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MLK tribute
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Up your trash stats this weekend at Middlebury College’s Chip Kenyon Arena. See Page 2A.
Conductor will bring a powerhouse choir to town for Martin Luther King Day. See Page 12A.
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ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT Vol. 70 No. 2
Middlebury, Vermont
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Thursday, January 14, 2016
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28 Pages
75¢
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Index Obituaries  ................................ 6A &ODVVL¿HGV  ....................... 6B-Â10B Service  Directory  .............. 7B-Â8B Entertainment  ........................ 12A &RPPXQLW\ &DOHQGDU  ...... 8A-Â10A Sports  ................................ 1B-Â4B
PAGE  2A  —  Addison  Independent,  Thursday,  January  14,  2016
Hockey  fans  to  try  for  a  ‘Perfect  Sort’ Green  Panther  Challenge  this  weekend By  GAEN  MURPHREE than  eight  minutes. MIDDLEBURY  —  Middlebury  ‡ (DWLQJ DW OHDVW SHUFHQW RI WKH College  ice  hockey  fans  will  face  a  food  on  their  plates. different  sort  of  challenge  this  week- ‡ 3XWWLQJ UHF\FOLQJ ELQV LQ WKH end. locker  rooms. As  the  men’s  team  faces  off  against  Athletes  across  all  sports  around  longtime  rival  Plattsburgh  State  in  campus  are  committed  to  engaging  Chip  Kenyon  Arena  this  Friday  eve- with  fans  through  events  such  as  the  ning  and  the  Panther  Perfect  Sort  Gamedays.  women  take  on  En- At  this  weekend’s  dicott  College  on  Sat- “Students (that hockey  games,  stu- urday  afternoon,  fans  helped fans sort dent  athlete  volunteers  will  be  challenged  to  at the football dressed  in  bright  green  improve  their  perfor- game) were Perfect  Sort  T-Âshirts  mance  on  a  somewhat  will  staff  an  information  obscure  but  nonethe- great. They were table  near  the  entryway  less  very  important  sta- really engaging and  stand  next  to  waste  with fans and tistic:  the  sort. containers  around  The  They  will  be  look- chatting with &KLS DQG KHOS IDQV ÂżJ- ing  to  perform  a  perfect  them. And it was ure  out  which  bit  of  sort  —  a  perfect  sort- detritus  goes  into  com- just kind of a ing  of  potato  chip  bags,  post  bins,  which  into  candy  wrappers,  plastic  nice icebreaker.â€? recycling  and  which  — Green Panther into  garbage  containers  water  bottles,  half-Âeat- Challenge GHVWLQHG IRU WKH ODQGÂżOO en  hotdogs,  squashed  coordinator Signs  will  be  posted  on  cocoa  cups  and  every  Eva Fillion all  bins,  which  will  also  last  bit  of  trash  tossed  into  bins  marked  for  be  color-Âcoded,  said  MIDDLEBURY  COLLEGE  STUDENT  athlete  volunteers  Emma  McDonagh,  left,  and  Evie  Keating  work  a  recycling  station  at  a  college  football  FRPSRVW UHF\FOLQJ RU ODQGÂżOO Green  Panther  Challenge  coordina- The  Perfect  Sort  Gamedays  are  tor  Eva  Fillion  of  the  Department  of  game  in  October  where  fans  were  instructed  how  to  properly  sort  their  trash.  The  Perfect  Sort  Gameday  Green  Panther  Challenge  will  be  replicated  at  hockey  games  this  weekend. part  of  the  Green  Panther  Challenge,  Sustainability  Integration. 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Rather  than  pitting  fans  of  one  sport  a  baseline  count.  That  baseline  count  line  gameday  got  15  percent  of  their  sorted,  a  huge  improvement. Sort  Day. This  year’s  Green  Panther  Chal- against  fans  of  another  —  say  foot- shows  how  correctly  that  sport’s  fans  trash  correctly  sorted,  according  to  Fillion  said  that  organizers  are  hop- For  the  athlete  volunteers,  train- lenge  focuses  on  getting  teams  and  ball  fans  against  hockey  fans  —  the  sorted  their  trash  when  given  no  as- Fillion.  Then  on  football’s  Perfect  ing  for  an  even  greater  improvement  ing  for  the  upcoming  Perfect  Sort  fans  to  reduce  waste  sent  to  the  land- Perfect  Sort  Gamedays  ask  fans  with- sistance  whatsoever.  Trash  stats  from  Sort  Gameday,  as  the  Panther  team  on  among  hockey  fans.  Challenges  at  Gamedays  will  consist  of  a  crash  ¿OO in  each  sport  to  improve  their  own  the  Perfect  Sort  Gameday  itself  then  WKH ÂżHOG ZKXSSHG :LOOLDPV WR the  football  game,  she  said,  were  the  course  in  what  and  how  the  college  “We  in  Athletics  have  worked  with  larger  area  and  large  numbers  of  tail- recycles.  For  example,  unlike  most  RXU 6XVWDLQDELOLW\ 2IÂżFH IRU D QXP- gaters.  home  composting  systems,  the  col- ber  of  years  on  various  projects,â€?  said  “At  the  hockey  games,  we’re  hop- lege  can  compost  meat  safely.  The  Director  of  Athletics  Erin  Quinn.  “We  ing  that  everyone  being  in  a  con- college  recycles  plastics  of  the  types  decided  for  this  current  year  that  sort- tained  space,  we’ll  be  able  to  reach  marked  one  through  seven,  along  ing  of  recycling,  trash  and  compost  everyone  here,â€?  said  Fillion. with  clean  cardboard,  paper  and  would  be  an  excellent  area  of  focus.  However,  compared  to  football  metal.  By  the  end  of  the  training,  We  host  quite  a  few  events  over  the  fans’  baseline  trash  sort,  hockey  fans  student  volunteers  will  know  where  course  of  the  year  that  are  attended  have  farther  to  go.  At  the  baseline  to  sort  a  half-Âgnawed  chicken  ten- by  faculty,  staff,  students,  parents  and  men’s  and  women’s  hockey  game- der,  an  empty  Gatorade  bottle,  or  an  community  members.  These  events  days  held  in  November,  fans  sorted  empty  carton  of  Ben  and  Jerry’s  ice  are  an  opportunity  to  achieve  quan- only  5  percent  of  their  trash  correctly. cream.  And  the  athlete  volunteers  WLÂżDEOH LPSURYHPHQWV LQ KRZ RXU “In  the  hockey  arena,  the  trash  and  will  be  able  to  give  fans  the  right  waste  is  sorted  at  our  contests,  which  recycling  bins  look  identical  and  you  plays  for  a  Perfect  Sort  Gameday,  LV DQ H[FHOOHQW EHQHÂżW LQ DQG RI LWVHOI have  to  pay  pretty  close  attention,â€?  as  they  face  the  compost,  recycling  “They  also  create  an  educational  said  Fillion.  “It  says  on  the  lid  of  the  DQG ODQGÂżOO ELQV opportunity  for  our  fans  and  show  bin  (what  kind  of  trash  goes  there),  Fillion  said  the  Perfect  Sort  appreciation  and  respect  for  our  em- but  if  you’re  just  passing  by  you  Gamedays  are  also  designed  to  be  ployees  who  sort  the  waste,â€?  Quinn  wouldn’t  necessarily  notice.  They’re  fun  and  to  give  fans  and  student  continued.  “All  Panther  teams  are  be- these  big  round  metal  containers.  athletes  an  opportunity  not  just  to  ing  challenged  to  set  their  own  goals  We’re  taking  them  out  for  this  com- learn  more  about  sustainability  but  on  how  to  generate  less  trash.â€? ing  weekend  and  putting  in  the  ones  a  chance  to  interact  one  on  one. Goals  for  the  men’s  ice  hockey  that  match  the  color-Âcoded  ones  on  “We  did  this  for  football  and  team  include: campus.â€? people  seemed  really  into  it,â€?  said  ‡ 2SWLQJ IRU UHXVDEOH ZDWHU ERW- With  students  back  on  campus  this  Fillion.  “Students  were  great.  They  tles. week  for  the  start  of  J-ÂTerm,  Perfect  were  really  engaging  with  fans  and  ‡ 0DNLQJ VXUH WR UHF\FOH RQ URDG Sort  Gameday  organizers  are  put- chatting  with  them.  And  it  was  just  trips. ting  together  a  new  roster  of  student  kind  of  a  nice  icebreaker  and  a  way  ‡ 3XWWLQJ UHF\FOLQJ ELQV LQ WKH athlete  volunteers  to  staff  the  bins  for  fans  to  learn  a  little  more  about  locker  rooms. around  The  Chip  and  to  serve  at  an  how  we  recycle  and  compost  and  JACK  BYRNE,  DIRECTOR  of  Middlebury  College’s  Sustainability  Integration  program,  left,  Athletic  Director  information  table  posted  just  inside  deal  with  trash  on  campus.  So  we’re  The  women’s  ice  hockey  team’s  Erin  Quinn  and  Sustainability  Outreach  Coordinator  Eva  Fillion  are  working  to  organize  this  weekend’s  Green  goals  are: the  arena. hoping  that  that  same  thing  will  Panther  recycling  challenge  at  men’s  and  women’s  ice  hockey  games  at  Chip  Kenyon  Arena. ‡ 5HGXFLQJ VKRZHU WLPH WR OHVV Most  volunteers  will  be  off-Âsea- happen  this  weekend.â€? 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House  committee  backs  small  hike  in  Act  46  spending  threshold By  TIFFANY  DANITZ  PACHE VT  Digger.org MONTPELIER  —  After  listening  to  hours  of  testimony  on  the  good  the  bad  and  the  ugly  that  school  districts  have  endured  trying  to  build  budgets  XQGHU D VSHQGLQJ FDS XQGHU $FW the  House  Committee  on  Education  on  Tuesday  voted  in  favor  of  rais- ing  the  spending  threshold  for  every  VFKRRO GLVWULFW LQ WKH VWDWH E\ SHU- cent  for  FY  2017. 7KH Âż[ LV PHDQW WR DFFRPPRGDWH an  unforeseen  increase  in  health  care Â
costs  and  it  has  the  support  of  Speak- er  of  the  House  Shap  Smith. “I  think  that  it  is  a  reasonable  move,â€?  Smith  said.  He  isn’t  sure  if  there  are  enough  House  members  in  favor  to  get  it  through,  but  he  also  can’t  be  sure  that  the  repeal  of  the  allowable  growth  provision  that  the  Senate  is  pushing  will  garner  enough  House  votes,  either.  “There  is  a  pret- W\ VLJQLÂżFDQW VSOLW LQ WKH +RXVH RQ the  repeal  so  it  is  not  clear  whether  repeal  would  pass,â€?  he  said. “I’ve  had  plenty  of  people  stop  me Â
in  the  hallway  today  from  the  ma- jority  and  the  minority  party,â€?  said  Kurt  Wright,  R-ÂChittenden,  a  mem- ber  of  the  House  Education  panel.  “Some  were  saying  you  are  caving  and  shouldn’t  be  changing  because  it  hasn’t  had  time  to  work.  Others  were  saying  they  want  to  repeal  it.  I  think  repeal  would  be  a  horrible  message  to  send.  I  think  this  is  the  best  way  forward  for  now,  providing  some  re- lief,  some  help  while  staving  off  any  attempt  to  repeal.â€? Under  the  allowable  growth  per-Â
centage,  or  AGP,  each  school  district  was  provided  an  amount  they  could  increase  spending  from  0  to  5.5  per- cent  based  on  the  previous  year’s  per  pupil  spending.  If  a  district  votes  to  spend  more  than  the  allowed  amount  WKH\ DUH ¿QHG ZLWK D GRXEOH WD[ RQ each  additional  dollar.  An  unexpect- HG LQFUHDVH LQ KHDOWK FDUH SUH- miums  meant  more  than  125  school  districts  would  have  to  spend  more  than  they  were  allowed,  according  to  DQ DQDO\VLV E\ WKH -RLQW )LVFDO 2I¿FH (JFO).
The  House  Education  Panel  ze- roed  in  on  that  and  raised  the  al- ORZHG JURZWK DFURVV WKH VWDWH E\ percent  for  one  year.  Even  with  the  accommodation,  the  JFO  estimates  around  100  school  districts  will  still  fail  to  stay  under  their  proscribed  threshold.  Many  of  those  school  districts  have  found  that  previous- ly  made  contracts,  special  educa- tion  costs,  enrollment  changes  and  spending  choices  made  in  the  prior  year  will  make  it  impossible  not  to  overspend.
The  testimony  the  committee  heard  revealed  how  unique  each  dis- trict  is,  according  to  Rep.  Tim  Jer- man,  D-ÂChittenden.  “I  feel  the  need  to  protect  cost  controls  put  into  effect  last  year  ‌  some  (districts)  are  getting  hit  much  harder  than  others,â€?  he  said.  “It  is  hard  to  craft  any  bill  that  gets  at  all  the  circumstances.  I  think  this  is  a  reasonable  compromise.â€? The  ACLU-ÂVermont  has  been  urg- ing  lawmakers  to  repeal  the  AGP  or  (See  Spending,  Page  3A)
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If  you’re  an  American  working  in  the  coal  mines,  or  in  manufacturing  jobs  whose  work  is  being  exported  overseas,  you’re  angry  about  that  change  DQG IHHOLQJ YXOQHUDEOH WKDW \RX ZRQÂśW ÂżQG DQRWKHU MRE WKDW SD\V KDOI DV ZHOO In  that  mindset,  it’s  easy  to  be  mad  and  want  to  believe  politicians  who  sell  the  belief  that  if  only  they  were  elected  president,  their  bolder  leadership  would  beat  back  the  hands  of  time  and  restore  things  to  the  way  they  were.  It  is,  of  course,  so  much  snake  oil. The  truth  for  the  past  20  years  is  that  the  global  economy  is  forcing  eco- nomic  disruptions  throughout  all  advanced  economies.  The  panacea  is  not  to  resist  that  change,  but,  as  the  president  said,  make  “change  work  for  us‌  Our  unique  strengths  as  a  nation—our  optimism  and  work  ethic,  our  spirit  of  discovery,  our  diversity,  our  commitment  to  rule  of  law—these  things  give  us  everything  we  need  to  ensure  prosperity  and  security  for  genera- tions  to  come.â€? ******** In  looking  toward  the  future,  President  Obama  asked  Americans  to  think  about  four  important  questions:  ‡ +RZ GR ZH JLYH HYHU\RQH D IDLU VKRW DW RSSRUWXQLW\ DQG VHFXULW\ LQ WKLV new  economy;Íž  ‡ +RZ GR ZH PDNH WHFKQRORJ\ ZRUN IRU XV DQG QRW DJDLQVW XV HVSHFLDOO\ when  it  comes  to  solving  urgent  challenges  like  climate  change;Íž ‡ +RZ GR ZH NHHS $PHULFD VDIH DQG OHDG WKH ZRUOG ZLWKRXW EHFRPLQJ LWV policeman;Íž  and ‡ +RZ FDQ ZH PDNH RXU SROLWLFV UHĂ€HFW ZKDWÂśV EHVW LQ XV DQG QRW ZKDWÂśV worst? 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To  understand  that  fundamental  change  is  to  also  embrace  the  need  for  more  education,  and  at  every  age  group.  President  Obama’s  response  is  clear:  “real  opportunity  requires  every  American  to  get  the  education  and  training  they  need  to  land  a  good-Âpaying  job.â€?  That  means,  providing  Pre- K  for  all  and  offering  every  student  hands-Âon  computer  science  and  math  classes;Íž  making  college  affordable  for  every  American;Íž  and  providing  two  years  of  community  college  at  no  cost  for  every  responsible  student.  In  DGGLWLRQ WR D EHWWHU HGXFDWLRQ DQG WUDLQLQJ 2EDPD DGYRFDWHG IRU ÂłEHQHÂżWV and  protections  that  provide  a  basic  measure  of  securityâ€?  for  all  Americans. 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)LUVW )ROLR KHOSV XV ÂľSUHVV Ă€HVKÂś ZLWK WKH %DUG Don’t  tell  my  cats  ...   but  if  my  house  were  burning  I  would  have  a  split  second  of  hesitation  choosing  between  them  and  my  facsimile  copy  of  Shakespeare’s  First  Fo- OLR 'RQÂśW ZRUU\ , ZRXOG GHÂżQLWHO\ VDYH WKH FDWV ÂżUVW (all  four  of  them  ...  and  the  dog  ...  and  the  lizard).  Exiled  WR D GHVHUW LVODQG" , ZRXOG GHÂżQLWHO\ SDFN P\ )LUVW )R- lio.  Or  if  I  were  one  of  those  book  memorizer  people  in  the  book-Âburning  world  of  Ray  Bradbury’s  “Fahrenheit  451â€??  Ditto. A  real  First  Folio  —  not  a  facsimi- le,  like  my  copy  —  a  real  First  Folio,  one  of  only  230  known  to  be  in  exis- tence,  will  come  to  Middlebury  Col- lege  early  in  February,  as  one  of  the  By  Gaen ÂżUVW VWRSV RQ LWV WRXU RI WKH 8 6 IURP Murphree the  Folger  Shakespeare  Library. Why  should  we  care?  Well,  there’s  what  it  says  in  the  Introduction  to  my  facsimile  edition:  “The  King  James  Bible  and  the  First  Folio  edition  of  Shakespeare’s  plays  are  the  two  great- est  books  in  the  cultural  history  of  the  English-Âspeaking  peoples.â€?  There’s  that. After  all,  without  the  First  Folio  we’d  be  missing  about  half  of  Shakespeare’s  plays,  including  “As  You  Like  It,â€?  “The  Tempest,â€?  “Twelfth  Nightâ€?  and  “Macbeth.â€?  A  world  without  “tomorrow  and  tomorrow  and  tomorrowâ€?  would  truly  be  “a  tale  /  Told  by  an  idiot,  full  of  sound  and  fury,  /  Signifying  nothing.â€?  Do  not  sign  me  up. But  the  argument  about  “greatnessâ€?  always  makes  me  feel  a  bit  like  I’m  about  to  have  my  knuckles  whacked  by  a  pince-Ânez  wearing,  ultra-Âstrict  school  master.  Or  worse  yet,  be  lectured  at  by  some  wind  bag  of  a  pedant. We  should  care  about  the  First  Folio  and  the  collected  works  of  Shakespeare  because:  The  plays  are  powerful.  The  plays  are  beautiful.  They  make  the  hair  stand  up  on  the  back  of  your  neck.  They  contain  pretty  much  the  most  glorious  words  ever  uttered  in  the  English  tongue. Â
They  make  you  feel  and  understand.  They  entertain. A  world  without  the  plays  in  the  First  Folio  would  be  a  grayer,  sadder,  thinner  world.  A  tamer  world.  Full  of  less  truth.  A  world  more  devoid  of  wildness. If  you  have  any  doubt  about  the  enduring  power  of  Shakespeare  (that’s  “powerâ€?  to  move  and  entertain  not  VWXII\ ÂłJUHDWQHVV´ GRQÂśW PLVV WKH QH[W WLPH ÂżIWK JUDG- ers  from  around  Addison  County  do  another  of  their  30-Âminute  productions.  Two  years  ago,  I  was  mesmerized  to  watch  my  younger  daughter  glide  across  the  stage  carrying  her  candle  and  saying,  “Out  damn  spot!â€?  as  the  driven-Âmad- by-Âguilt  Lady  Macbeth.  But  it  wasn’t  just  that  parent  pride  that  makes  you  annoyingly  love  everything  your  kid  does.  Every  kid  on  that  stage  from  all  the  different  schools  did  a  great  job  as  cloaks  and  hats  and  swords  were  passed  from  one  kid  to  another,  signifying  that  another  child  was  taking  up  a  UROH <RX FRXOG IROORZ WKH VWRU\ ÂżIWK JUDGH GLFWLRQ DQG all.  And  it  was  gripping.  Lo  all  these  many  “Macbeth’sâ€?  later,  I  was  still  on  the  edge  of  my  seat. But  why  the  First  Folio  itself?  Why  not  scoop  up  the  cat  and  run  with  no  second  thoughts?  Why  not  any  old  collected  Shakespeare  —  of  which  there  are  legion? Kristin  Linklater,  renowned  teacher  of  voice  for  the  actor  and  cofounder  of  Shakespeare  and  Company,  said  it  best:  Shakespeare’s  language  is  “a  language  400  years  younger  than  ours.â€?  Not  older.  Younger. Shakespeare  died  April  23,  1616.  Queen  Elizabeth  I  was  already  dead.  Her  distant  cousin  James  was  on  the  throne.  The  First  Folio  came  out  in  1623.  In  Shake- speare’s  time,  printing  was  still  relatively  new,  a  little  over  a  hundred  years  old,  the  great  technological  revolu- tion  of  its  age  (along  with  realizing  you  truly  didn’t  fall  (See  Clippings,  Page  7A)
Clippings
A  billion  reasons  to  skip  the  lottery In  case  you  were  wondering,  I  didn’t  win  the  U.S.  Pow- perspective  on  what  really  matters  in  life,  such  as  love,  erball  jackpot  last  night.  family  and  the  satisfaction  that  comes  from  struggling  to  That’s  no  big  surprise,  given  that  the  odds  of  winning  make  ends  meet,  day  after  day,  until  you  die.  were  one  in  292,201,338.  The  chances  of  me  being  at- If  a  couple  hundred  million  can  ruin  your  life,  a  billion  tacked  by  a  shark  —  in  Vermont,  yesterday  —  were  ex- ZRXOG EH HYHQ ZRUVH <RXÂśG EH RYHUZKHOPHG ZLWK ÂżQDQ- ponentially  higher. cial  decisions  and  dazzled  by  the  ability  to  buy  anything  But  the  main  reason  I  didn’t  win  is  you  wanted  without  thinking.  You’d  that  I  didn’t  play. be  a  target  for  kidnappers.  And  if  ev- When  a  huge  jackpot  comes  along,  HU\RQH LQ WKH RIÂżFH GHFLGHG WR SLWFK I  usually  buy  a  ticket,  just  in  case.  A  LQ ÂżYH EXFNV IRU D UHWLUHPHQW JLIW IRU few  years  ago,  for  instance,  I  went  in  a  co-Âworker,  you’d  look  like  a  jerk  if  ZLWK P\ RIÂżFHPDWHV RQ D EXQFK RI you  didn’t  offer  to  throw  in  at  least  a  tickets.  We  didn’t  win.  (In  retrospect,  $20. I  shouldn’t  have  cleaned  out  my  desk  Of  course,  that  implies  that  you’d  just  before  the  drawing.  I  had  to  put  still  be  working.  As  if.  You  always  By Jessie Raymond hear  about  people  who  say  they  love  everything  back  the  next  Monday  morning,  and  the  incident  didn’t  look  their  jobs  so  much  they’d  never  quit  good  on  my  performance  review.) even  if  they  won  the  lottery.  “It’s  not  I’d  hate  to  feel  such  disappointment  again,  but  that’s  not  about  the  money,â€?  they  say.  “My  job  gives  me  purpose,  why  I  didn’t  buy  a  ticket  for  Wednesday’s  Powerball.  It’s  and  without  that,  what  else  is  there?â€?  (See  “private  jet,â€?  because  the  jackpot  was  $1.5  billion. above.) That’s  too  much. Would  you  move?  You’d  have  to,  because  if  you  stayed  It’s  bad  enough  when  someone  wins  a  measly  $200  mil- in  Addison  County,  you’d  be  answering  your  phone  and  lion  or  so.  They  quit  their  job,  buy  a  few  extra  houses  and  your  door  a  hundred  times  a  day  to  individuals  and  orga- sports  cars,  travel  on  a  private  jet  and  light  their  cigars  nizations  wanting  money. with  $20  bills.  Also,  for  some  inexplicable  reason  they  in- I  guess  you’d  have  a  valet  or  someone  to  handle  that  variably  buy  a  jet  ski  —  it  must  be  part  of  the  lottery  terms  stuff  for  you.  But  who  wants  their  house  all  cluttered  up  and  conditions. with  servants?  Sure,  it  sounds  like  paradise,  but  in  a  few  years  the  win- In  some  states,  you  can  choose  to  remain  anonymous.  ners  end  up  divorced,  broke,  disillusioned  and  with  yellow  Good  idea:  Don’t  tell  anyone  it  was  you  who  bought  the  teeth  (from  the  cigars).  Too  much  money  can  destroy  your  (See  Raymond,  Page  5A)
Around the bend
Let’s  talk  about  the  kids.  “Ver- mont  students  outpace  their  peers  in  most  other  states  on  national  tests,  can  hold  their  own  on  international  assessments,  and  have  one  of  the  highest  graduation  rates  in  the  na- tion  —  92%  in  2014â€?  (The  Moun- tain  Times,  Dec.  17,  2015).  Education  is  an  ever-Âevolving  process  which  needs  to  mirror  the  culture  and  society  our  children  are  growing  up  in.  Act  46  serves  to  ensure  that  we  do  not  lag  behind  in  providing  a  structure  that  works  for  all  the  towns,  large  and  small,  in  Vermont. In  the  Rutland  Northeast  Super- visory  Union,  our  small  elementary  schools  must  provide  an  equitable  education  which  prepares  students  for  secondary  schools  and  beyond.  Our  state  requires  of  schools  and  students  mastery  of  academic  achievement,  personalized  learning,  safety  and  school  climate,  high- TXDOLW\ VWDIÂżQJ DQG FRVW HIIHFWLYH- ness.  The  choice  of  district  consoli- dation  is  not  ours  at  this  point;Íž  but  it  is  our  responsibility  to  support  the  efforts  of  our  state  education  leaders  who  have  our  children’s  best  inter- ests  in  mind,  and  to  pass  Act  46  at  this  phase  in  the  three-Âstep  process.  It  is  a  win-Âwin  for  everyone. I  have  been  an  active  participant  in  Vermont’s  education  system  for  over  35  years  as  a  parent,  teacher,  administrator  and  taxpayer.  I  strongly  believe  that  we  should  vote  YES  on  Act  46  School  District  Consolidation  on  Jan.  19  because  it  is  inevitable  that  this  will  happen  in  the  near  future  with  or  without  our  blessings. If  we  choose  to  support  this  act  QRZ ZH ZLOO EHQHÂżW IURP PDQ\ ÂżQDQFLDO LQFHQWLYHV WKDW ZLOO QRW EH available  in  the  future;Íž  and  we  can  be  assured  that  our  small  schools  will  remain  open  for  four  more  years.  This  effort  is  being  handled  responsibly  and  in  a  timely  manner. After  attending  the  last  study  committee  meeting  at  Otter  Valley  Union  High  School,  I  was  im- pressed  with  the  effort  being  put  for- ward  by  representatives  from  all  our  local  communities  to  work  together  to  make  this  opportunity  for  our  col- lective  districts  happen.  I  honestly  expected  some  disagreements,  bad  feelings  and  otherwise  rocky  banter.  But  I  was  pleasantly  surprised  that  this  committee  and  Superintendent  Jeanne  Collins  had  the  facts,  the  expertise  and  the  wisdom  to  know  what  is  good  for  children. The  world  of  education  is  chang- ing  faster  than  we  can  imagine,  and  our  children  need  the  skills  and  knowledge  to  compete.  Visit  any  high  school  in  this  area  and  see  for  yourself  how  vastly  different  our  curriculum  and  teaching  strategies  have  become.  This  is  not  about  nostalgic  memories  —  but  rather  the  hard  realities  of  our  economic  and  social  structures  today.  We  all  have  a  lot  to  learn  and  act  upon. In  closing,  I  am  urging  you  to  come  out  and  support  this  consoli- dation  on  Jan.  19.  Also,  as  a  repre- sentative  from  Sudbury  for  a  seat  on  the  At-ÂLarge  District  Board,  please  vote  for  me  so  I  can  continue  to  work  hard  to  keep  Vermont  schools  one  of  the  nation’s  best  school  systems. If  you  need  more  information  there  will  be  many  public  informa- tional  meetings  in  this  area  in  the  coming  weeks,  and  I  urge  you  to  attend  any  one  of  them  (all  the  same  information)  in  any  town  and  hear  the  facts  for  yourself.  Your  children  will  thank  you. Linda  Kokinis Sudbury
0DULMXDQD VWDWV ZHUH PLVOHDGLQJ Despite  widely  reported,  oft- repeated  claims  by  opponents  of  marijuana  legalization,  there  was  not  a  32  percent  increase  in  marijua- QD UHODWHG WUDIÂżF GHDWKV LQ &RORUDGR between  2013  and  2014.  Quite  the  contrary,  an  honest  presentation  of  the  data  reveals  that  there  was  actually  a  slight  decrease  in  drugged  driving  in  Colorado  following  legal- ization.  The  32  percent  increase  claim  comes  from  a  report  titled  “The  Le- galization  of  Marijuana  in  Colorado:  The  Impact,  Volume  3â€?  issued  by  the  Rocky  Mountain  High  Intensity  'UXJ 7UDIÂżFNLQJ $UHD 50+,'7$ D SURJUDP RI WKH IHGHUDO 2IÂżFH RI National  Drug  Control  Policy  —  the  so-Âcalled  “Drug  Czar,â€?  which  is  (See  Letter,  Page  5A)
Addison  Independent,  Thursday,  January  14,  2016  —  PAGE  5A
Bold leadership on Vt. divestment What  a  difference  a  year  makes. change  threatens  the  Vermont  we  In  2014,  Gov.  Peter  Shumlin  love,  from  our  ski  season  to  our  made  national  headlines  with  a  bold  lakes,â€?  Shumlin  said  last  week.  State  of  the  State  address  that  high- So  why  target  coal? lighted  opiate  addiction. “Let’s  remember  Vermont  is  Last  year,  by  contrast,  the  gover- GRZQZLQG RI WKH FRDO ÂżUHG SODQWV QRU KDG WR ÂżQG D EDFN ZD\ RXW RI WKH to  our  west;Íž  we’re  the  tailpipe  to  Statehouse  after  his  annual  address.  their  dirty  energy  choices,â€?  Shum- His  normal  exit  was  blocked  by  lin  said.  “Their  pollution  sickens  dozens  of  angry  pro- our  children,  creates  testers,  who  objected  acid  rain,  dumps  mer- to  his  abandoning  the  cury  on  our  forests  and  dream  of  single-Âpayer  in  our  lakes  and  in- healthcare. creases  greenhouse  gas  Fast  forward  to  this  emissions.â€? year’s  address  —  and  A  perennial  objection  once  again  Shumlin  to  divestment  has  been  plays  the  role  of  bold  that  it  would  always  leader.  EH ÂżQDQFLDOO\ XQZLVH In  his  2016  State  of  But  a  growing  number  the  State,  the  governor  RI ÂżQDQFLDO DQDO\VWV surprised  everyone  by  reject  that  claim.  Re- calling  for  Vermont  to  cent  events  have  shown  rid  itself  of  investments  they’re  right. in  coal  companies  and  A  detailed  analysis  the  rogue  giant  that  is  by  Corporate  Knights,  ExxonMobil. a  nationally  recognized  Shumlin  has  set  the  by Gregory Dennis UHVHDUFK ÂżUP VKRZHG table  for  a  lively  debate  that  Vermont  pension  in  this  year’s  legisla- funds  would  be  much  tive  session  —  and  virtually  isolat- better  off  if  they  had  divested  three  ed  state  Treasurer  Beth  Pearce,  who  years  ago.  continues  to  stubbornly  oppose  any  As  fossil  fuel  stocks  dropped  and  form  of  divestment. Vermont  continued  to  hold  them,  While  divesting  out  of  coal  is  a  the  state  left  $77  million  on  the  half-Âmeasure,  it’s  a  logical  step.  table  —  money  that  would  have  Doing  so  would  make  our  state  the  strengthened  its  holdings  and  di- second  in  the  union  to  do  so,  after  UHFWO\ EHQHÂżWWHG ZRUNHUV California.  Vermont  would  join  Now  that  the  governor  is  pushing  dozens  of  other  entities  around  the  for  coal  divestment,  it’s  got  a  real  world  —  governments,  churches  chance  of  passing  in  2016.  The  idea  and  universities  (though  not  yet  has  dozens  of  supporters  in  the  Leg- Middlebury  College)  —  that  have  islature,  including  Addison  County  SOHGJHG D VLJQLÂżFDQW IRUP RI GL- House  Reps.  Willem  Jewett  and  vestment.  Amy  Sheldon  plus  Sen.  Chris  Bray. The  total  holdings  of  those  enti- Despite  the  mounting  evidence,  ties?  More  than  $3.4  trillion.  Noth- however,  Treasurer  Pearce  has  been  ing  to  sneeze  at.  quick  to  criticize  the  governor’s  po- Divestment  would  strengthen  the  sition.  stability  of  Vermont’s  $4  billion  Pearce  claims  to  be  an  environ- in  pension  funds  for  about  40,000  mentalist,  but  she’s  on  the  wrong  state,  municipal  and  public  school  side  of  the  biggest  environmental  employees  and  retirees. issue  ever.  She’s  stubbornly  pro- There’s  ample  precedent  for  Ver- moting  a  losing  strategy  of  “engag- PRQW WR ZLWKGUDZ ÂżQDQFLDO VXSSRUW ingâ€?  with  fossil  fuel  companies,  in  from  fossil  fuel  companies.  shareholder  votes  that  Vermont  has  The  state  divested  out  of  compa- been  losing  for  years  now. nies  that  did  business  in  apartheid  Meanwhile,  fossil  fuel  compa- South  Africa.  And  when  he  was  nies  are  struggling.  The  Wall  Street  state  treasurer,  Middlebury  resident  Journal  recently  reported  that  over  Jim  Douglas  ordered  state  invest- a  quarter  of  U.S.  coal  production  is  ment  advisers  in  1998  to  reallocate  now  in  bankruptcy,  and  that  by  next  $20  million  that  was  invested  in  to- year,  “as  many  as  a  third  of  Ameri- bacco  companies. can  oil-Âand-Âgas  producers  could  tip  “The  most  tropical  Christmas  in  toward  bankruptcy.â€? memory  reminds  us  that  climate  Are  these  the  kinds  of  companies Â
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that  make  wise  investments? 3HDUFH ZRQÂśW ÂżQG PDQ\ DOOLHV among  party  leaders.  Coal  divest- ment  has  the  support  of  all  four  leading  Democratic  candidates  for  WRS RIÂżFHV ² OLHXWHQDQW JRYHUQRU hopefuls  David  Zuckerman  and  Kesha  Ram,  and  gubernatorial  can- didates  Matt  Dunne  and,  more  re- cently,  Sue  Minter. It  will  be  interesting  to  see  if  a  pro-Âdivestment  Democrat  emerges  to  run  against  Pearce.  She  is,  after  DOO DQ HOHFWHG RIÂżFLDO DQG FRXOG EH replaced  by  the  voters. Another  surprise  of  the  gover- nor’s  attack  on  fossil  fuel  compa- nies  was  the  vigor  with  which  he  DWWDFNHG ([[RQ0RELO +H VSHFLÂż- cally  targeted  the  world’s  biggest  oil  company  because  it  knew  about  the  dangers  of  climate  change  —  and  spent  decades  lying  about  it.  “Vermont  should  not  wait  to  rid  ourselves  of  ExxonMobil  stock,â€?  he  said.  “It  has  been  clearly  docu- mented  that  since  the  1980s,  Exx- onMobil’s  own  scientists  have  long  known  about  the  dangers  of  global  warming,  and  chose  to  conceal  that  from  the  public.  At  the  same  time  that  they  were  building  their  oil  rigs  taller  to  account  for  rising  sea  lev- els,  they  were  funding  front  groups  of  scientists  to  deny  climate  change  is  real.  This  is  a  page  right  out  of  Big  Tobacco,  which  for  decades  de- nied  the  health  risks  of  their  product  as  they  were  killing  people.â€? With  that,  the  governor  gave  a  gracious  shout-Âout  to  Ripton  resi- dent  Bill  McKibben,  co-Âfounder  of  350.org  and  one  of  the  world’s  lead- ing  climate  activists. What  a  state  we  live  in.  Late  last  year,  McKibben  was  arrested  for  reminding  the  world  “Exxonknew,â€?  when  he  staged  a  solo  protest  against  the  oil  giant  by  blocking  pumps  at  a  Burlington  gas  station. Last  week  after  the  State  of  the  State,  the  governor  was  publicly  praising  and  proudly  posing  for  photos  with  McKibben. And  thanks  to  years  of  ground- work  by  350.org  and  its  350  Ver- PRQW DIÂżOLDWH ZH FRXOG PDNH KLV- tory  this  year  by  washing  our  hands  of  dirty  and  costly  coal  investments. Gregory  Dennis’s  column  ap- pears  here  every  other  Thursday  and  is  archived  on  his  blog  at  www. gregdennis.blogspot.com.  Email:  gregdennisvt@yahoo.com.  Twitter:  @greeengregdennis.
51H68 UHDG\ IRU XQLÂżFDWLRQ YRWH Act  46,  as  enacted  by  portunities  that  will  enable  the  Vermont  Legislature,  them  to  leave  Otter  Valley  requires  school  districts  to  Union  High  School  well  study  their  current  gover- prepared  for  the  next  phase  nance  models  to  determine  of  their  lives. ERWK KRZ HIÂżFLHQW WKH\ DUH In  addition  to  these  two  and  if  they  are  educating  very  important  recogni- their  students  equitably.  tions,  the  Act  46  committee  Credit  should  be  given  to  also  recognized  the  impor- the  members  of  our  local  tance  of  maintaining  stable  school  boards,  Superin- tax  rates  and  providing  tendent  Jeanne  Collins  additional  transparency  in  and  the  staff  of  the  Rut- the  district-Âwide  budgeting  land  Northeast  Superviso- by Rep. Butch Shaw process. ry  Union  for  approaching  R-Brandon, Sudbury Throughout  its  work,  the  these  required  tasks  with  a  Act  46  subcommittee  has  and Pittsford “can-Âdoâ€?  attitude. sought  input  from  all  RNe- An  Act  46  study  com- SU  communities  and  kept  mittee  was  formed  with  members  WKH FRPPXQLWLHV DGYLVHG RI LWV ÂżQG- from  all  of  the  RNeSU  school  dis- ings  and  recommendations.  A  second  tricts.  The  committee  went  about  its  round  of  community  forums  will  be  work  keeping  in  mind  the  importance  KHOG GXULQJ WKH ÂżUVW WZR ZHHNV RI of  both  preserving  local  community  January.  I  encourage  you  to  attend  the  values  and  making  certain  that  all  upcoming  community  forums  that  are  RNeSU  students  receive  equal  op- being  held  in  the  next  weeks.  You  can Â
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ÂżQG WKH VFKHGXOH IRU WKHVH PHHWLQJV on  the  RNeSU  website.  There  will  also  be  an  informational  meeting  in  your  town  on  Jan.  18.  After  much  thoughtful  discussion  and  information  seeking,  the  RNeSU  Act  46  study  committee  is  recom- mending  to  the  member  towns  of  51H68 WKDW DQ 2WWHU 9DOOH\ 8QLÂżHG School  District  be  formed.  The  new  XQLÂżHG VFKRRO GLVWULFW ZRXOG EH JRY- erned  by  a  single  school  board  com- posed  of  members  from  all  RNeSU  member  towns.  On  Jan.  19  we,  the  voters  of  RNeSU,  will  be  voting  to  determine  the  future  governance  model  for  our  schools.  We  will  also  be  asked  to  elect  members  from  our  individual  communities  to  serve  on  WKH XQLÂżHG VFKRRO ERDUG I  trust  and  support  the  work  of  the  RNeSU  Act  46  committee,  and  I  urge  you  to  do  so  also.  Please  vote  “YESâ€?  on  Tuesday,  Jan.  19,  to  realize  the  vi- VLRQ RI RXU ORFDO VFKRRO RIÂżFLDOV
Letters to the Editor Recent  studies  show  natural  gas  dirtier  than  coal The  entire  debate  over  the  recently  reapproved  Vermont  Gas  pipeline  KDV EHHQ ÂżOOHG ZLWK IDOVH FODLPV WKDW natural  gas  is  cleaner  than  oil  and  coal.  While  this  was  once  true,  it  failed  to  be  so  about  a  decade  ago. This  came  about  due  to  the  presi- dential  order  issued  during  the  Bush/ Cheney  administration  that  exempted  hydraulic  fracturing  (“frackingâ€?)  from  the  Clean  Water  Act,  the  Clean  Air  Act  and  the  Safe  Drinking  Water  Act.  Now  that  oil  and  gas  producers  no  longer  have  to  follow  these  pesky  environmental  regulations,  oil  and  gas  extraction  is  much  easier  and  less  expensive.  Unfortunately,  families,  businesses  and  wildlife  in  and  around  fracking  wells  are  suffering  from  the  toxic  contamination  the  activity  now  produces  ‌  contamination  and  pollution  that  is  leading  to  death  and  disease  that  is  destroying  communi-Â
ties  and  ripping  families  apart. All  this  was  illegal  until  the  sign- ing  of  the  presidential  order  by  for- mer  President  George  W.  Bush.  The  difference  between  the  environmen- tal  impact  of  natural  gas  extraction  prior  to  the  presidential  order  and  what  we  experience  today  is  so  great  that  all  the  recent  independently  conducted,  cutting-Âedge  research  (such  as  that  conducted  at  Cornell  University)  has  indicated  that  today’s  natural  gas  industry  produces  just  as  much,  if  not  more,  greenhouse  gas  emissions  than  the  coal  industry,  the  IRVVLO IXHO ORQJ YLOLÂżHG DV WKH GLUWLHVW form  of  energy.  ,W LV QRW YHU\ 9HUPRQW OLNH WR SURÂżW from  the  hardship  and  suffering  of  others.  Therefore,  as  much  as  I  like  to  support  my  local  businesses  I  will  not  be  able  to,  in  good  conscience,  continue  to  buy  goods  and  services Â
from  companies,  businesses  and  res- taurants  that  choose  to  convert  to  us- ing  the  dirty  and  destructive  fracked  gas  that  the  pipeline  will  deliver. I  sincerely  hope  that  the  compa- nies  that  have  already  publicly  stated  their  intention  to  switch  to  fracked  gas  delivered  by  the  pipeline  (Green  Mountain  Beverage,  Agri-ÂMark/ Cabot,  Country  Home  Products,  Vermont  Coffee  Co.,  Porter  Hospital  and  Middlebury  College)  will  change  their  mind.  If  they  don’t,  I  hope  that  the  majority  of  my  friends  and  neighbors  living  throughout  Addison  County  will  join  me  in  boycotting  the  businesses  and  institutions  that  decide  to  burn  gas  instead  of  one  of  the  other  numerous  and  less  destruc- tive  options  available.  Ross  Conrad Alice  Eckles Middlebury
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Raymond  (Continued  from  Page  4A) winning  ticket.  Say  you  got  the  jet  ski  off  Craigslist. Unfortunately,  I’d  never  be  able  to  hide  a  secret  like  that.  If  I  won  and  you  asked  me  what  was  new,  I’d  try  to  be  casual.  “Not  much,�  I’d  say.  “The  dog  had  to  have  a  cyst  re- moved.  Oh,  and  also,  I’m  a  billion- aire  now.� Oops. Don’t  get  me  wrong:  I’m  not  against  winning  enormous  sums  of  money.  I  just  think  once  the  billion- dollar  mark  is  reached,  the  amount  exceeds  what  the  human  brain  can  process.
Now,  if  the  jackpot  were  $1  mil- lion,  say,  I  could  get  my  head  around  that.  I’d  put  a  third  toward  retire- ment,  a  third  toward  charity  and  a  third  toward  living  like  a  queen  —  which  to  me  just  means  being  able  to  eat  out  once  a  week  without  wor- rying  about  how  to  pay  for  groceries  the  rest  of  the  month. What  I  should  have  done,  now  that  I  think  of  it,  was  go  in  on  Power- ball  tickets  with  1,499  of  my  closest  friends.  That  would  have  increased  our  odds  of  winning  and,  if  we’d  won,  rewarded  each  of  us  with  a  life- changing  —  but  not  necessarily  life- destroying  —  million  dollars. Â
According  to  my  calculations,  if  I  had  bought  a  single  Powerball  ticket,  the  likelihood  of  me  winning  would  have  been  0.0000000034223  per- cent.  On  the  other  hand,  if  a  group  of  us  had  gotten  together  to  buy  1,500  tickets,  our  chances  would  have  in- creased  to  0.00003935642485  per- cent  —  a  difference  of  four  decimal  places. Are  you  thinking  what  I’m  think- ing?  Exactly.  If  I’d  let  those  numbers  guide  my  decision-Âmaking  yester- day,  there’s  a  good  chance  a  whole  lot  of  us  would  have  woken  up  mil- lionaires  today.
sion  that  approximately  17  of  the  94  positive  results  in  2014  would  have  tested  negative  at  the  original  2  ng/ ml  levels  —  meaning  that  77  drivers  would  have  tested  positive  in  2014  had  the  test  not  been  changed  to  produce  the  desired  result.  Thus,  an  honest  comparison  of  full-Âyear  re- sults  from  2012  to  2014  —  eliminat- ing  2013’s  part-Âyear  data  —  shows  that  there  was  actually  a  small  reduc- tion  in  “marijuana  relatedâ€?  deaths,  not  a  massive  increase. At  the  risk  of  beating  a  dead  horse,  it’s  also  worth  noting  that  a  blood  THC  level  of  either  1  ng/ml  or  2  ng/ml  does  not  indicate  that  the  driver  was  actually  impaired  by  marijuana  at  all.  Indeed,  it  is  not  un- common  for  THC  to  remain  in  the  bloodstream  at  those  low  concentra- tions  for  days  or  weeks  after  the  ef- fects  of  marijuana  have  completely  worn  off.  Colorado’s  DUI  law  sets  a  standard  of  5  ng/ml.  As  the  Legislature  considers  mar- ijuana  legalization  in  the  coming  weeks,  road  safety  should  certainly  be  a  consideration.  Our  current  drunk  driving  laws  do  not  set  a  clear  standard  for  marijuana  impair- ment;Íž  that  should  be  changed.  And  law  enforcement  should  be  given  appropriate  training  and  tools  for  identifying  impaired  drivers  and  getting  them  off  our  roads. But  it  would  be  a  mistake  to  con- tinue  the  failed  policy  of  prohibition Â
on  the  basis  of  a  blatantly  falsi- ¿HG VWXG\ SXUSRUWLQJ WR VKRZ WKDW drugged  driving  increased  following  legalization  in  Colorado.  Dave  Silberman Middlebury Editor’s  note:  Dave  Silberman  is  an  attorney  in  Middlebury.  This  ar- ticle  does  not  represent  the  views  of  any  client.
Letter  (Continued  from  Page  4A) required  by  law  to  actively  oppose  marijuana  legalization  efforts.   Unfortunately,  the  claim  is  en- tirely  made  up. Between  2006  and  July  2013,  the  Colorado  Department  of  Public  Health  and  Environment  (DPH)  tested  for  THC  in  the  blood  of  driv- ers  involved  in  fatal  car  accidents  in  Colorado.  If  the  driver  had  a  THC  level  of  2  nanograms  per  milliliter  (ng/ml)  or  higher,  the  death  was  FODVVLÂżHG DV ÂłPDULMXDQD UHODWHG ´ In  2012,  there  were  78  such  deaths.  Between  January  and  July  of  2013,  DPH  counted  71  such  deaths  —  and  then  discontinued  testing. RMHIDTA  resumed  the  testing  in  2014,  but  dropped  the  threshold  for  what  it  counted  as  “marijuana  relatedâ€?  by  half  —  from  2  ng/ml  to  just  1  ng/ml.  Unsurprisingly,  the  number  of  “positiveâ€?  tests  jumped  up  to  94.  While  94  is,  in  fact,  a  number  that  is  32  percent  higher  than  71,  the  report  does  not  actually  show  an  in- crease  in  drugged  driving  deaths  —  the  report  manipulated  the  numbers,  and  the  public,  by  comparing  71  of  one  thing  (drivers  tested  at  2ng/ml  over  just  7  months  in  one  year)  to  94  of  a  completely  different  thing  (drivers  tested  at  1ng/ml  over  the  full  12  months  in  another  year).   Buried  in  a  footnote  on  page  23  of  the  report  is  the  damning  admis-Â
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Charles Bauer, Jr., 89, formerly of Middlebury CUMBERLAND,  R.I.  —  Charles  $ %DXHU -U SDVVHG DZD\ SHDFH fully  Wednesday,  Jan.  6,  2016,  at  the  Brookdale  Senior  Living  Community  in  Cumberland,  R.I.,  surrounded  by  his  loving  family.  He  and  his  late  wife,  Diane  P.  (Taylor)  Bauer  had  61  years  RI KDSS\ PDUULDJH ZKHQ VKH SDVVHG away  at  the  same  facility  in  2010. Born  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  a  son  of  the  late  Charles  A.  and  Anna  C.  (Bradford)  Bauer,  he  and  his  late  wife,  Diane,  had  lived  nearly  40  years  in  Middlebury,  9W ZKHUH KH ZDV D EXVLQHVV SDUWQHU of  Farm  Engineering  Service.  He  was  a  World  War  II  Army  veteran. He  leaves  behind  a  daughter,  Patricia  L.  Pariseau  of  Lincoln,  R.I.;͞  a  son,  Richard  L.  Bauer  of  West  Lebanon,  N.H.;͞  four  grandchildren;͞  DQG ¿ YH JUHDW JUDQGFKLOGUHQ DORQJ with  a  sister,  Margaret  Bauer  of  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  and  a  brother,  John  Bauer  of  Bel  Air,  Md. $ SULYDWH IDPLO\ PHPRULDO LV EHLQJ SODQQHG IRU WKH VSULQJ DW 5 , Veterans  Cemetery,  Exeter,  RI.  In  OLHX RI À RZHUV FRQWULEXWLRQV LQ 0U Bauer’s  memory  to  the  Disabled  American  Veterans,  3725  Alexandria  3LNH &ROG 6SULQJ .< ZZZ
CHARLES  A.  BAUER  JR. dav.org),  or  the  Wounded  Warrior  3URMHFW 3 2 %R[ 7RSHND .6 ZZZ ZRXQGHGZDUULRU SURMHFW RUJ ZRXOG EH DSSUHFLDWHG )RU JXHVW ERRN SOHDVH YLVLW ZZZ E H O O R Z V I X Q H U D O F K D S H O F R P Arrangements  entrusted  with  Bellows  )XQHUDO &KDSHO 5LYHU 5RDG /LQFROQ 5, ¸
Ethel Blakley, 98, Connecticut WEST  HARTFORD,  Conn.  —  Ethel  A.  Blakley,  98,  of  West  Hartford,  IRUPHUO\ RI %ORRPÂż HOG SDVVHG DZD\ on  Dec.  30,  2015,  at  the  Hebrew  Home. She  leaves  her  son,  Marlin  Blakley  and  his  wife  Joyce  of  Windsor;Íž  a  daugh- ter,  Betty  Anderson  and  her  husband  Paul  of  New  Port  Richey,  Fla.;Íž  three  EURWKHUV *HRUJH 5ROOLH DQG 3KLOLS Benedict,  and  a  sister,  Wilma  Poljacik,  all  of  Vermont;Íž  six  grandchildren;Íž  10  great-Âgrandchildren;Íž  three  great-Âgreat- grandchildren;Íž  and  a  host  of  nieces  and  QHSKHZV DQG WKHLU IDPLOLHV Born  in  Bristol,  Vt.,  in  1917,  Ethel  was  the  middle  child  of  the  late  Abraham  Lincoln  Benedict  and  Delia  (Odett)  Benedict.  She  worked  in  food  service  at  Travelers  Insurance  Co.  in  Hartford  for  many  years  before Â
retirement. (WKHO ZDV SUHGHFHDVHG E\ KHU husband,  Donald  Blakley,  and  a  daugh- ter,  Eleanor  Whitney. (WKHO ZLOO EH HVSHFLDOO\ PLVVHG by  her  grandson  Gary  Whitney  of  Richmond,  Ind.,  and  granddaughter  Lynn  Dowd  of  Windsor. Her  family  will  receive  friends  on  Saturday,  Jan.  16,  2016,  from  9-Â10  a.m.  at  Sacred  Heart  Church,  26  :LQWRQEXU\ $YH %ORRPÂż HOG WR EH followed  by  a  Mass  of  Christian  burial  beginning  at  10  a.m.  Burial  will  be  held  LQ WKH VSULQJ LQ 3URVSHFW &HPHWHU\ 9HUJHQQHV 9W ,Q OLHX RI Ă€ RZHUV SOHDVH VHQG PHPRULDO GRQDWLRQV WR WKH 6 3 & $ RI &RQQHFWLFXW 6SULQJ Hill  Road,  Monroe,  CT  06468-Â2100,  RU E\ YLVLWLQJ ZZZ VSFDFW RUJ ¸
Sylvia Bergen, 90, formerly of Monkton and Middlebury
BURLINGTON  —  Sylvia  Reed  Bergen,  formerly  of  Monkton  and  Middlebury,  and  died  at  Pillsbury  North  on  Dec.  16,  2015.   Born  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  on  Feb.  17,  1925,  she  was  the  youngest  child  of  Lucy  M.  Carr  and  Alexander  Gebhart  Reed,  She  graduated  from  Vassar  College,  class  of  1946,  and  married  the  love  of  her  life,  Charles  Simon  Bergen,  on  Dec.  18,  1948. ,Q DGGLWLRQ WR FDUSRROV FKDSHURQ ing,  joining  the  local  Democratic  SDUW\ DQG FKHHULQJ IRU WKH 5HGV DQG %XFNH\HV VKH VXSSRUWHG &KXFN LQ KLV VWDUW XS FRPPHUFLDO DUW EXVLQHVV that  became  Bergen  Advertising  Art.  Sylvia  was  active  in  the  Dayton  Garden  Club,  Dayton  Area  Council,  the  Art  Institute,  the  Junior  League  of  Dayton,  Planned  Parenthood,  the  Friday  Afternoon  Club,  and  served  DV SUHVLGHQW RI WKH ERDUG RI WKH Visiting  Nurses  of  Dayton. In  1979,  Chuck  and  Sylvia  retired,  built  a  house  in  Monkton,  9W SXW LQ D YHJHWDEOH JDUGHQ VSOLW wood,  and  learned  about  Vermont  winters  and  dirt  driveways.  While  VKH VXSSRUWHG &KXFN LQ KLV QRWH card  business,  Hardscrabble  Crafts,  she  joined  the  Middlebury  Garden  Club  and  the  Middlebury  Book  Club,  volunteered  at  Round  Robin,  VHUYHG DV SUHVLGHQW RI WKH %RDUG RI Addison  County  Home  Health  and  +RVSLFH DQG $&&$* QRZ +23( DV 6HQLRU :DUGHQ RI 6W 6WHSKHQÂśV (SLVFRSDO &KXUFK DQG ZRUNHG WR establish  Pine  Meadow  as  afford- able  housing.  She  and  Chuck  attended  count- less  band  and  choral  concerts,  and  cheered  for  the  Mt.  Abe  Eagles  whenever  their  grandchildren  FRPSHWHG 7KH\ WUDYHOHG WR 'D\WRQ annually,  and  enjoyed  Elderhostel  WULSV DV ZHOO DV UHJXODU SLOJULPDJHV to  the  Outer  Banks.  Blessed  with  a  green  thumb,  Sylvia  grew  orchids  on  her  kitchen  counter  and  countless  daffodils  in  her  garden.  She  loved Â
dogs  and  some  cats,  cheered  for  the  Patriots  and  Red  Sox,  was  fascinated  by  history,  studied  the  New  Yorker,  HQMR\HG MLJVDZ SX]]OHV KDWHG GRLQJ SK\VLFDO WKHUDS\ DOWKRXJK VKH ORYHG WKH WKHUDSLVWV FKHDWHG DW 6ROLWDLUH loved  chocolate,  and  had  strong  RSLQLRQV DERXW DOO WKLQJV SROLWLFDO 6KH ZDV SUHGHFHDVHG E\ KHU husband,  Chuck,  in  2008;Íž  her  SDUHQWV KHU VLVWHU )UDQFHV 5 Evers  and  her  husband  Martin;Íž  her  brother,  Alexander  Gebhart  Reed  Jr.;Íž  her  sister-Âin-Âlaw,  Marion  Bergen  Robertson;Íž  and  her  son-Âin-Âlaw,  Raymond  P.  Pellegrini. She  is  survived  by  her  daugh- ter,  Rev.  Lucy  C.B.  Pellegrini;Íž  three  sons,  William  W.  Bergen  (Charlottesville,  Va.),  Reed  L.  Bergen  (Pensacola,  Fla.),  and  Roger  G.  Bergen  (Ellison  Bay,  Wis.),  and  daughters-Âin-Âlaw  Beth  Meyer,  Emily  Bergen,  and  Sharon  *UXW]PDFKHU 6KH LV VXUYLYHG E\ JUDQGFKLOGUHQ &KULVWRSKHU DQG .HOO\ 3HOOHJULQL 6FRWW 3HOOHJULQL and  Lorena  Chamberlin;Íž  Catherine  and  Aaron  Welch;Íž  Charles  Bergen  and  Caitlin  Vogus;Íž  Michael  Bergen;Íž  Taylor  Bergen  and  Courtney  5X]LFND DQG (ULQ %HUJHQ DQG great-Âgrandson  Owen  R.  Welch,  QLHFHV DQG QHSKHZV DV ZHOO DV many  friends. With  grateful  hearts,  the  family  thanks  those  who  were  so  instru- mental  in  offering  loving  care  during  her  last  years:  ACHH&H;Íž  Helen  Porter  Healthcare  and  Rehabilitation  Center;Íž  Anne  Myrick  and  Tony  Myrick  and  their  families;Íž  and  the  staff  at  Pillsbury  North  in  %XUOLQJWRQ ,Q OLHX RI Ă€ RZHUV SOHDVH consider  donations  to  Addison  &RXQW\ +RPH +HDOWK DQG +RVSLFH or  a  charity  that  will  leave  the  world  D EHWWHU SODFH IRU KHU JUDQGFKLOGUHQ A  memorial  service  will  be  held  DW 6W 6WHSKHQÂśV (SLVFRSDO &KXUFK Middlebury,  Vt.,  on  Saturday,  Jan.  DW D P ¸
Letters to the Editor Concerned  neighbors  are  shut  out  by  PSB  at  meetings  with  wind  developers
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Dina Edelman celebration of life
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It  is  sad  to  see  Americans,  again,  going  after  show  rather  than  content  in  this  election  campaign. Rather  than  look  for  content  and  practical  problem-Âsolving  costs. abilities,  we  are  once  again  look- This  is  a  critical  step  because  ing  for  showmanship  and  ignoring  according  to  the  state’s  2014  survey  the  impossibilities  of  solutions  of  the  privately  insured,  nearly  one- offered  by  those  seeking  our  most  third  of  all  privately  insured  Vermont  important  job.  Bill  Clinton  said  of  residents  under  age  65  are  under- this  situation,  “I  thought  this  was  insured,  and  we  all  know  that  high  supposed  to  be  a  job  interview.â€? out-Âof-Âpocket  costs  often  deter  people  Instead  we  get  absurd  propos- from  seeking  timely  care.  als  like  building  a  wall  along  Financing  primary  care  as  a  public  the  Mexico  border.  The  closed  good  will  reduce  the  costs  of  private  mindset  says,  “Ho,  boy,  this  guy  health  insurance  for  all  Vermonters,  really  takes  charge  and  charges  since  private  insurers  will  no  longer  forward.  He’s  got  macho  coming  be  paying  for  those  services  (and  out  of  his  ears.  Our  duty  is  not  to  therefore  cannot  charge  for  them).  analyze  the  reality  of  proposals,  :LWK D SXEOLFO\ Âż QDQFHG SULPDU\ but  cheer  such  bold  (but  stupid)  care  system  we  will  also  save  money  movement.â€? in  the  long  run,  because  universal  For  instance,  Mexico  is  primary  care  catches  problems  early,  before  they  are  serious  and  more  costly.  As  important  as  saving  on  long-Ârun  costs  and  eliminating  out-Âof-Âpocket  costs  might  be,  equally  important  is  the  fact  that  public  health  stud- LHV FRQÂż UP WKDW LQ FDVH DIWHU FDVH widely  accessible  primary  care  is  the  single  most  important  step  that  can  be  taken  in  improving  public  health.  Guaranteed  primary  care  for  all  has  (Continued  from  Page  4A) been  linked  to  longer  life  expectan- off  the  edge  of  the  world  and  get  cies,  fewer  emergency  room  visits  eaten  by  sea  serpents  when  you  went  and  hospitalizations,  and  lower  rates  past  Cape  Bojador). of  mortality. Because  printing  was  still  so  new,  If  we  want  to  break  down  barri- spelling  was  often  by  ear.  There  ers  to  health  care,  improve  public  weren’t  really  dictionaries.  Things  health  and  contain  costs,  a  universal  weren’t  standardized.  The  language  SXEOLFO\ Âż QDQFHG SULPDU\ FDUH ZDV \RXQJ UDZ LQ Ă€ X[ V\VWHP LV D FUXFLDO Âż UVW VWHS 7KHUH LV :KHQ , Ă€ LS WKURXJK P\ )LUVW something  in  this  for  every  one  of  us,  Folio,  I  get  that  same  feeling  of  DV ZH ZRXOG DOO EHQHÂż W IURP D XQLYHU newness,  of  rawness,  of  youth.  I  can  sal  primary  care  system.  Providers  feel  more  like  the  text  is  a  script  for  would  also  be  positively  impacted  as  production.  It’s  not  weighed  down  D SXEOLFO\ Âż QDQFHG SULPDU\ FDUH ZLOO by  footnotes  and  explanations.  simplify  the  administrative  complexi- Editors  aren’t  telling  me  where  a  ties  under  which  they  currently  oper- scene  is  set.  I  have  to  read  the  scene,  ate,  and  such  a  system  will  attract  KHDU ZKDWÂśV GHVFULEHG DQG Âż JXUH RXW badly  needed  primary  care  providers  where  we  are  using  my  mind  and  my  to  our  state. imagination. The  Legislature  would  be  well  I  love  the  kooky  range  of  spell- advised  to  take  the  results  of  the  ings.  The  seemingly  random  italici- recently  completed  study  seriously  zations.  The  odd  punctuations,  that  and  to  consider  how  to  move  forward  many  theater  artists  feel  bring  you  with  a  universal  primary  care  system.  just  one  shade  closer  to  those  earliest  Two  bills  presently  in  the  House  and  productions.  It’s  as  if  you  can  hear  Senate  (S.88  and  H.207)  propose  HFKRHV RI WKRVH Âż UVW DFWRUV LQ WKRVH steps  to  create  such  a  system,  and  earliest  of  English  stages.  I  love  the  they  deserve  our  support. wigged  out  s’s  that  look  like  f’s.  I  Ellen  Oxfeld love  the  17th  century  typography  Middlebury that  always  looks  a  little  bit  roughed  up  around  the  edges.  I  could  go  on  and  on.  It’s  kind  of  like  people  who Â
Single-Âpayer  is  primary  care  for  all $ SXEOLFO\ Âż QDQFHG XQLYHUVDO health  care  system  (single-Âpayer)  removes  health  insurers  as  the  “middleman,â€?  reduces  administrative  complexity  and  paperwork  costs,  and  by  removing  barriers  to  health  care,  gets  us  to  the  doctor  earlier,  when  our  conditions  are  less  serious.  Although  Gov.  Shumlin  pressed  the  pause  button  on  single-Âpayer  in  2014,  it  is  worth  asking  if  we  can  still  make  progress  toward  the  goal  of  healthcare  as  a  public  good  originally  enacted  in  Act  48  (passed  by  the  Legislature  is  2011).  Can  we  get  there  through  incremental  steps  rather  than  in  one  giant  leap? Many  ideas  have  been  put  forward,  but  even  incremental  steps,  if  they  are  to  take  us  in  the  direction  of  a  univer- sal  public  system,  must  have  two  key  ingredients:  They  must  enable  universal  access  and  create  a  public  good.  Fortunately,  there  is  good  news  on  that  front.  At  the  end  of  the  last  session  the  Legislature  mandated  an  RIÂż FLDO VWXG\ RI WKH FRVW RI Âż QDQFLQJ a  universal  primary  care  system  and  the  results  are  now  in. Why  universal  primary  care?  First,  primary  care  is  that  crucial  ¿ UVW FRQWDFW KHDOWK FDUH VHUYLFH WKDW most  of  us  use  most  of  the  time  in  our  interactions  with  the  health  care  system,  and  it  keeps  us  healthy  by  diagnosing  problems  early.  Public  health  studies  show  that  a  system  of  universal  primary  care  is  the  single  most  important  measure  that  can  be  taken  to  improve  public  health  in  a  given  population.  Primary  care  services  include  those  provided  by  internists,  pediatricians,  specialists  in  family  medicine,  gynecology,  nurse  practitioners  and  even  those  who  provide  mental  health  and  substance  abuse  services. Primary  care  for  all  is  also  rela- tively  inexpensive.  While  it  occupies  D FULWLFDO SODFH LQ DQ\ Âż UVW UDWH SXEOLF health  system,  it  comprises  only  a  small  portion  of  total  system  costs  —  less  than  6  percent  of  health  care  costs  in  Vermont,  for  instance.  The  recently  completed  study  results  show  us  that  for  just  a  little  more  than  we  spend  now  (about  $48  more  per  Vermonter  per  year),  we  can  make  primary  care  a  public  service  for  all  Vermonters,  with  no  out-Âof-Âpocket Â
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would  do  the  trick.  Sidewalk  to  sidewalk  is  long  but  railroads  know  how  to  build  draw  bridges.  No  worry  about  clearance  or  dynamite  or  even  GLVWXUELQJ WUDLQ WUDIÂż F 0DLQ 6WUHHW would  only  be  blocked  when  high- deck  trains  need  to  pass.  I  like  the  idea  of  Merchant’s  Row  as  a  pedes- trian  mall.  Maybe  with  a  stile  to  the  park  or  Town  Hall  Theater? How  does  this  help  solve  9HUJHQQHV WUXFN WUDIÂż F" 7KHUH LV D need  to  move  that  truck  freight  off  the  60  miles  of  country  road  from  Glens  Falls  to  Vergennes.  VTrans  seems  to  favor  trains  for  western  Vermont  freight.  If  freight  trucks  go  rail,  then  Amtrak  double-Âdecker  passengers  will  follow. Looking  forward  to  my  new  summer  home  in  New  Haven. David  Spencer Phillipsburg,  N.J.
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by  his  outward  (leadership?)  qualities,  so  that  his  inward  moti- vations  must  be  totally  desirable,  even  if  they  are  obviously  absurd. Then  there  is  the  rest  of  the  Republican  slate  that  tries  to  outdo  the  rest  of  the  slate  with  more  stupid  and  harmful  ideas.  Remember  one  said  that  the  pyra- mids  of  Egypt  were  made  to  store  grain  and  Trump  said  something  like  Paris  was  in  Germany?  How  did  the  most  important  office  in  the  world  get  turned  over  to  fools? Back  in  1980,  on  a  trip  around  the  world,  I  was  stopped  by  many  in  many  places  and  asked,  “You’re  American,  right?  Ronald  Reagan?�  with  total  disbelief  that  America  could  do  that.  As  Ronald  (the  Reagan,  not  the  clown)  once  said,  “Here  we  go  again.� Peter  Grant Bristol
See Letters on Pages 4A, 5A, 6A and 7A
We  could  simplify  train  bridge  problem Last  week’s  two  community  forums  seem  related.  Monday’s  forum  concerned  solving  the  “truck  a  minuteâ€?  through  Vergennes.  Thursday’s  forum  concerned  solv- LQJ GRXEOH GHFN WUDLQ WUDIÂż F WKRXJK Middlebury.  That  reminded  me  of  trucks  and  low  bridges. Or  rather  letting  the  air  out  of  truck  tires  to  lower  ‌  Bear  with  me  here:  There  is  a  proposal  to  lower  the  WUDLQV WR Âż W XQGHU WKH QHZ EULGJHV after  all.  We  in  New  Jersey  are  spending  over  $1  billion  to  raise  a  bridge  to  allow  many-Âdecked  ships  to  pass  despite  a  long  history  of  canals  and  locks  that  could  lower  those  ships.  And  that  reminded  me  of  the  many  New  Jersey  drawbridges  to  allow  canal  boats  and  sailing  ships  to  pass.  See  where  I  am  going  here? Train  track  width  is  10  feet.  Two  5-Âfoot  cantilevered  draw  bridges Â
expected  to  build  this  wall?  Trump  did  say  this  several  times,  even  if  supporters  were  not  listening.  Mexico  doesn’t  have  the  money  to  police  the  place  so  drug  kings  are  terrorizing  Mexico,  which  is  driv- ing  people  north,  a  big  part  of  our  immigration  problem. And  the  concept  of  a  wall  to  keep  them  out?  How  many  walls  along  the  border,  now,  have  holes  and  tunnels  that  allow  illegal  traffic?  Will  Mexico  also  have  to  pay  for  surveillance,  when  it  can’t  afford  to  build  the  wall?  And,  of  course,  we  must  not  worry  about  the  diplomacy  of  such  ideas.  With  inflated  self  assurance,  no  other  country  can  possibly  disagree  with  us,  we  can  only  make  them  happy.  That  is  worth  500  Brooklyn  Bridges. And  people  believe  this  stuff,  without  thinking,  overwhelmed Â
want  to  “Feel  the  Bernâ€?  by  hugging  Bernie.  Sometimes  you  just  want  to   SUHVV Ă€ HVK WR IHHO FORVHU WR WKH WKLQJ that  moves  you. The  First  Folio  reminds  me  of  the  startling  newness  of  so  much  that  goes  with  Shakespeare.  Blank  verse  ² Âż UVW PDGH SDODWDEOH DQG SRZHU IXO Âż UVW PDGH EHWWHU WKDQ GRJ WURW by  Shakespeare’s  rival  Christopher  Marlowe  (like  Shakespeare  the  son  of  a  working  man,  brilliant,  unpre- dictable,  Marlowe  died  in  a  tavern  brawl,  knifed,  they  say,  through  the  eye;Íž  some  suspected  he  was  a  spy;Íž  who  knows?).  Real  professional  WKHDWHUV ² WKH Âż UVW RQHV JRW EXLOW LQ Shakespeare’s  lifetime.  Before  that,  actors  made  do  with  inn  yards  and  the  great  halls  of  great  houses.  Real  professional  actors  —  before  that,  actors  got  kicked  around  a  lot  and  run  out  of  town. The  First  Folio  also  reminds  us  of  how  so  many  of  the  most  impor- tant  things  in  life  are  fragile,  subject  to  enormous  changes  at  the  last  moment,  subject  to  human  error  and  to  chance.  Being  a  guy  of  his  time,  Shakespeare  thought  that  his  poems  were  going  to  Make  His  Name  Go  Down  Forever  in  Human  History.  So  he  carefully  guided  his  poems  —  but Â
not  his  plays  —  through  publication. Alone  among  Elizabethan  play- wrights,  satirist  Ben  Jonson  made  sure  his  plays  got  published,  perfectly  proofread  down  to  the  last  jot. Shakespeare  died,  leaving  no  complete  published  plays  behind.  There  were  various  versions  of  VRPH RI WKH SOD\V Ă€ RDWLQJ DURXQG Some  more  or  less  authentic.  Some  the  “acting  version.â€?  Some  loosely  pirated.  But  it  took  two  theater  buddies  of  Shakespeare’s,  John  Heminge  and  Henry  Condell,  to  sit  down,  collect  the  various  manu- scripts  (undoubtedly),  quartos  and  folios  of  the  individual  plays  and  bring  them  all  together. Can  you  imagine? I  bought  my  facsimile  of  the  First  Folio  decades  back,  in  a  used  book- shop  in  Berkeley,  Calif.  Back  then  I  was  a  struggling  theater  artist.  Dead  broke.  In  those  days,  I  made  my  living  —  aside  from  my  glori- ous  six  months’  stint  as  a  Wacky  Mom  on  Stilts  in  a  touring  circus  theater  (this  is  true)  —  copyediting  computer  magazines,  books  on  food  policy,  and  Asian  histories.  In  those  days,  $125  for  a  used  facsimile  First  Folio  might  have  been  $1,000.  But  I Â
bought  it  anyway.  Some  things  are  just  that  important. The  First  Folio  —  the  genuine  article  —  is  touring  the  United  States  and  coming  to  Middlebury,  as  part  of  a  whole  host  of  celebra- tions  to  mark  the  400th  anniversary  of  Shakespeare’s  death. Here’s  my  advice  for  how  to  celebrate. First,  make  sure  you  see  the  First  Folio  when  it  comes  to  Middlebury. Second,  watch  “Shakespeare  LQ /RYH ´ 7KLV Âż OPLF UHLPDJLQ ing  of  how  Shakespeare  came  to  write  “Romeo  and  Julietâ€?  takes  you  into  Shakespeare’s  world,  onto  the  streets  of  Elizabethan  England,  into  the  mind  of  a  poet  and  into  the  joys  and  frustrations  of  playwrights  and  actors  better  than  just  about  anything  I’ve  ever  seen.  The  screen- play  is  written  by  a  playwright  and  man  of  the  theater,  which  explains  a  lot  of  what’s  right  about  it. Third,  grab  a  copy  of  Shakespeare.  Any  copy.  Any  copy  at  all.  Open  it  up.  And  read.  Don’t  read  it  silently.  Read  it  aloud,  maybe  with  a  friend  or  a  kid.  Say  the  words.  Say  them  out  loud.  And  let  the  words  and  WKH VWRU\ WDNH \RX 3UHVV Ă€ HVK ZLWK Shakespeare.
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Board Member Spotlight Woody Jackson
“I  am  on  the  board  of  the  P.C.C.  for  two  basic  reasons.  I  am  impressed  by  the  dedication  and  skill  of  the  staff  to  help  improve  the  lives  of  members  of  our  community.  I  have  been  blessed  with  opportunity  and  success  in  my  life,  and  I  hope  to  help  in  my  own  way,  to  give  others  some  of  these  blessings.  The  P.C.C.  serves  an  often  overlooked  part  of  our  population.  We  need  to  pay  attention  and  make  our  community  a  better  place  for  all.�
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DRB  to  consider  airport  runway  extension 2016 – A new year, By  JOHN  FLOWERS 0,''/(%85< ² 7KH Middlebury  Development  Review  %RDUG RQ -DQ ZLOO EHJLQ LWV VFUX WLQ\ RI D PLOOLRQ SODQ WR UHQR vate  and  extend  the  runway  at  the  Middlebury  State  Airport. This  plan  to  lengthen  the  exist- LQJ IRRW UXQZD\ E\ IHHW (to  the  north)  and  widen  it  from  the  FXUUHQW WR IHHW LV DOVR EHLQJ reviewed  by  the  federal  Army  Corps  of  Engineers,  Vermont  Agency  of  1DWXUDO 5HVRXUFHV DQG $FW The  project  also  calls  for  acquisi- tion  of  “avigationâ€?  easements  from  some  airport  neighbors  primarily  at  the  southern  takeoff/approach  of  the  runway,  as  well  as  reconstruction  and  repaving  of  the  runway  and  taxi- ing  apron. 6WDWH DYLDWLRQ RIÂż FLDOV KDYH VDLG the  Middlebury  runway/taxi  surfaces  were  last  repaved  more  than  20  years  ago  and  can  no  longer  be  satisfactorily  patched  based  on  Federal  Aviation Â
Administration  (FAA)  facility  have  voiced  VTrans is portray- concerns  that  the  standards. M i c h e l e  ing the runway runway  extension  Boomhower,  direc- work as a critical will  usher  in  larger  tor  of  Policy  Planning  safety improveand  more  numerous  &  Intermodal  aircraft  to  the  small  ment for the Development  for  the  airport.  Neighbors  Vermont  Agency  of  Middlebury have  also  expressed  Transportation,  said  the  Airport. But many fears  that  the  runway  DRB’s  verdict  on  the  neighbors of the extension  could  federally  funded  proj- facility have said be  a  precursor  to  ect  will  carry  weight,  the runway extenother  improvements  though  the  FAA  has  that  might  encour- exclusive  jurisdiction  sion will usher in age  more  intensive  over  matters  related  to  larger and more use  of  the  airport,  air  navigation.  Also,  numerous aircraft which  they  contend  Chapter  24,  section  to the small airport. is  already  bring- 4413  of  the  state  stat- ing  ample  noise  and  utes  places  limits  on  vibrations  to  the  municipal  review  of  state-Âowned  area. and  -  operated  institutions  and  VTrans  is  scheduled  to  hold  a  facilities. third  public  informational  meeting  VTrans  is  portraying  the  runway  about  the  project  at  the  Middlebury  work  as  a  critical  safety  improve- municipal  gym  this  Thursday,  Jan.  ment  for  the  Middlebury  Airport.  DW S P 2IÂż FLDOV ZLOO OLVWHQ WR But  many  neighbors  of  the  public  feedback  and  provide  a  brief Â
update  on  the  status  of  the  design  and  permit  applications  for  the  improve- ment  plan. Boomhower  said  plans  call  for  D Âż QDO GHVLJQ RI WKH SURMHFW WR EH FRPSOHWHG E\ )HE DW ZKLFK WLPH the  work  will  go  out  to  bid.  Those  bids  will  be  opened  on  or  around  $SULO DQG WKH Âż QDO LQIRUPDWLRQ will  be  sent  to  the  FAA  by  April  20  IRU LQFOXVLRQ LQWR D Âż QDO JUDQW DSSOL cation.  The  FAA  began  reviewing  a  draft  grant  application  late  last  month.  If  VTrans  receives  a  grant  for  the  Middlebury  Airport  work,  FRQVWUXFWLRQ ² EHJLQQLQJ ZLWK WUHH FOHDULQJ ² ZRXOG EHJLQ QH[W ZLQWHU Boomhower  said.  Runway-Ârelated  ZRUN ZRXOG EHJLQ LQ $SULO RI with  a  total  construction  time  of  90  to  120  days,  she  said. 7KH -DQ '5% PHHWLQJ LV VODWHG WR EHJLQ DW S P LQ WKH PXQLFLSDO building  conference  room. Reporter  John  Flowers  is  at  johnf@addisonindependent.com.
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By  category:  Farmers’  Markets,  Sports,  Clubs  &  Organizations,  Government  &  Politics,  Bingo,  Fundraising  Sales,  Dance,  Music,  Arts  &  Education,  Health  &  Parenting,  Meals,  Art  Exhibits  &  Museums,  Library  Programs. FARMERS’  MARKETS Brandon  Farmers’  Market.  Fridays,  mid-ÂMay  through  mid-ÂOctober,  9  a.m.-Â2  p.m.,  Brandon  Central  Park.  Fresh  produce,  breads,  jams,  honey,  maple  prod- ucts  and  crafts.  Info:  802-Â273-Â2655. Middlebury  Farmers’  Market.  Summer  hours:  Wednesdays  and  Saturdays,  9  a.m.-Â12:30  p.m.,  outdoors  at  the  Marble  Works,  May-ÂOctober.  Local  produce,  meats,  fresh  breads,  granola,  prepared  foods,  maple  syrup  and  more.  Info:  www.middle- buryfarmersmarket.org  or  on  Facebook. Vergennes  Farmers’  Market.  Thursdays,  3-Â6:30  p.m.,  City  Park.  Rain  or  shine. SPORTS Co-Âed  volleyball  in  Middlebury.  Pick-Âup  games  Monday,  7-Â9  p.m.,  Middlebury  Municipal  Gym.  Jack  Brown,  388-Â2502;Íž  Bruce  at  Middlebury  Recreation  Department,  388-Â8103. FUNDRAISING  SALES Bixby  Memorial  Library  Book  Sale,  Otter  Creek  Room,  258  Main  St.,  Vergennes.  Starting  April  18,  2015:  Monday-ÂFriday,  2-Â4:30  p.m.  (Thursday,  2-Â6:45  p.m.);Íž  and  Saturday,  10  a.m.-Â2  p.m.  Proceeds  support  library  programs  and  materials. Ilsley  Public  Library  Book  Sale.  First  Saturday,  11  a.m.-Â2:30  p.m.,  Vermont  Room.  Ongoing  sale  in  The  Last  Word  during  library  hours.  Info:  388-Â4095. St.  Peter’s  Closet  in  Vergennes.  Behind  St.  Peter’s.  Open  on  Thursdays  and  Fridays  from  10  a.m.  to  4  p.m. HEALTH  &  PARENTING Addison  County  Parkinson’s  Disease  Outreach  Group  in  Bristol.  Last  Thursday,  10-Â11:30  a.m.,  Mountain  Health  Center,  74  Munsill  Ave.  Caregivers  welcome.  Info:  888-Â763-Â3366  or  parkinsoninfo@ uvmhealth.org. Adult  ADHD  support  group  in  Middlebury.  Second  Wednesday,  7:30  p.m.,  Focus  Research  Center,  135  South  Pleasant  St.  Info:  349-Â7222  or  Debbie@ focusresourcecenter.com. Alcoholics  Anonymous.  Brandon,  Bristol,  Middlebury,  New  Haven,  North  Ferrisburgh,  Ripton,  Vergennes.  Alcoholics  Anonymous  holds  meetings  seven  days  a  week  throughout  Addison  County.  For  times,  locations  and  information  on  twelve-Âstep,  discus- sion,  As  Bill  Sees  It,  Big  Book,  women’s  and  men’s  meetings,  call  388-Â9284  or  visit  www.aavt.org/ aamtg9.htm#Legend. Al-ÂAnon  and  Alateen  meetings  in  Middlebury.  See  vermontalanonalateen.org/meetings.php  for  meet- ings  days,  times  and  locations. Armchair  Yoga  in  Vergennes.  Thursdays,  10:30  a.m.,  Armory  Lane  Senior  Housing.  Register  at  802-Â870-Â7182. At  Wits  End.  Middlebury.  Mondays,  7-Â8:30  p.m.  The  Turningpoint  Center  in  the  Marble  Works.  388-Â4249. Autism  Support  Daily.  First  Monday,  7-Â9  p.m.  New  Haven  Congregational  Church.  Support  for  fami- lies  affected  by  autism.  Online  support  at  www. autismsupportdaily.com.  Lynn  George,  660-Â7240;Íž  Milly  Jackson,  545-Â2335. Autism  Parent  Support  Group  in  New  Haven.  Second Â
Thursday.  Sapphire  Center,  87  Rivers  Bend  Road.  Childcare  not  available.  Anjanette  Sidaway,  388-Â3887. Blood  pressure  and  foot  clinics.  Sponsored  by  Addison  County  Home  Health  and  Hospice.  Bring  basin  and  towel  for  foot  care.  Clinics  that  fall  on  holidays  will  be  held  the  week  after  on  the  same  day.  388-Â7259. Bridport:  Grange  Hall.  First  Wednesday,  10:30  a.m.-Ânoon. Bristol:  American  Legion.  Second  Wednesday,  10  a.m.-Ânoon.  Middlebury:  Commons.  Second  Thursday,  9  a.m.-Ânoon  (9-Â10  a.m.  for  Commons  residents  only).  Middlebury:  Russ  Sholes.  Third  Friday,  10  a.m.-Ânoon.  Vergennes:  Armory  Lane  Senior  Housing.  First  Tuesday,  10  a.m.-Ânoon  (10-Â11  a.m.  for  Armory  Lane  residents  only).  Bone  Builders  class.  Every  Monday  and  Wednesday,  10:30-Â11:30  a.m.,  Brandon  Senior  Center.  Free. Bone  Builders  class  in  Lincoln.  Lincoln  Library,  Tuesday  and  Thursday,  3:30-Â4:30  p.m. Brain  Injury  Support  Group  in  Middlebury.  Second  Tuesday,  6-Â8  p.m.,  Hannaford  Career  Center,  Room  208.  For  survivors,  family  members  and  caregivers.  Info:  388-Â2720  or  lisabernardin@gmail. com. Brain  Injury  Support  Group  Project  of  Crown  Point,  N.Y.  Every  other  Thursday,  6:30  p.m.,  1869  Crown  Point  Rd.,  Crown  Point,  N.Y.  Call  (518)  597-Â3104  for  dates. Breastfeeding  CafĂŠ.  Third  Tuesday,  11:3-  a.m.-Â1  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  For  nursing  or  pregnant  mothers.  Dads  and  siblings  welcome.  Info:  Vicki  Kirby,  802-Â236-Â4136,  naturalkirby@gmail. com;Íž  or  Elizabeth  Curran,  802-Â349-Â3825,  www. NaturalBeginningsVT.com. Bristol  Playgroup.  Every  Tuesday  starting  Sept.  10,  2013,  9:30-Â11  a.m.,  First  Baptist  Church.  For  chil- dren  from  birth  to  6  years.  Led  by  David  Sandler.  Sponsored  by  the  Addison  County  Parent/Child  Center.  388-Â3171. Car  seat  safety  check  in  Middlebury.  Middlebury  Volunteer  Ambulance  Association,  55  Collins  Drive.  First  Saturday  of  every  month,  9  a.m.-Â1  p.m. Childbirth  Classes.  Porter  Hospital  offers  several  options  in  childbirth  classes.  Schedules  and  appli- cations:  382-Â3413  or  www.portermedical.org/ outreach.html. Childcare  Class.  Thursdays  at  4:15  p.m.  Lincoln  Library.  453-Â5362. Disabled  American  Veterans  in  Middlebury.  388-Â6401.  Otter  Valley  Disabled  American  Veterans  Chapter  PHHW WKH Âż UVW 0RQGD\ RI WKH PRQWK S P at  the  Middlebury  American  Legion.  New  members  welcome. Family  Caregiver  Support  Group  in  Middlebury.  388-Â3983.  Elderly  Services,  112  Exchange  St.  Third  Fridays. Family  Support  Group  in  Brandon.  Wednesdays,  7-Â8  p.m.,  Brandon  Congregational  Church  fellowship  hall.  For  families  with  a  loved  one  who  is  struggling  with  drug  addiction.  Info:  Lois  Deitz,  802-Â247-Â3797. Foot  care  clinic,  also  blood  pressure  and  pulse  moni- tors.  658-Â2421.  Bridport  Grange.  First  Mondays  of  even  months. Hellenbach  Cancer  Support  Group  in  Middlebury.  Call  for  information  and  meeting  times:  388-Â6107. HIV  Testing  in  Middlebury.  Open  Door  Clinic.  388-Â0137.  Free  and  anonymous.  Call  for  appointment. Hope  and  Help  for  Hurts,  Hangups  and  Habits  recov- ery  group  in  Brandon.  Tuesdays,  7-Â8:30  p.m.,  LifeBridge  Christian  Church,  97  Frog  Hollow  Road.  Celebrate  recovery. La  Leche  League  of  Addison  County  in  Middlebury.  First  Thursday,  10-Â11  a.m.,  at  Junebug  in  the  Star Â
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life  that  needs  ences  that  justify  — Den Corrin your  help  to  racism. become  more  at  Coates  offers  peace  and  to  feel  us  this  new  dream  more  joy.  That  is  what  matters.  as  one  who  loves  his  country  and  Not  having  the  time.  Or  having  its  people.  In  the  Christmas  Eve  excuses.  Or  it  being  inconvenient.  service  at  the  Champlain  Valley  None  of  that  matters.  Or  it’s  too  Unitarian  Universalist  Society  ,  dangerous  or  too  grubby  a  work.  the  Rev.  Barnaby  Feder  urged  us  Or  we  should  call  in  the  experts.  to  “pay  attention  to  dreams  that  Probably  doesn’t  matter.  Living  in  arrive  with  the  authority  of  Love  each  moment  with  kindness,  and  ² WKDWÂśV /RYH ZLWK D FDSLWDO / ² the  sense  that  whatever  it  takes  to  behind  them.â€?  This  is  a  learning  make  the  world  a  better  place,  you  edge  for  me.  I  am  called  in  mind  can  do  it.  That  matters.â€? and  heart  to  face  the  lie  of  the  idea  We  are  about  to  mark  the  legacy  of  race.  Without  that  belief,  we  are  of  Dr.  Martin  Luther  King  Jr.,  all  enough.  Read  his  book.  Maybe  whose  life  really  did  matter.  “You  it  will  change  you  too. can’t  lead  unless  you  love;Íž  can’t  Johanna  Nichols  is  retired  from  save  people  unless  you  serve  the  ministry.  She  enjoys  writ- people,â€?  writes  Tavis  Smiley  in  ing  and  invites  readers  to  visit  his  2014  biography  of  the  last  year  her  blog:  www.riversidemus- of  King’s  life,  “Death  of  a  King.â€?  ings.wordpress.com.  She  lives  We  should  listen  to  Tavis  Smiley’s  in  Middlebury.  She  will  host  a  prophetic  voice  when  he  says  conversation,  on  this  or  any  other  don’t  let  nostalgia  erase  the  reali- topic,  open  to  anyone  who  would  ties  of  racism,  poverty  and  milita- like  to  participate  on  Sunday,  Jan.  rism  that  threaten  our  democracy.  17,  at  1:30  pm,  in  the  Community  Engraved  on  King’s  headstone  Room  at  EastView  at  Middlebury,  is  the  epitaph  “Free  at  last,  free  989-Â7500.
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Mill.  Info:  382-Â1589. Making  Recover  Easier  (MRE)  group  in  Middlebury.  Wednesdays,  5:30-Â7  p.m.,  Turning  Point  Center  in  the  Marble  Works.  A  group  meeting  for  people  in  recovery  struggling  to  decide  whether  or  not  to  attend  noon-Âstep  programs. Memory  screenings  in  Middlebury.  First  Tuesdays,  by  appointment.  Free.  Appointments:  385-Â3711  or  nschaedel@hphrc.org. Middlebury  Playgroup.  Every  Tuesday,  9:30-Â11  a.m.,  Memorial  Baptist  Church,  South  Pleasant  Street.  For  children  from  birth  to  6  years.  Led  by  Melanie  Root.  Sponsored  by  the  Addison  County  Parent/ Child  Center.  388-Â3171. Monday  Playgroup  in  Brandon.  Mondays  when  schools  are  open,  10-Â11:30  a.m.  St.  Thomas  Episcopal  Church,  downstairs.  Run  by  Brandon  Recreation  Department,  247-Â0228. NAMI-ÂVT  Family  Support  Group  in  Brandon.  First  Monday.  7-Â8:30  p.m.,  Brandon  Museum  at  the  Stephen  A.  Douglas  Birthplace.  For  family  members  and  close  friends  of  a  loved  one  with  a  serious  mental  illness.  Mary,  247-Â0180;Íž  or  NAMI  RIÂż FH Narcotics  Anonymous  Road  to  Recovery  Group.  Middlebury.  6  p.m.  The  Turningpoint  Center  in  the  Marble  Works.  388-Â4249. Open  Door  Clinic.  Tuesday  and  Thursday  evenings  in  Middlebury.  Free  health  care  for  low-Âincome,  unin- sured  people.  388-Â0137. Opiate  overdose  rescue  kit  distribution  in  Middlebury.  Wednesdays,  9  a.m.  to  noon.  Turning  Point  Center  in  the  Marble  Works.  Free.  Intended  for  opiate  dependent  individuals  and  family  members  or  friends  who  might  be  present  at  an  overdose.  Info:  802-Â388-Â4249. Overeaters  Anonymous  in  Bristol.  Saturday,  1  p.m.  Downstairs  in  the  Lawrence  Memorial  Library.  Babysitting  available  fourth  Saturday.  349-Â4545  or  453-Â7088.  No  meeting  Feb.  25. Overeaters  Anonymous  in  Middlebury.  Monday,  noon.  The  Turning  Point  Center  in  the  Marble  Works.  388-Â4249. Parkinson’s  support  group  in  Bristol.  Last  Thursday  of  the  month,  Mountain  Health  Center,  74  Munsill  Ave.,  Building  1,  Suite  100.  Caregivers  welcome.  Info:  802-Â453-Â5148  or  grayland@gmavt.net. Play  group  for  preschool  children.  United  Church  of  Lincoln.  Wednesdays,  9:30-Â11:30  a.m.  Jen  Goodyear,  453-Â8589. POSKVT  (Parents  of  Special  Kids  Vermont).  Second  Monday,  7-Â9  p.m.  New  Haven  Congregational  Church.  Parent  support  group.  Topics  include  IEPs,  services  offered  in  Addison  County,  divorce,  parents’  rights,  sleep  problems,  general  teen-Âage  issues  and  more.  Join  online  group  at  health. groups.yahoo.com/group/POSKVT_MEMBERS.  Milly  Jackson,  545-Â2335;Íž  An  Duclos-ÂCollier,  453-Â7324. Postpartum  group  meeting  in  Vergennes.  Tapestry  Midwifery,  20  Armory  Lane.  Second  and  fourth  Fridays,  12:30-Â2  p.m.  Meet  other  moms  and  explore  a  wide  range  of  topics  including  self-Âcare,  postpartum  nutrition  adjustments  at  home  and  newborn  care.  Info:  802-Â877-Â0022.
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PAGE  12A  —  Addison  Independent,  Thursday,  January  14,  2016
Movie Review By Joan Ellis
KEITH Â MCCUTCHEN
Powerhouse vocal choir to celebrate civil rights leader MIDDLEBURY  —  This  Martin  Luther  King  Day,  when  members  of  the  college  and  local  communi- ties  gather  in  Middlebury  College’s  Mead  Chapel  to  celebrate  King’s  legacy,  they  will  also  celebrate  the  return  of  guest  director  Keith  Mc- Cutchen  and  his  powerhouse  MLK  Today  Choir.  The  “MLK  Todayâ€?  event  on  Monday,  Jan.  18,  will  mark  McCutchen’s  second  appearance  at  Middlebury  as  conductor  of  the  group,  a  community  choir  of  stu- dents  and  townspeople. Last  year’s  performance  featured  a  ¿YH SLHFH MD]] FRPER ZKLFK ² WR- JHWKHU ZLWK WKH FKRLU DQG ÂżHU\ ZRUGV from  Dr.  King’s  Selma  speech  —  had  the  audience  leaping  to  its  feet  several  times. This  year  McCutchen,  who  is  di- rector  of  the  Appalachian  State  Uni- versity  Gospel  Choir,  will  present  a  brand  new  selection  of  spirituals,  gospel  tunes,  jazz  and  contemporary  music. The  program  of  speeches  will  also  be  new.  Just  as  King  adapted  his  message  to  the  pressing  issues  of  the  day,  “MLK  Today:  A  Call  to  Justice,  in  Speech,  Song,  and  Danceâ€?  will  turn  its  attention  to  our  own  tumultu- ous  time  in  race  relations. Speakers  from  the  Middlebury  College  student  group  Oratory  Now  will  use  Dr.  King’s  1966  Soldier Â
Field  address  as  the  backdrop  for  other  voices  in  the  movement,  past  and  present,  including  students  re- ÀHFWLQJ RQ WKH UROH UDFH SOD\V KHUH DW Middlebury. “Our  new  president,  Laurie  Pat- ton,â€?  says  Oratory  Now  director  Dana  Yeaton,  “has  challenged  us  to  make  inclusivity  our  everyday  ethic.  We  want  this  year’s  event  to  be  part  of  that  ongoing  conversation.â€? The  speakers  will  perform  one  piece  in  collaboration  with  Assistant  Professor  of  Dance  Christal  Brown,  who  is  founding  artistic  director  of  INSPIRIT,  a  dance  company  based  in  New  York  City. “MLK  Todayâ€?  is  directed  by  Dana  Yeaton,  with  musical  direction  by  Jeff  Buettner.  It  is  sponsored  by  the  Middlebury  College  Department  of  Music  and  Oratory  Now. “MLK  Todayâ€?  will  take  place  on  Monday,  Jan.  18,  at  8  p.m.  in  Mead  Memorial  Chapel  at  Middlebury  College.  Admission  is  free.  Mead  Chapel  is  located  at  75  Hepburn  Road  on  the  campus  of  Middlebury  College.  Free  parking  is  available  on  Route  125/College  St.,  and  on  Old  Chapel  Road.  Some  handicap-Âac- cessible  parking  will  be  available  on  Hillcrest  Road  adjacent  to  the  cha- pel.  For  more  information,  call  (802)  443-Â3168  or  visit  www.middlebury. edu/arts.
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C o n c u s s i o n ;Íž  Running  time:  2:03;Íž  Rating:  PG-Â13  Powered  by  truth,  “Concussionâ€?  joins  the  battle  between  the  National  Football  League  and  doctors  who  blame  football  for  brain  injuries  that  have  killed  former  players  in  their  40s  and  50s.  This  movie  is  the  story  of  Dr.  Bennet  Omalu,  an  accomplished  pathologist  who  was  determined  to  prove  his  case.  Dr.  Omalu,  born  in  Nigeria,  trained  in  England  and  America,  is  the  pa- thologist  assigned  to  discover  the  cause  of  death  of  Mike  Webster  (Da- vid  Morse),  renowned  center  for  the  Pittsburgh  Steelers  who  died  at  50,  ostensibly  of  cardiac  arrest.  When  Dr.  Omalu’s  initial  tests  found  nothing  that  could  explain  Webster’s  death,  he  looked  further  and  discovered  why  Webster  had  lost  his  mind.  In  all  hu- PDQV WKH EUDLQ Ă€RDWV XQWHWKHUHG LQ Ă€XLG 0LNH :HEVWHUÂśV EUDLQ KDG EHHQ battered  by  his  skull. Further  autopsies  on  two  more  SOD\HUV FRQÂżUPHG KLV WKHRU\ 0LNH Webster  suffered  70,000  blows  to  the  head  during  18  years  of  playing  foot- ball.  Terry  Long  and  Dave  Duerson  were  suicides  with  disabled  minds.  The  cause:  chronic  traumatic  enceph- alopathy.  The  movie  is  the  story  of  what  the  NFL  does  to  discredit  Dr.  Omalu  as  he  tries  to  prove  his  conclusion  in  an  effort  to  save  men  from  CTE.  He  real- izes  boys  are  at  risk  from  their  earli- est  days  of  school  football.  Because  some  of  the  men  he  examined  were  Pittsburgh  heroes,  his  work  quickly  drew  public  attention  along  with  rage  from  the  NFL.  As  the  big  entertain- ment  story  of  our  time,  the  NFL  em- pire  had  grown  to  be  worth  billions  of  dollars.  In  the  stands,  audiences  roared  approval  for  the  hardest  hits.  On  television,  this  American  ver- sion  of  throwing  victims  to  the  lions  drew  millions  of  delighted  viewers.  This  movie  is  an  effort  to  validate  Dr.  Omalu’s  work  and  to  hold  the  NFL  responsible  for  refusing  to  recognize  &7( 7U\LQJ WR ZLGHQ WKH ÂżOPÂśV DS- peal,  writer/director  Peter  Landes- man  and  co-Âwriter  Jeanne  Marie  Las- kas  (who  wrote  a  GQ  article  called  “Game  Brainâ€?)  have  leaned  heavily  on  the  personal  life  of  Dr.  Omalu  and  his  wife  Prema  (Gugu  Mbatha-ÂRaw,  in  a  quiet,  convincing  performance).  The  subplot  script  feels  like  an  add-Âon  and  lets  the  movie  down.  Will  Smith  is  consistently  credible  as  the  humane  Dr.  Omalu  and  Alec  Baldwin  is  excellent  as  Dr.  Julian  Bailes,  former  team  doctor  for  the  Steelers,  who  has  seen  the  truth  of  the  deaths.  We  watch  their  story  from  the  initial  discovery  up  through  the  NFL  investigation  carefully  designed  to  calm  the  public  reaction.  In  a  scene  shockingly  similar  to  Big  Tobacco  assuring  the  world  that  smoking  didn’t  cause  lung  cancer,  ODZ ÂżUP &RYLQJWRQ DQG %XUOLQJ DV- sures  the  world  that  football  doesn’t  cause  CTE.  Like  so  many  corporate  cover-Âups,  this  one  is  embarrassing. Credit  Peter  Landesman  for  keep- ing  another  power  scandal  on  the  front  pages  and  for  casting  Will  Smith  in  a  role  that  brings  Dr.  Bennet  Omalu  to  vital  life.  Who  will  win  this  one?  The  Nigerian  doctor  or  the  NFL?  For  a  while  at  least,  CTE  will  claim  brains.
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LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES Bizet’s gorgeous opera of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. Pre-show talk and refreshments in the studio at 12:15. Sponsored by Opera Company of Middlebury.
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‘The Gin Game’ to be staged in Bristol BRISTOL  —  Bristol  actors  Di- team  Hume  Cronyn  and  Jessica  ana  Bigelow  and  Jim  Stapleton  will  Tandy.  Over  the  years  it  has  become  perform  a  staged  reading  of  “The  a  standard  in  the  community  theater  Gin  Gameâ€?  by  D.L.  Coburn  on  repertoire.  Bigelow  and  Stapleton  Saturday,  Jan.  23,  at  7  p.m.  in  Hol- performed  the  play  20  years  ago  ley  Hall.  This  single  performance  on  the  Olympic  Peninsula  of  Wash- will  be  sponsored  ington  State  where  by  the  Bristol  Gate- they  lived  at  the  way  Players  and  will  “Some readings time.  It  was  their  VHUYH DV D EHQHÂżW WR of plays have the ÂżUVW SURGXFWLRQ DV D improve  the  acoustics  actors standing couple  and  it  served  of  the  hall. as  an  incentive  for  at lecterns while The  story:  Fonsia  them  to  write  and  addressing the and  Weller,  residents  perform  their  own  of  a  seedy  retirement  audience. Diana work  throughout  home,  meet  on  the  and I have done WKH 3DFLÂżF 1RUWK- porch  and  entertain  that, but we much west. themselves  by  play- prefer to let the “The  Gin  Gameâ€?  ing  gin  rummy.  The  audience see was  recently  re- card  games  begin  vived  on  Broadway  in  good  humor  and  the action of the with  James  Earl  the  dialog  tickles,  fully staged play. Jones  and  Cicely  but  their  interaction  The trick is to get Tyson.  The  Bristol  becomes  more  and  you, the audience couple  saw  this  pro- more  testy  as  Fonsia,  member, to forget duction  in  October.  the  neophyte,  repeat- comment- that the actor has Bigelow  edly  beats  the  card  ed,  “We  enjoyed  whiz,  Weller.  Tem- a script in hand.â€? watching  these  two  – Jim Stapleton icons  of  the  theater  SHUV Ă€DUH DQG WKH ODQ- guage  becomes  quite  interpret  the  play  in  strong.  The  playwright  has  carefully  their  own  way.â€? labeled  the  play  a  “tragi-Âcomedy.â€?  Stapleton  noted  that  a  “staged  It  is  funny;Íž  the  quips,  send-Âups  and  readingâ€?  can  be  performed  in  differ- put-Âdowns  are  hilarious,  but  the  ent  ways.  “Some  readings  of  plays  drama  remains  basically  a  tragedy. have  the  actors  standing  at  lecterns  7KH WZR SHUVRQ SOD\ ZDV ÂżUVW while  addressing  the  audience.  Di- performed  on  Broadway  in  the  ana  and  I  have  done  that,  but  we  1970s  starring  husband-Âand-Âwife  much  prefer  to  let  the  audience  see Â
the  action  of  the  fully  staged  play.  The  trick  is  to  get  you,  the  audience  member,  to  forget  that  the  actor  has  a  script  in  hand.  Here’s  where  ‘the  willing  suspension  of  disbelief’  comes  in. Âł:KHQ \RX ÂżUVW VHH DFWRUV RQ stage  or  on  a  screen,  you  do  not  believe  they  are  living  out  their  ev- eryday  lives  —  they  are  ‘playing.’  The  art  of  acting  is  to  ease  you  out  of  that  disbelief,  to  persuade  you  to  suspend  it,  so  that  you  can  more  fully  enter  into  the  emotional  life  of  the  scene  in  front  of  you.  This  magi- cal  art  can  even  lead  an  audience  to  fail  to  notice  the  scripts  in  the  ac- tors’  hands.â€? 7KH FRPPXQLW\ EHQHÂżW WR LP- prove  the  acoustics  in  Holley  Hall,  is  dear  to  Bristol  residents.  The  hall  is  home  to  the  town’s  performing  arts  and  civic  functions,  but  a  num- ber  of  residents  have  given  up  at- tending,  because  they  simply  can’t  hear  what  is  going  on.  Recently  a  committee  was  formed  to  promote  “Let’s  Hear  It  for  Holley  Hall,â€?  a  series  of  public  events  to  raise  matching  funds  for  a  grant  applica- tion.  “The  Gin  Gameâ€?  is  the  latest  of  these  offerings.  “The  Gin  Gameâ€?  has  a  running  time  90  min  with  a  15-Âminute  in- termission.  It  is  intended  for  mature  audiences.  There  is  a  suggested  do- nation  of  $10.  Refreshments  will  be  available.
Democratic  debate  to  be  aired  at  Paramount  Theater RUTLAND  —  The  Paramount  Theater  and  Castleton  University  present  a  broadcast  of  the  Jan.  17  Democratic  Presidential  Primary  Debate  as  part  of  the  14-Âmonth  se- ries,  Project  240:  Celebrating  the  American  Experience.  The  event  on  Sunday  is  at  the  Paramount  Theater;Íž  doors  open  at  7:30  p.m.,  with  the  event  to  start  at  8  p.m. Hosted  by  Andy  Smith,  director  of  The  Survey  Center  at  the  Univer- sity  of  New  Hampshire,  the  evening  kicks  off  with  introductory  remarks Â
and  analysis  by  Smith,  followed  by  a  town  hall-Âstyle  question-Âand-Âanswer  period  immediately  before  the  presi- dential  candidate  debate  commenc- es  at  9  p.m.  Following  the  debate,  Smith,  who  is  also  an  associate  pro- fessor  of  practice  in  political  science  at  UNH,  will  stay  and  engage  with  the  audience  about  the  evening’s  ac- tivity.  Audience  members  will  watch  the  debate  (which  airs  on  NBC)  live  on  the  Paramount  Theater’s  HD  large-Âscreen  projection  system.  The Â
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Refugees  (Continued  from  Page  1A) Frenzen,  a  health  economist.  Call- ing  themselves  “Team  Vermont,â€?  the  group  included  two  physicians,  three  nurses,  and  a  young  Syrian  immigrant  named  Ruba  Orfali.  Cur- rently  a  student  at  St.  Michael’s  Col- lege,  Orfali  acted  as  translator  for  the  group  during  their  time  in  Lesvos,  Jan.  2  through  9. Frenzen  had  approached  Cordes  around  Thanksgiving  to  ask  if  she  would  join  the  volunteer  medical  team.  Cordes  said  yes  because  she  knew  that  with  her  nursing  skills  she’d  be  able  to  make  a  small  but  valuable  contribution  and  because  she  was  distressed  by  so  much  of  the  rhetoric  labeling  the  refugees  as  ter- rorists  —  especially  in  the  aftermath  of  the  Paris  and  San  Bernardino  at- tacks. “Both  of  us  were  getting  more  and  more  agitated  by  the  hateful  rhetoric  that  was  being  voiced  in  our  country  and  in  our  state,â€?  Cordes  said. Â
are  some  larger  organizations  that  truly  are  helpful,  as  a  smaller  and  independent  group  we’re  more  ef- ¿FLHQW 7KH GRQDWLRQV DQG WKH KXJH support  we  got  from  our  families  and  communities  gets  funneled  directly  to  the  people  who  need  it.  There’s  no  overhead.  We’re  more  facile.  It’s  not  for  everybody,  but  for  us,  it’s  best  if  we  go  independently  and  then  plug  in.â€? Frenzen  coordinated  with  the  non- SURÂżW 2II 7UDFN +HDOWK ZKLFK KDV ongoing  relief  efforts  on  Lesvos.  The  group  runs  a  24-Âhour  clinic  outside  WKH RIÂżFLDO ERXQGDULHV RI WKH 0RULD refugee  camp,  on  a  spot  called  Af- ghan  Hill.  There  are  too  many  refu- JHHV WR ÂżW LQVLGH WKH FDPS LWVHOI VDLG Cordes,  and  Afghan  Hill  is  one  of  the  places  where  spillover  people  set  up  a  temporary  homes  while  they  wait  to  be  processed  and  allowed  to  move  on  to  mainland  Greece  and  then,  hopefully,  on  to  new  lives  elsewhere  in  Europe.  That  was  the  goal  —  get  to  Greece,  a  member  of  the  Euro- pean  Union,  and  from  there  disperse  throughout  the  continent. Cordes  and  the  Frenzens  raised  funds  for  the  trip  through  the  Go- fundme  website.  Cordes  herself  raised  over  $4,000  in  about  a  month.  To  make  the  trip  doable,  she  took  un- paid  leave  from  UVM  and  both  her  mortgage  and  her  car  lenders  agreed  to  defer  her  monthly  payments.  UVM  Medical  Center  donated  sup- plies. “The  money  we  raised  helped  us  get  there  and  then  buy  hundreds  of  blankets  for  refugees,  (and)  shoes,â€?  Cordes  said.  “We  brought  over  11  huge  duffel  bags  full  of  medical  sup- plies  and  clothing  that  people  had  donated.â€? LINCOLN  RESIDENT  MARI  Cordes  has  just  returned  from  volunteer- Cordes  explained  that  the  group  ing  at  the  Moria  refugee  camp  on  the  Greek  island  of  Lesvos.  Cordes  knew  they  wanted  to  purchase  blan- works  as  a  nurse  at  the  University  of  Vermont  Medical  Center. kets  and  as  many  other  supplies  for  Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell Cordes  is  no  stranger  to  pitch- ing  in  on  international  relief  efforts.  In  2010,  she  helped  organize  the  Vermont  Federation  of  Nurses  and  Health  Professionals’  relief  effort  in  the  aftermath  of  the  Haitian  earth- TXDNH DQG VKH ZDV DPRQJ WKH ÂżUVW to  arrive  in  Haiti.  “We  sent  a  fresh  team  every  week  for  six  months,â€?  Cordes  continued,  “literally  hundreds  of  people.â€? Cordes  led  several  relief  trips  to  Haiti.  And  individuals  from  that  group  of  volunteers  also  provided  medical  relief  after  Hurricane  Irene,  Hurricane  Sandy,  and  the  2013  tsu- nami  in  the  Philippines. For  this  month’s  “Team  Vermontâ€?  relief  effort  on  Lesvos,  Cordes  and  Frenzen  knew  that  they  wanted  to  organize  their  group  independently,  rather  than  go  as  part  of  a  larger  non- SURÂżW VXFK DV 'RFWRUV :LWKRXW %RU- ders.  “We’ve  learned  as  people  who  re- spond  to  disasters  that  while  there Â
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SYRIAN  REFUGEES  COME  ashore  on  the  Greek  island  of  Lesvos  early  this  month.  Lincoln  resident  Mari  Cordes  spent  a  week  volunteering  with  the  refugees. Courtesy  photo
the  refugees  as  they  could  in  Lesvos,  where  the  beach-Âbased  tourist  econ- omy  has  taken  a  hit  because  of  the  thousands  of  refugees  pouring  onto  the  island’s  shores. ‘A  TOTAL  M.A.S.H.  UNIT’ Once  on  Lesvos,  Off  Track  Health  paired  up  Cordes  and  Team  Vermont  pediatrician  Jenna  Arruda  on  the  3  p.m.  to  midnight  shift  at  the  clinic,  which  Cordes  described  as  “a  total  M.A.S.H.  unit  —  plywood  and  a  tent.â€?  The  rest  of  the  Vermont  medi- cal  team  was  assigned  to  the  over- night  shift. While  work  at  the  clinic  varied,  Cordes  said  they  treated  a  lot  of  people  for  sprains,  fractures,  respi- ratory  infections,  exhaustion,  shock  and  hypothermia.  Hypothermia,  she  said,  was  especially  lethal  among  the  youngest  refugees. “I  believe  that’s  probably  the  rea- son  the  majority  of  the  little  ones  die  is  because  of  hypothermia,  if  they  didn’t  drown  on  the  way  over,â€?  said  Cordes. It’s  evident,  to  hear  Cordes  talk,  how  important  it  was  to  put  her  nurs- ing  skills  to  work.  The  most  intense  and  moving  words  come  when  she  talks  about  her  daytime  assignment  on  the  beach,  where  she  and  other  volunteers  would  post  themselves  HYHU\ PRUQLQJ FODG LQ UHĂ€HFWLYH \HOORZ YHVWV WKDW LGHQWLÂżHG WKHP DV health  professionals,  scanning  the  Aegean  Sea  for  the  next  boatload  of  refugees  coming  ashore. For  the  relief  workers,  the  routine  on  the  beach  stayed  the  same,  as  boat  after  boat  rolled  in  —  help  people  get  out,  get  them  into  dry  clothes.  If  no  clothes  were  available  get  them  wrapped  in  blankets  right  next  to  WKH VNLQ 'LVWULEXWH HPHUJHQF\ VXJ- ar  tablets  or  cookies  or  crackers  for  quick  energy,  escort  the  refugees  off  the  beach,  out  of  the  wind,  and  into  the  waiting  United  Nations  High  Commission  on  Refugees  vans  for  transport  to  the  Moria  camp  or,  if  full,  to  one  of  the  surrounding  plac- es,  like  Afghan  Hill,  where  refugees  FRXOG ÂżQG VKHOWHU DQG JHW D KRW GULQN food  and  dry  clothes. Cordes  described  many  of  those  arriving  as  in  a  state  of  shock  both  emotional  and  physiological,  often  battling  hypothermia  and  complete  exhaustion.  These  were  people,  she  said,  whose  homes  and  communities  had  been  destroyed  by  war,  who’d  faced  incredible  hunger,  sometimes  close  to  starvation,  women  who’d  been  raped,  women  who  didn’t  know  where  their  husbands  were  —  possi- bly  dead  or  imprisoned,  fathers  and  mothers  who’d  seen  their  children  brutalized. “And  that’s  on  top  of  missile  strikes  in  their  towns,â€?  said  Cordes.  “It  would  be  like  a  missile  strike  hap- pening  in  Bristol  or  Burlington.â€? Fleeing  Turkey  on  the  small  in- ÀDWDEOH GLQJKLHV PRVW FRPPRQO\ used  by  the  smugglers  who  arrange  the  journeys  is  also  dangerous,  said  Cordes.  The  smugglers  themselves  GRQÂśW PDNH WKH ÂżYH PLOH RSHQ RFHDQ
Lincoln  resident  Mari  Cordes  was  understandably  moved  by  seeing  refugees  make  the  dangerous  ocean  crossing  from  Turkey  to  the  Greek  island  of  Lesvos.  The  gravity  of  what  she  witnessed  on  the  beach  is  best  heard  in  her  own  words: “There  was  a  24-Âhour  presence  on  the  beaches  with  binoculars  look- ing  for  boats.  We’d  be  waiting  with  worry  and  anticipation.  And  then  there’d  be  a  spotting,  and  we’d  have  some  excitement  that  they  might  make  it.  Sometimes  the  Greek  Coast  Guard  would  help  them,  even  to  the  point  of  towing  them  towards  shore.  The  boats  would  get  closer  and  closer  and  we  would  line  up  waving  our  arms  so  they  could  spot  us  and  know  where  to  land. “Sometimes  one  boat  would  come  in,  but  more  often  three,  four  or  ¿YH DW D WLPH IXOO RI RYHUĂ€RZLQJ ZLWK \HDU ROG HOGHUV EDELHV NLGV as  young  as  nine  traveling  alone,  families,  young  men  in  groups  of  twos  or  threes.  “When  the  boats  got  closer,  the  people  on  the  boat  were  so  excited  to  know  that  they  had  made  it  safely  that  they  would  start  cheering.  All  of  us  on  the  beach  would  be  cheering.  Many  of  the  people,  as  soon  as  they  fell  out  of  the  boat  would  kiss  the  ground. Âł7KH ÂżUVW IHZ PLQXWHV ZHUH MXVW FKDRWLF WU\LQJ WR JHW SHRSOH RXW RI the  boat,  trying  to  keep  them  dry,  but  most  everyone  was  already  satu- rated.  It  was  so  cold.  There  was  a  lot  of  hypothermia  and  at  one  point  it  was  dropping  into  the  high  20s,  Fahrenheit,  while  we  were  there.  ³7KH EDELHV DQG WKH FKLOGUHQ ZRXOG EH KDQGHG RII ÂżUVW 7KH SDUHQWV would  willingly  just  thrust  their  baby  up  for  some  stranger  to  grab  and  take  it  up  on  the  beach  and  start  to  work  to  get  the  baby  dry  clothes  and  make  sure  it  was  warm  and  OK,â€?  she  concluded. —  Gaen  Murphree
trip  from  Turkey  to  Lesvos.  Often- times  the  boats  are  overloaded,  the  seas  can  be  rough,  the  boats  can  cap- size  and  the  refugees  drown.  Some- WLPHV WKH VPXJJOHUV RQO\ ÂżOO WKH JDV tank  partway  to  make  more  money.  Yet  the  refugees,  said  Cordes,  might  pay  as  much  as  $4,000-Â$5,000  per  person.  The  Turkish  Coast  Guard  PLJKW ÂżUH LQWR WKH ZDWHU VXUURXQG- ing  the  boats,  as  they  did  the  week  Cordes  was  in  Lesvos.  That  week,  more  than  30  refugees  drowned  be- cause  the  smugglers  gave  them  fake  life  jackets. But  still  the  refugees  keep  coming. GRACE  AND  COURAGE Cordes  is  tough  —  the  kind  of  medical  professional  who’s  clearly  at  ease  when  humanity  faces  the  worst.  But  what  seemed  to  cut  this  veteran  of  disaster  relief’s  heart  the  deepest  was  the  grace  with  which  the  refu- gees  met  their  situation.  Oftentimes, Â
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in  the  makeshift  clinic  where  the  group  provided  medical  care,  Cordes  and  the  other  medical  personnel  ZRXOG WU\ WR ÂżJXUH RXW ZKDW PLJKW EH happening  in  the  extended  conversa- tions  Team  Vermont’s  translator  of- ten  carried  on  with  the  refugees. “When  Ruba  was  working  with  us  in  the  clinic  with  people  who  needed  medical  help,  she  would  translate  the  medical  situation.  But  then  we  would  be  sitting  there  and  a  person  would  be  saying  something  more.  And  we,  the  healthcare  providers  that  didn’t  speak  Arabic  or  Farsi,  thought  they  were  talking  about  medical  things.  But  Ruba  would  say,  ‘No,  they’re  saying  things  like,  “God  bless  you,â€?  “May  you  have  a  long  life,â€?  “May  you  have  many  childrenâ€?’  —  like  MXVW ÂżYH PLQXWHV RI EOHVVLQJV RQ XV And  they  had  lost  practically  every- thing.  It  just  blew  me  away.â€? Cordes  says  that  she  hopes  to  be  able  to  engage  her  Addison  County  neighbors  in  greater  dialogue  about  the  refugee  crisis.  She’s  been  asked  to  speak  in  Craftsbury  and  Burling- ton  and  would  welcome  opportuni- ties  to  speak  with  church  or  civic  groups  in  Addison  County.  She  in- tends  to  return  to  Lesvos  later  in  2016  and  has  already  begun  a  new  cycle  of  fundraising  at  Gofundme. com.  Cordes  also  said  that  one  does  not  have  to  be  a  medical  professional  or  speak  Arabic  or  Farsi  to  be  a  use- ful  volunteer.  Mari  Cordes  can  be  contacted  through  her  Facebook  page  or  by  email  at  mari.vermont@gmail.com.  The  Team  Vermont  Facebook  page  can  be  found  at  www.facebook.com/ groups/977364542311577. Reporter  Gaen  Murphree  is  at  gaenm@addisonindependent.com.
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VUHS  (Continued  from  Page  1A) the  current  level  of  almost  $10.26  mil- lion,  assuming  voters  approve  both  measures. VOTE  DATE  It  remains  uncertain  if  ANwSU  residents  will  vote  on  the  VUHS  and  ANwSU  elementary  budgets  on  Town  Meeting  Day  or  at  a  later  date.  Ideally,  Canning  said,  ANwSU  board  members  would  like  residents  to  vote  on  proposed  budgets  while  knowing  two  things  —  if  the  proposal  to  unify  ANwSU  under  one-Âboard  governance  had  passed  on  March  1,  and  if  the  Legislature  had  acted  to  ease  or  delay  Act  46  penalties  on  schools  and  districts  with  high  per- pupil  spending. Because  of  poor  estimates  for  VUHS  special  education  spending  in  earlier  years,  VUHS  is  paying  off  D GHÂżFLW RYHU D WKUHH \HDU WHUP 7KH amount  in  both  the  current  and  pro- posed  budget  is  $254,000.  At  the  same  time,  the  school’s  enrollment  is  also  dropping,  as  is  next  year’s  pro- jected  state  support  for  special  educa- tion. Those  three  factors  are  pushing  the  VUHS  per-Âpupil  spending  well  into  the  territory  where  the  state  will  assess  ANwSU  a  dollar-Âfor-Âdollar  spending  penalty,  with  a  potentially  dramatic  impact  on  ANwSU  tax  rates Â
even  with  the  cuts.  “It’s  do-Âable,  but  it’s  very  compli- But  the  Legislature  is  considering  cated,â€?  Canning  said.  “Whatever  you  delaying  for  a  year  or  at  least  raising  warn  next  week,  you  can’t  change,  no  that  threshold.  The  House  Education  matter  when  you  vote.â€? Committee  on  Tuesday  voted  to  raise  She  hopes  lawmakers  will  recog- the  threshold  by  0.9  percent  (some- nize  that  districts,  such  as  ANwSU,  thing  Canning  said  “won’t  help  us  at  are  dealing  at  the  same  time  with  allâ€?),  while  the  governor  and  the  Sen- WRXJK EXGJHW FKDOOHQJHV DQG XQLÂżFD- ate  are  still  arguing  for  tion.  a  year’s  delay  in  imple- “There was “I  have  been  advocat- mentation.  ing  with  our  representa- consensus At  the  same  time,  the  tives  to  have  that  decision  around the state  also  offers  districts  made  in  Montpelier,  so  WKDW XQLI\ ÂżYH \HDUV RI table that evthat  all  districts  that  are  tax  breaks,  starting  with  eryone wanted FRQWHPSODWLQJ XQLÂżFDWLRQ FHQWV LQ WKH ÂżUVW \HDU to do the right and  don’t  want  the  con- Although  that  10-Âcent  thing for stuversations  between  the  break  would  not  take  ef- dents.â€? FDSV DQG XQLÂżFDWLRQ WR fect  until  the  2017-Â2018  get  distracting,  to  allow  — Superintendent \HDU $1Z68 RIÂżFLDOV them  to  vote  on  a  school  JoAn Canning said  that  if  residents  knew  budget  later  than  town  help  was  on  the  way  they  meeting,â€?  Canning  said.   might  be  more  inclined  to  support  lo- Given  all  the  uncertainties,  ANw- cal  budgets  this  year.  68 RIÂżFLDOV KDG QRW DV RI HDUOLHU WKLV Thus,  ANwSU  boards  are  explor- week  calculated  the  tax  implications  ing  holding  budget  votes  later  in  the  of  the  VUHS  spending  plan. spring.  Canning  said  to  do  so  would  VUHS  BUDGET  DETAILS require  residents  to  approve  the  Canning  and  VUHS  Principal  change  at  each  school’s  annual  meet- Stephanie  Taylor  presented  three  ing  immediately  before  Town  Meet- VUHS  spending  plans  on  Monday,  ing  Day.  Also,  budgets  cannot  be  not  including  the  $100,000  capital  changed  from  what  boards  adopt  in  fund  article: January,  even  if  there  is  new  informa- ‡ 2QH IRU DERXW PLOOLRQ WKDW tion,  such  as  a  delay  in  Act  46  penalty  preserved  virtually  all  existing  pro- implementation. grams  and  called  for  a  slight  increase Â
in  spending. ‡ 2QH DOPRVW PLOOLRQ ORZHU that  would  avoid  all  Act  46  penalties.  That  budget  would  have  cut,  among  other  things,  all  sports  and  other  ex- tracurricular  activities,  including  the  school  play,  and  the  choral  program. ‡ 2QH WKDW FXW DERXW IURP WKH PLOOLRQ OHYHO 7KDW budget  plan  was  intended  to  mirror  the  roughly  5  percent  decrease  in  equalized  student  numbers. Board  members  the  week  before  had  rejected  the  option  calling  for  $1.2  million  of  reductions  as  not  sup- portive  enough  of  students’  needs.  Canning  on  Tuesday  said  board  members  on  Monday  focused  in  on  what  would  be  necessary  to  support  students.  “The  conversation  last  night  was  can  you  provide  a  quality  program  with  a  half-Âmillion  dollars  less.  And  I  said  it’s  going  to  hurt,â€?  Canning  said.  “We  are  going  to  start  to  erode  our  programs.â€? Canning  said  she  and  Taylor  told  the  board  some  of  the  cuts  made  to  FXW SHUFHQW IURP WKH PLOOLRQ budget  were  feasible,  but  others  begin  to  affect  students.  They  told  the  board  they  were  re- luctant  to  make  cuts  that  included,  for  example,  a  math  teacher,  technology  purchases,  and  a  technology  specialist Â
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The  Vermont  College  of  Fine  Arts  MFA  in  Writing  &  Publishing  Residential  Program  has  announced  a  $5,000  scholarship  for  Vermont  writers  who  enroll  in  the  college’s  new  MFA  in  Writing  &  Publish- ing  residential  program.  The  Green  Mountain  Scholarship,  which  will  be  awarded  to  one  student  over  the  ¿UVW \HDU RI WKH WZR \HDU 0)$ SUR- gram,  is  for  a  writer  with  deep  ties  to  the  state  of  Vermont,  and  extends  to  student  writers  who  attend  college  in  Vermont. Â
that  helps  teachers  integrate  the  latest  technology  into  their  classrooms.   “There  was  a  lot  of  discussion  about  that,  and  the  board  said,  ‘JoAn  and  Stephanie,  what  do  you  need  to  run  the  program?’â€?  Canning  said.  Administrators  and  board  members  DJUHHG WKH URXJKO\ PLOOLRQ ÂżJXUH met  that  goal,  with  Canning  and  Tay- lor  still  to  determine  the  exact  nature  of  the  reductions.  “Stephanie  and  I  have  not  made  RXU ÂżQDO GHFLVLRQV 7KHUH ZDV D GROODU amount  that  was  adopted,  and  we’re  going  to  make  it  work,â€?  Canning  said.  Some  decisions  have  been  made,  Canning  said.  The  biggest  savings,  almost  $88,000,  will  come  from  eliminat- ing  the  school’s  in-Âhouse  agriculture  program.  Canning  said  with  a  simi- lar  course  offered  at  the  Patricia  A.  Hannaford  Career  Center  and  VUHS  enrollment  dropping,  the  course  be- came  a  victim  of  numbers.  “Just  like  with  all  of  our  other  pro- grams,  we  have  a  class-Âsize  policy,â€?  Canning  said.  “And  the  ag  program  attendance  had  been  declining.â€? Also  on  the  administrators’  prob- able  reduction  list  are  not  rehir- ing  a  principal’s  secretary,  which Â
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Exhibit  (Continued  from  Page  1A) riences,  from  breathing  to  relieving  Rhode  Island  School  of  Design. “I  wasn’t  seeing  many  people  so  I  paintings  never  displayed  together  ourselves.  Yet  there’s  a  disconnect  before.  She  chose  to  explore  forestry  because  there’s  an  unease  about  cut- painted  the  hills,â€?  she  said.  Her  interest  in  the  forest  stems  because  three-Âquarters  of  our  North- ting  down  a  tree,  and  a  lot  of  stereo- eastern  environment  is  forested,  and  typing,â€?  she  said.  “I  want  them  to  from  spending  time  in  the  woods,  D VLJQLÂżFDQW SRUWLRQ RI KXPDQ LQ- see  what  gifts  are  offered  to  them  by  XVLQJ ÂżUHZRRG EXLOGLQJ IXUQLWXUH teractions  with  the  landscape  in  this  the  people  in  the  paintings  and  the  making  maple  syrup  and  painting  part  of  the  world  oc- landscape  portrayed  ZLOGĂ€RZHUV ,QWULJXHG E\ SURGXFLQJ a  charcoal  drawing  of  a  Bristol  band  curs  in  the  forest.  there.â€?  “The  forest  re- The  pair  learned  mill  in  1996,  she  realized  she  wanted  source  is  very  im- much  about  the  for- to  pursue  the  subject  of  forestry  fur- portant.  How  we  est  through  the  work- ther  and  present  a  body  of  work  on  it  in  several  years.  It  took  longer  than  appreciate  and  use  ers.  it  are  fundamental  to  “Our  understand- expected,  but  she  eventually  gave  up  the  quality  of  our  life  ing  grows  and  her  daily  studio  practice  to  organize  and  life  of  the  planet  changes  every  day,â€?  this  exhibit.  .ROE QRWHV WKDW WKH ÂżQDQFLDO VXS- going  forward,â€?  she  Kolb  said.  “I’m  hop- said.  “We  need  to  ing  this  exhibit  will  port  of  many  individuals  and  founda- keep  upping  the  ante  be  a  piece  of  growth  tions  made  this  exhibition  possible.  on  those  things.  We  and  understanding.â€?  This  includes  the  collectors  who  can  only  do  that  with  Talking  to  the  for- loaned  their  paintings,  as  well  as  a  level  of  awareness  esters  also  taught  regular  patrons.  The  forest  industry,  and  care  that  comes  Porche  about  the  desiring  to  better  convey  its  perspec- from  paying  atten- boundlessness  of  cu- tive  and  improve  its  image,  has  been  especially  supportive.  The  Interna- tion;Íž  the  goal  of  art  riosity.  KOLB is  to  pay  attention.â€? “There’s  always  tional  Paper  Foundation  funded  the  The  artist  maintains  that  she  did  the  next  phrase  that  will  shed  light  installation  of  the  text  display  at  the  not  necessarily  produce  the  paintings  on  a  piece  of  the  unknown,â€?  she  said. Vermont  Folklife  Center. The  collaborators  expect  a  good  with  a  message  beyond  their  aesthet- The  women  enjoyed  collaborat- turnout  and  high  en- ics.  However,  she  hopes  they  will  en- ing  on  this  exhibit.  Kolb  gagement  at  Middle- courage  observers  to  turn  their  atten- says  her  respect  and  af- bury,  their  second  stop,  tion  to  the  forests  we  live  in  and  the  fection  for  the  poet  grew  “We’re entirely resources  and  services  they  provide,  through  the  process.  reliant on forest since  the  paintings  con- such  as  water,  habitat  and  storm  3RUFKH UHĂ€HFWV WKDW VKH products for our tain  people  and  places  from  the  area.  They  management. and  Kolb  brought  out  most intimate launched  the  exhibition  As  a  writing  partner  creating  what  the  best  in  each  other,  experiences, in  Brattleboro  in  early  she  calls  “told  poetry,â€?  which  she  the  painter’s  meticu- 2FWREHU IXOÂżOOLQJ WKHLU has  done  for  at  least  35  years  to  help  lousness  complement- from breathing hopes  of  drawing  not  people  preserve  their  stories,  Porche  ing  the  poet’s  impul- to relieving only  the  museum-  and  honored  the  experiences  of  the  for- siveness.  Working  with  ourselves. gallery-Âgoing  crowd,  est  professionals  she  chatted  with.  the  foresters  also  helped  Yet there’s but  also  many  working  She  distilled  their  conversation  and  Porche  cope  with  the  a disconnect folk  who  do  not  fre- edited  the  resulting  text  using  their  death  of  her  husband,  feedback.  who  was  diagnosed  with  because there’s quent  cultural  centers. “It’s  been  outstand- “I  said,  tell  me  what  people  need  pancreatic  cancer  dur- an unease ing,â€?  said  the  painter.  “I  to  know  to  walk  into  these  paintings,  ing  the  period  in  which  about cutting got  an  email  at  the  be- into  your  world,  and  understand  your  he  was  helping  her  with  down a tree, ginning  from  a  woman  experience,â€?  said  Porche,  a  Guilford  the  project. and a lot of who  said  her  husband  resident.  “People  have  been  so  im- “It’s  really  helped  me  stereotyping.â€? never  goes  to  museums,  pressed  with  the  eloquence  of  the  return  to  the  life  world,â€?  — poet but  had  happened  to  see  narrators.  I  didn’t  make  their  words  she  said.  “The  steadi- Verandah Porche this,  and  was  really  im- into  poetry  ‌  I  made  it  pretty  clear  ness  and  dedication  of  pressed  with  one  paint- this  was  (their  poetry)  as  well  as  the  workers  was  a  good  mine.â€? LQĂ€XHQFH 7KH\ ZHUH H[WUHPHO\ ing‌  She  had  never  seen  him  moved  The  poet  aims  to  make  her  audi- compassionate  and  no  strangers  to  by  a  piece  of  artwork  before.â€? According  to  Porche,  the  Brattle- ence  more  aware  of  the  role  of  the  hardship.  They  were  my  friends.â€? woods  in  their  lives.  Kolb  began  painting  landscapes  boro  Museum  claims  the  exhibit  was  “We’re  entirely  reliant  on  forest  when  she  moved  to  rural  Vermont  their  most  effective  combination  of  products  for  our  most  intimate  expe- in  1977  after  earning  her  BFA  at  the  visual  art  and  text  to  date.  “That’s  because  the  text  was  cre- ated  because  of  the  paintings;Íž  the  text  is  the  path  into  the  meaning  of  the  paintings,â€?  she  said.  “Kath- leen’s  paintings  are  luminous,  ef- fortful  and  serious  ‌  The  humanity  of  it  all,  the  dignity,  is  implicit.  You  can’t  help  stop  in  awe  at  what  she  can  do.â€? And  opening  reception  for  the  exhibit  “Shedding  Light  on  the  Working  Forestâ€?  will  be  held  Fri- day,  Jan.  15,  from  5  to  7  p.m.  in  the  Vision  &  Voice  Gallery  at  the  Ver- mont  Folklife  Center,  88  Main  St.,  Middlebury.
(Continued  from  Page  1A) WUDIÂżF Ă€RZ WKURXJK 0LGGOHEXU\ DF- FRUGLQJ WR ORFDO RIÂżFLDOV With  that  in  mind,  the  town  —  thanks  to  a  municipal  planning  grant  —  hired  the  company  Vanasse,  Han- gen,  Brustlin  Inc.  to  design  options  for  improving  safety  for  all  intersec- tion  users,  accommodating  school  transportation  demands,  reducing  WUDIÂżF FRQJHVWLRQ DQG LPSURYLQJ WKH connectivity  of  the  bicycle  and  pe- destrian  network. VHB  consultants  solicited  public  feedback  last  October  and  on  Tues- day  presented  the  Middlebury  select- ERDUG ZLWK WKUHH SRVVLEOH Âż[HV WR WKH intersection,  including: ‡ $ &KDUOHV $YHQXH URXQGDERXW 7KLV ZRXOG UHSODFH WKH H[LVWLQJ WUDIÂżF signal  at  the  Charles  Avenue-ÂCourt  Street  intersection  with  a  single-Âlane  roundabout.  A  new  southbound  left  turn  would  be  added  on  Court  Street  at  the  Monroe  Street  intersection.  This  solution  would  not  change  ac- cess  to,  or  parking  at,  MUHS,  ac- cording  to  David  Saladino,  who  ex- plained  the  plans  to  the  selectboard.  (VWLPDWHG FRVW D ÂżJXUH that  does  not  cover  acquisition  of  ad- jacent  property  needed  to  implement  the  roundabout. ‡ $ 0RQURH 6WUHHW URXQGDERXW This  would  replace  both  Court  6WUHHW WUDIÂżF VLJQDOV ZLWK D VLQJOH lane  roundabout.  Charles  Avenue  would  be  realigned  to  intersect  Court  Street  across  from  Monroe  Street.  School  parking  (or  enhanced  open  space)  would  be  created  as  a  result  of  the  relocation  of  Charles  Avenue.  Estimated  cost  of  this  op- tion,  excluding  property  acquisi- tion:  $980,000. ‡ $ 0RQURH 6WUHHW VLJQDO 7KLV would  result  in  removal  of  the  ex- LVWLQJ &KDUOHV $YHQXH WUDIÂżF VLJQDO and  would  realign  Charles  Avenue  to Â
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intersect  with  Court  Street  directly  across  from  Monroe  Street.  School  parking  (or  enhanced  open  space)  would  be  created  through  the  reloca- tion  of  Charles  Avenue.  Estimated  cost,  excluding  property  acquisition  costs:  $870,000. Saladino  and  his  VHB  colleague  Adam  Portz  noted  the  Monroe  Street  URXQGDERXW DQG WUDIÂżF VLJQDO RSWLRQV also  offer  the  potential  for  creating  an  access  road  from  the  campus  to  the  soon-Âto-Âbe-Âcompleted  new  rec- reational  facility  on  nearby  Creek  5RDG 7KLV WRR LV QRW UHĂ€HFWHG LQ the  current  project  estimates. It  should  also  be  noted  that  the  Vermont  Agency  of  Transportation  has  not  set  aside  funding  for  Middle- EXU\ÂśV &RXUW 6WUHHW LQWHUVHFWLRQ Âż[ so  it  could  be  several  years  before  the  problem  receives  attention. “The  big  question  is,  ‘Where  is  the  money  going  to  come  from?’â€?  Sala- dino  said. The  Middlebury  selectboard  voted  6-Â1,  with  Chairman  Dean  George  opposed,  to  endorse  the  Monroe  Street  signal  option.  George  voiced  skepticism  that  a  signalized  inter- section  would  perform  better  than  a  URXQGDERXW LQ PRYLQJ WUDIÂżF +H FLW-Â
ed  Middlebury’s  Main  Street  round- about  as  an  example  of  a  project  that  has  successfully  moved  vehicles  and  pedestrians  through  a  sometimes  busy  downtown. %XW 9+% RIÂżFLDOV UDWHG WKH WZR roundabout  options  as  having  a  level-Âof-Âservice  rating  of  “Dâ€?  or  “E,â€?  while  they  gave  an  “Aâ€?  to  the  Monroe  Street  signal  plan.  Sala- dino  said  a  signalized  intersection  tends  to  be  safer  for  pedestrians,  as  they  can  gather  and  eventually  cross  ZLWK QR WUDIÂżF ZLWK WKH FKDQJH RI WKH light.  On  the  other  hand,  pedestrians  tend  to  cross  more  randomly  with  a  URXQGDERXW SLFNLQJ JDSV LQ WUDIÂżF And  Saladino  said  that  at  the  Court  Street  location,  which  features  a  lot  RI WKURXJK WUDIÂżF D VLJQDO ZRXOG PRYH YHKLFOHV PRUH HIÂżFLHQWO\ WKDQ a  roundabout. The  UD-Â3  school  board  endorsed  the  Monroe  Street  signal  option  back  in  December. “I  like  what  you’ve  done  here,â€?  Selectman  Nick  Artim  said  of  the   study.  “Alternative  three  (the  Mon- roe  Street  signal)  makes  a  lot  of  sense.â€? Reporter  John  Flowers  is  at  johnf@addisonindependent.com.
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