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VFW to host Militia to help Coast Guard enforce new lake rules statewide veterans reunion

A New York Naval Militia patrol boat will be on duty at the Lake Champlain narrows, where a new bridge between Vermont and New York is being built, to help the U.S. Coast Guard enforce a special navigation zone.

The 23-foot patrol boat and two-person crew will assist the Coast Guard Sept. 4-5, and Sept. 11-12. During these weekends the Coast Guard expects pleasure boating traffic on the 110-mile-long lake to be high and has asked for help in patrolling this construction area.

The two-person New York Naval Militia boat crew will work at the direction of the Coast Guard of Northern New England. The special navigation zone was designated to ensure that boaters do not interfere with construction of the new bridge connecting Crown Point, N.Y., with Chimney Point, Vt. The boat will serve as an observation platform supporting United States Coast Guard, New York State and local law enforcement officers as directed by the United States Coast Guard Station in Burlington, Vt.

By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Veterans from World War II and the Korean War returned to their communities holding their pain and sorrow inside, yet they managed to set high standards for the rest of us.

On Sept. 5, the Robert L. Johnson VFW Post 771 of Springfield and the White River VFW Post 2571 are hosting a World War II and Korean War Veterans Reunion Day. The posts are inviting veterans statewide from Vermont and New Hampshire from the 19401953 generation. The posts hope to draw largely from veterans in Windsor and Rutland counties and beyond.

The day will include food, entertainment, guest speakers and story-takers to collect any experiences the veterans will share.

Entertainment will include an accordion player and audio records devoted to music of that era.

In preparing for this event, volunteers are collecting period items and pictures to be displayed. In addition, two masseuses have volunteered their services. Organizers are striving to make this a day of appreciation for local veterans.

If you are a veteran of either of these eras, this day is set aside for you. Let the VFW community thank you properly for your service to country.

Questions should be addressed to Cathe DeMarco, committee chairwoman, Vito DeMarco at 802-885-3974, or e-mail vcd@vermontel.net, Cindy Osuna at 603-4771661, or Mary Bowman at 802-885-3810.

Left: New York Naval Militia and Coast Guard personnel will be patroling near the Lake Champlain Narrows this month.

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Bullish on Vergennes Maj. Gen. Dubie honored

Bullish on Vergennes: Connie Houston and her real estate team at Lang-McLaughry-Spera’s new office at 268 Main St. in downtown Vergennes.

Photo by Lou Varricchio

By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Addison County real-estate maven Connie Houston is bullish on Vergennes. With the record setting 29th annual Vergennes Day just past, it’s easy to be optimistic about the Little City and the surrounding area. Travel and tourism have been good to Vergennes in the recent past; the future prospects for the historic municipality are even better.

Despite a near meltdown of the housing market in

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Maj. Gen. Michael D. Dubie was this year's Distinguished Citizen at a convocation ceremony for incoming first-year Champlain College students last week.

Dubie serves as the adjutant general of Vermont, responsible for the 4,000 members of the National Guard and a $220 million annual budget. Leading the Guard during the largest deployment since World War II presents challenges, including ensuring the wounded get medical care and taking care of the families who have lost loved ones overseas.

Dubie was born and raised in the Burlington area and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics at the University of Vermont and a Masters of Arts degree in international relations from Norwich University. He has studied national and international security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In addition to his professional pursuits, Dubie has

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael D. Dubie, the adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard, stands in the Wounded Warrior Ministry Center—nicknamed the "Chaplains' Closet"—at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. He visited wounded warriors hospitalized there in 2009.

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill

volunteered as a coach for youth sports, served on his local school budget advisory committee, currently serves as a member of several board of directors and committees.

Dubie is married to Amy Spagnuolo Dubie, a 1981

Champlain College graduate, and they have three daughters, Chelsea, Whitney and Morgan. His brother, Brian, is leiutenant governor of Vermont and this year ’s Republican candidate for governor.

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Rutland County’s “ghost town” is largely forgotten

By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com.

You may not recognize it today, but Bomoseen State Park stands atop the abandoned village of West Castleton, Vt. At the height of its glory during the decades following the Civil War, West Castleton was a booming community of slate quarries, processing mills, and the sounds of Irish, Italian and Slavic immigrants. Today, the 19th century industrial town is silent. Only a few buildings and foundations remain to mark its passing.

According to archeologist Shelly Hight, “Those who explore the ruins and quarries of Aest Castleton and the excellent slate work in the surrounding towns, will rediscover this fascinating moment of Vermont history.”

Hight was a consultant to Vermont State parks in 1988 when a special guidebook to the “ghost town”.

According to Hight, Vermont’s slate industry—typified by the West Castleton boom and bust days—owed its success to geology.

“Long before land animals existed, Vermont was covered with tropical seas. The soft sediments—clays and organic deris of the occean floor were thrust above sea level during mountain building times. Tremendous heat and pressure turned the sediments to metamiorphic rock—slate.”

West Castelton began its booms in 1850 when the West Castleton Railroad and Slate Co. blazed through the countryside to shores of Lake Bomossen and Glen Lake. Cedar Mountain, the big slate heap still visible from the eastern shore of Lake Bomoseen was the scene of quarrying operation. A mill was built along Glen Lake and worker housOrchard & es and a company store sprang up along Moscow Cider Mill Road and Black Pond Road.

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“Throught the early 1900s the slate company profited,” according to Hight. “But in 1929, the Lake Shore-West Castleton Mill closed. Demand for roofing slate had declined, the quarries were nearly exhasuted, and water and rubble removal had become more difficult.”

According to Hight, World War I sparked a decade of labor unrest in the slatefields. The Depression put the final nail

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Little remains of the ghost industrial town of West Castleton. Some structures and foundations can still be seen today. in the West Castleton coffin.

By the 1930s, West Castleton was literally abandoned, she said.

“The village remains today as cellar holes, quarry gabbles and mills scattered among twisiting grape vines, goldenrods and maple saplings,” she said.

Check It Out: You can visit the ghost town of West Castleton by starting at Bomoseen State Park. Ask the park ranger for a map of the Slate History Trail. Many of the ruins of the ghost village have fallen back into the forest. A few have been restored and are currently occupied. Please note these residences are on private property. No trespassing is permitted.

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Biologist Steve Amos’ wild, wild world

By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Steve Amos has a passion for the wild life. And by wild life, we don’t mean drinking parties or tailgate slumming at sporting events. By wild life we mean wildlife.

Amos, a Vermont psychobiologist, became interested in all things wild, especially the behavior of birds and reptiles, while an exceptional student at Hiram College in Ohio. He convinced his department chairman to create his own unique academic major—a field he calls psychobiology.

Now Amos travels around the state with his carefully tended animal companions, including Jake the Snake, a ninefoot long, red-tailed boa constrictor from South America.

“Kids love him,” Amos said.

The biologist is very mindful as his role as the wild animal’s guardian, not master. So, he treats Jake with humane respect and care while handling.

The wildlife expert appeared at the Mt. Holly Public Library in Belmont last week for a fascinating family program about reptiles. However, the star of the library show wasn’t Amos—it was Jake.

“Jake the Snake loves company,” he told attendees when he and Jake greeted them at the library. “He’s just waiting for the chance to visit with you.”

Amos formed his own Vermont-based natural science project a few years ago. Called Amos Natural Science Education Service, Amos uses digital slides, various bio specimens, and some readings to introduce audiences to the wonderful world biology and and animal behavior.

Amos said he receives similar questions about Jake the boa constrictor wherever he lectures—“How long can they live?

What is Jake’s primary sense? Where does Jake’s tail actually begin and end? What kinds of snakes are found in Vermont?”

After a brief introduction, Amos removed Jake the Snake from his mobile lair for all to examination—up close.

“You can hold Jake, if you wish,” he told several children.

Vermont biologist Steve Amos introduces Jake the Snake, a South American boa constrictor, to eager children at the Mt. Holly Library in Belmont.

And as if on cue, several fearless children took him up on the offer. And by the looks of it, Jake definitely enjoyed the attention.

As a naturalist, biologist, curator, teacher, and author, Amos lives the life most of us only dream about.

He grew up with biologist father and was introduced to the wild world of nature and animals at a very early age. As a youngster, he spent a year studying wildlife in Hawaii when his father was on a teaching sabbatical.

“During my college years at Hiram College, where I received a degree in psychobiology with an emphasis on animal behavior and a minor in studio art, I was student director for the college’s biological field station,” he said.

By Amos’ own reckoning, he has over 25 years of professional experience in the natural sciences.

“For 11 years I worked as senior keeper of birds at the Bal-

timore Zoo in Maryland and curator of the tropical rainforest and North Atlantic seabirds exhibits at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. I performed research on the dietary and reproductive habits of waterfowl, puffins, tropical birds, and poison dart frogs, among other species,” he said.

Amos is best known to Vermonters as the former curator of and lead educator at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury. Visitors to the museum often met Amos and enjoyed his presentations about wildlife.

In 1997, Amos headed up a research team in the Andes Mountains of Patagonia to study the local fauna. That exotic study was just one more facet of an impressive career-oriented itinerary—he has explored the Amazon basin, coastal and inland Belize, various Caribbean islands, both Costa Rica’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Europe, evolutionist Charles Darwin’s famous Galapagos Islands, the volcanic eco-systems of Hawaii and Iceland, England’s Jersey Islands, remote Patagonia, steamy Suriname, and leech-infested Venezuela.

In addition to his travels around Vermont with Jake the Snake, Amos does after-school programs here and leads nature-study trips to exotic locales—many geared for adult and high school student groups.

After, Amos’ Mt. Holly Public Library presentation, he packed up Jake in his travel cage and headed for the parking lot. His next stop—another Vermont library presentation with Jake the Snake.

“Well, I sure put a lot of mileage on my car,” Amos said, “but I do this full-time now; it’s my livelihood. It’s rewarding work because I enjoy sharing my love of biology with Vermonters of all ages. I especially hope to inspire boys and girls to get interested in the natural environment as well as to consider careers in science. In Vermont we’re very lucky; we’re surrounded by nature.”

Finally, what does Amos like to do for relaxation?

“Well, I like bird-watching, perennial gardening, nature photography, and collecting political memorabilia—it can’t all be about natural science,” he said.

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Extending the Ethan Allen Express Responding to support and advocacy from local political and business leaders and the Vermont Rail Action Network, the Vermont Agency of Transportation again submitted an application for federal funds to upgrade the "Western Corridor" between Rutland and Burlington and extend the Ethan Allen through Middlebury to Union Station in downtown Burlington.

The state had the benefit of feedback from the Federal Railroad Administration, which is responsible for awarding the funds. Because of this feedback, the application includes money to improve highway grade crossings the length of the route.

The route was recognized by the legislature as the priority rail route in Vermont for investment.

This is as strong an application as we could make and the local match shows the state's commitment. We appreciate the work of the rail program and the entire Agency of Transportation. There is strong political support for this project and it is important for the state."

The federal government will cover 80 percent of the cost of the work, almost $60 million. The state will put up a local match which will be covered by $15 million in bonding, which is a lot for Vermont, which has a relatively small transportation budget and bonding capacity.

In order to include highway crossing upgrades and remain within budget, work in New York State east of Whitehall NY and work on bridges was removed from the application.

Bridges on the line, which are owned and maintained by the state, are safe but in poor condition after many years of lack of investment (just like highways). Because of the bridge condition, freight cars cannot be fully loaded, which puts Vermont at an economic disadvantage and raises the cost of fuel in the state (trains bring the gas and heating oil).

While improving the line would make it easier for future commuter service to begin, this project is aimed at the Burlington-Middlebury to New York market, via Albany.

The train will leave Burlington in the morning and return from New York in the afternoon. Top speed will be 59 mph.

Welded rail will replace the old jointed rail.

Grants are supposed to be awarded at the end of September, although given that this is a tight timeframe, it would not be surprising if the process took longer.

Christopher Parker Executive Director, Vermont Rail Action Network www.railvermont.org 802-579-3394

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Say what?

To the editor: What was Martin Harris saying?

His latest column, "More fun than doing your job" was confused at best.

Maybe Martin should try being in a classroom, so he can comment with some reality, has he been in one recently?

His column starts in confusion, with the reader wondering who asked about social engineering and what the askers were talking about.

Then lobs a new story about fried chickens. The story sounded like it was made up, but as he wanders through his column it takes on more reality...

Back in Harris' school days, kids who didn’t want to learn were soon forgotten after being held back in grades a few times.

Such failures were not just forgetable, since they caused many problems as adults. It is better to "social engineer" by trying to educate all kids (as many as possible) even with the problems these kids have with familhy and neighborhood.

I am sure Mr. Harris came from a nice neighborhood and had no problems at school that could be traced to any of these problems. I feel very happy for him to be so lucky.

Peter Grant Bristo

Concert series, a success To the editor: I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank New Market Press newspapers, the Green Mt. Outlook and Addison Eagle, for all of the professional effort extended to me and the Castleton Concert on the Green summer concert series by helping to promote our concert program throughout the entire summer. It was certainly appreciated, and this effort, on your part, definitely helped to keep the many concertgoers continuously informed regarding our weekly performances.

I also thank you for the editor ’s personal interest and cooperation and your patience regarding the many e-mails that I sent this past concert season.

I really feel the media is so very important, due to the fact that you are constantly in contact with, and are keeping so many thousands of people informed. This being said, and because of your willingness to support our program, I feel it certainly is the reason for our great success.

We had a record attendance for our concert series this summer, and for that, I thank you.

Dick Nordmeyer Director Castleton Concert on the Green Castleton

A gravity glitch?

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ASA’s robot Pioneer 10 and 11 sister spaceships were the first artificial objects to leave the solar system. Both probes explored the outer solar system after being launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the early 1970s.

In 1983, Pioneer 10 was the first terrestrial object to leave the solar system. After three decades of tracking the Pioneers across the solar system, mission control lost radio contact with Pioneer 11 first. Then, Pioneer 10 fell silent in 2003.

At the time its radio voice faded away, Pioneer 10 was 7.6 billion miles away from Earth.

Both interplanetary Pioneer probes have since become interstellar space objects. And that’s why they are best remembered for the unusual and unearthly communiqués they carry: attached to the spacecraft platforms are etched, metallic plaques with messages of peace from the planet Earth.

The illustrated Pioneer messages, showing the location of our solar system and Earth as well as creatures that built the probes, are meant for the eyes of extraterrestrials—that is, in the unlikely event alien astronauts encounter the Pioneers adrift in interstellar space.

Similar messages are onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft which has already passed Pioneer 10 and 11 in deep space.

Those of us who remember the exciting Pioneer 10 and 11 flybys of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn during the 1970s may not be aware that Pioneer 10 left the science community with a space mystery to solve—a mystery now known the Pioneer Anomaly.

To understand the complex mathematics behind the Pioneer Anomaly would require a deep study of gravitational and Doppler physics, but the easiest way to explain the Pioneer mystery is to describe it simply this way: When a spacecraft leaves the solar system—in our case, Pioneer 11— it slows down. It’s not supposed to that according to the way physics is understood today. So, before Pioneer 11 exited our solar system in 1983, physicists and space mission planners expected the opposite effect.

Thanks to radio tracking data received on Earth by the ever receding Pioneer 11, the anomaly became a fascinating problem for space researchers to solve.

Physicists attribute the Pioneer slowdown to the gravitational effects of the Sun. While common sense tells me the effects of the Sun’s gravity on a spacecraft leaving our solar

To the editor: Starting in October schools administrators will start developing budgets to submit to their respective boards. I was asked: "How should a surplus be dealt with?"

By law the voters do not have any say about a surplus, only the overall budget and who they choose to represent them. The law says that a surplus must be reported the following year as revenue.

If you had a surplus (revenue) of $148K ($68K audit plus $80K unused maintenance) last year then your budget was $148K too high and you now have $148K in unexpected revenue. If I had $148K in unexpected revenue I would pay off my mortgage not buy three new Cadillacs.

It then becomes the responsibility of the board to reduce the new budget by the amount of the surplus. If the board does not then the voters should vote to reject the budget and elect new board members that will develop a fiscally responsible budget.

That is what should happen but we know that it doesn’t.

Most taxpayers and board members don’t have the time to figure out how these budgets work so they are just happy that the budget only increased by 3 to 4 percent annually and buy these bloated budgets hook, line and sinker.

As a result the superintendent has an additional $148K plus 3 or 4 percent of the total budget to squander on pet projects in the new fiscal year and the voters get to pay a penalty for voting to exceed the educational spending limits.

If indeed you want to use the surplus/revenue to pay for additional teachers then simply add the $148K to the “salaries” function code of the new budget. But remember it is up to the board to insist on it and subject to the voter ’s final approval.

In a nut shell, the voters need to elect board members with brains and a backbone that are not afraid to stand up for their constituents.

R. E. Merrill Bristol

Prehistoric toolbox To the editor: I’m your biggest fan, and as such I must apologize for not getting in touch much sooner. It is a rare treat to have such a stellar column (Lou Varricchio’s “Seeing Stars”) onall things space related.

About your article on (Vermont) paleo artifacts, the artifacts illustrated were Clovis, by far the oldest such found in the Americas (circa 12,600-13,300?). You mentioned the age of the site in Jamacia as 6,000 years. It has been pointed out to me that the Clovis point is the first American invention. And as such was a remarkably efficient and successful tool. Thanks for your interest in science.

Kevin Cosgrove Panton Editor’s note: The Clovis image was a file image meant to illustrate anicent stone tools, as we noted. We regret the confusion. So far, the State of Vermont has not relased photos of the paleo tools being unearthed at Jamaica State Park.

system should grow weaker (not stronger), the opposite seems to be the case. As a result of the gravity field change, the Pioneers are not to be found in the spot in deep space they’re supposed to be at—they are elsewhere.

According to NASA-JPL’s John Anderson, who has been studying this anomaly since the 1980s, “Something strange is happening in the outer reaches of our solar

By Lou Varricchio system. The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft are not where they are supposed to be. These missions, launched in 1972 and 1973, have covered hundreds of millions of kilometers, heading toward the edge of our solar system. But something is holding them back. Each year, they fall behind in their projected travel by about 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles).”

Anderson and his team of researchers haven’t found figured it out—yet.

“No spacecraft behavior or previously unknown property of the outer solar system can explain the deceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft,” says the Planetary Society’s website about the problem. “Scientists are being forced to consider the unthinkable: something may be wrong with our understanding of the laws of physics. An important line of inquiry will be to study mounds of Doppler (velocity) data and spacecraft status data (like temperatures) that have been unavailable to researchers—but that is about to change.”

Anderson said “We have now recovered data covering nearly 30 years to help solve the mystery, in addition to recovering never before analyzed spacecraft status data that will be valuable in assessing possible spacecraft influences on the anomaly. Analysis of the recovered data is now in progress.”

What’s in the Sky: This Saturday and Sunday, look for dull-red Mars near the horizon in the west-southwest after sunset; the Red Planet is 4 degrees right of bright Venus and 2 degrees right of Spica.

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Lou Varricchio, M.Sc., was a science writer at the NASA Ames Research Center and a part of the NASA-Raytheon team supporting work on the X-33 aerospace vehicle and related work there in the early 2000s.

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Gallery displays INFO sign

True Body Products, a Richmond, Vt., based maker of allnatural soap, is an eco-entrepreneur poised for success. Janice Shade, founder and owner of the company, just closed a round of angel, venture capital investment deals. Unlike most Vermont companies, the firm is adding employees—all while trying to keep the company green, local and true to its mission.

A recent investment by the Vermont Seed Capital Fund helped close the recent investment deal, which is launching True into the next phase of product development, marketing, and sales.

“Our belief is that True is at an inflection point in its business potential, and the Fund was pleased to participate in a venture round led by Boston’s Launch Capital,” said David Bradbury, president of VCET. “As consumers realize that traditional specialty and grocery store soaps, even the socalled ‘healthy ones’, carry toxins, animal fats and petrochemicals, the demand for truly green products will accelerate dramatically.”

True Body Soap claims it makes a 100 percent natural product that it says is priced 42 percent lower than the average natural bar soap.

A new program of the Vermont Dept. of Tourism and Marketing will help local businesses assist tourists. Local INFO sites will enhance the Vermont experience for the thousands of guests who come to the state each year. The availability of information located off the interstate encourages people to travel more of the state’s smaller roads.

The official state highway map also tells people to look for the blue INFO signs to learn more about each area.

Bruce Hyde, commissioner of tourism and marketing, said “It is great to have our first Ambassador INFO sign in Chittenden County up at Gallery 160 in Richmond. This is an excellent location for travelers to get information and directions to get around the area. My hope is we will see these INFO signs throughout the state where travelers can meet a friendly Vermonter who will provide maps, guidebooks, local information and provide a bathroom facility upon request.”

Gallery 160 is owned by husband and wife photographers Scott and Kelly Funk.

When asked why the couple was participating, Scott Funk said, “All of us in Vermont need to do our part

Tour de Farms bike tour seeks local volunteers Want to spend a lovely day surrounded by good food and great people, while supporting a worthy cause?

Volunteers are needed for the third annual Tour de Farms, hosted by Rural Vermont, Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition and Addison County Relocalization Network. The event is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 19, on the Shoreham Green in Addison County.

The annual late summer event continues to grow each year; as the number of cyclists increases, the need for volunteers becomes greater. If you can help out, call 802-2237222 or e-mail vanessa@ruralvermont.org.

In addition to highlighting the late summer beauty and picturesque scenery of the Champlain Valley, Tour de Farms offers cyclists the opportunity to sample a wide variety of locally produced farm fresh foods provided by Addison County’s local farms. The Tour de Farms is organized by the Addison Country Relocalization Network (ACORN), Vermont Bicycle and Pedestrian Coalition, and Rural Vermont.

All proceeds benefit the work of these three nonprofits.

Volunteers will receive a free Tour de Farms tee shirt in exchange for a three hour volunteer commitment.

Girl Scouts seek new members Calling all girls between the ages of 5-17. It’s time to sign up for Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains is looking for more girls to become scouts.

Scouting offers more than 100 programs for girls. Registration costs $12 a year. Through Girl Scouting, girls discover values, connect with others, and get involved with the local community. They make friends and have new experiences in the leadership development program for girls.

Adults are needed, too. Volunteers receive training and learn marketable skills, make new friends and make a difference in girls’ lives. See www.girlscoutsgwm.org for avaialble opportunities or call 888-474-9686 to find a troop in your area.

Births A girl born Aug. 11, Kylee Louise Shepard, to Mavis Stansbery and Kaleb Shepard of Vergennes.

A girl born Aug.13, Emma Joy Derby, to Melissa Lynch of Brandon.

A boy born Aug. 13, Taylen Richard Maynard, to Kristen Currier and Tyler Maynard of Bristol.

A boy born Aug. 15, Joseph Parker Orvis, to Paul Orvis and Jessica Ljungvall of Middlebury.

A boy born Aug. 16, Quin Parker Dubois, to Josh and Kelli (Van De Weert) Dubois of Addison.

A girl born Aug. 17, Olivia Rae Sawyer, to James and Samantha Sawyer of Starksboro.

If you have questions, or to submit birth announcements, please call Leslie at 802-388-6397 or email at addisoneagle@myfairpoint.net.

Gallery 160 in Richmond.

‘The Logger’ will be Woofstock’s comic relief

By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com ACHS, the Addison County Humane Society, will celebrate the animals with Woofstock, an annual fun walk and festival for the animals, Saturday, Oct. 2, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Middlebury Recreation Park. Humorist, actor, and Addison Eagle columnist Rusty “The Logger” DeWess will be on hand as a celebrity judge.

ACHS invites pet owners to bring

along a pooch and pound the pavement to help raise funds for the ACHS animal shelter.

Walkers are permitted to participate in Woofstock as either individuals or as members of teams. Participants may bring along a dog although having a dog to walk is not a requirement to raise money for the shelter.

Walker pledge forms are available at the shelter on Boardman Street or online at www.addisonhumane.org or www.firstgiving.com/addisonhumane

In addition to the fund-raising walk, Woofstock features several local artists and vendors, food, live music, and a dog demonstration featuring Green Mountain Disc Dogs and a police K-9 unit. In addition, the silly Pet Tricks Contest, where dogs perform their best and silliest tricks, will welcome DeWees, “The Logger”, as the judge. A Pet Costume and Pet Look-A-Like Contest will also be judged by DeWees. Games and prizes will also be part of the lineup.

Local grocers to meet for convention and exposition, Sept. 24-26

By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Sept. 24-26 will mark the Vermont Grocers’ Association’s 76th anniversary. The organization will host a convention and exposition at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction and Sheraton Burlington with the theme, “Spirit of ’76”.

The convention and expo is the state's most comprehensive trade show

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to make every visit here a special one. For us, this is a win/win situation: travelers get to learn more about the surrounding area from a local and we increase gallery visits.”

As the sign out front procliams, Gallery 160 features original photographs of Vermont and beyond.

Visitors to the gallery will find handcrafted cards and gifts, jewelry, a little folk art, and lots of pictures. The photographs are as large as 5 x 3 canvas or as intimate as a life-size butterfly. While there are plenty of pictures of Vermont, including local attractions like Camels Hump, covered bridges, and the Richmond Round Church, there are also photos of more distant sights such as alligators, and puffins.

Gallery 160 is designed to be child friendly. Every corner holds a fuzzy surprise to help make children feel comfortable. There are pictures positioned low enough for little ones to view. There is even a drop-down toilet lid designed with a little person in mind. So, small tourists are welcome, too.

Gallery hours are by chance or appointment, so call the Funks at 802434-6434 or visit when the open flag is flying.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION — Construction workers continue completion of the new Cross Street Bridge roundabout and repaving on nearby streets. Town officials advise drivers that work will continue into early September and traffic patterns are constantly changing. The sidewalk across from Ilsley Library is closed during this time. The bridge is expected to open in October. For construction updates online, see www.middlebury.govoffice.com Photo by Lou Varricchio

featuring the latest in products, services, and equipment.

The convention will feature a host of workshops, seminars, events, and entertainment for participants and attendees.

Seminars and workshops will include “Using Social Media to Promote your Store” by Nicole Ravlin of PMG, "New Lighting Information to Prepare for the Phase out of T-12's," "New Payment Card Security Requirements" and

"DLC Alcohol and Tobacco Certification Training."

Several ofood retailers will also have their best baggers on hand to compete for the state title and opportunity to represent Vermont at the national competition in Las Vegas this coming winter. The competition will feature reusable bags this year. Last year ’s winner was Dawn Tye of the Hannaford Supermarket on Dorset St, South Burlington.

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Thursday, September 2

MIDDLEBURY — Twist O Wool Guild Meeting from 7–9 p.m. at the American Legion on Wilson Way.There will be a business meeting and awards for Field Days projects, followed by a program on weaving sticks. Chris Frappier will be the program instructor. All are welcome. Questions call 453-5960.

RUTLAND — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at the Parker House at 10 a.m.

Friday, September 3

BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Central Park. A wide variety of farm, craft products are offered. Contact Wendy Cijka at 273-2655 or cijka4@localnet.com for more info.

FAIR HAVEN — The regular market hours for the 2010 season are Friday's 3-6 p.m. in the Fair Haven Park. For more information about 518-282-9781 or Sherry12887@yahoo.com.

PAWLET — Roast Pork Dinnerat the Pawlet Community Church.

The Ladies and Gentlemen's Supper Club invite you to dinner starting at 5 p.m. Adults $10, Age 12 $6, 5 & under free. Doreen Mach at 325-3428 or Judy Coolidge at 325-3073. Take out orders at 3253022.

POULTNEY — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at the Young at Heart Senior Center at 9:30 a.m.There is a suggested donation of $2.

RICHMOND — Richmond Farmer’s Market on stage from 4:455 p.m.: Richmond Young Fiddlers. A local group of middle to high school aged musicians playing Irish jigs and reels learned at Laura Markowitz’s fiddle class. Customer Appreciation Day, 4:30 p.m., $3 coupons will be distributed; 5-6 p.m. Symphony Reel on stage.

Sunday, September 5

BRIDPORT — Come to an all you-can-eat pancake breakfast at the Bridport Community-Masonic Hall. Sponsored by Morning Sun Lodge 5 to help fund their charities. 7:30-11 a.m. Adults $7, 12-6 $3, under six free.

NORTH FERRISBURG — Charlotte Pony Club horse trials at Triple Combination Farm, 579 Dakin Rd. Ages 9-21. Contact Andrea Brainard 482-4121.

Monday, September 6

BRISTOL — The Addison County Chapter of The Compassionate Friends self-help bereavement support group, meeting, 7-9 p.m. at Saint Ambrose Church at 11 School St. JERICHO — The Underhill-Jericho Fire Department 55th Annual Chicken Barbecue,11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at Browns River Middle School.

Tuesday, September 7

BOMOSEEN — A “Healthy Living Workshop”, 9 to 11:30 a.m., at the Castleton Community Center, 275 Route 30 N. Free.

CHARLOTTE — "The Dog Team Tavern" at 7 p.m. A scale model of the much-loved restaurant will be shown. Ferrisburgh/Charlotte Historical Society program at the Charlotte Senior Center.

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MIDDLEBURY — Free Healthier Living Class. Take charge of your chronic illness; free 6 week class. Led by Nancy Damm and Ann Brousseau at the Lodge at Otter Creek, 250 Lodge Rd. Space limited. Call 388-3983 at Elderly Services or for more information.

RUTLAND — Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice (RAVNAH) will be offering a support group for bereaved people who have experienced a loss within the past six months. The support group will meet Sept.r 7, 14 and 21 from 4:30–6 p.m. Call Ann LaRocque at 770-1516 by Sept. 1 to register.

Thursday, September 9

BENSON — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at Benson Heights at 10 a.m.

CASTLETON — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at Castleton Meadows at 12:30 p.m.

NORTH GRANVILLE, N.Y. — Roast Turkey supper with all the trimmings from 4:30 p.m. on at the North Granville (N.Y.) United

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Methodist church on Rt. 22. Adults $8, Child $3. The church is handicap accessible and all are welcome. Info 642-1512.

RUTLAND — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at Sheldon Towers at 9:30 a.m.

RUTLAND — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at Linden Terrace at 11 a.m.

Friday, September 10

BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, Running on Fridays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Central Park. Farm & craft products are offered.

FAIR HAVEN — TFair Haven Farmers Market, Fridays from 3-6 p.m. in the Fair Haven Park.

RICHMOND — Singer Linda Cullum on stage, 5-6 p.m. at the Richmond Farmers' Market. Carol Mader at 434-5273.

Saturday, September 11 Remember the Victims of Terrorism on 9/11

BRANDON — Spagehetti and Meatball Dinner prepared by Boy Scout Troop 111 from 5-7 p.m. $9, Kids 5-10 yrs $5, Under 5 yrs free. Proceeds will benefit Troop 111.Take out available. At Neshobe Sportsman Club, 97 Frog Hollow Rd. off Route 73 east. 247-6687.

MIDDLEBURY — Annual Vermont Story Festival from 1 – 5 p.m.

The theme of this year’s Vermont Story Festival is “Over the River and Through the Woods.”The Festival, sponsored by the Henry Sheldon Museum, the Ilsley Public Library and the Vermont Folklife Center, will take place at those sites in downtown Middlebury and will begin at 1 p.m. at the Town Hall Theater. 388-2117.

Sunday, September 12

FAIR HAVEN — Birdseye Mountain ATV Club Monthly Meeting at 7 p.m. at the WhereFairwood Lanes Bowling Alley. Email for more infobirdseyeatvclub@aol.com.

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury American Legion Post 27's Annual Clambake, which is a major fundraiser for their annual college scholarships, will be held on at the Legion, which is located on Boardman Street. Tickets are $25 per person, adults only, and it starts at 10 a.m. and runs to approximately 7 p.m.

NEW HAVEN — New Haven Congregational Church Chicken & Biscuit Dinner, 2 sittings: noon and 10 p.m. Price: Adults $9, Children 6 – 12 $4.50, Children 5 and under - Free. Walk-ins welcome.

Take out available. 545-2422.

Monday, September 13

BRANDON—The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at the Forestdale Senior Center at 1 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $2 for blood pressure screenings and $5 for foot care. For more information, please call 775-0568.

HINESBURG — “Free Enterprise Farming” Workshop Series – From Cow to Customer: Expanding Raw Milk Production to Meet a Growing Demand from 11 a.m.–3 p.m., Family Cow Farmstand, Hinesburg. Brown bag lunch, $10 for Rural Vermont members, $20 all else. RSVP 223-7222 or shelby@ruralvermont.org.

MIDDLEBURY — Addison County Right to Life will meet at 7 p.m. in St. Mary's Parish Hall to recap Addison County Field Days and plan for Right to Life 2011 Life Pages.Visitors are welcome, For info 388-2898 or L2Paquette@aol.com.

Tuesday, September 14

RUTLAND — Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice (RAVNAH) will be offering a support group for bereaved people who have experienced a loss within the past six months. The support group will meet Sept.r 7, 14 and 21 from 4:30–6 p.m.

Wednesday, September 15

DORSET— The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at the Dorset Nursing Office at 9 a.m. There is a suggested donation of $2 for blood pressure screenings and $5 for foot care. For more information, please call 775-0568.

RUTLAND — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at the Meadows (residents only) at 1:15 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $2 for blood pressure screenings and $5 for foot care. For more information, please call 775-0568.

RUTLAND — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at the Gables (residents only) at 3:15 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $2 for blood pressure screenings and $5 for foot care. For more information, please call 775-0568.

RUTLAND — A free 9-week training class for individuals who

wish to become hospice and palliative care volunteers in Rutland County, Dorset and Rupert is being jointly offered by Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice (RAVNAH) and Rutland Regional Medical Center. The training will begin today from 4:30-7:30 p.m., and continue every Wednesday until November 10 at RAVNAH, 7 Albert Cree Drive. Registration is equired by Friday, September 3, 2010. In the home, hospital and nursing facilities, hospice and palliative care volunteers provide support to people with life-limiting illnesses and their families.The volunteer training will include an introduction to hospice and palliative care, education on death, dying and grief, and the development of communication and support skills. For more information or to register, contact Randi Cohn at RAVNAH at 770-1537 or rcohn@ravnah.org.

Thursday, September 16

RUTLAND — The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is offering a Blood Pressure and Foot Care clinic at Maple Village at 10:00 a.m. There is a suggested donation of $2.00 for blood pressure screenings and $5.00 for foot care. For more information, please call 775-0568.

Friday, September 17

BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, Running now until October 8th on Friday’s from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Central Park. A wide variety of farm & craft products are offered. Contact Wendy Cijka at 273-2655 or cijka4@localnet.com for more info.

CASTLETON — The Castleton Community Center is hosting its Sixth Annual Golf Outing at the Lake St. Catherine Country Club.

All proceeds from this event are used for the Center's Senior & Disabled Transportation program. Over 5000 rides were provided last year for essential travel to doctor's appointments, nursing homes, therapy, adult day care and food or clothing shopping. The CCC transportation program is a vital service for seniors and disabled residents of western Rutland County. Anyone interested in becoming a sponsor or in joining a foursome can call the Center 468-3093 for information. The tournament is an 18 hole handicap scramble for four person teams. The entry fee of $105 per person includes 18 holes of golf, cart, gifts, prizes, dinner and a chance to win the $10,000 hole in one prize. There will be a shot-gun start at 1 p.m.

To register or for information call the Center at 468-3093.

FAIR HAVEN — The regular market hours for the 2010 season are Friday's from 3-6 p.m. running from June 4 - October 8 in the Fair Haven Park. We are on the green at the south end of the park next to the parking lot. For more information about The Fair Haven Farmer's Market contact Sherry Smith - Fair Haven Farmer's Market Manager at 518-282-9781 or Sherry12887@yahoo.com.

HINESBURG — Brown Dog Books and Gifts presents Music Night with John Penoyar & Friends. Music from mid-century America. Join us for a fun evening with local musicians! John Penoyar on Ukulele & Guitar, with Todd Sagar on Chromatic Harmonica & Violin, Andrew Albright on Bass at 7 p.m. All events are free and open to the public, free refreshments, too! Info: 482-5189.

RICHMOND — On stage at the Richmond Farmers’ Market, lets welcome back Longford Row. This event is being sponsored by the Richmond Area Business Association. There will be a talented face painter on hand to add a little whimsy to your day. The Market is open from 3:00 to 6:30 on Volunteers Green. Come and meet your Local Growers and Buy Local. For further information, contact Carol Mader at 434-5273 or cmader@surfglobal.net. The Richmond Farmers’ Market participates in the Farm to Family Program and now accepts EBT and Debit cards.

Saturday, September 18

BRISTOL — Harvest dance at the American Legion featuring "Ideal Country" at 8 p.m. - midnight. Open to the public. Dance to country, country rock 50 and 60s.

MIDDLEBURY — Fabulous Flea Market at Town Hall Theater.

Over 25 vendors sell jewelry, antiques, collectibles, hooked rugs, and all kinds of interesting items. PLUS tables selling items to raise money for Round Robin, HOPE, the John Graham Shelter, and Town Hall Theater from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m at THT. Free. For information, or to donate items for sale, call 388-8268.

SOUTH STARKSBORO — Hike to the headwaters of the Baldwin Creek, with outdoorsman Rodney Ovis. This is a 4 hour hike following old roads with a 1500 Ft elevation gain. Meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Jerusalem Schoolhouse. Dress for the weather and bring food and water. To sign up or for more information contact Cecelia Elwert at 453-8447.

Sunday, September 19

SHOREHAM — 3rd Annual Tour de Farms on the Green. Staggered starts: 30 mile at 10:30 am; 25 mile at 11 am; 10 mile at 11:30 am. Choose among three bicycle routes that wind through the beautiful Champlain Valley, and stop and sample some of the freshest and finest foods at farm stops along the way. Advance registration open through Monday, September 13th (firm deadline!) - advance registration fees: $20 adults/$10 kids 12 & under; day-of registration fees: $30 adults/$15 kids 12 & under. All kids in trailers & bike seats ride free. Rain or shine! To register and for more information, visit www.ruralvermont.org or call 223-7222.

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SATURDAY September 4, 2010

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My ablutions Francais 2004.

I wondered a time or two within the six years if I’d ever come up dry in the topic department. Now, because I don’t write about one topic, like my newspaper companion the outer space guy, I’m not a specialist (like I had to tell you that?). And while I’d never be confused for being a great writer, I do consider myself as having a half-way fertile mind. I’m better than average at making something out of nothing (my “Hair on Soap” and “Snapping” columns are evidence of that). I’ve always found something I wanted to scrawl.

But this week, I’ll tell you, I’m already beyond the time I normally have a piece under way, and I have yet to think of a topic to scrawl.

It’s not that I’m too busy; I’ve never used my schedule as an excuse for not coming through with a piece. I did a column the week my dad died and even offered to keep a prior booking to perform a show on the night of his funeral. It’s simply that every time I started to look ahead to the column, I didn’t follow through with the thought.

This week I am three days past when I normally start working on my weekly piece. So, if you don’t mind, take what follows as me trying to make something out of nothing— I go to the gym... Wait. Before I continue, I wonder— should I even call it a gym? Is gym a word anymore? Was it ever a word? Do people still go to the gym? What does the word gym mean? Where does it come from? Gymnasium, I guess. And if gym does mean something, are there gyms— plural? And why do we not pronounce the g in gym the way we pronounce the g in gum? Cause we’d sound like actress Marlee Matlin, I guess.

No matter, where was I? Ok, where I exercise—the gym— is having new spray spouts installed in the shower stalls.

Shower heads, whatever you want to call them. I didn’t know the old ones where broken; they worked last time I checked. Now I’m all for upgrades, especially ones I don’t have to front cash for, but I am sure we members will find the upgrade cost folded into next year ’s membership fee. No biggie.

So, no showers for a week is what the staff are saying, eh?

Have you ever had a house built or had an addition built?

It’ll be more than a week or my name ain’t DeWees!

I always shower on location ‘cause after my session (used to be called “a work-out in the gym,” now it’s called “a session at the facility”—I go to lunch, do chores, and or have meetings, or all of the above; I don’t go home right away is the bottom line, so I need to shower after my session. I like to feel fresh overall,and especially feel it’s essential to proceed through the day with a clean and spirited buttock situation.

I did not panic when my friend Jim gave me the news about the shower less week.

I just figured “no problem”—I could shower at my ma’s apartment near the facility after my session. Then, 80882 the ghost of Dr. Freud got to

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whispering in my ear something about stopping by special to shower at your ma’s not being the thing to do. Yes, in many cases a son could use his ma’s shower and not feel like Liberace, but my mom’s place is small.

“Yeah, ma? It’s Rust. Can I please stop by and shower at your tiny little place for the next entire week after I exercise?” That wasn’t a conversation I felt like having. On paper it doesn’t seem too weird, but, it is weird—it’s like seeing your sister ’s underwear or chewing chalk.

Something I did before—when there was a temporary problem with the showers—I walked a 100 or so yards over to the Lamoille River and set myself prone on the river bed with a bar a soap. When other members of the gym saw me walking across the field from the river all soaking wet but clean, they asked: “What did you just do?” I responded, “I just washed off in the river.”

The way these folks looked at me you’da thought I was Stephen Hawking. They were stunned and seemed to be thinking to themselves, Jeez, why didn’t I think of that? But they’d have been sensitive to the cool river water, so better they didn’t wash in the river. Besides, I think complaining to the front-desk girl about the shower problem made them feel much better then actually having a shower and being clean.

Outside temperatures are iffy this time of year. I wasn’t thinking that washing in the river would be all too comfortable even with me being okay with shrinkage. But, the river was an option.

I am happy to see this Monday morning, the first of the five-day shower drought; amazingly, the sinks still worked.

Well, cripes, with the sinks up and wet, I could still clean myself after the session, no problem. Why so serious? (stolen –a Heath Ledger line from Batman, you should see it, he’s fantastic).

So that’s what I’ve done. I bring two towels. I bring them from home cause it’s $1.50 to rent per towel at my workout place. I keep my under britches on and start washing at the sink. I begin by dipping my arms under the spout. I wet and soap and rinse both arms. I take proper note of the under part of each; then I do my face. I wet the heck out of my head; I basically shampoo it while standing there at the sink.

Next, I wash my chest the best I can (with having to cup and basically throw the water at myself). I try to get some water to go down my back but it’s hard. That’s all right, the back isn’t a top priority for some reason. I reach down, front and back. Then I step each foot into the bowl and get them clean (being ever mindful to wet and lather each leg in good shape, all the way up past the thigh).

There. All done. Clean as a nurse. It takes a great deal less time than a full-blown shower for some reason; I don’t know

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Wind damage brought down trees on transmission lines locking out two substations. After patrolling lines in the dark and in the midst of continuing high winds, crews found several trees on transmission lines and broken crossarms and insulators.

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why. Oh, I think it has to do with not having to towel off, because after the stand-up wash deal you don’t really get soaked solid.

So here’s the payoff—this here is the whole reason I wrote this. My dad used to do these type washing rituals. He was a clean dude; his house, body, mind, the whole nine were clean, but from time to time, in a rush, he’d clean like that. You know what he called it? Dad would say “Hey, Marilyn, I’ll be right down!

I’m gonna give myself a French dryclean.” He say that— French dryclean.

I would have never written this story had it not been that after my first in-facility French dryclean, I said to a dude who walked past me as I was washing, “I’m giving myself a French-dry-clean.” The dude, I’d say a 65-year-old fella, laughed out loud—hard.

A French drycleaning. I love it! My dad was a character; he always made something out of nothing. Just like this week’s column.

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SATURDAY September 4, 2010

Dead even with 9 to go

By Frederick Pockette When the Connecticut Tigers came to Burlington for a three game series against the Vermont Lake Monsters (Aug. 25-27) there backs were to the wall. The Lake Monsters held a three game lead over them with 15 left.

A Lake Monsters sweep would have all but ended any realistic hopes of the Tigers winning the New York - Penn Leagues Stedlar Division. Instead it was Connecticut who did the sweeping, playing themselves right back into the race. The Tigers outscored the Lake Monsters 21-10 over the course of the three games and left town in a dead tie for the division lead. Below is a game by game accounting of that fateful sweep.

The Connecticut Tigers scored five runs in the top of the seventh inning for a 6-0 lead and then had to hold on for a 6-5 New YorkPenn League victory as the Vermont Lake Monsters scored five times over the final three innings at historic Centennial Field on Wednesday night.

The Tigers got an unearned run in the fourth inning as Julio Rodriguez scored from second base on a two-out fielding error by Vermont second baseman Hendry Jimenez for a 1-0 Connecticut lead. The game stayed that way until the Tigers punched across five runs in the seventh inning on a pair of tworun singles from Ryan Enos and Alexander Nunez.

Connecticut's fifth run of the seventh also scored as Nunez's two-run single got past leftfielder Kevin Keyes for his second error of the inning and allowed James Robbins to score from first base with the Tigers sixth run.

Vermont got one run back in the bottom of the seventh on wild pitch and another in the eighth on a two-out bases loaded walk to Keyes. Jason Martinson followed with his third hit of the game to score Wade Moore and Ronnie to cut the deficit to 6-4. Then with runners on second and third, Jimenez flied out to center to end the inning.

A leadoff single from Chad Mozingo in the ninth was followed by an error and a walk to load the bases with no outs in the ninth for the Lake Monsters, but David Freitas and Moore struckout for the first two outs. After a walk to LaBrie made it 6-5 with the bases loaded, Keyes struckout to end the game and snap a Connecticut three-game losing streak.

The Lake Monsters ended the night just 1for-13 with runners in scoring position, including 1-for-4 with the bases loaded. Mar-

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tinson was 3-for-3 with a walk and Vermont's only hit of the game with a runner in scoring position with his two-run single in the eighth.

Brennan Smith (1-5) allowed just three hits with two walks and two strikeouts over five scoreless innings for his first win in 10 starts for Connecticut this season. Tim Mowry recorded the final out of the eighth and then worked out of the ninth-inning jam to earn his first save. Enos and Josh Ashenbrenner both had two hits and a double for the Tigers.

Billy Ott (0-2) was charged with one unearned run on three hits with two walks and five strikeouts over 4 2/3 innings for the loss.

Reliever Glenn Gibson gave up three runs over 1 1/3 inning and Matt Swynenberg, making his first relief appearance after 11 starts, two runs (one earned) in two innings.

On Thursday night, Ryan Enos had a tworun homer in the first inning, P.J. Polk went 3-for-4 with two runs and Clemente Mendoza tossed six innings for the victory as the Connecticut Tigers defeated the Vermont Lake Monsters 7-3 in New York-Penn League action.

Matt Grace, making his first start for the Lake Monsters since being promoted to Vermont from the Gulf Coast League, walked Polk to leadoff the game and then gave up the

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Grace settled down to retire the next six batters before the Tigers tacked on three runs in the third for a 5-0 lead. Alexander Nunez had an RBI single scoring Polk and Julio Rodriguez followed with a two-run single to center.

Vermont got two of those runs back in the bottom of the third as Hendry Jimenez doubled with one out and scored on a Chad Mozingo RBI single. After Mozingo was caught stealing for the second out, Blake Kelso walked and went to second on a wild pitch before scoring on a Russell Moldenhauer RBI single.

Polk had the first of his three hits in the fourth inning, an RBI single to score Brett Anderson for a 6-2 lead. Anderson led off the sixth with a double and scored two batters later on a Ryan Soares RBI single. Vermont got its only other run of the game in the bottom of the sixth on three straight singles to start the inning from Moldenhauer, Freitas and Moore.

Mendoza (6-5) allowed three runs on seven hits with two walks and five strikeouts over six innings for the win, while Miguel Mejia tossed three hitless innings with one walk and four strikeouts for his first save of the season. Enos had two runs in the game to go along with his third homer of the season.

Grace (0-1) was charged with six runs (four earned) on five hits over 3 1/3 innings for the loss. Reliever Colin Bates gave up one run on four hits with five strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings, while Kevin Cahill two scoreless innings.

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with two hits in the game.

In the Series finale on Friday, three Connecticut pitchers combined on a one-hitter as the Tigers completed a three-game sweep of the Vermont Lake Monsters with an 8-2 victory. Tiger starter Patrick Lawson allowed the lone Lake Monster hit in the sixth inning as Blake Kelso hit a short fly ball to right-center that rightfielder Chao-Ting Tang ran a long way to try and catch, but the ball just deflected off his glove.

While Vermont had just the one hit, the Lake Monsters had plenty of scoring opportunties in the game as the three Tiger pitchers combined to walk 12 Vermont batters in the game. That included three walks in a scoreless third, three walks in the sixth when Vermont scored its two runs and three walks in a scoreless eighth inning.

The Tigers got a run in the first on a James Robbins RBI single, then added three more runs in the third on a Robbins two-run opposite field homer and a Eirc Roof RBI double. After a pair of runs in the sixth gave Connecticut a 6-0 lead, Ryan Soares had RBI singles in both the seventh and ninth innings for the Tigers.

Kelso's single in the sixth put runners on first and third with no outs for the Lake Monsters before Russell Moldenhauer got an RBI forceout and later scored in the inning on a wild pitch. Vermont starter Aaron Barrett (04) was charged with four runs on five hits with five walks to earn the loss.

Lawson (3-3) alllowed two runs on one hit with six walks and two strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings for the win, while Tyler Clark tossed 1 2/3 hitless innings of relief with three walks and two strikeouts. Drew Gagnier walked three and struckout three over the final two innings to complete the one-hitter.

The three-game sweep for Connecticut (3333) moved the Tigers into a first-place tie with Vermont (31-31) for first-place in the Stedler Division, while Tri-City (32-33) is one-half game behind in third-place.

It was the first time in 14 three-game series played this season that the Lake Monsters have been swept by the opponent. It was also the last regular-season home game for Vermont, which is 17-17 at Centennial (with the completion of a suspended game to be finished at Brooklyn) after beginning the season 13-4 at home.

Now the Lake Monsters are involved in a dandy pennant race. After the Connecticut series the Lake Monsters began a season ending 11 game road trip by splitting the first two games of a three game series against Aberdeen. As of this Past Monday Vermont was 32-32 and in a dead tie for first place with the Tigers, while the Tri-City Valley Cats were just a half game back. To make it more tense their season had just 9 games left. This is the stuff that makes baseball great. It is going to be an exciting finish.

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or years afterward it was called the Vicious Act of '92. Act 20 of 1892 decreed the consolidation of the manifold tiny school districts within most towns into a single town district. At one stroke it reduced Vermont's 2,214 school districts by almost 90 percent.

This was, its critics charged, the death of local control of public education-"local" meaning the neighborhood around a school. Eventually the passions of 1892 faded, and citizens came to associate local control with the town school district, where it remained for a century.

The current assault on local control began in 1997, when a liberal legislature enacted Act 60 at the direction of a Supreme Court informed by bogus history and exulting in what even a liberal legal critic described as "a raw exercise of judicial power."

The most revolutionary and controversial of Act 60's provisions was its requirement that all revenues raised locally be shipped to Montpelier, where they would be mixed with state revenues, shifted about, and returned to districts to meet the Court's mandate of "substantially equal access to tax resources."

That broke the historic link between the amount voted by local taxpayers to operate their schools, and the amount of taxes collected for public education. After Act 68 of 2003, school districts where voters chose to spend more than a dollar amount per equalized pupil set by the legislature (currently $8,544) would suffer a corresponding increase in their legislatively-determined residential education property tax rate (currently .86 percent). This was a shrewd attempt to maintain some linkage between spending and taxation, but most voters have long since given up trying to understand how the system works.

The non-financial provisions of Act 60 were every bit as

subversive of local control. For years Commissioners of Education had asked for more control over public schools, but the legislature was largely unwilling to grant their pleas. Schools districts were habituated to teacher certification, union bargaining, financial and educational reporting, and civil rights and special education rules. But Act 60 decreed that the Department could enforce "school quality standards", and "standards regulating conditions, practices and resources". It even gained the power - not yet used - to put a school into receivership.

This year saw another wave of attacks on what was left of "local control". The legislature passed a bill to encourage voluntary school district consolidation into "Regional Education Districts". It's perfectly clear to everyone, and especially to the educrats who promoted it, that over time the multitown REDs will be controlled by the department and the teachers' union, not by local voters and taxpayers.

The REDs will become the equivalent of multitown waste management districts.

The second step, presaged by Gov. Douglas' 2010 state of the state message, will be departmental control over pupilteacher ratios. The legislature declined to act on that recommendation, but spending pressure on the Education Fund will likely provide the votes to adopt it within a year or two.

The third step came with Challenge for Change. This much-touted process for achieving spending savings assigned a $23 million cost reduction goal to the Department of Education. But the commissioner does not have the power to force voters of school districts to reduce their budgets to meet that goal. The most he can do is contrive

district by district reduction targets, and write urgent letters pleading with the school boards to plead with the voters to meet his target. This he did on August 4.

Many districts may well achieve an average of 2.34 percent in spending reduction this year. Over time, however, the commissioner will acquire the power, either by statute or by force of his office, to tell school districts the most that their schools can spend.

As these steps play out, the Commissioner will issue orders to its Regional Education Districts, capping their pupil-teacher ratios and instructing them on how much they are allowed to spend.

Just as local control of subdistrict schools went out with the Vicious Act of '92, local control as it existed prior to 1997 will soon give way to one of two outcomes: either complete state control, or parental control.

The former is the French model, with its nationwide curriculum and all-powerful Ministry of Education.

The latter would decentralize "local" down to the family level: empowered parents would choose the educational program that they believe is best for their children, and providers would compete to please them as customers, not subjects.

John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute (www.ethanallen.org).

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Vermont and nationally since mid 2009, local realtors have managed to slog through the darkest days of the real estate depression. While there’s plenty of excess inventory locally—ditto for most regions across the U.S.—there is a silver lining to the gloomy story, at least in Vergennes.

Houston just moved her Vergennes Lang-McLaughry-Spera real estate office from Green Street to a new building at 268 Main St., owned by Terry Thomas of Bristol. Located at the northwest corner of Main and Water streets downtown, the cozy building has a colorful history morphing from blacksmith shop to motor garage to bait shop—to real estate office since the early 1900s.

On a mid-week morning last week, the Main Street corner was busy with traffic and pedestrians; an outside observer can’t help notice that Vergennes is a bustling city with its best days ahead.

Houston and her four agents—Nancy Ryan, Nancy Larrow, Richard Esty and Karla Huizenga—are like realtors coast-tocoast, they’re pounding the streets and back roads in search of marketable properties, enthusiastic buyers and flexible sellers.

“We’re gaining in market share,” Houston said. “I think it’s the best time ever for first-time buyers in our area. The interest rates are low and the selection of inventory is the best ever.”

A quick glance at the Vergennes-area real estate market should please any first-time or second-time buyer: neat, trim houses are set amid peaceful, leafy neighborhoods that conjure up America’s bucolic past. Yet, Vergennes is a city on the move with a large aerospace manufacturer—Goodrich—as a vital

community member and a one of the most dynamic toy companies—WowToyz—in North America. Both firms have plans to hire more employees while many other businesses remain anemic.

While the “selection of inventory” may be the best ever in Addison County, Houston admits it comes at a price. And the backlog will take awhile to move.

“Actually the higher-end home sales are the slowest,” she said.

Gone are the days—at least for the foreseeable future— where Vermont McMansions are sold faster than boxes of McNuggets. And it’s doubtful new development projects of bloated trophy homes, such as those in Shelburne and South Burlington, will be undertaken any time soon.

“Vergennes is a good place to be,” said Houston. “You can see the activity around town. Across the street from us there’s new commercial construction, WowToyz and Goodrich are adding new employees, the old laundromat is reborn as a bakery and even the historic Stevens Building is getting a makeover.”

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Houston was the highest ranking elected Republican official in Vermont. Today, while still keen on local and state politics, she has turned her career focus to the real world of business, her roots.

Houston says that Vermont’s economic recovery will depend upon business growth, lower taxes, and the real estate market.

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t the time of this writing I am about a month from show time. The sponsors came through again this year, bless them and praise the Lord for that! Our economy still isn’t out of the woods yet so I truly appreciate their sacrifice to sponsor our event. The rider roster was full before we went to Everything Equine at the end of April to promote the show. That makes a huge statement as to the popularity of the event and the caliber of the riders who attend from Vermont and several surrounding states. Things fell together for product selection for the riders and workers and I was feeling pretty “proud” that I was out in front. You should always be careful that “when you THINK you stand, lest you fall”!

I now have two people to help with the work load.

Shirley Langlois is still taking care of the organization of the ring crew and did more running around for me so that has helped immensely (thank you Shirley). New this year is the fact that Pierce Williams has joined our team. Right now Pierce is my “Technical Assistant” but someday he will take the reins from me when I step down as the Superintendent of the show, so if you see this extra “appendage” hanging off me that looks a little weird…don’t worry, it’s just Pierce in training! Pierce is a TV producer in his other life and he brings to the table a bag of tricks that astounds me, i.e. he has gotten us on Facebook, made a page for us on the CVE website to promote the show and he has shortcuts for about everything you can imagine that can be done on a computer, cell phone or IPod. Basically while he’s making me look good he is also making me feel “technologically challenged”…which I knew before he came onboard but is now confirmed before the entire world! Long story short, Pierce’s experience has come in handy when it comes to the paperwork shuffle as he has computerized just about everything so I don’t have to address labels and do lists a hundred times. Change is a difficult thing for me but I know his experience in this area will only help the show to get to the next level. Tracy Webb, our other computer guru, and Pierce are toying with the idea of using some new computer software for the way we keep track of times and scores. With a team of 12 or more people from NWRDC to man this show it is imperative that we all work like a well oiled machine but more importantly that we work as a “team”. I am very proud of all of our volunteer staff as they try hard to comply with this particular requirement of mine…it isn’t optional, it’s mandatory.

After all, if you plan to make it from Point A to Point B, everyone in the boat has to be rowing in the same direction.

Special thanks to 98.9 WOKO & the Eagle for our top prize money award of $1,000, to Poulin Grain and their local dealer Depot Home & Garden for the second place award of $500, to Farm Family Insurance for our third place award of $350, to FE Hart Fence Co. for fourth place award of $250 and last but not least to Tony’s Tack Shop for our fifth place award of $150.

As usual we are giving away big money to the winner of the “Barrel Race”, however we have a new show sponsor for this particular event. Bill and Dawn Superneau of Ridgefield Stables in Fairfax have stepped up to the plate to award the top prize of $1,000. Dawn is actually a rider in our show and has been for many years. Bill is a contractor. Many thanks for your support.

Heritage Ford-Toyota-Scion is also a new sponsor for the special event called the “Rescue Race”. If you have never seen this two person team event you have to come and check it out. This is an exciting event and one that will leave you laughing at the “creative” ways people can ride double on a horse. Our other special event, “Fox & Hound” is sponsored by Millbrook Shavings who will give each rider of the winning team 20 bales of shavings.

Last but not least a big thank you to all 16 of our “inpart” sponsors who donated $100 each to purchase product for each rider and worker “thank you” bag, as well as to fund any miscellaneous expenses associated with putting on the show.

This is our eleventh year promoting gymkhana (games on horses), a sport that is fun for the whole family. It is our sincere hope that you will come to the show, which is free, then take in the fair while you are on-site. Hope to see you there!

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here do you begin to tell the story of one of the best known and most beloved horse and rider teams that ever graced the gymkhana world in Vermont? I guess the answer is obvious…at the beginning! Johannes Jobst and his teammate Sunny had humble beginnings back in the early years of Johannes riding career. Sunny was originally owned by a neighbor in Jonesville and was viewed as more of a pet than a horse with great potential. I am sure some of you own a horse that suffers from an identity crisis…thinking he’s more of a dog than a horse? Such was the case with Sunny but even-

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I don’t think many horses reach their prime gaming years until they are around 1012 years old. Keep in mind they, both rider and horse, have to have all that time to learn that one is an extension of the other. Reading subtle cues through body language and verbal commands all takes time to develop, then there’s the trust factor. Game horses are a completely different breed of horse as they must pick up on those subtle cues we talked about, plus learn to trust their rider at top speeds, who could suddenly change direction on them and put them into some pretty scary places at times, ie put them down in a shoot of barrels only big enough to get the horse through and then there’s a rail fence right smack dab in front of them. I am sure the horse is thinking at that point, “OK, do we go over it, under it or through it?” Of course, all those are wrong choices.

I remember the first time I saw Johannes and Sunny compete at NWRDC. I have to confess, Sunny got your attention right off. There was no mistaking his gait, I have never seen an Arabian run like Sunny did. He reminded me of a gangly teenager, all legs and just flying across the ring

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with Johannes in tow trying to hang onto his hat, which was no small task as Sunny was as fast as they come. Ironically, the two just seemed to go together. They say pets look and act like their owner, this is clearly the “proof of the pudding” because those two were identical twins! For those of you who don’t know Johannes, he’s a fierce competitor, heart of gold, loves fun and a boy in a man’s body and somehow that translated to Sunny as well. How does that work anyway? Over the years of competing they grew even more “identical”, taking down many championships. When it was time to pass the baton both of Johannes kids were given the privilege of using Sunny. I doubt they taught Sunny anything about gaming but I suspect he taught them a whole lot about MORE than gaming? Something about “The back of a horse being good for the soul of a man” kind of thing. Horses have a way of teaching us life lessons, like companionship, loyalty, responsibility, hard work, failure and the thrill of victory.

There are two marks of a good game horse. They know when they have a “hot dog” for a rider on their back and a child and they know how to behave accordingly, such was Sunny’s

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personality, he knew the difference. The second mark of a good game horse is they are push button…You go into the show ring and they “turn on” and you walk out and they “turn off”.

Johannes tells me one of his best memories of a run that Sunny and he did was way back in the first Best of Gymkhana, 1999, they were #5 in the pecking order and the first four riders had all disqualified but Sunny and he did the run perfectly and the crowd was yelling and cheering them on. I believe his words were “the crowd went wild”, but to my recollection they always go wild when Johannes rides, just something

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This year we would like to pay special tribute to Sunny who at age 31 was taken by a serious bout of colic and had to be euthanized. He was loved by Johannes, his two boys and a fan club that is innumerable. Our sadness at his passing is only eased by the fact that Johannes owns what appears to be his second “twin” Gallant. Nothing can ever replace Sunny, like children you love them all differently but Gallant will do his best to fill the bill. Good luck to you in your quest to “win” at the Best of Gymkhana.

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About the “Rescue Race”… hasn’t been the same since! As you can see from the photo There have also been other riders like Abbott Lovett and ome people ask, “Why would you do such a danof Chris and Rebecca Guillette, they were also putting that Johannes Jobst who defy logic. Somehow Abbott always gerous event?” My answer to that is pretty simtheory of centrifugal force to the test. (insert photo #1) manages to talk Johannes into jumping for him…what a ple…because it’s fun to watch! As can be attested to by many of you who will read this article and who have actually seen, or better yet…done it, it’s just plain fun to watch. I liken it to going to a car race, everyone goes to see the “potential” wreck that might happen. Keep in mind that I am praying fervently the entire time that there ARE NO wrecks! The last thing we want is for anyone to get hurt but what people don’t realize is that prior to the event, when we send out the rider sign-up packets, there’s a section in there about the Rescue Race that goes someDECORATIVE FENCING: Spruce or Cedar, thing like this — “If your horse doesn’t ride Driveways, Flower Beds/Gardens, Pools, Property double…don’t sign up, if your horse or yourself has never Boundaries done this event…don’t sign up!” You get the idea, this is HORSES: Split Rail (2-3 Rail), PVC Fencing not the time to find out for the first time if you or your DOGS: Chain Link Kennels horse can or can’t do the event! These are experienced SHEEP: Wire Mesh horses and riders doing this two person team event.

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As the horse speeds around the person the horse will actually lean into the circle he must make around the jump HEN rider, making that particular point the lowest possible HERE point for the rider to jump on board. If it’s done too early you slow the horse down, if it’s done too late one of two things will probably happen…the law of “centrifugal force” will kick in and you will quite literally be propelled off the horses back and into the dirt, or you will miss your ride completely! Doesn’t sound so easy now does it? Timing is EVERYTHING in this EMINAR event.

(Sid Bosworth - State Extension Agronomist) Over the years we have seen some pretty awesome rides but more to the point LINIC we have seen some pretty “different” styles of what I have come to term the (Jutta Lee, Appledore Farm) “hang on and stay on” method of riding. After 11 EMINAR years of doing this show I think I can honestly say (Sid Bosworth - State Extension Agronomist) we’ve pretty much seen it all, and thankfully without EMONSTRATION incident…well, except for Chris Flanigan dismounting (Shawn Reising- Professional Farrier) his horse in a rather unconventional manner…on his head. We can laugh about it 52441 now but it was far from funny then. Some would say it knocked some sense into him, others would say he

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deal he has for you Johannes! I am thinking that Abbott thinks “his spring has sprung” and thinks Johannes’ hasn’t! At any rate, those two are an awesome combination and do an excellent job. There have been times, however where Johannes has tried to convince the judges that the run qualifies if his feet don’t touch the ground, of course he is also being held onto by Abbott but Johannes’ butt and the horses back are nowhere near making contact. As I recall Johannes was quite literally clinging to the side of the horse and Abbott is trying not to drop him off the side.

Then we have the shot of Armand Turner and Bonnie Howard who show us “proof positive” that timing IS everything and that that law of centrifugal force is in effect. Bonnie jumped at the worse possible point in the run and the force sent her hurling into what probably felt like outer space! We’ve actually seen that with one other rider as well over the years. Fun to watch, not so fun to do but we are very thankful to have a great sand filled ring to land in so nobody was hurt. We all had a good laugh and that’s what it’s all about isn’t it? (insert photo #3) I think that if someone were to take a poll of the most popular event of the Best of Gymkhana that it would be a toss up between the “Barrel Race” and the “Rescue Race”.

Just remember, anyone can do a barrel pattern, not everyone can…or wants to do, the Rescue Race. It’s dangerous, hilarious and rigorous.

Just for grins and giggles and for the sake of reaching back in the archives for some of the more memorable Rescue Race fiascos we are leaving you with a few more images.

Perhaps you remember some of them. Perhaps you will come to see this year ’s show and to catch the event for yourself. We can guarantee you one thing…you’ll be back for more after you see this event once.

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Religious Services ADDISON ADDISON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH - Addison Four Corners, Rts. 22A & 17. Sunday Worship at 10:30am, Adult Sunday School at 9:30am; Bible Study at 2pm on Thursdays. Call Pastor Steve @ 759-2326 for more information.

WEST ADDISON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday, 9am HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY. Havurah House, 56 North Pleasant St. A connection to Judaism and Jewish life for all who are interested. Independent and unaffiliated. High Holy Day services are held jointly with Middlebury College Hillel.

Weekly Hebrew School from September to May. Information: 388-8946 or www.addisoncountyhavurah.org BRANDON BRANDON BAPTIST CHURCH - Corner of Rt. 7 & Rt. 73W (Champlain St.) Brandon, VT • 802-247-6770. Sunday Services: 10a. Adult Bible Study, Sunday School ages 5 & up, Nursery provided ages 4 & under. Worship Service 11 am *Lords supper observed on the 1st Sunday of each month. *Pot luck luncheon 3rd Sunday of each month. Wednesdays 6:30pm, Adult prayer & Bible study, Youth groups for ages 5 & up LIFEBRIDGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 141 Mulcahy Drive, 247-LIFE (5433), Sunday worship 9am & 10:45am, www.lifebridgevt.com, LifeGroups meet weekly (call for times & locations)

HINESBURG LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH - 90 Mechanicsville Rd., Hinesburg. Sunday Service at 10:30am. Pastor Hart, info: 482-2588.

ST. JUDE THE APOSTLE - 10759 Route 116 Hinesburg.

Masses: Sat. 4:30pm; Sun. 9:30am

MIDDLEBURY CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY Sunday service & church school, Sunday 10am CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY - Middlebury. Middlebury Community House, Main and Seymour Sts, Sunday Service and Church School-10am; Wednesday-7:30pm.

SOUTH BURLINGTON NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH SBC - 1451 Williston Rd., South Burlington. 863-4305

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sunday 10am worship service

VICTORY CENTER - Holiday Inn, Williston Road, South Burlington • 658-1019

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Sunday Sacrament 10am-11:15am

BURLINGTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH - Pastor Paul Lyon • 860-5828. Sundays: 10am & 6pm. Wednesdays: 7pm. at 294 North Winooski Avenue.

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP - Service in Middlebury area: call 758-2722 or 453-5334.

HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY - Saturday morning Shabbat services, 388-8946 MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH - 97 South Pleasant St., Middlebury. Sunday morning worship & church school 10am, Wednesday evening Bible Study, 6:30pm. 388-7472.

HOPE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP - Meets at Bridport Community Hall. Bridport, VT • 759-2922 • Rev. Kauffman. Sunday 9am, 10:30am, evening bible study.

SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Saturday, 5:15pm, Sunday 8am, 10am

BRISTOL BRISTOL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP - The River, 400 Rocky Dale Rd., Bristol. Sunday Worship 9:00am. 453-2660, 453-4573, 453-2614 BRISTOL FEDERATED CHURCH - Sunday service at 10:15am FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRISTOL - Service Sunday, 10am ST. AMBROSE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Saturday service 5:15pm, & Sunday 9am BRISTOL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH - 839 Rockydale Rd. - Saturday Services: Bible Studies for all ages-9:30am to 10:30 am, Song Service, Worship Service at 11am. Prayer Meeting Thursday 6:30pm. 453-4712 THE GATHERING - Non-denominational worship, second & fourth Saturday of the month, 7pm Sip-N-Suds, 3 Main St. • 453-2565, 453-3633 CORNWALL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CORNWALL - Sunday worship 9:30am EAST MIDDLEBURY/RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday worship, 9am VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH, Rev. Ed Wheeler, services on Sundays: Sunday School for all ages at 9:30am, morning worship at 10:45am (nursery provided), and 6:30pm on Wednesdays; Youth Group and AWANA meet on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm

MIDDLEBURY FRIENDS MEETING - (Quakers), Sunday worship & first day school 10am (meets at Havurah House)

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 10am Grades K-5: Activities, Grades. 6-8 & 9-12: Church School Classes, Refreshments & fellowship time: 10:45am-11am. Sunday morning worship service 11am. Nursery provided both at 10am & 11am.

MONKTON MONKTON FRIENDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday service & Sunday school, 8:45am NEW HAVEN ADDISON COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST - 145 Campground Rd., 453-5704. Worship: Sunday 9 & 11:20am; Bible classes: Sunday 10:30am, Tuesday 7pm. Watch Bible Forum on MCTV-15 (Middlebury) or NEAT-16 (Bristol) NEW HAVEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Church services 10am on Sunday. All are welcome.

NEW HAVEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH - Sunday services, 10am & 7pm ORWELL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Sunday worship service, 10:00am. Contact: Rev. Esty, 948-2900 SAINT PAUL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Sunday mass 11am, 468-5706 RICHMOND RICHMOND CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - 20 Church St., Richmond • 434-2053. Rev. Len Rowell.

Sunday Worship with Sunday School, 10am; Adult Study Class, Sunday 8:30am RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 388-2510

ESSEX JUNCTION CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH - 61 Main St., Essex Junction 878-8341

SALISBURY SALISBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sun. worship svc., 10am

FERRISBURGH/NORTH FERRISB. FERRISBURGH METHODIST CHURCH, Sunday worship 9:30am

SHELBURNE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SHELBURNE - 127 Webster Road, Shelburne • 985-2848

NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 227 Old Hollow Rd., North Ferrisburgh, VT 802-425-2770. Rev. Kim Hornug-Marcy. Sunday worship 10am, Sunday School 10am, Nursery Available. http://www.gbgm-umc.org/ nferrisburgumc/

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 2166 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. 985-2269 Sunday Services: 8am & 10am.

Bible Study 9:00am • Sunday School: 9:50am.

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FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH, Rt 7, Ferrisburgh - next to the Town Offices / Grange Hall.

New Pastors Rev. John & Patrice Goodwin. Worship time is now 10:45am.

SUDBURY SUDBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Sunday worship service and Sunday school, 10:30am SOVEREIGN REDEEMER ASSEMBLY - Sunday worship 10am VERGENNES/PANTON ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHRISTIAN CENTER - Sunday school 9:45am, Sunday worship service 8:30am, 10:45am and 6pm CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH - Sunday worship svcs. 10am & 7pm

ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - (On the green in Middlebury). Reverend Terence P. Gleeson, Rector. Sunday Eucharist 8 & 10:30am Child care & Sunday school available at 10:30am service. Wednesday at 12:05pm Holy Eucharist in the chapel. www.ststephensmidd.org or call 388-7200.

ESSEX CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE ESSEX ALLIANCE CHURCH - 36 Old Stage Rd., Essex • 878-8213

CROSSROADS CHAPEL, 41 Middlebrook Rd., Ferrisburgh, VT 05456. (802) 425-3625. Pastor: Rev. Charles Paolantonio. Services: Sunday 10am.

SHOREHAM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-UCC - Sunday worship and Sunday school 10am. Pastor Gary O’Gorman.

897-2687 STARKSBORO THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STARKSBORO - 2806 Route 16, Starksboro. Sunday worship 11am. Chat, Chew & Renew, a pre-worship fellowship and discussion time 10am10:45am. Sunday mornings in the Fellowship Hall on the accessible first level. All are welcome. First Baptist is an American Baptist church yoked with The Community Church of Huntington for support of its pastor, The Rev. Larry Detweiler revdets@gmail.com; 802.453.5577.

LINCOLN UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN - Sunday worship service 9:45, Church school 11:15am, united Student Ministries for grades 7-12, 6:30pm Sunday evenings. 453-4280

BRIDPORT BRIDPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Middle Rd., Bridport, VT. Pastor Tim Franklin, 758-2227. Sunday worship services at 8:30am and 10:15am with nursery care provided. Children’s ministries include Sprouts for children age 3-Kindergarten and WOW for grades 1-6, during the 10:15am service.

ST. BERNADETTE/ST. GENEVIEVE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm Nov.1-April 30 (See Shoreham)

SHOREHAM ST. GENEVIEVE/ST. BERNADETTE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm, May 1-Oct. 31. (See Bridport)

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF VERGENNES (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sunday, 9:30am NEW WINE COVENANT (CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST) Sunday worship 10am PANTON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH - Sunday school from 9:30am-10:15am Pre-K to adult, Sunday worship service 10:30am ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Main and Park Streets, Vergennes. Rector: The Rev. Alan Kittelson. Sunday Services 8am and 10am; childcare provided at 10am. All are welcome. For information call 758-2211.

VERGENNES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 10:30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH - 862 US Rt. 7, SUNDAY: 9:45am Bible Hour For All Ages Including 5 Adult Classes; 11:00am Worship Including Primary Church Ages 3 to 5 & Junior Church 1st - 4th Graders; 6pm Evening Service Worship For All Ages. WEDNESDAY 6:30pm Adult Prayer & Bible Study; AWANA Children’s Clubs (3yrs to 6th grade); JAM Junior High Group (7th & 8th grade); Youth Group (9th 12 grade). Nursery is provided for children up to 3 years old. Classes are provided for children age 3 and up.

802-877-3393 WEYBRIDGE WEYBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Worship and Sunday School 10am. Daniel Wright, Pastor. 545-2579.

WHITING WHITING COMMUNITY CHURCH - Sunday school 9:45am, Sunday Service 11am & 7pm WILLISTON CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH - 1033 Essex Road, Williston.

878-7107. St. Minister Wes Pastor. Services: 8:30am and 10:30am

CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH - 1033 Essex Rd., Williston 878-7107 CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE - 30 Morgan Parkway Williston, VT 05495 • 802-878-8591 bwnazarene@juno.com CAVALRY CHAPEL - 300 Cornerstone, Williston. 872-5799 MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CHURCH - 1037 S. Brownell Rd., Williston. 862-2108

SHELBURNE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 30 Church St., Shelburne • 985-3981 • Rev. Gregory A. Smith, Pastor, 8:00am - Holy Communion Service • 9:30am - Family Worship Service with Sunday School

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A trafficking charge is the highest degree of penalties for a drug offense. He is also being charged with two counts of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, both are felonies.

The drugs being sold from this group of dealers were being sold though out Rutland and Addison counties. Richardson was lodged at Marble Valley prison for lack of bail.

Many drug trafficers have been found using Amtrak Ethan Allen Express from New York City to Rutland. Officials fear that if Amtrak passenger service is extended from Rutland to Middlebury and Burlington—as planned—the hard drugs will follow the rails to these communities.

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The traditional “Muffins at Mary Hogan” will be offered in the school gymnasium from 8–9 a.m. on the first day of school, Sept.

1. Parents and guardians are invited to bring their children to their classrooms on the first day and then stop in the gymnasium to spend a few minutes visiting with other families, MESA officers, members of the school and district staff, and ID4 School Board members. If you are a veteran Mary Hogan parent, please come and welcome new Mary Hogan families. If you are new to the school, you are encouraged to come and meet a great group of parents. Good company and tasty muffins are promised!

In addition to greeting new youngsters and their families, the principals welcome Jody Taparauskas as a Grade 1 teacher, Katie Merritt as a Grade 3 teacher, and Jennifer Kane and Heather Durkel as long-term teacher substitutes. New paraprofessionals this year are Heather Barone, Katie Coale, Whitney Grassley, Kera Hurlburt, Bettee LeBeau, Michael Mommsen, and Mary Nienow.

In the office, new staff are April Rule as Front Desk Receptionist and Peggy Connor as Secretarial Assistant.

Bus routes for all Middlebury elementary, middle school and high school students are printed in this issue as well as on the school website at http://maryhoganschool.org. Bus routes are designed so that all buses will arrive at Mary Hogan by 8:15. Parents driving or walking youngsters to school should plan to arrive between 8:00 and 8:20 (by 8:15 to participate in the breakfast program). This will allow youngsters sufficient time to complete their morning routine prior to the start of the instructional day at 8:30. At the end of the day, bus riders will be dismissed beginning at 2:45 and all others will be dismissed at approx. 2:55 p.m.

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he Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival is only in its second year under artistic director and creator, violinist Soovin Kim but already it has the feeling of stability and permanency that is generally associated with many years of actual festival time. It is no surprise that the Festival is going so well, because Kim had a dream, and he pushed that dream equally with his own personal career, so that the result is a tremendous success.

The concert last week was good evidence of the longterm success of this festival. The East Coast Chamber Orchestra, an orchestra that made it's local debut in a program that featured Kim as soloist in a Mozart violin Concerto, provided the musicians who played works by David Ludwig, Dvorak, Rossini, and Brahms.

The Ludwig work, Aigaios, was written in 2006 as a commission given him to write a short piece on the book 'The Perfect Storm'. The work depicts (according to the composer) the water simultaneously crashing through the portholes of the ship, and goes on from there to a conclusion that is very quiet and peaceful. The composition enjoyed an incredibly well-thought-out performance by a quartet of players. The same quartet of players plus a string bass gave an exacting account of the Nocturne in B Major, Op. 40, filled with ethereal sounds that echoed

through the space of the Elley-Long Music Center at St. Michael's College undisturbed before the audience broke the stillness with applause. The first part of the concert ended with the performance of Rossini's String Sonata No. 1 in G Major, a frothy piece that sparkled in the hands of the players.

The String Sextet No.2 in G. Major, Op. 36 of Johannes Brahms, occupied the second half of the concert. This is a daunting work for a number of reasons, not the least of which is sudden changes of tempo and style. The sextet received an admirable performance by the young instrumentalists. There was attention to every possible detail, and at the conclusion of the sextet, the audience gave the musicians a rousing series of bows, calling them back to the stage several times.

The evening concluded with a short Meet the Musicians session on stage and a dessert reception.

The Romans had a saying: Primus inter pares or, in its literal translation, someone who is first among equals. In the midst of a bevy of extraordinarily gifted musicians, my attention was caught by violinist Ayano Ninomiya. Her rapport with the Nocturne (she played first violin) was so exquisitely tuned that she seemed to float heavenward carrying at least this enchanted listener along with her.

The other player who captured my attention was cellist Denise Djokic, a dynamo of sound who performed her duties within the sextet by a deft rendering of the music of her part.

I don't know whether the general audience for music is truly aware of the bounteous musical gifts that we had been gifted with. We were accustomed to the high standards of the Vermont Mozart Festival, but now it is joined by Green Mountain Opera Festival, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and some other festivals, making Vermont in summer truly a place where the hills are alive with the sound of music fantastically well played.

Burlington resident Dan Wolfe observes and critiques the local arts scene for The Eagle. His column appears weekly.

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