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Vol. 3 No. 9 • March 2, 2011
John Deere: Stone monument planned
Rutland towns to celebrate 250th birthdays in 2011
Half of the towns in Rutland County will have the opportunity this year to celebrate their 250th anniversaries. In order to allow individuals from each municipality to cooperate and coordinate plans, so as and to avoid conflicts with the plans of surrounding towns, a gettogether has been scheduled with plenty of advance notice. For one hour, 10-11 a.m., Saturday, March 26, all interested citizens are invited to meet in the wheelchair-accessible Nella Grimm Fox Room of Rutland Free Library. The library is located at 10 Court St., at the intersection of Center Street, one block south of West Street (Route 4A) and three blocks west of South Main Street (Route 7). During sign-in at the Fox Room, from 9:45 until 10 a.m., light refreshments will be available, courtesy of Tom Hughes. Historian, author, and Rutland resident Donald H. Wickman will facilitate the meeting. Each town will have an opportunity to informally report and to hear celebration ideas from the other towns. An interim contact list will be started, to allow celebration planners to easily stay in touch as plans progress. The following communities are 14 Rutland County municipalities that were created 250 years ago by New Hampshire Gov. Benning Wentworth, with each town’s specific 1761 date: Killington (March 17), Pawlet (Aug. 26), Danby (Aug. 27), Mount Tabor (Aug. 28), Shrewsbury (Sept. 4), Clarendon (Sept. 5), Rutland Town (Sept. 7), Tinmouth (Sept. 15), Wells (Sept. 15), Poultney (Sept. 21), Castleton (Sept. 22), Pittsford (Oct. 12),
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newmarketpress@denpubs.com RUTLAND — Everyone knows John Deere, the famous tractor imprint from Moline, Ill. It can be seen on Americanmade tractors and other farm vehicles worldwide. Few people realize that the real John Deere—the inventor who revolutionized agriculture—was a native son of Rutland, Vt. Deere was born in Rutland in 1804. Now State Rep. Bob Helm of Fair Haven wants to memorialize the 19th-century giant of agribusiness who started Deere & Company in the Vermont city. Helm told reporters last week that he is cosponsoring legislation in Montpelier that will earmark $20,000 of taxpayer funds for a John Deere memorial along South Main Street (U.S. Route 7) in Rutland City. Helm’s suggested site is near the Rutland Vietnam War Memorial. According to Helm, a native stone monument—either composed of marble or granite—would be a dignified way to honor the inventor. Helm didn’t seem to be bothered about going, hat-inhand, to taxpayers for a Deere monument, despite a multimillion dollar shortfall in the state budget. “John Deere was born in Rutland and is known worldwide,” Helm said. “It’s an important monument. He was a Vermonter.” Deere moved from Rutland to Middlebury to learn the blacksmith trade. Deere’s Addison County shop was located in today’s Canon Park in downtown Middlebury, across from the Ilsley Public Library. Middlebury erected an historical Deere marker in the 1960s. It stands along Main Street near the former blacksmith shop site. After a few years of working in Middlebury, Deere followed the nation’s “move west, young man” mantra. He settled in what was then frontier country—Grand Detour, Ill. He died there in 1886. Deere’s revolutionary invention, the steel plow, was celebrated as “the plow that broke the plains.”
NO IDLE HANDS—The American Lung Association launched a program—titled Vermont Idle-Free Fleets—to raise awareness of health effects and the impact of unnecessary diesel idling. Several Vermont businesses are onboard with idling policies. “This policy offers many good things. It saves money, decreases our carbon footprint and air pollution. We are hoping by our example to show others a better way doing business,” said Chris Keyser from Keyser Energy of Rutland. He signed his firm’s policy pictured here.
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Students join repair shops for auto safety project Students from the Vermont Teen Leadership Safety program chapters in Proctor High School, Mill River Union High School, and Stafford Technical Center began an unusual partnership with several Rutland County auto repair shops. The proactive partnership is aimed at reducing excessive speed on roads and highways and the many crashes which result from speeding. The Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program, an organization of high school students from about 40 area schools which focuses on
highway safety issues, decided that they wanted to work on a project to reduce the incidence of speeding and the deaths and injuries resulting from speeding. They came up with a theme for the campaign, Slow Down, Stick Around. The theme is printed on ribbons with a card explaining the risks of speeding. The plan was to disseminate the ribbons at highway rest areas and visitors centers, but when they were printed, other outlets were considered, such as ...Turn to page 2 to read more on this article
Slow Down, STick Around project members are Morgan Ballard (mill River), Taylor Trombley (Proctor), Korey Russell (Clarendon/Stafford),Claire Molner (Proctor advisor). Middle: Nicole Bogucki (Poultney/ Stafford), Alan Greenier (Tinmouth/Stafford), Colleen Knowles (Proctor), and (back) Kevin Brown, B&B Auto, RPD Lt. Kevin Geno, Paul Bogucki, B&B Auto, VSP Trooper Blake Cushing, RCSD Sgt. Jeff Stephenson. Photo by John D’Esposito
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