Mountain Times May 15-21, 2019

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Volume 48, Number 20

May 15-21, 2019

Snow covers the mountains May 14

Courtesy Paramount

BILLY RAY TO CLOSE OUT THE SEASON Billy Ray Cyrus will perform Sunday at the Paramount Theatre.

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By Polly Mikula

The old ditty “April showers bring May flowers” doesn’t say anything about snow! These tulips on Cliff Road in Killington brave the unexpected snow that fell Monday night.

By Robin Alberti

FOUNDRY FOOTBALL The Castleton football team raised $3,371 serving dinner at the Foundry last Friday.

By Amy Braun

FOREST FORAGING Rochester School kindergarteners foraged for fiddleheads and ramps at Forest Friday, May 10. A parent prepared the harvest on an outdoor fire to eat.

BIDS PLEASE! The Killington Mall will be auctioned Tuesday, May 21 at 11 a.m.

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By Polly Mikula It’s been a wet and cold spring and the snow that fell Monday night on the mountain tops was certainly not a welcomed sight. With May Day and Mother’s Day celebrations behind us and Memorial Day in sight, we should be donning our open-toed shoes, not thankful that we didn’t take off our snow tires yet.

Snow events in May in the mountains of Vermont occur more than some might think, according to meteorologist Mark Breen, with snowfalls occurring about twice per decade, he said Tuesday morning on Vermont Public Radio. It’s rare but not historic.

However, it’s not just the recent snow your neighbor, colleague or family member are complaining about. It’s the cold

and wet weather that’s been dragging on this spring.

They’re right. According to Weather Underground, as of Tuesday, May 14, it has rained 11 of the 14 days in Killington, Rutland and Woodstock, and temperatures have averaged in the 40s-50s across the region. Killington has seen only five days reach 60+ degrees and only one reach into the 70s (on May 6 it hit 73).

Compare that to last year when 13 of the 14 days were over 60 degrees, six of which hit the 70s and three reached into the 80s!

Plus, there were half as many rainy days last year.

Looking ahead, the long term forecast for the rest of the month predicts most days in the mid-60s starting this Sunday.

Let’s hope.

‘This is what Rutland does’ City named one of nation’s best downtowns

By Katy Savage It’s been five years since Vermont made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine for its “full blown” heroin problem.

National news organizations like the New York Times highlighted Rutland in particular, with its increased crime rate and drug crisis.

“I get there was article after article about Rutland being the heroin capital,” said Robert Maguire, the owner of Rutland Appliances. “For a large part, Rutland has put

that behind us.”

Maguire nominated Rutland for Independent We Stand’s 2019 “America’s Main Streets” contest, hoping to highlight some of the improvements. On April 29, Rutland was voted to the top 25 list of the best downtowns in the nation.

If Rutland wins, the city will receive $25,000 to better its downtown.

“I was a little surprised, but honestly, when I thought about it—this is what Rut-

land does,” Maguire said.

“We’re Rutland. We’re great.”

Since the negative attention, several groups have formed to turn Rutland’s message around.

“I think it woke some people up,” said spokesperson James Schneider. “I think that’s changing everything.”

The Downtown Business Partnership was created about two years ago to grow and support the fluctuating downtown business economy.

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As school enrollment declines, could empty classrooms be used for daycare?

By Lola Duffort/VTDigger With enrollment continuing to dwindle, school officials in the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union recently reorganized the districts’ three smallest elementary schools.

But since all three buildings remained open, administrators still had plenty of empty space left to fill.

RNESU Superintendent Jeanne Collins, meanwhile, noticed another trend – many parents told her they couldn’t use the district’s free, half-day pre-kindergarten program, because they couldn’t drive back in the middle of the day to pick up their children.

So Collins decided to look for private providers that could partner with the district

on full-day care. The idea was simple: the district would continue to pay for 10 hours of pre-kindergarten, as reimbursed by the state’s universal preschool law, offer free space, and cover the costs of utilities. The private provider would operate and staff the rest of the day, and offer infant and toddler care in the school’s leftover classrooms.

She found partners in Amanda Russell and Rebecca Kerr, who both ran home-based daycares in nearby towns. This fall, A.R.K. Childcare opened its doors at the Whiting Village School.

“This is a way of giving back to the community and increasing resources, really at Daycare, page 5

Hathaway Family Farm in Mendon enjoyed an average sugaring season, after a run of successful springs.

Maple season good, but not great

By Curt Peterson Ask any maple syrup farmer – the 2019 maple syrup season was somewhere between “excellent” and “okay.”

Production-wise, syrup farmers say the 2019 season was very good, but not the best ever.

“We didn’t make as much syrup as last year,” Reid Richardson of the Richardson Family Farm in Hartland said, “but 2018 was exceptional.”

Richardson said the industry has had a six-year run of exceptional production. Their farm has been making syrup since 1907.

The weather has been challenging. Maple sap, from which syrup is made, “runs” when days are warm and nights very cold. Last year’s sap began flowing in January, a month earlier Maple season, page 2

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The Mountain Times • May 15-21, 2019

200+ students gathered in Chester for LGBTQ youth summit

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Dave Nelson Jr. from Connecticut celebrated his 100th day on the slopes of Killington.

200 days of skiing celebrated New member inducted into 100 days club

Killington celebrated its 200th day open this season on Friday, May 10.

A week earlier Dave Nelson Jr. from Uncasville, Connecticut, celebrated his 100th day. With a family winter home in Brattleboro, he drives every weekend from opening day to closing day to ski. Three years ago he

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Nearly every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday he departs Brattleboro at 5:30 a.m. daily for the 90 minute drive, skis and returns to Brattleboro only to do it all over again for four consecutive days; truly amazing dedication

and stamina.

On Saturday, May 4, the day of the Kentucky Derby “Run For The Roses,” Nelson was inducted into the Killington 100 Day Club surrounded by numerous club members.

Nelson who was on the last chair for the season last May, has vowed to try to do that again this year.

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CHESTER—This past weekend, May 11-12, 200 students from 50 middle and high schools in 72 towns across Vermont came together for the 13th annual Queer and Allied Youth Summit in Chester.

The Youth Summit, co-hosted by Green Mountain Union High School (and in Windsor County for the first time), is themed “Coming OUT soon!” emphasizing the power and complexity of visibility within LGBTQ+ identities, and the importance of creating personal narratives.

In their host application, the GSA students wrote: “With changes in our neighboring schools, there are not as many events like this held in our area. The southern end of Vermont is in need of strong representation for the queer community, and it would be good to have a real presence in this little corner of our state. We have been considering wanting to host this event for the past few years, and feel ready to take action. Plus, this would just be fun!”

In Vermont, LGBTQ+ youth face the challenges of coming out; of having limited access to other queer youth; as well as high rates of bullying, harassment, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and other adverse childhood experiences, according to a May 10 news release from Outright Vermont. According to the 2017 VT Youth Risk Behavior Survey, LGBT youth are two times more likely to have been bullied in the last 30 days, and three times more likely to have skipped school in the last 30 days because of feeling unsafe.

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Maple season: Weather ups and downs affect output continued from page 1 than usual. So in 2019 Richardsons got their tous, but retail isn’t the only way syrup is distributed. taps ready for sap in January, but it started The Richardsons sell most of their syrup much later. to stores. Sugarbush is a retail store selling Bob Hausslein of Sugarbob’s Maple syrup and cheeses. You can find the cheese Products in Londonderry said runs are in area stores, but Luce said they sell their becoming less reliable. They access 10,000 maple syrup either at their store or by mail taps, producing 3,300 gallons of syrup. The order. farm added taps every year, so production Sugar Bob’s sells very little as tradiis difficult to compare, but the per-tap avertional syrup. They bubble real wood smoke age has remained about the same. through the syrup to make “Smoked Maple “It seems there is more disruption every Syrup” and “savory maple products” such year,” Hausslein said. “We get earlier starts, as their Smoked Maple Sriracha Hot Sauce. later finishes, and mid-season interrupThe sauce won a Specialty Food Associations.” tion Innovation Award this year and their Sugarbush Farm in Woodstock has 9,000 Smoked Maple Barbecue Sauce won a SOFI taps and has been making syrup for 65 in 2016. years. Betsy and Larry Luce own the farm Sugar Bob’s headquarters is an office in and make cheese and 2,500 gallons of Rutland City. syrup. She said the season started late and “If someone drops in, we’ll sell to them,” ended fairly ontime.

Hausslein said. “But we sell almost exclu“We’re down 10 percent this year, and last year was 27 percent down from 2017,” Luce said.

“ONCE AGAIN VERMONT LED THE “If we don’t do something about global warming, NATION IN MAKING MAPLE SYRUP,” someday we won’t have any THE USDA WEBSITE PROCLAIMS. maple syrup.”

Maple syrup is to Vermont sively wholesale or on-line.” what lobsters are to Maine. Totals for 2019 Sugar Bob’s products are sold at many loaren’t available yet, but in 2017, the USDA cations, including the Woodstock Farmer’s says, Vermont produced 47 percent of total Market, Vermont Roots and Truly Unique.

U.S. production – 13.7 million taps made Maple syrup producers love to talk about 4.16 million gallons of syrup nationally, at an average retail price of $33 - a $141 million the “quality” of their syrup, which is graded by color – light to dark. Betsy Luce said value.

2019 syrup had less of the darker grades.

Vermont produced twice as much as Richardson and Hausslein said the quality New York, the second largest producer, and nine times as much as Maine, the third larg- was excellent.

“Local people prefer the light syrup,” est producer.

Luce said. “But people from away, who have “Once again Vermont led the nation in been used to Aunt Jemima’s made with corn making maple syrup,” the USDA website syrup, sometimes don’t think the real stuff proclaims, “producing nearly 2 million galtastes like it should – they prefer the darker lons of the sweet product.” syrup, which has a more robust flavor.”

Vermont maple syrup seems ubiqui-

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LOCAL NEWS • 3

WUHS receives highest honor for speech and debate Killington student Toby Borzekowski prepares for nationals

By Katy Savage tional Speech & Debate AssociaFor 30 years, Woodstock Union High School teacher Gordon Ladd tion Executive Director J. Scott Wunn, in a news release. “We are has led the school’s speech and extremely proud of our charter debate team from championship schools, coaches, and students for to championship. their hard work and dedication to The team has won the state this transformative activity.” championship eight times in his Ladd, who teaches U.S. history 30-year career and has been runat WUHS, attributes the team’s ner up 10 times. success to the students.

This year, the team’s speech Ladd and student Toby and debate team has been named Borzekowski, 17, of Killington, are a charter member of the National planning to fly to Dallas in June to Speech & Debate Association— compete in the national speech the highest honor a school can and debate tournament. achieve.

Borzekowski will compete “I was excited for the kids,” said against 4,500 students from Ladd. “What it comes down to it, 1,200 different schools across the it’s a reward for their effort.” country in the “largest academic Charter schools reflect a comcompetition in the world,” acmitment to building confidence, cording to the National Speech improving communication and and Debate Association’s website. increasing critical thinking skills.

Borzekowski said he became “Participation in speech and Mountain Times Half page 2.19.qxp 2/14/19 10:24 AM Page 1 interested in speaking through debate changes lives,” said Na-

Toby Borzekowski theater as a child. He participated in his first speech competition in 10th grade and became hooked.

“My interest in forensics comes from my love of argument and my passion for public speaking,”

he said.

Borzekowksi will compete in the Congress category in the national tournament where he’ll debate political bills in a mock congress.

This is the seventh year one of Ladd’s students has made it to nationals.

“We have a lot of dedicated, hard-working kids,” Ladd said.

“It’s a special characteristic for a kid. With this type of speaking event – there’s not a lot of glory outside your individual success.”

He said this year’s team is particularly good. Woodstock hosted 80 students in a district national qualifier tournament in April where “for the first time, every single one of my kids made the final qualifying round,” Ladd said.

Qualifications for nationals differ by category and region.

Students are generally judged by how persuasive they are, how well they’ve laid out their argument and how well they have memorized their speeches.

Aside from teaching, Ladd drives students to competitions throughout the state. He got his bus driver’s license because he was sick of getting carsick, he said.

Ladd and the students have found ways to make the long bus rides to competitions fun.

“The kids sing on the bus and have a grand ol’ time,” Ladd said.

Borzekowski plans to attend Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota next year to study political science and economics.

“He really puts in a lot of the work,” Borzekowski said of Ladd.

“I have great hopes that the team will continue to perform at this caliber well into the future.”

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LOCAL NEWS

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Paul Holmes sits in his tractor, where one can find him frequently when not pursuing his outdoor passions.

Town of Killington recognizes Paul Holmes as Volunteer of the Year

Paul Holmes has been awarded the 2018 Killington Volunteer of the Year award by the Town of Killington’s Recreation Department – as the plaque states, for his “dedicated work in the community.”

Holmes retired to Killington from Connecticut – though one could hardly call him retired! He is an avid skier, kayaker, and professional outdoor photographer. Some of his photographs have appeared in the Mountain Times or in local business establishments. Also, his name has made the 100 Day Club year after year. He is one of the first to hit the 100 day mark every year.

When Holmes is not pursuing his outdoor passions, he can be found with a tool in hand or on his tractor volunteering his time to better our community – shoveling snow, building, or carrying away brush. In the past year alone he has volunteered his time, his tools, and materials to build Gaga pits at both the Herbert I. Johnson Recreation Center and Killington Elementary School and he rebuilt the school garden beds at KES. He has definitely improved the recreation opportunities in Killington – as can be seen every time there is a horde of kids playing Gaga.

The town expressed its appreciation with a plaque.

Fish on!

By Jason Mikula

This month 2,000 2-year-old rainbow and brown trout will be released into the Black River in Cavendish and Wethersfield, 1,250 rainbow trout in the East Creek of Rutland, and 1,000 rainbow and brown trout in the Otter Creek at Danby and Mt. Tabor. For a full stocking schedule visit anrweb. vt.gov.

By Mike Dougherty/VTDigger

Rutland Regional Medical Center wants to spend up to $4 million to address safety issues for at-risk patients.

Rutland hospital seeks emergency permit to address high-risk patients

By Mike Faher/VTDigger objects.” cal environment compromise their Rutland Regional Medical CenFort said hospital administrators right to receive care in a safe setting.” ter has requested an emergency state are looking to tackle safety concerns The federal document also listed permit to spend up to $4 million to inside and outside Rutland Regional’s numerous potential examples of address potential safety issues for inpatient psychiatric unit. “We feel ligature points including “shower “patients at high risk for self-harm.” that it’s our obligation to try to address rails, coat hooks, pipes and radiators, In a letter sent to the Green Mounthis in all the areas of the hospital,” he bedsteads, window and door frames, tain Care Board, a law firm representsaid. ceiling fittings, handles, hinges and ing Rutland Regional said a recent Having worked for months to closures.” assessment of the hospital identified “identify the extent of necessary The variety of ligature points used “urgent risks” due to tightening federal in patient incidents “contributes addi- changes,” hospital leaders say they regulations. The focus is on fixing now have enough information to “ligature points” that could be used for tional concern that, if there’s a ligature request a certificate of need from the risk, [hospitals] really need to look hanging or strangulation.

Green Mountain Care Board. And into getting it corrected,” said Hyosim In addition to patient safety conthey’re asking for the care board to folSeon-Spada, survey and hospital cerns, the letter cites the possibility of low an emergency process that could certification and enforcement branch regulatory action that could endanger be much faster than typical the hospital’s federal fundcertificate of need deliberaing.

VERMONT’S SUICIDE RATE FAR tions.

Rutland Regional, which “When we recognized has an inpatient psychiatric OUTPACED THE NATIONAL TREND that there could be a risk to unit, has added staff in order BETWEEN 1999 AND 2016. patients, we thought it was to implement one-on-one important to try to do these supervision for high-risk physical plant fixes as soon as posmanager at CMS’ Boston office. patients. But that’s only a short-term sible,” Fort said.

She also cited increasing suicide solution, said Claudio Fort, the hosPatient safety concerns are pararates as a major concern. Vermont’s pital’s president and chief executive mount, administrators say. But there suicide rate far outpaced the national officer. also are “serious ramifications that trend between 1999 and 2016.

“I don’t believe that it’s an unsafe [Rutland Regional] may face if it is not CMS is in the process of finalizing environment right now,” Fort said. able to undertake this project in the new guidance on ligature risks, which “But there is a sense of urgency. When most expeditious time frame posare now subject to more serious reguwe know that there could be a posible,” the hospital’s letter said. latory citations. In response, Rutland tential problem, we want to be in full That’s because compliance with Regional is expediting construction compliance with those standards.” federal regulations is, in serious Vermont hospitals have been strug- plans at the facility. cases, tied to federal funding through The hospital undertook an acgling to care for an increasing number Medicare and Medicaid. The hospital’s of mental health patients with increas- creditation assessment last summer. letter also says any deficiencies could According to the hospital’s letter ingly acute needs. In some cases, lead to limits on the number of pato the care board, that evaluation hospitals have gotten into regulatients admitted to Rutland Regional, found “a high risk associated with the tory trouble after inspections found “especially where dedicated inpatient unmitigated ligature risks that would evidence of mistreatment or unsafe psychiatric space is required.” be subject to an adverse finding” by environments.

“In the state of Vermont, we cannot inspectors.

Ligature points – a structure to withstand the loss of inpatient psyDocuments detail a wide variety which someone could attach a cord or chiatric beds, given the current lack of rope – are considered part of an unsafe of concerns including medical beds, furniture, shelving, a fire alarm system statewide capacity,” the letter said. environment. And federal officials To try to head off regulatory trouble and doors. Other potential safety ishave been looking more closely at for the time being, Rutland Regional sues include inward-swinging doors the issue: In a December 2017 memo, has beefed up staff to “provide one-tothat allow for “a barricade opportuthe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid one supervision for all patients at high nity,” as well as certain rooms that Services said “the presence of ligature risk of self-harm in areas that require allow “access to numerous self-harm risks in the psychiatric patient’s physiRRMC, page 26

The Mountain Times • May 15-21, 2019

LOCAL NEWS

Health insurers propose big rate increases for 2020

By Mike Faher, VTDigger Two insurers are requesting significant rate hikes next year for Vermont Health Connect plans, and they say rapidly rising prescription drug costs are partly to blame.

The state’s largest health insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, is proposing a 15.6 percent average rate increase. MVP Health Care is looking for a 9.4 percent average increase for its exchange plans.

Green Mountain Care Board members will review those

proposals and issue decisions in early August. They’ll likely hear concerns about affordability, especially given the size of the increases sought for 2020.

“For many Vermonters, they already can’t afford to get the care they need,” said Mike Fisher, the chief health care advocate at Vermont Legal Aid. “They can’t afford their premiums. They can’t afford to use their health insurance.”

But Blue Cross spokesperson Sara Teachout said her Health care, page 32

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Innovative programs utilize empty school spaces

continued from page 1 little expense to the taxpayer. But really at great benefit. And it also forms that relationship early on with the schools. To me, it really is a no-brainer,” Collins said.

It wasn’t long before the program was at capacity. And Kerr, its director, said they’re still fielding calls from anxious parents.

“Because Middlebury is full, or Rutland is too far. And people are driv-

Among them are Bridgewater, where a community nonprofit is planning to open a child-care program for kids age 0-5 in the former Bridgewater Village School, and Underhill, where administrators are talking to providers about possibly locating in the Underhill I.D. School.

“Bridgewater, as a community, currently doesn’t have any licensed or registered child care programs. And it’s

HEATHER BARRY, IN BENSON ... SAID SHE HAD BEEN SEARCHING FOR CHILD CARE SINCE SHE FOUND OUT SHE WAS PREGNANT IN DECEMBER OF 2017. ing to us from all aspects of the county, whether it is Addison or Rutland because there is no care,” she said.

Now, the district is looking to expand, and looking for new partners to launch similar programs at elementary schools in Pittsford and Chittenden.

Most early education partnerships between schools and private providers wrap around public preschool programs. Only a small handful of communities, at this point, are actively planning to use under-utilized public schools to host infant and toddler care as in the RNESU. Janet McLaughlin, chief of programs at Let’s Grow Kids, an advocacy group that offers technical assistance and grants to child care providers, said the organization knew about only a few partnerships in the works right now.

near Woodstock, and the programs in Woodstock all have long waiting lists,” she said.

But while such partnerships are nowhere near the norm yet, McLaughlin thinks they’ll become more popular.

As districts think about what to do with soon-to-be-shuttered schools, she said infant and toddler care is increasingly coming up.

“It feels like communities are much more aware of the capacity crisis with child care,” she said.

Kerr said getting to use the school space allowed her to dramatically expand capacity. Between her homebased program and Russell’s, the two women could only serve 12 children at a time. In the Whiting School, they can currently serve 59, and are planning to open another classroom in the fall, to serve another 8 to 10 children.

That allowed parents like Heather Barry, in Benson, to get off Kerr’s waitlist. Barry said she had been searching for child care since she found out she was pregnant in December of 2017.

She estimates she was on upwards of 15 waitlists – as far away as Ferrisburg – when Kerr called last summer to say she’d be expanding and had a spot for her newborn.

The news came as a huge relief to Barry, who’d started contemplating going back to work part-time at Addison County Home Health and Hospice to take care of her son.

“I have a child who’s 14. And I’m a single mom. It would have been very, very difficult,” she said.

Kerr said the Whiting space also allowed the center to skip start-up capital costs of renting a space or renovating to get up to code, which meant she was able to raise wages and hold the line on tuition.

“This partnership allowed us that financial freedom to start up and start up at a reasonable place for everybody,” she said.

Still, Kerr said, partnerships like this alone won’t solve Vermont’s child-care crunch. She said she still can’t pay her staff what they’re worth. And families still struggle to pay what she charges.

“It doesn’t solve the overall care that is needed. It doesn’t solve regulations and the hardships that those bring on. It only helps bandage things,” she said.

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STATE NEWS

House speaker signals compromise as leaders angle for adjournment

By Xander Landen/VTDigger Democratic leaders in the House and Senate said Friday, May 10, that they are planning on wrapping up the legislative session at the end of this week.

But with few days left, and several key pieces of legislation outstanding, lawmakers will have to act swiftly to reach agreements on major proposals including a minimum wage increase, a paid family leave program, and clean water funding if they are to become law in the first year of the biennium.

House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero, said adjourning next weekend is possible, but acknowledged the legislative timeline required would need to be “aggressive.”

She and Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe, D/P-Chittenden, met with Gov. Phil Scott on Friday to plan the policy negotiations in the coming week.

“It wasn’t a negotiating meeting,” she said Friday evening, May 10. “It was more like a setting up the end of session to get the trains to run on time.”

Senate Majority Leader Becca Balint, D-Windham, said Friday that she expects the Legislature will adjourn next Sunday morning, just after midnight.

By working long hours next week, she said lawmakers should be able to iron out differences on priorities like paid family leave and minimum wage bills – two of the proposals that will require the heaviest lifts to pass this year.

“We’re constantly in communication with the House.

There’s a lot of communication happening between leadership, and both sides are committed to doing the dance and getting it done,” Balint said.

“We have a path, that’s all I can say,” she added.

The Senate moved this week to scale back the House paid family leave program, removing provisions that would allow workers to take leave time for personal medical issues and reducing the number of weeks that parents with newborns could receive benefits.

The Senate changes reduced the cost of the paid leave program – which would be funded by a payroll tax on employees and employers – from $76 million to about $27 million.

In the coming days, the House will likely push to increase the benefits the Senate reduced.

Johnson said that removing personal medical leave from the paid leave program “is problematic for the House.” She Compromise, page 39

By Glenn Russell/VTDigger

Speaker of the House Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero, speaks to the House on the opening day of the Legislature at the Statehouse in January. The session is expected to close Sunday, May 19.

Tourism Department ads aim to show state welcomes diversity

By Anne Wallace Allen/VTDigger Last fall, a skit on Saturday Night Live poked fun at Vermont’s lack of racial diversity. This spring, the state Department of Tourism and Marketing hopes to set the record straight for outsiders with an ad campaign that shows that the Green Mountain State is suitable for everyone.

“We’re making a conscious point to make sure our media advertising and marketing reflects more diversity than it has historically,” said Tourism Commissioner Wendy Knight.

The ads rolling out this year won’t just show able-bodied white people striding across mountaintops. They’ll will also show people with a range of appearances and ways of life.

“The spectrum of physical abilities, ethnicity, skin color, family unit, sexual orientation, etc. … you’ll start to see some of that represented in our advertising campaign moving forward,” Knight said.

Many people view Vermont’s all-white reputation as a possible deterrent to outsiders who are considering a move to the state. At 94.5 percent Caucasian, Vermont is the second-whitest state in the nation after Maine.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is expected to have a non-white majority by 2045. With the Scott Diversity, page 37

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College enrollment crisis hits Vermont especially hard

By Lola Duffort/VTDigger – is now hitting Vermont exceptionally state – too few young people. And the POULTNEY — On a clear, frigid day problem is likely to get worse before it hard. In the first quarter of 2019 alone, in early March, hundreds packed a three private colleges have announced gets better. room in Whitney Hall at Green MounNathan Grawe, a professor of they will close. A fourth is on probatain College. The standing-room only economics at Carleton College and tion with its accreditor. crowd was a perfect cross-section of an expert in how demographics affect And as schools close, community the town of Poultney: Present were its higher education, notes data from the groups across southwestern Vermont former town manager, longtime high Western Interstate Commission for – in Bennington, Rutland and Poultschool principal, a sculptor, several Higher Education predicts Vermont ney – are now convening for visioning school board members, a fussing will shed an additional 10 percent of sessions. The main concern? How to toddler and the local hardware store its high school graduates by 2030. The fill the economic void left when instiowner.

Northeast, as a region, is projected to “I’m just like a therapist,” joked Paul tutions shut down. lose another 50,000 high school grads Higher education, as a sector, Costello, the executive director of the in that same period. employs about 4 percent of Vermont’s Vermont Council on Rural DevelopAcross the country, fertility rates total workforce. According to a 2017 ment, who had been called upon to took a big dip after the Great Recession report by the Vermont Higher Educamediate the morning’s community and haven’t recovered since. conversation.

In many ways, the ongoing The room had gathered AND THE PROBLEM IS LIKELY crisis in Vermont and the to take stock of a community Northeast is a harbinger of trauma: Green Mountain TO GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS things to come for higher College, after nearly 200 years BETTER. education nationally. in the community, would “So if you fast-forward close after commencement tion Council, more than 11,000 people 18 years, that means that in the midin May. 2020s, we can foresee nationally a work in the state’s public, private and Costello asked the room to spend decline in high school graduates and two-year schools, making an average the first 15 minutes airing concerns college attenders. But Vermont was of $43,000 a year. about the challenges to come. GMC engaged in low fertility much sooner,” “We tend not to think of colleges provost Tom Mauhs-Pugh, a resident Grawe said. as businesses. We think of them as a of the town, got the ball rolling: When There are other problems plaguing place where students go,” said Tom the college would close, he said, about the industry. Students are increasingly $7 million in direct payroll would leave Greene, president of the Vermont Colflocking to online-only options, which lege of Fine Arts. “I employ 250 people Poultney and surrounding communiare cheaper and more accommodathere. That’s a signal if we were to go ties. ing for those who work. (Champlain The long-simmering crisis in higher away, that’s 250 less jobs in MontpeCollege, in Burlington, is making bold lier.” education as college enrollment rates moves in an attempt to capitalize on In many ways, what ails Vermont’s decline – which has been plaguing the the trend.) And the student debt crisis colleges is what ails the rest of the Northeast and Midwest most acutely College enrollment, page 33

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Hurry up and wait

By Jim Harrison begin in the House under the Constitution.

Heading into what will hopefully be the Paid family leave and minimum wage, final week of the 2019 legislative session, we are entering the “hurry up and wait” period, both priorities of legislative leaders, still face hurdles. The minimum wage bill, for as it is commonly referred to under the example, has not yet passed the House, dome. The key issues have typically passed where leaders are actively searching for a both chambers at this point; however, difpath forward. A $15 wage by 2024 would ferences in the House and Senate versions likely pass, but fall short of a necessary 2/3 often need to be reconciled, especially to override a possible veto. in big bills, like the budget and potential The paid leave plan was significantly revenue changes. Those differences are scaled back by the Senate typically resolved in last week, with fewer conference committees, benefits as well as a lower which are made of three cost to taxpayers. The senators and three repreHouse version was estisentatives appointed by mated to cost $76 million their respective chamber annually whereas the leadership. Often an Senate version has been un-appointed member of scaled back to $27 million a conference committee and a lower payroll tax to is a representative of the support it. Both plans are administration to help restill mandatory, despite solve any potential issues Scott’s preference for a with the governor that voluntary plan. could otherwise result in Lead testing at schools a veto.

Jim Harrison and child care centers is The “hurry up and another issue on which the two chambers wait” is what is going on with those legislators not appointed as they wait for action by have to reconcile differences. Given the importance of the subject a compromise is a conference committee and/or the other likely in the end. chamber to move a bill. Additionally, deadSeveral tobacco related bills have been lines are set and reset to pressure each side sent to the governor and are expected to be to make compromises and move forward signed into law shortly. They include raising to adjournment. The result in a final week the age to 21; a 92 percent tax on vape prodis often long daily sessions going into the ucts (e-cigarettes) and prohibition of online evening, but with breaks throughout each day waiting for the next bill to be confirmed. sales of e-cigarettes.

Legislation that mandates a waiting While certain bills, like the budget period for certain firearm purchases, S.169, and any revenue changes to support it, may or may not move in the coming week. must pass before adjournment, the clock The House Judiciary Committee is slated can either force compromises on other to take up the issue on Monday, a clear sign issues or cast them aside for another day. the legislation may move forward this week.

The Legislature can continue the session A proposal to set up Vermont’s first-ever beyond the budgeted 18 weeks, but as that certification and registration process for can cost more money (estimated $300,000 building contractors is per week), that is not a plugging along in several popular option. Should House Committees. The legislators be paid at all SHOULD measure is included in a for extra time? I suggested housing bill, S.163, which not, last year, but changes LEGISLATORS BE passed the Senate earlier were not made… in the session. While the The jury is out on PAID AT ALL FOR measure is expected whether higher profile EXTRA TIME? to gain approval in the bills will make it across House, time remaining the finish line this year. in the session could be its A proposal for a “tax and regulate” model for marijuana, for example, enemy.

As part of a long process to amend the has passed one House committee, but is Vermont Constitution, the House approved currently in another. Prospects for compleProp 5, which provides protection for reprotion this session appear dim. ductive rights. The measure will also need to A ban on disposable plastic shopping be approved by the Legislature again in the bags and certain other plastics (like foam 2021-22 session. If it passes then it will go to cups and plates), on the other hand, appears likely to pass this week. The bill, S.113, the voters on the November 2022 ballot.

Meanwhile a backdrop to many of the has passed both chambers, but differences various issues in play, including the state need to be ironed out. Vermont is poised budget, is a concern raised by Governor to become the fourth state to ban plastic Scott on total spending increasing more shopping bags, although a number of than he proposed. Whether the congenialmunicipalities around the country have ity exhibited all session will carry forward already passed such measures. in the final week (or two), is still an open Clean water funding and changes to the question. cleanup efforts also appear to be on track.

Jim Harrison is a state representative The House approved the measure on Friday for Bridgewater, Chittenden, Killington & with an extension of the sales tax to cloud Mendon. He can be reached at JHarrison@ based software. The Senate version did not include revenue, in part because taxes must leg.state.vt.us or 802-236-3001.

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Is Vermont at risk for a disease outbreak?

Data shows most children are getting recommended immunizations from preventable diseases Newly released childcare and school “Thanks to good immunization covimmunization data from the Vermont erage in the U.S., the terrible toll of many Department of Health on May 9 shows vaccine-preventable diseases like polio, that while a high number of Vermont and until recently, measles, has been a children in childcare and school have thing of the past,” said Christine Finley, received all their required vaccines, immunization program manager at the a significant number of children are Department of Health. “Many Vermont under-vaccinated – creating a danger schools have achieved vaccination rates that vaccine-preventable diseases like that are worth celebrating,” said Finley. measles could take hold and spread.

“But the number of schools throughEach year, the Health Department out the state that have low vaccination collects vaccination coverage data rates is a cause for concern,” Finley from all Vermont public and indepensaid. “In some schools, both public and dent schools. Coverage data is also independent, rates are so low that there collected from regulated child care fais serious potential for the rapid spread cilities in coordination with the state’s of dangerous diseases like measles.”

Department for Children and Families.

The department’s data shows that of the The data is available at healthvermont.

K-12 schools, 114 had an MMR vacgov/disease-control/immunization/ cination rate of less than the 95 percent vaccination-coverage. rate needed for community immunity Among regulated child care proagainst measles. grams, which represent 59 percent of Health Commissioner Mark Levine, all Vermont children younger than age MD said this is a call to action. “Measles 5, nearly 94 percent met all vaccine is making a comeback across the globe. requirements for their age, up slightly That means we are seeing the disease from the previous year. The percentage again in places where we haven’t seen of children with a religious exemption it in decades, and people need to make was unchanged at 2.6 percent, and 0.2 sure that they and their children are percent of children in child care had a protected.” medical exemption.

Parents, caregivers, and all VermontVermont eliminated the philosophiers are encouraged to talk with their cal exemption in 2015. doctors and make sure they and their The percentage of Vermont K-12 children are up to date on all recomstudents receiving all required immunizations MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE is 94.5 percent, the highest it has been since the SAFETY OF VACCINES IS A Department began colSIGNIFICANT FACTOR lecting this data in 2012.

The percentage of K-12 students with a medical exemption remended vaccinations. The Health mained steady at 0.2 percent, religious Department’s immunization web page exemptions increased 0.2 percentage features information about vaccines points to 3.1 percent. and vaccine-preventable diseases, For those children entering kinincluding information about which immunizations adults and children should dergarten, the percentage who have a have. religious exemption increased from 3.7 Dr. Levine said the department is percent to 4.4 percent. None the less, working to ensure that school princihaving all required vaccinations is still pals, parents, community members the norm for kindergarten students in and municipal leadership are all aware Vermont. Religious exemption levels of where under-vaccination exists, to were significantly higher among chilreview the rate data, and to have the dren entering kindergarten in independent schools at 13.1 percent compared information they need to directly adto 3.8 percent for public schools. dress it.

The immunization data also offers “Misinformation about the safety of a look at coverage rates for specific vaccines is a significant factor contribvaccines, such as the MMR (measles, uting to the outbreaks,” said Dr. Levine. mumps and rubella) vaccine. To protect “We encourage concerned parents and against measles, for example, 95 percaregivers to ask questions. Talk with cent of children in a child care or school your child’s pediatrician and get the evidence-based information you need setting must be immunized with the to protect yourself, your family and MMR vaccine. This creates a level of your community. “community immunity” that can keep “We have the ability to stop vaccinethe disease from spreading. In Vermont, preventable diseases,” Dr. Levine said.

97.4 percent of public school students “In the midst of a national epidemic, met the two-dose requirement for the MMR vaccine. Coverage is lower among now is the time for Vermonters to do all they can to protect themselves and independent schools, some signifiprevent an outbreak from occurring in cantly so, with several in the 40 percent our state.” range.

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OP-ED

Gov. faces minimum wage dilemma

By Angelo Lynn Here’s the dilemma for Gov. Phil Scott as Vermont’s Legislature prepares to send him a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024: the legislation helps those workers who need the most help, yet would likely hurt key sectors of the economy, causing Vermont to lose more jobs.

For a governor who has made growing jobs and creating a business-friendly environment two of his primary goals, raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour doesn’t fit those objectives.

But from the governor’s perspective, two factors weigh in favor of him letting the expected bill become law without his signature: First, few argue that the current minimum wage of $10.78 is a livable wage. According to Vermont’s Joint Fiscal Office the current “livable wage” for a full-time worker in Vermont who has health insurance through their employer, splits expenses with another adult, and has no children, is $12.71 per hour in rural areas or $13.97 per hour in urban areas. The Legislature’s JFO also estimates that about 66,440 Vermont jobs, or 22 percent of all jobs in the state, would be directly impacted by the bill.

Second, it appears to be popular among Vermonters, and the Democratic-controlled Legislature has enough votes to override a Scott veto if the party hangs together.

But Democrats face obstacles as well. State fiscal analysts predict that the proposed minimum wage bill would have a negative effect on Vermont’s gross domestic product, and produce job losses of 1,850 annually.

Businesses in the hospitality, food and retail sectors would be hit hardest, including industries that hire large number of seasonal employees, like the ski industry.

Bill Stritzler, CEO at Smugglers Notch resort, testified Min. wage, page 9

Gun waiting period would spare domestic violence survivors

By Karen Tronsgard-Scott Vermont has an ugly secret. In our picturesque villages, our quaint downtowns and our larger neighborhoods grim scenes of domestic violence are occurring. It is all too easy to think that this grotesque violence doesn’t exist in our beautiful state. But behind too many closed doors, victims are suffering from emotional, economic and physical abuse. After a beloved state worker was murdered last year by her ex-boyfriend, Vermont’s Public Safety Commissioner called domestic violence “a disturbing trend in the state.” Indeed, the trend is disturbing.

And deadly.

According to the state, between 1994 and 2015, 50 percent of all Vermont homicides were domestic violence related. One thing that we know is making the trend of deathly domestic violence incidents even worse? Easy access to firearms. Fifty-nine percent of those adultrelated domestic violence deaths between 1994 and 2015 were committed using guns. Firearms pose a significant danger to victims of domestic violence, and this is true no matter who owns the firearm. According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the presence of a firearm in the home of an abuser increases the risk of homicide 500 percent.

This is why the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Vermont’s leading voice on domestic and sexual violence, strongly supports the waiting period Domestic violence, page 9

By John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

LETTERS

It was a busy Mother’s Day weekend Dear Editor, Congratulations to Girlos On The Run, an amazing program that encourages young girls to be all that they can be! Hundreds of third to fifth grade (Girls On The Run) and sixth to eighth grade (Heart and Soul) girls from all over Rutland County and beyond gathered at the annual event at David Wolk Stadium at Castleton University— this year celebrating the 20th birthday of the program. What an uplifting event; so many girls with family and friends, coaches, organizers and volunteers together sharing the progress of what Nancy Heydinger from Brattleboro started two decades ago. It was invigorating, encouraging and inspiring! You go girls!

The Rutland Farmer’s Market was back at Depot Park signaling that spring really is here. We are so fortunate to have so many farmers and artisans devoted to providing a wide variety of healthy foods and offering creative

goods. It’s a great place to meet friends who are buying and sharing the gifts of hard working Vermonters.

And then there was the Letter Carriers Food Drive. This annual Mother’s Day weekend event makes me realize what a generous community we live in. Thousand of pounds of non-perishable foods are collected by our dedicated mail carriers and sorted and delivered to area food shelves by community volunteers to provide much needed groceries and supplies to our neighbors in need.

Topped off by Mother’s Day. Thanks to my mother and to my kids for making me a mother.

How fortunate I am!

It was fun and inspirational to participate in all of these events. They make me realize what a caring, dynamic community I live in and have the honor to represent in the Senate.

Cheryl Hooker, Rutland

Time to update redeemable law to include more recyclables Dear Editor, It always give me a lift in early May to see Vermonters cleaning up their roadsides on Green Up Day. Most of us really do care about the appearance of our state. On the other hand, it would be nice if we did not have to clean up after those that don’t.

Here’s something that might help. When I did my green up I noticed that the vast majority of what I was picking up could (or should) be recycled. Easily 95 percent by bulk of the items I put in those bright green bags were singleuse beverage containers made of plastic, glass, or

aluminum. Most of them are not returnable for deposits. Those that are still bring only five cents when returned, the same as they did when the law was passed in 1972. I am told that would be about 31 cents today.

Isn’t it time to expand our bottle deposit law to cover all single-use beverage containers? And while the Legislature is at it, why not raise the deposit to at least 30 cents — maybe 35 cents if they are going to wait another 40-plus years to update the law?

Spencer Putnam Weybridge

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CAPITOL QUOTES On opioid treatment…

“It can take a long time to build that courage and that courage often has a shelf life. This bill removes those barriers and would allow Vermonters to receive proper aid when they need it,” Said Rep. Logan Nicoll, D-Ludlow, the member of the House Committee on Human Services who reported the bill to prohibit prior authorization requirements for opioid treatment.

“Unfortunately, opioid addiction impacts almost every Vermonter in one way or another. We must do whatever we can to help those who are addicted and find new solutions to address the addiction crisis we face.

This bill will make sure that when a Vermonter asks for help, they have proper and easy access to medicationassisted treatment,” Said House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero.

“The concern is that people who weren’t already using it recreationally will be tempted to try,” Said Rep. William Notte, D-Rutland, in an interview with VPR on a bill that would decriminalize the possession of unprescribed buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid use disorder.

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Domestic violence: continued from page 6 legislation, S.22, currently being considered by the Senate. The passage of S.22, which would implement a 48-hour waiting period on the purchase of firearms, would reduce the likelihood of impulsive acts of devastating violence.

When lobbying against this commonsense gun safety measure, representatives of the gun lobby often claim that a waiting period would put victims of domestic violence at greater risk. Let me be clear.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Access to firearms puts victims of domestic violence at greater risk.

Firearms are rarely used for self-defense in violent crimes such as domestic violence. Based on an analysis of FBI data from 2007-2011, victims of violent crime engaged in self-protective behaviors that involved a firearm in less than 1 percent of cases. According to a study conducted

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Firearms pose real danger by the Violence Policy Center, women are far more likely to be killed than to use a firearm in a justifiable homicide. For every one time a woman used a handgun to kill an intimate partner in self-defense, 83 women were murdered by their intimate partner with a firearm.

Domestic violence-related homicides are not only tragic for the victim, they shatter the lives of surviving family members — especially children. They also forever damage the communities in which they occur. The Network urges the Legislature to reduce the likelihood of these impulsive acts of devastating violence by passing S.22.

Karen Tronsgard-Scott is executive director of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to uprooting the causes of violence.

Min. wage: Potential impact is not “study-able” continued from page 6

mont Senate would raise the minimum in committee that his resort has about wage gradually to $15 in these steps: 400 employees, a third of whom are sea$11.50 in 2020; $12.25 in 2021; $13.10 in sonal and earn the minimum wage.

2022; $14.05 in 2023; and $15.00 in 2024, “Our greatest fear is the ability to then increase annually according to manage in bad times,” Stritzler said, as inflation. That’s a five-year increase just reported by VTDigger, adding that there shy of 40 percent. were “many predictors of recession withThe amount of the increase is what in the next year or so,” and “even the most shocks some economists. “The proposed liberal economist would not suggest pay minimum wage increase is outside the increases seven times the inflation rate bounds of anything that has been done or during a recession.” studied,” said state economist Tom Kavet Farmers have also been worried about in a VTDigger the impact on report. “It’s not their business IF VERMONT DID NOTHING BUT study-able… as it relates to KEEP ITS ANNUAL INFLATIONARY Until the wagdriving wages es are in place, higher from ADJUSTMENT, ECONOMISTS we can’t really the base that know what the the minimum ESTIMATE VERMONT’S MINIMUM impacts are.” wage sets, WAGE WOULD INCREASE TO That uncereven though tainty might agricultural $12.04 BY 2024. help Gov. Scott workers are if he chooses exempt to veto, as Scott needs to convince just from minimum wage law in Vermont. eight Democrats or Independents to join Other businesses, however, would have 43 House Republicans to reach a 51-vote to compete against neighboring New threshold. Democrats need a two-thirds Hampshire where the minimum wage majority in the 150-member House to is the same as the federal government: override a gubernatorial veto. $7.25 per hour – half what Vermont’s will The danger Democrats face is to have soon be. over-reached by pressing too far too fast For perspective, federal minimum on too many bills. Currently there are wage was first set in 1938 at 25 cents and close to $100 million in new taxes and has been increased sporadically, reaching its peak buying power in 1968 at $1.60 fees that could reach the governor’s desk, including $78 million for the paid famper hour, a wage that in today’s dollars ily leave bill; $8 million in new taxes on would amount to $11.55. About 30 states remote software; $5.7 million in the fee have created their own minimum wage bill; $4.5 million in the revenue bill; and standards, while 20 states abide by the another $22 million split among about lower federal standard. four major bills and several smaller bills.

Vermont updated its minimum wage Add a 40 percent hike in the minimum law in 2014, increasing it from $8.73 to wage and the governor starts to have $10.50 by 2018, then adjusted yearly a compelling story to defend a veto, or based on the Consumer Price Index, two – a prospect that might encourage a measure of inflation. If Vermont did Democrats to give a little as the session nothing but keep its annual inflationary winds down. adjustment, economists estimate VerAngelo Lynn is the publisher of the Admont’s minimum wage would increase to dison Independent, a sister publication to $12.04 by 2024. the Mountain Times.

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POLICE Rutland man arrested following drug investigation found approximately 8 grams of suspected A Rutland man was arrested after a twoheroin and approximately 2 grams of month drug investigation conducted by suspected crack cocaine. The bulk heroin the Vermont Drug Task Force. seized from Chipp’s apartment is equivaTerrance Chipp, 41, of Rutland was arlent to about 360 bags or doses. rested on May 6 and charged with possesChipp appeared in U.S. District Court sion of a firearm by a felon and possession in Burlington on May 7 and was remanded with intent to distribute heroin or crack to the custody of the U.S. cocaine.

Marshal Service. On May 9, Troopers with the a Burlington grand jury reVermont State Police Field turned a two-count indictForce division in Rutland ment charging Chipp with and officers with the Rutpossession of a firearm by a land City Police Departfelon and possession with ment assisted with Chipp’s intent to distribute heroin arrest. and crack cocaine. On May The investigation 10, Chipp appeared in U.S. involved the use of conDistrict Court in Burlington fidential informants who for a detention hearing purchased crack cocaine and was remanded to the from Chipp on multiple custody of the U.S. Marshal occasions starting in March Service.

2019. During the investigaThe Office of the United tion, drug task force detecTerrance Chipp States Attorney for the Distives received information trict of Vermont is prosecuting Chipp. This from confidential sources that Chipp had investigation is ongoing, and in addition to multiple firearms in his apartment. the two-count indictment, the U.S. AttorFollowing his arrest, members of the ney’s Office is reviewing evidence related Vermont Drug Task Force, FBI and ATF executed a search warrant at Chipp’s apart- to Chipp’s drug distribution activity and is considering more charges. Chipp is being ment in Rutland City and found firearms represented by the Office of the Federal and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Public Defender in Burlington.

Chipp has previously been convicted of Anyone with information about this inmultiple felony offenses including kidnapvestigation is asked to contact the Vermont ping, heroin trafficking, cocaine possesDrug Task Force at 802-773-9101 or submit sion, 2nd degree assault, and robbery and, a tip anonymously via vsp.vermont.gov/ therefore, is prohibited from possessing tipsubmit. a firearm. During the search, police also

Police search for clues in Townshend fire Police are investigating the cause of a barn fire in Townshend.

The Townshend Fire Department responded to the fire on East Hill Road around 3:30 a.m. May 10.

They arrived to find a large barn totally engulfed in fire and already in danger of collapse. They immediately called a 1st alarm as they wanted to prevent the fire from progressing into a residence nearby.

They had assistance from the New Brook Fire Dept., Wardsboro Fire Dept., Jamaica Fire Dept., Winhall Fire Dept. and Brattleboro Fire Dept. as well as an ambulance

from Rescue Inc. Due to their efforts the damage was contained to a large two story barn. After extinguishing the fire Townshend Fire Chief Glen Beattie called to request the assistance of the Department of Public Safety Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit to assist in determining the origin and cause of the fire.

The barn and all of its contents is considered to be a total loss with an estimated value of $100,000.

Anyone with knowledge about the incident is asked to call the Arson Tip Award Line at 1-800-322-ARSON.

Double the sun

The Lookout Tavern in Killington is renovating its summer deck on the second floor to double its outside seating capacity, said owner Phil Black. The trusses arrived May 7 and all went up that same day. The tavern closed April 27 and will open again May 23 – with the deck fully open, Black hopes.

Youth summit: LGBTQ+ youth forum support network

continued from page 2 The Queer and Allied Youth Summit is organized in direct response to these challenges, creating a community where youth feel safe, supported, and empowered to thrive.

Programs at the summit included youth-led workshops, a march and speakout, affinity-based conversations, an open mic, and a celebratory prom.

For LGBTQ+ youth, accessing fun is not always easy or possible. “To

reclaim school hallways where you are often the target of bullying and harassment, to dance in clothes you feel good wearing, to connect with peers and share in experiences you may never have shared with anyone ever. It’s belonging, it’s connection, it’s transformational,” the news release continued.

One past participant added: “I felt welcome and at home there, and it’s a feeling I don’t often get.”

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Study finds child food insecurity rates in Vermont are higher than state average The Map the Meal Gap 2019 study reveals that food insecurity exists in every county in Vermont. It also shows that children are more likely to be food insecure, with the child food insecurity rate at 15.9 percent compared to 11.9 percent for the overall population of Vermont.

“There isn’t a single state or county in America free from child hunger, and it is within our “The Feeding America nationwide network of food banks is investing in our nation’s future by helping to provide over 146 million meals to children every year,” said Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, chief executive officer of Feeding America. “Still, Map the Meal Gap highlights that more must be done. Together food banks, corporations, policymakers, donors, volunteers and advocates can solve hunger.”

Overall food insecurity in Vermont ranges from a low of 9.6 percent of the population in Grand Isle County up to 13.1 percent in Essex County.

The analysis also finds that 40 percent of residents of Vermont who are food insecure are likely ineligible for federal nutrition assistance under current program requirements. This means that many households must rely even more on charitable food assistance from the Vermont Foodbank

and directly to families, children, older adults and individuals at schools and hospitals. Last year, the Vermont Foodbank distributed more than 12 million pounds of food to people in the state struggling with hunger.

Map the Meal Gap 2019 uses data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and food price data and analysis provided by Nielsen, a global provider of information and insights.

Key local findings: 74,520 people in Vermont (11.9 percent) are food insecure.

Of those people, 40 percent CHILD FOOD INSECURITY RATE likely do not qualify for federal nutrition programs.

IS 15.9 PERCENT COMPARED In Vermont, 18,760 children (15.9 percent) are food insecure.

TO 11.9 PERCENT FOR THE The study’s findings underOVERALL POPULATION score the extent of need that remains in communities in Vermont and across the U.S., despite nanetwork comprised of 200 food banks tional measures from the USDA that and 60,000 food pantries and meal indicate overall improvement. This is programs that together provides food the ninth consecutive year that Feedassistance to more than 40 million ing America has conducted the Map people in the U.S. struggling with the Meal Gap study. The Map the Meal hunger. The Vermont Foodbank is the Gap 2019 interactive map allows polistate’s largest hunger-relief organizacymakers, state agencies, corporate tion, providing nutritious food and partners, food banks and advocates to promoting health through a network develop integrated strategies to fight of 215 food shelves, meal sites, senior hunger on a community level. centers and after-school programs, and its network.

“Without the support of the Vermont Foodbank and our network of 215 food shelves and meal sites throughout the state, the nearly 30,000 individuals who are food insecure but do not qualify for federal nutrition programs would have nowhere to turn for help,” says Vermont foodbank CEO John Sayles. “It is critical for us to work together to meet that need and to advocate for policy changes to better support our neighbors facing hunger.”

The Vermont Foodbank is a member of Feeding America’s hunger-relief

Vermont Afterschool youth grants fund 14 student-led projects From a cultural diversity day to building school bike trails to a writing workshop to a rabbit adoption event, 14 different youth-led projects are about to launch across Vermont thanks to the 2019 Youth4Youth Grants.

Grant amounts ranged from $100 to $3,000 and were open to any Vermont youth age 10 to 22 to apply. Young people from all across the state voted on the 44 proposals and selected the 14 finalists. The 14 grant recipients were announced in April with an awards ceremony at the State House on April 12, 2019.

Miles Robbason, an 11-year-old from West Rutland, wrote a grant called “STEAMing All the Way to California.”

The grant will fund his Lego Robotics team to travel to California, where his team will show off their robot they built that does autonomous missions.

“This grant is going to be really helpful for us because the cost of this experience is staggering,” explained Miles. “This is a one in a lifetime experience.”

A project of Vermont Afterschool, the statewide Vermont Youth Council designed the grant program with the goal of inspiring youth-initiated projects that will benefit Vermont’s young people. The grant program funded proposals across Vermont that promote a wide array of rights identified in the Youth Declaration of Rights, which was written in Fall 2017 exclusively by youth between ages 9 and 22.

This is the first year of the Youth4Youth Grants, with plans to expand the grant process for the next round of funding.

“We so grateful to the Vermont Department of Health for supporting this project,” stated Vermont Afterschool Executive Director Holly Morehouse. The Department of Health Youth grants, page13

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LAKES REGION

By Julia Purdy

LAKES LAKES REGION REGION Castleton schedules tax auction

Michael Jones, tax collector for the town of Castleton, has posted a notice of tax sale for properties in arrears on their taxes. All the properties were transferred to the current owners prior to 2004; taxes and/or sewer charges are delinquent since 2014.

Three of the properties belong to Gary Bowen and Ann Rodenbaugh Bowen on Applesauce Hill, Route 4A east of the village, and Pond Hill Road. The fourth belongs to Kirk Taylor, on 153 School St. The public auction will take place at the new Castleton town offices, 263 Route 30N on May 21 at 10:30 a.m.

Fair Haven considers self-governance bill Karen Horn, director of public policy and advocacy for the Vermont League of Cities and Towns, addressed the Fair Haven Select Board at its regular meeting April 23 to describe S.106, a pilot program in self-governance that supports local decisionmaking. The bill would allow local officials and voters to govern themselves and offer solutions that could benefit all cities and towns. The interaction between municipalities and the Legislature has been unchanged for 100 years, she said. Up to 10 towns can sign up for the pilot program. The board asked for a draft resolution for towns to sign. As of April 23, the Senate had passed the bill; Horn asked Fair Haven residents to urge their reps in the House to do the same.

CU, SVHC join forces to boost nursing Southern Vermont Health Care in Bennington, one of the leading small healthcare systems in the Northeast, is partnering with Castleton University to provide a nursing program with potential employment at SVHC, which is facing a nurse shortage. CU hopes to establish a site in Bennington to house its bachelor of science in nursing program, beginning this fall. For its part, SVHC is prepared to offer jobs to program graduates, become licensed, and meet pre-employment requirements. To sweeten the pot even further, SVHC will reimburse full tuition to those accepted who work six consecutive years within the SVHC system.

The Vermont Talent Pipeline projects that there will be 3,900 healthcare vacancies by 2022-most in nursing. SVHC itself will face about 50 nursing vacancies through retirement.

Teachers go to summer school The Castleton Center for Schools within Castleton University will offer a plethora of graduate-level summer courses in a flexible format for K-12 teachers and administrators. Aimed at accommodating summertime plans, summer jobs and teachers’ wallets, online options, hybrid face-to-face and online models, and on-site classes through Vermont are available.

Summer course site locations include the Helen W. Buckner Preserve (West Haven), the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, the North Branch Nature Center (Montpelier), Shelburne Farms, the Fairbanks Museum (St. Johnsbury), the Lake Morey Resort (Fairlee), the Vermont Historical Society, the Grafton Inn, and Hubbard Park (Montpelier). Content is equally broadbased, including coaching and mentoring, archaeology, best practices in literacy instruction, mathematical problem solving, performance and conditioning for high school athletes, and more.

Classes will begin as early as mid-May. To view the list of offerings or to register online, visit castleton. edu/continuing-ed.

The Mountain Times • May 15-21, 2019

Slate Valley Trails hires first employee

By Katy Savage POULTNEY—After four years, the nonprofit Slate Valley Trails has hired its first employee.

Silvia Cassano starts her position as program manager on May 20 to coordinate volunteers and spearhead fundraising opportunities.

Cassano, who lives in Bennington, studied parks, recreation and tourism at the University of Maine, Orono. She’s served on the board of many outdoor groups, including the Green Mountain Club, MA Appalachian Trail Committee, the Appalachian Trail Community program, Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra the Bennington Area Trail System.

“This position is everything I am looking for professionally. I am personally very passionate about this work,” Cassano said in a press release. “The SVT mission is in my blood.”

Slate Valley Trails in Poultney formed in 2015.

“Maintenance is one thing that’s becoming a bigger and bigger task for us... It’s all volunteer and it’s hard to make things go forward,” said Slate Valley Trails President Andy Vermilyea.

Vermilyea hopes Cassano alleviates that pressure. Cassano was selected among 40 applicants.

“Silvia came to the front because she’s trained in not-for-profit management,” said Vermilyea.

Slate Valley has a network of more than 30 miles of trails and it continues to expand. Slate Valley’s long-term vision is to create 50 miles in the area to benefit the com-

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Silvia Cassano munity of Poultney and beyond.

“To help bring in tourism is a big part of our mission,” Vermilyea said.

Cassano formerly worked as a ghostwriter representing the Vermont Woodlands Association out of the Rutland office. Cassano regularly got to mountain bike after work.

“I love the trails in the Rutland and Killington area,” she said. “I am excited to begin this position with Slate Valley Trails.

Cassano started mountain biking when she was 14. In her free time she also likes everything

outside. She’s an active kayaker, backpack and hiker. Last year Cassano hiked the Long Trail and two years ago she finished the Appalachian Trail in Vermont – a longterm goal of hers.

“I look forward to exploring trails, meeting new people, and digging in and getting work done,” Cassano said Funding for Cassano’s position is coming from membership fees and donations.

“It’s a good time to engage the community,” said Vermilyea. “She can be that person to connect the community to Slate Valley.”

Rutland oversees its image with successful results

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“We have a wonderful downtown,” Downtown Partnership Executive Director Steve Peters said. “I think it’s a great opportunity to showcase that to a national audience.”

The Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce also launched its “Real Rutland” marketing campaign in 2017 with video ads to entice more people to move to Rutland.

Chamber Executive Director Mary Cohen said 11 families have moved to Rutland since the campaign began.

“We knew the initial task was to sell Rutland to Rutland,” Cohen said. “Our marketing campaign started with that premise. A lot of our initial dollars went to marketing right here and making people realize—we do live in a beautiful place.”

Cohen said the “bad news” about Rutland has been buried with positive news on the internet. She hopes it stays that way. Cohen wasn’t surprised Rutland had been voted one of the nation’s best downtowns.

“This is a really great community

that pulls together when asked,” Cohen said. “I think we have potential to win it.”

Maguire heard about the contest through a trade show he attended in February. He submitted a 300 word essay, highlighting the historic nature of Rutland and the city’s unique events and businesses, like the Halloween Parade, night sledding on Center Street, WinterFest, the historic Paramount Theatre and the Downtown Farmers Market—the state’s oldest farmer’s market.

Maguire partnered with Intrepid Athletics founder Natalie Boyle to promote Rutland in the contest.

“We’ve always been a very community-minded organization and we wanted to see Rutland just be better,” Boyle said. “We’ve gotten a lot of bad press. We have always chosen to think about the things that are right with Rutland, not the things that are wrong about it.”

Nearly 230,000 total votes were cast for 232 entrants during the nomina-

tions phase. Rutland was one of two Vermont towns that made the list.

Montpelier was voted to the top 25 list along with one other New England town—Saco, Maine.

Boyle said Rutland has unique assets that set it apart from other towns.

“The atmosphere in our downtown is different,” Boyle said. “A lot of downtowns seem very cookie cutter to me.

If you go to our downtown, it’s very eclectic. It’s a little more spread out.”

Semifinalist voting began online April 29 at mainstreetontest.com. Voting continues through May 26.

The top 10 semi finalists will be announced May 27. The winner of the 2019 “America’s Main Streets” contest will be announced June 3 followed by a “Main Streets Make Us Better” celebration on July 4, when the winner will announce how they plan to use the prize money.

Maguire said the prize money would be used to enhance downtown, but he’s said not revealing the specifics yet.

The Mountain Times • May 15-21, 2019

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RUTLAND REGION

Rutland students place in Hildene essay contest

Two Rutland eighth-graders scored high among 197 entries in the annual Hildene essay contest, which carries not only honors but cash prizes.

Second and third places were awarded to Gabrielle Lucci of Christ the King and Maria Hogenkamp of the Rutland Town school, respectively.

The theme was role models who display strength and determination in adversity.

The two girls chose modern, young heroines who reflected qualities they admire.

Gabrielle Lucci chose to write about Malala Yousafzai after reading her book, “I Am Malala.” Malala became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner after being shot by the Taliban at age 15 for defending education for girls in Pakistan.

“I learned that I shouldn’t be afraid to speak up about issues,” wrote Lucci.

Maria Hogenkamp wrote about Emma Gonzalez, a bisexual Latina student at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who helped inspire new gun legislation in Florida after 17 students were killed in a massacre on Feb. 14, 2018.

Surviving the Parkland shooting, Emma Gonzalez co-founded the gun-control advocacy group Never Again MSD (Marjory Stoneman Douglas) and helped to organize the March For Our Lives national protest, even standing up to the National Rifle Association (NRA) at one of the rallies.

“She took an unfortunate experience and turned it around to help her community,” Hogenkamp said.

Youth grants:

By Julia Purdy

Stretch of Cold River Road to be relocated

Tinmouth to preserve backroads Tinmouth is one of 10 towns chosen by the Vermont Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation to participate in the Resilient Right-of-Ways, an initiative that addresses roadside vegetation management to handle stormwater runoff, protect roadside wildlife habitat, and preserve the rural character of Vermont’s backroads. At its regular Select Board meeting April 11, the town was informed that 23 miles of town roads have been inventoried, producing 14 maps. The Tree Policy Committee

and the Road Resiliency Committee met with Joanne Garton, the point person at the department, to review the draft report.

Each town and the Urban and Community Forestry Program of the Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation will sign a formal letter of agreement. No money will be exchanged. Considerations include road safety, storm runoff compliance, preservation of foliage canopies “green tunnels”) and sensitivity to “the environmental concerns of landowners.”

The town of Shrewsbury plans to relocate and stabilize 1,200 feet of Cold River Road near Wallace Road, as well as installing a 36-inch diameter culvert on Lottery Road in the area of the meeting house.

The project has been in the works since Tropical Storm Irene proved how vulnerable infrastructure can be in August 2011. Bridges, ditches and culverts were assessed for their stability and capacity.

A special study has identified potential slide areas along the Cold River Road where it skirts a steep river bluff above the Cold River in the area of Brown Bridge. In 2011 the torrent wiped out the western end of Upper Cold River Road. It was determined to relocate the portion of the Cold River Road in that area to protect it from land collapse in the future.

The town anticipates FEMA will issue a mitigation grant, after which a final engineering design can be drawn up. In September the board authorized an archaeological assessment of the site, a FEMA requirement. The town must also purchase a piece of privately-owned land.

Rutland’s scenic falls may be seen, soon A movement is afoot to create a pocket park at Mead Falls on Old Falls Road in Center Rutland, Rutland’s earliest village center. Otter Creek plunges over the natural falls, which has historical importance as the power source for a sawmill and gristmill in 1772. It was also the site of a Revolutionary War fort. Green

Mountain Power now uses the falls to generate hydropower and owns most of the parcel. Planners envision an overlook, a fishing spot near the falls and a possible put-in for kayaks, a picnic area, parking and security lights.

Access would be behind the Center Rutland fire station on Route 4A. GMP is receptive to the idea; weighing in

also are Vermont Fish & Wildlife, the Agency of Natural Resources, the Div. of Historic Preservation, and the Vermont Natural Resources Council, which is interested in securing access and portages at Otter Creek. GMP is working the proposal into its relicensing application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Live vibrant. Live local. Live here.

Fourteen groups awarded $100-$3,000

continued from page 11 provided funding for the Youth4Youth grants, as well as to Vermont Afterschool for the creation of the Vermont Youth Council and a new statewide initiative focused on elevating youth voice.

According to Morehouse, “We cannot underestimate the importance of fostering a sense of belonging for our young people, which in turn connects to healthy lives and well-being. This is an important step for our state to recognize and support our youth in helping them to feel empowered, try new things, and feel connected within their communities.”

2019 Youth4Youth Grant Awardees: $1,500-$3,000 projects Mi Vida, Mi Voz: A Writing Workshop, Shelburne – A weekend writing workshop for migrant youth to explore their voice and connect with others.

STEAMing All the Way to California, Rutland –Travel to a national Lego robotics competition to compete against and meet other teams from all over the world.

Summer Bowling, Springfield– Create weekly bowling clubs for grades K-12 in youth-led summer programming.

Rabbit Adoption and Drop Off Agency, Shelburne – Create a place where people can foster and adopt rabbits.

The Winooski Hang-Out: A Place for Everyone After School, Winooski – Provide middle and high school youth a flexible, safe and supportive space to hang out.

VTeen 4-H Science Pathways Cafe/ Summer of Science, Royalton – Provide science education programs both for and run by youth in their communities.

Winooski School Band Private Lesson, Winooski – Provide private lessons for members of the school band from professional musicians. $100-$1,500 projects Burke Town School Bike Trails, Burke – Build bike trials on the school’s campus to provide recreational access for all students.

Cultural Diversity Day, East Montpelier – Spread cultural awareness to the school and greater community through activities.

Dog-A-Thon, Shelburne – A running race and dog adoption event to raise money for the Humane Society.

Never Have I Ever, Springfield –Provide funding for foster families to be able to access fun community resources and experiences.

Reducing Hunger in Our Community, Burke – Working with existing community partners to make and donate meals to those in need.

Ski Trip, Burlington – A trip to Cochran’s ski area for DREAM program mentees.

Vermont Youth Voices Rally, Waterbury – Sustainability awareness and advocacy event with informational booths and activities.

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The Mountain Times • May 15-21, 2019

Free Knitting Class

6:30 p.m.

Free knitting classes at Plymouth Community Center, by Barbara Wanamaker. Bring yarn and needles, U.S. size 7 or 8 bamboo needles recommended, one skein of medium weight yarn in light or medium color. RSVP to bewanamaker@gmail.com, 802-396-0130. 35 School Drive, Plymouth.

Citizen Science Presentation

6:30 p.m.

Vermont is leading the citizen science charge, with projects like Vermont eBird, the Vermont Atlas of Life on iNaturalist, eButterfly, and Mountain Birdwatch gathering valuable biodiversity data. Presentation with naturalist Nathaniel Sharp provides introduction to citizen science projects, including information on what they are, what we have learned from them, & how you can contribute. Maclure Library, 840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Jeff Boyer’s Bubbles Program

GOV. JIM DOUGLAS DELIVERS CASTLETON U. COMMENCEMENT

7 p.m.

Jeff Boyer’s Bubble Trouble program in the gym at Fair Haven Grade School. Interactive bubble show for the family. Free, open to all ages. 115 N Main St, Fair Haven.

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 11 A.M. Co ur tes yM idd leb ury .edu

WEDNESDAY MAY 15

RSVP Volunteer Day

9 a.m.

RSVP Bone Builders all-day workshop to qualify volunteer trainers for osteoporosis exercise program. 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at Christ the King Church, 66 South Main St., Rutland. Lunch included. Free! RSVP to 802-775-8220 ext 102.

Serenity Gentle Yoga

10 a.m.

Gentle yoga class helps strengthen, stretch, and lengthen the body gradually, while bringing mindful awareness to breath. Culminates with healing vibrations of Crystal Singing Bowl Sound Bath. Great for beginners and practiced yogis. Sol Luna Farm, 329 Old Farm Road, Shrewsbury. sollunafarm.com.

Active Seniors Lunch

12 p.m.

Killington Active Seniors meet for a meal Wednesdays at the Lookout Bar & Grille. Town sponsored. Come have lunch with this well-traveled group of men and women. $5/ person. 908-783-1050. 2910 Killington Road, Killington.

Lego Club

3 p.m.

Lego club at Sherburne Memorial Library, River Road, Killington, Wednesdays 3-4 p.m. during the school year. Ages 6+.

Tobacco Cessation Group

5 p.m.

Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m. Free nicotine replacement therapy and other resources and supports. 802-747-3768.

Rotary Meeting

6 p.m.

The Killington-Pico Rotary club cordially invites visiting Rotarians, friends and guests to attend weekly meeting. Meets Wednesdays at Clear River Tavern in Pittsfield, 6-8 p.m. for full dinner and fellowship.

802-773-0600 to make a reservation. Dinner fee $21. KillingtonPicoRotary.org

Meditation Circle

6:15 p.m.

Maclure Library offers meditation circle Wednesdays, 6:15-7:15 p.m.

802-483-2792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Song Circle

7:15 p.m.

Song circle and jam session at Godnick Adult Center, 7:15-9:15 p.m. Welcomes singers, players of acoustic instruments, and listeners. Donations welcome. 802-775-1182.

THURSDAY MAY 16

Open Swim **

8 a.m.

Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 8-9 a.m.; 5-7 p.m. 802-773-7187.

Thursday Hikers

9 a.m.

Hike to Bittersweet Falls on the northwest section of the Trail around Middlebury (TAM); visit Otter View Park in Weybridge. Moderate. Meet at Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland, to car pool. Bring lunch. No dogs. 802-775-1246.

Playgroup

10 a.m.

Maclure Library offers playgroup, Thursdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Birth to 5 years old. Stories, crafts, snacks, singing, dancing. 802-483-2792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Story Time

10 a.m.

Story time at West Rutland Public Library. Thursdays,10 a.m. Bring young children to enjoy stories, crafts, and playtime. 802-438-2964.

Killington Bone Builders

10 a.m.

Bone builders meets at Sherburne Memorial Library, 2998 River Rd., Killington, 10-11 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Free, weights supplied.

802-422-3368.

Mendon Bone Builders

10 a.m.

Mendon bone builders meets Thursdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. 802-773-2694.

Tobacco Cessation Group

4:30 p.m.

Old Brandon Town Hall, Brandon. Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free nicotine replacement therapy and other resources and supports. 802747-3768.

Ukulele Lessons

5 p.m.

Chaffee Art Center offers ukulele lessons weekly on Thursdays, 5-6 p.m. $20. RSVP requested: info@chaffeeartcenter.org. 16 South Main St., Rutland. Bring your own ukulele!

All Levels Yoga

5:30 p.m.

All levels flow at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Bridge Club

6 p.m.

Marble Valley Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Godnick Center Thursdays, 6 p.m. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games. 1 Deer St., Rutland.

802-228-6276.

Author Discussion

6:30 p.m.

Phoenix Books Rutland welcomes author Charles Fergus discussing his book “Make a Home for Wildlife: Creating Habitat on Your Land.”

Learn how to use habitat types to help wildlife make a home on your land. 2 Center St., Rutland. phoenixbooks.biz.

The Illusionists: Love From Broadway

7 p.m.

Blockbuster theatrical show of hilarious magic tricks, death-defying stunts and acts of wonder comes to the Paramount Theatre stage.

Tickets $59, paramountvt.org. 30 Center St., Rutland.

FRIDAY MAY 17

Open Swim **

8 a.m.

Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 8-9 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

802-773-7187.

Level 1 Yoga

8:30 a.m.

Level 1 Hatha Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

BRGNS Rummage Sale

10 a.m.

Black River Good Neighbor Services annual spring rummage sale at Fletcher Farm, 611 Route 103 South, Ludlow. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., rain or shine. Clothing, housewares, books, linens, furniture, and more.

Stacked high, priced low. Plus, bake sale. Benefits area food shelf.

Story Time

10:30 a.m.

Sherburne Memorial Library holds story time Fridays, 10:30-11 a.m.

Stories, songs, activities. All ages welcome! 802-422-9765.

Knitting Group

12 p.m.

Maclure Library offers knitting group, Fridays, 12-2 p.m. 802-483-2792.

840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Sculpture Unveiling

12 p.m.

View the unveiling of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment sculpture, featuring the first African-american men to serve in the Civil War from Rutland. BY local artist Don Ramey, it’s the fifth piece on the planned Rutland Sculpture Trail. On Center Street, near the southwest corner of Merchants Row.

Opening Reception

5:30 p.m.

Humberto Ramirez exhibit opening reception at ArtisTree Gallery, 2095 Pomfret Road, So. Pomfret. Free. artistreevt.org.

Paul Asbell Jazz Quartet

7:30 p.m.

Paul Asbell’s “Burmese Panther” CD release concert at ArtisTree, 2095 Pomfret Road, So. Pomfret. The culmination of several years of composing, arranging, and fine-tuning his original compositions with a regular group of world-class players. $20 tickets, artistreevt.org.

The Next Generation

7:30 p.m.

Young classical musicians from schools around Vt and the Upper Valley share their artistry in Chandler’s annual youth concert, inspired

by NPR’s “From the Top” program. Adults $16, children $10. Reserved seating, chandler-arts.org. 802-728-6464. 71-73 Main St., Randolph.

SATURDAY MAY 18

Forestry for the Birds

8:30 a.m.

A Working Woodlands Workshop at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock: Guided walking tour of bird-friendly forestry work, plus discussion. Meet at Prosper Trailhead parking lot, at the park, Route 12 north to Prosper Road on left, to parking area on left. Free, but please RSVP to 802-457-3368 ext. 222.

The Mountain Times • May 15-21, 2019 9 a.m.

Carving Studio and Sculpture Center presents two workshops, May 18-19: Bas Relief Sculpture with Amanda Sisk uses clay; Letter Carving with Kerry O. Furlani uses chisels and mallets to cut letters in slate. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. Register at carvingstudio.org. 636 Marble St., West Rutland.

Invasive Plant Program

9 a.m.

Walk the land at King Farm in Woodstock with Vt. Land Trust foresters and hear how to manage non-native plants. Register vlt.org/events.

Free, registration required. 128 King Farm Road, Woodstock.

BRGNS Rummage Sale

Open Swim

5 p.m.

Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: Tues., Thurs., Saturday 5-7 p.m.

802-773-7187.

Bingo

5:30 p.m.

Bridgewater Grange Bingo, Saturday nights, doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Games start 6:30 p.m. Route 100A, Bridgewater Corners. Just across bridge from Junction Country Store. All welcome. Refreshments available.

Open Gym

10 a.m.

Black River Good Neighbor Services annual spring rummage sale at Fletcher Farm, 611 Route 103 South, Ludlow. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., rain or shine. Clothing, housewares, books, linens, furniture, and more.

Stacked high, priced low. Plus, bake sale. Benefits area food shelf.

6 p.m.

Friday night open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 6-8 p.m. Ages 6+. Practice current skills, create gymnastic routines, learn new tricks, socialize with friends! $5/ hour members; $8/ hour non-members. Discount punch cards available. 802-773-1404.

Free Shred Day

Square Dance

10 a.m.

Rutland UPS Store offers free shred day to raise money for RutlandIshidoriya Student Exchange (R.I.S.E.) program for trip to Japan and hosting of Japanese student in Rutland. 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. 31 N. Main St., Rutland. Donations gratefully accepted. hunter.berryhill@rcpsvt.org.

Tractor Supply Market Day

10 a.m.

Tractor Supply in North Clarendon hosts market day, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Features local vendors and homemade/homegrown goods: Gloria’s Pantry and Brown’s Orchard on site. Crafts, candles, produce, baked goods, and more in a tent outside. 1177 US Route 7S, Rutland. tractorsupply.com/marketday

Serenity Gentle Yoga

10 a.m.

Gentle yoga class helps strengthen, stretch, and lengthen the body gradually, while bringing mindful awareness to breath. Culminates with healing vibrations of Crsytal Singing Bowl Sound Bath. Great for beginners and practiced yogis. Sol Luna Farm, 329 Old Farm Road, Shrewsbury. sollunafarm.com.

“From Ike to Trump” Screening

10:30 a.m.

Attend a free showing of Vt. documentary about the changing political landscape from Ike to Trump. Filmmaker Denis Mueller takes special look at Vermont’s role in this shift. Fox Room, Rutland Free Library, 10 Court St., Rutland.

Open Gym

11 a.m.

Saturday morning open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. All ages welcome. Practice current skills, create gymnastic routines, learn new tricks, socialize with friends. $5/ hour members; $8/ hour non-members. Discount punch cards available.

802-773-1404.

Kids’ Saturday Classes

11 a.m.

Chaffee Art Center offers different activity for kids each week - painting, cooking, craft making and more. $10. Pre-register at 802-775-0036. chaffeeartcenter.org.

Clothing & Bake Sale

11 a.m.

Annual clothing & bake sale at Union Church of Proctor, 5 Church St., Proctor. Clothing for all ages for just $7 a bag!

Castleton University Commencement

11 a.m.

Castleton University’s 232nd commencement ceremony in the Castleton Pavilion. Former Vt. Gov. Jim Douglas will deliver commencement address. Alumni Drive, Castleton.

Bridge Club

12 p.m.

Marble Valley Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Godnick Center Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games. 1 Deer St., Rutland. 802-228-6276.

Book Discussion: Allen Mills

12 p.m.

Join book discussion with author Allen Mills discussing his book “Barnyards, Barefeet and Bluejeans,” journey focusing on importance of relationships when working on a farm - family and cohesion. Maclure Library, 840 Arch St., Pittsford.

College of St. Joseph Commencement

1 p.m.

College of St. Joseph’s 2019 commencement ceremony in CSJ Athletic Center. 71 Clement Road, Rutland.

7 p.m.

Pawlet Public Library host an old-fashioned square dance at Mettawee Community School, 7-10 p.m. All ages and levels welcome. Features Ole Time Country with caller Ron Bailey. Come to dance or just enjoy the music. 5788 VT153, West Pawlet.

History Program

2 p.m.

Howard Coffin presents “Vermont and 1816, the Year Without a Summer” at Bridgewater Historical Society, 12 N. Bridgewater Road, Bridgewater. Free, open to public. Refreshments. The coldest year in Vermont history, frost every month. Crops failed, food was scarce, people left the state by the thousands. Many thought the world was ending.

Classical Concert

2 p.m.

Mark Alexander and Mary Anderson host a concert in their home in Bethel. Works by Debussy, Ravel, Schubert and Gershwin. Fundraiser for Vt. Adaptive Ski & Sports. Finger foods, wine, cider offered following the concert. RSVP to 802-234-5505 or jammnrose@aol.com for directions. Donations collected at the door.

RACE AROUND THE LAKE AT SILVER LAKE STATE PARK SUNDAY, MAY 19, 9 A.M.

Fundraiser Dance

7 p.m.

Fundraiser for Kinney Pike Striders Relay for Life Team: a dance with MC Sound, 7-11 p.m. at American Legion Post 49, 72 S. Main St., Fair Haven.

Benefits American Cancer Society Relay for Life. $10 couple, $7 single.

SUNDAY MAY 19

Heartfulness Meditation

7:45 a.m.

Free group meditation Sundays, Rochester Town Office, School St. Dane, 802-767-6010. heartfulness.org.

All Levels Yoga

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Carving Studio Workshops

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9 a.m.

All levels flow at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Race Around the Lake

9 a.m.

5k run/walk and 10k run around Silver Lake State Park, North Road, Barnard. Register online at runsignup.com or day of at 9 a.m. In support of BarnArts Youth Programming. 10K starts 10:30 a.m. 5k starts 10:45 a.m. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. post-race activities along the waterfront: music, lunch, awards, kid’s fun run. barnarts.org.

BRGNS Rummage Sale

10 a.m.

Black River Good Neighbor Services annual spring rummage sale at Fletcher Farm, 611 Route 103 South, Ludlow. 10 a.m.-2 p.m., rain or shine. Clothing, housewares, books, linens, furniture, and more.

Stacked high, priced low. Plus, bake sale. Benefits area food shelf.

Killington Section GMC

10:15 a.m.

Killington Section Green Mountain Club outing: Haystack Mountain, Pawlet. Views of Mettawee River Valley and Taconic Range from the summit. Moderate, 3 miles, some steeps. No dogs. Meet 10:15 a.m. in Main St Park, near fire station off Center St., to carpool; or 11 a.m. East Poultney Green. New members welcome. Bring water and lunch. Dress appropriately. Leader, 413-687-1109.

Yoga Class

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Dismas Benefit Dinner & Auction

3 p.m.

Rutland Dismas House 29th annual benefit dinner & auction: “Keep the Home Fire Burning.” Held at Holiday Inn, Rutland. 2 p.m. registration, reception, silent auction. 5 p.m. welcome, live auction, dinner, awards, keynote speaker Bess O’Brien. $60 tickets advance only: 802-7755539.

Exhibit Opening

3 p.m.

Opening art reception for “The Blue Swans” featuring recent works by eight artists plus an Argentina tango dance performance. 3-5 p.m. at B&G Gallery, 71-75 Merchants Row, Rutland. 77art.org.

Spring Concert

4 p.m.

Rutland Area Chorus and a professional brass ensemble will perform John Rutter’s “Gloria and Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring” and “Psalm 150” at Grace Church, 8 Court St., Rutland. gracechurchvt.org; 802-7754301.

Althea Sully Cole

10:30 a.m.

Yoga with Dawn resumes at Plymouth Community Center, 35 School Drive, Plymouth. All levels welcome, bring your own mat. $10/ class.

4 p.m.

An evening of works composed by Althea Sully Cole on her Kora, 21-stringed West African harp. ArtisTree, 2095 Pomfret Road, So. Pomfret. $10 suggested donation. artistreevt.org.

Bark For Life

Connection Support Group

Sherburne Trail Clean Up Day

Billy Ray Cyrus

11 a.m.

American Cancer Society Bark for Life event at All Points Dog Park at RRMC, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Keynote speakers from HeartSong Reiki and Caring Canines. Dog costume contest, face painting, dog demos, ice cream, and vendors. relayforlife.org/barkrutlandvt. 160 Allen St., Rutland.

11 a.m.

Killington Parks & Rec and Killington MTB Club host trail clean-up day at the Sherburne Trails. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Bring yard tools if you have: rakes, shovels, clippers, saws. BBQ follows. Sign-up at killingtonmountainbikeclub.org. Look for trailhead on Route 100, just north of Killington.

4:30 p.m.

NAMI Vermont’s connection support group at Rutland Mental Health Services, 78 S. Main St., Rutland. 4:30-6 p.m. First and third Sunday of each month. Free recovery support group for people living with mental illness. Learn from one another, share coping strategies, offer mutual encouragement and understanding.

7 p.m.

Country music Billboard topping artist Billy Ray Cyrus comes to Paramount Theatre. Will he sing “Achy Breaky Heart”? Tickets $62.50, $72.50. 30 Center St., Rutland. paramountvt.org.

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MONDAY MAY 20

Killington Yoga

8:30 a.m.

All Level Flow Yoga, 8:30 a.m. at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Killington Bone Builders

10 a.m.

Bone builders meets at Sherburne Memorial Library, 2998 River Rd., Killington, 10-11 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Free, weights supplied.

802-422-3368.

Playgroup

11 a.m.

Maclure Library offers playgroup, Mondays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Birth to 5 years old. Stories, crafts, snacks, singing, dancing. 802-483-2792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.

Open Swim

11:30 a.m.

Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 802-7737187.

Legion Meeting

6 p.m.

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 31 meeting at Legion Post, 33 Washington St., Rutland. 6 p.m. light food and social time; 6:30 p.m. regular meeting for all members.

All Levels Yoga

12 p.m.

Every Monday meals at Chittenden Town Hall at 12 noon. Open to public, RSVP call by Friday prior, 483-6244. Gene Sargent. Bring your own place settings. Seniors $3.50 for 60+. Under 60, $5. No holidays.

337 Holden Rd., Chittenden.

Rutland Rotary

12:15 p.m.

Rotary Club of Rutland meets Mondays for lunch at The Palms Restaurant. Learn more or become a member, journal@sover.net.

Tobacco Cessation Group

5 p.m.

Free tobacco cessation group. Mondays, 5-6 p.m. at CVPS/Leahy Community Health Ed Center at RRMC, 160 Allen St., Rutland. Free nicotine replacement therapy and other resources and supports. 802747-3768.

WEDNESDAY

Citizenship Classes

Level 1 Yoga

Vermont Adult Learning will offers free citizenship classes. Call Marcy Green, 802-775-0617, and learn if you may qualify for citizenship at no cost. 16 Evelyn St., Rutland. Also, free classes in reading, writing, and speaking for English speakers of other languages. Ongoing.

TUESDAY MAY 21

Mendon Bone Builders

10 a.m.

Mendon bone builders meets Tuesdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. 802-773-2694.

11 a.m.

Free tobacco cessation group. Free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges.

Every Tuesday, 11-12 p.m. at Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland.

802-747-3768.

Restorative Yoga

11 a.m.

Restorative Yoga at Sol Luna Farm, Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. All levels, no experience needed. Surrender into rest and relaxation, with supported postures on bolsters and blankets. Crystal Singing Bowl Bath culminates session. 329 Old Farm Road, Shrewsbury. sollunafarm.com.

Community Free Sale

1 p.m.

Green Mountain College is offering a “free” sale - everything is free! 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Appliances, clothing, books, household goods, more. In Bogue Hall Common Room, dorm building on the corner of College St. and Rae Terrace.

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7 p.m. The Barn Restaurant and Tavern Pickin’ in Pawlet

By DJ Dave Hoffenberg

Full Backline Open Mic with Robby Smolinski

FRIDAY

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POULTNEY

BRANDON

7 p.m. Taps Tavern

7 p.m. Brandon Music

Irish Night with Craic Agus Ceol

THURSDAY

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POULTNEY

7 p.m. Taps Tavern George Nostrand

RUTLAND 7 p.m. Howlin’ Mouse Record Store

MTM: Firstbourne / Mourn The Light / Crypitus free concert

BARN OPERA: La Carmen

BOMOSEEN 6 p.m. Iron Lantern

POULTNEY

7 p.m. Taps Tavern Aaron Audet

RUTLAND 7 p.m. Draught Room in Diamond Run Mall Duane Carleton

7:30 p.m. Hop ‘n’ Moose George Nostrand

9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern

Sydney Worthley plus C.K. and The Rising Tide

KILLINGTON

10 p.m. Center Street Alley

7 p.m. The Foundry

SOUTH POMFRET

9 p.m. Jax Food and Games

7:30 p.m. Hay Loft at Artistree

Moose Crossing

Ryan Fuller

Tony Lee Thomas

PAWLET 7 p.m. Barn Restaurant and Tavern Tommy Luke

TOPS Meeting

4:45 p.m.

TOPS meets Tuesday nights at Trinity Church in Rutland (corner of West and Church streets). Side entrance. Weight in 4:45-5:30 p.m.

Meeting 6-6:30 p.m. All welcome, stress free environment, take off pounds sensibly. 802-293-5279.

[MUSIC Scene] 9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern

3:15 p.m.

Sherburne Memorial Library holds five-week Harry Potter Club 3:15-4 p.m., April 23-May 21. 2998 River Road, Killington. 802-422-9765.

6:30 p.m.

Chaffee Art Center offers all level yoga class with Stefanie DeSimone, 50 minute practice. $5/ class, drop-ins welcome. 16 South Main St., Rutland. Bring a mat.

Tobacco Cessation Group

Monday Meals

Harry Potter Club

DJ Dirty D

The Paul Asbell Jazz Quintet “Burmese Panther” CD Release Concert

STOCKBRIDGE 7 p.m. Wild Fern

Greg Ryan and Special Guests

TINMOUTH 8 p.m. Community Center

Contra Dance: Music by Brenda Taaffe and Aldo Lavaggi, caller Don Stratton

SATURDAY

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BRANDON

7 p.m. Brandon Music BARN OPERA: La Carmen

BOMOSEEN

5:30 p.m.

Level 1 Hatha Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com, 802-770-4101.

Heartfulness Meditation

5:45 p.m.

Free group meditation Tuesdays, Mountain Yoga, 135 N Main St #8, Rutland. Margery, 802-775-1795. heartfulness.org.

Chanting Through the Chakras

6 p.m.

Series with yoga instructor Stephanie Jones introducing a different short Sanskrit mantra each week, guided by chakra system. April 23, 30, May 7, 14, 21. 6-7 p.m. $20 per class. Five Elements Salon & Day Spa, 10 Stratton Road, Rutland. fiveelementsdayspa.com.

Legion Bingo

6:15 p.m.

Brandon American Legion, Tuesdays. Warm ups 6:15 p.m., regular games 7 p.m. Open to the public. Bring a friend! Franklin St., Brandon.

Vt Fish & Wildlife Dept. Public Hearing

6:30 p.m.

Public hearings on deer hunting - proposed antlerless deer permit numbers for 2019 season and changes for 2020. White River Valley Middle School, 273 Pleasant St., Bethel. 6:30-9 p.m.

Chess Club

7 p.m.

Rutland Rec Dept. holds chess club at Godnick Adult Center, providing a mind-enhancing skill for youth and adults. All ages are welcome; open to the public. Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. 1 Deer St., Rutland.

9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern

Karaoke 101 with Tenacious T

SUNDAY

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DORSET

10 a.m. Farmers Market KILLINGTON 5 p.m. The Foundry

Jazz Night with the Summit Pond Quartet

RUTLAND

KILLINGTON

4 p.m. Grace Congregational Church

7 p.m. The Foundry Ryan Fuller

9 p.m. Jax Food and Games Live Music

QUECHEE 6 p.m. Public House Fiddle Witch

RUTLAND 9 p.m. Center Street Alley DJ Mega

The People’s Jam

MONDAY

MAY 20

LUDLOW

9:30 p.m. The Killarney Open Mic with Silas McPrior

The Bubsies

6 p.m. Iron Lantern Aaron Audet

1 p.m. Wild Fern

Rutland Area Chorus Spring Concert: Gloria

7 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern Papa Greybeard

SOUTH POMFRET

TUESDAY

MAY 21

CASTLETON

6 p.m. Third Place Pizzeria Josh Jakab

POULTNEY 7 p.m. Taps Tavern

Open Bluegrass Jam Hosted by Fiddlewitch

4 p.m. Hay Loft at Artistree

RUTLAND

STOCKBRIDGE

Open Mic with Krishna Guthrie

Althea SullyCole with Guests

12 p.m. Wild Fern

Cigar Box Brunch w/ Rick Redington

9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern

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This weeks living Arts, Dinning and Entertainment!

Paramount welcomes two national acts this week May 16, 19—RUTLAND—The Paramount Theatre continues its mission to bring worldclass acts to its stage and, ending its current season (with new acts to be announced eagerly awaited for the coming season), the talent doesn’t fall short.

On the heels of a highly successful multicity tour and run on Broadway, the world’s best-selling touring magic show, “The Illusionists – Live From Broadway” will take to the stage Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m. as part of its North American tour in 2019. Full of hilarious magic tricks, death-defying stunts and acts of breathtaking wonder, The Illusionists has shattered box office records worldwide and thrilled audiences

of all ages with a mindblowing spectacular showcasing the jawdropping talents of six of the most incredible illusionists on earth.

Creative Producer Simon Painter said, “We can’t wait to bring this electrifying show to Rutland for a truly entertaining experience for the whole family. ‘The Illusionists’ is the most non-stop and powerful mix of outrageous and astonishing acts ever to be seen on the live stage.”

Tickets for The Illusionists are $59.

Closing the season is country music charttopper Billy Ray Cyrus, performing Sunday, May 19 at 7 p.m. Born in Flatwoods, Kentucky, Billy Ray Cyrus, known for his country singing, hunky good looks and

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mullet hairstyle, has enjoyed a mulit-layered performance career as a multi-platinum selling recording artist. He has scored a total of eight Top-10 singles on the Billboard Country Songs chart.

His most successful album to date is his debut, “Some Gave All,” which has been certified nine Multi-Platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 and featured the breakout hit, “Achy Breaky Heart.”

From 2001 to 2004, Cyrus starred in the television show “Doc.” The show was about a country doctor who moved from Montana to New York City.

From 2006 to 2011, he co-starred in the Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana” with his daughter, Miley. Soon after, Cyrus enjoyed an eight-week run on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.”

In years since, Cyrus has been alternating between making music and acting. In an industry where excesses are the order of the day, Cyrus has retained his humility and morals and continues to be an inspiration and mentor to aspiring musicians all over the world.

Tickets for Billy Ray Cyrus are $62.50-$72.50.

The Paramount Theatre is located at 30 Center St., Rutland. For tickets and for more information, visit paramountvt.org.

Courtesy Paramount Theatre

Billy Ray Cyrus

Carving Studio presents two sculpture workshops May 18-19—WEST RUTLAND—The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center presents two workshops, Saturday and Sunday, May 18-19, focusing on techniques for working artistically with stone and clay.

Led by Amanda Sisk, “Bas Relief Sculpture” offers the opportunity for the creation of dynamic clay forms. “Letter Carving” with

Kerry O. Furlani introduces participants to ancient techniques of cutting letters in slate using hand chisels and mallets.

All workshops are held at 636 Marble St., West Rutland, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. To register, call 802-438-2097 or email info@carvingstudio.org. For details on these and more workshops, visit carvingstudio.org.

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The tables of goods are piled high and marked low for the bi-annual sale in support of the area food shelf.

BRGNS to hold annual spring rummage sale May 17-19—LUDLOW—For over 10 years Black River Good Neighbor Services has held a rummage sale twice each year at Fletcher Farm, 611 Route 103 South in Ludlow, to raise funds for the area food shelf.

That sale has become a destination event,drawing shoppers from several states to find bargains on quality used merchandise. This spring the sale will occur on Friday and Saturday, May 17-18 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, May 19 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., rain or shine.

The sale will feature clothing, housewares, books, linens, furniture and all manner of goods. “We will have something for everyone,”

said Audrey Bridge, executive director of the organization.

“The tables will be piled high and the prices will be marked low.

However, what we really need this year is help. We need volunteers to help set up and to help staff the sale. And we need lots of people to donate baked goods for the bake sale.”

Besides the spring and fall rummage sale each year selling gently used, donated items, BRGNS runs a thrift store at 37B Main St.

Forestry for the Birds is next national park workshop topic Saturday, May 18, 8:30 a.m.—WOODSTOCK— Audubon Vermont and the National Park Service are teaming up to offer Forestry for the Birds, a guided walking tour of bird-friendly forestry work at MarshBillings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, Saturday, May 18, 8:30-11 a.m.

Visit forest stands with recent forest management activities, and gain an understanding of how harvesting trees affects habitat conditions for birds.

The discussion will focus primarily on forest management activities that will improve conditions for declining species and those of conservation concern.

Participants will go home with the knowledge and resources needed to improve bird habitat on their own woodlands.

Bring binoculars if you have them and see and hear the changes good forest management can make.

Dress appropriately for outdoor activity, and bring a water bottle if possible. The event continues rain or shine.

Meet at the park’s Prosper Trailhead parking lot on Prosper Road, Woodstock.

The program is free, but pre-registration is required as space is limited. To register, call 802-4573368 ext. 222 or email us at ana_mejia@partner.nps. gov.

in Ludlow – behind the Ludlow Community Center – and a used furniture store at 105 Main St. BRGNS is primarily a food shelf and financial assistance non-profit organization serving Ludlow, Cavendish, Mount Holly and Plymouth.

Proceeds from the rummage sale are used to purchase food for the community or are used for various financial assistance programs.

For more information or to volunteer, call Audrey at 802-228-3663.

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Pawlet Library hosts square dance for all ages Saturday, May 18, 7 p.m.—PAWLET—The Pawlet Public Library is hosting a free square dance for all ages and skill levels at the Mettawee Community School on Saturday, May 18, 7-10 p.m. The event features Ole Time Country, a threepiece band led by Dan Breen, and square dance caller Ron Bailey.

The band specializes in traditional square dance and classic country music. The public is welcome to dance, meet their neighbors, or just enjoy the music. The school is located at 5788 VT-153, in West Pawlet. This is a no

alcohol venue.

“This is the first of our Vermont Life Skill Share Series,” said Library Director Mary Lou Willits. “We hope to bring people together to share time-honored skills and activities that are part of the Vermont tradition. Future skill sharing programs will be fishing on June 8, canning fruit on Aug. 10, and stacking wood on Oct. 19,” she added.

For more information, visit pawletpubliclibrary. wordpress.com, call 802-325-3123, or stop by the library. The library is located at 141 School St., Pawlet.

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Tractor Supply Market Day highlights local artisans, producers and craft makers

Free event invites community to shop homemade, homegrown goods

Courtesy Chandler Center for the Arts

The 11th annual Next Generation at Chandler Center for the Arts showcases young classical musicians from Vermont and the Upper Valley.

The Next Generation annual youth concert takes to Chandler stage

Friday, May 17, 7:30 p.m.—RANDOLPH—On Friday evening, May 17, 14 young classical musicians from high schools in eight towns in Vermont and the Upper Valley will showcase their performing artistry, several making their debut in Chandler’s now 11th annual The Next Generation concert. The event is inspired by National Public Radio’s “From the Top” program. Four youngsters from elementary schools in the Hanover area will appear as guest artists in this all-teenager event. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph. There will be a reception to greet the artists following the performance.

For this concert, the area’s top music teachers recommend students whose accomplishments deserve special recognition, and this performance will feature those students who were selected after a

competitive audition.

The performing artists will be pianists Stephen Wang, Joseph Goff, Sophie Usherwood, and sisters Amica and Liana Lansigan, each of Hanover, New Hampshire; and Colin McQuillin of Northfield. Sophie Usherwood appears on the stage again with a work for flute, as does Amica Lansigan on violin. Other solo instrumentalists include cellists Zani Lewis of Burlington and Justin Zhou of Hanover; and violinist Katja Mueller of White River Junction. The ensemble members include violinists Stella Pinto, Aislinn McDougall, Nacio Levey and Miriam Viazmenski, and pianist Alice Garner, all of Hanover.

Reserved seating is $16 for adults, and $10 for children. Tickets are available by calling 802-728-6464 or online at chandlerarts.org. Chandler is located at 71-73 Main St., Randolph.

Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m.—NO. CLARENDON—Rutland County and the surrounding area is full of skilled makers, bakers and producers, and the North Clarendon Tractor Supply store is bringing these talented individuals and businesses together for a communitywide, family-friendly event. On Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., the store will host its annual Market Day event featuring local vendors and their homemade and homegrown goods.

Market Day is a free event, featuring items such as crafts, candles, produce, baked goods and more in tents outside the Tractor Supply store, located at 1177 US Route 7 South. Vendors include Glo-

ria’s Pantry and Brown’s Orchard.

“As members of this community, we strive to do whatever we can to support our neighbors,” said Travis Fisher, store manager of the North Clarendon Tractor Supply store. “Market Day allows us to highlight and support the great talent we have here, while creating a fun event everyone can enjoy.”

Local artisans, farmers and craft makers interested in selling their goods are invited to register at TSCeventpartners.com or visit the local North Clarendon Tractor Supply store before May 15. Contact the North Clarendon Tractor Supply store at 802-747-4759 for information.

Learn to manage invasive plants with experts Saturday, May 19, 9 a.m.—WOODSTOCK— Sugaring, wildflowers, peepers, the greening of the woods – there are so many things that make Vermont special. How can we help our landscape stay healthy and strong? Join the program All About Invasive Plants at King Farm in Woodstock, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

At King Farm, foresters

of the Vermont Land Trust have been learning how to manage non-native plants like barberry, buckthorn, and honeysuckle. They have tried different approaches to control these invasives so that native plants and trees can thrive. Today, the invasives aren’t all gone but they’re manageable – the pastures are clear, the wildflowers are returning.

Come walk the land with VLT foresters Pieter van Loon and Donna Foster, and hear about what has worked, what hasn’t worked, and what we can do for the future.

The program is free, but registration is required. King Farm is located at 128 King Farm Road, Woodstock. Learn more and register at vlt. org/events.

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Rutland Rec will offer hands-on gardening program

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Courtesy SAGE

Scott Courcelle, owner of Alchemy Gardens, waters seedlings in his Shrewsbury greenhouse. Courcelle will lead a series of gardening programs in Rutland, starting May 22 with “Making your Bed: Starting Your Garden.”

with the mission to create opportunities for a more vibrant community.

Program director April Cioffi said she is excited to have SAGE offer educational workshops this summer.

“Learning from a seasoned professional is an amazing opportunity to provide the community. It is our hope that these workshops grow the gardening community by empowering individuals that have wanted to grow their own food, but do not know where to begin.”

Courcelle wants new gardeners to feel encouraged by their successes and their failures in the garden. “Don’t let your worries about whether you are doing something right or not paralyze you from just getting out there and giving it a try. If you watch closely your garden will tell you what works well and what doesn’t. If you feel like you don’t know where to begin, come to our workshop so that we can get you set up for success from the start!”

Attendance is not required at all workshops in the series. The programs are provided with no fee, with a suggested donation of $5. For more information on workshop dates and topics in the series, visit rutlandrec.com/ gardens or follow Community Gardens of Rutland Vermont and Shrewsbury SAGE on Facebook.

If community members are interested in renting a plot at any of the three garden sites, contact April Cioffi at 802773-1853 or aprilc@rutlandrec.com.

Registrations are ongoing through the month of May for all sites.

Wednesday, May 22, 5:30 p.m.— RUTLAND—Gardening workshops are coming to Rutland’s southwest community garden this growing season.

The series of five monthly programs is designed to help gardeners of all levels learn new techniques and skills throughout the growing season and address issues that may crop up in home gardens. The first workshop, “Making your Bed: Starting your Garden,” will be held Wednesday, May 22 at 5:30 p.m. at Southeast Community Garden, 101 Allen St. Shrewsbury Institute for Agricultural Education (SAGE) is developing a demonstration garden at the Allen Street site and offering all five programs in order to inspire Rutland residents to utilize the city’s community garden spaces and their own homes, for gardening.

Workshop instructor Scott Courcelle, co-owner of Alchemy Gardens in Shrewsbury, believes gardening is an act of personal empowerment.

“I run a vegetable farm as my business and when I get home from the fields I am eager to stroll around my home gardens tending to whatever needs to be done and watching how all of these amazing plants are developing over the course of the season. There is so much to learn from the close observation of plants and so much peace and healing and satisfaction to be found in the act of gardening.”

Rutland’s three community gardens are maintained and operated by Rutland Recreation and Parks Department

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Chaffee offers opportunity for all ages RUTLAND—The Chaffee Art Center invites the community to visit the historic 1890s mansion filled with inspirational art, creative projects, classes, and activities. This year marks 58 years in the Rutland community! Please join as an artist, single or family member to help the Chaffee to continue to inspire and cultivate creativity, while positively impacting the vitality of the community through the arts.

There is a buzz of activity surrounding the Chaffee with a new exhibit on display, increase in class offerings scheduled to launch, and many other events and programs, such as the Open Studio Hub for teens and young people ages 13-21. The Hub is a place to “Create, Imagine, Inspire.” There are many opportunities available, including: yoga; ukulele lessons; painting; drawing; clubs (book, chess, music/dance, writers/ poetry, art); workshops; volunteering; homework space; and exploring career opportunities in the arts, to name a few. Art supplies and light snacks will be provided for this free programming. Donations of supplies and refreshments are always gratefully accepted and appreciated.

The annual student exhibit, It’s All About The Arts,

is back and more creative than ever, showcasing 21 Vermont public and private schools plus home school groups in grades K-12. This year’s theme expresses passion and commitment to encompass all of the arts, and give the opportunity for young people to be inspired by seeing their work, and the works of others, displayed in a professional gallery. The exhibit will be on display until June 7.

The Chaffee is excited to be selected by Hannaford supermarket during the month of May to be the Hannaford Helps Reusable Bag Program Beneficiary for Rutland. This program, which launched in April 2014, is a reusable bag program that facilitates community support with the goal to make a difference in the communities where shoppers live and work. The Chaffee will receive a $1 donation every time the $2.50 reusable community bag is purchased at this location during May. Chaffee Art Center is located at 16 South Main St., Rutland. It is open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 12-5 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; and has extended hours for classes and events. For more info call 802775-0356 or email info@chaffeeartcenter.org.

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Chaffee Art Center hosts many classes in the historic mansion.

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This pup proudly displays its Bark for Life bandana during an event in Rutland.

Bark For Life unites canine companions to help save lives from cancer Sunday, May 19, 11 a.m.—RUTLAND— Community members come together to honor and celebrate the lifelong contributions of canine caregivers to cancer patients at the American Cancer Society Bark For Life event on Sunday, May 19, at All Points Dog Park, Rutland Regional Medical Center. The event takes place from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

The celebration will include keynote speaker Kelley McDermottBurns from HeartSong

Reiki and HeartSong For Animals as well as Linda Somerville from Caring Canines. The day is filled with fun activities, including a dog costume contest, face painting, dog demos, ice cream, and vendors selling goodies for dogs and humans.

The event is part of the American Cancer Society Relay For Life movement which is the world’s largest peer-to-peer fundraising event to save lives from cancer. At Relay For Life events, participants

celebrate people who have been touched by cancer, remember loved ones lost, and take action for lifesaving change.

Funds raised help the American Cancer Society attack cancer in dozens of ways, each of them critical to achieving a world without cancer – from developing breakthrough therapies to building supportive communities, from providing empowering resources to deploying activists to raise awareness.

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Food Matters 506 Bistro

The 506 Bistro serves a simple, seasonal menu featuring Vermont highlights. Set in the open bar and lounge, the atmosphere is casual and warm. Your are likely to be served a yankee pot roast, a great organic burger from a nearby farm or fresh strawberry shortcake with Vermont berries. Local, simple, home cooked is what we are all about. (802) 457-5000

Lake Bomoseen Lodge

The Taproom at Lake Bomoseen Lodge, Vermont’s newest lakeside resort & restaurant. Delicious Chef prepared, family friendly, pub fare; appetizers, salads, burgers, pizzas, entrees, kid’s menu, a great craft brew selection & more. Newly renovated restaurant, lodge & condos. lakebomoseenlodge.com, 802-468-5251.

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Back Country Café

The Back Country Café is a hot spot for delicious breakfast foods. Choose from farm fresh eggs, multiple kinds of pancakes and waffles, omelet’s or daily specials to make your breakfast one of a kind. Just the right heat Bloody Marys, Mimosas, Bellini, VT Craft Brews, Coffee and hot chocolate drinks. Maple Syrup and VT products for sale Check our Facebook for daily specials. Open Friday through Sunday at 7 a.m. (802) 422-4411

Whether staying overnight or visiting for the day, Mountain Top’s Dining Room & Tavern serve delicious cuisine amidst one of Vermont’s best views. A mix of locally inspired and International cuisine – including salads, seafood, poultry and a new steakhouse menu - your taste buds are sure to be satisfied. Choose from 12 Vermont craft brews on tap.Warm up by the terrace fire pit after dinner! A short drive from Killington. mountaintopinn. com, 802-483-2311.

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802-422-3795 Seward Dairy Bar. Serving classic A short scenic drive from Killington homemade food including hamburgers, steaks, chicken, sandwiches and Choices Restaurant &Ro- seafood. Craving something a little sweeter? Check out their own homemade 39 flavors of ice cream. Vermont products also sold. (802) 773-2738.

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Chef-owned, Choices Restaurant and Rotisserie was named 2012 ski magazines favorite restaurant. Choices may be the name of the restaurant but it is also what you get. Soup of the day, shrimp cockatil, steak, hamburgers, pan seared chicken, a variety of salads and pastas, scallops, sole, lamb and more await you. An extensive wine list and in house made desserts are also available. www.choices-restaurant. com (802) 422-4030

Clear River Tavern

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Serving a seasonal menu featuring VT highlights Live Jazz Pianist Every Wednesday 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

802.457.5000 | ontheriverwoodstock.com Located in On The River Inn, Woodstock VT A short scenic drive from Killington

Headed north from Killington on Route 100? Stop in to the Clear River Tavern to sample chef Tim Galvin’s handcrafted tavern menu featuring burgers, pizza, salads, steak and more. We’re nestled on 10 wooded acres in Pittsfield, 8 miles from the Killington Road. Our live music schedule featuring regional acts will keep you entertained, and our friendly service will leave you with a smile. We’re sure you’ll agree that “When You’re Here, You’re in the Clear.” www.clearrivertavern.com (802) 746-8999

Jones’ Donuts

Offering donuts and a bakery, with a community reputation as being the best! Closed Monday and Tuesday.

23 West Street, Rutland. See what’s on special at Facebook.com/JonesDonuts/. Call (802) 773-7810

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Take breakfast, lunch or dinner on the go at Killington Market, Killington’s on-mountain grocery store for the last 30 years. Choose from breakfast sandwiches, hand carved dinners, pizza, daily fresh hot panini, roast chicken, salad and specialty sandwiches. Vermont products, maple syrup, fresh meat and produce along with wine and beer are also for sale. www. killingtonmarket.com (802) 422-7736 or (802) 422-7594.

Sugar and Spice Stop on by to Sugar and Spice for a home style breakfast or lunch served up right. Try six different kinds of pancakes and/or waffles or order up some eggs and home fries. For lunch they offer a Filmore salad, grilled roast beef, burgers and sandwiches. Take away and deck dining available. www.vtsugarandspice.com (802) 773-7832.

Sushi Yoshi Sushi Yoshi is Killington’s true culinary adventure. With Hibachi, Sushi, Chinese and Japanese, we have something for every age and palate. Private Tatame rooms and large party seating available. We boast a full bar with 20 craft beers on draft. Lunch and dinner available seven days a week. We are chef-owned and operated. Delivery or take away option available. Now open year round. www.vermontsushi.com (802) 422-4241

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“Dancing” is one of the pieces of an exhibit on display at the B&G Gallery on Merchants Row in Rutland, opening May 19.

The Blue Swans exhibit opens in Rutland

Sunday, May 19, 3 p.m.—RUTLAND—The opening art reception for The Blue Swans, featuring recent works by eight working artists and an Argentina tango dance performance, will be held Sunday, May 19, 3-5 p.m. at the B&G Gallery, 71-75 Merchants Row, Rutland.

The Blue Swans are Klara Calitri, Linda Hampton-Smith, Molly Hawley, Patricia LeBon Herb, Phoebe Stone, Mary Swanson, Sarah Wesson and Yinglei Zhang, all of whom exhibit their art on a regular basis in solo and group shows. They have exhibited together numerous times; however, this is their first group show in Rutland.

Seven of the artists found their way to each other in 2009 in Middlebury by word of mouth and quickly realized how important it was to have a local community of artists with whom they could talk about their creative

processes. Swan number eight, Molly Hawley, joined several years later.

They began to meet at each other’s homes: connections were made and conversations lasted into the wee hours of the night. The name, The Blue Swans, came about at one gathering when talking about Der Blaue Reiter, a 20th century group of painters, whom many of The Blue Swans admired.

One member of the group is named Mary Swanson and quickly Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) combined with Swanson became The Blue Swans.

This Rutland exhibition grew out of a conversation that Yinglei Zhang had with her neighbor and artist, Bill Ramage, who has done so much to revitalize and promote the art scene in Rutland. Timing, along with a gallery space and willing artists, magically came together and the show was born. When not making art, The Blue

Swans create in a multitude of ways whether it be writing, teaching, or dancing. Three of The Blue Swans are tango dancers and will demonstrate this dance at the opening and invite you to join them in your dancing shoes. Guitarist Dave Burns will play music and there will be free refreshments and wine.

This event is free and open to the public. The exhibit will be on view through June 22.

B&G Gallery is an intentionally mobile exhibition space of 77ART, a Rutland Art Center, with two rooms of exhibition space. It is located between the Opera House and the Boys and Girls Club at 71-75 Merchants Row. Public hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, visit 77art. org facebook.com/DowntownRutlandArt/.

Billings Farm & Museum to participate in Blue Star Museums WOODSTOCK—Billings Farm & Museum announces its participation in Blue Star Museums, a collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day (May 18) through Labor Day (Sept. 2), 2019.

Billings Farm & Museum will offer free admission to active-duty military (military ID holder) and their immediate family members. Active duty military include: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Active Duty and Reservists, National Guards-

man (regardless of status), U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps, and up to five family members.

“We’ve seen the tremendous impact the Blue Star Museums program brings to our military families, and we’re thrilled to be celebrating a decade of support,” said Kathy Roth-Douquet, chief executive officer of Blue Star Families. “Not only are museums fun to explore but are also great for making memories and strengthening military families as a whole.”

For further information, call 802-457-2355 or visit billingsfarm.org.

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A racer prepares to cross a bridge around the perimeter of Silver Lake State Park during the 2018 Race Around the Lake.

Race Around the Lake benefits youth arts program Sunday, May 19, 9 a.m.—BARNARD— BarnArts’ annual Race Around the Lake is happening Sunday, May 19.

It’s a 5k run/walk and 10k challenging run around Silver Lake in Barnard.The race is a fundraiser for BarnArts youth programming. BarnArts is a community arts organization located in Barnard.

Races begin and end at Silver Lake State Park and include back roads and single-track wooded trails with intermittent views of the lake.

Post-race events along the lakefront for all participants: live music with ArtisTree-O and a chef’s table lunch with dishes by Twin Farms, Barnard Inn, Heart Rock Kitchen, Marceau’s Fine Foods and Green Mountain Pasta. Food donations have been made by Luna Bleu Farm, Thistle Hill Farm, Red Hen Baking Company, Ben & Jerry’s, Hambsch Family Farm and Doton Farm.

A free kid’s fun run organized by Ottauquechee Health Foundation follows

the awards ceremony.

Awards will be given to top three finishers in each race – male and female – plus top winners – male and female – in age categories 12 and under, 13-34, 35-49, 50-64, and 65-plus.

Schedule of events: 9-10:15 a.m. Registration/ check-in 10:30 a.m. 10k start 10:45 a.m. 5k start 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Postrace activities along the waterfront; music 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

Lunch 11:45 a.m. Awards 12:15 p.m. Kid’s fun run The fee to pre-register online (runsignup.com) is $40 for adults and $20 age 12 and under. Online registration ends at 6 p.m., May 18. Day-of sign up begins at 9 a.m., May 19, and payment of cash or check only will be accepted.

Silver Lake State Park is located at 20 State Park Beach Road, Barnard.

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2019 River Road Concert Series Thursdays, 6-7:30 pm Rain or Shine July 11: Twangtown Paramours (Sophisticated Americana) July 18: Panhandlers (Steel Drum Band) July 25: John Lackard Blues Band (Authentic Blues) Aug 1: Steve Hartman (Folk Rock)

Aug 8: The Shananagans (Irish & American Folk) Aug 15: Moose Crossing (Contemporary Jazz) Aug 22: Ball in the House (R&B/ Soul/Pop A Capella) Aug 29: My Son the Hurricane

Bring a lawn chair & a picnic! Enjoy the show. All concerts are free and all are welcome!

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June 24-August 23 Ages 4-13 Pricing options range from $50 to $1881 with options to come play for all 9 weeks, weekly, or daily.

Little Explorers Ages 4-6 Jr Explorers Ages 7-9 Come explore with us through hikes, arts & crafts, swimming, games, and more

Rek & Trek Ages 10-13 Come explore the Killington Valley with trips to local parks, hikes, mountain biking, & kayaking To register or for more information go to killingtonrec.com

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continued from page 4 renovation,” hospital administrators wrote.

The hospital said it will add 20.6 full-time-equivalent staff as a response to safety issues. But as soon as the proposed renovation project is done, there will be no need for about half of those employees.

“Operationally, this is a very expensive stopgap measure,” Fort said of the extra staffing.

The construction project is described in state documents as “complex and substantial.” It carries a price tag estimated at $3.46 million to $4 million, and that’s no small price at a time when most Vermont hospitals are struggling.

Fort said the renovations are not in Rutland Regional’s budget, but the project will be covered by reserve funding.

The expense is “concerning,” he said, “but I’d rather try to be proactive on this.”

The state of Vermont has a stake in Rutland’s project, given that there are six state-contracted beds among the hospital’s 23 adult psychiatric beds. The state beds were added after Tropical Storm Irene’s flooding closed the Vermont State Hospital in 2011.

State Mental Health Commissioner Sarah Squirrell said she and the department’s deputy commissioner toured Rutland Regional last month and are familiar with the work the hospital is undertaking.

“We don’t have any concerns related to the situation at Rutland,” Squirrell said. “We actually appreciate that Rutland is being proactive to address and mitigate risks to ensure patient safety.”

ou are so fed up with people. As much as I totally get it, the mark of a spiritually evolved person lies in their ability to tolerate the weaknesses of others. Those close to you have required more tolerance than usual. Sure, it would be “legal” to let them have it, but showing others their blind spots is an exercise in futility. Accept the fact that it has taken them forever to get this messed up, and mind your own business.

Stuff like this is always a lesson in “How not to be” and there to teach us about having compassion for those who got lost on the path to self-awareness.

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here’s only so much a person can take, and only so much you can do before things start begging you to take the bull by the horns. Whatever has gotten to be too much has a lot to do with the way things go when people get lost. Love does not mean “putting up with anything.” Once you figure out exactly what needs to happen it won’t be long before you realize that you aren’t Mother Theresa, and it isn’t your job to save the day. At moments like this the soul has to break free, detach, and dissolve itself. If you can figure that one out, you will be able to get around anything.

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t’s never just one thing; there are always at least three issues dancing around the totem pole. Between the everyday-ness of things, and the voice in your head that has had enough of this, many of you are ready to snap. Even if you’ve gotten Zen enough to just chop wood and carry water, you’re still feeling a little ho-hum. When it’s time to change, no amount of “Well I really need to stay here and hold space for whoever I think I am” will cut it. As much as you think that safety lies in sticking to the plan, you are more than ready to light a fire under yourself and move on.

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ou’ve been out of the box long enough to know that you can’t go back. If it’s hard to know what to do next, or where to take it from here, there isn’t any road map for the place you’re about to go to. For better or worse, the course you steer will open the way to exactly what you need in this moment. You know better than anyone that what we need doesn’t always look like what we want, but you’re smart enough to take the good with the bad and make the most of every lesson. God knows how things will unravel. They will turn out for the best if you do this one by heart.

August 21 - September 20

ou need to get your bearings before you can be clear enough to make your next move. The focus is on work, but there are other themes running parallel to the idea that your responsibilities are your saving grace right now. As for the rest of it, “Oi-Yoi-Yoi”! Between the same old story and the pressures that the past has left in its wake, you keep you mulling over your choices and wondering why life is this intense. The thoughts that keep you awake relate to: “Am I nuts or is it true that I have every right to be this upset about things?”

Stay true to yourself. It’s all you can do.

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he best laid plans have come to a place where you are ready to give it up and change the channel. The idea that you don’t have enough of what it takes to keep this going comes from knowing that you wound up in this situation because somebody else wanted it. Lots of “stuff” is stirring up to obscure the path. At times like this the only thing you can trust is the inner voice, the one that knows who you’re kidding. What you hear from that neck of the woods is going to tell you things that you might not want to hear. Weighing your options is where it’s at right now.

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obody can help you figure out how to keep this balanced. Whatever lies up on the road ahead, you’re the one who is in charge of that issue. Don’t feel too overwhelmed; you of all people have been through enough to handle pretty much anything. When it comes to finding yourself in the midst of the needs and concerns of others there is nothing you can do but keep the focus on your own truth. You may be called to go a little further afield with people, places, and things than you’ve been in a long time. Strap yourself in, keep the faith, and let your higher self teach you your lessons.

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ou wish you had a crystal ball. Praying and hoping for the best, you realize that all of it is out of your hands. Otherwise known as an inside job, no amount of maneuvering will work. Huge transformations are about to be wrenched from this situation and all you can do is drop the reins and let it play out. Underneath it all, what prevails in the end will show you what’s real.

If you wonder whether these changes will impact your future and your sense of security, the answer is, “Of course they will.”

Buckle up, hang on, and trust your Higher Self to see you through.

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obody can tell you what to do. At this point, even if they wish they could there’s no way you can honor anyone’s authority but your own. There are a lot of reasons for this but none of them are going to hold up if you are unwilling to look at what never fails to happen every time you get this righteous. Whatever you’re trying to defend or protect would be better served if you would loosen up, or soften up just enough to see that you don’t know everything. Others are there for you. If you can open up to the thought that they are right about a few things, it will serve you both.

November 21 - December 20

ou didn’t come here to lead a simple or trivial life. The idea that you need to toe the line, or that someone like you ought to be (fill in the blanks) by now, competes with the thought that things don’t seem to be pointing in that direction. Issues that have led you to believe that it’s best to stick to some sort of plan no longer apply. If there’s no map to this territory it’s because you’re learning how to feel your way in the dark. No one’s advice is big or objective enough to guide you through an experience that requires only faith and a deeper connection to your higher self.

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rumming your fingers on the table won’t get this to happen any sooner.

It’s hilarious the way you get when it’s your turn to wait. You may want this more than anything, but there is more to it than meets the eye. This is an old story. Stop wondering what it will take for life to bow to your Will, or others to make a move, and pay attention to the way you sabotage those possibilities. If you give what’s going on right now a little more time, it’ll show you that your goals have to be centered in something authentic before your dreams bear any resemblance to what’s in your heart.

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ou aren’t sure that you can do this because life has never taken you this far.

Up until this moment it didn’t matter how things went. All of a sudden the whole show depends on whether or not you’re ready to step into a bigger pair of shoes. Others may seem like they aren’t up for going wherever you want to go; that may or may not be true, so don’t presume, and don’t make things more complicated by assuming that they don’t need this as much as you do. At the moment, the need to be strong, and the ability to stay tuned to what’s right for you, are what’s on top of the stack.

Mother of the Skye Mother of the Skye has 40 years of experience as an astrologer and tarot consultant. She may be reached by email to cal.garrison@gmail.com

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The key to understanding our past This week’s horoscopes are coming out under the light of a Virgo moon. I was born with the sun in Virgo.

The commonly held belief is that our sun sign has more to do with our purpose here on Earth than any other body in the birth chart. That is only true up to a point. What I have learned over time is that the solar archetype is significant in that it determines the type of solar energy that each individual uses to move the Mothers soul away from the previous Celestial life patterns, toward experiInspirations ences that will bring us closer

By Cal Garrison to the source and closer to our purpose for incarnating this time around.

Contrary to popular opinion, none of us became incarnated to grow up, go to school, get a job, fall in love, mate, breed, drive around in a car, watch TV and go to the bank. Those things are aspects of the third dimension, but over and above all of that, each one of us is born with a purpose for living that needs to be accessed and actualized between the day we are born and the day we die. That purpose is unique from person to person, and so are the lessons that go along with it.

If the sun sign governs the brand of octane that empowers the fuel that gets us from A to B, it is the moon sign that rules the cellular memory and tells the story of our past life karma. As it spins around from day to day, from month to month, and from year to year, the moon’s orbit is like a needle and thread that goes in and out and up and down, through the earth’s orbital plane. Its movements follow a pattern that, over time, stitch the past and the future together, and guide the soul away from the past, toward a deeper understanding of its purpose in this life. The window to the past life story is indicated by the south node of the moon. The window to the point of fulfillment in the current incarnation is referred to as the moon’s north node.

What follows is excerpted from the fourth chapter of my book, “The Lunar Gospel.” I am including it in this week’s intro to give you a deeper sense of what the moon and astrology are all about: “The point at the south node represents the energy that we are bringing in from every previous incarnation.

The point on the north node is similar to the ascendant in a way; it is the point of fulfillment. It represents the archetype that we want to move toward in order to cultivate the gifts that we came here to develop in this life.

“As far as that goes, the north node is always an unknown entity. We don’t enter this life with a clear understanding of what we are supposed to be doing. On the other hand, the South Node feels totally comfortable and familiar because we’ve already been there. When we’re born into this reality the memories of who we were, are all that we have to go by for the first half of our lives.

We act through those patterns again and again, without realizing that we are repeating ourselves.

“Keeping in mind that we live in a wave-form universe where everything moves, and everything changes, the minute we’re born, the natal chart begins to receive transits, and progressions that are timed to hit the Nodal Axis and trigger a set of experiences that are uniquely our own. These cosmic impulses generate the changes that are needed to help us begin to see that the old story isn’t necessarily what we need to be doing anymore.

“In essence, what happens over time, is that the old patterns and the stuff that we’re comfortable with, reveals itself to be totally counterproductive. We begin to wake up and see that we don’t get any mileage out Mother of the skye, page 36

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Peregrine comeback continues

By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul There is a broad, craggy precipice in Franconia Notch, not far from my home, called Eagle Cliff. It was named in the 1800s for the golden eagles that nested there, back when the region was full of open farmland that was conducive to the giant raptors’ lifestyle. While the fields have grown up and the eagles are long gone, the cliff has been home to nesting peregrine falcons each year since 1981.

Once completely absent from the eastern United States, peregrine falcons have been making a steady comeThe Outside back since the 1980s. Those Story falcons that nested on Eagle Cliff in 1981 marked the first successful re-occupancy of a historic cliff breeding site. Since then, recolonization has been steady, if slow.

“The population hasn’t been growing very rapidly,” said Chris Martin, a senior biologist with New Hampshire Audubon and director of that agency’s Peregrine Falcon Monitoring and Management Program. “Peregrines are just inching up. If we find a new nest site in a year, that’s a good year.”

There have been lots of good years since that first pair of falcons fledged two chicks in 1981. Last year, for example, New Hampshire Audubon staff – in collaboration with the state’s Fish & Game Department – documented 17 nesting pairs of peregrine falcons and 43 chicks. The numbers are rising similarly in Vermont, where a single pair of peregrine falcons fledged two chicks in 1986; by 2017, there were 44 documented nesting pairs raising 63 chicks.

Although removed from the federal Endangered Species List in 1999, peregrine falcons are still categorized as endangered in Maine and New York and as threatened in New Hampshire. Vermont has upgraded peregrines

to recovered status.

These crow-sized raptors are best known for their speed. In regular flight, a peregrine falcon can accelerate from around 25 miles per hour to close to 70 miles per hour while pursuing prey. They can go even faster when performing a dive-bombing-style “stoop,” reaching speeds upwards of 200 miles per hour while zeroing in on a chickadee or woodpecker or small duck.

“They’ll pull their wings in and look like a torpedo or a bullet dropping through the air,” said Martin.

The small raptors are able to slightly dislocate the shoulder joints of their wings to obtain a more streamlined shape. A bony structure at the opening of each nostril deflects air when the falcon is in a stoop so its lungs don’t overfill. Peregrine falcons also have incredible eyesight, allowing them to track prey at long distances.

All of this allows falcons to surprise and kill their prey efficiently. Peregrine falcons can chase and catch other birds, but they often strike their quarry with a killing blow in mid-air. The adults teach chicks to hunt by dropping food for the young birds to practice catching.

Peregrine chicks will also snag dragonflies – a slightly easier target than songbirds – while learning to hunt.

These skillful flyers were decimated in the midtwentieth century, in large part due to widespread use of the insecticide DDT. The chemical caused their eggs – and the eggs of other top-of-the-foodchain raptors – to become thin-shelled, which meant they either broke during incubation or failed to hatch.

The chemical was banned in 1972. In cooperation with other agencies, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service started peregrine recovery efforts in the late 1970s, when chicks were hatched in captivity and released into the wild.

As peregrine falcons have gradually recovered in the Northeast, participating agencies have worked to protect natural nesting sites and enhance new sites on manmade structures. Peregrine falcons typically choose sites TOS, falcons, page 36

28 • COLUMNS

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Three overlooked keys to being a successful investor though, take a much wider view of the Does investing strike fear in you? markets. And while past performance We once heard somebody say the word is no guarantee of future returns, the “fear” stands for “False Evidence Aphistory of the market continues to pearing Real.” That seems to apply to trend upwards. investing. Here’s Consider the S&P 500 Index. If we go why. back and look at all the bull (upwards) The stock and bear (downwards) markets from market makes 1926 to 2017, the average bear lasted some people nervous. This can 1.4 years and resulted in a 41 percent be especially true loss on average. However, the average bull lasted 9 years, and gave investors a for young people 480 percent gain on average, according who grew up Money to First Trust. during the Great Matters When volatility strikes, patience is Recession. Not

By Kevin Theissen usually a good course of action. Your only did these financial plan is designed to provide for folks see market the rest of your life, not for one bull or volatility at its bear cycle. Instead of panicking when worst, but they also came away with the market dips, try to think of volatility negative impressions about the finanas a tax that investors pay on the wealth cial markets in general. that the market can create.

The truth is that the market is neiAnd if you do find yourself checkther a one-way ticket to instant riches nor a dangerous game for insiders only. ing in on your investments as regularly as you check your email, maybe think There is risk involved in any kind of about uninstalling that app. investment, but if you understand how the market operates in the long run, then the rewards THE TRUTH IS THAT THE can be significant.

MARKET IS NEITHER A ONE-WAY By understanding the following three important TICKET TO INSTANT RICHES facts about the market, you might be able to turn “fear” NOR A DANGEROUS GAME FOR into “False Evidence ApINSIDERS ONLY. pearing Real” and not get scared out of letting your 2. Make consistent contributions money work hard for you in the market. to your portfolio 1. The market tends to move Besides struggling to accept volatilin long cycles ity, many people are skittish about the The amount of info we have at our markets because they feel powerless. fingertips makes it tempting to check Money goes in, and decades later, who in on our investments weekly, daily, or knows what’s going to come out. They even hourly. Financial professionals, Keys to investing, page 29

Submitted

Kyle Finneron and Kara White demonstrate a weighted plank on the floor of the gym.

Planks and the importance of core strength It is your center, it controls your balance, it can add explosiveness and stability to movements, it is commonly revered as a prize for reaching the pinnacle of health. The list could go on and on. I’m sure by now you know that I’m talking about your stomach, your core, your abs, your six-pack, whatever you’d like to call it. We all have abs and we all have some level of core strength. But should our core be stronger?

From my experience as a personal trainer, I can easily say YES! No matter what level of activity you fall into, from a professional tennis player to someone who’s never exercised a day in their life, you will benefit from having a stronger core.

So what’s the best way to train your core?

This is a common question. Everyone is looking to have a flat Raising the stomach. It shows that we are healthy, fit and strong. There are Bar hundreds of exercises and variations of those exercises to “attack

By Kyle Finneran your core” – it can be confusing to know which exercise you should start with.

Your abdominal, or core, muscles have three primary functions. (I’m simplifying significantly here.) To contract vertically, to rotate (which is really another form of contraction) and to stabilize.

Planks, page 39

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

CLUES ACROSS 1. Maintains possession of 4. Other side 10. Comedienne Gasteyer 11. Lawn buildup 12. Southeast 14. Negative 15. Greek temple pillar 16. Blue 18. Pointless 22. Complete 23. Supervisor 24. Where kids bathe 26. Radio frequency 27. Cruel Roman emperor 28. Young woman (French) 30. Within 31. Civil Service Commission 34. Sarongs 36. Father 37. It grows on heads 39. A Spanish river 40. Boundary 41. Contains music 42. Causes to feel sorrow 48. Used to restrain 50. Fictional kids character 51. South American country 52. Devote resources to 53. Beginner 54. Everyone has one

SUDOKU

55. University worker (abbr.)

56. Resist an attack 58. Unifying Chinese dynasty 59. Blood-sucking African fly 60. CNN’s founder CLUES DOWN 1. __and her sisters 2. Smear or rub with oil 3. Holy places 4. Indicates position 5. Drives around 6. Price 7. Semiaquatic mammal 8. With three uneven sides 9. Sacrifice hit 12. Covers a wound 13. Jaguarundi 17. Works produced by skill and imagination 19. A way to improve 20. River along India and Nepal border 21. Hairnet 25. DePaul University athletes 29. Bachelor of Laws 31. Game of skill 32. Holy man 33. Cylinder of tobacco 35. Most ingratiating 38. Repeats aloud

41. Red wine 43. Debilitating tropical disease 44. Entirely lacking 45. Female sheep 46. Where a bird lives

47. Stalk that supports the capsule 49. Cutlery 56. Symptom of withdrawal (abbr.)

57. Delaware

Solutions on page 34

Each block is divided by its own matrix of nine cells. The rule for solving Sudoku puzzles are very simple. Each row, column and block, must contain one of the numbers from “1” to “9”. No number may appear more than once in any row, column, or block. When you’ve filled the entire grid the puzzle is solved.

Solutions on page 34

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Saving the date Snapchat more frequently. I know enough about this Well, we’ve traversed another milestone in our app to know it’s dangerous so my son and I had a brief household: This weekend, my teenage son went on his sit-down to discuss a few important ground rules, to first date. which he complied.

The whole thing came together quickly over the Occasionally I would ask about his “friend” when course of a couple weeks, which now seems like a I picked him up at the bus stop, but as expected, he lifetime ago given the angst that transpired. wasn’t very forthcoming. Occasionally I might get a Things got started around the beginning of April small piece of info, but for the most part, this relationwhen I noticed my son texting ship remained a mystery to me. more than normal. Usually And then, towards the end of last week, my son he’s either glued to his phone pulled me aside to talk about something. I could tell he watching videos of other people was nervous so I listened intently. This is when he said playing video games or in brief he wanted to go out on a date. He had no plan whatsotext conversations talking to ever, but he wondered if it was ok. his buddies about stupid things I told him it was fine, but he had to ask his mother they saw in videos of other The Movie and me together. I also told him he had to secure the people playing video games.

Diary date, time, and place with her parents so it was all on But then I noticed his fingers

By Dom Cioffi the up and up. And then I told him he must pay for evtapping more often. At first, I erything. He scoffed at this a bit, but I finally convinced assumed it was more goofball him it was the coolest thing to do. banter, but then I picked up on Eventually, he decided that they would meet at the how much he was checking his phone for a reply – mall where they could play video games, eat some food, something he never seemed too concerned about. and walk around. She agreed to the plan and notified Finally, I inquired. her parents who also signed off on the idea. That was He initially avoided a direct answer, but eventulast Thursday; the date was scheduled for Saturday. ally caved when my questions became more probing In those two long days, (thankfully my son and I apparently every kid at have a trusting relationship “THE HUSTLE” IS A CRIME OF school found out when my so he generally confides son’s date confided to one in me without too much A MOTION PICTURE MASKING of her girlfriends. The gosconcern). He admitted that AS A COMEDY. sip flew around the school he was texting a girl at his so much so that even the school who he thought was teachers knew. This, of course, did not make the situanice. I didn’t pry any further for fear of making him tion any more comfortable for either party. uncomfortable.

On top of all that, my son also told me that he had Over the course of the ensuing weeks, my wife never really spoken to her one on one. This gave me also noticed a severe uptick in texting and his general pause. concern about notifications. He also started using “You mean, you’ve only been texting for these last few weeks?” I asked. He sheepishly admitted to such. That point alone made me realize that things have really changed in the world of teenage courtship.

Finally, the day came and we drove our son to the mall. He dutifully waited outside the entrance and when the young girl and her mom showed up, he stood tall and shook the mom’s hand. We then left them alone and found other things to do for three hours and upon our return were met with a very amped up child.

He said the date was really fun, but that he did 95percent of the talking (apparently she’s really shy). He also admitted that he could barely function for the first half hour because his hands were shaking so bad, which made his video gaming less impressive (oh, the horror).

In the end, I was happy that my son faced a tough social situation and navigated it without too much trouble (and plans are already in works for a second date).

This week’s film, “The Hustle,” features two devious women who use tough social situations to con wealthy men out of their money.

Starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, “The Hustle” is a crime of a motion picture masking as a comedy. Sure, there are a few choice moments that will elicit some laughs, but those are featured on the trailer. Do yourself a favor and watch that for free instead of spending your hard-earned dollars on this cinematic travesty.

A fraudulent “D” for “The Hustle.”

Got a question or comment for Dom? You can email him at moviediary@att.net.

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Keys to investing: Understand the market continued from page 28 feel that politicians, corporations, and geopolitical tumult will have the final say in how big their retirement nest egg grows.

However, often times the biggest factor that determines the success of your investments is simply contributing new money on a consistent basis. As discussed above, the market will most likely trend upwards in the long run. The more of your money that’s along for the ride, the bigger those eventual gains will be.

For example, suppose that you decide to invest $10,000 every year for 10 years into your portfolio.

In a flat market returning 0 percent, that $10,000 would account for 100 percent of your portfolio’s gains. In a modest market returning 6 percent per annum, that $10,000 would account for 73 percent of your portfolio’s gains. And even in a bull market, charging ahead at a rate of 12 percent, your $10,000 would still account for more than half of your portfolio’s gains, according to Invesco.

3. Focus on what you can control To be sure, part of investing involves accepting things you can’t control. A hurricane on the other side of the world might rattle the markets for a couple days. A large company might become embroiled in an accounting scandal. The Federal Reserve might make an unexpected interest rate move. Market corrections might follow.

But if you understand volatility and continue to focus on the big picture, you’ll start paying more attention to the things you can control, like a monthly budget that allows for automatic contributions to your investment and retirement accounts. Better yet, think about setting a goal to ramp up the size of those contributions. Many people try to save or invest 10 percent of their income. Can you shoot for 15 percent? Twenty percent? The bigger the contributions, the bigger the payoff when you retire. And if retirement isn’t on your radar, that big investment cushion will go a long way toward giving you a feeling of freedom.

If you don’t already have one, craft a plan that makes you comfortable about how your money is working for you. This will help give you more certainty about investing in the markets and help clear away any misconceptions you might have about the market or investing.

Kevin Theissen is the principal and financial advisor, HWC Financial, kevin@hwcfinancial.com.

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Rutland County Humane Society

CLYDE Handsome Clyde is one of eleven dogs coming from Virginia on Saturday, May 18. Clyde is a 4-yearold beagle and loves people, food and female dogs.

Clyde and the other dogs can be seen on Thursday, May 23 as we are not open on Wednesday, May 22.

Keep an eye on our Facebook page, Springfield Humane, VT as we will soon be posting all 11 dogs!

LUCY 2-year-old.

Spayed female. Boxer mix. 59 lb. a sweet, gentle lady who is easy to have around.

Springfield Humane Society

SEQUOIA - 10-year-old.

Spayed female. Labrador Retriever mix. 64 lb. I’m so happy spring is here because boy oh boy do I like to be outside!

ZIPPER 4 - year-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Brown and white tabby. I am very sweet and friendly, which I guess is true because I love people!

PRECIOUS - 1-year-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Calico.

I am such a pretty girl and super sweet so I’m thinking this should be a pretty easy gig!

401 Skitchewaug Trail, Springfield • (802) 885-3997 Wednesday- Saturday from 12-4:30 p.m.

VASHTI - 11-year-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Brown and white tabby. Sheeba and I arrive together and we are going to love you.

6-year-old.

Neutered male.

C h ow C h ow mix.

66.4 lbs.

I’m a super cute fella who loves hanging out with my favorite people. I’m social and I like being in the middle of the action. I’ve been enjoying my walks with the staff and volunteers and I’m looking forward to hikes and other outdoor adventures with my new family. I’m smart and I already know sit. And I do like treats so I’d like to learn more commands and maybe even some tricks! I have a thick coat and getting brushed is wonderful!

RUGER Hi! My name’s Ruger and I’m a 3-year-old neutered male. Do you love to play? If so, I may just be the guy for you because I love to play! I’m pretty well known around Lucy Mackenzie for my flopping-to-have-my-belly-scratched moves. I have my own condo here, which is quite nice and I’ve decided that I’m going to live as an only cat in my new home. That’s OK, though - I’m all the cat you’ll need! I’m big on love and big on personality. If you’ve been looking for a new feline companion that is sure to make you smile, stop in and meet me today!

Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society 4832 Route 44, West Windsor • (802) 484-LUCY Tuesday -Saturday, 12-4 p.m. lucymac.org; or Facebook.

CHEWY

SHEEBA - 11-year-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Black. Hi, my name is Sheeba. And I arrive at RCHS with my friend, Vashti.

SILVER - 2 -month-old. male. American Rabbit.

Silver. If you’re looking for a couple of handsome bunnies to love then hop on over!

All of these pets are available for adoption at

Rutland County Humane Society 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford • (802) 483-6700 Tues. - Sat. 12-5p.m., Closed Sun. & Mon. • chsvt.org

GOLD - 2 -month-old.

Male. American Rabbit.

Brown. My brother and I are a handsome pair of fellas, don’t you think?!

SASSAFRASS - 2-yearold. Spayed female. Siamese. Seal Point. I am a bit of a sassy pants or I prefer to call it ”independent!”

PENNY - 10 -month-old.

Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Black.

When I first meet you, I can be shy, but I warm up quickly to kind words and gentle touches.

BAO - 1.5-year-old. Male.

American Guinea Pig. Black and White. My brother Burt and I can appear to be a little shy when you first meet us but we’re really quite silly.

NALA - 1-year-old. Spayed female. Domestic short hair. Torbie. Hello! My name is Nala. I enjoy the quiet and solitude of a nice home with a comfy couch for me to lounge on.

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32 • SERVICE DIRECTORY

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“We all need to continue to work together – the state, the insurers and the providers – because this is reflecting the cost of the care that people are accessing,” Teachout said.

The Green Mountain Care Board’s cost-containment duties include annually reviewing and ruling on price proposals from health insurers. The board generally allows increases, albeit at a lesser rate than the companies propose.For the current year, the care board cut Blue Cross’ Vermont Health Connect rate hike from 9.6 percent to 5.8 percent. MVP’s rate was decreased from 10.9 percent to 6.6 percent.

The stakes will be higher in the 2020 rate review, at least for Blue Cross. The Berlin-based insurer’s proposed 15.6 percent average hike – with actual plan increases ranging from 9.1 percent to 18.5 percent – is the largest Blue Cross has proposed for Vermont Health Connect, Teachout said.

The insurer said prescription drug costs account for 8.8 percent of the proposed increase. Most of that – 7.8 percent – is due to high-priced speciality drugs.

“They’re life-altering types of therapy, and sometimes a cure,” Teachout said. “But they are extremely expensive.”

For example, Humira – an anti-inflammatory used to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis – costs about $40,000 per year, Teachout said. And the hepatitis C drug Harvoni costs $30,000 for a course of treatment, she said.

New York-based MVP, which is proposing plan hikes ranging from 5 percent to 23.7 percent, also cited drug costs as a factor.

Speciality drugs accounted for an average $40.44 in monthly premiums for consumers.

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Drug costs are not the only factor in proposed 2020 rate hikes on the health exchange. The insurers cited a number of other issues.

For instance, use of preventative care – provided at no cost under the Affordable Care Act – is on the rise and accounts for 1.9 percent of Blue Cross’ rate hike. Despite the short-term cost, “we think this is an investment in long-term health care, and eventually this should result in savings across the health care system,” Teachout said.

Blue Cross also says a federal health insurer tax, which is being reintroduced “after a one-year hiatus,” is the driving force behind 2.3 percent of its rate proposal.

This year’s deletion of a financial penalty to enforce the federal government’s mandatory health insurance law has a mixed effect on 2020 insurance rate proposals. MVP says it doesn’t see a reason to raise prices next year due to the now-toothless federal mandate, but Blue Cross is seeking a 1 percent hike because the company expects more lowcost, healthy customers to drop coverage.

Also, the federal government’s controversial expansion of association health plans continues to impact insurance rates. Both Blue Cross and MVP are seeking a 1 percent hike for 2020 due to the small-business plans’ siphoning of customers from the health insurance exchange.

The future of association health plans is in doubt due to a federal court case and the potential for additional regulation by the state. But for now, Blue Cross is in the somewhat awkward position of insuring association plans on one hand while, on the other, noting associations’ detrimental impact on its Vermont Health Connect business.

Teachout said Blue Cross can’t mix the two business lines. “We are supposed to have each independent marketplace be self-sustaining, and they’re not supposed to be cross-subsidizing one another,” she said.

It will fall to the care board, which last year heard protests against continued rate hikes, to determine whether the insurers have done enough to cut their costs.

The board will have hearings on July 22 for MVP and July 23 for Blue Cross. Both start at 8 a.m. in Room 11 of the Statehouse and will include public comment periods. The board is also accepting public comment via email: gmcb. board@vermont.gov; or by phone: 802-828-2177.

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College enrollment: In the wake of shutdowns, state contemplates close fiscal oversight continued from page 6 is increasingly making people wary of taking on loans.

The colleges that have closed in Vermont have been fragile for other reasons, too.

Burlington College, which shuttered in 2016, had taken on $10 million in debt to buy property in an illfated plan to expand. Green Mountain College owes $19 million to the USDA – a loan it had taken on to refinance earlier debts. Southern Vermont College in Bennington never recovered from an embezzlement scandal and the reputational blow it took when the accreditation of a nursing program was called into question. And at the College of St. Joseph, officials depleted the school’s meager endowment to pay for a physician assistants program that never got off the ground.

“When every high school graduating class is larger than the one before, you can in essence make mistakes and recover. And increasingly, we have to be aware as an industry that we’re not in that forgiving environment any longer,” Grawe said.

Meanwhile, if the higher education squeeze is a symptom of the Northeast’s demographic problem, further contraction in the sector could also compound it.

“We are one of the largest industries that bring young people to the state,” said Susan Stitely, the president of the Association of Independent Vermont Colleges. A report from AVIC notes about 80 percent of the students at Vermont’s private colleges and universities hail from outside the state’s borders.

The Legislature has applied a light touch to the crisis thus far, and lawmakers have been mostly concerned with ensuring academic records are maintained somewhere and accessible to former students.

That’s a lesson learned from Burlington College, which closed so abruptly in 2016 that the Agency of Education had to step in and spend thousands in taxpayer funds to organize and take custody of the records. Language in this session’s miscellaneous education bill, S.164, requires the other private colleges in Vermont to step in if one of their peers shuts down without a plan for record maintenance in place. The Vermont State Colleges have also agreed to take records as an absolute last resort.

Senate Education Committee chair Phil Baruth, D/PChittenden, said lawmakers may, in the second year of the biennium, consider imposing some state oversight on the finances of the private colleges. For now, the state plays little regulatory role at all – regional accreditors, which are private entities, do the bulk of the work.

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Gov. Phil Scott, for his part, has taken a similar approach to the higher education crisis as he has to Vermont’s larger demographic problem. In an echo of the state’s new Remote Worker Grant Program, which received headlines across the country and gives eligible workers up to $10,000 to help relocate to Vermont, the Scott administration this week unveiled the “Choose Vermont” scholarship.

“Do you know what NHL stars Tim Thomas and Martin St. Louis, the president of NASCAR, the band Phish – like, all of them – and this governor have in common? We all graduated from a Vermont college or university,” Scott tells the viewer in an upbeat, oneminute clip advertising the program, which will make available two $5,000 scholarships to students who commit to a Vermont school by June 1.

Ted Brady, the deputy secretary at the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, said the raffle is part of the state’s new strategy to highlight Vermont’s post-secondary options when marketing the state.

“There aren’t many places in the country where you can get everything from Division I hockey and basketball to an individualized, customized lowresidency, build-your-own major,” he said.

As for Greene, he’s not sure state-level actors have many levers they can pull.

“There aren’t good answers. There isn’t a good government solution to this,” he said.

Greene is deeply anxious about the industry’s prospects. As many as half of Vermont’s private colleges could close or merge within the next few years, he says, “without some sea change in how people do business.”

For Grawe, the dramatic decline in the number of potential students means schools will have to look beyond aggressive recruitment strategies to stay viable.

“It goes without saying you should recruit effectively.

But I think we’re looking at a change in numbers of students that’s too large to simply tell your marketing department: ‘have a good viewbook,’” he said.

In particular, Grawe thinks schools should be thinking even more seriously about retention. Colleges that do a good job getting their students across the finish line will be able to maintain their enrollment numbers even with fewer freshman coming in – and better serve their students.

“Schools’ best strategy is to seek to better fulfill their mission,” he said.

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KILLINGTON SEASONAL rental 2 BR, 1 BA, woodstove, excellent location. $8,000 seasonal + utilities. 781-7495873, toughfl@aol.com.

KILLINGTON SEASONAL rental 3 BR, 2 BA, fireplace, dishwasher. $9,000, Nov. 1-April 30, + utilities. 781749-5873, toughfl@aol.com.

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This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement which is in violation of the law.

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MOGULS: WAITSTAFF, P/T bar staff, dishwasher, line cook needed to work at fun locals bar. Apply in person: see Sal at Moguls.

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Some cliff tops, overlooks closed to protect nesting peregrines so we ask climbers and hikers to please maintain a respectful distance from all nests,” said Col. Jason Batchelder, Vermont’s lead State Game Warden. “The areas closed include the portions of the cliffs where the birds are nesting and the trails leading to the cliff tops or overlooks. These closures help people to choose an alternative route in advance.”

The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department and Audubon Vermont recommend people check to see if hiking areas are open before setting out. Several cliff areas are currently closed to protect nesting peregrine falcons, according to a May 13 news release.

“Peregrine falcons are very sensitive to human presence,

These sites will remain closed until August 1 or until the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department determines the risk to nesting falcons has passed. If nesting falcons choose new sites, additional sites may be added to the closed list at vtfishandwildlife.com.

Locally, at Mt Horrid in Rochester, the Great Cliff overlook is closed. And at Rattlesnake Point

in Salisbury, the southern overlook closed.

Audubon Vermont conservation biologist Margaret Fowle said “Peregrine falcons were removed from Vermont’s endangered species list in 2005 and the population continues to thrive thanks to the efforts of our many volunteers and partners,” said Fowle.

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Peregrine falcon takes flight.

Mother of the skye: Personal growth happens in 19-year segments, revealing Karmic lessons continued from page 27

of those behaviors. Whatever we keep repeating fails to produce any sense of fulfillment and creates nothing but negative results.

“Since time and experience are the only teachers here, with the Nodes, the accumulation of experience is what teaches us. The lunar nodes have a 19-year cycle. It is worthy of note that there are 19 circles in the flower of life, otherwise known as the creation pattern. The way the lunar nodes are connected to the moon, and the way the moon holds everything that’s going on with us in a big web, the nodal cycle would appear to be, for each individual, the means by which we find ourselves and our place in the web of creation. Every 19 years we reach a point of completion where we get to see exactly how the past life stuff is supposed to fit in to this life and its stuff. “ The first 19 years of our lives gives us a

chance to see the pattern unfold one time. in us begins to see that if we don’t change If we remember what we said about time our tune we’re going to bring ourselves and repetition, we know that one cycle of down and we’re not going to grow. experience would not be enough for any “It’s important to understand that every of us to have a clear perspective on our point in the horoscope is cooperating with purpose for every other THE FIRST 19 YEARS OF OUR living. Adding point, and all 19 to 19, gives of them are LIVES GIVES US A CHANCE TO SEE us 38. What I working synhave noticed ergistically to THE PATTERN UNFOLD ONE TIME. is that no one move the soul really understands what they’re supposed on its path. Between the ages of 35 and 45, a slew of big change oriented transits to be doing with their life until they’re converge on all of us, and for better or about 38. It’s as if we have to go through worse, each one of them kicks in to prod us two nodal cycles in order to figure out that by hook or by crook into experiences that we’re getting absolutely no mileage out of move us in the right direction... the old stuff. At 38, the past life patterns “If certain things are fated and can be start to decompose, and we begin to say, predicted in a transit or a progression, ‘Maybe I should start moving in a whole new direction, instead of constantly falling in those moments when the aspects are back into the same old pattern.’ Something destined to converge, it is the free-will of

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the individual that makes or breaks things.

At those interchanges if we manage to stay true to ourselves, the path to fulfillment opens and we find our way safely through whatever the Karmic lessons involve. If we fall back on the patterns of the past, the consequences of that choice create another set of lessons and tests, all of which are uniquely tapered to get us back on track...”

I hope all of the above is of interest to you. Of late I have been experiencing some big transits to my north node. Being over 70 years of age, these movements are teaching me a lot about how important it is to stay true to our purpose. If we don’t get lost in the gauntlet of distractions that fills the business of ordinary life, we get closer to our purpose for living as we age.

Now I invite you to take what you can from this week’s ‘scopes.

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continued from page 27 on high cliffs, and a pair will return each year to the same area, building a small scrape for laying eggs – or using a repurposed raven’s nest. But biologists have also encouraged nesting on manmade structures – tall buildings, smoke stacks, and bridges – by adding nesting boxes when peregrines are known to be in the area. One such site is the 259-foot tall Brady Sullivan building in Manchester, New Hampshire, where New Hampshire Audubon has set up a peregrine web cam and where falcons have been nesting since 2001.

Still, Martin said about 80 percent of the peregrine falcons in New Hampshire nest on cliff faces, including many locations around the White Mountains and along the Connecticut River. “One of the things that’s unique about northern New England’s peregrines is the vast majority of our birds are still nesting in ancestral, natural habitats,” said Martin.

“They’re using the same places they used 100 years ago. These birds are back where they were – plus some other places, too.”

Meghan McCarthy McPhaul is an author and freelance writer based in Franconia, New Hampshire. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine (northernwoodlands.org) and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (wellborn@nhcf.org).

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Diversity: State tourism industry begins campaign to attract diverse population continued from page 6 administration turning over every stone in an effort to recruit more workers and reverse Vermont’s population decline, non-white outsiders are an important part of the economic picture.

Knight said the summer’s advertising campaign is aimed at making all people feel welcome to Vermont. The theme is “Make yourself at home” and Knight said the department is buying photos and scheduling photo shoots “to capture the range of diversity we seek to convey.”

She said she only had one image available to show so far: that of bicyclists on a country road, one of them on an adapted bike powered by arms, not legs.

Beyond advertising, a big part of the department’s overall strategy for building up Vermont’s population is getting people into the state in the first place, in the belief that they’ll like it and decide to put down roots. That’s the theory behind the state’s new Stay to Stay program, which last year recruited visitors from all over the country to spend a weekend of meeting with Realtors, employers, local officials, and volunteers in various Vermont communities.

That program, which will be repeated this year, did yield several new arrivals.

The key to getting more members of minority groups to visit and stay is to make Vermont more welcoming on a long-term basis, said Tabitha Pohl-Moore, the head of the Rutland NAACP. Highly publicized acts of racism such as the harassment that drove former Rep. Kiah Morris, D-Bennington, out of office don’t help, said Pohl-Moore.

Morris’ harasser, a self-described “white nationalist,” wasn’t charged with a crime.

More subtle signs that minorities aren’t welcome, said Pohl-Moore, are things like grocery stores that put hair care products for African Americans in a separate section labeled “ethnic products.”

“It perpetuates the idea of ‘normal,’” Pohl-Moore said.

“You are seen as someone who is not part of Vermont.”

Pohl-Moore said Gov. Phil Scott’s administration is working hard to remove obstacles to recruiting newcomers of all types. She said she’s been meeting with the governor

“WE CAN ALL SAY WE’RE PRO-DIVERSITY, BUT IT’S YOUR ACTIONS THAT MATTER,” SAID POHL-MOORE. this month to talk about ways the administration can work with groups that represent minorities to make state government more inclusive.

“They really do sincerely want to address the issue,” she said. “We can all say we’re pro-diversity, but it’s your actions that matter. He really seems to understand that.”

Other nonprofit and business groups are also getting behind the effort. Curtiss Reed of Brattleboro is a driving force behind the website IamaVermonter.org, which strives to provide help for people of color moving to Vermont.

Alex Beck, a manager at the Brattleboro Development

Credit Corp. whose job is to build up the area’s workforce, said it’s important for people who are hiring to be honest with prospective employees instead of offering vague assurances.

“When they are in an interview, and the person says, ‘What is it like to live here as a person of color?’ instead of the HR person, who is more than likely Caucasian, saying ‘Everything is great,’ instead it’s, ‘I don’t think I’m in the right position to answer that question for you, but we’ve invested in a relationship so there is someone here who can help you with that,’” Beck said.

Reed said research shows tourists are much more likely to visit a new place if they see images of people there who look like them. He’s noticed an effort on the state’s part to do more. “I have seen over the last two years an increase in the number of folks of color that have appeared in state publications,” he said. “There is a growing consciousness of the need to have a diverse workforce. We cannot ignore that black and brown people are the fastest-growing populations in the United States.”

Knight said this week she’s also reaching out to journalists of color and who are part of the LGBTQ community to visit Vermont, and are planning a press trip in early June for writers to visit the Upper Valley.

Another trip is planned along the Route 7 corridor in the fall for wedding planners and writers.

“We are being more intentional about inviting a diverse group of writers to visit Vermont,” Knight said.

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The Mountain Times • May 15-21, 2019

Free energy visits available to Rutlandarea homes and businesses

Efficiency Vermont, Vermont’s statewide energy efficiency utility, is partnering with the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Green Mountain Power, and in the Rutland area, to bring additional support for residents and business owners to help them save money and increase the comfort of their buildings.

As part of the effort, Efficiency Vermont is offering free home energy visits to all residential customers who live in the Rutland area. A direct mail campaign to area households promoting the free visits began this week.

Residents can call Efficiency Vermont at 888-921-5990 to schedule a free visit. An energy expert from Efficiency Vermont will make a house call – typically lasting 1 to 1.5 hours – to review energy bills, visually inspect key areas of the home like attics, basements, windows, and doors, and provide a list of recommendations to improve the home’s efficiency and reduce costs associated with heating, cooling, lighting, and appliances. The visit includes up to 12 free LED replacement bulbs, and a $50 coupon for energy efficient appliances (in addition to existing Efficiency Vermont

discounts already applied at retailers). Efficiency Vermont staff can also help connect customers with incentives, financing, and qualified contractors.

“Almost every home can save money. For many Vermont families the hardest part can be just figuring out where to start,” said Brad Long, who is leading Efficiency Vermont’s community effort in the Rutland

“ALMOST EVERY HOME CAN SAVE MONEY,” SAID LONG. area. “Free home energy visits offer a no-cost, no-strings opportunity to get expert advice and suggestions. We’re not selling anything – our whole purpose is to partner with Vermonters to help them save money and live better.”

Efficiency Vermont is also making more technical staff available to small businesses in the Rutland area to provide no-cost energy assessments and help coordinate energy improvement projects aimed at lowering bottom lines and increasing profitability.

Each year Efficiency Vermont focusses resources in select communities throughout Vermont as a strategy for promoting energy

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efficiency and building relationships. In addition to home energy visits, customers in these targeted communities also benefit from increased Efficiency Vermont participation in local events and special educational workshops.

“Winter is finally releasing its grip, but we know it will be back,” said Tyler Richardson, executive director of the Rutland Economic Development Corporation, one of the community partners Efficiency Vermont is working with to help raise awareness of energy efficiency resources available to Rutland-are customers.

“Getting free expert advice from Efficiency Vermont is an excellent opportunity to identify projects to work on, so when next winter comes around you will be ready and able to save money and be more comfortable. They can also help connect you with the many resources available through Efficiency Vermont, Green Mountain Power, and other organizations to help save energy and money.”

Efficiency Vermont’s increased presence in the Rutland area will continue through the end of 2019.

Similar efforts are underway in Bellows Falls, St. Johnsbury, and Swanton.

Community College of Vermont (CCV) will offer seven new certificate programs beginning in the fall 2019 semester.

The new certificate offerings are administrative medical assisting, clinical medical assisting, digital media production, funeral director, graphic design, media communications and studio art. These join Courtesy of CCV the College’s seven DEBORAH STEWART existing certificate programs to provide high-value credentials that prepare students for the workplace or further education. Most certificates can be completed in just one year.

CCV academic dean Deborah Stewart said the new certificates were developed with Vermont’s workforce needs in mind. “CCV’s new certificates are the result of the College’s increased efforts to build flexible and innovative programs that meet the immediate needs of Vermont workers, while also providing them with stackable credentials,” she said.

Certificates at CCV are designed so that students can easily build credits toward an associate degree in a related field. The College offers 12 associate of arts and associate of science degrees. Among them, professional studies, health science, and behavioral science are new or redesigned for fall 2019.

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Planks: Build core (trunk, abs) resiliency by turning y our body into a ... plank

continued from page 28 Let’s focus on stabilizing. One of the simplest but often overlooked exercises is the plank.

While many core exercises: sit-ups, crunches, side bends, flutter kicks, etc. focus on the contraction and relaxation of the abdominal muscles, few of them focus on a long, sustained contraction from multiple muscle groups in the core, like the plank does. While some core exercises, such as crunches, focus on a single muscle group such as the Rectus abdominus (six pack muscles), they do a poor job to contract the surrounding musculature. Contracting all the muscles of the core at once, and being able to maintain that contraction will help

your brain better contract these muscles in unison in the future.

The prolonged contraction of the abdominals will increase intra-abdominal pressure. While this is beneficial for supporting the spine it can also be a recipe for disaster if you suffer from high blood pressure. So those with high blood pressure should approach planks with caution.

To execute a plank, place your hands or elbows on the floor or an elevated object while maintaining a neutral and flat body.

From the top of your shoulders to your heels you should look ... like a plank!

Position pointers: Keep your hips from sagging. Breath.

Start at your level.Listen to your body.

Difficulty To adjust the difficulty of a plank, change how close your torso is to the ground. You can place your hands on an object above the floor. This can be a counter, bench or chair. The closer the object is to the floor the more difficult the plank will be. The lowest plank is when you place your elbow forearms and toes on the floor, with your core contracted to keep your back from sagging.

Side plank A side plank is when you rotate your body 90 degrees so your chest is perpendicular to the floor. Then you will either place your hand or elbow on the ground. You can

either stack your top foot on top of foot, or place that knee on the ground.

Where should you start?

Start in a high plank position and work your way lower. See how your body feels in that position and if you are able to hold for one minute, move down to a low plank. Repeat with the side plank, working your way to a low side plank. Work up to holding a low plank and a side plank for two minutes each.

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Compromise: House speaker Mitzi Johnson opens the way for compromise on minimum wage

continued from page 6 also indicated she would also like to see the program provide more generous benefits for new parents.

The House is working on the minimum wage bill, S.23, which passed the Senate in March and in its current form, would raise the wage from $10.78 to $15 by 2024.

But with the governor, Republicans and some Democrats concerned that the $15 minimum wage in 2024 could hamper small businesses, and mean spending tens of millions of dollars on raises for some state-funded health care workers, the House is considering a more moderate minimum wage proposal.

Scott has indicated he would veto the Senate’s minimum wage proposal in its current form. If he did, the House would likely struggle to muster the 100 votes needed to override his veto.

Johnson said she expects the House will pass a minimum wage “compromise of some kind” that the governor and

many opposed to the Senate bill could support.

The House Appropriations Committee is looking at proposals that could phase in the $15 wage over a longer period of time, and stop the phase-in temporarily if the state has a recession. The governor has suggested he could support a more drawn-out minimum wage increase.

While top Democrats expect that lawmakers will be able to adjourn within a week, some political observers say they could easily see the session dragging on later.

One lobbyist said he expects reaching a compromise on minimum wage in the next week may be easy, but reaching a deal on the paid family leave legislation will be harder. The session may not end until the middle of the following week, he projected. “I think they could be done, but I just think there’s too much hanging out there,” he said.

As the end of the session nears, the momentum to create a proposal to tax and regulate commercial marijuana sales

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Johnson reiterated that she was “willing to wait” on passing the tax and regulate proposal.

“My attitude all along on that bill is that we need to be thorough on the policy,” Johnson said. “The policy needs to drive the timeline, the timeline cannot drive the policy.”

The governor has flagged concerns in recent days about the proposed level of spending in the Senate’s budget, which he estimates relies on $40 million in additional taxes, including the paid leave program.

But Johnson said that despite his concerns, she doesn’t expect a major battle over the budget this year. “The tone in general today was ‘Yeah we can work this out,’” she said.

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June 8, 2019

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