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newmarketpress@denpubs.com VERGENNES — Vergennes Mayor Michael Daniels will join Gov. Peter Shumlin, and mayors from Burlington, Winooski, and St. Albans to deliver Meals on Wheels to homebound seniors as part of the annual March for Meals Campaign to end senior hunger. Daniels, Shumlin and the group will deliver hot, nutritious meals to seniors who can no longer safely prepare their own Volunteer: Deliver meals in food. The governor your community. plans to celebrate his Individual giving: Every 55th birthday on March participant is served regard24 by giving back to senless of their ability to pay. Doiors in need. nations support those low-inNearly one in four come seniors who cannot give Vermont seniors are towards their meals. malnourished, accordCorporate gifts: Corporate ing to Champlain Valley gifts include supporting exAgency on Aging pansion of Meals on Wheels in (CVAA) Meals on rural areas, new equipment, Wheels officials. volunteer recognition, and The Meals on Wheels emergency meals for winter. program provides nutriFor more information, call tious meals, a friendly the CVAA Senior HelpLine at visit and a safety check (800) 642-5119 or e-mail them to allow seniors to reat info@cvaa.org. main in their own homes
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for as long as is safely possible. Mayors Bob Kiss of Burlington, Martin Manahan of St. Albans, Michael O’Brien of Winooski, and Daniels of Vergennes delivered Meals on Wheels on Wednesday, March 23, as part of their pledge to end senior hunger. Locally over 235,000 Meals on Wheels are delivered each year in the Champlain Valley.
Mayor Mike Daniels of Vergennes will help local senior citizens kick-off this year’s March for Meals campaign. He is pictured here during the 2010 event.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College has four students currently studying at its school in Japan, located at partner university ICU in Tokyo. All of the students are safe and accounted for, according to Jeff Cason, dean of international programs, who reports that the college has spoken to all of the students. The students are also on break between terms. ICU’s winter term ended on March 1; the spring term begins on April 9. Some of the students on Middlebury’s program are in Japan, and others have left the country. As a precautionary measure, Middlebury has made the decision to bring those students who are still in Japan back to the United States, at least temporarily, until more is known about radiation exposure and risks in Japan. The college will continue to monitor the situation and will make a decision later this month about whether students will be able to return to ICU to study for the spring term. Middlebury students have begun fundraising efforts through the Japanese Club and the new student organization Believe 4 Kids. Hand in hand with the fundraising will be an opportunity to fold paper cranes as a traditional gesture of peace, healing, and good will. Faculty, staff, and students in Monterey have launched a fundraising drive aimed at supporting relief efforts in the area of Japan devastated by the recent earthquake and tsunami. A message to the campus community, which includes 21 students from Japan. Members of the Japan Forum, a student
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CONSTRUCTION ZONE — Construction workers guide a crane hook carrying a cap component for a pier of the new Lake Champlain Bridge under c onstruction between Chimney Point, Vt. and Cr own Point, N.Y. last week. Photo by Robin B. Knapp
Lake Champlain bridge group selects promotional logo design Middlebury student’s design chosen MIDDLEBURY — The Lake Champlain Bridge Community, the grassroots organization entrusted to create, plan and lead the public festivities that will celebrate the replacement and re-opening of the Lake Champlain Bridge, has unveiled the logo design that will be used to promote the event. The Lake Champlain Bridge Community solicited Vermont and New York-based professional and student graphic artists to submit prospective designs, pro bono. The selected design was created by Linus Biederman, a junior in the Design & Illustration Program at the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury, Vt. The logo will be used on the community’s Web site, letterhead, marketing collateral, event materials and commemorative merchandise promoting the re-opening festivities for the Lake Champlain Bridge. “We couldn’t be happier with the design chosen,” said Lorraine Franklin, cochair of the LCB Community and co-owner of West Addison General Store. “Linus captured the essence of what the commu-
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