part of my DNA $2,000,001. a gift of it. An arc that it might as The three-day lawn sweeping from that sun well be on my sale, including books suggests movement and body, too.” and furniture, raised progress. $54,784 this year; the — Bonita Bedard silent auction $30,500; “The logo was really about creating our own sponsorships $25,675. language around this thing we didn’t By Sunday the weekend total stood understand,” Bannister said. “The sun at $127,000 and the grand total at is meant to represent the cure (for $2,067,000. cystic fibrosis), but it’s also something That night a photograph appeared more. It’s about hope and community on the Stampede’s Facebook page: a and all the pieces that go into that.” Celtic knot of arms and wrists, plus Last weekend, that community, one thumb, each sporting a Stampede which for 28 years has defined itself Man tattoo. with hope, achieved an extraordinary “I never thought I’d be someone milestone: $2 million raised for the to get a tattoo,” Bedard said. “But Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. the Stampede Man and everything it “It happened somewhere in the (See Stampede, Page 14A)

Middlebury eyes new bid to boost economy

Composition of panel spurs discussion By JOHN FLOWERS others to settle and grow in Addison MIDDLEBURY — The County’s shire town. Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday Led by Addison County Economic wrote the first paragraph in the Development Corp. Executive latest chapter about Director Fred Kenney, spurring economic The panel is the economic health development in town, committee will spend being asked though members got the next few months off to a rocky start in to deliver its speaking with area forming a new panel report and business leaders and that will lead the effort. recommendations studying state and Following a to the selectboard regional programs 5 0 - m i n u t e - l o n g in mid-November. that could make discussion, the Middlebury a more selectboard voted 4-3 attractive destination on a slate of nine members of the for entrepreneurs. new “Middlebury Economic Health The panel is being asked to deliver Committee 2018,” a group charged its report and recommendations to with recommending “several the selectboard in mid-November. economic development tools” the Local officials are launching town could use to help current this latest economic development businesses flourish while inducing (See Middlebury, Page 6A)

Local couple prepares for Muslim pilgrimage By JOHN FLOWERS a religious organization he led from MIDDLEBURY — Farhad Khan 2009-2010 and from 2014-2016. has spent a half-century dreaming Established in 1995, VIS currently about a trip designed to fortify his counts around 3,500 members from religious faith and cleanse his spirit. such countries as Bosnia, Somalia, The Middlebury resident’s dream is India and Iraq, according to Khan. about to come true. In addition to providing Islamic Farhad and his wife, Amtul, on worship services and fellowship, Aug. 11 will join 16 other Vermont Islamic Society members of the Vermont “I’m very has kindled many Islamic Society (VIS) in excited; it’s friendships among a pilgrimage to Mecca, unbelievable. members. The Khans have Saudi Arabia. It’s called become particularly close the “Hajj,” a religious I feel very with eight other couples obligation that every adult blessed.” with whom they routinely — Amtul Khan go on trips, picnics and Muslim must fulfill at least once in their lifetime, if other social events. they are physically able and have the The friends earlier this year decided resources to do so. to unite for what will be their most “It is a self-purifying thing,” Farhad ambitious and important trip together Khan said of what will be a 6,248-mile — the Hajj to Mecca. The Hajj takes odyssey from Middlebury to Mecca. place each year during the last month “It is a new beginning for us.” of the Islamic calendar, and lasts five Khan, who is a Middlebury or six days. The crucial stage of their selectman, is a longtime, active voyage will begin in Medina, Saudi member of Burlington-based VIS, (See Khan, Page 11A)

Delicious theater

NEW TOWN HALL Theater Executive Director Mark Bradley, left, and THT founder Doug Anderson cut into a THT-shaped cake during the theater’s 10th anniversary celebration Tuesday night. Anderson is transitioning into the role of artistic director, and Bradley will start his new job on Aug. 8. More photos on Page 10A. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, August 2, 2018

Food shelves seeking support, even with gleaning By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) is calling for food donations to carry hungry Addison County residents into this fall, when local food drives kick off to help nonprofit organizations replenish their larders. At the same time, HOPE is beginning to reap the rewards of its annual gleaning program, through which several Addison County farms are contributing surplus fruits and vegetables for residents who can’t afford to maintain a balanced diet. HOPE Executive Director Jeanne Montross hopes that effort can fill in the gaps. “There are a lot of empty areas in our food shelf, and not a lot of (product) options,” Montross said. HOPE officials are circulating a list of foods that are in particular demand right now. They include breakfast cereals; bottled or canned juice (other than cranberry); canned fruits; vegetables (not corn or green beans); meats; beans and soups; flavored pastas (not spaghetti or elbows); rice; and condiments such as mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, salad dressings and vegetable oil. Formerly known as Addison County Community Action Group, HOPE is based on Boardman Street in Middlebury. It is an important

safety net for the county’s most About two weeks ago John Falvulnerable citizens, providing food, lon — a longtime HOPE volunteer clothing, shelter, holiday toys and and current part-time staffer who emergency financial assistance. keeps track of food shelf orders — HOPE last year distributed reported gaps in inventory. 235,641 pounds of food, of which “He told me, ‘This is getting 162,169 was donated. The orga- really bad,’” Montross said. nization’s food shelf drew 7,811 And that led to a HOPE flyer visits from low-income individuals soliciting donations to re-stock the seeking help in cobbling food shelf. together balanced meals. Donations can be Food shelf use typ- Most farmers dropped in the bins at ically declines during are reporting Hannaford Market in the summer, a time abundant Middlebury and Shaw’s when low-income folks and healthy Supermarket in Bristol, spend less on electricity vegetable or at HOPE’s food shelf and don’t have to factor at 282 Boardman Street. heating fuel into their crops in spite Montross added people household budgets, of the hot, can make financial condry weather. tributions that HOPE Montross explained. But this has been can use for bulk food an unusual summer that has seen purchases. HOPE serve around 100 homeless Fortunately, HOPE has been getpeople. Hot temperatures have ting a boost from several Addison forced people to keep fans and air County farms with extra produce to conditioners running more than donate. Lily Bradburn, local food usual, thus affecting electricity access coordinator with HOPE, bills. gave a special shout-out to four Because many folks earning a helpful agricultural operations: minimum wage can’t afford child Singing Cedars in Orwell, Golden care, insurances, medicine and oth- Russet in Shoreham, Ferrisburgh’s er household needs, some choose Lalumiere Farm, and the Elmer to sacrifice on food in order to pay Farm in Middlebury. bills. This has translated into a fairThese and other farms are proly busy July for HOPE, which as viding a steady stream of tomatoes, of Monday had served 644 people summer squash, zucchini and in 283 households, according to cucumbers. Potatoes, carrots and Montross. other veggies will follow during

the weeks ahead. Bradburn, as of Monday, reported 6,800 pounds in summer veggie donations, a figure she expects to rise substantially through August and September and into October. Area orchards will also be supplying surplus apples to HOPE’s gleaning efforts. Most farmers are reporting abundant and healthy vegetable crops in spite of the hot, dry weather, according to Bradburn. Food shelf customers are invited to “take what they can use” when it comes to the fresh vegetables, Bradburn said. Some of the produce will be frozen to use during the winter. And, as usual, Bradburn will hold some vegetables in reserve to make soups in collaboration with the Patricia Hannaford Career Center. Because HOPE officials realize not all clients can make it to the Middlebury food shelf, Bradburn and her colleagues make regular deliveries to the Vergennes, Bristol and Starksboro food shelves, as well as to Middlebury’s Open Door Clinic and the senior housing project on Armory Lane in the Little City. “It’s amazing to have all these connections,” she said. More information about the HOPE food shelf is available at hope-vt.org or 388-3608.

Milton paper’s probe leads to coach citation By KIT NORTON VTDigger.org MILTON — Following a probe that was sparked by investigative reporting published in the Milton Independent, police cited former Milton youth football program president Matt King on Tuesday for felony embezzlement. King will be arraigned in September and could face up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The Milton Independent, a weekly community newspaper, published a story titled “Bucking the Bronco”

on May 30 based on five months of reporting. The story outlined how the town’s youth football program, the Milton Broncos, had lost its nonprofit status after failing to file forms with the Internal Revenue Service for the past three years and highlighted King’s irregular management practices. King, who stepped down as the program’s president on July 9, declined to comment on the charges or the newspaper’s investigation when reached Thursday afternoon. Colin Flanders and Courtney Lam-

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din, who reported the initial story in months. “We gave him one last chance the Independent, said in an interview with VTDigger Thursday that they re- before we went to publication and he ceived a tip late last year about strange wrote us a statement that said he was financial practices within the program. the only one involved in the program, “We got our first phone call around he admitted to the lapse in submitting December, and over the course of the IRS forms and he was done answering next month we had a handful of con- questions,” Flanders said. On May 30, the Milton Independent versations with people who weren’t published the story. willing to speak on the Within a week, the record,” Lamdin said. “He emailed Milton Police Department A month later, Flanders us a picture, opened an investigation and Lamdin went to a a handwritinto King. parents meeting for the The lead investigator Broncos and privately ten budget of told King about what they the jamboree, in the case, Milton Police Detective Nick Hendry, knew, advising it was in his on a hotel best interest to prove the notepad. And said police officers read claims wrong. if that is how the article when it came out and decided that King The reporters said that needed to be investigated. King agreed to talk with someone is “The most I can really them and to provide finan- doing their say is it’s a large case, cial documents regarding accounting, the program. something is multiple subpoenas, a lot of interviews took place, After that conversation, suspicious.” and Mr. King was finally Flanders and Lamdin — editor cited on July 24,” Hendry decided to focus on the Courtney said Thursday afternoon. financial situation of the Lamdin Hendry declined to say Milton Broncos’ main how much King allegedly fundraiser, an all-day youth football “jamboree” that brings teams embezzled — the Independent reported that the missing page alone from across New England to Milton. “We asked if he could send us an documented $9,000 in transactions. expense report for the jamboree. He The detective said this probe was the emailed us a picture, a handwritten first time police looked into Milton budget of the jamboree, on a hotel Broncos management. “People have asked if we had prior notepad. And if that is how someone is doing their accounting, something complaints, and we had none prior to the Independent article,” Hendry said. is suspicious,” Lamdin said. Flanders and Lamdin said the Trying to trace the program’s financials without the nonprofit paperwork reaction from Milton residents on the designed to ensure transparency, the article has been mixed. “There were people who said, ‘It’s journalists said they knew the only way to get insight into the Bronco’s about time someone wrote about this,’ actual spending was to obtain the because it was a bit of an open secret for years,” Flanders said. original bank records. Others in the community have been They again got in touch with King and used the same tactic, telling him more defensive. “There were also other people who that if the rumors were false, he should be able to prove it, asking him for bank said, ‘You have no right to blame Matt because he’s the only one who puts statements going back six months. King sent some of the bank state- time in the program, you don’t get ments, but a page was missing and involved,’” Flanders said. “But again, thousands of dollars were unaccount- Matt wouldn’t let other parents get ed for. He then cut off contact for two involved.”

JAMES EHLERS

Clean water advocate seeks governorship Ehlers focuses on wages, health care

By MICHELLE MONROE “If people were paid dignified St. Albans Messenger wages, they could afford rent,” he ST. ALBANS — James Ehlers is said. “People are being expected to running for governor to “represent go to work for $10 an hour so somethe interests of Vermonters.” body else can profit.” “Money,” he said, “is the corHe also supports a publicly rupting influence in politics,” and supported paid family leave, which the policies adopted by politicians Ehlers says would benefit small accepting that money often benefit businesses by helping them retain the wealthy over the working and qualified employees. lower middle classes, in his view. Universal health care would also If that sounds a bit like Vermont benefit businesses with 50 to 100 Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ehlers doesn’t employees, which are currently shirk the comparison. “Fundamen- struggling to pay for health insurtally, the principles are closely ance for their employees, he said. aligned,” he said. “Because they’re With universal health care, those empirically solid posifunds could be diverted to tions.” higher wages. Ehlers is seeking “Clean water Ehlers said he knew of the nomination of the has been employees asking for a Democratic Party for my cause, pay cut because they can’t governor. Other Demo- my vocation, afford private insurance crats on the ballot in the because we through the health care Aug. 14 Primary election exchange. are Christine Hallquist, all depend Asked how he would Brenda Siegel and Ethan on it. No get a universal health care water, no Sonneborn. program where former Like Gov. Phil Scott, life, and all Gov. Peter Shumlin Ehlers talks extensively bad public failed, Ehlers replied, about affordability, but policy shows “The things that stopped his argument is not that Shumlin from getting Vermont is too expensive, up in the there were Shumlin.” He but that many of its citi- water.” added, “His credibility zens earn too little. — James Ehlers had plummeted at that Low-wage employers point.” benefit when the governScott, by contrast, has ment steps in to help their employees made containing state spending as a afford food, housing and child care, way to make Vermont more affordhe argues. It would be better, in his able a central part of his campaign view, if those employers were to pay and his governorship. It’s a position a living wage. “Clearly Walmart’s Ehlers takes aim at, asking just who making money, so there’s no reason benefits from cutting or containing we should be subsidizing Walmart,” state spending. he said. In Vermont, “the wealthiest 20 For that reason, Ehlers supports percent pay a smaller percentage of raising the minimum wage to $15 income in taxes than the other 80 now. However, he would make that percent of us,” said Ehlers. requirement dependent on either Scott vetoed S.103, which would sales or the number of employees. have expanded a database of chilSmaller employers would have time dren’s products containing toxins, to gradually raise wages while large made that database searchable by box stores, ski resorts and chain barcode and given the health comrestaurants would have to do so more missioner the authority to outlaw quickly. (See Ehlers, Page 7A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, August 2, 2018 — PAGE 3A

Committee chooses city manager finalists By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — After a series of video interviews on Tuesday night the committee charged with recommending candidates to be the new Vergennes city manager to the city council has narrowed the field from six semifinalists to three finalists, according to search committee chairman and Deputy Mayor Jeff Fritz. Fritz said plans call for those three finalists to do another round of video interviews, this time with the entire city council, at a special meeting next week. As of Wednesday morning Fritz said that meeting, which will be held behind closed doors because it deals with personnel issues, could be held on Tuesday evening. Final in-person interviewing of one or two candidates would be held a week later at a regularly scheduled council meeting, Fritz said. That timetable would allow a new manager to give three weeks notice at his or her current position before taking over in Vergennes, an amount of time all three assured the search committee would be adequate, according to Fritz. All six of the semifinalists were “highly qualified” and impressed the search committee, according to Fritz, but the three finalists “stood out.” Fritz said the identities of the three finalists remain confidential at this point in the process. He described all three as holding “executive positions in municipal government”

in communities roughly the size of Vergennes. None are from Vermont, however, nor were any in the pool of 42 applicants from which the six semifinalists were drawn. Fritz said one of the finalists hails from the Midwest, while the other two are from the East Coast. All, he said, are familiar with cold winters as well as “small-town life.” They are seeking to replace longtime City Manager Mel Hawley, who served in that post from 1981 to 1998 and returned to the job in 2008. Hawley, who turns 65 next week, was set to retire on July 24, but agreed to stay on as a part-time manager until Aug. 31 to give the council more time to find a new manager. Hawley also wore a number of other hats for Vergennes, most notably serving as its city clerk before taking over as manager, starting in 1977, and as its zoning administrator, a position he kept when he stepped down as manager from 1998 to 2008 to work for Country Home Products. An earlier search to replace Hawley before his planned retirement date came up empty-handed, and city officials turned to the Vermont League of Cities and Towns to conduct a second search that they say so far has proven more productive: The city’s in-house effort failed to produce a candidate the search committee recommended for a Vergennes City Council interview.

Man cited for sex assaults on unconscious relative NORTH FERRISBURGH — A New York man pleaded innocent on Monday in Addison County Superior Court’s criminal division to two felony counts of sexual assault, stemming from allegations he had non-consensual sex with an extended family member on two separate occasions while she was in a deep sleep while recovering from seizures. Aaron Candido, 34, of St. Johnsonville, N.Y., faces a prison term of three years to life, as well as a fine of up to $25,000, on each of the two sex assault charges, if convicted. A court affidavit prepared by Vermont State Police Detective-Trooper Patrick Slaney indicates the alleged assaults took place at a North Ferrisburgh residence on May 14 and June 20. Authorities said the 22-year-old victim suffers from epilepsy, a neurological disorder marked by unpredictable seizures. The woman’s physician had told her to take a nap one hour after experiencing a seizure, a medical event that in the victim’s case had been known to last for 20 or more minutes, according to court records. Candido happened to be visiting the victim in North Ferrisburgh on both May 14 and June 20 when she suffered seizures, according to Slaney’s affidavit. The victim experienced her June 20 seizure at around 10 a.m. and it lasted for around 25 minutes, according to police. After waiting the requisite hour, the victim stretched out on a bed to rest, with Candido allegedly lying next to her while watching a movie, according to court records. The woman told police she woke up from her nap to find her shorts wet, while feeling an unusual sensation in her private area, leading her to conclude she’d been assaulted, according to Slaney’s affidavit. “She waited a few hours to report the incident because she was concerned about accusing her family member of sexually assaulting her,”

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Slaney wrote in his affidavit. The victim reported the alleged incident to Shelburne police later that day. Shelburne officials turned the case over to the VSP’s New Haven barracks when told the alleged assault took place in Ferrisburgh. Police said the victim, when interviewed, also recalled a similar experience that allegedly occurred on or around May 14, according to court records. The woman had fallen asleep after experiencing a seizure and said she’d woken up on her stomach in bed with her shorts “pulled up on the sides … and the front crumpled,” according to the affidavit. She told police her shorts were wet (she ruled out urine) and felt pain in and around her private area, according to police. The victim told police that Candido was lying next to her in the same bed when she woke up. Candido denied having assaulted the victim, though he claimed he and the woman had had consensual sex in the past on “at least two occasions,” according to the affidavit. The victim denied that assertion, police said. Slaney included in his affidavit “screen shots” of an alleged texting exchange between Candido and the victim following the first alleged sexual assault on May 14. That electronic exchange includes an apology from Candido to the victim, as well as an entry of, “Your hatred for me totally justified. Your lack of trust is too. Everything you feel is justified. I have never, never, never don’t (sic) anything like this before and I never will again.”

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DOUGHNUT MAKER CHRIS Heimert passes out mini cake doughnuts to employees at Addison County Home Health and Hospice in Middlebury Wednesday morning. Heimert brought his “Dough Bro” trailer down from Burlington to help ACHHH celebrate its recent award from CMS as a five-star agency for patient satisfaction. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Campaign violation alleged against sheriff candidate Complaint: Newton not eligible to seek office By MIKE DONOGHUE MIDDLEBURY — A complaint has been filed with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel as to whether Peter Newton, a lieutenant in the Addison County Sheriff’s Department, is eligible to run for county sheriff because a portion of his police salary was paid through a federal grant before his campaign began. Sheriff Don Keeler, who is not seeking re-election, and Newton said this week there is no basis for the anonymous complaint under what is known as the federal Hatch Act. Keeler assigned Lt. Newton to the Addison County State’s Attorney’s Office in April 2015 to work on domestic abuse and sexual assault investigations, Keeler said. A federal domestic violence grant covered up to 20 hours a week, while the sheriff’s budget covered the balance, Keeler said. Earlier this year Newton asked to be taken off the special assignment so he could devote some of his day to running for Addison County sheriff, Keeler and Newton both said. Under the so-called Hatch Act, certain workers paid by federal funds are prohibited from holding political office and doing some kinds of political activity. Middlebury lawyer James Foley, who represents the sheriff’s department, said Tuesday he believes the Hatch Act does not cover the Newton case. The act is designed for full-time federal workers and Newton had stopped being paid under the grant when he started his run for sheriff, Foley said. Newton is facing Ron Holmes of Middlebury in the Democratic Primary on Aug. 14. Former Bristol

Police Chief Kevin Gibbs has said prosecutors to chase what is needed he plans run as an independent in the with little notice. State police used to assign General Election in November. Newton, 46, of Middlebury said troopers as investigators for many when he decided to run he pledged county prosecutors in Vermont, but to be transparent and be as above no longer. The Addison County Sheriff’s Office in recent board as possible. years stepped in. The lieutenant actually Wygmans said his disclosed the investi- Under the sooffice is not involved in gation to the Addison called Hatch paying Newton. The depIndependent when re- Act, certain cently asked about his workers paid uty’s timesheet is with the sheriff’s office, he said. campaign. by federal Keeler said Newton “It’s been going really continues to work fullgood, until this one funds are time doing other duties, incident,” he said. “We prohibited but as a supervisor has have been getting out from holding and people are asking for political office more control over assignments and shifts. lawn signs.” and doing The three-year federal Newton has been with grant to WomenSafe covthe sheriff’s department some kinds ers $31,200 a year. The for six years and worked of political grant is up for renewal for the Middlebury Police activity. this fall and local officials Department for 10 years. hope the complaint does He was a member of Middlebury ambulance squad for 13 not jeopardize future services in years and was its first paid member Addison County. NEWTON TOLD NOTHING before moving into police work. Newton does not know for sure Erica Hamrick is deputy chief for the Hatch Act Unit of the U.S. Office who filed the complaint and accordof Special Counsel, an independent ing to the U.S. Office of Special federal investigative and prose- Counsel he probably won’t ever cutorial agency. She sent a letter know. U.S. Office of Special Counsel to the Addison County Sheriff’s Department asking for information would not confirm the investigation about sources of funding. Her letter to the Independent even when told does note the federal law, adopted in he had a copy of the department’s 1939, was updated in 2013, “Now, letter. Hamrick, as deputy chief for only state, D.C. or local government the Hatch Act Unit, told the Indeemployees whose salaries are paid pendent she could not comment on entirely by federal funds are pro- the letter sent to Keeler asking for hibited from running for partisan department records. Speaking in general terms, the office,” she wrote. Addison County State’s Attorney Dennis Wygmans said Newton has been valuable doing the extra legwork in serious criminal cases. Wygmans said state police have been understaffed and stretched thin. He said it has been critical to have somebody in his office to work with

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office said only the complaining witness and the target are told the outcome of any investigation. “It is OSC’s policy not to comment on or confirm any open or closed Hatch Act investigations. We typically maintain confidentiality throughout the process,” Communications Director Zachary Kurz said in an email. “Once an investigation is complete, a letter with the findings is provided to only the subject of the investigation and to the complainant. The subject of the investigation does not learn the identity of the complainant through our process.” The OSC letter, which Keeler shared with the Addison Independent, says an investigation is underway into a claim that one of his employees has violated the Hatch Act. It asked for various records from 2018 that involve any federal funds that were passed through to his office. Hamrick also asked the sheriff to provide a job description for the post of lieutenant and investigator. Newton is one of two lieutenants in the department. Lt. Ruth Whitney is not paid with federal funds, Keeler said. Foley, after his legal review, and Keeler said they don’t expect anything to come from the complaint, but found it frustrating that federal officials have indicated they won’t tell the sheriff’s department it has been cleared, especially after providing all the records. “We have nothing to hide here,” Keeler said.

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Primary: Newton, Holmes face off in race for sheriff In 12 days Vermont voters will be asked to determine which candidates should win their party’s nomination in the Primary Election on August 14. As is typical in primary races at the local level, many races among party favorites are unopposed. It’s the sort of thing that gets worked out behind the scenes, with the real battles to be waged in the General Election on Nov. 6. But that’s not always the case. Local primaries of interest include a heated battle in the race for Addison County Sheriff between Middlebury Democrats Peter Newton and Ron Holmes, and in Addison-4 (Bristol, Lincoln, Starksboro and Monkton) four Democrats are competing for two slots to fill the House seat being vacated by Rep. David Sharpe, D-Bristol. The four Democrats are Paul Forlenza, a retired business consultant of Lincoln; Mari Cordes, a Registered Nurse, also of Lincoln; Robert Demic, a Bristol builder; and Caleb Elder, a renewable energy specialist of Starksboro. The other competitive primary race is for governor with four Democrats vying for the one spot to represent that party, and Gov. Phil Scott vying against businessman Keith Stern to represent the Republican Party. There are no primaries races for the other statewide political offices for lieutenant governor, auditor, treasurer, secretary of state, or attorney general, though U.S. Congressman Peter Welch is facing a challenge within the Democratic Party, while Sen. Bernie Sanders has no challengers. U.S. Patrick Leahy is just two years into a six-year-term. In this column, we’ll review the race between the two Democrats for sheriff, and tackle the other primaries on Monday, Aug. 6. ********** Locally, the race for Addison County Sheriff is drawing the most attention, perhaps because of the lawn signs for both candidates and a few flare-ups that mask an underlying tension in the race. It’s also true that the winner of the Democratic primary has typically been considered a favorite to win the General Election, although that might not be true in this race as former Bristol Police Chief Kevin Gibbs will be running as an Independent in the General Election. There is no declared Republican in the race. As background, the ACSD has a staff of almost 20 full- and part-time workers performing such duties as traffic patrols, prisoner transport, courthouse security, fingerprinting and service of court-related documents. Peter Newton Newton, 46, is currently employed as a lieutenant within the Sheriff’s Department under Sheriff Donald Keeler, and has received Keeler’s endorsement. He joined the department in 2012 starting as a deputy and moving up to lieutenant over the past six years. Previously, he joined the Middlebury Police Department in 2003, working there until he joined the Sheriff’s Department nine years later. From 1990 to 2003, he had worked for several emergency response organizations, including the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association (now known as Middlebury Regional EMS) and Fletcher Allen Coordinated Transport. He’s former crew chief of MVAA’s heavy rescue unit and a past member of the organization’s board of directors. Newton has more than 2,000 hours of law enforcement training and is himself an educator. He is a patrol-procedures instructor and basic training assistant at the Vermont Police Academy. If elected, Newton said he would have the advantage of hitting the ground running on an ambitious agenda that includes, bringing a police dog onto the force to help deputies track missing persons and suspects, as well as detect contraband (saying that even though the New Haven state police barracks, as well as the Middlebury and Vergennes Police Departments each have K-9 teams, those dogs weren’t always available; establishing a county-wide school resource officer (SRO); and creating a “cadet” program for local youths interested in helping law enforcement and community members; adding a second drug recognition expert (DRE) to the department. Newton also said he would not look into re-opening the county jail, as both Holmes and Gibbs have suggested, saying the state was not interested in spending money on such an additional resource. The Addison County Sheriff’s Department currently transports prisoners to lock-ups in either Rutland or Chittenden counties. Ron Holmes As Addison County high bailiff, Ron Holmes has the power to arrest the sheriff if such an action were ever warranted, but he’s never been called to do so, but he is running for the office to which he served as a deputy for 25 years. He was laid off from the sheriff’s department about five years ago during a period in which the department was downsizing. It’s Holmes’ second attempt for the position, as he ran against Sheriff Don Keeler as a write-in candidate in 2014. Holmes is a lifelong Addison County resident and has resided in Middlebury since 1985. His began his career in construction, working eight years for Pike Industries, and then switched over to the automotive industry. Holmes worked at Paul Steele’s service station in downtown Middlebury for around 11 years. But Holmes said he found his true calling — law enforcement — in 1988 when he landed a job with then-Sheriff Jim Coons. He took the requisite training at the Vermont Police Academy and in 1989 began a long stint with the sheriff’s department that included traffic enforcement, prisoner transport and other assignments. He juggled his part-time deputy work with some corporate security jobs that gave him health care and other benefits that weren’t offered through the sheriff’s department. Holmes, 63, said his priorities would include reopening the county jail, re-establishing county-wide dispatching for public safety organizations through the sheriff’s department, and putting more emphasis on fighting drug-related crime. “I’d like to see narcotics interdiction become one of our main jobs,” Holmes said in a recent interview in the July 19 issue of the Addison Independent. ********** As an addendum, a story in today’s paper on Page 2A, cites a complaint being filed against Peter Newton, alleging a violation of the Hatch Act. Newton, Sheriff Don Keeler, as well as the sheriff department’s legal counsel, Middlebury attorney James Foley, all say the complaint is without grounds, but wanted to help make the complaint public so as to avoid any last-minute allegations and not have time to respond. Readers are encouraged to read that story by reporter Mike Donoghue and come to your own conclusions. We have gathered the three interviews of the sheriff candidates in one place online, and encourage you to read those fuller stories by reporter John Flowers at www.addisonindependent.com, see Election 2018 stories. Angelo Lynn

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Holmes has right qualities for job I wish to add my support of Ron Holmes for sheriff of Addison County. Currently the high bailiff of Addison County, Ron Holmes is the best candidate for the job as he embodies the spirit of America in the same quest as most of us ... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Holmes is cautious, but not controversial or controlling. He is safety minded, but with reasonable limits so as not to cloud his judgment of any event. Along with being personable and home grown, Holmes is our guy. You get no hoopla with Holmes; just a straight up, no-nonsense kind of guy. Holmes will help make you feel safe at home in Addison County. Audrey Peck Salisbury

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Shared birthdays show what matters Last Sunday, for the 23rd time, I blew out birthday candles with my great-grandmother. This time, though, was particularly special — my great-grandmother Lorraine turned 100 on July 24, my birthday as well. My extended family gathered around the restaurant table in Malden, Mass., where she lives, and sang us both happy birthdays, as two waitresses emerged over our shoulders, each with a cake. I wasn’t expecting to be celebrated at my great-grandmother’s 100-year-bash (after all, 23 seems like an impressively insignificant age in comparison), but it was heartening to sit next to her once again and to go through our ritual. People frequently remind each other that life is short, and with good reason. You never know what is going By Rachel to happen next, so you might as well Cohen go after the things that truly make you happy. But sitting next to Lorraine, and thinking about all that has changed since 1918 when she was born, I felt an overwhelming sense that life can also be very long. It may sound obvious — short or long, it has to be one of the two, right? — but as a 23-year-old recent college graduate, embarking on an frighteningly unknown, and seemingly endless, chapter of my life, this was a freeing thought. If Lorraine’s life is any indication, more will change in my life than I can even begin to imagine right now. Lorraine switched homelands, religions and even her birth date. Lorraine’s family immigrated to the United States from Italy when she was two years old in search of a better future in a land with more opportunity. Shortly after

arriving, her father passed away, leaving the family with no source of income. With her brother and four sisters, Lorraine went from church to church in the Boston area to get free meals. When she was only around middle-school age, Lorraine met her husband Jack, a young Jewish immigrant who spent his time outside of school helping his father paint houses. When they were 19 years old, she eloped with Jack, and converted to Judaism. While raised Roman Catholic, her family resorted to attending whichever church provided free food, so they became less religious over time. Lorraine was active in the local synagogue, and even learned how to cook traditional Jewish meals like cheese blintzes better than any of the other relatives. About 10 years ago, Lorraine found out some news that shifted her previous conception of herself; she had been celebrating her birthday on the wrong day, July 23, for around ninety years. “I guess no one bothered to look at her birth certificate,” my dad tried to explain. We had always celebrated together anyway when our Boston relatives drove to Connecticut each July, but until recently our birthdays were one day apart. Lorraine was apparently saddened by this news — that her family had not known her true birthday. I was happy, though, to share my birthday with my great-grandmother. A lot more has surely changed in Lorraine’s life since she was born 100 years ago. Like everyone, she has experienced death and loss, and her memory has slowly (See Clippings, Page 5A)

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Welcome to the jungle, er, bedroom

This past weekend, I did something courageous: I dows in our room, grew two long main stems, one going stood up to the schefflera in our bedroom. five feet to the left, the other eight feet to the right, each If a schefflera were some kind of mythical, multihead- supporting myriad smaller branches jutting out in all ed beast, you’d probably be impressed (although you directions. might wonder how it got into our bedroom). In truth, Whenever I used the treadmill, which was hidden a schefflera, also known as an umbrella tree, is just a behind the plant’s lush foliage, I couldn’t get over the houseplant. Still, I showed great courage. sinister feeling that I wasn’t just walking, I was fleeing a That thing had been intimidating me for years. hungry tiger through dense tropical undergrowth. The schefflera is just one of many houseplants that I can’t imagine it was good for my form — or my live in our bedroom, the only room nerves — to be constantly looking with both enough light and sufficient over my shoulder and carrying a space for plants to thrive. The rest of weapon while power walking. But it our house may be a barren wasteland, did help me maintain an impressive but entering our bedroom is like being pace. dropped by helicopter into Borneo. Mark’s method of dealing with Most of these plants have been the schefflera had been to say, while around since I was in college. Over crawling through branches to get to the years, they’ve continued to grow the bathroom, “When are you going By Jessie Raymond to get rid of this stupid thing?” (He’s to the point that a few of them, the schefflera in particular, have come to not a plant lover.) My method was to make the bedroom nearly impenetraignore it and hope either it would stop ble. growing or we’d move and leave it behind. It’s partly my fault. I have a hard time asserting myself Since neither of those had happened, and we were at when it comes to plants, both indoors and out. Instead of risk of going to bed one fateful night and never finding deciding where and how big they are going to grow, I let our way back to civilization, last weekend I decided I them make the rules. had to do something with the schefflera: get rid of it, get In our bedroom we have, among many other offenders, a bigger pot, or cut it back. a four-foot-wide Christmas cactus that doesn’t want us I couldn’t get rid of it. I’ve only given away one plant opening the closet door and a shrub-size jade plant that in my lifetime, and I just know that somewhere, in somewe have to climb over to get to the dresser. But it was one’s living room, there is a sprawling, baby-sprouting the schefflera that had become the main problem; I once spider plant that is still wondering what it did to disapgot lost in it on the way to the hamper and had to radio point me. Mark for help. A bigger pot was not an option. I’ve had this plant for The schefflera, loving the bank of south-facing win(See Jessie Raymond, Page 5A)

Around the bend

We write in full and enthusiastic support of Stephanie Jerome for the position of the Vermont House of Representatives for Brandon, Pittsford and Sudbury. As a 5th-generation Vermonter, Stephanie knows and appreciates what makes this state special and will work hard to protect Vermont values. As creator with her husband of a very successful local business, she understands the environment necessary to help small, family-owned businesses flourish and the challenges they have to face along the way. As a mother of three children who all went through public schools and then on to the University of Vermont, Stephanie knows the importance of a quality education system. As a cancer survivor, she values and appreciates quality healthcare and well knows the critical need for affordable health care coverage for all Vermonters. As an outdoor enthusiast, Stephanie deeply values our increasingly vulnerable environment and wants to protect it for future generations. As a tireless volunteer for her whole adult life, she has demonstrated the energy and desire to work for betterment of life for her fellow citizens. As current Chair of the Brandon Planning Commission, and Past President of the Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce, she has consistently proven her abilities to lead others and to think critically. Stephanie Jerome is a smart, talented and wholly dedicated community member who we would be fortunate to have representing us in Montpelier. A person of great integrity and honesty, Stephanie will work hard for all those she represents, and for improved quality of life in Brandon, Pittsford and Sudbury. On top of all this, she is just a really nice person with a kind heart and a ready smile! We could not hope for a better House member and we look forward to electing her, with your help, in November. Gary and Nancy Meffe Brandon

College should move carefully According to the article in the Addison Independent published on 7/16, Monday, the intentions by the college are to shrink its annual operating deficit by $8 million by cutting a meaningful number of its staff through an “elective,” incentive-based separation plan which comes to a rapid closure by spring of 2019. Naturally an outstanding educational institution such as Middlebury College, governed by its clever and wise administrators, understands how difficult it is to strike a balance between educating its student body while remaining attractive to potential new students with its bottom line and fiscal responsibilities while not failing to miss an opportunity to capitalize on further prosperity. To the most gifted of scholars this is a difficult equation, as outlined in last week’s paper, which potentially and quickly leads many staff to involuntary layoffs (otherwise known as terminations) by the end of the academic year. But why so fast — almost knee-jerk like? Moreover, buyouts for faculty have yet to launch, therefore introducing frustration, haste and speculation into this process to reach an abrupt closure in 2019. As it is, this is a C-minus outline to a complex and time-consuming exercise. Ben F. MacIntosh Middlebury

Vermont’s primary is open to all The Aug. 14 Vermont Primary to the ballot box for eligible voters. Election is just two weeks away. From same-day voter registration, to While there has been some indica- automatic voter registration, we’re tion of lower voter turn-out, I hope working hard to eliminate any barrithat as Vermonters, we can make ers to voting for Vermonters. We’re sure that’s not the case in our state. also in the process of implementing Voting is the foundation of our a new accessible voting system. democracy. When you go to the This will allow individuals with polls on Primary Day and Election disabilities to vote privately and Day, you’re helping independently, both shape the future of our at the polls and from towns, our state and home during the early our country. Mark your voting period. calendars today — AuThe issue of election gust 14 and November cybersecurity has been 6 — and be sure to vote. in the spotlight since Early voting is also fall 2016 when the news a great way to increase broke that Russian voter participation. You intelligence-service can vote early for the hackers targeted 21 Aug. 14 primary right states. Vermont was not now, either in person at one of the states targetyour local Town/City ed. Fortunately, of the Clerk’s Office, or by states targeted, twenty requesting a ballot be successfully defended mailed to you. Requests against the attacks, and This week’s can be made by phone, Community Forum our federal partners email, walk-in or online is by Vermont found no evidence of at mvp.sec.state.vt.us. any votes being altered. Secretary of State Reminder, your Jim Condos. Yet we do know hackballot must be returned ers will continue to try to your municipal clerk to breach and disrupt by 7 p.m. on Election Day to ensure our voting systems. Cybersecurity is it’s counted. Don’t wait until the last a top priority for my office. In Verminute. mont, we have taken many steps to It is unfortunate that in many parts protect our election system against of the country there are attempts to cyberattacks, including: • Paper ballots for every vote cast enact laws that would make it harder for legitimate voters to register and in Vermont. • Random audits following the vote — in essence, to challenge or deny access to certain citizens to General Election. • Decentralized elections manvote. That’s not the case in Vermont. As Secretary of State, I’m pleased agement, where vote tabulators are to report that we’ve done many not connected to the internet, to things in Vermont to ensure access each other, or to any external device

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either by Wi-Fi or hardwire. • Daily backup of our voter registration rolls. • Blacklisting known problem IP addresses. • Installation of a real-time monitor which constantly examines our system and reports on suspicious activity. • Periodic penetration testing. • Weekly Department of Homeland Security cyberhygiene scans. • Trainings with municipal clerks, who are the front lines of our election system. • Implementation of two-factor authentication for any user who has access to our voter registration and election management system. All 50 states need dedicated funding to ensure the integrity of elections now and into the future. We were successful in March, with the support of Senator Patrick Leahy and others in Congress, in securing $380 million ($3 million for Vermont) in Help America Vote Act funds to be used for election cybersecurity and election infrastructure upgrades in states. We work hard to provide accurate voter information on both Facebook and Twitter, so follow us to stay updated. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us either on these accounts or my office. You can find contact information for my office at.sec.state. vt.us. To find us on Facebook go to facebook.com/SecretaryOfStateJimCondos, and we’re @VermontSOS on Twitter. Please be sure to vote on Aug. 14 and on November 6. Your Vote is Your Voice. See you at the polls.

Letters to the Editor Citizens must do more to restore ‘moral foundations’

What’s all the fuss about immigrants? The vast majority of Americans are directly related to people who migrated to the United States from other parts of the world. My ancestors are Scot and English. The only true non-immigrant is the American Indian. Trump has made the word “immigrant” a very dirty word. After all, according to “le grand orange,” immigrants are rapists, vicious killers, robbers, welfare moochers, etc. (Zero data to substantiate these claims). And, our dear leader, it appears, defines some of those unwelcomed immigrants as those Mexicans, Columbians and Nicaraguans (all of whom are not pristine white in complexion like the “good” immigrants). Oh, by the way, Norwegians, according to Trump, are more than welcomed to our land. They are “good” immigrants. Racism? Yep. The immigration fuss is directly related to the perceived “browning of America.” If you get too many non-whites in the United States eventually the dominant complexion

will no longer be that “pure” whiteness that the current administration covets (Heil Hitler!). It is, at its root, a power struggle between the ensconced white and powerful majority and everybody else. The threat that economic and political power will shift from white to brown complexioned human beings has helped to energize many of the Trumpists. They are unwittingly aiding a movement that is down right UNAmerican. Lady Liberty is shedding tears. This racist administration is polarizing our union. For the Trump team any action that will empower the white (and sometimes rich) majority is fair game. The consequences of this policy are calamitous. With a bifurcated society (white vs. brown, rich vs. poor) civil order will eventually be disrupted with potentially dire consequences (riots, economic disruption, authoritarian rule). Americans, we can do better. We can restore one of the moral foundations of our union that is eloquently stated at the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor,

your huddled masses yearning to be free…” The politicos who oppose the Trump reign have got to do more. The Democrats, in my view, need new and energetic leadership. Heaven forbid a Trump victory in 2020! Bill Brown Bristol

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Striking nurses deserve support My daughter and I drove up to empty bedpans, insert catheters Burlington to join the Vermont and IVs, clean up vomit, change nurses union on their picket line bandages, and they make scared on the second day of their two-day people feel cared for and safe. strike. I love nurses for many rea• We are not at our best when sons, and I wanted to support their we are sick, in pain, or watching efforts to work in hospitals with our loved ones be sick and in pain. safe staffing levels and to be paid Nurses witness every emotion that a living wage. human beings experience. HospiHere are just a few of the reasons talized patients may feel grief, fear, I love nurses: rage, or loss, and nurses stay there • The human body is strong, with them. Nurses comfort parents yet vulnerable. As whose babies are a yoga teacher, I sick. Nurses help generally work people say goodbye with bodies that to dying loved ones. are feeling pretty Nurses are there good, because let’s when a family exface it, how many periences a sudden of us would go to and traumatic loss. yoga class with • The human a broken leg, an body can be heavy. acute case of pneuNurses lift people monia, or even just out of bed when a bad headache? they are too weak What yoga teachto lift themselves. ers do for the most Nurses can even part is take bodies make a bed with a that are reasonably patient IN the bed. fit and try to keep Have you ever them healthy. We tried this? A nurse by Joanna Colwell are preventative taught me how to healthcare providdo it once. It is not ers. easy! One thing I do Nurses, on the other hand, know a lot about as a yoga teacher deal with the human body at its is back pain. Some of the people most weak, compromised and who suffer the most back pain needy. Neonatal Intensive Care are people who have physically nurses help premature infants. demanding and stressful jobs. This Pediatric nurses help tiny babies is one of the reasons the nurses are and toddlers with life threatening striking. Hospitals are understaffed and illnesses. Critical care nurses help people survive traumatic injuries, that not only makes nurses’ jobs and Oncology nurses help us if more stressful, it makes patient we should need chemotherapy or care worse. A fully staffed hospital radiation treatments for cancer. will obviously be able to provide Palliative Care and Hospice nurses superior care to patients, and an understaffed hospital is the one help us at the end of life. • The human body can be pretty where your mom who just had gross. All of the above mentioned her hip replaced is ringing her call nurses deal with every substance button and the frazzled people on that can come out of a human staff aren’t getting to her quickly body. I admit to being pretty because they have more urgent squeamish about blood, so I have things to attend to. always known I couldn’t hack it in • A LOT of nurses practice a medical setting. I admire nurses yoga. Why do they carve out the so much for handling all the yucky time to come to class? Is it because aspects of the human body while yoga helps their sore backs? Is allowing people to maintain their it because the practice calms dignity. Nurses change diapers, the mind? Is it because nurses

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recognize the vulnerability of the human body and understand how important it is to make time for self care? Do they practice because the very first principle of yoga, Ahimsa (nonviolence) lines up with the Hippocratic oath: First Do No Harm? Ever since I learned of the nurses labor dispute last year, I’ve been thinking so much about nurses. I sleep better at night knowing I will be cared for by compassionate people if I fall ill. But the fight for decent health care is playing out on several different battlefields, nationally and locally. We have all watched as Republican lawmakers voted to repeal Obamacare over and over, and we are watching now as they chip away at health care funding, causing the fees for doctors visits and medications to rise higher and higher. University of Vermont Medical Center CEO Eileen Whalen places herself squarely on the side of those working to deny healthcare to Americans when she states that in spite of last year’s surplus of $70 million, it is unrealistic for Vermont nurses to be paid a living wage. Clearly she believes paying executives exorbitant salaries is more important than ensuring that our nurses be fairly compensated for their difficult jobs. Every single person reading this will likely rely on a nurse at several points in our life. Can we recognize our vulnerability enough to honor the people who take care of us when we are at our most fragile? Can we recognize the strength that we have when we come together to fight for what is right? Joanna Colwell is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher who founded and directs Otter Creek Yoga, in Middlebury’s Marble Works, and lives with her family in East Middlebury. When not practicing or teaching yoga, Joanna enjoys taking walks, cooking, serving on the board of WomenSafe, and working with the Middlebury chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. Feedback welcome at: joanna@ ottercreekyoga.com.

Clippings (Continued from Page 4A) faded. Yet, she also witnessed the birth of children and grandchildren and even great-grandchildren, and the warmth of new friendships. Besides the events in her personal life, much is different now historically than it was in 1918; there have been 18 United States presidents since she was born. Additionally, many social norms differ substantially from when she was growing up in Boston in the early 1920s. Women (and men) tend to go to school for longer than she did, which was until the 8th grade. Perhaps thinking that life can be long, that many things will change in ways that we cannot attempt to

predict, serves a similar purpose as proclaiming that life is short. Both mindsets encourage people to put their worries and stressors in perspective, and to focus on what truly matters. As family members came up to Lorraine to say their goodbyes in the restaurant last week, she held onto their arms and looked them in the eyes. She didn’t always remember their names, but each time she did say, “It was so good to see you.” I’m not quite sure where this year will take me, but I hope that next July, I can sit beside Lorraine and blow out the candles with her for a 24th time.

Jessie Raymond (Continued from Page 4A) almost 30 years, since it was small enough to sit on a table. Whenever I’d notice it becoming frustrated or sad, I’d transplant it into a bigger container. A few months ago, I repotted it, in situ, in the largest commercially available pot I could find. The plant took advantage of my goodwill by doubling in size in a week. I wouldn’t fall for that again. Cutting it back was my only choice. Though I’d never pruned a houseplant, that’s exactly what I did — and with all the brutality of a hero slaying a mythical beast (though I apologized as I went, of course). The schefflera is, for now, a

manageable size. For the first time in months, we can find the bed without a GPS. But, because I am a softie, I kept some cuttings. I now have five threefoot schefflera shoots that will be rooting in a vase in the kitchen for months while I decide what to do with them. I don’t have the heart to throw them out, and I’d feel guilty giving them away. But I know I don’t want to plant them. There’s no way I’m going to risk turning the bedroom back into a jungle. This week is the first time in ages I’ve felt safe power walking on the treadmill without a machete clenched between my teeth.

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Lucien Desabrais, 88, Salisbury SALISBURY — Lucien R. Desabrais, 88, died Wednesday evening, July 25, 2018, at his residence in Salisbury surrounded by his family. He was born June 15, 1930, in Proctor, Vt., the son of Mose J. and Julia R. (Ladouceur) Desabrais. Lucien was a United States Army Veteran serving during the Korean War where he was stationed in Munich, Germany. Together with his wife they owned and operated Desabrais Laundry and Dry Cleaning for 27 years. After selling the business to his daughter and son-in-law, he worked many part time jobs including working at Brush Motors in the 50s before purchasing the Laundry in 1966, as school bus driver, at Standard Register and at Aubuchon Hardware, where he was the oldest working employee, serving 19.6 years. Lucien was a life member of the Middlebury American Legion and the Middlebury V.F.W. He is survived by his four daughters; Marion Desabrais, Lucie Noble and her husband Steven, Rebecca Raymond and her husband Randall, and Lisa Bagley and wife May

LUCIEN R. DESABRAIS Morse, all of Addison County; by his brother Mose Desabrais and wife Anne; by his sister-in-law Joanne Desabrais; by his 13 grandchildren, Michael and April, Shane and Tonya, Ashley, Erika, Desmond and Randee, and Dennis, Laura and Heather, Nicole and Bre; by his 18

great-grandchildren and 5 great, great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by his parents and his wife of 59 years Thea (Schmidt) Desabrais; by his children, Lucien R. Desabrais Jr. and Bettina Ruth Desabrais; by his siblings, Norman, Roger, Rose, Jeannette and infant sisters Lillian and Mary. Visiting hours will be held on Thursday, Aug. 2, from 4-7 p.m. at Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home, located at 117 South Main Street, Middlebury. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Friday, Aug. 3, at 1 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury with the Rev. Luke Austin as the celebrant. Burial will follow in West Salisbury Cemetery. The family would like to thank the staff at Addison County Home Health and Hospice for the care of their father. Memorial contributions may be made to the Addison County Home Health and Hospice at P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753. Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

Linda Weightman, 74, Wallingford WALLINGFORD — Linda A. Weightman, 74, of Wallingford, died unexpectedly Friday, July 27, 2018, at the Rutland Regional Medical Center. She was born Sept. 3, 1943, in Wallingford, the daughter of William V. and Dorothy (Hammond) Nash. Mrs. Weightman graduated from Wallingford High School in 1961. She has been the site manager for the Wallingford Senior Meal program for over 35 years. Mrs. Weightman enjoyed flower gardening, crocheting, crafts, coloring and doing puzzles. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wallingford. Survivors include a son Terry Weightman and his fiancée Ginny of Wallingford, a sister Suzanne

Audy and her husband Paul of New Haven, three grandchildren, a great granddaughter, nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Kenneth G. Weightman in 1966 and a brother Jerry V. Nash in 1997. Friends may call on Thursday, Aug. 2, from 5-7 pm at the Wallingford Aldous Funeral Home. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, at the First Baptist Church of Wallingford. Burial will follow in the Green Hill Cemetery in Wallingford. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Wallingford Rescue, P.O. Box 246, Wallingford, VT 05773 or to the Wallingford Volunteer Fire Department, PO Box 280, Wallingford, VT 05773.◊

State University in Columbus, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Music Education in 1949. After university and moving in 1950 with her parents to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Joan played bassoon with the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra and began a music teaching career that would span nearly five decades, much of it at Plantation Junior and Senior High School as Band Director, and later in Vermont as a music teacher in three Addison County elementary schools. “Mrs. Edwards” was much loved by her students, many of whom claim that she influenced their own successful careers in music, or that she inspired a lifelong love of all things

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musical and musical performance. Joan leaves two sons; Robert (Bob) D. Edwards of Blackshear, Georgia, and Kenric (Rick) Edwards of Almonte, Ontario, Canada; six grandchildren in Georgia, Washington, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania, and Maine; and seven great grandchildren in Georgia, Maine, and Pennsylvania. There are no calling hours; burial is in East Lawn Cemetery in Minerva, Ohio. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to Homeward Bound (Addison County Humane Society), 236 Boardman Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 or to the charity of your choice that empowers students of music ability.◊

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The factory volunteer fire department. was dismantled and packed and also consider joining the FHS: gblaThe “King Pede” card parties held sius@aol.com. onto canal boats to make the journey. by the Ferrisburgh Grange are schedYou are invited to visit the Bixby Since that decision 150 years ago, uled for the Saturdays of Aug. 7 and Library — online at bixbylibrary. Corning’s innovations have come to 21. These get-togethers are held at the org) — to see the schedule of all their include the glass for Edison’s incanFerrisburgh Town Hall and Community summer events Then be sure to visit in descent lamp, the first televisions, Center and begin at 6:30 p.m. with person to enjoy a summer of reading, spacecraft, telescopes, fiber optics, and a sandwich supper and then on to an movies, and fun community events. today’s smartphone Gorilla glass. evening of fun and card games. King Remember that the Bixby provides free To commemorate the anniversary Pede is an unusual game that involves passes for many of Vermont’s museums of the move, the Lake Champlain “trick-taking” techniques such as in and parks — providing a perfect way to Maritime Museum along with the Hearts and Spades or Pitch. This is a enjoy the many summer events in our Corning Museum of Glass and New game of fun and skill so come prepared state. York City’s South Street Seaport, will to use your strategic thinking. The Bixby also offers summer chil- retrace the original journey along the The Ferrisburgh Historical Society dren’s story hours at the Vergennes Hudson River and the Erie Canal. wants you to mark your calendar now Farmers Market Aug. 2 and 9, and the Follow along the route of the Glass for the first event of the fall taking place popular book sales every Saturday. Barge Flotilla at glassbargetour.lcmm. on Sunday, Sept. 23, at 3 p.m. Judy A new event is the Bixby Singers and org/visit-follow or organize your vacaChaves, long time North Ferrisburgh Musicians’ Circle on Saturday, Aug. 4, tion plans so you can visit the Flotilla in resident, historian and naturalist, will at 11 a.m. Join other voices in song at person as it stops at the many ports of present on her newly released guide- the first ever Vergennes Singers’ Circle. call on its journey to Corning. Also, be sure to enjoy the Museum’s book about the history of Mt. Philo, Anyone is welcome to come and sing entitled “Secrets of Mt. Philo: A guide to or just watch. Instruments are encour- several other events in this summer the history of Vermont’s first state park.” aged but only acoustical. After this first season. The ROV (Remotely Operated Chaves’ presentation will describe the meeting, the plans are for singers to Vehicle) Shipwreck Tour will be held history of such events as the mid-1800’s meet every first Saturday of the month on Sunday Aug. 12. Also, a knife bladesmithing course will be offered deforestation and the rise of “sheep at Bixby. Rokeby Museum is holding its on the weekend of Aug. 25 and 26. fever” and the rise of tourism and nature conservation, and will include maps, annual Pie and Ice Cream Festival Find out the details on these and other on Sunday, Aug. 12, 1-4 p.m. Come goings-on at lcmm.org. photographs, and even a bit of poetry. NOTE: We are always interested In addition, Chaves, will give a and enjoy a delicious array of homepresentation on her research at the made pies and also tour the Robinson in including a variety of FerrisburghCharlotte Grange on Friday, Aug. 3 at House and Rokeby’s exhibits. The related news in this column, so if you 7 p.m. On Saturday, Aug. 18, Chaves 2018 special exhibit is “The Fabric have news that would be of interest, will lead guided hikes of Mt. Philo at 9 of Emancipation,” which features contact Sally Kerschner at smwka.m. and 12:30 p.m. with a reception at pieces by eight of the country’s ersch@comcast.net. You are able to 3 p.m.. The hikes are free but registra- preeminent fiber, textile and needle access these columns and other infortion is required at tinyurl.com/mtphi- artists. The works are defined by some mation about Ferrisburgh news and losecrets. Contact Gail Blasius for more element of thread construction, but events by viewing the Ferrisburgh information on the FHS Sept. 23 event are diverse in presentation, including Town Website at ferrisburghvt.org.

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Joan Edwards, 90, St. Albans ST. ALBANS — Joan D. Edwards, 90, died peacefully at The Villa Rehab Center in St. Albans, Vermont on July 18, 2018, after a courageous battle with pneumonia and dementia. She was born in Canton, Ohio, on Sept. 12, 1927, to Robert Kenneth Dillon and Sara Katherine (Fretague) Dillon, and raised in Canton and later, Minerva, Ohio. Her brother, Robert W. Dillon of Palos Verdes, Ca., predeceased her in 2000. Joan graduated from Minerva High School in 1944 and attended the College of Wooster. For two seasons, she proudly played saxophone with the Musical Majorettes marching band for the Cleveland Browns. Then, after transferring to Ohio

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for business” message through social media. Forming the “Middlebury Economic Health Committee 2018” proved a challenge for the selectboard on Tuesday, as individual board members differed on some of the proposed appointees. The selectboard in June agreed on the first four Health Committee members: Kenney; Selectman Farhad Khan; and Mary Cullinane and Stacey Rainey, the co-owners of Community Barn Ventures in downtown Middlebury. But some selectboard members urged reconsideration of the appointments of both Cullinane and Rainey, saying it might be unwise to have two representatives of a single business voting on matters that come before the new panel. Selectman Victor Nuovo recommended that either Cullinane or Rainey — who were both present at Tuesday’s board meeting — step down from the panel and contribute in a non-voting capacity. “I should have been more alert earlier on; it’s not proper to have two persons who run a single business as voting members of a town committee,” Nuovo said. “It’s like having two members of the same family. I think, perhaps that this should be self-evident. ” Selectman Nick Artim agreed, and suggested Rainey or Cullinane could either join as an alternate or ex-officio member. “Both of you I know are talented and would be good contributors, it’s just the voting concept of two from the same organization; it really makes me uneasy,” Artim said. “I also don’t want to give up anyone on this list … I think it’s a good, overall balance of employers.” The membership list pitched by Kenney also includes Steve Boyce, owner of Flatbread in the Marble Works complex; Vermont Cider Co. General Manager Ben Calvi; Vermont Bookshop owner Becky Dayton; Karen Duguay, executive director of the Better Middlebury Partnership and member of Addison County Chamber of Commerce board; and Tinker and Smithy Gamestore owner Scott Gemignani. Former state lawmaker and Vermont Bicycle Touring founder John Freidin also offered to serve on the panel, as did Denecker Chevrolet owner Mike Capra. “Everybody on (the list) expressed interest in one way or another,” Kenney said. “That’s why they’re on here.” Kenney voiced concern about taking either Rainey or Cullinane off the list. “You chose them to be on the committee as individuals,” he told the board. “They worked with me and Farhad to find and recruit people and interview them … It’s a bit odd that they’re now being told one of them can’t be on a voting person on the committee.” Selectboard members Laura

Asermily and Lindsey Fuentes-George also supported Kenney’s choices. “I know they’re from the same business, and they are two different people,” Asermily said. “They’re both very valuable … They’ve already invested quite a bit of energy, both of them, into thinking about our economic health future.” Fuentes-George added there will likely be future opportunities for other citizens to participate in the town’s future economic development plans. “I think we should honor the work you’ve already done to get this off the ground,” Fuentes-George told Kenney. “I also want to say I don’t like shaving off two voting members who are women, from a committee that only has four women.” With the board split 3-3 on the notion of keeping Cullinane and Rainey on the panel, selectboard Chairman Brian Carpenter cast the deciding vote to accept Kenney’s list. And the board agreed to make Freidin and Capra alternate (non-voting) members, and to have Town Planner Jen Murray serve as an ex-officio member. “I agree it’s probably poor policy to have two family members or two people from the same business on one committee, but that said, we made a commitment on June 12 and I don’t feel good about pulling someone off that we’ve already voted on,” Carpenter said. “It’s probably an oversight on our part and something we should take as a learning lesson.” He added Cullinane and Rainey were “the first ones who stepped forward after we’d been looking for a year to get volunteers. I can’t vote to pull one of them off at this time. I feel like we owe it to live with our original decision.” ANAEROBIC DIGESTER In other action on Tuesday, the Middlebury selectboard got a brief look at a plan to build an anaerobic digester in the town’s industrial park that would produce methane from wastewater generated by the nearby Otter Creek Brewing and Agri-Mark/Cabot businesses. That methane would be used to generate electricity that would be sold to the local utility. The plan is being developed by a company called Purpose Energy Inc., which must secure permission from the Vermont Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to make the project happen on land owned by Tony Neri at 183 Industrial Ave. The selectboard on Tuesday agreed to waive a requirement that Purpose Energy provide the town of Middlebury with a copy of its application at least 45 days prior to submitting it the PUC. The Independent will feature a more detailed report on the Purpose Energy proposal in an upcoming edition. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@ addisonindependent.com.

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Video available of forum for Addison-4 candidates MONKTON — The Addison-4 House district — Bristol, Monkton, Lincoln and Starksboro — features a hotly contested Democratic Primary in which four candidates are running to secure two spots on the November ballot. With the retirement of longtime state Rep. David Sharpe, D-Bristol, Democrats hope to maintain that seat while challenging incumbent Fred Baser, a Bristol Republican. On July 25, a standing-room-only crowd at Monkton Friends Methodist Church had an opportunity to question the for Democratic primary candidates. The candidates and their election websites are Paul Forlenza, forlenza. us; Rob Demic; robdemic.us; Mari Cordes, maricordes.org; and Caleb Elder, calebelder.com. More than 45 community members

attended and asked how candidates would grow the economy while caring for the environment, combat inequality particularly in relation to regressive property taxes, keep young families in the state, and move the state forward with healthcare reform. Monkton Democratic Committee member Melanie Cote moderated the event, which included introductions from Democrat candidates Peter Newman (sheriff), Ruth Hardy (state Senate) and Ethan Sonneborn (gov.). You can watch a video of Saturday’s forum online at neatbristol.com. This forum, organized by the town and county Democratic committees, follows successful forums in Bristol and Lincoln. Look for a final “Meet the Candidates” forum Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7-8:30 p.m. at the Starksboro library. The Primary Election is Aug. 14.

Man jailed after kidnapping, lewdness arrest MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police on Wednesday, Aug. 1, cited 51-year-old Lyle N. Birchard of Salisbury on counts of kidnapping and lewd and lascivious conduct, stemming from a recent investigation into alleged incidents at two residences on South Pleasant Street in Middlebury. In a brief press release issued late Wednesday afternoon, Middlebury Police Det. Kris Bowdish said the alleged kidnap victim was an “el-

derly, vulnerable” woman, and she identified the second victim is “an elderly woman.” Bowdish said Birchard is not related to either of the two victims. Police said Birchard pleaded innocent to the kidnapping and L&L charges on Wednesday in Addison Superior Court, criminal division, and he is currently being held without bail. The next hearing in this case is slated for Aug. 8 at the county courthouse, according to Bowdish.

Ehlers (Continued from Page 2A) some products. The bill would also have required testing drinking water, including wells, for specific chemicals. That veto didn’t “make life more affordable for Vermonters. It makes business more profitable for polluters and insurance companies,” said Ehlers. Scott, Ehlers charged, has put a nicer face on Republican policies of “trickle down” economics. Trickle down is the argument, coined in the Reagan Administration, that cutting taxes for the wealthy would trickle down to everyone else as the wealthy invested their tax cuts. “The only thing that trickles down is poverty and pollution,” said Ehlers. Instead, Ehlers thinks Vermont should be looking to tax the wealthy, noting that there has been an uptick in requests for permits for private helipads and landing strips. “If you can afford your own heated helipad, you can afford to contribute to the community in which you live,” Ehlers said. As for the argument that companies and the wealthy will leave the state, Ehlers pointed to the letter signed by 50 millionaires and sent to Shumlin arguing in favor of increasing taxes on the wealthy. “I think it’s reasonable for a governor to ask everybody to do their part

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and working Vermonters are already doing their part,” he said. Additionally, Ehlers pointed to companies such as resorts, which cannot shift production out of the state. Stowe Mountain Resort, he pointed out, can’t move Mount Mansfield. Ehlers favors investing in Vermont’s downtowns, starting with infrastructure. Pointing to a report from the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Ehlers said that in 200 of Vermont’s 251 communities the limiting factor on economic development isn’t taxes or regulations, it’s inadequate water, wastewater and IT infrastructure that can’t support development. Asked about the challenge of rural transportation, Ehlers said the issue was affordability. People living in the state’s more remote communities have to commute because they can’t find a job closer to home and can’t afford to live closer to their employer. “There’s nobody in Richford that wants to be commuting to Essex Junction,” he said. Investing in local infrastructure “is the role of government,” said Ehlers. “The role of government is not to prop up corporate profitability and enrich the rich.” DAIRY INDUSTRY Asked about the crisis in the dairy industry, Ehlers criticized the federal Farm Bill, saying it favored dairy

processors and encouraged farm consolidation at the expense of small farms. “They don’t want family farms. They want CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations),” said Ehlers. “We’ve seen how unsustainable that is.’ Ehlers would support the organic milk market by making all of the state’s milk purchases organic, local milk. He would also incentivize more ecologically friendly production methods. As governor, Ehlers said he would represent the state’s farmers, not agribusinesses. “There are lots of opportunities for a governor who understands this issue and is committed to the family farm in word and deed.” In particular, he would work with the governors of other dairy states, said Ehlers. Ehlers made his name in state politics as the head of Lake Champlain International, turning a sportsmen’s group focused on fishing into an advocacy group for clean water. “Clean water has been my cause, my vocation, because we all depend on it,” said Ehlers. “No water, no life, and all bad public policy shows up in the water.” His campaign website has an eight-point plan for clean water, but during his interview with the St. Albans Messenger, Ehlers spoke more about education. He criticized Scott’s proposal

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to focus on staff-to-student ratios and require schools to reach certain targets. “In a rural state one size fits all doesn’t work,” said Ehlers, himself a former middle school science teacher. “We have a governor who sees every student as a number on a spreadsheet rather than as what they are — an investment in the future.” Vermont schools’ outcomes are by and large extremely good, said Ehlers, noting that Vermont’s education spending reflects a willingness by communities to invest in education. On education taxes, he would shift from the property tax to an income tax, saying it would be more transparent.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, Aug. 2, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Meal served at noon of baked cod fish, rice pilaf, winter mixed vegetables, wheat bread and grapes. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. History of Shard Villa in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 2, 3-4 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 East View Ter. Glenn Andres, Middlebury College Professor Emeritus, delivers a talk on the history of Shard Villa. Free and open to the public. “You Come Too: Robert Frost Summer Poems” in Lincoln. Thursday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m. Lincoln Library. Join Peter Gilbert, executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council and Robert Frost’s executor, for a look at several of Frost’s poems related to summer.

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Water Quality Day in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Wastewater Treatment Plant, 243 Industrial Ave. Come to this open house for a fun and informative introduction to the people, science, and high-tech of Middlebury’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. Free. Snacks will be provided. More info contact Bob Wells at 802-3886514 or rwells@townofmiddleury.org. Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 3, VFW 530 Exchange St. Doors open at 11 a.m. Menu includes chicken quarters with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce, potato and egg salad, broccoli salad, dinner roll and strawberry shortcake. $5 suggested donation. Bring your own place setting. Advanced tickets required. Call Michelle at 802-3771419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Jazz performance in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 3, 2 p.m., Unity Hall, Congregational Church of Middlebury. Come hear the final performance of Middlebury Community Music Center’s summer Jazz camp.

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Town-wide yard sale in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 a.m., locations around town. Sidewalk sales and town-wide yard sales start at 9 am and last as long as there are still bargains available. Rain or shine. Official yard sales make it on The Map, which will be available the morning of Aug. 4 at the Brandon Museum and Visitor Center, 4 Grove St. More info call 802-247-6401. For renting space at Brandon Town Hall contact Debbie Jennings at 802-345-3033 or debrajennings@aol.com. Singers and musicians circle in Vergennes. Saturday, Aug. 4, 11 a.m., Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main St. Join other voices in song at the first ever Vergennes singers’ circle. Anyone is welcome to come and sing or just watch. Instruments are encouraged but only acoustical. King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Aug. 4, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall, 3279 Route 7. Enjoy a sandwich supper and then an evening of fun and card games.

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Hike into History in Orwell. Sunday, Aug. 5, 2-4 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. On this guided tour, walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary War soldiers. Mount Independence Coalition president Stephen Zeoli is your guide. Wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.

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Pasture management and youngstock workshop in Whiting. Monday, Aug. 6, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Ottercrest Dairy, 80 Gibeault Rd. UVM Extension agronomist Dr. Heather Darby and Flack will join farm owner and veterinarian Dr. Brian Howlett for a look at his pasture systems and rotational grazing management. Howlett also will describe his experience with milking once daily and what he does for parasite prevention in youngstock on pasture. Register at nofavt.org/ows or 802-434-4122.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Tuesday, Aug. 7, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes. Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, Aug. 7, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Meal served at noon of roast beef au jus, mashed potatoes, peas and mushrooms, oatmeal bread, and pineapple upside down cake. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Wednesday, Aug. 8, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes. Lunch & learn workshop in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 8, noon-1 p.m., Community Room, Eastview at Middlebury, 100 Eastview Ter. The Addison County Chamber and Efficiency Vermont offers this workshop to help businesses learn about the ways you can save energy at your business, and how to schedule a site visit to access your business’ energy-saving potential. “Nettie’s Story” presentation in Salisbury. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Bill Powers will give a pictorial and narrative presentation of Goshen and Brandon’s legendary Nettie Jones, who survived two husbands, served in the Civil War and at the age of 65 travelled west in the winter to care for her daughter during her murder trial. Democratic candidate forum in Starksboro. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., Starksboro Town Library, 2827 Route 116. All welcome to bring questions and comments for the four candidates: Mari Cordes, Rob Demic, Caleb Elder and Paul Forlenza.

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THE FILM “RBG” will screen in Middlebury on Wednesday, Aug. 8, at 12:30, 3, 6 and 8:30 p.m., at the Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Be inspired by the story of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who at age 84 has created a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. Refreshments served. More info contact Alan Quittner at 802-453-2732.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Thursday, Aug. 9, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes. Local band Reflection Band plays at 7 p.m. Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section hike in Keene, N.Y. Thursday, Aug. 9, Hurricane Mountain. A strenuous 5.2-mile round trip hike with an elevation gain of 2,000 feet. Spectacular views from the summit and restored fire tower. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, lunch and hiking poles, if needed. Bring bug repellent and sunblock. More info contact leader Ivor Hughes at brhughes@gmvat.net or 802-453-4412. Possible carpooling. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, Aug. 9, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Meal served at noon of clam and potato chowder, oyster crackers, Scandinavian vegetables, wheat roll, and cake. Bring your own place setting. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. “Speaking across our differences” talk in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 9, 10 -11 a.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor of Education and History at the University of Pennsylvania will deliver a timely presentation in this era of enormous political polarization. How can we re-establish the norms of civility and decency that democracy demands? And what role might our educational institutions play in that process? Free and open to the public.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 10, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes. Local band Pitz Quatrone & the Freelancers play at 7 p.m. Age Well Senior Luncheon in Bristol. Friday, Aug. 10, 11:30 a.m., Mary’s at Baldwin Creek, Route 116. Doors open at 11:30, meal served at noon of watermelon feta salad, summer vegetable pasta with tofu, tomatoes, corn, and pesto sauce, bread, and vanilla ice cream with a cookie. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle as 802-377-1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Opening reception in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 10, 4-6 p.m., Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Come view the new exhibit “Doughboys and Flyboys: World War I Stories by Vermonters from the Home and Battlefront.” WWI photographs, letters, posters, and memorabilia, most of which relate to Vermont’s Addison County residents who were in the service during WWI are on view. Includes an installation “In Flanders Field” by Brandon artist Fran Bull. Free and open to the public. More info at HenrySheldonMuseum.org or 802-388-2117.

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Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 11, 7-9 a.m., Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland, Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife at Meet at Otter View Park parking area. Shorter and longer routes possible. Beginning birders welcome. More info at 802-388-1007 or 802-388-6019. Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Saturday, Aug. 11, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes. Michele Fay band plays at 6 p.m. and the Horsetraders at 8 p.m.

Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section Long Trail Day. Saturday, Aug. 11. Hikes along the Long Trail at the Appalachian Gap on Route 17 in Warren and from Sucker Brook to the Middlebury Gap. Check the GMC website for event details and how to choose your hike at greenmountainclub.org/longtrailday. Vermont Wish Kid Jamie Heath in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 11, 10 a.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Heath will read, discuss and sign her new picture book, “Wishes are Medicine! How Make-AWish Gave me Hope and Helped me Heal.” The book tells the story of Jamie’s recovery from a brain aneurysm and how Vermont Make-A-Wish played an important role in her recovery. Ham, baked beans and salad supper in Vergennes. Saturday, Aug. 11, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church on Main St. across from the Opera House. Menu includes spiral cut ham, baked beans, salad, dessert, and beverage served buffet style. Tickets $9 adults/$5 children. Takeout orders available. More info at 802-877-3150.

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Vermont Sun triathlon in Salisbury. Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. A 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike and 3.1-mile run, nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up 6:40-7:45 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries. com. Lake Dunmore Triathlon in Salisbury. Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. A .9-mile swim, 28-mile bike and 6.2-mile run nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up 6:40-7:30 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries.com. Ethnic & Cultural Diversity at Mount Independence in Orwell. Sunday, Aug. 12, 2-3:30 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. This program, led by historian and site interpreter Paul Andriscin, looks at how a rag-tag force from Vermont and six other states managed to maintain the Northern American Army during the Revolution while facing lack of supplies, disease, starvation and weather conditions and having to overcome prejudices against their fellow soldiers. Community Dinner in Bristol. Sunday, Aug. 12, 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish, 11 School St. Menu includes baked potato bar (top your own potato with several yummy toppings), Caesar salad, rolls and strawberry shortcake along with Beverages. Free.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 13, 11:15 a.m., KB Café ,Kennedy Bros, Main St. Arrive after 11:15 a.m. Enjoy shepard’s pie, mandarin orange salad, wholegrain roll, and strawberry shortcake. Advanced reservations required, call Michelle at 802-377-1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, Aug. 14, 10 a.m., Vergennes Ares Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. VASA meeting at 11:30 a.m. Meal served at noon of a cold salad plate with sliced turkey, cheddar, peaches and cottage cheese, Italian cucumber slices, wheat roll, and mandarin oranges with cream. Bring your own place setting. Advanced reservations required. $5 suggested donation. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

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Middlebury Rec Center, 154 Creek Rd. Doors open at 11 a.m. Entertainment at 11:15 a.m., Brooks Family Singers. Meal served at noon of beef stroganoff with mushrooms and onions over seasoned rotini pasta, tossed salad, wheat bread, and watermelon. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Block party in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 5-8 p.m., Main St. Games. activities, food and a free concert by the Horse Traders, followed at dusk by a free showing of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul,” in College Park. St. Ambrose lawn party and chicken barbeque in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 5 p.m.-dusk. Bristol town green. Come for barbequed chicken and fixins, pie contest and sale, fried bread dough, baked goods, white elephant table, face painting and dunking tank. More info at 802-453- 2488. “Get Lit!” in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 6 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Join Vermont authors Robin MacArthur (“Heart Spring Mountain”) and Meg Little Reilly (“Everything That Follows”) for a literary discussion and margaritas. Friends since high school, these two authors will have a lot to talk about. Books, food & drink will be available for purchase. “Music at the Riverbend” presents The Eames Brothers Band in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m. behind the Brandon Inn. Vermont‘s foremost purveyors of “mountain blues,” The Eames Brothers Band are known for their late night sets that drift seamlessly through lowdown psychedelic blues funk to uplifting soul songs and back again. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@brandon.org. “Aquatic Invasives” lecture in Salisbury. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Join the Salisbury Conservation Commission and the Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association for this talk by Ann Bove. Free Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

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Bennington Battle Day in Vermont. Thursday, Aug. 16. Free admission at all Vermont State-Owned Historic Sites. Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, Aug. 16, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. SASH health awareness program at 11:15 a.m. Meal served at noon of baked meatloaf, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, oatmeal bread, and tapioca pudding with peaches and cream. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. Ladies Union salad supper in New Haven. Saturday, Aug. 16, 6 p.m. New Haven Congregational Church. Varieties of Salads, cold meats, rolls, deserts, beverages. Adults $8, Children 6-12 $4. Info- Carol 453-5059. 3D printing workshop in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m., The Makery at Hannaford Career Center, 51 Charles Ave. A free workshop on the design and production of small novelty objects. Center tour and info session on future opportunities. Limited space. Register at goo.gl/forms/xOGg60FMonnBhher1. Under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. More info call Hannaford Career center at 802-382-1012. “History of the Greenwood Cemetery” in Bristol. Thursday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West

St. The Bristol Historical Society will present local residents Donald Lathrop and Reg Dearborn to discussing Bristol’s cemetery, past and present. Free and open to the public. More info call Steve Ayotte at 802-453-7709. “Church & State” on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 16, 8 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Exchange St. Company Be presents this play by Jason Odell Williams that takes a look at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion. Tickets $10 at the door. Cash or check only - no presales.

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Preschoolers at the Point in Addison. Friday, Aug. 17, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Route 17. Bring your preschooler to enjoy story and craft time at Chimney Point. Topics relate to the history of Chimney Point and may include archaeology, bridges, boats, clocks, post offices or lighthouses. A parent or responsible adult must be with the child. Ages 3 to 5. Wellbehaved siblings welcome. Bring snacks if you like. Call 802-759-2412 for topic. Suggested donation $5 per family. George Matthew carillon in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 17, 3 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns, Middlebury College. Matthew, the Carillonneur for both Middlebury College and Norwich University, will play the final concert of the summer, before Language Schools Graduation. Come hear this a staple of summer life on the Middlebury campus. Free. More info at go.middlebury.edu/carillon. LC Jazz in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 17, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great big band music. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase. Friday night family performance and wood-fired pizza in Rochester. Friday, Aug. 17, 6-8 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Magicians Without Borders entertains the family. More info at bigtowngallery.com. “Church & State” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 17, 8 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Exchange St. Company Be presents this play by Jason Odell Williams that takes a look at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion. Tickets $10 at the door. Cash or check only - no presales.

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Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section hike in Hancock/Ripton. Saturday, Aug. 18, Burnt Hill. Hike up Burnt Hill then south on the Long Trail to the Middlebury Gap, with car spotting. Moderate/strenuous hike of about five miles with 1,440 elevation gain. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, lunch and hiking poles, if needed. More info contact leader Anne Christie at achristie1026@gmail. com or 802-388.4347. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. The Diamond Island Regatta on Lake Champlain. Saturday, Aug. 18, 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m., Point Bay Marina, 1401 Thompson’s Point Rd. Charlotte. The race benefits the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh. The event begins with breakfast at 8:30 a.m. at Point Bay, a captains’ meeting at 9:30 a.m., followed by the race itself at 11 a.m. Awards given during the Lobster Fest dinner at 6 p.m. Race is free. Breakfast $5. Lobster Fest dinner for sailors $25. More info at rsyc.org/diamond-island-regatta/. Town-wide yard sale in Bridport. Saturday, Aug. 18, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Point CounterPoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, Aug. 18, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational

Church, 853 Maple St. “Vermont’s Musical Ladies” in Addison. Saturday, Aug. 18, 1 p.m., John Strong DAR Mansion Museum, 6656 VT Route 17. Singer and researcher Linda Radtke, joined by pianist Arthur Zorn, explores the contributions of Vermont women to the traditions of parlor songs, women’s club music contests, and social reform efforts. Free. Ciderstock in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 18, gates open at 2-10 p.m., the Woodchuck Cidery, 1321 Exchange St. Come hear headliner 311, with special guests Moon Taxi, Jukebox the Ghost, along with Vermont’s Seth Yacovone Band. The musical lineup will be supported by great food trucks, a Firkin Frenzy, and of course, Woodchuck cider. Tickets $35, are available via Ticketfly, woodchuck.com/ciderstock/ index.php or at the Woodchuck Cider House in Middlebury, or $40 day of. Chicken BBQ in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Aug. 18, late afternoon ‘til the chicken is gone, Ferrisburgh Volunteer Fire Department, 3916 Route 7. Come get your fill of Jerry’s secret recipe BBQ chicken while supporting the fire department. King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Aug. 18, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall, 3279 Route 7. Enjoy a sandwich supper and then an evening of fun and card games. Solar, deep sky, and Mars astronomy night in Addison. Saturday, Aug 18, 7:30-11 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Route 17. Members of the Green Mountain Astronomers come to Chimney Point will share their telescopes and knowledge as we explore the night sky. Discover the wonders of the solar system, deep sky, and take a special look at Mars. Dependent on night sky conditions. Call 802-759-2412 to confirm. Bring a flashlight, and blanket or lawn chair if you like. Admission by donation. Melissa D. & Friends in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Come hear singer Melissa D. Moorhouse’s distinct voice. Sit back, relax and experience the coffeehouse vibe with the warm ambient music of Americana folk/rock. Tickets adults $8/seniors and students $6. Useless Cans perform in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Useless Cans play a mix of old-time jazz, folk and traditional Russian tunes, combining elements of music’s past with a contemporary perspective. Show $20. Dinner and show $45. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295 or info@brandonmusic.net. “Church & State” on stage in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 18, 8 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Exchange St. Company Be presents this play by Jason Odell Williams that takes a look at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion. Tickets $10 at the door. Cash or check only - no presales.

AT A PASTURE management and youngstock workshop in Whiting on Monday, Aug. 6, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Ottercrest Dairy, 80 Gibeault Rd., UVM Extension agronomist Heather Darby will join farmer and veterinarian Brian Howlett to look at his pasture systems, rotational grazing management, experience with milking once daily and what he does for parasite prevention in youngstock on pasture. Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

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Event hosted by the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT). All proceeds help to maintain & improve the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM). Middlebury Area

Land Trust

19-mile & 10k timed runs, 2-mile family fun run/walk. All courses are loops on pristine trails through woods, farmland, meadow and river valleys, circumnavigating the town.

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Khan (Continued from Page 1A) Arabia, for a week of touring some important religious sites — including the burial place of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. On Aug. 18, they will join the more than 2 million fellow Muslims from throughout the world in the trek to Mecca. The annual Hajj follows the steps that Muhammad is said to have walked almost 1,400 years ago. It’s a journey that includes a lot of tradition and preparation, Khan noted. For example, each male pilgrim — once within around 6 miles of Mecca — changes his clothes, putting on an “ihram,” a simple garment of two unhemmed sheets wrapped around the man’s body. The garment, according to Khan, symbolizes the equality of the masses at the religious site. Once at Mecca, the pilgrims will take in several significant Islamic locations. It will begin with an initial ritual upon entering Mecca’s Grand Mosque: A ceremonial walk around the famous black, cube-shaped centerpiece of the holy city, known as the Ka‘ba. Per tradition, the pilgrims will circle the Ka‘ba seven times, anti-

clockwise, while praying. Participants, among other things, will also shuttle between the two hills of Safa and Marwah, collect 49 stones to be thrown over several days at the three pillars in the valley of Mina, and partake in a great feast. The Khans and their traveling companions will add to the international flavor of the pilgrimage. Farhad and Amtul, along with another couple, originally hail from India. Three of the couples come from Pakistan, two from Bangladesh, one from Egypt and one from Lebanon. “It’s a diverse group,” Khan said. Amtul Khan noted Muslims don’t see the Hajj as a holiday, but rather as a religious obligation. “I’m very excited; it’s unbelievable,” Amtul Khan said of the upcoming trip. “I feel very blessed.” She explained many Muslims can’t afford to go on the Hajj, or must wait until they are old and frail before accumulating enough money for travel expenses. The Khans are still young and able-bodied enough to make the trip and participate in the major rites of the pilgrimage. But that’s not to say it

won’t be a sacrifice; Farhad is closing his popular One Dollar Market at 198 Court Street Ext. for the two weeks the family is in Saudi Arabia, Aug. 11-28. “We want peace of mind there; we don’t want to be thinking about what’s going on here, whether the store is open or not,” Khan said. “Once you are there, you’re in a state of mind where you want nothing to do with the rest of the world. That’s the most important thing for us.” The Khans also wanted to wait until their children were old enough to feel comfortable under supervision with their parents going on a solo trip. Their son Ahsan is now 15, and daughters Subia and Maryam are 11 and 10, respectively. Farhad Khan hopes other Vermont Islamic Society members will organize similar group voyages to the Hajj in future years. The couple plans to share their experiences with fellow Muslims upon their return. “I consider myself very lucky,” Khan said of his ability to attend the Hajj. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@ addisonindependent.com.

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MORE THAN 2,000 people attended “Breakfast on the Farm” at Kayhart Brothers Dairy on Saturday, where they got to see a working Vermont dairy farm up close, including the barn full of Holsteins (above). They also enjoyed breakfast (above right).

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Dairy farmers (Continued from Page 1A) “A cow costs $1,500!” A FAMILY AFFAIR Eleven members of the Kayhart family, wearing purple T-shirts, were on hand to greet guests and answer questions about their 2,200-acre farm, where they milk about 1,000 cows. Steve Kayhart’s daughter Alexa, 24, returned home from Connecticut, where she manages a large dairy farm. At the maternity station, where sleepy calves had retreated into their hutches to escape the mid-morning sun, Alexa answered questions about farming life and breeding practices. “I’ve been helping deliver cows since I was probably 10 years old,” she said. Thanks to advances in breeding technology, she explained, it’s now possible to select a calf’s gender with 95 percent accuracy. Though such technologies cost about twice as much as regular breeding practices, judicious use of them has produced a 70 percent heifer rate at Kayhart Brothers Dairy. Families made up a large number of the more than 125 event volunteers, as well. Dairy farmers Kerianne and Nate Severy of Salisbury were volunteering for the first time. Nate, an agronomist with UVM Extension, answered questions about the four shiny machines at the equipment station, while Kerianne helped out with breakfast. Visitors typically wanted to know three things about the machines, Nate said: How much horsepower? How much do they cost? Can I touch it (or, Can we climb inside the cab?) The answers: about 1,700 total horsepower, about $1 million total cost, and ... yes. Kerianne, who teaches math at Middlebury Union High School, loved getting to see other members of her husband’s farming family, as well as past and current students, she said. Her favorite stops on the farm tour included the new “Smart Barns,” with their automated temperature controls, and the cow-comfort hooftrimming station. Ten-year-old Calvin Almeida was volunteering with his dad, Justin, who runs a business fixing agricultural equipment in West Addison and farms on roughly 80 acres there. “Calvin is just as big a machinery nut as I am,” Justin said. “As soon as the tractor starts, he’s there.” A 4-H member, Calvin helps out two or three times a week at a nearby farm, where he works in a doublefour milking parlor (where a total of eight cows can be milked at one time). “He was really excited to see the Kayharts’ new double-16 parlor,” Justin said. Late morning found Calvin helping out at the equipment station. At one point he explained to a visitor the importance of checking cows for mastitis before milking them. (Mastitis is an inflammation of the mammary gland and udder tissue that produces bacterial toxins.) “Calvin is in training to be something great,” his dad said. THE FUTURE “Equipment and technology costs have definitely driven up dairy size and growth,” Steve Kayhart acknowledged. “You need more animals over which you can spread

the cost.” He and Tim, who took over their family’s operation to form an official partnership in 2010, are thinking long-term. “Our basic goal was we always

wanted to build a business to provide an opportunity for the next generation, and to fund our retirement as well,” Steve said. “But two families trying to retire on something like 150 cows ... that just won’t work.” The Kayharts are hoping their recent updates and investments will keep them competitive in what has become a volatile dairy market, with less and less upside for farmers. For now, though, Steve is still basking in the glow of a successful event. “The most memorable thing for me was the multitudes of people who thanked us and told us how much they learned and what a great time they had,” he said. The Kayharts have gotten several positive emails

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SOME OF THE Three Day Stampede volunteers pose for a photo during this past weekend’s 28th-annual event, but organizers acknowledged that it was difficult to get 150 of them in one place at one time.

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LISA O’CONNOR, LEFT, executive director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Northern New England, celebrates the Three Day Stampede’s milestone of $2 million raised by presenting a plaque to event organizers David and Bonita Bedard and Beth Morrissey.

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(Continued from Page 1A) stands for has become such a part of my DNA that it might as well be on my body, too.” The first person to get the tattoo was Bedard’s granddaughter Kayla, who as an infant was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. Other family members followed, then members of the community. At first it seemed strange to think of so many people wearing the logo, Bannister said, but she views it the same way she views the Stampede itself. “For a while it felt like a family event, but it has gone beyond that,” she said. “My family may have started the Stampede, but we don’t take ownership of it. It’s become a

part of the community now.” Bedard continues to be astounded by that community, not only for its support but also for the way it grows and evolves. “Every year young people come out to be part of the volunteer community, and they learn something about commitment and service,” she said. “The kids work really hard. They’re amazing.” Next year, the fundraising will begin anew. Donation drop-offs will be announced, events scheduled. And the Stampede Men will reappear — on posters, T-shirts and summertime skin — a simple and elegant reminder of a community’s fierce love and dedication. Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent. com.

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plenty of free tickets and meet new friends in the process, can consider joining the MNFF’s volunteer team. Folks are needed to serve as runners (filling in wherever needed), handle photography/videography, and deal with theater/event support. People can also help sell MNFF merchandise during the four-day event. Those interested in helping

SUPPORTERS OF THE Three Day Stampede Toward a Cure for Cystic Fibrosis show off their “Stampede Man” tattoos, which were based on the fundraising logo designed by Sheri Bedard Bannister.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) Fair,” a free shuttle to the Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Access is available from Middlebury, New Haven, Bristol and Vergennes. The Aug. 7 to 10 weekday shuttle arrives at Field Days in the late morning, with return service at 5:30 p.m. On Saturday, Aug. 11, a dedicated shuttle will make four loops between late morning and early evening. More “Fare-Free to the Fair” schedule info is available from ACTR driver, 388-2287, or actr-vt.org.

organization that serves youths in the seven towns of the Addison Central School District, may be looking for your help soon. The organization applied for a $25,000 grant through State Farm’s Neighborhood Assist program to provide after-hours transportation for teens living in Ripton, Shoreham, Salisbury and Bridport. If chosen as a finalist, ACT supporters will get to vote for the organization through Facebook beginning on Aug. 15. Stay tuned: We’ll let you know if it comes to that.

Speaking of Field Days, Bridge No. 8 on Route 17 in Weybridge is now open to two-way traffic, at least according to state officials. The bridge, which spans the Otter Creek at the Weybridge-New Haven line, has been closed the past few months for major repairs. Officials said it is now good to go with Field Days just around the corner.

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Local law enforcement agencies announced that they will host at least one sobriety checkpoint in Addison County during the next two weeks. This will be done to monitor traffic along Vermont’s highways to detect and arrest motorists under the influence of alcohol or any drug that has impaired their ability to drive. The 4th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival kicks off on Thursday, Aug. 23, as it will welcome several Oscar-winning filmmakers, Emmy-winning producers, and more than 60 filmmakers from around the world. Those who would like to experience the festival from the inside, earn

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THE MIDDLEBURY MAYHEM youth basketball camp run by the Middlebury Parks and Recreation Department finished up last week in the town gym. Seen here running a drill are, clockwise from top left, Kylie Bean, Jack Trudeau and Jason Sperry. Independent photos/Trent Campbell

FLORENCE, S.C. — Eleven members of Bristol’s Sodbusters Horseshoe Club competed in the World Horseshoe Tournament in Florence, S.C., from July 9 to 22, and many excelled at an event that drew more than 1,000 competitors, including 25 Vermonters. Women winning their classes were Sodbusters Debra Brown, first in Women’s Class C with a 14-1 record and a 72 percent ringer rate and 15th in the overall women’s championship; Vicki Pelletier, first in Women’s Class G with a 12-3 record and a 38.67 percent ringer rate; and Destinnie Wilke, first in Women’s Class H with a 14-1 record and a 42.67 percent ringer rate. Tops among the Sodbuster men were Tyler Howard, who was third in the men’s championship with a 12-3 record and a 78.44 percent ringer rate, and Brian Simmons, fourth in the men’s championship with a 12-3 record and a 78.42 percent ringer rate. Simmons topped Howard in the Men’s Class A competition, taking second with a 13-2 mark and 79.17 percent ringer rate, while Howard was fifth at 11-4 and a 73 percent ringer rate. Other locals competing were: • John Remy, seventh in Senior Men’s Class B at 9-6 with a 43.83 percent ringer rate.

SODBUSTER BRIAN SIMMONS was fourth in the Men’s Championship division at the World Horseshoe Tournament in South Carolina last month.

• Mike Brown, ninth in Senior Men’s Class C at 7-8 with a 35.33 percent ringer rate. • Ken Cassidy, 11th in Men’s Class E1 at 5-10 with a 26.33 percent ringer rate. • Nate Pelletier, third in Men’s Class H2 at 11-4 with a 30.83 percent ringer rate. • Zach Prescott, first in Men’s Class J2 at 14-5.5 with a 21.17 percent ringer rate. • Juanitta Ratta, 16th in Women’s Class at 1-14.

TYLER HOWARD OF Bristol’s Sodbusters Horseshoe Club accepts congratulations for earning third place in the men’s championship round at the World Horseshoe Tournament and fifth in Men’s Class A competition. Photos courtesy of Mike Brown

Bergland, Sims prevail in annual Ralph Myhre event MIDDLEBURY — The duo of Eric Bergland and Mike Sims this past weekend won the top flight of Ralph Myhre Golf Course’s annual Dud Phinney Member-Guest Tournament. The team of Kirk Goodman and Brett Everest finished second, while the pairing of Scott Whitt and Todd Herrington was third in the tournament’s first flight. Flight by flight, the top three finishers were: • Second Flight: 1. Kris Kelton and Ross Lengyel: 2. Matt Curran and John Curran; 3. David Holbrook and Pat Fallon. • Third Flight: 1. Kelly Kelton and Jeff Sherman: 2. Mike Adams and John Illick; 3. Ed Lanpher and

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WEST HAVEN — Vergennes driver Kaleb Shepard edged Panton’s Mike Preston for his third consecutive win in the Portland Glass Mini Stock series to provide the local highlight in dirt-track action at Devil’s Bowl Speedway. In a race shortened from 15 to 11 laps due to time constraints after three wrecks, one involving Middlebury’s Joe Malzac, Shepard moved up from a 16th-place starting position to claim the victory. In the 67-lap main event, Queensbury, N.Y., driver Demetrios Drellos earned $3,000 by winning the King of Dirt Racing (KOD) Small Block 358 Modified Series race, which was run in the memory of C.J. Richards. Orwell’s Tim LaDuc finished 10th in that race. Sixteen year-old Travis Billington of South Glens Falls, N.Y., topped the 20-lap feature race for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Limited Sportsman division. The win was the fourth of the season for the championship point leader. Salisbury’s Brent Warren (See Devil’s Bowl, Page 2B)

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One goal: ‘Pamoja Ngudu!’ Ever been to Lewiston, Maine? Maybe to visit Bates College. Lewiston is the second largest city in Maine — not Augusta, the capitol, or Bangor in the north. 36,000 people live in Lewiston and another 23,000 reside in Auburn just across the bridge over the Androscoggin River. That’s my hometown, Lewiston, where I grew up and why in some considerable measure I am who I am. Lewiston has always been a city of immigrants. In the second half of the 19th century, Franco-Americans descended from Quebec to work in the textile industry, the Bates Mill, in Lewiston. Textile tycoon Benjamin Bates was the founder of both the Bates Mill (1850) and Bates College (1855). The Bates Mill employed over 1,000 workers and Lewiston became a booming industrial city, and in Auburn shoe manufacturing thrived in factories there. When I was growing up in Lewiston in the 1950s and ’60s my friends and teammates at Lewiston High School were the sons and daughters of millworkers. The factories in Lewiston-Auburn are long gone, but Lewiston in the last two decades has again become the destination of a large influx of visitors. These are hardly tourists desiring the Vacationland experience, but immigrants, refugees, black families from Africa, Somalia mostly, but other African countries, too. Contemporary post-industrial Lewiston is the setting for a terrific book, a sports book — “One Goal: a Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together,” by Amy Bass, who came to know Lewiston in her four years as a student at Bates. Lewiston is the final stop on a journey for these Muslim immigrants, after fleeing their impossible war-torn countries and being shuttled to settlement camps, often in Kenya, and then on to various cities in the U.S. Why Lewiston, one of the poorest cities in one of the whitest states in America? Simply enough, they braved the wintry climate of Maine because in Lewiston were people like them already there. They came despite the fact that Lewiston’s mayor early on pleaded with them not to come. They came despite a protest organized by a white nationalist group — a protest, as it turned out, that was overwhelmed numerically by a counter-protest held at Bates College. In the 2010 census, 7,000 Africans are listed among the 36,000 Lewis(See Lindholm, Page 3B)

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Larry Provencher. • Fourth Flight: 1. Andrew Myhre and Dan Myhre; 2. Kurt Pope and Peter Clark; 3. Russ Reilly and Don Mackay. • Fifth Flight: 1. Jim Craig and Tom Provoncha; 2. Jeff McDonough and Marc McDonough; 3. Brian Buteau and Dan Kenny. • Sixth Flight: 1. Raymond Gale and Chuck Dollof; 2. Frank Nisun and Tim Robinson; 3. Paul Lengyel and Beetle Morgan. • Seventh Flight: 1. Bruce Costello and Albie Cousineau; 2. Skip Doane and Dick Lafave. The closest-to-the-pin winners on Friday were Kurt Pope, Dennis Smith, John Curran and Kirk (See Golf, Page 3B)

Champ, Marlin swimmers score well at league meet Locals pile up top-three race results By ANDY KIRKALDY ESSEX — Led by two wins by 10-and-under swimmer Will Clark and one apiece from Allie Croke and Flint Crary in 14-and-under and 8-and-under races, respectively, the Vergennes Champs earned fourth place at this past weekend’s Champlain Valley Swim League meet in the Essex town pool. Clark, a league and state champion a year ago as an 8-and-under swimmer, prevailed in the 50-yard freestyle and 25-yard backstroke. Croke won the 50-yard butterfly, and Crary finished first in the 25-yard freestyle. Champ swimmer Clark Clary also took second in the 10-and-under 25yard butterfly, as did 12-and-under girls Carlyn Rapoport and Madelyn Giroux in the 50-yard breaststroke and 50-yard butterfly, respectively

Three Champ relay teams finished second. The 12-and-under girls’ team of Rapoport, Giroux, Acadia Clark and Hadley Harris accomplished that feat in both the medley and freestyle relays, and the 8-and-under girls group of Ellie Brooks, Reece Muzzy, Petra Fearon and Ella Bearor were second in the freestyle relay. The Middlebury Marlins finished eighth, led by five second-place finishes. Holly Staats finished 11-hundreths of a second behind Croke in the U-14 butterfly, while Connor McNamara in the U-12 boys’ 50-yard freestyle, Archie Milligan in the boys’ U-18 100-yard backstroke and Mitzi Poduschnick in the girls’ U-8 25-yard breaststroke also earned silver. In the relays the U-18 boys’ (See Meet, Page 2B)

VERGENNES SWIMMER ELLA Bearor competes in the eight-and-under freestyle relay at last weekend’s Champlain Valley Swim League Championships. Bearor and her Champs teammates took second place in the race, held in the Essex town pool.

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(Continued from Page 1B) foursome of Archie Milligan, Oliver Poduschnick, Nathan Stone and Fraser Milligan were second in the 200-yard medley relay, and Will Carpenter joined both Milligans and Poduschnick in finishing second in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Several swimmers from both teams also took third-place finishes. For the Marlins Constantin Bellman (three) and McNamara (two) picked up multiple bronzes, and Sadie Chance, Archie Milligan, Fraser Milligan and Oliver Poduschnick earned one apiece. Individual Champs finishing third were Brooks, Will Clark, Acacia Clark, Harris and Sophia James. Three Vergennes freestyle relay teams also came in third: the U-10 boys’ group of Cohen Howell, Tiegen Buskey, Clark Crary and Will Clark; the U-12 boys’ quartet of Ethan Croke, Tyler Kimball, Calder Rakowski and Grey Fearon; and the U-18 girls’ foursome of Olivia Hawkins, Emma Beauchemin, Anna Rakowski and Leah Croke. As expected, the large Chittenden County teams claimed the top spots. Multi-time defending league and state champion The Edge took first with 2,597 points, followed by Essex (1,694); 3. Burlington Tennis Club (1,525.5); 4. Vergennes (978.5); 5. St. Albans (909.5); 6. Burlington Country Club (865); 7. Winooski (636.5); and 8. Middlebury (588). The teams will gather again this Friday and Saturday in Hartford at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center for the Vermont championship meet. Middlebury, which has smaller numbers than Vergennes, will probably compete in a lower division. POINT SCORERS Swimmers who scored points for the Champs or Marlins with top-12 finishes were: • Girls’ U-18 100 Butterfly: 5. M. Giroux, V, 1:16.75. • Boys’ U-18 100 Butterfly: 4. Ethan Sausville, V, 1:03.47. • Girls’ U-8 100 IM: 4. James, V, 1:56.80. • Boys’ U-8 100 IM: 3. Bellman, M, 2:00.75. • Boys’ U-10 100 IM: 3. W. Clark, V, 1:28.22. • Girls’ U-12 100 IM: 3. Ac. Clark, V, 1:17.55; 4. Giroux, V, 1:18.84; 10. Bee Eckels, V, 1:29.03. • Boys’ U-12 100 IM: 3. McNamara, M, 1:18.22; 7. Rakowski, V, 1:26.36. • Girls’ U-14 100 IM: 4. A. Croke, V, 1:11.06. • Girls’ U-18 100 IM: 6. L. Croke, V, 1:11.19; 12. Bailey St. Louis, V, 1:34.00. • Boys’ U-14 200 Free: 5. Adam Clark, V, 2:28.15. • Girls’ U-18 200 Free: 9. Beauchemin, V, 2:27.86. • Girls’ U-18 100 Breaststroke: 7. Hawkins, V, 1:22.77. 8. Ac. Clark, V, 1:26.53. • Boys’ U-18 100 Breaststroke: 3. F. Milligan, M, 1:11.28; 9. Dylan Rapoport, V, 1:22.28; 10. Gideon Palmer, V, 1:26.65. • Boys’ U-18 100 Backstroke: 2. A. Milligan, M, 59.15; 7. Aidan Chance, M, 1:16.78; 11. Ad. Clark, V, 1:21.17. • Girls’ U-12 100 Free: 9. Mackenzie Flint, V, 1:21.99. • Boys’ U-14 100 Free: 5. A. Chance, M, 1:06.43. • Girls’ U-19 100 Free: 5. L. Croke, V, 1:00.75; 8. Hawkins, V, 1:04.90; 10. Beauchemin, V, 1:05.90. • Boys’ U-18 100 Free: 3. A. Milligan, M, 53.47; 5. F. Milligan, M, 55.83; 10. Charlie Hodson, M, 1:00.96; 11. Jarret Muzzy, V, 1:02.75; 12. D. Rapoport, V, 1:06.02. • Girls’ U-10 100 Medley Relay: 9. M, (Eleanor Orten, M. Poduschnick, S. Chance, Louisa Orten) 1:30.67. • Boys’ U-10 100 Medley Relay: 7. V, (Julian Potter, Buskey, Quinn LeBeau, Howell) 1:34.02; 9. V, (De La Cruz, Smits, Goodfellow, Vorsteveld) 1:45.45. • Girls’ U-8 50 Free: 6. Brooks, V,

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42.99; 9. Bearor, V, 45.54; 10. James, V, 46.77. • Boys’ U-10 50 Free: 1. W. Clark, V, 32.90; 9. Howell, V, 38.40. • Girls’ U-8 25 Butterfly: 3. S. Chance, M, 22.15; 4. James, V, 23.14; 7. M. Poduschnick, M, 24.71; 9. Bearor, V, 26.55; 11. P. Fearon, V, 27.85. • Boys’ U-8 25 Butterfly: 3. Bellman, M, 23.77; 5. Daniel Power, M, 24.41; 8. F. Crary, V, 25.31. • Boys’ U-10 25 Butterfly: 2. C. Crary, V, 19.17; 7. LeBeau, V, 25.27. • Girls’ U-8 25 Backstroke: 3. Brooks, V, 23.12; 6. S. Chance, M, 23.68; 10. Annika Smits, V, 26.25; 11. Elle MacIntyre, M, 26.85; 12. Lauren Husk, V, 27.59. • Boys’ U-8 25 Backstroke: 6. F. Crary, V, 24.49; 8. D. Power, M,

25.73; 9. Connor Husk, V, 26.50. • Girls’ U-10 25 Backstroke: 10. Adrienne Smits, V, 21.90. • Boys’ U-10 25 Backstroke: 1. W. Clark, V, 18.30; 12. Potter, V, 23.44. • Girls’ U-8 25 Breaststroke: 2. M. Poduschnick, M, 23.44; 3. James, V, 25.38; 4. S. Chance, M, 27.61; 6. Jordan Hutchins, V, 28.45; 8. Isabella De La Cruz, V, 30.49; 10. Reese Muzzy, V, 31.91; 11. P. Fearon, V, 32.11. • Boys’ U-8 25 Breaststroke: 3. C. Bellman, M, 25.49; 6. Sebastian Giroux, V, 26.95. • Girls’ U-10 25 Breaststroke: 11. Amelia LaMothe, V, 24.07. • Boys’ U-10 25 Breaststroke: 2. C. Crary, V, 20.98; 9. Buskey, V, 24.04; 12. N. Smits, V, 24.88. • Girls’ U-8 25 Free: 4. Bearor, V, 20.34; 5. P. Fearon, V, 20.45; 6. M. Poduschnick, M, 20.49. • Boys’ U-8 25 Free: 1. F. Crary, V, 17.91; 5. D. Power, M, 20.03; 10. Jorgen Pirrung, M, 21.05; 12. S. Giroux, V, 21.30. • Boys’ U-10 25 Free: 2. W. Clark, V, 15.07; 5. C. Crary, V, 17.11; 6. C. Howell, V, 17.16. • Girls’ U-8 100 Free Relay: 2. V, (Bearor, Muzzy, Fearon, Brooks) 1:25.27; 6. V (Clark, Kittredge, Hutchins, Smits) 1:40.42; 9. V, (Buskey, Maneen, De La Cruz, LaMothe) 2:00.95. • Boys’ U-8 100 Free Relay 6. M, (Power, Bellman, Jonathan Carpenter, Pirrung) 1:41.61. • Girls’ U-10 100 Free Relay: 9. V, (A. LaMothe, Eckels, Isabella Romond, Ad. Smits) 1:22.22; 12. M, (Orten, Poduschnick, Chance, Orten) 1:24.43. • Boys’ U-10 100 Free Relay 3. V, (Howell, Buskey, C. Crary, Clark)

1:09.90; 7. V, (De La Cruz, Crary, Vorsteveld, LeBeau) 1:16.11; 10. V, (Smits, Maneen, Potter, Goodfellow) 1:33.17. • Girls’ U-12 200 Medley Relay: 2. V, (Giroux, Rapoport, Clark, Harris) 2:18.45; 8. M, (Lila Cook Yoder, Kaitlin Sulik-Doty, Poduschnick, Ava Schneider) 2:39.86; 12. V, (Potter, Giroux, Eckels, Forgues) 2:52.79. • Boys’ U-12 200 Medley Relay: 4. V, (Rakowski, Kimball, Croke, Fearon) 2:43.25. • Girls’ U-14 200 Medley Relay: 5. M, (Maddie Crowne, Staats, Natalie Rockwell, Catherine Carpenter) 2:22.87. • Girls’ U-18 200 Medley Relay: 4. V, (Croke, Hawkins, Croke, Rakowski) 2:09.05; 7. V, (Kenfield, Jewell, Jewell, LeBeau) 2:24.83; 8. V, (Adreon, Brooks, Huestis, St. Louis) 2:43.80. • Boys’ U-18 200 Medley Relay: 2. M, (Milligan, Poduschnick, Stone, Milligan) 1:50.01; 6. M, (Rockwell, Kearns, Carpenter, Hodson) 2:00.67. • Girls’ U-12 50 Butterfly: 2. M. Giroux, V, 33.13; 6. Ac. Clark, V, 34.15; 11. Schneider, M, 37.11. • Boys’ U-12 50 Butterfly: 5. McNamara, M, 35.69; 6. E. Croke, V, 37.10; 12. G. Fearon, V, 49.01. • Girls’ U-14 50 Butterfly: 1. A. Croke, V, 31.12; 2. Staats, M, 31.23; 10. N. Rockwell, M, 33.82. • Boys’ U-14 50 Butterfly: 6. Carson Hoffmann, V, 29.52; 9. A. Chance, M, 34.11. • Girls’ U-18 50 Butterfly: 6. Rachel Merrill, M, 31.70; 8. Ellie Ross, M, 32.10; 9. Jordan Jewell, V, 32.50; 10. A Rakowski, V, 32.74. Boys U-20 50 Butterfly: (See Swimmers, Page 3B)

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Golf (Continued from Page 1B) Goodman. The closest-to-the-pin winners on Saturday were Don Mackay, Dennis Smith, Brett Everest and Joe Bartlett. The closest-to-the-pin winners on Sunday were Frank Nisun, Bruce Costello, Kurt Pope and Ross Lengyel. The under-55 longest-drive winner was Mike Sims, and the over-55 winner was Gregg Streeter. In regular weekly action, the foursome of Bert Phinney, Ric Wheeler, Josh Newton and Dale White won the Wednesday Men’s Scramble, with the team of Anders Fogel, Bo Cramer and Sean Cleary taking second.

In Bill Davidson Thursday Men’s Golf, Mike Adams, Doug Biklen, Deem Schoenfeld and Bob Smith were the winning team, with the foursome of Hogan Beazley, Don Dayton, Bernie Andrews and Jim Hadeka finishing second. Schoenfield earned the best net score. Course officials also want to advise golfers that greens aeration will be in process next week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with reduced greens fees for those days. Golfers will be asked that when playing a hole on which the maintenance crew is working that they do not hit onto the greens, but instead move onto the next hole.

THE BOOK “ONE Goal: a Coach, A Team, and the Game That Brought a Divided Town Together” tells the story of a high school soccer squad in Lewiston, Maine, composed mostly of African immigrants that overcame racism at home and on the road on the way to winning a state championship. Pictured are Coach Mike McGraw and a number of his players. Photo by Amy Bass

Lindholm MIDDLEBURY MARLIN EIGHTEEN-and-under swimmer Will Carpenter, seen here competing in a butterfly race, placed in three events at the Champlain Valley Swim League championships held last weekend in Essex.

Swimmers (Continued from Page 2B) 6. Sausville, V, 27.45; 7. O. Poduschnick, M, 27.67; 8. Nathan Stone, M, 27.86; 9. Devon Kearns, M, 28.03; 10. Will Carpenter, M, 28.66. • Girls’ U-12 50 Backstroke: 6. Harris, V, 35.85. • Boys’ U-12 50 Backstroke: 5. C. Rakowski, V, 38.14; 8. E. Croke, V, 38.86. • Girls’ U-14 50 Backstroke: 5. A. Croke, V, 33.22. • Boys’ U-14 50 Backstroke: 5. Ad. Clark, V, 34.23; 8. A. Chance, M, 35.82. • Girls’ U-19 50 Backstroke: 5. L. Croke, V, 33.07; 9. A. Rakowski, V, 34.31; 11. Ross, M, 35.11; 12. Beauchemin, V, 35.98. • Boys 20 & Under 50 Backstroke: 4. A Milligan, M, 28.31; 10. Andy Rockwell, M, 32.68. • Girls’ U-12 50 Breaststroke: 2. C. Rapoport, V, 36.43; 3. H. Harris, V, 37.77. • Boys’ U-12 50 Breaststroke: 3. McNamara, M, 41.99. • Girls’ U-14 50 Breaststroke: 4. Staats, M, 36.55. • Boys’ U-14 50 Breaststroke: 5. Hoffmann, V, 36.28; 8. Palmer, V, 39.03. • Girls’ U-18 50 Breaststroke: 5. Ross, M, 35.39; 7. Hawkins, V, 37.04; 9. S. Jewell, V, 39.82; 10. Merrill, M, 40.24; 12. J. Jewell, V, 40.89. • Boys’ U-18 50 Breaststroke: 3. O. Poduschnick, M, 30.96; 8. N. Stone, M, 33.36; 9. Kearns, M, 33.49; 10. W. Carpenter, M, 33.57; 11. Hodson, M, 34.21.

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• Girls’ U-12 50 Free: 5. Harris, V, 30.06; 9. Schneider, M, 32.06; 12. Eckels, V, 33.64. • Boys’ U-12 50 Free: 2. McNamara, M, 30.49; 4. E. Croke, V, 32.90; 7. C. Rakowski, V, 33.67; 12. Kimball, V, 36.46. • Girls’ U-14 50 Free: 6. A. Croke, V, 29.30; 8. Staats, M, 29.57; 10. N. Rockwell, M, 29.60. • Boys’ U-14 50 Free: 6. Hoffmann, V, 27.30; 9. Ad. Clark, V, 28.94. • Girls’ U-18 50 Free: 8. Ross, M, 28.70; 9. A. Rakowski, V, 28.81; 11. J. Jewell, V, 29.09; 12. Beauchemin, V, 29.40. • Boys U20 50 Free: 4. O. Poduschnick, M, 24.03; 7. W. Carpenter, M, 25.72; 8. N. Stone, M, 25.78; 9. Kearns, M, 25.84; 10. F. Milligan, M, 25.87; 11. E. Sausville, V, 26.15. • Girls’ U-12 200 Free Relay 2. V, (Giroux, Rapoport, Clark, Harris) 2:02.23; 7. M, (Orten, Cook Yoder, Poduschnick, Schneider) 2:21.34; 10. V, (Flint, Potter, Forgues, Eckels) 2:32.07. • Boys’ U-12 200 Free Relay: 3. V, (Croke, Kimball, Rakowski, Fearon) 2:22.61. • Girls’ U-14 200 Free Relay: 7. M, (Rockwell, Carpenter, Orten, Staats) 2:09.87. • Girls’ U-18 200 Free Relay 3. V, (Hawkins, Beauchemin, Rakowski, Croke) 1:52.03; 6. V, (LeBeau, Jewell, Huestis, Jewell) 1:59.99. • Boys’ U-18 200 Free Relay: 2. M, (Milligan, Carpenter, Milligan, Poduschnick) 1:37.31; 6. M, (Kearns, Rockwell, Hodson, Stone) 1:45.05.

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LINCOLN — The annual meeting of the Lincoln Historical Society will be on Sunday, Aug. 19, at 1 p.m. at the town office. Activities and programs for the coming year will be discussed and the election of officers will proceed the special program. Lincoln resident Lucinda Cockrell will provide an insight into the highly anticipated, soon to be published, book that she has co-authored, titled “How To Weed Your Attic: Getting Rid Of Junk Without Destroying History.” Plan to attend and bring a friend. Refreshments will be available. Jacob and I found so many wonderful treasures at the Three Day Stampede. We had so much fun going from tent to tent not knowing what goodies we might find. From books, pajamas and puzzles to holiday decorations, games and even Thomas trains, we filled a bag each day with all the proceeds benefiting the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. A big thanks to all the volunteers who work so hard putting this together. A friendly reminder from the Town Clerk’s office that there are still many unlicensed dogs for 2018.

Make sure your pet has an updated rabies vaccination and a current license with the town. Also, Transfer Station permits expired on June 15. New stickers can be purchased at the town office or Lincoln General Store. Do you have a favorite author? Do you want to be first in line for their newest book release? Did you know that you can sign up at the library to adopt an author? Sponsor the book purchases by this author (or pertaining to a theme) and be the first to read new releases. When you’re finished reading, the book will go into the library’s collection. The library also plans to have an evening together with sponsors sharing a small reading from one of their books along with wine and cheese. Choose a favorite author that you would like to share with our community. If you’re interested, sign up with Wendy at the library. Until next time ... Be Fearless In The Pursuit Of What Sets Your Soul On Fire. It Isn’t What We Say Or Think That Defines Us, But What We Do. Great Things Never Come From Comfort Zones.

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(Continued from Page 1B) tonians, an 800 percent increase in Lewiston’s nonwhite population in a decade. At Lewiston High School, about 25 percent of the 1,300 students (Lewiston is one the largest high schools in the state) are African, the majority Somali. “One Goal” ostensibly tells the dramatic story of the 2015 Lewiston High School soccer team and their path to the state championship and recognition as one of the best high school teams in the country. Bass narrates the story of Lewiston itself and the local heroes that embraced and supported these new citizens, who were treated at best with skepticism and suspicion and often with racist taunts and Islamophobic threats. The young men on the Lewiston soccer team, nearly all African, were often greeted with liberal use of the n-word and monkey sounds from opposing players and fans.

The most heroic figure in “One Goal” is the team’s coach, Mike McGraw, a Mainer in his mid-60s, soccer coach at LHS for over four decades. His sensitivity to the cultural complexities of his task was extraordinary, as was his understanding of the enormous daily challenges of his players and their families. McGraw’s love of the game rivaled that of his players, for whom soccer was truly a survival mechanism. It was how these kids were able to “live where they landed.” McGraw’s love of sports and kids was evident in everything he did. In one game, when the opposition was playing with unnecessary brutality, McGraw exhorted his young charges: “We play the right way. You rise above everybody else. We play hard. We play fair. Because winning without playing fair is a shallow victory. You let other people play those games. Just beat ‘em!” As the narrative of the season

progresses in “One Goal,” we get to know the players and their families, and their complicated adjustment to life in Maine. Bass had extraordinary access, having earned the trust of coaches, players, parents, teachers and administrators. We meet the star players on the championship team — Abdi Shariff-Hassan, Maulid Abdow, Mohamed Khalid, and others. The team adopted as its rallying cry, “Pamoja Ndugu!” (Together Brothers), a Swahili phrase. The overriding theme in “One Goal” is the power of sports to bridge differences through communal effort (the team!) and setting of common goals, and the ecstasy of physical exertion and competition. It’s about the power of sports to unite a community of diverse elements. There’s talk of a movie, of course. Such an inspirational story is irresistible. The climax of the movie, like the book, is likely to

depict the celebration after the final victory, with white people and black people, young and old, native and immigrant, hugging one another, deliriously joyful. But there’s no ending, really. There’s always more to the actual narrative, a “to be continued…” On June 12, last month, a brawl in Kennedy Park in downtown Lewiston between black and white young men resulted in the death of one of the combatants, a white man, hit by a brick to the head and killed. Tensions thus are running high in L-A this summer. Perhaps the glorious championship of 2015 that Amy Bass so beautifully documents in “One Goal” is providing a base of resilience and connection that will serve the community in this stressful time. We’ll see. In the meantime, pick up “One Goal.” You won’t be able to put it down.

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STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown Middlebury. Approved for seating for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of possibilities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

Work Wanted EXPERIENCED CAREGIVER/ nanny. Will care for children in your home or mine. Located close to Orwell elementary, walking distance. I offer an abun‑ dance of learning, explor‑ ing, singing, playing, inter‑ acting, and most of all a safe loving environment. Please call for references 802‑233‑9261 or email me at tc777pd@hotmail.com. Flex‑ ible Hours.

Help Wanted BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

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Case manager conducts substance use screening and provides short term interventions for treatment referrals, case coordination, monitoring, and wraparound services to parents/ caretakers involved in the investigation and assessment of a child welfare case. Co-located at DCF district office. Mon-Fri position; no on-call, evening or weekend hours. Minimum Bachelor’s degree in social work or human services related field. Apprentice Substance Abuse Counselor Certificate or ability to test for certification within three months of hire. Experience working with families, multidisciplinary teams, substance use disorders, and knowledge of community resources preferred. Lund offers competitive pay, paid training, and comprehensive benefit package including health, dental, life, disability, retirement, extensive time off accrual, 11 paid holidays, and wellness reimbursement. EEO/AA Send resume and cover letter to: Human Resources fax (802) 864-1619 email: employment@lundvt.org

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We are growing rapidly in all areas of the business and are excited to bring on enthusiastic and knowledgeable team members to support our growth. We are seeking a Customer Service Representative to join our team full-time in Shoreham, Vermont. Primary Responsibilities may include, but not limited to: • Monitor and troubleshoot all incoming orders. • Coordinate processing of key orders with sales, fulfillment, and finance teams. • Assist with the collection activities on wholesale accounts. • Maintain customer order forms and pricing information. • Review and approve product returns. • Generate sales reports.

CHEESE LINE OPERATOR

Are you interested in working in a team-oriented environment where “The World’s Best Cheddar” is made? Then we have the perfect career opportunity for you!

Are you interested in working in a team-oriented environment where “The World’s Best Cheddar” is made? Then we have the perfect career opportunity for you!

Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery has full-time immediate openings for SECOND SHIFT (4pm-12am) and THIRD SHIFT (12am-8am) Maintenance Mechanics. Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays.

Cabot Creamery has full-time immediate openings for THIRD SHIFT (8pm4am) Cheese Line Operators. Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays.

• The preferred candidate on second or third shift will be well versed in PLC & VFD’s. • The other position on second shift should be well versed in pneumatics, hydraulics, servicing motors, gear boxes and other general equipment maintenance. Mechanical background is a must. Excellent troubleshooting with a strong safety record and awareness. There is a wide variety of work to do. Willing to train the right candidate on the specific equipment. Must have ambition to learn and be willing to work both independently and as a strong team member. Position provides 40+ hours per week, paid leave and holidays. We offer a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), pension plan, and much more. Apply in person, by email to ajacobs@agrimark.net or send your resume with cover letter to:

Position provides 40+ hours per week, paid leave and holidays. We offer a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), pension plan, and much more. Apply in person, by email to ajacobs@agrimark.net or send your resume with cover letter to:

For more information about this position or other employment opportunities at Agri-Mark / Cabot Creamery, please visit our website at www.cabotcheese.com.

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The Middlebury New Fimmakers Festival (MNFF) is seeking volunteers to assist the week of August 23-26. This is a great opportunity support the efforts of new filmmakers. MNFF will take place at Town Hall Theater, Marquis Theater, Dana Auditorium, and Twilight Hall. Volunteer roles include ushering, providing venue and event support or helping to sell event merchandise. Drivers, photographers also needed. Volunteers can receive tickets, passes and swag as compensation for their support! For more information, please contact RSVP of Addison County at 388-7044 or rsvpaddison@volunteersinvt.org.

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Basin Harbor is now hiring for pastry chefs, cooks, disherwasher, servers, boat driver, laundry attendant, and trash/recycling! We will train the right person for the job. If you are interested in the hospitality industry or starting a new career, we want to hear from you. Interested applicants please apply online at: www.basinharbor.com/jobs/.

NOW HIRING: Reliable, responsible Part-Time cashiers and deli help needed for flexible schedule – the ability to work nights, weekends and holidays is essential. Apply in person at:

East Middlebury Maplefields 3201 Rte 7 South, E. Middlebury Ask for Brittany or pick-up an application EOE

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 2018-19 Food Service Director/Cook Addison Central School District is seeking a full-time Cook in Salisbury with experience in preparing nutritional meals, breakfast and lunch, and managing a meals program. The successful candidate must be organized, have strong communication, collaborative and computer skills, and have interest in participating in school wide health and nutrition initiatives. Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, and three current reference letters via School Spring. Applications will be accepted until July 20, 2018. E.O.E.

Workforce-Development/ Mentor Program Coodinator Dynamic candidate will provide leadership to workforce-development training and mentoring programs serving 18 – 24 y/o youth in partnership with the Hannaford Career Center and United Way of Addison County.

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CLASS A CDL DRIVER wanted. Sunrise Orchards is hiring for an experienced class A truck driver. The job requires apple and cider deliveries 5‑6 days/week starting at 4:00 a.m. within a 250 mile radius of Cornwall, Vt. Must pass drug test and background check. Please contact Chris at chodges@ sunriseorchards.com or call (802) 989‑0694 if interested.

DELI, BARISTA & Baker Positions. Online application on our website or stop in and apply in person Otter Creek Bakery, Middlebury. 388‑3371, ottercreekbakery. com.

EASTVIEW AT M I D D L E B U RY s e e k s enthusiastic and experienced caregivers to provide hands‑on care in our dynamic retirement community. Openings: full‑time evenings, part‑time weekends. Email acoyle@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 989‑7502.

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EASTVIEW AT M I D D L E B U RY s e e k s FT housekeeper who is friendly and detail oriented to provide quality cleaning service in our retirement community. Email acoyle@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 989‑7502.

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH SCHOOL Coaching Positions Middlebury Union High School is seeking an Assistant Varsity Coach or JV Head Coach for Field Hockey. Applicants must possess a strong knowledge of Field Hockey coaching principles with previous coaching experience preferred. Must possess strong organizational skills and the ability to communicate and relate to student athletes. Interested parties should send a letter of interest, resume, and three current letters of reference to:

ELECTRICIAN’S HELPER/ Apprentice. No experience necessary. Will train. Competitive wages and benefits. For more information please call 802‑247‑6390.

Sean Farrell/Athletic Director Middlebury Union High School 73 Charles Avenue Middlebury,VT 05753

FULL TIME ‑ YEAR ROUND deli position. Set hours Monday ‑ Friday 6am ‑ 2pm. Prior work experience with food preparation in commercial kitchen/deli required. Applicants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

Applications will be accepted until the positions have been filled. E.O.E.

LABORER, MUST BE reliable. Light farming, tree cutting. Call 802‑458‑2178.

NOW HIRING CLOSERS

NEWSPAPER READERS needed to participate in a paid research study. We will be hosting the research study during the month of August, to learn readers’ views about which qualities separate good newspapers from great ones. If you read a daily, Sunday or weekly newspaper on a regular basis, you are invited to participate. If selected, you’ll receive $100 for sharing your time & opinions at a 3‑hour meeting in Woburn, Massachusetts. For more information visit nenpa.com/ screener or email info@ nenpa.com.

Full and part time positions available for reliable workers who can be flexible and work nights, weekends and holidays. Additional openings for weekend help also available.

To learn more about this full-time Middlebury-based position, please visit vtadultlearning.org Application Deadline: Friday, August 10 Anticipated Start Date: Tuesday, September 4 TO APPLY: Send a cover letter, resume and three professional references (preferably supervisor or manager level) electronically to: droberts@vtadultlearning.org Vermont Adult Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer

FOOD SERVICE

Primarily night and weekends. Positions avaialble for reliable, flexible, food service workers. Please apply in person at: Maplefield’s Middlebury 60 North Pleasant St. Ask for Maggie or fill out an application. EOE

NOW HIRING: Full- and Part-Time Sales Associates for flexible shifts Nights & Wkends

NOW HIRING AT HELEN PORTER REHABILITATION & NURSING!

Plus! FT Assistant Manager Position available reliable, flexible leader. Benefits available for F/T staff Apply in person at:

Learn more about job opportunities at Walk-in Wednesday, when you can take a facility tour and interview on-the-spot! Walk in at 30 Porter Drive, Middlebury any Wednesday between 9AM and 6PM. For more information about available openings, visit UVMHealth.org/PMC and click on “Careers.”

PART TIME ‑ DELI position. Set hours Saturday 5:45am ‑ 12 noon. Prior work experience with food preparation in commercial kitchen/deli required. Applicants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101. PART‑TIME CAREGIVER FOR 18 year old disabled b o y i n M i d d l e b u r y. Applicants must have child care experience, references and be reliable. Some lifting required. Flexible hours. Criminal background check. Send resume to: sstone7716@gmail.com.

Help Wanted SHARED LIVING PROVIDER sought for an engaging young man in his early 20s. He enjoys watching movies and playing video games and has interest in muscle cars and demo derbies. He needs an accessible home without young children. Ideal provider will be highly skilled in providing medical assistance, and is able to provide support in all aspects of daily living, including feeding and personal care. He is looking forward to increasing his independence. Generous tax‑free stipend is commensurate with experience, with monthly room and board payment and a respite budget. For more details, call Keiko at Community Associates. 802‑388‑4021. THE AURORA PRE‑ SCHOOL is looking to hire a part time preschool teacher for our small, nature‑based, full time preschool program. If you have experience work‑ ing with three to five year old children, a genuine love and appreciation for the outdoors, and boundless positive energy, please ap‑ ply by sending a cover letter, resume and three references to kathleenm@gmavt.net or to Aurora Preschool, 238 Pe‑ terson Terrace, Middlebury 05753. Experience working with children, familiarity with emergent curriculum, and a philosophy grounded in play based learning are musts. THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS is looking for a reli‑ able early morning riser to deliver copies of the news‑ paper in Middlebury. Inter‑ ested parties must have a reliable vehicle, valid driver’s license and liability insur‑ ance. Potential earnings of $1,600 to 1,700/mo. plus tips. Please contact Monique at 802‑316‑7194 for more information. VERMONT SOAP‑ A progressive, equal opportunity employer‑ has immediate openings for Production Team Members. Must be hard working, dependable, attentive to detail, able to life 50 lbs. and stand for two hours at a time. Having a good attitude and being a team player is a must. We offer a good starting wage, paid vacation time, free gym membership and a chiropractic program for all employees after a successful, six‑month introductory period. Please send cover letter and resume to nichole@vtsoap.com.

Maplefields of New Haven Route 7, New Haven, VT Ask for Sherry or pick-up an application EOE

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If you want work that makes a positive difference in the community, come join our team! HOPE is looking for a temporary, parttime receptionist to fill in on Monday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons, early August through October. And, we are still taking applications for a 29.5 hour a week warehouse assistant for our resale store. Both positions require good customer service skills. To apply, email cover letter and resume to: receptionist@hope-vt.org or mail to 282 Boardman Street, Ste 1A, Middlebury. Please, no phone calls or drop ins.

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ART SHOW‑ For the Month of August Kay George ‑ A VT Pastel Society Member ‑ will be displaying her works of art at the Charlotte Senior Center, with a reception scheduled for Sunday, August 5th from 1‑4 pm. Kay finds painting in pastels a wonderful way to relax and express herself. She enjoys Vermont’s beautiful landscapes and often paints en plein air, but she is also challenged by capturing the intricacies of the still life. Charlotte Senior Center ‑ 212 Ferry Rd, Charlotte, Vt. 05445.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMILIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. Newcomers welcome. Confidential. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

A L C O H O L I C S ANONYMOUS, 5 THURSDAY. 12 Steps and Traditions Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7 :15‑8:15am. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Alternating Format Meeting, Ferrisburgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm. Speaker Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30pm.

Garage Sales MIDDLEBURY, AUG 4 & 5 and 11 & 12. 8 a.m. ‑ 5 p.m. 24 High St. Many good items from our mother’s home. Rain or shine.

BRANDON TOWNWIDE YARD SALES SATURDAY, AUGUST 4

All day Yard Sales Beginning at 9am. Pick up Official Yard Sale Map at www.brandon.org starting at 7am on Aug. 4 or Visitor Center at the Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace next to church at routes 7 and 73 West. Rain or Shine. YARD SALE‑ SAT., Aug. 4, 9am ‑ 3pm. 625 Champlain St., Brandon. Cashmere me‑ rino wool sweaters, name brand women’s and men’s clothing, dish‑ware, home deco and bedding.

Public Meetings ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders. Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turningpointaddisonvt.org. AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anonymous, confidential and free. At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. 7:30‑8:30 PM Friday evenings.

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A L C O H O L I C S ANONYMOUS, 1 SUNDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. Women’s Meeting, North Ferrisburgh, United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd. 6‑7pm. 12 Step Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, www.aavt.org . ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Rip‑ ton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Women of AA (Step/Speaker), Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm. Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm. Big Book Meeting, New Ha‑ ven, Congregational Church, Village Green, 7:30‑8:30pm. Discussion Meeting, Bran‑ don, St. Thomas Episco‑ pal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30am. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Daily Reflection Meeting, Vergennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm. 12 Step Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm. Spiritual Awakening Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am. A L C O H O L I C S ANONYMOUS, 4 WEDNESDAY. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 7:15‑8:15am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. 12 Step Meeting, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7‑8pm. 12 Step Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 7‑8pm.

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A L C O H O L I C S ANONYMOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiritual Awakening M e e t i n g , M i d d l e b u r y, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Big Book Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 6‑7pm. Discussion Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Discussion Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, The Turn‑ ing Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 10‑11am. Beginner’s Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, The Turn‑ ing Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 6:30‑7:30pm. ARE YOU BOTHERED BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems. Babysitting available. M A K I N G R E C O V E RY EASIER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and discussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understanding of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

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NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

TREE R E M O VA L , R O O F I N G , c a r p e n t r y, painting, property maintenance and much more. Insured and references available. 24 hour emergency service .802‑458‑2178.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLEBURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLEBURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. O P I AT E O V E R D O S E RESCUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turningpointaddisonvt.org. PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plastering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

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JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE Laredo SUV. Wife’s car. Always senior driven. Just spent $1,000 on breaks, alternator and misc. repairs. Car runs perfect. Drives and looks good. Must sell. Have new car. $2,195 or best offer. 453‑4235. REFRIGERATOR FOR HOUSE, garage or basement. Kenmore 18 cu. ft. Clean, very good condition, runs great. $150. 388‑6691.

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1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

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AA WHY RENT, buy this very nice 2 bedroom, 1 ½ bath home set up in a small park in Brandon (Forestdale). Willing to finance with $5000 down. Total monthly payments $750 +/‑ for 5 years +/‑. Gene 802‑917‑5460/Dolly 802‑733‑8018.

PAINTING SEASON IS here. Wet Paint, interior and exterior quality painting. 30 years experience. References and insured. 802‑458‑2402.

B R I D P O R T: S U N N Y, SPACIOUS 1/br. apartment. Beautiful views, garden space. All utilities included except heat. Washer/dryer. No pets. No smoking. $900 per month. 802‑349‑9624. BRISTOL FA M I LY HOUSING: $1,035 3 BD Apartment. Rent includes heat, hot water, trash and snow removal. Washer dryer hookup & storage space. Income restrictions apply. For further details call E.P. Management Corp at 775‑1100 Ext. #7 or e‑mail shelly@epmanagement. com. Equal Housing Op‑ portunity.

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Att. Farmers HAY FOR SALE Small square bales. First cut and mulch. Call 802‑349‑9281.

BRISTOL, LARGE 1 BEDROOM and a 2 bedroom apartment. Excellent condition. Includes /11) water, : 5/5 lishedand wi‑fi. No pets. (Pubsewer No smoking. $760 and $965 monthly. 802‑635‑9716.

LARGE QUANTITIES OF 2017 BMR and conventional corn silage, haylage and 1st cut dry round bales for sale. Discounts for large quantities. Putney, Vermont. 802‑579‑4739.

88 Main Street, Middlebury, VT info@vermontfolklifecenter.org • 802-388-4964 Individual offices or multiple-office suites available starting September 1st, at 88 Main Street, a superb historic brick building in Downtown Middlebury!

W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FA R M W O R K . P o n d agitating, liquid manure hauling, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Four spacious (300 s/f) offices on second floor available; elevator-accessible with natural light, wood floors, 10-foot ceilings, located in the landmark John Warren House. All spaces include electricity, independently controlled air conditioning and heat, shared waiting/sitting area, and access to a fully equipped shared kitchen. Phone and Internet connectivity available. Options available for shared conference room and on-site parking.

Motorcycles 2011 HARLEY ROAD King Classic with motor trike kit. 30,100 miles. Many options. $15,800 or BRO. 802‑545‑2477.

Monthly rent for single office from $500 to $700, all-inclusive. Contact Bob at Vermont Folklife Center for more information or to tour spaces: info@vermontfolklifecenter.org or 802-388-4964.

For Rent FOR RENT: BRIDPORT, Commercial/retail o ff i c e . 1 , 2 0 0 S q . F t . H i g h t r a ff i c v i s i b i l i t y. tbrought@middlebury.edu.

C O Z Y, N E WLY RENOVATED 3 bedroom, one bathroom house on a quiet road in Middlebury, three miles to downtown. New dishwasher, washer/ dryer, hardwood floors and yard. Excellent public school. $1,575 per month. Non‑smoking, no pets. Utilities not included, lawncare included. One‑year lease and references required. Email pam.panicucci@gmail.com. DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measure‑ ments are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

E A S T M I D D L E B U RY‑ FURNISHED tworoom suite. Private entrance, private baths, kitchen. All included; w/d, wifi, internet, utilities, off‑street parking. Ta s t e f u l . I m m a c u l a t e . Serene. In classic 1840 home. $500. Call/text Susan, 802‑989‑8941.

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MIDDLEBURY 1 BEDROOM near Marble Works. Available September 1. Garden space, garage, w/d hookups. Lease. $850. plus utilities. 802‑388‑6892.

PROFESSIONAL PAINTING; interior/exterior, residential/commercial, pressure washing. 20 years’ experience. Best prices. References. 802‑989‑5803.

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say. The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944. Talk to our sales professionals.

DINING TABLE, SOLID OAK trestle, 6 high back chairs, 2 leaves. $550. 802‑877‑6320.

HOUSE CLEANING ‑ SMALL or large jobs. References available. Call 802‑558‑6136 or email at: ennis987@gmail.com.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law.

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ADDISON: LAKE CHAM‑ PLAIN waterfront camp. Beautiful views, gorgeous sunsets, private beach, dock, rowboat and canoe included. $600 weekly, or call for weekends. 802‑349‑4212, no texts.

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VA L L E Y H A N D Y M A N SERVICE: electrical, p l u m b i n g , c a r p e n t r y. Resolve projects and that honey‑to‑do list today. Property management upon request. Mowing, landscaping, snow removal. Quality workmanship and references. 802‑458‑2402.

CONSTRUCTION: A D D I T I O N S , R E N O VAT I O N S , n e w construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

LOOKING FOR A CLEANING SERVICE? P+B cleaning service would love to help you out. We are a family business with over 30 years experience. F u l l y i n s u r e d . We d o residential and commercial cleaning,window cleaning. (802)247‑8036 or PBLester@comcast.net.

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MIDDLEBURY ‑ PROFESSIONAL office suite. 1,205 sq. ft. office space. Conveniently located in Middlebury ‑ Court St./ Creek Rd. 2 private offices, large reception area, large central open space for additional offices/cubicles or boardroom. Private bathroom. Ready to move in. Call Eric at 388‑6054. MIDDLEBURY 1 BEDROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/ month plus deposit. Some utilities included. 388‑0401. MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994. MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, parking. Can be subdivided. Real‑Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

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O F F I C E S PA C E O R artist’s studio. 12 Park Street, Brandon. $225 plus electric. 2 rooms, second floor, 450 ft., private bath. 802‑558‑8555.

10 CORDS OF poplar wood for sale. $150/cord. Can be delivered. 802‑558‑1069.

S U G A R W O O D APARTMENTS is currently accepting applications for 2, 3 and 4 BR apartments in Middlebury. All income/ assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. NP/NS. W/D hook‑ups. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website w w w. s u m m i t p m g . c o m . Equal Housing Opportunity.

Wanted OLD LICENSE PLATES. If you have very old Vermont plates that the new genera‑ tion does not cherish, why not sell to a life long collector. Cash buyer. Conrad Hugh‑ son, Putney. 802‑387‑4498. Please leave a message or chughson@svcable.net.

FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802‑282‑9110.

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P O R TA B L E H O N D A GENERATOR 3000 watts or bigger for camper. 453‑4235.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. The building season is upon us. If you’re considering a new home you should look at our two remaining lots on East Middlebury’s Daisy Lane. This is an established residential development with town water, nearby tennis courts, playground and only minutes away from the Snow Bowl and Lake Dunmore. Call Jack at 388‑2502 or 388‑7350.

Public Notices Index Addison County Community Trust (1) Addison County Courthouse (1) Addison County Probate Court (1) Addison County Superior Court (1) Middlebury (4)

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY BID NUMBER 20180725

Sealed competitive bids for the “Middlebury Public Works Building Repairs” will be received at the office of Middlebury Public Works, 1020 S. Route 7, Middlebury, Vermont 05753 until 1:30 p.m on August 9, 2018 and will be publicly opened and read aloud soon thereafter. Bid packet is available at the Public Works Department 1020 S. Route 7, or contact the department at 802-388-4045 to have a packet e-mailed to you. Bid shall submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Middlebury Public Works Building Repairs”. The Town of Middlebury, Vermont reserves the right to waive any informalities in, or reject any and all bids, or to accept any bid deemed to be in the best interest of Town. Kathleen Ramsay 7/30 Town Manager

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Middlebury College (1) Mount Abraham Unified School District (1) Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union (1) Salisbury (3) Vergennes (1) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY BID NUMBER 07-19-2018

Sealed competitive bids for the “Middlebury Pump Station Improvement Project - Engineering Services” will be received at the office of Middlebury Public Works, 1020 S. Route 7, Middlebury, Vermont 05753 until 11:00am on August 9, 2018 and will be publicly opened and read aloud soon thereafter. Bid packet is available at the Public Works Department 1020 South Rt. 7. Bid shall submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Middlebury Pump Station Improvement Project - Engineering Services”. The Town of Middlebury, Vermont reserves the right to waive any informalities in, or reject any and all bids, or to accept any bid deemed to be in the best interest of Town. Kathleen Ramsay Town Manager 7/26

MOUNT ABRAHAM UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (BRISTOL, LINCOLN, MONKTON, NEW HAVEN, STARKSBORO AND MT. ABRAHAM UMHS) NOTICE OF RECORDS DESTRUCTION

ATTN: Parents & eligible students who received Special Education services up to June 2012. The Vermont Agency of Education’s State Board of Ed. Manual of Rights and Practices, Section 2366,2.13(a) Destruction of Information, states: “For purpose of an audit, when a participating agency has counted a child to justify receipt of IDEA funds, the district shall retain copies of the child’s IEP and special education eligibility evaluations, for a minimum of 5 years from the end of the school year in which the document was in effect.” If you received Special Education services and graduated in 2012 you are entitled to a copy of your records. The MAUSD will destroy these Special Education records on Monday 8/20/18. If you want a copy of your records, contact MAUSD Superintendent’s office at 453-6951. Your request must be received prior to Friday, 8/17/18 7/30

NOTICE OF DESTRUCTION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION RECORDS RUTLAND NORTHEAST SUPERVISORY UNION

Barstow, Brandon, Chittenden, Goshen, Leicester, Mendon, Pittsford, Sudbury, Whiting (Otter Valley & Barstow Unified Union School Districts) Let this serve as notice that Special Education Records of students who last attended local schools through the 2010-2011 school year are being destroyed in accordance with Federal, State and Local Guidelines. Anyone who would like his or her records should call Beth Ripley at the RNESU Office at (802)247-5757 prior to September 7, 2018 to make arrangements to pick them up. Marsha F. Bruce Director of Special Services 8/2

Sexual assault kit received from a resident

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police picked up an anonymously submitted sexual assault tracking kit from an East Main Street residence on July 26. Police said the kit has been place into evidence and the matter is under investigation. In recent action, Middlebury police: • Referred a local woman to mental health services on July 16 after she alleged hearing multiple gunshots and reported multiple people had tried to get into her Court Street apartment. • Helped Middlebury Regional EMS officials with a man who had injured himself in a fall on South Pleasant Street on July 17. • Cautioned two men and a woman who were allegedly shouting obscenities at each other in Otter View Park on July 17. • Responded to a noise complaint in the John Graham Court housing development on July 18. Police said they told residents to turn down their music. • Checked on a local woman on July 18 who had allegedly talked about potentially harming herself. Police referred the woman to the Counseling Service of Addison County. • Served a no-trespass order on July 18 on a man who was not wanted on Middlebury College grounds. • Served a no-trespass order on July 18 on a drunken man who had refused to leave Two Brothers Tavern on Main Street on July 18. Police also took the man to Burlington for detox services. • Warned a man who had allegedly tried to start a campfire on Middlebury College property off Freeman Way on July 18. Police served the man with a no-trespass order for the campus. • Received a report on July 19 that someone had hacked into the Rouse Tire Sale’s checking account in order to illegally access funds. The case remains under investigation, police said. • Were informed of the alleged

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theft of a walking stick from a tenant at the Residence at Otter Creek on July 19. • Assisted state police at the scene of a family fight off Route 73 on July 19. • Assisted Middlebury firefighters at the scene of a brush fire off Case Street on July 20. • Received a report on July 20 of a company allegedly withdrawing money from a local resident’s account without the resident’s permission. The investigation continues. • Helped Vermont State Police screen a driver for possible drunk driving on South Main Street on July 20. • Helped Middlebury Regional EMS care for a woman who had overdosed on medication in the Cedar Court area on July 21. • Helped Middlebury firefighters at the scene of a fire on Brookside Avenue on July 21. • Investigated a complaint about an argument between some Water Street neighbors on July 21. • Helped a local man who had been receiving unwanted phone calls on July 21. • Responded on July 21 to the scene of a two-vehicle collision on Court Street Extension during which one of the drivers sustained what police termed a “minor injury.” Police said the driver was treated at Porter Hospital and quickly released. • Received a report on July 21 of parents allegedly being cruel to their children on the Court Street Extension area on July 21. The matter is under investigation, according to police. • Were asked to check on the safety of a man allegedly seen sleeping on the railroad tracks near the Marble Works complex during the afternoon of July 22. Police said they checked the area and found a man and woman safely sleeping in the grass near the

Public Notices

can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on Pages 8B and 9B.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PUBLIC NOTICE The State of Vermont, Agency of Natural Resources, Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management & Prevention Division, has issued Hazardous Waste Emergency Permit No. DEC-HW-EP-18-03 to Middlebury College, located in Middlebury, VT. The Emergency Permits are issued for the purpose of allowing on-site treatment of: Description Quantity Hazard Designation Container Size Ethyl Ether 1 Potentially unstable/ peroxide former 1L Ethyl Ether 1 Potentially unstable/ peroxide former 4L Chemcept Inc. will conduct the treatment of these wastes under an approved work plan. After treatment, the containers shall be packaged and transported to a permitted off-site hazardous waste facility for disposal. The Emergency Permits are effective as of August 1, 2018 and will expire on August 30, 2018. Any questions or requests for further information may be directed to Anna Bourakovsky of the Department of Environmental Conservation, Waste Management & Prevention Division, 1 National Life Drive, Davis 1, Montpelier, VT 05620-3704; (802) 477-2981; anna.bourakovsky@vermont.gov. 8/2

STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION ADDISON UNIT DOCKET NO:101-7-17 Ancv KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Plaintiff v. BENJAMIN H. RESNIK; VIRGINIA M. RESNIK; OCCUPANTS RESIDING AT: 262 VT ROUTE 100 HANCOCK, VT 05748-9763 Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Benjamin H. Resnik and Virginia M. Resnik to KeyBank National Association, dated September 19, 2014, and recorded in Book 33 at Page 344 of the Hancock Land Records, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder and for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 9:00 AM on August 30, 2018 at 262 VT Route 100, Hancock, VT all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To Wit: CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY IN HANCOCK, IN THE COUNTY OF ADDISON AND STATE OF VERMONT, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, VIZ. BEING A PART OF THE LAND AND PREMISES DESCRIBED AS THE HOME PLACE AND DECREED TO MURIEL EATON BY DECREE OF DISTRIBUTION, REAL ESTATE ENTERED IN THE ESTATE OF JOHN C. EATON, DATED DECEMBER 27, 1990 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 20, PAGES 81 TO 87 OF THE HANCOCK LAND RECORDS. THE PART OF THE HOME PLACE CONVEYED HEREIN IS MORE SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AS PARCEL 1 ON A SURVEY PREPARED BY NORMAN R, SMITH, DATED JUNE 7, 1992, REVISED JUNE 23, 1993 AND TO BE RECORDED IN THE HANCOCK LAND RECORDS. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO BENJAMIN H. RESNIK AND VIRGINIA M. RESNIK, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS TENANTS BY THE ENTIRETY, DATED 07.03.1993 AND RECORDED ON 07.19.1993 IN BOOK 21, PAFE 15, IN THE ADDISON COUNTY RECORDERS OFFICE, PARCEL NO. 01 1880 The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication. The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and without publication or service of a new notice of sale, by announcement of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment or by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or by certified check by the purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. The Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at sale. KeyBank National Association, Jennifer L. Maynard, Esq. Shechtman Halperin Savage, LLP 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 877-575-1400 Attorney for Plaintiff jmaynard@shslawfirm.com Dated: July 30, 2018 8/2, 9, 16

footbridge that links the Marble Works to Frog Hollow. • Received a report on July 22 that someone had vandalized Mister Ups Restaurant. • Were asked on July 22 to check on the welfare of a Kings Row resident who hadn’t been seen by neighbors for a couple of days. Police said they located the man at the hospital. • Warned a Short Shannon Street resident on July 22 about a violation of the town’s noise ordinance. • Received a report that someone had damages a device at the municipal pump station off Bakery Lane on July 23. • Were informed on July 24 that someone had allegedly taken an inspection sticker off a local vehicle. • Told a homeless couple on July 24 that camping was not permitted in the woods off Maple Street. • Investigated a report of a stolen check being cashed at National Bank of Middlebury on July 25. • Responded to a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident in the Seymour Street area on July 25. • Received a report of money being fraudulently withdrawn from a bank account by an ex-spouse on July 25. • Were informed someone stole a tool chest and tools from an unlocked building on Lower Foote Street on July 25. The matter remains under investigation. • Responded to a two-vehicle accident, with injuries, on Route 7 South on July 26. Police said both drivers were taken to Porter Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. • Assisted in resolving a child custody dispute at a Seymour Street residence on July 27. Police said

TOWN OF SALISBURY PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that at 7:00PM on August 22, 2018 at the Salisbury Town Offices, the DRB will consider an Appeal of Permits #18-16 and #18-17 issued July 5, 2018 to Jonathan Blake. The appeal is regarding permits issued to Jonathan Blake for property located at 3255 Lake Dunmore Road, Parcel ID # 1553094-B. Application materials are available for review during normal business hours at the Salisbury Town Offices. Interested parties who wish to be heard may attend the hearing to offer testimony or send a representative. Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. 117 §4464(a)(1)(C) and §4471(a), participation in this hearing is necessary to establish status as an interested person and the right to appeal. Paul Vaczy, Vice Chairman Salisbury DRB 8/2

TOWN OF SALISBURY PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that at 7:00PM on August 22, 2018 at the Salisbury Town Offices, the DRB will consider an Appeal of Permit #18-15 dated June 19, 2018. The appeal is regarding a building permit granted to Frank Punderson through a subdivision permit, #18-02. Application materials are available for review during normal business hours at the Salisbury Town Offices. Interested parties who wish to be heard may attend the hearing to offer testimony or send a representative. Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. 117 §4464(a)(1) (C) and §4471(a), participation in this hearing is necessary to establish status as an interested person and the right to appeal. Paul Vaczy, Vice Chairman Salisbury DRB 8/2

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 27, 2018 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the Town Offices, 77 Main Street, to consider the following application(s): 1. An application (file #2018-09:089.000) request by G6 Realty, LLC for final conditional use approval to develop a new single-family home and camp in the Forest District pursuant to Sections 610 and 742. Additionally, the Applicants are asking for a modification to the Road Standards pursuant to section 576XII. The property is located at 155 Dragon Brook Road in the Forest District, parcel ID# 009089.000. Prior to the public hearing a site visit will be held at 5:00 pm. Those wishing to participate are asked to meet at the entrance to the property (155 Dragon Brook Rd.). The site visit is an opportunity for interested persons and the DRB to familiarize themselves with the project. No testimony will be taken at the site visit. Plans and additional information regarding these application(s) may be viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office in the Town Offices or by calling 388-8100, Ext 226. Participation in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. David Wetmore Assistant Zoning Administrator 8/2

a mother was refusing to transfer a child over to the father. Per court order, the mother eventually turned over the child, according to police. • Removed a man from the town green on July 27. Municipal ordinance calls for the green to be vacant at night. • Took into protective custody a drunken man who had trespassed at a North Pleasant Street apartment on July 28. Police later turned the man over to a family member. • Responded to a complaint about a barking dog at a Brookside Drive home during the early morning hours of July 28. • Asked the local dog warden to pick up a dog that had been running loose on Chateau Road on July 28. • Responded to what witnesses described as a “heated argument” between multiple people in the Case Street area on July 29. Police, who separated the parties, said the argument was over a real estate issue. • Received a report that someone stole some saddlebags and other equipment from a motorcycle parked near Mister Ups Restaurant on Bakery Lane on July 29.

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 20, 2018 at 7 p.m. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Lincoln Geronimo, LLC (Owner) and 35C, LLC (Applicant) for site plan review and conditional use review to change the use of the community center at 55 School Street by expanding the existing restaurant. The request will be reviewed pursuant to Article VII and VIII of the zoning and subdivision regulations. A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office. July 25, 2018 Peter Garon Administrative Officer 8/2

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Notice is hereby given that at 7:00PM on August 22, 2018 the DRB will hold a facebook.com/ hearing on the Minor Subdivision Appliaddisonindependent cation submitted by Lawrence D. Ross andtwitter.com/addyindy Elinor L. Garfinkel on April 9, 2018. The hearing is regarding a change in boundary lines on property at 461 and 467 Rustic Lane. Application materials are available for review during normal business hours at the Salisbury Town Offices. Interested parties who wish to be heard may attend the hearing to offer testimony or send a representative. Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. 117 §4464(a)(1) (C) and §4471(a), participation in this hearing is necessary to establish status as an interested person and the right to appeal. Paul Vaczy, Vice Chairman Salisbury DRB 8/2

ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Addison County Community Trust and Housing Vermont are requesting construction management firms to submit proposals for the construction of a new building with 24 rental apartments in Vergennes, Vermont. Construction Management firms must have comparable experience with new construction of high performance multi-family housing, federal funding requirements, and a bonding capacity of at least $5 million. For additional information contact Charlie Willner at Housing Vermont via email at Charlie@ hvt.org. Completed proposals are due by Monday, August 20, 2018. Davis Bacon residential wage rates will apply. Minority-owned, women-owned, locallyowned and Section 3 businesses are strongly encouraged to respond. 8/2

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 309-7-18 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF RANDALL M. QUESNEL, JR. NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Randall M. Quesnel, Jr. of Monkton, Vermont. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: July 25, 2018 Becky P. Quesnel 300 Juniper Lane No. Ferrisburgh, VT 05473 704-488-3776 bpquesnel@gmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: August 2, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 8/2

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EastView to host AARP driving course August 30 MIDDLEBURY — EastView at Middlebury will host an AARP Smart Driver Class on Thursday, Aug. 30, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The 4.5 hour refresher course is open to all drivers 50 years and older and is aimed at bringing people up-to date on changing driving abilities, cars, roads, and laws. No tests are involved. Rather the event, led by instructor

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LEICESTER — The Democratic town caucus for the purpose of nominating residents for the position of Justice of the Peace will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at 803 Fern Lake Road in Leicester. The Republican

town caucus for the purpose of nominating residents for the position of Justice of the Peace will be held at the Leicester Town Office on Monday, Aug. 13, at 6 p.m. For more information on either meeting call 802-247-3160.

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Presentation of Design Plans for One-Way Traffic on Merchants Row After the Completion of Construction of the Downtown Bridges Middlebury Town Offices Tuesday, August 14, 2018 • 7:15 p.m. At its regularly-scheduled meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 7:15 p.m., the engineer from Downtown Bridge & Rail Project will present design plans for one-way traffic on Merchants Row after the completion of construction of the downtown bridges in 2021. A link to the preliminary design concept is available on the Town’s website, www.townofmiddlebury.org, under Latest Events on the home page. If you need special accommodations to attend this meeting, please contact the Town Manager’s Office at 802-458-8000 as early as possible. Middlebury Selectboard

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Domestic disputes lead to assault charges ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police responded to two recent domestic disputes over the past two weeks, both resulting in assault charges. The first occurred on July 21 in Orwell, at around 6:21 p.m., after troopers received a report of a family fight. After arriving at the scene, troopers determined that Amber Thomas, 22, of Orwell had physically assaulted a family member, before damaging two vehicles, smashing the home’s windows with a shovel, and driving away. Police found Thomas later in Rutland County and took her into custody. Police later took Thomas to the Porter Hospital emergency room at the request of Counseling Services of Addison County, and eventually released and cited her for domestic assault and unlawful mischief. The second incident took place in Salisbury on July 28. Responding to a reported family fight at around 11:45 a.m., troopers determined that Victoria Tellier, 26, of Middlebury had assaulted a member of the household. The victim was hospitalized, and Tellier was arrested and cited for domestic assault before being released. In other recent activity, state police: • On July 24 at around 8:40 a.m. stopped a speeding car on Route 22A in Addison. Police cited John Beauregard, 31, of Orwell for speeding; troopers said he was driving 83 mph in a 50 mph zone. • On July 24 at approximately 4:25 p.m. stopped a car on Route 7 in Middlebury for a moving violation. Police discovered that the driver,

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identified as Herbert Klein, 46, of Wells, had an active arrest warrant out of Rutland, and processed him at the Rutland barracks. Klein was later lodged at the Marble Valley Correctional Facility for lack of $5,000 bail. • On July 25 at around 6:29 p.m. responded to a two-car crash on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh. Police report that a 78-year-old Ferrisburgh woman had been slowing down for a line of cars on the road when she was rear-ended by a 16-year-old Starksboro resident who had momentarily diverted her attention from the road. Nobody was injured; the teenager’s car sustained damage to the front bumper, hood and undercarriage, while the lead vehicle sustained minor damage to the rear bumper. • On July 26 at 3 p.m. arrested Ronald Marsh, 54, of Sharon at a location in Granville and cited him for stalking and disorderly conduct by electronic means. This came from a three-day investigation where police said they found out that Marsh was texting and leaving threatening messages to his estranged partner over a monthlong span. Police also reported that the state of Florida issued a warrant for Marsh’s arrest for failure to appear on a domestic assault case involving the same domestic partner. The warrant is non-extraditable at this time, state

police said in a press release. Police jailed March at the Southern State Correctional Facility with bail set at $400 cash. • On July 28 at around 6:22 p.m. responded to a three-car crash on Route 116 South in Bristol. Police determined that the first driver, Peter Diminico, 69, of Bristol had been trying to turn left on Route 116 into the Bristol Country Store gas station when he failed to yield to a car driven in the opposite direction by Jessica Goerold, 33, of Hinesburg. Diminico’s car collided with Goerold’s, which then hit the third car, driven by Stacie Macrae, 39, of Burlington, which was parked at the gas pumps in the country store lot. Police issued Diminico a ticket for vehicle turning left. State police were assisted at the scene by Bristol police, Bristol Fire Department and Middlebury Regional EMS. • On July 29 cited Alara Bourgeois, 29, of Bristol twice for driving with a criminally suspended license. First, at around 9:25 a.m., police stopped Bourgeois on Route 7 near the intersection of Monkton Road for an equipment violation before discovering that her license was criminally suspended, issuing her a citation. Later that day, at approximately 10:30 p.m., police stopped Bourgeois on Plank Road in New Haven for improper or unassigned plates, before making the same discovery and citing her again. Because Bourgeois had small children in the car, police escorted her to her home and again cited her for driving with a criminally suspended license.

Salisbury SALISBURY — Last week’s Summer Series performance by Deb Brisson and the Hay Burners was a lively event with many members of the audience on their feet dancing in the aisles. This week Joshua Collier, tenor, Helen Lyons, soprano, and Claire Black, piano, will perform songs from opera, operettas and musical theater. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free, although donations are always appreciated. The church

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is fully accessible through the rear entrance. On Friday, Aug. 10, the faculty ensemble from Camp Point Counterpoint will perform music by Mendelssohn and Brahms. The Salisbury Historical Society will present a talk by local historian Bill Powers, “The Legendary Nettie Jones”. The free program begins at 7 p.m. in the church on Wednesday, Aug. 8. During the July 21 loon count on

Lake Dunmore, Fern Lake, Silver Lake and Goshen Dam a total of 9 adult loons and three chicks were found. The two eagle chicks have fledged. Town clerk Sue Scott reports that there are voting checklists posted at the post office, the library and the town office. Citizens should verify that their name is on the list if they wish to vote in the Aug. 14 primary election. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

After thefts, city police urge vigilance VERGENNES — After three bicycles were stolen from Vergennes homes between July 25 and 29, a rash of thefts that followed a series of earlier car break-ins throughout the city, Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel is again asking residents to be careful about property security. Merkel earlier this week urged residents to lock their cars, homes and garages, especially at night, and also asked anyone who sees anything suspicious to call Vergennes police at 877-1152. The bicycles were reported taken from a Short Street home on July 25, a South Maple Street porch on July 27, and a West Street residence on the 29th. In other incidents between July 23 and 29, Vergennes police: On July 24: • Heard from a First Street resident who was worried she had left something on a stove burner;

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police entered the home through a window to check it out and found out all was OK. • Issued a motorist a civil ticket for driving with a suspended license at a Main Street traffic stop. On July 25: • Helped a motorist get into a locked vehicle on Main Street. • Responded to the Aubuchon Hardware parking lot to check out a report of a woman unloading belongings from a car with a Florida license plate; police learned she was planning to bug-proof the car because she was concerned she might have brought cockroaches with her from the Sunshine State. • Went to the Otter Creek falls

to check a report that an unhappy woman might throw herself off the bridge. Police found her in Falls Park and persuaded to return to the police station to meet with the Counseling Service of Addison County, and eventually she returned to her home. On July 26: • Provided information to the Middlebury office of probation and parole about a local resident. • Checked out a report of a possible assault at Northlands Job Corps involving two students and determined there was no offense committed, although a female student had slapped a male student. On July 27: • Helped a motorist get into a locked vehicle in Booth Woods. • Conducted a basic background check for the U.S. Army. • Calmed a group of arguing Walker Avenue residents involved in an ongoing dispute over what police called minor issues; police planned to meet with them again on Monday. • Found to be unfounded a woman’s claim that she had been inappropriately touched when she was escorted from the City Limits nightclub by a bouncer after she refused to leave; police said witnesses did not support the story told by the woman, whom police described as intoxicated. On July 28: • Gave a ride home to a West Main Street resident they found staggering on School Street; police said the man’s blood-alcohol content tested at 0.235, and they left him in the care of a family member. For the sake of comparison, the legal blood alcohol limit for driving is 0.08. • Followed a half-dozen teens acting suspiciously on School Street and confronted them when they jumped into the city pool; police said the youths ran off into the nearby woods. On July 29: • Calmed a dispute at a Hillside Drive apartment between a woman and her husband and his grandmother. • Looked unsuccessfully for a pickup truck reported to be speeding on Hopkins Road.

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Aug. 2, 2018

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Professional actor Craig Maravich takes center stage while rehearsing the part of Charles Darnay in the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble production of “A Tale of Two Cities” on Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton last week. About a dozen Bread Loaf School of English students join with Maravich and a few other pros in staging the production, which is open to the public nightly through this Sunday. INDEPENDENT PHOTO/TRENT CAMPBELL

Students join pro actors in summer stock theater

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ooks and papers are strewn about the floor of the Burgess Meredith Little Theater on the Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College. Actors file in toward the open stage from all sides, grabbing chairs for a courtroom scene in an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.” Those not in the scene sit offstage and follow along with their scripts.

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As the sun lowers over Worth Mountain outside the theater’s open doors, the actors run the trial scene again and again during their evening rehearsal for “A Tale of Two Cities.” The production is running nightly at the theater on the college’s Ripton campus this week, from Aug. 1 through 5, at 8 p.m.

Director Brian McEleney switches seats on occasion, providing feedback on how the scene might look from different angles. He also springs up and enters the stage to provide instruction on storytelling. “We need the Marquis to care about this,” McEleney says to one actor. McEleney came to Bread Loaf for the first time in 1984 as an actor and has returned almost every summer since then as both a director and an actor. “A Tale of Two Cities,” which he adapted himself for this year’s play, marks his seventh summer directing a production at Bread Loaf. “I fell in love with the place,” McEleney said. “You can’t get rid of us. It’s a fantastic, creative, intellectual environment.”

Since its inception, the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English has placed a significant emphasis on the theater arts. “Harking back to Greek theater, theater was central to the community,” McEleney said, indicating that the play, the “artistic communication of the summer,” serves a similar purpose at Bread Loaf. The six-week School of English graduate program ends next week. McEleney picked “A Tale of Two Cities” for the 2018 production because he believes it addresses the central issues of our time. One vital question raised by the play is how to deal with division in society, he said. “Revolution and income inequality have a lot to do with the world we’re living in now,” he said, adding, the play encourages viewers to SEE STOCK ON PAGE 3

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ART Art in Nature event held at Dead Creek’s visitor center

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he Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department will host an evening of art in nature at the Dead Creek Visitor Center in Addison on Thursday, Aug. 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This free event will consist of a short talk and refreshments at the Visitor Center, after which the group will venture outside to the wildlife management area for some nature exploration through art creation.

Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area. “Naturalists have long used art and the practice of intentional observation to learn about and connect with the natural world,” Burgess said. “From Leonardo Di Vinci to John James Audubon to Charles Darwin, illustration has long been an important part of learning about nature.”

The evening will be led by Vermont Fish & Wildlife naturalist and artist Ariel Burgess. Burgess, a Ripton native, is an ecological artist who works in art, conservation and education. She helped develop the new Dead Creek Visitor Center including designing and painting its murals.

Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided for participants. Bring your own materials; any medium that you are comfortable with is okay. Bring a note book and pencil, colored pencils, paint or anything that works for you. Be prepared to be and work outside. All ages and artistic experience are welcome. Preregistration is required by emailing ariel.burgess@ vermont.gov. Space is limited to 20.

Burgess will talk about benefits of artistic observation, ecological art and help guide the group in an evening of plein air art, art created outside, on the beautiful

“Artists and non-artists alike are encouraged to register,” Burgess said, “even if you haven’t drawn anything since fifth grade!”

This is one of the first sketches for the mural in the Dead Creek visitor center where artists of all abilities will meet on Thursday, Aug. 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Join in by emailing ariel.burgess@vermont.gov. IMAGE / ARIEL K. McK. BURGESS

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consider, “How do you achieve a revolution with grace and empathy and a sense of positive inclusion?” McEleney, also the head of the Masters of Fine Arts Acting Program at Brown University/ Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I., brings a group of professional actors with him to Ripton each summer to form the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble. Aside from starring in the main production, the actors visit the Bread Loaf School of English classrooms. There, they help the students in the master’s program learn how to interpret literary texts in creative and dynamic ways. Two professors and 13 students join the professional actors in the production under McEleney’s lead. The students of all ages come with a variety of acting experience. In her fifth and final year at Bread Loaf, Robyn Lee Horn, an acting teacher in New Jersey, plays the citizen prosecutor in “Tale” and acts in the ensemble. Horn has acted in three Bread Loaf productions. “The theater element at Bread Loaf is a really big reason why I wanted to come here,” Horn said. “The productions have been more than I could have expected. I feel like I’ve really learned so much, and it has affected my directing style — it’s been wonderful.” “A Tale of Two Cities” also stars student actors with little acting experience. Aurélien Royer, a teacher in a city outside of Paris, acted in a few plays early in his schooling, but has not been in a production since. Royer first heard about the play during Bread Loaf’s introductory remarks. “I was like, ‘OK, why not?’ I’m trying to learn the language in a different context,” Royer said. “I play a bloody French revolutionary, strangely enough. I don’t know why,” he added jokingly. Despite lacking a substantial theater background, Royer has greatly enjoyed preparing for the production of “A Tale of Two Cities.” “The acting ensemble makes it so easy for us to play with them. They prepare everything, and when we come, we just have to play. That’s very cool,” he said. Horn agrees that the atmosphere is open and inviting.

Jude Sandy, right, inhabits the part of Sydney Carton while rehearsing “A Tale of Two Cities” with Craig Maravich late last week. The show is being staged at the Burgess Meredith Little Theater in Ripton tonight at 8 p.m. and again on Friday through Sunday at the same time. INDEPENDENT PHOTO/TRENT CAMPBELL

“Really anyone who wants to be involved can be involved. So, you’ve got these top-of-theirgame professional actors who are incredible, you have people who’ve never stepped on stage before, and it really does feel like a community endeavor,” she said. The rest of the Bread Loaf students make up an engaged audience.

“So often they know so much about these texts. People get all of the illusions, so it’s exciting to have such a fired up and interested audience,” Horn said. Tickets for “A Tale of Two Cities” are available by calling the reservation line: 443-2771. Tickets are free, but space is limited. Performances run Wednesday, Aug. 1, through Sunday, Aug. 5, at 8 p.m.

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OUT OF TOWN

Pictured left to right, Kordell Pritchard, Gregory Jon Phelps, Bill Carmichael (of Vergennes) and Tyler Nye perform in “See How They Run” at the Saint Michael’s Playhouse, running the first two weeks in August. PHOTO / BRIAN MACDONALD

Classic British farce performed in Colchester

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hilip King’s classic British farce “See How They Run” opened on Aug. 1 at the Saint Michael’s Playhouse in Colchester. The show concludes the 71st season at the Playhouse and will run Aug. 1-4 and Aug. 7-11.

In a small, tightly-knit English village, a plot of mishaps AUG. 1-4 AUG. 7-11 and mistaken Saint Michaels Playhouse, Colchester identities causes the action to spiral out of control. Involving an American actress, a cockney maid, a dashing soldier, a village gossip, a Russian spy, and a bevy of bishops, deacons, and vicars, “See How They Run” is a tour-de-force comedy not to be missed.

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Opening in London in January 1945, “See

How They Run” provided the perfect escapist entertainment during Britain’s darkest hour. While the lights were going out in Europe they defiantly remained on in London’s West End during the world premiere of this mad-cap comedy. The show features Clare Mahoney as Penelope Toop, Tyler Nye as Reverend Lionel Toop, Amanda Ryan Paige as Miss Skillon, Gregory Jon Phelps as Clive Winton, Lilly Tobin as Ida, Kordell Pritchard as the Intruder, Kenneth Kimmins as The Bishop of Lax, Bill Carmichael of Vergennes as Reverend Arthur Humphrey, Zachary Gibson as Sergeant Towers. “See How They Run” is directed by Catherine Doherty. The creative team includes John Paul Devlin (scenic and lighting design), Renee Baker (costume design), Joel Abbott (sound design),

and Jacob Foster (property design). “We can all use a couple hours of non-stop laughter,” said Chuck Tobin, Producing Artistic Director of the Playhouse. “Audience members will laugh heartily from beginning to end at the hilarious hijinks and madcap mayhem of this perfectly written British farce.” Evening performances are Aug. 1-4, and 7-11, at 8 p.m., with matinee performances Aug. 4 and 11, at 2 p.m. Single ticket prices range from $36 to $45. The Playhouse is located at McCarthy Arts Center, on Route 15, in Colchester. Tickets are available online at saintmichaelsplayouse.org, by calling (802) 654-2281 or visiting the walk-up window in the lobby of McCarthy Arts Center.

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wo new sculptures bloom in the flower gardens adjacent to the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury: “Big Fish” by Marty McGowan of Newark, and “Anyman aka The Head” by John Matusz of Waitsfield. Both artists are accomplished sculptors and their work brings an added dimension to the Museum’s founding mission as an art museum highlighting Vermonters. The sculptures were installed in mid-July and will remain until at least the end of the year.

JOHN MATUSZ John Matusz has been living and working in Vermont since 1971. A native of the Mohawk River Valley in upstate New York, his childhood knack for drawing combined with high school visits to the Munson Williams Proctor Institute (a fine arts center in Utica, N.Y.) shaped his early artistic interest. His focus progressed from drawing to painting to sculpture. He underwent formal welding training in 1969 in Schenectady, N.Y., which accelerated his sculptural development and is now the main focus of his attention. Often working with found objects, in welded steel, stone and wood, “Anyman aka The Head,” departs from that norm. A bust profile is fashioned from Ferro cement with a bronze metallic finish, accentuating the subject’s profile and contemplative, ethereal demeanor. To help transport and install “Anyman,” (which together with metal stand weighs 300 pounds and is 5 feet, 3 inches high), Matusz was joined by his Waitsfield friends — Wendell Anderson of Bundy Modern Art Gallery and Blair Reichenberg.

“Anyman aka The Head” by John Matusz.

MARTY MCGOWAN Marty McGowan, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is a fanciful, masterful metal sculptor. Residing and working from a rural setting at the northern tip of Caledonia County, McGowan spreads his talents as an artist, welder, carpenter and teacher. He delights in the latter encouraging Vermont students over the years from kindergarten to college, with stints at Lyndon State College and “Big Fish” by Martin McGowan.

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one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK ART ON MAIN LEADERS

‘THERE ONCE WAS…’

FILMS FOR JUSTICE

Bristol’s Art on Main said goodbye to Board President Inga Duktig, textile artist Ellen Spring of Starksboro and Jan Willey from Monkton. The gallery welcomes Whitney Germon of Bristol as the new Board President, as well as Sally Jenks Roth of Bristol, Valerie Dearing of Bristol and Polly Raine of Lincoln to the board.

Seven stories + five actors + one musician + no rules = four days of fun. Bald Mountain Theater will once again host its family-friendly event, “There Once Was …,” on Aug. 9-12 at Spice Studio in Rochester. This year, the tales are drawn from the rich storytelling tradition of Ireland. Performances on Aug. 9-11, at 7:30 p.m., and Aug. 11-12, at 2 p.m. Tickets, available at the door, are $10. More info at baldmountaintheater.org.

Showing Up for Racial Justice presents two films at the Marquis Theater in Middlebury. “RBG” will be screened on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 12:30, 3, 6 and 8:30 p.m. This film is about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A special event with Ruth Hardy for State Senate will be held in the cafe area at 7:30 p.m. “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” shows FridaySunday, Aug. 10-12, 12:30, 3, 6:30 and 8:45 p.m. This film shows an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A Q & A with Officer François Clemmons will follow the 3 p.m. shows on Friday and Saturday.

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In conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Green.

“DRAWING CLOSER TO NATURE” WORKSHOP IN HUBBARDTON. Saturday, August 4, 1- 3 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Join artist Lillian Kennedy and experience the joy of deeply seeing while centering in nature. Make pocket sketchbooks from a single sheet of paper then go on walkabout exploring the environment with pencil and eye. $20 includes all materials and admission to sites. Register 802-759-2412.

ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN VERGENNES. Friday, Aug. 10, 5-8 p.m., Northern Daughters Gallery, 221 Main St. Come see “A Crossing Place,” a solo exhibit of new work from Anna Dibble, whose work is driven by her love of, and place within the natural world, and her deep concern for its future.

PHOTOGRAPHY OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Aug. 4, 4-7 p.m., PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park St. “Environmental Portraits” is a group exhibit juried by Elizabeth Avedon, displaying the work of 34 photographers from around the world. “PHOTOGRAPHIC WONDERINGS: MICHAEL KELLOGG,” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Aug. 9, 3-4:15 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. 100 Eastview Ter. Explore a wide variety of photography through the vision of Michael Kellogg, a photographer with over 40 years of professional experience. This show and talk will walk you through more than 100 images ranging from National Monuments, sports, wildlife, portraits, landscapes and street photography. Free and open to the public. AN EVENING OF ART IN NATURE IN ADDISON. Thursday, Aug. 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Dead Creek Visitor Center, 966 VT Route 17. A short talk and refreshments at the Visitor Center, followed by an excursion into the wildlife management area for some nature exploration through art creation. Led by Vermont Fish & Wildlife naturalist and artist Ariel Burgess. Beverages provided. Bring your own preferred materials — a note book and pencil, colored pencils, paint, or anything that works for you. Be prepared to be and work outside. All ages and artistic experience welcome. Preregistration required at ariel. burgess@vermont.gov. ARTIST’S RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 10, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater on the Green, 6 Merchants Row. Opening reception for “Timothy Horn: The View From Here.” In conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Falls. ARTIST’S RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 10, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater on the Falls, 1 Mill St. Opening reception for “Ellen Granter: High Tide.”

“DRAWING AND PAINTING THE LAND” WORKSHOP IN ORWELL. Sunday, August 11, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site,472 Mt. Independence Rd. Wear a hat, dress for the weather, bring a lightweight folding stool and become one with the land under the guidance of artist Lillian Kennedy. $35 includes all materials and admission to sites. Register 802-759-2412.

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WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AUG. 2-12, 2018

Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. The beloved comedy team got their start in silent film. Get ready to laugh as Stan and Ollie make fine messes out of everything from a day in the country to a night on the town. Silent film aficionado Jeff Rapsis will provide live accompaniment. Free. Donations accepted, with proceeds to help continuing preservation work.

JUST FOR FUN

COMEDY

VERMONT DAY AT MORGAN HORSE FARM IN WEYBRIDGE. Saturday, August 4, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. 74 Battell Dr. Featuring demonstrations of the Morgan horses’ versatility as performance horses. Presentations of UVM stallions, mares and their offspring. Broodmares and foals visit at lunch. Bring lawn chairs and picnic on the spacious grounds while enjoying Morgan horses at this national historic site. Free admission, rain or shine.

THE MOST FUNNIEST COMEDY CONTEST IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 3, 8-9:30 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Vermont and national NYC pro comedians strut their stuff. A $50 prize goes the audience member who tells the funniest joke of $50. Admission is pay-what-you-like.

ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS IN NEW HAVEN. Tuesday, Aug. 7, Wednesday, Aug. 8, Thursday, Aug. 9, Friday, Aug. 10, Saturday, Aug. 11, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes.

FILM “THE WIZARD OF OZ” ON SCREEN IN BRISTOL. Thursday, Aug. 2, dusk, on the town green. The final film of Bristol’s movies in the park for 2018. Bring a chair, a blanket and some popcorn for plein air movie viewing. Rain location Holley Hall. “RBG” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Middlebury Showing Up for Racial Justice present this inspirational film about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Special event with Ruth Hardy for State Senate in the cafe area at 7:30 p.m. “WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 10, Saturday, Aug. 11, and Sunday, Aug. 12, 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. An intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, this film takes goes beyond zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe. A Q & A with Officer François Clemmons will follow the 3 p.m. shows on Friday and Saturday. “LAUREL & HARDY: A SILENT FINE MESS” ON SCREEN IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m.,

STARGAZING OPEN HOUSE IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the evening sky on many of these dates. A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae will also be visible through the Observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, weather permitting. Check the Observatory web site at go.middlebury.edu/ observatory/ or call 802-443-2266 after 7 P.M. on the evening of the event. BUILDING FAIRY AND OTHER IMAGINARY HOUSES IN ORWELL. Saturday, Aug. 11, 1-4 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Children and parents can drop in for this activity in the picnic area. Be inspired by nature, the history of Mount Independence or flights of the imagination and use natural materials to build small “fairy houses.” Children under 15 free; accompanying adults pay regular admission. PIE SOCIAL IN FERRISBURGH. Sunday, Aug. 12, 1-4 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 Route 7. Bring the kids or your friends to Rokeby for music, lawn games and pie. Homemade pies of every type, served plain or with scrumptious Vermont ice cream, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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in the Museum’s shady back yard. The jazz trio Abby’s Agenda will perform. Proceeds support the Museum’s work, so have a second piece.

MUSIC PETE SEEGER MEMORIAL CONCERT IN HANCOCK. Thursday, Aug. 2, 6:30 p.m. Bring a chair and a picnic. Free. Rain site available. Part of the Hancock Green Summer Concert series. SIDEWINDERS IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, Aug. 3, 6-8 p.m., Free. Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase. ELENA SADINA CARILLON IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 3, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns, Middlebury College. Sadina is the Carillonneur for the Middlebury Summer Russian Language School and Belgian Carillon School. Come hear this a staple of summer life on the Middlebury campus. Free. More info at go.middlebury.edu/carillon. VOCAL VIRTUOSITY IN SALISBURY. Friday, Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. As part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series, Joshua Collier, tenor, and Helen Lyons, soprano, will perform songs from opera, operetta and musical theater with Pianist Claire as accompanist. Free-will donation. POINT COUNTERPOINT FINAL CAMPER CONCERT IN SALISBURY. Saturday, Aug. 4, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. JULIA MARK IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. The endearing warmth and charm of Mark’s music and voice has quickly made her a favorite in the Boston music scene. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-2474295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve. BEYOND THE NOTES MUSICAL PERFORMANCE IN ROCHESTER. Sunday, Aug. 5, 4 p.m., Rochester Federated Church, 15 N. Main St. The Rochester Chamber Music Society presents Sarah Whitney, violin, Ani Kalayjian, cello, and Cynthia Huard in “Solos, Duos and Trios; Ravel, Glière, Piazzolla.” The trio will also play Jazz-infused folk. Free will donations gratefully accepted. More info at 802767-9234 or rcmsvt.org. ADDISON COUNTY GOSPEL CHOIR IN VERGENNES. Sunday, Aug. 5, 6 p.m., Champlain Valley Christian Reformed Church, 73 Church St. This 35-voice choir and accompanying band performs traditional gospel favorites and contemporary worship songs. Clap along or sit back and enjoy the music. SEE CALENDAR ON PAGE 13

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THINK YOU’RE FUNNY? COME PROVE IT AT THE MOST FUNNIEST COMEDY CONTEST IN MIDDLEBURY, THIS FRIDAY EVENING. COMPARE YOURSELF TO LOCAL AND NATIONAL NYC PRO COMEDIANS AT THE MARQUIS THEATER. A $50 PRIZE GOES THE AUDIENCE MEMBER WHO TELLS THE FUNNIEST JOKE. ADMISSION IS PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE.

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Meet the chef

Chef Hasna of the Thai@Home food truck in M

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ccording to chef Wanna Phasuk Filan, the secret to really good pad thai is in the tamarind. You may know Filan by her nickname, Hasna. She is the chef and owner of Thai@Home, Middlebury’s only Thai food truck. She shared a few of her trade secrets over sweet Thai iced tea.

BY ABAGAEL GILES

Hasna’s mother was always in high demand, so Hasna started helping around the kitchen as a little girl. “She’d tell me what to do. I still hear her sometimes when I cook.” “Cooking is meditative,” Hasna said. “When I’m cooking, I can tell what I need just from the smell, the noises from the food. This is home cooking.”

Hasna said her mother was the same way. For Thai@Home, Hasna never reads recipes, but she knows where each one came from. She makes each dish fresh, largely Chef Hasna was born in Rayong, Thailand, from ingredients grown in her organic but went to business school in Bangkok. garden. If she can’t find a spice that suits She’s worked in advertising, owned an her standards, she’ll grow it herself. “I cook embroidery company and her own brickfor customers as you would for yourself.” and-mortar restaurant — all in Bangkok. Among the herbs she grows are lamb’s She also took over her father’s rubber farm quarters, ginger, garlic and chives. She is in Rayong. In 2010, she decided to visit a particular about her friend in the United bean sprouts. They States. On that trip, have to be fresh, so she met her husband, she grows her own Middlebury builder “COOKING IS mung beans. The result and woodworker John is a garnish with a crisp, Filan. She opened MEDITATIVE. WHEN I’M juicy crunch. Thai@Home in August COOKING, I CAN TELL 2015, after more than WHAT I NEED JUST According to Hasna, five years of serving there is a general food at the Middlebury FROM THE SMELL, THE misconception in Farmers Market. Her NOISES FROM THE America that authentic husband helped Hasna FOOD. THIS IS HOME Thai food is all spicy build her signature and difficult to digest. food truck. COOKING.” “Some dishes aren’t — Chef Hasna spicy at all. Real Thai Chef Hasna specializes food has herbs that in Thai fusion food. She help you digest, like learned to cook from tamarind,” she said. her mother in Rayong, Another hallmark of and many of the staple menu items at Thai@Home, like the pad thai authenticity: fresh, crisp vegetables and high-quality sauces. “I only cook with grade and curries, are her mother’s recipes. “We A soy sauce and fish sauce.” lived in a small town and my mom liked to cook,” Chef Hasna said. Her father owned Hasna’s food truck is hard to miss. It has a lot of farm property around Rayong. He orange shingles on the sides and a red roof, specialized in fruit and rubber trees. Her which she installed herself. The delicate mother always kept a garden for the family. wood trim around the roof was purchased on a trip to Thailand and inspired by the roof “Whenever someone wanted to have a of a temple. The interior is immaculate but party, people would all come together homey. Her organized workspace features to help make the food. You didn’t pay for a state-of-the-art gas stove and sparkling someone to cook the food. You knew that people would do the same for you if you did countertops. She has a welcome mat at the door, and she cooks in a floral apron. it for them,” Hasna said. “And people knew my mom was a good cook.” Chef Hasna uses organic ingredients. She

Wanna Phasuk Filan, known simply as Chef Hasna, built her colorful Thai@H be found in the Vermont Sun parking lot in Middlebury April through October during the winter and likes the seasonal lifestyle that a food truck affords. IN

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Home food truck, which can r. Hasna lives in Thailand

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occasionally makes exceptions to this rule to include truly authentic Thai ingredients, and she can show and explain any of the labels associated with her food to a customer. She also offers an extensive vegetarian menu that features red and green curries with tofu and Thai dimsum or Ka Nom Jeap, marinated tofu and fresh carrots wrapped in a delicate wheat wrapper. For just $2, you can try Sa La Pao, a beautiful meringue-shaped white wheat bun filled with savory minced pork and egg or sweet red bean. If you’re looking to satisfy your sweet tooth, try her mango sticky rice for $6. Black rice simmered in coconut milk married with fresh, organic mango makes this a whole-grain summery treat.

Thai iced tea with sweetened condensed milk and a serving of Chef Hasna’s signature Pad Thai make a delicious lunch. What makes it so good? Fish sauce. INDEPENDENT PHOTOS/ABAGAEL GILES

because she overheard customers at another Thai restaurant complain the stirfry was “too fishy.” It also lets her make a vegetarian pad thai.

she sometimes cooks herself extra spicy curries. “My husband can’t take the heat like I can.” If you ask for a little extra spice, she’s happy to deliver.

Chef Hasna does use fish sauce in her curries, and recommended Golden Boy brand, which is made in her hometown of Rayong from fermented anchovies caught in the Gulf of Thailand.

Thai@Home is located in the Vermont Sun parking lot at 812 Exchange St. in Middlebury. Find daily specials and menu staples Monday through Friday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. from April through October and at the Middlebury Farmer’s Market from May through October.

When pressed, she also confessed that During the summers, Hasna gets up early to cook for the food truck and for Montpelier’s Hunger Mountain Co-op, which also sells her dishes at its deli. She works from 4 a.m. to about 2 p.m., when she takes a midday break to garden or hit the gym at Vermont Sun, where she parks her food truck (coowner and vegetarian Shelly Hare was the inspiration for her tofu dimsum). She reopens for dinner from 4-6 p.m. in the summer. Chef Hasna spends several hours harvesting and chopping vegetables as part of her daily prep work. She does this at night, so John typically cooks dinner for her. She loves his Caesar salad recipe. When the food truck is closed or slows down in the winter, she cooks for him. Her favorite place to eat out in Middlebury is Two Brothers Tavern. The Filans spend three months a year in Thailand, at Hasna’s homes in Bangkok and Rayong. “Vermont is beautiful in the summer,” said Hasna, who said she likes to escape the cold in the winter. That’s part of why she loves owning a food truck. “If you have a restaurant, your life is in your kitchen,” Hasna said. She prefers the balance and seasonal lifestyle a food truck offers. When asked if she has adapted any of her family recipes to suit Vermonters’ palates, she smiled. “Americans don’t like fish sauce, so I don’t put fish sauce in my pad Thai. I use table salt instead.” She stopped using it as her mother’s recipe directed

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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Sat 8/4 8:30pm $15 Limited Seating

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SCHOOL

RUSSIAN FOLK ENSEMBLE

The Middlebury College Russian Language School presents Russian folk musicians Zolotoy Plyos.

Fri & Sat 8/10 & 8/11 7:45pm $15 Limited Seating MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE GERMAN FOR SINGERS LANGUAGE SCHOOL

DIE GÄRTNERIN AUS LIEBE

The Middlebury College German for Singers Language School presents Mozart’s Opera Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe. Pre-performance talk in English at 7:15pm

Tue & Wed 8/21 & 8/22 7pm $15/$5 ages 12 & under YOUNG COMPANY’S

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Williams’ memory play is given the Young Company treatment. Using physical theater, non-traditional casting and character exploration, Young Company students bring a fresh perspective to this classic piece.

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EXHIBITS 1968: THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING. On view May 25-Aug. 12, featuring prints, photographs, videos, paintings and sculpture from the 1960s-1970s that depict a year of upheaval and transformation in the U.S. and beyond. Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, located in the Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. A CROSSING PLACE. Featuring new work from Anna Dibble, whose work is driven by her love of, and place within the natural world, and her deep concern for its future. Artist’s opening reception in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 10, 5-8 p.m. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com. CRISTINE KOSSOW’S PASTELS. On view through Aug. 19, featuring new works by Middlebury artist Cristine Kossow. Storm Café, 3 Mill St., Middlebury. (914) 943-6265 or cristinekossow@gmail.com. DEBORAH GOODWIN: FABRICATIONS IN CLAY. On view June 29-Aug. 28, featuring Stockbridge artist Deborah Goodwin’s ceramic pieces that look like fabric. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St., Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org. ELLEN GRANTER: HIGH TIDE. On view in August, featuring Ellen Granter’s paintings and mixed media. An opening reception will be held at the gallery Friday, Aug. 10, 5-7 p.m., in conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Green. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery-vt.com. FLYBOYS & DOUGHBOYS: WWI STORIES BY VERMONTERS FROM THE HOME AND BATTLEFRONT. On view July 31-Nov. 11, featuring histories, memorabilia, photographs and letters from Addison County residents who were in the service during WWI. A reception will be held Aug. 10, 4-6 p.m. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org. JUST KIDS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NICHOLAS GIFT. On view May 25Aug. 12, featuring photographs of children from every corner of the globe and representing a broad spectrum of social and economic circumstances, the images here portray children in good times and bad, in states of blissful play or harrowing isolation. Overbrook Gallery, located in the Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. LAND MARKS…THE LAND WE MARK, MARKS US. On view July 13-Sept. 9, featuring Janet Fredericks’ drawings and paintings of the world around her. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org. TIMOTHY HORN: THE VIEW FROM HERE. On view in August, featuring the paintings of Timothy Horn. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, Aug. 10, 5-7 p.m., in conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Falls. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery-vt.com. WATERFOWL WONDERS AND AMUSING ANIMALS. On view through the summer, featuring work by three local carvers with very different styles — Chuck Herrmann, Bill Holway, and Gary Starr. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

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WORKING METAL, CREATING ART. On view June 29-Aug. 12, featuring the work of six Vermont artists: Kate Pond, sculptor; Chris Cleary, sculptor; Warren Rinehart, blacksmith; John Arthur, coppersmith; Kathy Mitchell, silversmith; and Meg Walker, sculptor. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-3850 or creativespacegallery.org.

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live music PETE SEEGER MEMORIAL CONCERT IN HANCOCK. Thursday, Aug. 2, 6:30 p.m. SIDEWINDERS IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, Aug. 3, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard. ELENA SADINA IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 3, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns. JOSHUA COLLIER IN SALISBURY. Friday, Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. POINT COUNTERPOINT FINAL CAMPER CONCERT IN SALISBURY. Saturday, Aug. 4, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Julia Mark will perform her jazz-inflected folk/pop with Forrest Pettengill (upright bass) this Saturday evening at Brandon Music. PHOTO / ROGER METCALF

Julia Mark brings her folkpop-jazz music to Brandon

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ulia Mark is a singer, pianist and songwriter performing jazzinflected folk/pop — we’ve heard that before. What makes Mark unique are the subjects of her songs. She writes lyricdriven, optimistically dissonant songs about life on the moon, loss of memory, SATURDAY AUG. shifting homes Brandon Music and palindromes.

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Mark returns to the Brandon Music stage with upright bass player Forrest Pettengill this Saturday, Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., before she embarks on an East Coast to Midwest tour. With the songwriting penchant of Carole King and the soft-easy vocals of Suzanne Vega, Mark is for the listener who likes to transcend into a musical and visual scene. Plus she is

captivating to watch. Mark grew up in semi-rural New Jersey, listening to bebop greats and folk music legends. After several years of classical piano lessons, she began writing her own music as a student of the late jazz pianist, Eric Doney. Upon graduating from Wesleyan University with degrees in psychology and music, Mark continued northward to Boston and became immersed in the singersongwriter scene. She was a 2016 Iguana Music Fund grantee, spurring the creation of her first full-length album (“Gemini”), released this year. Saturday’s show is $20. Add dinner for an extra $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 2474295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve or for more info.

ADDISON COUNTY GOSPEL CHOIR IN VERGENNES. Sunday, Aug. 5, 6 p.m., Champlain Valley Christian Reformed Church VERGENNES CITY BAND IN VERGENNES. Monday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m., City Park. ADDISON COUNTY GOSPEL CHOIR IN NEW HAVEN. Tuesday, Aug. 7, 7 p.m., Show Tent, Addison County Fair and Field Days. BRISTOL TOWN BAND IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., on the town green. ENERJAZZ IN BRANDON. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. DAVID ROSANE AND THE ZOOKEEPERS IN VERGENNES. Thursday, Aug. 9, 8-10 p.m., Bixby Memorial Library MAIDEN VERMONT PLUS HANCOCK COFFEE HOUSE MUSICIANS IN HANCOCK. Thursday, Aug. 9, 6:30 p.m., on the green. REFLECTION BAND IN NEW HAVEN. Thursday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m., Addison County Fair and Field Days. AMY HEEBNER IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 10, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns, PITZ QUATRONE & THE FREELANCERS IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m., Addison County Fair and Field Days. MARK SIKORA IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 10, 7-9 p.m., Notte.

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the movie LEAVE NO TRACE — RUNNING TIME: 1:49 — RATING: PG “Leave No Trace” takes its gentle time to become one of the year’s finest movies. Debra Granik directed and co-wrote (with Anne Rosellini) a script that is free of conventional plot twists. Result? The emotions generated by the story sink quietly and deeply into the audience. Who can ask for more? A quick summary. Will (Ben Foster) suffers from PTSD as a result of service in Iraq. He and his 13-year-old daughter Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) live in an Oregon forest where they keep the tools of their living under piles of brush. When the park authorities turn them over to the kindly social service people, silent Will can take just so much of the ordinary world before telling Tom to pack up for another new beginning in the forest. Watch the effect of the noise of the machinery on this damaged man when he is assigned to work on a Christmas tree farm. A silent, damaged father and the bright, loving daughter who accepts his problems and still loves him is the base. What does this movie avoid that would be done by conventional filmmakers? It gives us no villains to distract us from the central dilemma. Everyone is kind. Father Will may have taken his daughter’s youth but she is strong because of it and she appreciates and learns from the kind people they meet along the way. The fact that there are no crises, villains, or subplots to distract us leaves the atmosphere calm and open for the deep emotion generated by father and daughter. In a symbolic moment, a dog that might have become a comfort for daughter Tom simply passes quietly through its moment. No clichés here. Writer/director Granik uses nothing to distract us from the questioning growing in this young girl. Early on, she is her father’s student in the ways of the forest. As she meets just a few people from the real world along the way, she catches quick glimpses of how they live. People, school, music and dancing are absent even though her father’s teaching has her

Thomasin McKenzie and Ben Foster star in “Leave No Trace” (2018).

above her academic grade level. We are watching a quiet exploration of human need. The plot of this movie is irrelevant. What it gives us is a long unfolding of an emotionally wounded father who takes the finest care of his daughter in the forest. As she begins to envy a few things about life outside their world that has few people, we know she is academically and emotionally ready to step into a bigger world. Ben Foster delivers a fine, though nearly silent portrait of the damaged father who does all he can to raise his daughter. But this movie belongs to two people: Granik and McKensie. Writer/director Granik who made art of a story with a string of subtleties that leads us to an emotionally deep place. With little dialogue, McKensie creates a wise young girl who silences an audience in appreciation of her quiet, superb performance. Her quiet performance is riveting.

the book A CARNIVAL OF LOSSES: NOTES NEARING NINETY — BY DONALD HALL (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

OTHER OUTSTANDING OCTOGENARIAN AUTHORS Barkskins, by Annie Proulx

The late Donald Hall (Sept. 20, 1928-June 23, 2018), was highly regarded by critics and readers alike, garnering numerous honors and awards, including serving as Poet Laureate of the U. S. from 2006 to 2007, and of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1989. He was decidedly prolific in his long career; his published works span nearly seven decades. His last book — a collection of essays, penned as were so many of his works, in the 200-year-old farm that has been in his family for generations—is a parting gift, a finely-crafted, honest exploration of his most enduring themes, published just after he passed away. In this collection, similar in some ways to “Essays After Eighty,” Hall reveals truths gleaned from a lifetime of careful examination and skilled recounting of the human experience. The collection is divided into four parts, varying in lengths and subject matter, from his favorite poets to forgetting names to the upkeep of an old farm, all unflinchingly honest. “Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?” This collection is astonishing, lively and literary, searing and humorous. Hall was the author of over 50 books: children’s literature, biographies, memoirs, essay collections, and 22 volumes of verse. — Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

Back to Blood, by Tom Wolfe The Voyeur’s Motel, by Gay Talese A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré South and West: From a Notebook, by Joan Didion Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, by Alice Munro The Origin of Others, by Toni Morrison Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays, by Cynthia Ozick

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MAIDEN VERMONT PLUS HANCOCK COFFEE HOUSE MUSICIANS IN HANCOCK. Thursday, Aug. 9, 6:30 p.m., on the green. Bring a chair and a picnic. Free. Rain site available. Part of the Hancock Green Summer Concert series.

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VERGENNES CITY BAND IN VERGENNES. Monday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m., City Park. ADDISON COUNTY GOSPEL CHOIR IN NEW HAVEN. Tuesday, Aug. 7, 7 p.m., Show Tent, Addison County Fair and Field Days. This 35-voice choir and accompanying band performs traditional gospel favorites and contemporary worship songs. Clap along or sit back and enjoy the music.

DAVID ROSANE AND THE ZOOKEEPERS IN VERGENNES. Thursday, Aug. 9, 8-10 p.m., Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main St. This Green Mountain folk-rock-protest band visits Bixby as part of their two month library benefit tour. The event will help to raise funds and advocate for literacy, community and freedom of speech. All donations go to support literacy programs, science events for kids, building repair and ecofriendly materials for the hosting library.

“MUSIC AT THE RIVERBEND” PRESENTS ENERJAZZ IN BRANDON. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. The eighteen members of EnerJazz are dedicated to playing your favorite hits of the Swing Era in their original style. The music of Ellington, Basie, Dorsey, Miller and more. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-2476401 or info@brandon.org.

AMY HEEBNER CARILLON IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 10, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns, Middlebury College. Middlebury College graduate Heebner is the City Carillonneur for Albany, New York. Come hear this a staple of summer life on the Middlebury campus. Free. More info at go.middlebury.edu/carillon.

BRISTOL TOWN BAND IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-

POINT COUNTERPOINT FACULTY ENSEMBLE IN SALISBURY. Friday, Aug. 10, 7:30, p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come

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the Riverside School in Lyndonville, Burke Town School and King George School in Sutton. McGowan’s “Big Fish” is a hand-carved core of cedar covered with pieces of copper bath tubs, buckets and old stainless steel water tanks. For stability, the stand is a table leg welded to a truck rim base filled with cement. McGowan’s sculptures offer not only the beauty of

oxidizing steel in the natural elements but a costeffective way of making a grand artistic statement. McGowan is celebrated for his inventive, sophisticated welding skills coupled with his humorous, ingenious and visionary imagination. He comes from a family of artists — his father Dorian McGowan, retired from the Art Department at Lyndon State College where he taught from the 1950s to 2007, specializes in portraits and small assemblages of found objects. McGowan’s brother Nicolas is a wood sculptor who lives in Norway, while sister Kaja Maria is an art professor at Cornell University and his

sister Tara, an illustrator, travels the world teaching and performing traditional Japanese storytelling. Closer to home, his son Bekk does circus arts and enjoys wood carving. Bekk assisted his father when delivering and installing the weighty 7-foot long, 4-foot high “Big Fish” sculpture. The Sheldon Museum sculpture garden is open year round, dawn to dusk, and is maintained by Middlebury Garden Club. The museum is located at 1 Park Street in downtown Middlebury. For more information call (802) 388-2117 or visit HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

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hear these talented musicians as they play Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 in A Minor, and Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B Major. Free-will donation. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

THEATER “A TALE OF TWO CITIES” IN RIPTON. Thursday, Aug. 2, Friday, Aug. 3, Saturday, Aug. 4, and Sunday, Aug. 5, 8 p.m., Burgess Meredith Little Theater, Bread Loaf, Route 125. The Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble’s summer production adapted by Brian McEleney from the Charles Dickens novel. Tickets available beginning Wednesday, July 25, at 802-443-2771. VERY MERRY THEATER IN BRISTOL. Tuesday, Aug. 7, 6:30 p.m., town green. The Theater’s Teen Troupe will stage their summer production. “THERE ONCE WAS …,” ON STAGE IN ROCHESTER. Thursday, Aug. 9, Friday, Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11, 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 12, 2 p.m., Spice Studio, 482 S Main St. Focused on tales from Ireland, professional actors, directors, and musicians will gather for a week-long exploration of fickle fairies, rowdy ghosts, forlorn selkies and magic-wielding priests. Tickets $10 at the door. More info at baldmountaintheater.org.

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signs it’s time for new windows Although homeowners can typically get many years out of their homes’ windows, ultimately windows will need to be replaced. Here are some signs that it’s time to replace windows: Drafty feel in the home: Window frames can begin to shrink as they age, allowing air to flow from the outdoors in and vice versa. Homeowners may notice drafts when standing near windows or hear whistling on

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notably windy days. Rising energy bills: If energy bills are inexplicably on the rise, then old windows could be to blame. Aging, drafty windows can make it necessary to run HVAC systems more often and at higher or lower temperatures in order to keep homes comfortable. Windows are difficult to open or close: Homeowners may get used to the quirks of their windows, but those that are difficult to open or close

may require replacement. In addition, if windows need to be propped open, it’s time to replace them. Water infiltration: Warping or decaying window frames can make it easy for rain or snow to get into the home. Wood frames are particularly prone to moisture decay. If frames are warping or allowing water into the home, it’s time for an upgrade. Condensation on windows: Fog or condensation buildup on windows can occur if the seal between panes is broken. In this instance, replacement windows are necessary. — MetroCreative

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-669-9777.

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Wise people sometimes say that it’s not WHAT you know, but WHO you know. Part of the value of living in a small community is really getting to know the people around you. The pages in this special “Profiles in Community” section will help introduce you to more of those people in Addison County and Brandon. Community is at the core of what makes Vermont such an extraordinary place to live. Knowing the name or some tidbit of information about your neighbor, shopkeeper, hairdresser, banker, or car mechanic is what helps us stick together. Volunteering and engaging in public conversations, knowing that your voice can actually make a difference, is what keeps us engaged. Each individual and each business, institution or organization has a role to play that’s unique and important. And through each of our efforts, we create a vibrant community. We invite you to spend some time with this thick special supplement and put names to some of the faces you see around town. Reflect on the importance of working together to make our towns and state a great place to live and work, while also recognizing that one of the joys of living in small towns is getting to know how each one of us helps to make up the greater whole. For more than 30 years, the Addison County Independent has published this special section to help our readers know a little bit more about the people who play such a vital role in our communities. In this year’s section, we visited around 150 area businesses to snap their photos, introduce their teams and tell their unique stories. While the particulars of each story varies widely, the general theme is the same — each story serves as a tribute to the hard-working employees and employers who make each business the success that it is. We hope you enjoy these pages and that you take the time to reacquaint yourself with these businesses — and the names of their employees. You’ll find that our community is filled not only with products and services, but also with the smiles of those who greet us each day and the thanks we offer in return. — The Editors

Index of Advertisers 7 South Sandwich Company 9B 802 Social 5D A. Johnson Company, LLC 8C Addison County Chamber of Commerce 7A Addison County Commission Sales 3A Addison County Community Trust 2D Addison County Economic Development Corporation 2D Addison County Home Health & Hospice 5B Addison County Independent 2A Addison County Solid Waste Management District 9B Agri-Mark/Cabot Creamery Cooperative 9A American Land Title, LLC 4C Appalachian Gap Distillery 8C Associates in Orthodontics 4D Autumn Gold 3C B.L. Valley Real Estate 4D Betsy Spannbauer 6A BFit 5C Bourdeau Brothers 7B Bourdon Insurance Agency 4D Brandon Reporter 5B Brian Slavin 6A Bristol Electronics 10A Bristol Financial 7C Bristol/Hinesburg Animal Hospitals 4C Champlain Valley Equipment 1C Champlain Valley Motorsports 4B Champlain Valley Properties 8C Champlain Valley Small Animal Mobile Clinic 5C

Co-Operative Insurance Companies Community College of Vermont Community Investment Counselors Costello’s Market Countryside Carpet & Paint County Tire Center Courtyard by Marriott Deppman Law Direct Travel Distinctive Paint & Interiors Drop-In Brewing Company DuBois & King Inc. Eastview at Middlebury Emilo Real Estate Faith in Action Church Fire & Ice Restaurant Foster Motors Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty Freedom Publications Frog Hollow Bikes Gaines Insurance Agency, Inc. Gill’s Place Boat Repair Glen Peck Electric, Inc. Goodro Lumber Company, Inc. Green Peppers Hospice Volunteer Services/ARCH IPJ Real Estate Jackman Fuels, Inc. Jackman’s, Inc. Keeping Good Company Kiss the Cook

7D 6B 5D 6B 9A 4A 2C 5D 2C 9D 8D 9D 3A 7A 5D 8B 3C 9A 8D 8A 6B 8B 1D 4A 7A 4D 4B 2D 2B 4B 7C

LaRose Surveys 3D Lincoln Applied Geology 7C MacIntyre Services, LLC 7B Maple Landmark 9D Maple View Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2D Marble Trail Financial 7A Middlebury Animal Hospital 5B Middlebury Bagel & Deli 3D Middlebury Eye Associates, Inc. 8D Middlebury Natural Foods Co-Op 8A Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival 9C Middlebury Sweets 4B Milne Travel 8C Monument Farms Dairy 1B Mountain Health Center 4C Mr. Mike’s Cleaning Service 4C Natural Beginnings 3A NFP Insurance 10C Number 1 Auto Parts 9D Otter Creek Used Books 8B Oxford Rug Hooking School 8C Packard of Vermont 4D Peak View Eye Care 4B Perkins Electrical Solutions 8C Pike Industries 5C Plouffe’s Boiler & Mechanical Services 8D Quilter’s Corner/ Middlebury Sew N Vac 8D Rainbow Pediatrics 7C Raymond Renovation 5C rk Miles 10B

Rough Cut Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home Sargent Concrete Construction Shard Villa Sunrise Orchards The PC Medic Tom’s Marine Service United Way of Addison County UVM Health Network/ Porter Medical Center UVM Morgan Horse Farm Vergennes Animal Hospital Vergennes Opera House Vermont Department of Health Vermont Field Sports Vermont Gas Vermont Integrated Architecture Vermont Move Management Vermont Refrigerated Storage Vermont Shade & Blind Vermont Soap Vermont Sports Magazine/ Vermont Ski + Ride Magazine Vermont Sun Fitness Centers Village Green Market Wells Physical Therapy Weybridge Garage WhistlePig Woodware Yarn & Yoga

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QUALITY Our mission is to report the day-to-day events of the county, capturing weekly life with words and photos to serve as a mirror to reflect life as it’s being lived, and to shine light on the issues that need illuminating. We firmly believe that quality content is worth the expense and effort, and that the high quality of our reporting, photography, advertising, customer service, and the thoroughness of event coverage is what will continue to set us apart from the competition. We strive to be the best we can be for our customers and readers.

Pictured from left to right back row: Christopher Ross reporter, Angelo Lynn publisher, James Finn intern, Elsie Lynn Parini Arts+Leisure, Trent Campbell photographer, Nick Garber intern. Front Row: Megan James (Joanie and Frankie) digital guru, John McCright editor, Sarah Pope copy editor, Rachel Cohen intern/reporter, John Flowers reporter. Center: Andy Kirkaldy sports reporter.

COMMUNITY As we have for the past 72 years, we invite you to join us each week — to learn about your community, about your neighbors, your schools, area businesses, local students, the sports teams and other extracurricular activities and to read the hundreds of feature stories about area residents that are told throughout the year. It’s a fascinating trip and one that keeps getting better and better. Thanks for your loyal support, and your continued involvement in your hometowns. It’s your participation that often drives the news and makes Addison County a wonderful place to live, work and play.

Pictured from left to right: Elisa Fitzgerald, advertising sales, Eric Luster advertising sales, Christy Lynn sales manager, Melissa Strong advertising sales, Alexis Caswell sales coordinator.

THE GROUP Check out our sister newspapers Brandon Reporter and Mountain Times; and Vermont Sports and VT Ski + Ride magazines.

DIGITAL Our website has won state and New England awards for its excellence! Why? Because we put the same energy into making it a useful resources as we do our print editions. It’s exciting, fun and up-to-date — with breaking news featured there first.

Pictured from left to right: Alicia Prime front office, Lisa Razo circulation, Vicki Nolette front office. Missing from the photo: Kelly Bolduc bookkeeping.

You can view the entire paper on ISSUU (just as it appears in the print edition), or view the news of the day on our website. All subscriptions include free web access! Of course, we’re active on social media platforms too, @AddisonIndependent.

WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT OUR FUTURE PROSPECTS AND EAGER TO SHARE OUR EXPERTISE IN ALL THINGS LOCAL WITH YOU, YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. STAY IN TOUCH; WE WILL TOO.

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ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES, INC.

Natural Beginnings VICKI KIRBY RN, IBCLC, RLC

As a mother of four who breastfed, I have always had an interest in helping mothers to achieve their goals in breastfeeding their children. It became evident that many mothers had a variety of problems or obstacles that discouraged them or even ended their breastfeeding experience. REESE, RHYLON, AND TOM WISNOWSKI

Proudly Serving Vermont Farmers for over 5 decades. “Family Owned and Operated for 4 Generations”

I am a board certified registered lactation consultant that offers home visits for mothers who are facing a variety of breastfeeding challenges in Addison and Rutland counties, and some areas in New York State. Mothers can feel overwhelmed when trying to balance milk production, latching issues, nipple soreness, engorgement, pumping and returning to work, and much more. I am available to help mothers during this transitional period – you are not alone.

THOMAS G. WISNOWSKI & SONS RT. 125, EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT 05740

I am a provider for BCBS, CBA BLUE, and Vermont Medicaid for home consultations. I also rent and sell Medela breast pumps.

Sales Every Monday & Thursday • Specializing in Complete Farm Dispersals

“Vermont’s Only Livestock Auction Service” www.accscattle.com

Vermont Toll Free: 1-800-339-2697 • 1-800-339-COWS • Fax: 802-388-7461 • ACCS: 802-388-2661

Please call, email, or text to schedule an appointment. For more info: 802-236-4136, naturalkirby@gmail.com

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n 1930 Harry and Mildred Goodro purchased a sawmill in East Middlebury, Vt. The mill produced custom sawed Lumber primarily used for furniture; Harry began sawing 2”x2” hardwood squares used for making butter tubs. In 1950 the retail building material business was started. Harry retired in 1969 leaving the business to his son Rodney and sons-in-law Richard Perry and Wyman Thomas. In 1983 another generation of Goodro offspring, brother and sister Mark and Cindy Thomas and long time employee Dennis Charron purchased the family business. Richard Miller came on as a partner in 1985 and was so until 2009. Another chapter has begun with long time employees Ron Warner and Tim Comes partnering with Mark and Cindy to manage the business, ensuring that Goodro Lumber Company will continue to successfully offer great customer service, quality materials and lasting value. On the truck from L-R Bryon Bishop, Jay Torrey, Troy Lapell, Holden Laroche, Devin Dwire, Brad Bassett, Brett Ringey. On the ground from L-R Tim Comes, Ron Warner, Mark Thomas, Cindy Thomas, Boyd Belden, Bernie Laliberte, Brian Quigley, Tim Devino, Matt Stevers, Tim Porter, Tracey Smith, Kayla Fitchette.

YOUR Solid Team of Professionals Mark Thomas started in 1970 as a part-time employee, upon graduating from UVM he became full-time in 1974, 48 years later he is president of the company. Cindy Thomas, with 36 years in the family business, looks after the financial end. Tim Comes & Ron Warner both with 34 years in the industry – 27 & 31 respectively with Goodro. Now co-owners with Mark & Cindy they share the responsibilities of managing the day-to-day operations as well as working with our sales team inside. Ron & Tim are open to jobsite or office visits with both new & old customers. Anne Desrocher, our office assistant, has been helping Cindy for 20 years now. Bernie Laliberte has 19 years at Goodro. He is our merchandiser. Matt Stevers Our Andersen Factory trained window & door service technician and inside salesman has been with us for 10 years.

Boyd Belden has 47 years of experience in the industry –7 with Goodro. Boyd makes jobsite visits to measure windows, doors, kitchens as well as helping with estimating and inside sales. Brian Quigley will celebrate his two year anniversary this Fall. Brian is a kitchen and bath designer, using Goodro’s 20/20 computer program to help customers achieve the dream kitchen or bath that they envision. He is available to visit your home or jobsite and measure for kitchens and countertops. Tracey Smith, Tim (Tiny) Devino, and Kayla Fitchette (Kayla is the newest member of our sales team. She has been with Goodro for about a year) are available at the counter and throughout the store to help customers with their diverse needs – If you need it, these guys will find it for you. Tim Porter our yard foreman has 21 years of experience, 14 of those years at Goodro. Bryon Bishop who was a Goodro truck driver for many years, now assists in the yard. Troy LaPell now with 24 years with Goodro is our main boom truck driver. Brett Ringey, Brad Bassett, Devin Dwire & Jay Torrey are all our hard working truck drivers with decades of combined experience.

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YOUR LOCAL BUILDING SUPPLY PROFESSIONALS SINCE 1930

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From Left to Right: Jarrrett Kimball, Kyle Dow, Steve Dupoise, Steve Dupoise Sr., Bryan Andrews, Eslie Jones, Mike Danyow, Gary Delphia, Tyler Delorne, Jenn Morin and Scott Brown. Missing: Albert Gagnon

For 36 years, County Tire Center in Middlebury has been one of the area’s leading “under-the-car” specialists. This is a second-generation family-run business owned and operated by Steve and Lisa Dupoise. Still in its original location, County Tire Center employs ASE-certified technicians and is constantly upgrading to accommodate the most current automotive technology and training.

Oldest Locally Owned & Operated Tire Shop in Addison County for 36 Years!

Tom, Sky, Shelly Robert & Sally-Jean 2200 Basin Harbor Road • West Ferrisburgh, VT 802-475-2465 • www.toms-marine.com

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VERMONT REFRIGERATED STORAGE

From left to right: Oliver Snow, Walker Bean, Anders Hanson, Lewis Nottonson, Josh Valentine, Rena Schwartz, Carter Hall, Emily Nottonson, Brad Ravenelle, Christian Gostout, Donna Warren, Jason Billings, Kit Quesnel, Dan Brown, Kristie Roberts, Nancy Williams, Dianne Warren, Diane Derrick, Barney Hodges, Christiana Hodges. Missing from photo: Sarah Hathaway, Sam Hodges, Sophie Hodges, Matt Gosselin.

Sunrise Orchards is a 200 acre, family owned and operated, wholesale apple farm located in Cornwall, VT. We are devoted to growing excellent apples for our local community as well as the entire Northeast region. We average about 130,000 bushels of apples each year, although it varies widely depending on weather. We grow many varieties such as McIntosh, Empire, Cortland, Honeycrisp, Macoun, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, Gala and Paula Red, as well as many cider specific varieties. In midAugust, harvest begins at Sunrise Orchards and we also start to pack and distribute our apples through our local delivery route all over Vermont and outside the state to markets in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. We store about half of our crop in refrigerated and controlled atmosphere storage (at Vermont Refrigerated Storage in Shoreham, VT) and pack it throughout the winter and spring, continuing to distribute to all of our customers. In mid-May, just about when we finish selling all the apples, we start a new season all over again with a beautiful bloom.

Thank you for your support of our farm.

~ Barney and Christiana Hodges

Our apples and cider are available locally at Middlebury Natural Foods CoOp and Middlebury Shaw’s, as well as many supermarkets around Vermont. Please visit our website, sunriseorchards.com and follow us on Instagram at Sunrise_Orchards to hear about happenings on the farm!

Pictured left to right: Matt Gosselin, Mike Brinkman, manager, Barney Hodges, co-owner, Christiana Hodges, co-owner. Missing from photo: Gregory O’Brien, co-owner.

Vermont Refrigerated Storage (VRS), located at 3442 Route 22A in Shoreham, Vermont was founded in 2004 when the current owners, Gregory O’Brien and Barney and Chris Hodges, purchased their building from the Shoreham Cooperative Apple Producers Association. VRS continues to offer high quality apple storage to growers throughout the Vermont and New York, Champlain Valley region. VRS has developed additional services for regional businesses that leverage the vast cooling and warehousing infrastructure the facility has to offer. Current VRS offerings include: • Warehousing and toll pallet storage for dry, refrigerated and frozen products for regional businesses • Fulfillment and loading dock services • Business incubator space for developing companies In 2016 with the help of Misty Knoll Farms in New Haven, a 480 kW solar array was installed and VRS Solar, LLC was formed. Much of Misty Knoll’s and 95% of VRS’s electricity needs are supplied by VRS Solar, LLC. We are excited to be powered by the sun and continue to develop warehousing and logistic solutions to area businesses. Call or drop by to see if we have a solution for you!

Vermont Refrigerated Storage, LLC 3442 Route 22A, Shoreham, Vermont Call: (802)989-0255 • Email: vrs@sunriseorchards.com

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Business Profile 2018

Monroe Street Books

FOUNDER DICK CHODKOWSKI, left, and staffer Timm Williams have 100,000 books for sale on the shelves behind them at Monroe Street Books on Route 7 North in Middlebury. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, they have 60,000 more volumes in storage.

Monroe Street Books makes its mark in both online, brick-and-mortar markets

By JAMES FINN MIDDLEBURY — Most people who drive past the inconspicuous bookstore located two miles north of Middlebury on Route 7 would never guess what lies within. “When people come in, they’re blown away,” said Timm Williams, who works in the store daily. “They say, ‘I’ve driven by for years and I never realized,’ and then they come in and they’re hooked.” Monroe Street Books, the self-proclaimed largest used bookstore in Vermont, boasts a collection of 100,000 used volumes on its shelves and another 60,000 in its storage basement. The store’s packed, ceiling-high shelves offer something for everyone, from their hundreds of science-fiction novels to glossy fashion photography volumes to the many vintage posters sealed in plastic bags that hang on the walls. For Williams and Dick Chodkowski, who owns the store with his wife Flanzy, an appreciation for the material process of book buying lies at the heart of their work. “To me and to Dick, coming into a store and being able to hold the book in your hands is the whole experience,” Williams said. The store, founded in 2004, operates under the motto “Browsing is arousing.” Recently, though, the used book buyers’ oasis has had to alter its foundational approach a bit. For the past several years, the Chodkowskis’ operation has shifted toward a dual in-store and online sales approach meant to help the operation survive a changing booksellers’ landscape that has pushed many sellers towards online platforms, and scores more out of the business entirely.

“It’s not easy anymore,” Dick Chodkowski said of that they can get it for five or six.” what it takes to maintain the brick-and-mortar side of But even in an era where online sales reign suthe business. “A lot of bookstores are closing. Everypreme, there are both charms and advantages that one shops online now, and running a bookstore takes come with buying a book directly from the shelves a lot of work.” of a store like Monroe Street. For example, buyers According to Chodkowski, the mail-order poroften end up unhappy with a product that might not tion of the store’s operation now makes be what was promised online. up close to half of its total annual sales. “We have to keep “The quality of the online product Williams manages the majority of Monmay not be what ends up being retrack of these books, roe Street’s shipping orders, most of ceived,” Williams said. “Here, you which are submitted through the store’s enter them in a know what you’re getting. You have website. Monroe Street also distributes database and keep the book right there in your hand.” through major retailers such as Amazon, track of online sales Customers who come into the store AbeBooks and others. Recently, keeping now. Updates in still form a substantial part of Monroe up with the technical processes required software ... there’s a Street’s operation, and Chodkowski to distribute material online has been one and Williams love when new visitors of the main challenges of maintaining the lot of technical stuff come in off the highway. The store involved. It can be a operation for Chodkowski. has its share of regulars from around “We have to keep track of these books, challenge to keep up Addison County, as well as those who enter them in a database and keep track with it all.” come to Vermont from other states to of online sales now,” he said. “Updates in — Dick Chodkowski vacation during the summer months software, certain files you have to know, and return to the store. Chodkowski how to upload to different sites ... there’s said that traffic increases when confera lot of technical stuff involved. It can be a challenge ences at Bread Loaf and summer Language Schools to keep up with it all.” at Middlebury College are in session. Simultaneously, keeping up with major sellers “In the summer, a lot of people come into the who do much of their business online is no easy task. brick-and-mortar store,” Chodkowski said. “They Buyers who come into the store are often deterred like to browse around, because you come across by the prices of certain volumes when they discover things unexpectedly that you normally wouldn’t find that they can find the same books on Monroe Street’s when you’re seeking out a specific book online.” shelves for lower prices on sites such as Amazon. Chodkowski and Williams agreed that they would “People will come around with their iPhone and look like to see more Middlebury College students in their up a book online,” Chodkowski said. “It’ll be a $10 store. book in the store, and then they’ll go online and see The original Monroe Street Books opened in

1992 and was located on its namesake street, in a small barn behind the Chodkowskis’ home, after they moved to Middlebury from Los Angeles. Dick Chodkowski had worked in advertising prior to making the move and had a vast book collection that he had accumulated as a result of his interest in graphic design, fashion and photography. The bookstore moved to its current location on Route 7, formerly a garage for 18-wheelers, when the space opened up in 2004. Some of the books from Chodkowski’s original collection still sit on the shelves at Monroe Street today. The store’s collection is replenished largely through donations, and Chodkowski also offers store credit for some volumes. Books generally cost between $1 and $20, with the occasional rarity priced higher — a signed copy of Julia Alvarez’s “In the Time of the Butterflies” goes for $25, for example. The store’s inventory is incredibly broad, with wellstocked sections on subjects from Latin American history to track and field to nautical non-fiction. Although running a brick-and-mortar operation continues to be a challenge in the face of ever-growing competition from online sellers, Monroe Street Books continues to operate smoothly. Chodkowski says that he doesn’t read as much as he used to, but his love of books still pushes him to keep the operation running. “You do it because you love it, and you hope that you end up making a little money at it at the end of the day,” he said. Monroe Street Books operates seven days a week (including holidays), 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on MondaySaturday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays.

Wellness BRIAN SLAVIN

Massage Therapist

Brian recognizes the pain and stress that accompany our human condition. His mission is to honor each person’s life story, encourage the development of a peaceful mind, and restore balance to the body through the use of therapeutic massage and movement education. He has been a Kripalu yoga instructor and massage therapist since 1999 and is certified through Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals. He brings his heart, knowledge, and healing hands into his practice and looks forward to sharing his gifts with you. All are welcome! Solos Salon 42 Court Street • Middlebury, VT 05753 802-989-5792 • slavinmassage@gmail.com

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Find out what the Chamber of Commerce can do for your business! Professional Development, Educational Seminars, Internet Visibility, Social Media Links, Business Networking Opportunities, Dental & Vision Care Plans, Marketing Opportunities, Business & Tourism Referrals, and much more.

L to R: Glenn Montross, Walt Deverell, Don Devost, Hilary Mullin, Rebecca Reed, Madeline Delaney, Malissa Marshall, Matt Wootten, Steven Misasi

We believe that everyone who needs help with financial planning, investment management, taxes and/or business accounting deserves a service provider they know and can trust. So we created Marble Trail Financial by bringing together two respected firms: Addison Advisors of Middlebury, Vermont, and Misasi & Company of Middlebury and Dorset. We are experienced professionals, committed to our community, who combine asset management with tax preparation as well as comprehensive financial planning to offer a complete package of financial services for individuals, families, and businesses. Our business takes inspiration from the Marble Trail — the geological corridor of western Vermont whose marble, quarried here since the 1700s, has been crafted into many of America’s most treasured public buildings, monuments, and works of art. Just like the Marble Trail, our roots are here in Vermont, our experience is solid, and our connections spread far and wide. As registered investment advisors and certified public accountants, we are held, and we hold ourselves, to a higher fiduciary standard: to act in the best interest of each client, in every interaction. We’re a small firm, which allows us to work closely with every client, and it means we can consistently deliver high-quality, personalized service — the kind that earns trust, and rewards it. We love what we do. Our work can be complex, but our goal is simple: we strive to make longterm, positive differences for everyone who places their trust in Marble Trail Financial.

93 Court Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 Phone: (802) 388-7951 • Fax: (802) 388-8066 Email: info@addisoncounty.com www.addisoncounty.com

You bring your appetite…

…we’ll do the cooking

Mark & Donna Perrin, owners

Top Right, front row, Kira, Maria, Kelsey, Rebekah, Jess, Phil. Back row, Chris, Dakota, Kyle, Duncan and Lindsey. Bottom right, front row, Steph and Monica. Back row, Abbi, Matt and KK.

Green Peppers Restaurant is conveniently located at Shaws Plaza on Washington Street in Middlebury and since 1982, has been serving up meals that are hearty, wholesome, economical and healthy. Our goal has been to provide a comfortable eating environment or convenient take-out with endless options to how you may want your food prepared and presented. That is why we start fresh from scratch every day. With an abundance of fresh meats and veggies, we offer an unlimited number of ways for you to customize your pizza, salad, sandwich or pasta.

Pizza • Pasta • Subs • Soups • Salads • Calzones DINE-IN AND TAKE-OUT

802-388-3164

Fresh, convenient and local since 1982 MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT

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PROFILES

in community

2018 Addison Wellness, Inc. dba wells physical therapy

Matt PT, CSCS

Lauren Therapy Asst.

(802) 388-3533 www.addisonwellnesspt.com 175 Wilson Road in Middlebury

Wells Physical Therapy Services and Turner Hand Therapy have been serving Addison County and its neighboring counties for more than 2 decades! Whether you are recovering from an injury, wishing to enhance your sports performance or seeking to achieve greater mobility, WE CAN HELP! We believe that education is good medicine and we strive to assist our patients in learning from, and listening to, their own bodies. Our aim is to treat all of our patients with the kindness and compassion they deserve while also having some fun along the way! Please call for more details!

Rebecca OTR, CHT

Tracy PT

Lisa Office Manager

Kristi PTA

Ride Your Bicycle! • for fitness • to save on gas • to reduce pollution • to reduce global warming • for convenience • for fun! Dealers in Trek, Specialized, Cannondale & Bianchi The bicycle provides simple, efficient, ecologically friendly transportation and recreation for people of all ages and abilities. Frog Hollow Bikes’ sales staff will put you on a bike that fits both your lifestyle and your physical “bicycle-comfort zone,” from some of the best and most innovative and trusted lines in the bike market. Our repair center offers friendly and professional service for all makes and models. We want to help you keep “old faithful” on the road (or in the woods). Come visit us in person, or visit our website. Formerly The Bike Center

Middlebury’s Bike Shop Since 1972

froghollowbikes.com 74 Main St., Middlebury, Vt. • (802) 388-6666

Frog Hollow Bikes Staff from L to right: Carlyle Grundon, Carl Robinson, Jon Bowdish, Graham Cook and Chas Lyons

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Owners Eric & Janice Denu are pictured on the far left and far right with their valued employees Brian, Shane, Brianna, Trey (in back) & Marc.

You can count on the Countryside team for both consistency, and decades of design experience. For everything you need for any project, we’ll be here when you need good advice.

Paint • Window Treatments Wood • Hard Surfaces • Carpet • Tile Sundries for All Your Projects

16 Creek Rd., Middlebury • 388-6054 Mon.-Fri. 7:15-5:30 • Sat. 8-3 www.countrysidecarpetandpaint.com

Farmer Owned and Operated

The Cabot Creamery Cooperative is owned by families on 1,000 different dairy farms. Some of these family farms started with Cabot at its founding

in 1919. The cooperative provides jobs for over 900 people. Each employ-

ee owner is dedicated to producing delicious dairy products that give back to the planet in sustainable ways. Cabot produces cheese, yogurt, butter and dairy dips. Their commitment to sustainability reaches from farm to

fork. Cabot’s pledge is “living within our means and ensuring the means to live.” This commitment makes Cabot one of the greatest examples of corporate social responsibility that we have found.

Cabot honors the hard work of its farmers by using traditional production techniques. The company ages its cheese naturally. This means it takes

longer to make the product, but the product is of a better quality. All of

Cabot’s profits are returned to the farmers. The farmers benefit from the

Cabot brand. They know the milk they produce will go into making a product they can be proud of.

L to R: Alex D. Alex K. Scott, Cindy,

Troy, Bill

L to R: Jodi, Jamie, Sean, Tess, Ashley, Joanne,

A SPECIAL THANKS to our Community of Friends, Families, Employees, Co-ops, and Dairy Farms 869 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 • 802-388-6731

WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED!

The Experienced Team You Can Count On!

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802 . 453 . 2500 BristolElectronicsVT.com Thank you Addison County for your continued support And for making us your preferred solar installation team. When you’re ready for solar, We are here for you! From our team, Who make it all happen… David Cobb, Chris Marion, Stephen Cobb, Shawn Thurber, Trevor Lear, Becky Shackett, Cassie Marion, Michelle Cobb, Ophelia Cobb and Tenacious Timber!

In 1972, Dave Cobb started Bristol Electronics as a Main Street storefront. Today, Bristol Electronics is a three generation solar installation business celebrating 46 years! Congratulations and Happy 46th Anniversary Dave!!!

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From all of us at Monument Farms,

Thank you for loving what we do! Family Owned for 4 Generations James Road • Weybridge 545-2119

Our Delivery men and others who missed picture day!

Jim Lyle, Randy Palmer, Bill Bingham, David Dushaney, Kevin Desjardin, Kevin Cousino, Terry Brouillard, Bill Grace, Mike Brouillard, Ben James, Phillip Culver, Darryl Gilbeau, Adam Graves, Adam Coyle, Alex Kansky, Neil Bradley

Thank you to all these special people who make our farm run smoothly! L- R, front-back: Nathan Bingham, Isaac Rooney, Rich Audet, Cliff Carpenter, Cody Quesnel, Myrna Culver, Maggie Seeley, Jody Forbes, Jon Rooney, Frank Miller, Kyle Barnes, Bob James, Tyler James, Jay Lisenby, Eric Bowdish, Tony Harvey, Dan James, Peter James, Craig Russell, Nick LeFleche, Paul Deering, Eli Paguin, David Jackson, Todd Larrow, Justin Bagley, Jean Smith, Nick Jackson, Greg Wry.

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OF BRISTOL VERMONT, since 1930! Visit our Showroom for all grilling, cooking and heating needs Monday – Friday 7:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Year around. Saturdays during winter, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

From left to right: Mary Purinton, Timothy Bouvier, Jason Briggs, Chris Nelson, Cory Burritt, Dalton Sopchak, Conrad Marsano, Dan Crossman, Bryan Peck, Casey Huizenga, & Steve Slicer Not pictured: Sharon Bushey

88 years of business in Bristol, VT! MITSUBISHI DIAMOND DEALER

JACKMAN’S PRODUCTS & SERVICES: • LP Gas • Wood Pellets (LG & Currans & Lacretes) • Cold Climate heat Pumps Installation • A/C Repair • Full Plumbing Install/Service • Kohler Generators • Coal • On and Off Road Diesel – retail pumps at our office in Bristol, VT! • Installation of Heating Systems, Gas Hot Water heaters and L.P. room heaters

• Furnace Service • Hot Water Tank installation and service • Pellet Stoves • Generac Generator Dealer • Show Room • Mulch • Efficiency of Vermont Network Dealer • CDL Maple Sugaring Dealer • Natural Gas Certified

Furnace Failure? If your furnace system fails during the winter, we have the ability and equipment to provide you with temporary heat. ONLINE BILL PAYMENT & PAPERLESS BILLING – All you need is the registration code from your new bill We deliver to the towns of: • Bristol • Lincoln • New Haven

• Monkton • Starksboro • South Starksboro

• Middlebury • Hinesburg • Huntington

• Ripton • St. George • Richmond

32 Pine Street • Bristol, VT 05443 For information on all your energy needs, please call us at:

802-453-2381 or www.JackmansInc.com

Look for our budget & prebuy plans for LP Gas!

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Business Profile 2018

Area thrift shops

MANAGER ROBIN HUESTIS stands amidst an ever-changing variety of clothing at Round Robin, one of the handful of non-profit thrift shops in Middlebury. Huestis says some customers come from far and wide to shop at all of the thrift shops in a single trip.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Middlebury’s thrift shops choose collaboration over competition By NICK GARBER Each shop retains a distinct charitable mission, MIDDLEBURY — For residents of Middlebury and they cater to somewhat differing clientele — a retail options sometimes come in ones: the diversity that may have helped each of them stay downtown features one movie theater, one in business through the years. stationery store — you get the idea. “We all have our little markets,” said Robin Unless, that is, you’re looking to do Huestis, the manager of Round Robin, some thrift shopping. With five not- “It’s everybody — located in the Marble Works. Round for-profit consignment shops within Robin’s customers tend to be on the the town limits, Middlebury residents from college students older side, some coming over from are blessed with an embarrassment of to locals, some of EastView or The Lodge at Otter Creek. whom are here every riches, at discounted prices. The store’s proceeds support Porter But according those who run day to check in and Medical Center, as they have been Middlebury’s thrift shops — a list that see what’s new.” since the shop opened in 1975. includes Neat Repeats, Junebug, Buy Buy Again Alley, meanwhile, began — Diane Howlett, Again Alley, Round Robin and the with a focus on teenagers, catering to Neat Repeats HOPE resale shop — the abundance them as customers and offering them of similarly situated stores hasn’t volunteer employment positions. bred the slightest bit of competitiveness between Miska hopes that the local teens she brings on can them. gain valuable work skills and customer service “This is unbelievable in Middlebury,” said Jutta experience. Miska, the founder and director of Buy Again “I have a cash register that doesn’t work,” Alley at Frog Hollow. When Miska opened her Miska explained. “I want kids to learn the process shop in 2015 after years of volunteering at Neat of, ‘What does 7 percent out of $20 mean?’” Repeats, her fellow storeowners showed nothing Miska, though, has realized that serving only but support, providing grants and clothing one demographic can be unsustainable. “I found donations to help get the business off the ground. out very quickly that I can’t pay my rent if I’m “We all worked together,” she said. dependent on teenage shopping,” she said. “I’m

walking a fine line where I have things for them all.” young people but also enough things for mature “There are people who love thrift stores,” audience.” As a result, she’s revised her mission Howlett agreed. “No matter where they are, statement a bit: now, Buy Again Alley is “A store they’ve got to check them out.” for young adults, and the young at heart.” Howlett said she encourages thrift-tourists to do Neat Repeats, going strong in the full Middlebury circuit. “We’re its 29th year, offers a general adult “I have a cash register all very amicable — if we don’t clothing selection, minus the furniture have something, we say, ‘Try Round that doesn’t work. I and large appliances sold at places Robin.’ We don’t sell children’s like HOPE. Over the years, Neat want kids to learn the clothes here, so we’ll send them to Repeats has spread the proceeds from process of, ‘What does Buy Again, or Junebug,” she said. its clothing sales all around the area, 7 percent out of $20 “We happily share customers. If they providing over $2 million in grants mean?’” can’t find something here, we’ll send to individuals and organizations in ­— Jutta Miska, them elsewhere to look.” Addison County. Diane Howlett, the And even for locals, doing the Buy Again Alley shop’s co-director, said its customer consignment tour has its benefits. To base is hard to generalize. illustrate, Miska shared one of her “It’s everybody — from college students to favorite customer stories: a young man who came locals, some of whom are here every day to check to Buy Again Alley last year, searching for an in and see what’s new,” she said. inexpensive outfit for prom. Thrift shopping is more than just a cash-saving “He found a pair of pants at my place and he choice, the proprietors say — it’s also a hobby that found a jacket at Neat Repeats and shoes at Round brings in customers from well outside the town. Robin,” she said. “Between the three stores he “We have people that come over from New York found what he needed to go to prom, and he came state, and all over Addison County,” Huestis said. back a week later and showed me the pictures. It’s “Sometimes people in Burlington say, ‘Let’s go hit amazing how we can all work together without the thrift stores,’ and they’ll come down and hit being competitive.”

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• Over 1,500 Different Candies & Chocolates! • Come See The Worlds Largest Gummy Snake & Bear! • Vermont Made Products! • Handmade Chocolates • Lots of Family Fun!

Mallory

New Location! Now in Middlebury Sweets Motel.

Middlebury Sweets 1395 Route 7 South, Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-4518 | www.middleburysweets.com

Keeping Good Company is a family

owned Interior Design business that was started by Pam Carter and daughter Chelsea Audy. They offer full interior design services throughout Vermont.

(left to right): Jim Gill, Owner; Mike Paquette, Parts & Sales; Andrea Hornbeck, Office and John Richmond, Service

Get Your Work Done Faster So You Can Get Out and Play! Champlain Valley Motorsports is your full-line recreational vehicle dealer. For year round fun we offer Artic Cat Snowmobiles and ATV's. For the boating enthusiast we offer factory authorized Evinrude and Johnson service and we carry Smoker Craft aluminum boats. We also service all makes of boats, outboard motors, and stern drive boats. In addition, we also carry Dixie Chopper, the world's fastest lawnmowers. These are the finest zero turn commercial quality mowers available today. “We specialize in fast, friendly personal attention to our customers from the sale to the ser vice department. Our goal is to get you back out playing as soon as possible!”

802-462-2468 2394 Route 30, Cornwall Open 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturdays

Pam & Chelsea believe that good design should sustain a family as they change and grow together. It is their goal to listen to their clients and then offer inspiration and guidance to achieve the look and feel desired. Your home should be a reflection of who you are, and whether it’s new construction or updating a space, Pam and Chelsea are here to help you along the way with all of your interior design needs.

Full Interior Design Service - Furniture - Home Decor - Fabrics - Window Treatments Vergennes, VT - 802-877-3004 - kgcvt.com - design@kgcvt.com

Peak View Eye Care As a locally-owned eye care center, we take our time with each patient and provide the quality care you are looking for. • Top-of-the-line: Carrera, Harley Davidson, Nike, Guess, Kate Spade & other high-quality brand name frames • Professional fitting with proper selection of frames, and lens options for your prescription • Frames as low as $89.00 • Emergency eye care services Dianne Scott, Optometrist Assistant • Robert Austin, Optometrist • Lisa Norris, Office Manager and Opt. Asst.

• New patients are welcome!

We accept many insurances Medicare • MVP • Doctor Dinosaur • VSP • Green Mountain Care and more! Call for an appointment.

VISIT US ONLINE TO VIEW NEW AND USED INVENTORY

OPEN Mon 8-4 • Tues – Fri 8-5

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27 Main Street • Vergennes

877-2422

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This dedicated, caring group of professionals is celebrating 50 years of providing the residents of the Addison County community with quality health care at home. SERVICES

Skilled Nursing

Medical Social Work

Front row: Dr. Tracy Winters, Dr. Scott Sutor, Dr. Thomas Munschauer, Dr. Mark Doran, Sara Kurtz Back row: Frankie Whitten, Pat Casavant, Lucia Larabee, Karri Smith, Mikayla Farnsworth, Carrie Lewis, Nancy Manning

Rehabilitation Therapies Occupational, Speech & Physical Therapy

Better Breathing Therapy Home Health Aides

Personal Care Attendants

Serving the needs of Addison County pets for over forty years! Accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association 139 Washington Street Extension, Middlebury, VT 05753 Tel: 802.388.2691 Fax: 802.388.3250 www.middleburyah.net

Visit us on Facebook!

Homemaker Services

Chronic Care Management

PROGRAMS Home Care

Hospice Care & Palliative Care Maternal-Child Health

Choices for Care / Long Term Care Wellness: Individuals & Employers Telehealth

Wound Care IV Therapy

COMMUNITY

Free Community Foot Care Clinics

d us where you ne n f l l ’ Youmost - at home with yo ed u us

(802) 388-7259 www.achhh.org toll free (800) 639-1521 PO Box 754, Route 7 North Middlebury, VT 05753

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PROFILES

in community

Mary Conlon Consulting, LLC

Vermont Move Management

DAILY MONEY MANAGEMENT

RELOCATION, DOWNSIZING AND ESTATE SPECIALISTS

Mary Conlon

Peter Conlon

Owner

2018

Owner

Customized Services to Meet Your Needs s

Bill paying & account reconciliation

Free initial consultation. Our services:

Insurance paperwork organization

Professional packing and unpacking

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Filing and filing systems

Develop overall move plan

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Mail management

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Assisting with estate settlements

Home inventories for insurance and estate needs

Arrange profitable disposal of unwanted items

Specializing in the needs of seniors and Expert - Affordable - Compassionate busy professionals Member of the National Association of Senior Move Managers 802-349-0512 • mconlon@shoreham.net www.conlonservices.com

802-349-7247 • peter@vtmovemanagement.com www.vtmovemanagement.com

John Hamilton & Carolyn Costello

GAINES INSURANCE AGENCY, INC.

www.costellosmarket.com Thanks to our customers for 11 successful years!

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hop “B e st S u b S d ” n la g in N e w E n

We couldn’t do it without you!

BY: Yankee Magazine

Fine gourmet specialties...

Fine Wines...

Extensive Menu...

direct from Italy: Pasta,

Over 50 kinds from Italy,

Daily Specials, Fresh Seafood,

Crackers, Coffee, Balsamic

Portugal, France, Spain,

Take out Lunches & Dinners,

Vinegars, Baked Items

Austria & Australia

Fresh Salads & Italian Subs

• Tuesday - Friday 10-6 Saturday 10-5 Closed Sunday & Monday • f

Front row L - R: Susan Ferland, Paula Wendel with Chester the office cat Back row L-R: Sheila Tourangeau, Billi-Jo Ouellette, Scott Gaines, Gary Gaines

Gaines Insurance Agency is a second generation family owned insurance agency. The agency is co-owned by Gary & Scott Gaines. In addition to Gary & Scott the office staff consists of customer service representative Billi-Jo Ouellette, farm & commercial lines asst. Sheila Tourangeau, personal lines agents Susan Ferland, & Paula Wendel. We offer home & auto insurance packages, comprehensive programs for farms and mini farms, small commercial insurance programs for family restaurants, apartment houses, contractors, and bed & breakfast risks. We’ll gladly take the time to review your current insurance needs, NOT JUST SELL YOU THE SAME COVERAGE AT A LOWER PRICE! Our “DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME” attitude and our many years of insurance experience can really make a difference for you. Please give us a call and let us work for you.

154 Monkton Road Ferrisburgh, VT – 877-2878 www.gainesinsurance.com

388-3385 • 99 MAPLE STREET, MARBLE WORKS • MIDDLEBURY

PC Medic of Vermont Services Offered:

• Make your computer run like new again! • Install reliable virus and spyware protection • New computer & hardware purchasing assistance • Install and secure wireless networks • Data recovery • Backup solutions designed and deployed • Help customers correctly set up a new computer • Help customers understand Windows 10 • Securely erase old hard drives • Appointments at your convenience, in your home or office • Please find The PC Medic of Vermont in your local phone book.

My mission is to provide customers with the best, most reliable mobile computer service in Addison County and surrounding towns. I will get your computer performing to your satisfaction - and we will put a plan in place to KEEP it that way. — Paul Claudon

Call 802-734-6815 and make an appointment today!

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“We Care” for your land and animals

88 Seymour Street Middlebury, Vermont 802-388-7000 or 800-639-7051 email: scray@bbinc.com

Since 1943

hanks to the thousands of customers and Thundreds of employees throughout the years.

• Heating Oil Oil heats best – always has

• Diesel Fuel & Gasoline • Plumbing & Heating Sales, Service and Installation

• Sunoco Gas Station Save .05¢ per gallon

• PLUS, Shop at Shaws and Redeem up to $1 per gallon in the Gas Rewards Program 49 COURT ST • MIDDLEBURY - Cash Sales - 24 Hour Card Access

213 EXCHANGE ST • MIDDLEBURY - Solar Powered - 24 Hour Card Access - Diesel Fuel & Gasoline Card Access

Owned and Operated by the MacIntyre family since 1943

213 Exchange Street, Middlebury • 388-9260 • 388-3014

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hirty-five years ago, Gill and Jeanne LaRoche opened Gill’s Place Boat Repair at their Salisbury home. Their son, Marc, joined the business 23 years ago, and today they have expanded to selling and installing Hewitt boat lifts and docks, as well as servicing motor boats, ATVs and snowmobiles.

COME FOR DINNER

Fire & Ice is serious about serving great food. Paris is always happy to see you! Our entire staff looks forward to serving you. Come in the front door for our prime rib, hand-cut steaks and the freshest seafood. Enjoy a juicy burger, tasty wrap and the best wings in town in the Big Moose Pub! We thank you for your patronage.

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Service, however, has always been the heart of their business. With more than 48 years of experience working on boats (Gill started in 1970 at Vergennes Marine and since 1983 out of their home in Salisbury), Gill has seen it all and knows boats and engines inside and out. Marc has also been working on engines — boats, go-carts and snowmobiles — for more than 21 years and has started a companion business setting up and taking down docks and boat lifts and doing dock work via his barge. Along with their service and sales business, they also offer boat storage, featuring 78 covered spaces for winter storage, plus outside storage for boats not requiring shelter. Boat owners who have their boats stored at Gill’s Place also get their boats tuned up, washed and delivered in time for summer simply by calling at least a week ahead of expected delivery.

Our staff looks forward to seeing you!

Gill’s wife, Jeanne, not pictured, has served as bookkeeper, and errand-runner for the past 35 years. Of their marriage of 50-plus years, and their teamwork in business, she says simply: “we work good together; always have.” They work well with their customers, too. If your boat needs service, give them a call.

26 Seymour Street • Middlebury, Vermont 388-7166 • fireandicerestaurant.com

Gill LaRoche, right, has been repairing boat engines and working on boats since first starting at Vergennes Marine in 1970, while son Marc, left, joined the business 23 years ago. Not pictured is Gill’s wife, Jeanne, who has done the books, and much more, from the get-go.

(802) 352-6603 • olds56us@yahoo.com • 1731 Upper Plains Rd, Salisbury

Serving this fine community since 1940. VAH is dedicated to providing comassionate, quality care for your 4-legged family members. Mark Basol, DVM, CVA Greg Carlton, DVM Carrie Olson, DVM Rebecca Sevy, DVM

Left to Right: Deb, Nathan, Drew, Brian & Jake

The Woodware Family

Convenient Day & Evening Office Hours

www.woodwarevt.com Rt. 7 South • Middlebury • 388-6297 • Hours: Monday-Saturday 9-5, Closed Sunday

Sargent Concrete Construction Quality Work at an Affordable Price

Offering Residential, Commercial & Agricultural Concrete Construction including foundations, slabs, retaining walls, decorative concrete and more.

• Nothing is too big or too small! •

Owner ~ Donnie Sargent 2232 S. Lincoln Rd., Lincoln, VT •

802-453-6426

www.VergennesAnimalHospital.com

802-877-3371

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PROFILES in community 7 South Sandwich company Making great breakfast and lunch for residents and visitors of Middlebury, Vt.

2018 Meet the Newest Faces of Primary Care

Laura Weylman, MD Primary Care - Vergennes Area of Interest: Pediatrics & Geriatrics

Natasha Withers, DO Primary Care - Bristol Area of Interest: Women’s Health

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Meredith Walker-Hanson, FNP Pediatric - Middlebury Area of Interest: Childhood Obesity

Jeffery Abell, PA-C Primary Care - Middlebury Area of Interest: Adult Medicine

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Monica Benjamin, FNP Pediatric - Middlebury Area of Interest: Adolescent Health

Lauren Bierman, DNP Primary Care - Middlebury Area of Interest: Geriatric Care

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Ariel Gallant Bernstein, MD Pediatric - Middlebury Area of Interest: Transgender Health

Renee Bratspis, MD Primary Care - Brandon Area of Interest: Women’s Health

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Sandwich company Hours: Mon.-Fri.7am-6pm Saturday, 7am-4pm

donald & amy Sweet

1396 Rt. 7 South Unit 4, Midd. • 388-3354 • 7southsandwichcompany@gmail.com

Addison, Bristol, Bridport, Cornwall, Ferrisburgh, Goshen, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlebury, Monkton, New Haven, Orwell, Panton, Ripton, Shoreham, Starksboro, Vergennes, Waltham, Weybridge, Whiting

L to R: Kim Kimler, Chantel Bolduc, Sarah Lundquist, Patti Johnson, Richard Cota, Don Maglienti, Teri Kuczynski, Annina Seiler, Chad Kimball and Shelly Edson. Not pictured: Gary Hobbs, Wesley Kimball, and Ricky Rheaume.

Solid Waste District staff has recycling bins, compost bins, kitchen collectors, green cones and lots of great information at the District Transfer Station to help you recycle, compost and reduce waste. Stop by the Transfer Station in Middlebury to learn more. ANY time is a good time to start reducing your waste!

Cassidy Heisler, PA-C Primary Care - Bristol Area of Interest: Adult Medicine

Emily Gaukler, MD Primary Care - Middlebury Area of Interest: Adult Medicine

Kenneth Harris, MD Primary Care - Middlebury Area of Interest: GI

Todd Smith, APRN MD Primary Care - Brandon Area of Interest: Primary Care

Programs

H Solid Waste Planning H Technical Assistance to Businesses & Towns H Hazardous Waste Collection H Reuse It or Lose It!

H Compost Bin Sales H Book Recycling H Recycling & Composting Education

Call us for information on: H Where to Recycle H How to Reduce Waste Generation H How to Compost at Home

H Where to Dispose of Trash H How to Report Illegal Trash Burning H Household Hazardous Waste

The District Transfer Station accepts:

(Station is open Mon - Fri 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and Sat 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) 3 Furniture and Mattresses 3 Appliances 3 Scrap Metal 3 Natural Wood Waste 3 Construction and Demolition Debris 3 Leaf & Yard Waste

3 Used Motor Oil, Oil Filters & Antifreeze 3 Electronic Waste 3 Tires 3 Household and Automotive Batteries 3 Fluorescent Light Bulbs 3 Reusable Household Goods & Building Materials

Household Hazardous Waste is collected year-round at the District Transfer Station in Middlebury every Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1p.m. Call us at 388-2333, or check out our website at www.AddisonCountyRecycles.org

Over the past two years we’ve welcomed 12 new primary care providers throughout Addison and Rutland Counties. We are committed to keeping your care local and accessible. All our new providers are accepting new patients.

Visit us online at UVMHealth.org/PMC or call to book an appointment today: (802) 388-8850

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Champlain Valley Equipment Champlain Valley Equipment, founded in 1970, has been one of Vermont’s premier agricultural equipment dealers for the past 48 years. Our slogan is “Growing to Meet Your Needs” and with four locations throughout Vermont, we are positioned to serve you. Four locations means four parts departments, fully staffed and stocked to meet your needs.

www.champlainvalleyequipment.com

Five full-time road service technicians equipped with 14 service vehicles which allow us to reach you more promptly. Our technicians excel at bringing both tools and experience to you, resulting in less down-time. With a staff of over 100 people statewide, we still run our stores with the

SALES & MARKETING: L-R: Scott Hartley, Wilson Korth, Brian Crogan, Derek Gregorek, Katie King, Fran Welch, Thomas Kallen

PARTS: L-R: Stephen Kallen, Ann Ouellette, Chris St. Martin, Jim Sherman, Murray Burrier. Missing: Jeff Randall

St. Albans, VT • Derby, VT

SERVICE: L-R: Chris Hogan, Whitney Dragon, Dennis Benoit, Rick Viens, Patrick Deering, Rodney Cadoret, David Deering, Chris Landon. Missing: Seth Matthews, Mirsad Ovcina, Rob Bousquet

mindset that our customers come first. Champlain Valley equipment is a family owned business and is proud to give our customers excellent value while building strong relationships in our respective communities Looking to the future, whether you are a farm owner, landowner, landscaper, contractor or outdoor power sports enthusiast, we will continue to meet your needs. It is our pleasure to serve you. Champlain Valley Equipment and its owners would like to thank all of our customers for making us who we are today and for your continued patronage!

ACCOUNTING: L-R: Jennifer LaRock, Hannah Wierzbicki, Cheryl Gordon, Janet Martin, Sally Laframboise, Sean Collins and Boomer.

453 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT • 802-388-4967

GENERAL MANAGER: Brian Carpenter

Berlin, VT

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Left To Right: Eric, Rusty, Rachael & Tammy

It’s a new stay at the Middlebury Courtyard by Marriott! Our rooms, lobby and Courtyard Refreshing Business Bistro renovations are completed and ready for you to enjoy. The Middlebury Courtyard by Marriott is owned and operated by the local family corporation, Butson Hotel Management, LLC, based out of Essex, VT. Mr. Chuck Butson, Managing Member, started his entrepreneurial beginnings as a third generation owner/operator in his family-owned grocery business. In 1947 Chuck’s father came back into the business and the third generation, Chuck and his brother Don took over years later. With their desire to be in business together, the two brothers along with two other siblings partnered with CHA Management to move into the hotel/hospitality industry and opened the Courtyard by Marriott in Middlebury in 2003. In 2007 Butson Hotel Management LLC bought out some of the properties from CHA Management and currently own and operate four hotel franchises in Vermont. Now with the fourth generation working in the management of the company, Chuck, Don, and Alan Butson along with their sister Shirley B. Fox with Christine Butson and Charlie Larry Butson running operations in Essex, this family-owned local company continues to serve thousands of visitors that come to Vermont each year. Butson Hotel Management LLC employs 65 hotel staff and management along with using local banks and contractors providing quality jobs throughout central and southern Vermont. They are ready to serve your hospitality needs for weddings, family reunions, graduation celebrations, special group gatherings and more!

Middlebury Courtyard Marriott 309 Court St., Rte 7 South • Middlebury VT 1-800-388-7775 • 1-802-388-7600 sales@middleburycourtyard.com

www.middleburycourtyard.com

The Middlebury Courtyard by Marriott

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As part of our commitment to Triple Terroir, we harvest our estate-grown oak trees to make our barrels. Why? Vermont is about as far north as oak trees can grow. The shorter growing seasons leads to oak tress with the most growth rings – when aging whiskey encounters a growth ring in a barrel it imparts flavor, so our custom Vermont Oak barrels bring tremendous depth to our whiskeys. One more reason to love Vermont.

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PROFILES in community

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Fine Jewelry & Gifts

David Wimmer • Sales Sierra Greenberg • Sales Josh Riney Goldsmith & Designer •

Jeffery Gallott Goldsmith & Designer

Marie Huntley

Brent Scarborough

Neal Palmer

Since 1998, a full service jewelry store for Addison County

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We specialize in the sale of accurately graded GIA certified diamonds at the most competitive prices in New England.

Meet Foster Motors the “We Care” Group

Our services include expert appraisals, repair, and the highest quality custom design.

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Because we really love what we do,

What started back in 1924 as a small service station on the outskirts of town has over we offer our customers the best in the years delevoped into the area’s leading auto dealership - Foster service, quality, and value.Motors. Top row, Left to right: Josh Riney, Jeffery Gallott, John Wallace, David Wimmer Behind the superior products, service and reputation are the people who have propelled Center: Sierra Greenberg holding Prarie Greenberg to Vermont’s only ELITE FIVE STAR STATUS. Over the years, it has been 61 Main Street • Fosters Middlebury, VT • www.autumngoldjewelry.com 802.388.6788 their hard work and dedication that has been the strength of Foster Motors. Steve Hotte Richard Haverlick Steve White It has been their spirit of commitment that makes Fosters the dealership it is today y and it will be that same spirit that will ensure many years of success.

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the strength of Foster Motors. It has been their spirit of commitment that makes Foster’s What started back in 1924 as a small service station on the outskirts of town has delevoped SERVICE over the years into the area’s leading auto dealership Foster Motors. the dealership it is today and it will be thatFULL same spirit that will ensure many years of success. Christine–Wells Ken D’Avignon Larry Bishop th “WECelebrating CARE” is more our 94than Anniversary! justCare” our slogan,Group Meet Foster Motors: the “We Sprinter it’s our way of business. Carrie Chappell Lawrence LaBrake Tim Holler Mr. John Wesley, Meet Foster Motors Stop in and see why!

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Craig Lee Sterling Muth Kevin Grennon Chris Hanfield What started back in 1924 as a small service station on the outskirts of town has over Route 7 South, Middlebury, the years delevoped into the area’s leading auto dealership - Foster Motors. Vermont • Service/Recon/Body Shop Mon-Fri 8-5 Sat 8-12 Behind the superior serviceWhitley and reputation are the people who have propelled Joseph Brian Littleproducts, Sales Mon-Fri Sat 8-4 Fosters to Vermont’s only ELITE FIVE STAR STATUS. Over the years, it has been Business Link Dealer . Not Responsible for typographical or printing errors their hard work and dedication that has been the strength of Foster Motors. Nathan Cram Ron JohnKerr Sagendorf Roger Cloutier It Tyler has been their spirit Jon of commitment it is todayWill Marcowx Jeanne Miller LaPlant Sagendorf that makes Traci Fosters Smith the dealership and it will be that same spirit that will ensure many years of success.

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802-388-9961 • 800-229-3227

Cody Scarborough

Ed Foster

Sean Kingman Larry LarryBishop Bishop Ken D’Avignon

Jared Bordeau

Ricky White

Kirk Goodman

Scott Foster Keith Terrien

Mark Jenkins

Kyle Goodman Frazier Brian Morin Colby Bernie Andrews

Delbert Frazier

Dave Foster

Bill DeVoid

Anthony Warren

“WE CARE” is more than just our slogan, Route 7 South, Middlebury, it’s our way of business.Vermont Mr. John Wesley, 802-388-9961 • 800-229-3227 Stop in and see why! Business Link Dealer. Not Responsible for typographical or printing errors.

Jeffrey Jerger Joseph Whitley

Mike Kemp Keith Terrien

Bill DeVoid

“WE CARE” is more than just our slogan, it’s our way of business. Stop in and see why! Visit us at FosterMotors.com

Carrie Chappell Lawrence LaBrake

Tim Holler

longtime customer since early 60’s - “for over 40 years, my favorite car dealership.”

Route 7 South, Middlebury, Vermont • www.fostermotors.com

Service/Recon/Body Shop Robert Don Dayton Mon-Fri 8-5Viau Sat 8-12 Sales M-F 8:30-6:30, Sat 8:30-4:30

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Compassionate veterinary care delivered by a team of professionals dedicated to the love of animals.

Top Shelf Dealer

L-R on bench: Maddie, Ash, Ziggy; Cat: Gunther

We understand the special role your pet plays in your family, and we’re committed to being your partner in your pet’s health care. Dr. Julie Moenter Dr. Betsy Meinhardt Dr. Matt Quinn

L to R: Tim Little, Michael Dowd, Greg Boglioli

Home to all your fishing, hunting, shooting and archery needs! Rods, reels by Quantum, St. Croix, Daiwa and more! Line winding station • Penn reel drop-off center Large selection of hard & soft baits

167 Monkton Rd., Bristol • 802-453-2191 Dr. Rich Armstrong Dr. Pat Leavey Dr. Ellen Foster Dr. Matt Quinn Dr. Brianna Letaw Dr. Karen Demoy Dr. Kurt Kenney

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205 Commerce St., Hinesburg • 802-482-2955

802-388-3572 • vtfieldsports@comcast.net • 1458 Route 7 South • Middlebury, VT 05753

HinesburgBristolVet.com

Mr. Mike’s

CLEANING SERVICE, INC. Servicing Local Businesses Since 1991

Jamie L. Warner, Legal Assistant/ Closing Coordinator In real estate since 2004 JLL@americanlandtitle.com

Janet P. Shaw, Title Counsel Practicing law since 1986 JPS@americanlandtitle.com

Susan J. Santry, Paralegal/ Title Insurance In real estate since 1993 SJS@americanlandtitle.com

Providing Solutions to All Your Real Estate Title Needs

Available 7 Days a Week Specializing In: Commercial Cleaning

Bonded & Insured

Industrial Cleaning

Floor Sweeping & Waxing

Janitorial Services

Green Cleaning Products

Window Cleaning

New Construction Cleanup

656 Exchange St., Suite 6, Middlebury 388-6427 • mrmikescleaningservicevt.com

Whether you are considering purchasing or refinancing your exsisting Vermont home, we are the solution to your title and closing needs. Our focus is all of Addison County, southern Chittenden County towns, as well as the northern parts of Rutland County.

Now located in the Marble Works!

American Land Title, LLC. is owned and operated by Janet P. Shaw, Esq. We have over 60 years combined experience with real estate transactions and closings.

Our friendly and professional staff are committed to providing you with quality services at competitive, affordable flat rates. Call for a quote!

111 Maple Street, Suite 20 • Midd. • Vt. 05753 (802) 388-3600 • Fax (802) 388-3700 Visit our website at americanlandtitle.com

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• SIDING • WINDOWS

• FINISHING • SHEETROCKING

• TILING • ROOFS

Call and speak to our customer care specialist or someone from our answering service who will transfer your call to either Doug or Deb for immediate reply. Someone will always be there to take your call.

Over the past 26 years, Raymond Renovation & New Construction, LLC, has established a solid reputation in Addison County as a dependable general contractor doing quality work in all phases of residential and light commercial carpentry – from new home construction to additions and remodeling. FULLY INSURED FREE BIDS

Our dedicated staff (L-R): Deb Orvis, Assistant/ Customer Care Specialist; Randall Ross, VMD

Mark Raymond, Owner

Middlebury, Vermont

Doug Orvis, Customer Care Specialist

388-0742

On-site Blood Analysis Lyme & Heartworm Testing Wellness Exams ~ Vaccines Comprehensive Diagnostics Flea & Tick Products Home Euthanasia Celebrating our 17TH year providing medical care at home for your dog or cat.

Special Thanks to our loyal clients for their unwavering trust and support.

RANDALL N. ROSS, VMD

802-777-8486 • MON - THUR 8 AM - 4:30 PM, FRI 8AM - 3PM WWW.VermontMobilevet.com

WWW.PIKEINDUSTRIES.COM

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Business Profile 2018

Vermont Refrigerated Storage

CO-OWNER BARNEY HODGES, left, and manager Michael Brinkman stand among a vast collection of apple crates that fill a portion of Vermont Refrigerated Storage, a huge warehouse on Route 22A in Shoreham. The facility stores fruit and other perishables in climate-controlled rooms for long-term storage. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

VRS handles produce with care at refrigerated warehouse in Shoreham By RACHEL COHEN SHOREHAM — It takes a whole lot of chemistry to be able to eat an apple in July. Vermont Refrigerated Storage, or VRS, on Route 22A in Shoreham has keeping apples fresh for extended periods down to a science. With a series of temperature-controlled rooms, each with specific levels of oxygen and nitrogen, co-owner Barney Hodges is able to ensure that clients like Champlain Orchards can keep their fruit fresh throughout the winter and spring, and into the summer months. “Apples perspire and breathe,” Hodges explained. “To store apples long-term, we have to alter the atmosphere of the rooms. We do two daily readings on the rooms to monitor their oxygen levels,” Hodges said. VRS, co-owned by Hodges, his wife Christiana, and Gregory O’Brien, specializes in apple storage for eight, sometimes more, growers in the Champlain Valley. For most growers, VRS serves as a supplementary storage facility they might have on their own properties. Starting around Sept. 15 and up until Nov. 1, growers bring in their apples straight from the fields. VRS takes in around 230,000 bushels during the annual harvest. One bushel of apples is equivalent to

48 pounds, or around 126 medium-size apples. really in need of apple storage. The place was so run “80 hours is a slow week,” VRS manager Michael down — it was really valueless to most people. It’s Brinkman said of the apple harvest season. “Since in great shape now,” Hodges said. the first day I started working here, every day has Since purchasing the building, VRS has added been different, even during apple season. It’s really additional components to its business to supplement exciting.” apple storage, such as pallet storage, dry storage A FRESH START options, freezer spaces, and a 500,000 VRS occupies the space of the kw solar array co-owned with Misty original Shoreham Apple Co-op, which “Apples perspire and Knoll Chicken, which generates 90 opened in 1946, and was owned by breathe. To store percent of VRS power needs. many regional growers. It operated until apples long-term, When the hard cider boom hit New 2002. England about five years ago, VRS we have to alter the “There was a downturn in apples in atmosphere of the became an obvious storage facility for the 1990s, and a lot of growers went out apples waiting to be processed into of business. There was not enough value rooms. We do two cider. Now, around 30 percent of the daily readings on the there to save the co-op,” Hodges said. apples that VRS stores are for cider In 2002, when the co-op went defunct, rooms to monitor their processing. Hodges, who co-owns Sunrise Orchards oxygen levels.” Shacksbury Cider of Vergennes in Cornwall with Christiana, leased the operated in its own room in VRS for four — Barney Hodges storage side of the building with a few to five years when it was just beginning other growers for one year. operations. Shacksbury, which started In 2004, the Hodges and O’Brien bought the just a few miles down Route 74 in Shoreham, had 10-acre property with the 120,000-square-foot large containers of already pressed juice delivered warehouse, along with Seedway LLC. Seedway to VRS, and did fermentation, bottling and labeling retains the southern third of the building. out of the facility as well. Shacksbury is now in the “Our farm was the largest grower member of the process of moving its equipment and products to its co-op when it went out of business, so we were new Vergennes location.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS Hodges and Brinkman are inspired by Shacksbury’s success, and want to make their spaces available and amenable to more entrepreneurs. “We’re interested in facilitating start-ups,” Hodges said. Since Shacksbury put down its roots in VRS, other small companies have used VRS’s variety of storage offerings, including Sap! Beverages; Tata Harper, a skincare company in Shoreham; a Canadian biotech company; and Creed Ice Co Inc. of Rutland. Middlebury Foods, a student-run non-profit out of Middlebury College, uses VRS’s refrigerated storage space to store and pack its local food offerings. “We really make almost no money on that deal, but it’s a good thing to do, so we’re psyched to support them,” Hodges said of VRS’s partnership with Middlebury Foods. In addition to supporting the start-ups that already work with VRS, Hodges would like to see new businesses develop out of VRS’s spaces. “Because of the infrastructure that’s here — forklifts, tall ceilings, town water, power — I feel like we could be a really great space that incubates businesses, warehouses people’s products, as well as continuing with the ag component,” he said.

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Pam Martin and Natacha Luizzi of our Middlebury Store We’re thrilled to have joined this wonderful community! Stop in and visit us at 16 Merchants Row, Middlebury, meet some new friends, and see some familiar faces! A Vermont owned destination for innovative cookware, outstanding cutlery and unique cutlery and unique gifts for people who love to cook. Plus, be sure to check out our website, or follow us on Facebook to learn more about sales, demonstrations, events, knife sharpening and more!

16 Merchants Row • Middlebury • 349-8803 | 72 Church Street • Burlington • 863-4226

www.KissTheCook.net

Bristol Financial Services wants to thank our clients for the trust they’ve placed in us. We look forward to continuing to work with you towards achieving your financial goals.

Back L-R: Janet Chill, Elissa Cobb, Diane Corey, Laurie Lowy Front, L-R: Mary McGuire, Anne Wallace, Karen McEachen

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Yoga classes help you become more content in your body, happier in your daily life, and more resilient amid stress. Our Free Wednesday Night Inspirations and Meditations will help your week flow more easily.

Satisfy your knitting desires with luscious colors and textures. From tried and true yarns – Plymouth, Cascade and Berroco – to natural treasures and local handspun, you’ll find everything you need. You won’t want to put down our Knitter’s Pride needles. Relax on our couch and get lost in our fibers, colors, textures and patterns.

L to R: Kris Pearsall, Fred Baser, Brenda Staples & Shawn Oxford

The team at Bristol Financial Services offers financial solutions for individuals and businesses. The most important part of our job is to help people reach their financial objectives and help business owners with their financial strategies and benefits packages. 36 Main Street, Bristol, VT 802-453-2378 www.bristolfinancial.com Securities and advisory services offered through Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, member FINRA/SPIC. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity.

A Partnership Approach to Care Consider us your partners in care, working together for you and your child’s physical and emotional well-being.

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• We are friendly to complementary approaches to treatment • Specializing in asthma care, school problems, behavioral and developemental concerns, breastfeeding and adolescent care. • Meet Doctors Mayer, Kiernen, McIntosh for a free prenatal visit. Meet our staff and see our offices at Porter Hospital Collins Building. • Walk-ins welcome Monday – Friday from 8:00 – 8:45am for our patients. • Evening hours available • We accept new patients & most insurances

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Patient-Centered Medical Home Rainbow Pediatrics is a Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home; this is the highest level that can be achieved.

We realize that no one knows your child better than you – the parents. Our goal is to partner with you to develop a plan to care for your child both in wellness and illness. Let us work with you in every phase of your child’s health care to bring out the best in every parent and child.

Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 44 Collins Drive, Suite 202, Middlebury (next to Porter Hospital)

388.1338 www.rainbowvt.com

now in our 5th year

Anyone and everyone can benefit from Yoga, regardless of shape, size, age or experience. Because many bodies need a more gradual approach, we specialize in Gentle/Moderate Yoga, Chair Yoga, and Private Theraputic Yoga Sessions. We also design workshops for businesses that want to help their staff learn to relax and renew.

Reasonable prices ensure that you can always afford to be knitting something. We take the time to help you with your project, whether you are just beginning or starting again after years of procrastination. Our Yarn-of-the-Week Specials and many free patterns will keep you continuously inspired.

For Yoga Schedule & Knitting Workshops Visit: yarnandyoga.com

Store Open: Mon & Wed–Sat 10–5:30; Sun 11–3

25A Main Street • Bristol VT • 453-7799 www.yarnandyoga.com

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L to R: Tyler Maynard, Jeremy Revell, & Sam (in front); Steve Revell & Devon Neary (kneeling in front), Linda Revell, Megan Harris, Beth Erickson.

The professional and technical staff of Lincoln Applied Geology, Inc., are prepared to serve your environmental needs. We offer: Hydrogeological Evaluations: monitoring well installations, bedrock fracture analysis, on-site wastewater disposal, stormwater discharge. Contamination Assessments: soil and ground water sampling, risk assessments, risk based corrective actions, remedial investigation/feasibility studies, phased environmental site assessments, contaminant fate and transport, landfill post closure monitoring plans, spill containment and management, SPCC Plans, soil gas and indoor air sampling. Remedial Engineering – Underground Storage Tanks: removal, evaluation and site closures. Ground Water and Soil Remediation Systems: design, installation, operation and monitoring. Water Supply: location of new ground water sources, wellhead/source protection plans, ground water pumping tests, supervision of water supply installation, and permitting. Septic System Designs: septic system design for single and multiple lot subdivisions, site and soil evaluations, designs for standard in-ground, at grade, mound, and innovative septic systems. Legal Support: expert legal testimony, second opinion studies, due diligence environmental audits, third party reviews.

Please Visit Our Website: www.lagvt.com 163 Revell Drive Lincoln, Vermont 802-453-4384 1-800-477-4384

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The Oxford Rug Hooking School Punch Needle Rug Hooking Classes and Supplies

Call for information on upcoming classes!

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Champlain Valley Properties leader Nancy Foster has been a broker for over 39 years.

4174 ROUTE 30 CORNWALL, VERMONT, 05753 (802) 462-2011 L to R: Christy Lombardo, David Stankoski, Nancy Hall, Amy Oxford, Heidi Whipple, Ellen Cronan, and Kris Andrews.

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LOCAL ROOTS RUN DEEP & STRONG

Champlain Valley Properties is comprised of a team of professionals who love Addison County and our local region.

www.amyoxford.com amy@amyoxford.com

Nancy Foster who leads the team has been one of the top producing Brokers in Addison County for years. She is a graduate of Middlebury Union High School, UVM and earned a Master’s Degree in History. Nancy’s fascination with history enhances her knowledge of the local culture and landscape. Nancy has been active in a variety of local and statewide organizations over the years. She is the mother to 3 daughters who are all married. Nancy’s husband Robert is a dairy farmer and composter who makes MOO DOO Products. Nancy enjoys working with both Buyers and Sellers on all aspects of real estate. Diana Berthiaume, has been assisting home buyers and sellers since 2006 and is well versed in the selling and buying process. She is proud of her ability to make the process a stress free and enjoyable adventure. John Snyder-White also shares a great love of history – having graduated from the University of Maine with a BA in History and Political Science. John hails from Middlebury as well and enjoys giving back to the community that enriched his life growing up. As Addison County’s sole Green Designated agent, John enjoys helping Buyers looking for energy effecient homes, and Seller’s market the unique energy efficient homes.

L-R: Chris Leighton, Taylor Sacco, Lars Hubbard & Chuck Burkins

Mandy Daly Hodson grew up in Middlebury and offers an extensive knowledge of the area and community. After graduating from UVM Mandy ran a retail clothing business with her husband in Vergennes for 13 years while raising their two children. January Stearns offers dedication and compassion and represents both sellers and buyers assisting them in making their real estate goals a reality. Family farms are her specialty; it takes an agent with experience in agriculture to truly market a farm property successfully. January lives with her husband and three children in the town of Cornwall where her family has been for 9 generations. She is a back yard chicken fancier, an avid follower of her children’s sports and activities and helps manage her husband’s excavation business. Brenda Jaring who is the administrative assistant in the office is also the Weybridge Town Clerk. She was born and raised in Vergennes, and loves calling Addison County home. She also loves spending time with her three children and two grandsons.

70 Court Street, Middlebury, VT

88 Mainell Road, Middlebury VT 802-989-7362 www.appalachiangap.com

802-989-7522

champlainvalleyproperty.com cvpropnf@comcast.net

At the At the MillMill QUALITY Kiln QUALITYDried Lumber Kiln Dried Lumber Hardwood & Softwood

Thank you to our customers for your loyalty!

Hardwood & Softwood

Friendly Great Specials Family Service Owned•Since 1906 Cash & Volume Discounts

We’re celebrating our 1st anniversary with our new name and logo —but continuing the same quality service since 2009.

The Johnson family is committed to sustainable for pricing and availability. of quality timberland Call management, the production lumber in a safe working environment, and being responsible, engaged community members.

HARDWOOD FLOORING

Hard Maple Ash • Red Oak Cherry Professional foresters have•managed the•company’s lands since 1944, providing the highest quality hardwoods, as well as white pine inHARDWOODS rough and finished PINE form. You can count on friendly, professional Rough: Maple •service. Oak Beaded,

Birch • Cherry V-Joint Ash • Butternut Shiplap Siding Friendly Service • Great Specials Yellow Poplar T&G Flooring Cash & Volume Discounts Walnut • Mahogany Rough • Dressed

HARDWOODS Rough: Maple • Oak • Birch • Cherry • Ash Butternut • Yellow Poplar • Walnut • Mahogany

PINE 802-453-4884 Bristol, Vermont • 802-453-4884 • Mon-Fri 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. Beaded • V-J & Pipwick Paneling Bristol, VT • Mon-Friwww.vermontlumber.com 7 a.m. - 4 p.m. Shiplap Siding • T&G Flooring • Rough • Dressed

www.vermontlumber.com

Call for pricing and availability.

L to R: Garret Hewes, Gary Perkins, Susan Perkins (bookkeeper), Eli Holmquist, Duane Fleury, Ryan Kelly

RESIDENTIAL ◊ COMMERCIAL ◊ AGRICULTURAL > > > >

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Energy Efficient Lighting Security & Landscape Lighting Voice/Data Cabling All jobs welcome, small & large

We’re Your Solution! Gary W Perkins - Owner Licensed / Fully Insured

Call TODAY for an estimate.

802-545-3001

422 Quaker Village Rd, Weybridge, VT • Perkins.EPS.LLC@gmail.com

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VERMONT

SPORTS

WWW.VTSKIANDRIDE.COM

KEEP UP WITH US! Vermont is New England’s playground and Addison Press’s Vermont Ski + Ride and Vermont Sports, the two largest outdoor publications in the Northeast. With combined print runs of 245,000 across 4 issues of VT Ski + Ride and 9 issues of Vermont Sports we reach both local athletes and the millions who come here to hike, bike, run, fish, ski, paddle and more! Pick up a free copy at your local retailer, sign up for free digital editions at vtsports.com and vtskiandride.com or SUBSCRIBE TODAY and we’ll mail you each issue for just $25/year!

Angelo Lynn, Publisher Mountaineer, fly fisherman, kiteboarder, runner, cyclist and skier. He’s climbed the Matterhorn and his two-man team finished second in the Canadian Death Race. Christy Lynn, Advertising Manager A trail runner, tele-skier, dog lover, pianist and gardener, Christy is a former tech rep for Brooks Canada and a long distance runner.

Lisa Lynn, Editor Sailor, windsurfer, skier and Ironman triathlete-turned-hammock-lover, she tries to keep up with the other Lynns.

Greg Meulemans, Advertising Sales Greg loves to hike, canoe and Nordic ski, especially with his wife Pat and dog Elska. He also really knows beer and owns Meulemans Craft Beers, in Rawsonville.

Abagael Giles Assistant Editor/Staff Writer Abagael came to us from The Sheet News in Mammoth Lakes, CA, where she reported on water, land use and the local economy. She likes baking sourdough bread and ski touring.

Elsie Lynn Parini, Business Manager A fish-slayer, wanna-be-yogi, paddler, skier and forager. If Elsie’s not on the soccer field, she’s probably wandering the woods with her Husky or skipping stones.

A Portrait of Community Health Since 1985

David Pollard, Art Director When he’s not on a boat or designing VT Ski + Ride you can find David Pollard carving it up on a snowboard.

Lisa Razo, Circulation Lisa lives in the mountains and enjoys hiking right from her back door. She’s also a master gardener and potter.

Shawn Braley, Art Director A rock drummer, world traveler and cat owner, Shawn has been designing Vermont Sports for more than a decade.

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Plus

VERMONT SUN CHILDREN’S CENTER

Quality child care filled with happiness and love of learning.

BOTH voted the region’s best! MIDDLEBURY 388-6888

VERMONTSUN.COM

VERGENNES 877-2030

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NFP Vergennes

NFP Middlebury

Formerly Foote’s Insurance Agency

Formerly Mackey Insurance

6 Green Street (802) 877-3351

172 Court Street (802) 877-6311

NFP Brandon

Formerly Reynolds Insurance

23 Conant Square (802) 247-3176

NFP is a leading insurance broker and consultant that cares deeply about our employees’ and clients’ well-being. We’re honest, hardworking, dedicated professionals who love what we do and strive to lead by example. But what truly defines us is that for us, business is personal. At the end of the day, our vision isn’t a financial metric or a top 10 list. It’s that when you hear “NFP,” you think of a world-class company that’s authentic, genuine and real. One whose expertise and scale are only matched by its passion for building lifelong personal relationships. We believe in building strong personal relationships based on trust, transparency and open communication. This delivers the best possible solutions for our clients and creates the best possible work environment for our employees.

The NFP Way

Nimble

Fantastic Results

Personal

• Listen well to understand what’s important.

• Collaborate and work as a team.

• Respect each other, We all matter.

• Encourage creativity and fresh perspectives.

• Earn trust by exceeding expectations.

• Build enduring relationships.

• Look to the future, anticipating needs of our employees and clients.

• Deliver peace of mind through amazing performance.

• Give back. • Be real. Be authentic. Be genuine.

Commercial Insurance | Corporate Benefits | Private Client Resources NFP.com

Insurance services provided by NFP Property & Casualty Services, Inc. (NFP P&C), a subsidiary of NFP Corp.

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PROFILES in community

RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL • INDUSTRIAL • AGRICULTURAL Owner, Glen Peck – Master Electrician Email: glenpeck@comcast.net Web: glenpeckelectric.com

Today’s team of electricians at Glen Peck Electric include: back row, left to right, Shawn Lathrop, Mike Cormier, Mike Carter, Bob Recuppero, Dave Berno, Chesley Berring, Rob Cornier, Glen Peck; bottom row, from left, Dave Harple, George Ralph, Chip Moulton, Luc Charlebois, and Francis Clark. Insert at left are Brian Fraser and Dylan Roscoe.

Serving Addison County and the surrounding area for almost 50 years, Glen Peck Electric Inc. currently employs 16 full time electricians. Our team of experienced professionals includes 4 master electricians and 6 journeymen who work alongside our apprentices. We have the equipment, the man power and the expertise to tackle the most challenging electrical jobs but we pride ourselves in being available to our community for all jobs, big and small. Glen Peck Electric is fully licensed and insured for all electrical applications including residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, and agricultural - including methane generation. Your satisfaction is our guarantee. We proudly stand behind our work and look forward to your call.

Home Office: 261 Winding Way, Leicester, VT 05733 | 802-352-9091

Lynne Peck, at right, and their daughter, La uren, run the bookkeeping departm ent at Glen Peck Electr ic.

Shop: 300 Foote Street, Middlebury, Vt 05753 | 802-388-2618

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Your Partners to

Launch, Grow and Thrive Whether you want to start a business or grow a business, the Addison County Economic Development Corporation, Small Business Development Center, and VEDA/VACC are here to help.

MAPLE VIEW Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

“Caring for our patients as we would for our families”

Call or email us for more info or to schedule an appointment. From right to left: ACEDC Staff: Diane Stockton-Breese, Marketing Manager; Fred Kenney, Executive Director; Elizabeth Burdine, Finance Director; VEDA/VACC Staff: Jamison Kimberly, Deputy Director of Agricultural Lending; Alan Curler, Senior Agricultural Loan Officer; Chris Anderson, Senior Agricultural Loan Officer; Eric Hall, Agricultural Credit Analyst; Sarah Heffernan, Agricultural Loan Assistant; Vermont SBDC Staff Brian DeClue

Call 802-388-7953 (ACEDC, SBDC) or 802-828-5627 (VEDA/VACC) or visit www.addisoncountyedc.org, www.vtsbdc.org or www.veda.org

Providing the highest quality care – Dental Implants, Wisdom Teeth, Bone and Gingival Grafting, Sedation, Facial and Oral Surgery

Scott M. Bowen, DMD, MD, MPH Harvard School of Dental Medicine Harvard School of Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel HIll

58 Court Street, Middlebury, Vermont

802-388-6344

www.mapleviewoms.com Providing Home Heating Fuel Delivery and Service to the Champlain Valley Since 1945

Missing from photo: Mary Jackman and Erika Paine

Photo

by

Sally Mccay

ACCT has been preserving and creating affordable housing since 1989. Our mission is to ensure that residents of Addison County have access to a safe, affordable place to call home. We currently own and manage over 600 units of permanently affordable housing,including multi-family apartments, mobile home parks, and single-family homes. We also provide “Support and Services at Home” (SASH) to help nearly 200 residents of ACCT senior housing and in surrounding communities age safely at home. Visit us online at: www.addisontrust.org or at 272 Main Street in Vergennes to learn more!

Left to right: Andre, Hilary, Beth, Jesse, Adam, James, Lester, Charles, Joe M. Missing from photo: Ben and Paul.

Jackman Fuels Inc. Propane • Ultra Low Sulfur Heating Oil & Kerosene

877-2661

Locally owned Family Business

205 Main Street, Vergennes • jackmanfuels.com

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PROFILES

We will assist you through the permitting process. Land Surveying, Topographic Surveying, Land Planning, Septic Design and State & Local Permitting.

in community

2018

25 West Street PO Box 388 Bristol,VT 05443 802-453-3818 info@larosesurveys.com Kevin R. LaRose, LS and Ron L. LaRose, LS

www.larosesurveys.com

It’s true! Everything is made from scratch every morning. We do our best to provide delicious healthy food in our open, friendly cafe every day. Known for our Boars Head Deli Meat and breakfasts — We are here to serve you!

Left to right: Eva, Rebecca, Lindsey, Megan, Melinda, Sue & Kevin

J.J.

11 Washington St., Middlebury • 388-0859 • Daily: 6 am - 2 pm • Sunday 6 am - 1 pm

Shard Villa A Vermont Licensed Level III - Residential Care Home

At Shard Villa we don’t just help our residents, we also help their families by offering them the peace of mind that we’re taking care of their family member and treating them with the respect and dignity they deserve. Our on-site care staff is made up of dedicated personal care-givers, medication technicians, RNs, and our Executive RN Administrator. With such a dedicated, qualified team, it’s no surprise that we’ve created an environment of superior caring, empathy, and compassion. When it comes to our residents, the things that matter to you are the same things that matter to us. Pictured L-R from top; RN Executive Director Lee Ann Goodrich, Cassie Quesnel RN, Administrative Asst. Robin Callahan, Med. Tech. Tiffany Littlefield, Caregiver Michelle Davis, Head Cook Lori Piper, Med. Tech. Julie Foote, Lauralee Nop RN, Caregiver Judith Stoddard, Med. Tech/ Coord. Heather Ballard, Med. Tech. Megan Riley For close to a century, Shard Villa has provided high quality personal care for seniors in an intimate, welcoming, home-like environment. We are a very unique, more personal alternative to the typically impersonal, large residential care facility. Residents receive the medical/personal care they need from our excellent team of nurses and care givers around the clock.

Come to Shard Villa and let our family take care of your family 802-352-4369

1177 Shard Villa Road, Salisbury VT www.shardvilla.org Follow us on Facebook!

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Front L to R: Sue, Wendy Back L to R: Missy, Stacy, Michelle, and Flo!

BOURDON INSURANCE AGENCY 48 Merchants Row, Middlebury 388-4837 www.bourdoninsurance.com

Our second generation, family-owned business has been in Middlebury for more than five decades. Serving all of the Addison County area, we represent the locally based Co-op Insurance Company, along with numerous other nationally recognized companies. Our knowledgeable staff represents more than 100 years of combined insurance experience and we are committed to providing excellent customer service to each and every one of our clients! • Home • Auto • Business • Workers Compensation • Farm • Life

Family Owned & Operated Since 1965!

Service and Sales

Specializing in Volvos

but gladly servicing all brands of cars, trucks, & SUV’s

Michelle Nadeau • Sue Bourdon • Missy Clifford • Wendy Hunt • Stacy Tallen

THE CO-OP CHICKS

Representing The Co-opertive Insurance Co.

Pictured: Amos Roleau, John Roleau, Margo Roleau, Lincoln, Dylann, Camden, Zachary Parks, Gary Briggs, Josh Thorpe, and Chris LeDieu Dr. Jeff Blasius

Left to right: Monique Simpson, Elyse Cousino, Miranda Tucker, Laurie Pratt, Carlen Goodman and Madison Parnell

Dr. Ted Librizzi

Braces for Children & Adults Creating Beautiful, Healthy Smiles!

Associates in Orthodontics is a family oriented practice providing the highest quality of orthodontics in a friendly and fun atmosphere for over 40 years. We treat all ages from early childhood to senior citizens, using conventional metal braces, ceramic braces and Invisalign. As a service to the community, we provide complimentary initial exams. Please feel free to call for an evaluation.

Dr. Zach Librizzi

170 Middle Road North, Middlebury, VT 802-388-2222 • 800-750-1000 • www.vtbraces.com

From all of us at Packard of Vermont, we would like to say thank you to all of our loyal customers! We have been proud to serve our community for the last 53 years and look forward to continuing to serve for many years to come!

88 Town Hill Road, New Haven, VT info@packardofvt.com

(802) 453-2356 packardofvt.com

A RC H – Our New Mission Statement

R E SPI TE HOM E

ARCH believes that every person should be able to die in comfort and with dignity. Working collaboratively with partners, ARCH educates and advocates for compassionate end of life care, with special attention to accommodating those who are unable to complete their lives in their own home. ARCH Board Members L to R: Joel Miller, Jake Burnham, Julie Vest, Daphne Diego, Rita Elder, www.AddisonRespiteCareHome.org Laurie Borden, Jon Crystal. Not Pictured: Ann Hanson, Peter Jensen, Louise Sandberg

Hospice Volunteer Services in the Middlebury MarbleWorks

Hospice Volunteer Services Staff L to R: Margaret Olson, Shirley Ryan, Laurie Borden, Priscilla Baker

Dedicated to families since 1983 HVS Honors the Past, Celebrates the Present, Plans for the Future.

g n i t a r b e l e C 35 Years! www.hospicevs.org

B. L. Valley Real Estate Mon. 8a.m. - 5p.m. Tues. 8a.m. - 5p.m. Wed. 8a.m. - 5p.m. Thur. 8a.m. - 5p.m. Fri. 8a.m. - 5p.m. Sat. Closed Sun. Closed

330 Foote Street • Middlebury, VT 05753 Let me help you achieve the joy of owning your own home! Everything you need to know about buying and selling homes or land in Vermont is just a call away to Brian Valley, Owner/Broker, B. L. Valley Real Estate.

Kevin Mulligan, Todd Thompson, & Jim Davignon

Give us a call at (802) 388-7652 for all your Foreign Car Repair needs!

225 Morgan Horse Farm Rd, Weybridge, VT 05753 •

Brian L. Valley Owner/Broker/Realtor® valleyvermont@comcast.net 802.989.9125

I’m here to serve you and make your real estate experience easy and rewarding. Looking forward to hearing from you soon!

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2018

Community Investment Counselors Front row: Jake Haigh, Logan Price Back row: Wendy Covey, Holly Fulton, Rollie White, Al Covey Not pictured: Stuart Stevens, Jim Graham

Financial planning through all stages of life Portfolio Management • Retirement Income • Financial Education We are a local independent financial advisory firm offering a full range of investment services including retirement income plans, workplace rollovers, college funding & business retirement plans. Our primary focus on client education allows us to render investment advice in the client’s best interest.

63 Maple St., Suite 25 (across parking lot from Marbleworks Pharmacy), Middlebury, VT Ph: 802-388-1357, Fax: 802-388-0345, email: office@communityinvestmentcounselors.com Investment Advisory Services offered through Capital Cities Investments, a Registered Investment Advisor

802Social is a Vermont-based

company, deeply rooted in digital strategy and social media marketing. We thrive on identifying client’s needs and competitive opportunities. 802Social consults, teaches and executes strategies to help broaden client understanding and use of the growing digital market. Our goal is to expose the underutilized “white spaces” in the digital landscape, where our clients can be first to market and grow new opportunities before others in their field can. www.802Social.com 802.355.2743 molly@802social.com

Molly Goodyear Owner, Founder

Benj & Lesley Deppman, attorneys at Deppman Law PLC, are focused on achieving practical results for their clients.

Stop in and check us out – We’ve got the local flavor you’re looking for!

Claire Dykstra, Kathy Mandigo, Lesley Deppman & Benj Deppman

2 Park Street, Middlebury • 802-388-6337 • www.middlaw.com Our Mission at Faith in Action Church is to know Jesus and to make Him known. Our vision is to reach people throughout Addison County with the good news.

The Village Green Market has been proudly serving the community for over 200 years! We are a little store with a lot to offer, including: • A deli specializing in fresh sandwiches, salads, and home style hot meals • A great selection of local coffees from Speeder & Earls, New England Coffee, and Vermont Coffee Company • Creemees with flavors changing weekly • An ever-evolving selection of beer, wine, and other beverages • Fresh baked goods

Worship is every Sunday at 4:30pm

Open Mon – Sat, 6am – 8pm & Sun 8am – 8pm

Locally owned & operated

Village Green Market 48 Town Hill Road, New Haven, VT (802)453-2163

Faith in Action Church

Prayer Meetings Thursdays at 7pm 300 Main Street, Vergennes, VT (802) 550-9723 faithinactionvt.com

We look forward to seeing you at Addison County Fair & Field Days!

THERE IS JOY IN SERVING THE LORD! • All Are Welcome • Community Outreach Opportunities • Small Group Studies • Opportunities to Serve

Where we make connections to the cross

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PORTRAITS

OF OUR

COMMUNITY ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT Serving Addison County, Vt., Since 1946

Photos by the Addison Independent's Trent Campbell

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Sewing Machines Vacuum Cleaners Drop-In Fam:

Pink Boots Crew:

Sophie McKeever-Parkes Christine McKeever-Parkes Steve Parkes George McKeever-Parkes

Eva Pratt Ciara Staveley O’Carroll Vilija Bizinkauskas Christine McKeever-Parkes

@DropInBeer info@dropinbeer.com At Drop-In Brewing we aim to not only brew highly drinkable, innovative beers, but also to educate those within the beer community. As owner and lead instructor of the American Brewers Guild with over 30 years of commercial brewing experience, Brewmaster Steve Parkes continues to advance the craft brewing industry in Vermont and the U.S. Come by the taproom to try our 7 beers on tap and to learn more about the crazy beautiful world of beer!

Scissor Sharpening Service Fabric

L to R are: Laura, Bev, Diane, Lena, Katarina, Carla, Kevin and Vaughn. Missing: Marie and Lauren.

Shop with those ….

We are in our 13th year in business. Working to bring the latest in sewing techniques and technology to all of our customers. Carrying the best vacuums for the cleanest and healthiest homes. We take care of our customers with the most knowledge and priority service. Buy from us! You’ll be ‘sew’ glad you did!

* you know * who have experience * you can depend on * you trust

Drop-In Brewing Company

1428 Route 7 South Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-3559 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm • middleburysewnvac.com

610 Rt. 7 South • Middlebury VT • 802.989.7414 • www. DropInBrewing.com Hours: M-W 11am-5pm, Th-Sat 11am-7pm, Sun Noon-5pm •

Comprehensive Eye Examinations • Emergency Eye Care • Contact Lenses Fashion Eyewear • Prescription Sunglasses including Maui Jim

L-R; Mark Laframboise, Austin Morgan, Gerry Plouffe, Tim Jerome, Steve Guy, Rayne LaPlante, Brian Mattison Not pictured: Shannon Burrell - CFO and Dawn Morgan - Office Manager

Air Conditioning: Service - Troubleshoot • New Installation of Heat Pump A/C Units

L-R: Ed, Jeanne, Jess, Ally, Dr. Monica, Miranda, Chris, Nikki, Dr. Kayla, Kathy, Dr. Diane, Dr. Dan and Peter.

Heating & Plumbing Services: New Installations – Boilers, Furnaces, Water Heaters • Service - Troubleshoot

(802) 388-2811

91 Main Street • Middlebury, VT www.facebook.com/MiddleburyEye/ Open M, T, W, F 8-5:30 Th. 8-8

www.middleburyeye.com

We are there when you need us!

M-F 7am - 4pm, Sat 8-noon

1786 Route 7 South • Middlebury, VT

388-2296 24/7 Pager Service

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2018

MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING Supporting Vermont Municipalities Since 1962

Kate Fuller, Jonathan Ashley, PE, Charles Johnston, EI, Tom Drew, Mary Homan, Christopher Schmelzenbach, PE, Mike Mainer, PE, Tim Chase (Not pictured: Al DeFelice, Jeremy Rathbun, PE, Andrew Sampsell, EI, Mark Vince, Taylor Craven, EI, Peter Bull)

25 Union Street, Brandon | 802.465.8396 www.dubois-king.com

Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home Peace of mind is knowing your loved one never leaves our care. The only on-site crematory in the area.

• Reasonable Prices • Quality Services • Family Owned

• Advanced Planning Available • Traditional and Cremation Services

Left to right back row: Brad Boise, Dick Sagendorf, Bruce Perreault, Patrick Clark. Front Row: Ann Perreault, David Broughton, Brye Beckwith. Missing: Don Desrocher, Earl Hurlburt, Peter Olivo, Shelby Monica, Wes Holler.

37 Years as Addison County’s #1 Auto Parts Store 99 Wilson Rd. • Midd., VT • 388-3143 • M-F 7:30-5:30 • Sat. 7:30-4 • Sun. 9-2 • middleburyautoparts.com

Sanderson-Ducharme 117 South Main Street Middlebury, VT 05753

Walter J. Ducharme, Owner

388-2311

www.sandersonfuneralservice.com

Vermont-made wooden toys and gifts for 39 years

Ryan Emilio and Robert LaRose

Style and Efficiency with a Local Touch Window Treatments • Awnings • Screens 298 Maple Street Middlebury, VT 802.247.3883 • VermontShadeandBlind.com

Barbara Rainville, Hilda Vincent, Pat Rainville, Regan Wedge, Tim Sawyer, Cheryl Martell, Shawna Hotte, Donna Kerr, Steve Kimball, Robin Farnum, Ronda Coyle, Alan Palmer, Chris Mitchell, Betty Clark, Sarah Wales, Doug Williams, Nate Fisher, Roger Johnston, George Macedo, Mae Farley, Anne Cummings, John Gallagher, Missy Thompson, Scott Joyal, Remy Lary, Loyal Riley, Don Nels, Arleen Bent, Hugh Kennedy, Hope Buchanan, Chris Schaner, Paul Hanson, Rhonda Kendall, Wallace Thompson, Jared Provoncha, Sam Guillemette, Phillip Jerome, Mike Rainville, Jill Rainville, Adam Rainville, Andrew Rainville, and Hattie Brown (emeritus)

VISIT OUR FACTORY & STORE: Mon-Fri 8-5 / Sat 9-4 / Tours M-F 10&1 1297 Exchange St., Middlebury - 388-0627 - maplelandmark.com

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C L E A N E R E N E R G Y. C L E A N E R A I R.

Our team is thrilled to offer an important energy choice to families and businesses in Addison County. Visit VermontGas.com to see how we can help you with your energy needs.