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CHITTENDEN — Chittenden Reservoir Day, the annual cleanup and celebration of the lake, will be held on Vermont Green Up Day May 5, thanks to Tropical Storm Irene. “Because CV Greenteam volunteers spent much of the fall helping customers clean up after Irene struck, we didn’t hold Reservoir Day last fall as usual, so we decided to hold it in the spring this year to give the reservoir a good sprucing up as the recreation season begins,” said Steve Costello, spokesman for CVPS, which organizes the annual event. “Scheduling it on Green Up Day seemed to make sense.” The event will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with cleanup in the morning hours and a hotdog cookout starting at noon. Free T-shirts will be given to the first 200 participants. Chittenden Reservoir took two years to build and began providing renewable energy in 1909. The 750-acre reservoir and land below it is owned by CVPS, along with the parking area and boat launch, which are leased by the State of Vermont. Besides its role as a CVPS hydroelectric facility, the reservoir is one of Vermont’s most pristine recreation sites. Seventeen square miles of mountainous terrain drain into the reservoir, creating spectacular habitat for dozens of species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish and mammals. Home to bald eagles and ospreys, moose, beavers and loons, the reservoir is one of Vermont’s most undeveloped mountain lakes. Volunteers will fan out on land and water to scour campsites, isolated beaches and wetlands. Since Chittenden Reservoir first began in 2002, several tons of trash has been picked See Cleanup, page 11
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College speaker is green jobs leader POULTNEY – Green Mountain College’s commencement speaker for 2012 is Majora Carter and has been described as a "power broker" in the green jobs movement by the New York Times. Carter is president of Majora Carter Group Consulting, and will address GMC graduates at the college’s 175th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12, at 10 a.m. Carter will also receive an honorary doctor of laws deMajora Carter gree from GMC. The youngest of ten children growing up in the South Bronx, Carter graduated from Bronx High School of Science, studied film at Wesleyan University, and received an MFA from New York University in 1997. While at NYU, she had to return to her family's home in Hunts Point in the South Bronx for financial reasons, inadvertently launching her career as a community visionary and entrepreneur. Carter founded and led Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) from 2001-2008. During her tenure, SSBx initiated the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program, one of the nation's first urban green collar training and placement systems; and pushed legislation and policy that fueled demand for those jobs. Carter hosts the Peabody Award-winning public radio series “The Promised Land”. Since 2008 the Majora Carter Group has developed climate adaptation, urban agribusiness, and leadership development strategies for business, government, foundations, universities and economically under-performing communities. Her many honors include a MacArthur Fellowship. She was named Fast Company magazine's 100 most creative people in business, and Essence magazine's 25 Most Influential African-Americans. She serves on the boards of the U.S. Green Building Council and The Wilderness Society.
LITTLE BO PEEP – Carla Pensin of Chester, a student at Deerfield Academy, didn’t lose her sheep, but she did help birth a few as an intern at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. She helped bring 812 spring lambs into the world with additional lambs due in May. The recreated 19th century village's sheep are Gulf Coast Natives, a heritage breed dating back to the arrival of Spanish settlers in the New World in the 1500s. These sheep most closely resemble the Merino sheep raised on Vermont farms in the early 19th century.
MSJ wins grants for technology, sports
Mount Saint Joseph Academy's current year soccer teams, pictured in the Catholic high school's gymnasium, will be the beneficiaries of a new scoreboard. Photo by Natalie Hajj
RUTLAND — Mount Saint Joseph Academy’s 21st Century Technology Initiative and its Abatiell Field will benefit from generous grants from Berlin City Auto Group and the State of Vermont Dairy Association, MSJ Principal Paolo Zancanaro announced. “We are extremely thankful to Berlin City Auto Group and the State of Vermont Dairy Program for their support of our technology initiative and athletic programs,” said Zancanaro. “We are extremely proud of our students’ performance both in the classroom and outside of it, and these grants will further both of those elements of MSJ student life.” Zancanaro noted that in 2011, for the third straight year, 100 percent of MSJ students were college bound. He also said that last year over 98 percent of MSJ students participated in extracurricular activities. The Berlin City Auto Group granted MSJ funds to purchase an additional interactive whiteboard for the school. The $3,500 grants are awarded to 20 New England Schools annually, based upon the applications received. Rutland Catholic Schools, which oversees the Catholic elementary/middle school and the Catholic high school, has engaged in a development effort over the last few years that has See MSJ, page 5
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