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April 28, 2010
A New Market Press Publication
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Rusty throws his hat in the mix for UVM’s graduation speaker.
Taiko drummers take their perfect percussion to CSC.
Castleton State’s boys of summer are off to a blazing start.
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Brandon firefighter remembered By Frederick Pockette
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Milestones in Excellence
newmarketpress@denpubs.com Brandon firefighter Dewitt Clinton “Brad” Bradbury, Jr., age 74, died April 2 at his home in Brandon. Bradbury was born in Newark, N.J., on June 23, 1935. He was the son of Dewitt and Anna (Eckert) Bradbury, Sr., he grew up in Union, N.J., where he received his education in loDewitt Clinton cal schools. He was a veteran of “Brad” Bradbury, Jr. the U.S. Army having served in Europe. Following his honorable discharge he returned home and began a career in the sheet metal fabrication and installation business, for ventilation systems. He retired to Brandon in 1996 moving from Clark, N.J. As a member of the Fraternal Order of the Eagles, he dedicated his time to the Boy Scouts and Sea Explorers. Brad was a fireman first, always willing to lend a hand, serving 23 years with the fire department and later volunteering with the Brandon Fire Department for over 14 years. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed traveling and camping and later in life became the president of the Otter Valley Good Sam’s Club. He also belonged to the Neshobe Sportsman Club. He was a member of the Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 22 for over 40 years. His involvement within the communities of where he lived has earned him many friends. He will be missed by all who knew him. Surviving is his wife of 17 years; Marie Olsen Bradbury of Brandon, two sons Ronald Bradbury and his wife Marilyn and Clint Bradbury all who reside in New Jersey, six grandchildren, five stepsons and four step grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife Joan Erla and his brother Richard Bradbury. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated April 8, at St. Michael’s Church Burial with Military Honors will follow in Hollywood Memorial Cemetery. Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made, in his memory to the Brandon Volunteer Fire Department, c/o Chief Robert Kilpeck, 29 Walnut St, Brandon 05733.
Rutland Regional Medical Center executives and nursing staff celebrated big news at a staff gathering last week. RRMC earned a special accolade as the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s “Magnet” hospital. Only 6 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have received “Magnet” status, the highest achievement obtained in professional nursing. RRMC also received Gov. Jim Douglas’ Award for Performance Excellence, the first hospital in Vermont to receive the award. Photo by Lou Varricchio
College fires up new biomass generator station POULTNEY—Green Mountain College formally opened a new $5.8 million combined heat and power biomass plant April 22. In his remarks to 300 students, faculty, staff, and community members, president Paul Fonteyn claimed that by next year GMC would become the first college in the country to reach carbon neutrality after reducing carbon emissions by more than 50 percent. Special guests at a ribbon-cutting ceremony included Vermont Gov. James Douglas. The new plant will use locally-sourced woodchips to provide 85 percent of the school's heat and generate 20 percent of its electricity. Fuel oil will be used mainly as a backup to heat campus buildings. GMC officials claim it will burn about 4,000-5,000 tons of locally harvested woodchips each year as the primary fuel-the $5.8 million plant will allegedly pay for itself over 18 years through
savings on fuel costs. In the new plant, woodchips are fed into a boiler and heated at a very high temperature with low oxygen, until the fuel smolders and emits gas. Oxygen is added and the gas ignites-the resulting steam is circulated through existing pipes for heat and hot water. The steam also activates a turbine which will produce 400,000 kWh of electricity. Another guest of the college for Earth Day activities was Apollo 12 astronaut and artist Alan Bean, who delivered the College's third annual Thomas L. Benson Lecture. During NASA's Apollo 12 mission in November 1969, Bean became the fourth man to set foot on the Moon. Bean offered students his special perspective on the uniqueness of Earth as seen from the Moon’s bleak, airless surface.
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